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Here’s how you can watch the Samsung Galaxy S8 reveal

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Later today, Samsung will be revealing its much-awaited Galaxy S8. The world’s biggest mobile phone brand is set to unveil their first phone after the unmitigated disaster that was the Galaxy Note 7.

There’s a lot riding on the S8, what it offers and how useful it is as an incendiary device. Samsung will be hosting two concurrent events – one in London and the other in New York, and you’ll be able to watch what happens. Here’s the how and when of it all.

The easiest way it to sit in front of your computer and just hit up Samsung’s website, where they’ll be streaming the reveal of the S8 and the S8 Plus at 11am EDT, which is 4PM BST, or 5PM CEST and locally.

If you’ll be out of the office and want to watch the reveal from your mobile phone, you can do so by installing the Samsung Unpacked 2017 app, which is available on Android’s Play Store and the iOS App Store right now.

But what do we know of the phones themselves? Samsung’s suggesting revolution (again!) suggesting that you’ll “unbox” the thing, probably suggesting that it’ll do away with the traditional rectangular screen, and perhaps take on an edge-to-edge display, which is what leaks suggest.

Rumours also suggest that the S8 will have a pair of rear cameras, allowing for “3D” photos. Again, not something new. Similar rumours say that the S8 will do away with the physical home button, and may actually contain an Iris scanner, because fingerprint scanners aren’t good enough in 2017. Samsung will apparently also reveal its latest digital assistant.

Here’s what the specs will be, according to rumours, leaks and straight up speculation.

Samsung Galaxy S8

  • 5.8-inch Super AMOLED QHD+ display
  • 18:9 aspect ratio
  • Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor in the US model
  • Samsung Exynos 8895 processor in the global model (4×2.45GHz + 4×1.9GHz)
  • 12-megapixel rear camera
  • 8-megapixel front-facing camera
  • 3,000 mAh battery
  • 64GB of storage
  • Iris Scanner
  • USB-C
  • Android 7.1.1 Nougat

Samsung Galaxy S8+

  • 6.2-inch Super AMOLED QHD+ display
  • 18:9 aspect ratio
  • Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor in the US model
  • Samsung Exynos 8895 processor in the global model (4×2.45GHz + 4×1.9GHz)
  • 12-megapixel rear camera
  • 8-megapixel front-facing camera
  • 3,500 mAh battery
  • 128GB of storage
  • Iris Scanner
  • USB-C
  • Android 7.1.1 Nougat

Are you watching tonight? Will you catch up on everything tomorrow – or do you, like a growing number of people, not really care about the newest flagship phones anymore.

Last Updated: March 29, 2017

6 Comments

  1. Gavin Mannion

    March 29, 2017 at 15:15

    I literally don’t believe a word that comes out of tech PR’s mouth.. will wait to see what the reviews say before maybe caring

    Reply

  2. Ottokie

    March 29, 2017 at 15:34

    I will wait a month and keep an eye on the local news about freak fires.

    Reply

  3. Sock-puppet

    March 29, 2017 at 15:53

    Why are there different CPU’s? That’s just suspicious.

    Reply

    • HvR

      March 29, 2017 at 17:45

      Why would they be?

      + just has a bigger screen (same resolution), bigger battery and more memory.

      Reply

    • HvR

      March 29, 2017 at 17:51

      A lot of companies do it, (some just do not bother to tell you)

      A lot of the time when a phone spec is reads a Qualcomm processor it is only for the US versions with non-US versions using other cheaper/faster processors.

      It is because Qualcomm has a corner on the market on CDMA tech through patents, so it is pretty much the only cellphone tech module you can use in the US.

      Reply

  4. Magoo

    March 30, 2017 at 07:42

    Can confirm.

    It is a cell phone.

    Reply

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