Submitted By Asha Manoj on 26 February 2018
Galaxy S8 Plus Dual Sim Android smartphone produced by Samsung Electronics as part of the Samsung Galaxy S series. The smartphone contain upgraded hardware and major design changes over the S7 line, including larger screens with a taller aspect ratio and curved sides on both the smaller and larger models, iris and face recognition, a new suite of virtual assistant features known as Bixby (along with a new dedicated physical button for launching the assistant), and Samsung DeX, a docking station accessory that allows the phones to be used with a desktop interface with keyboard and mouse input support. The mobile phone features 1440p OLED displays, with an 18.5:9 aspect ratio and uses a larger 6.2-inch panel. . The displays on the device curve along the side bezels of the device, with minimal bezels that Samsung markets as an "Infinity Display", and the display panel itself has rounded edges. They use DCI-P3, offering what screen-testing website DisplayMate describes as the largest native color gamut, highest peak brightness, highest contrast rating in ambient light, highest screen resolution, lowest reflectance, and highest contrast ratio. It support Bluetooth 5, supporting new capabilities such as connecting two wireless headphones to the device at once. It has improved satellite navigation over the predecessors by including Galileo receivers. The phone launched with the Android 7.0 "Nougat" operating system with the proprietary Samsung Experience (formerly TouchWiz) user interface and software suite. The software features a suite of assistant functions known as "Bixby", which is designed primarily to interact with Samsung's bundled applications and other supported services. The feature allows the use of voice commands to perform phone functions, can generate cards shown on a home screen page based on a user's interactions, and perform searches utilizing object recognition via the camera.