Leaks and speculations just keep coming on the much-awaited Galaxy S8 smartphone from Samsung. One celebrated feature mostly speculated about is the company's new artificially intelligent virtual assistant, Bixby.
Bixby to come with its own hardware button on the S8. The latest news to hit the internet on Samsung's Galaxy S8 is an unofficial image render of the smartphone from a third-party source. Not much is known about the upcoming Galaxy S8 and details and information found are mostly unconfirmed if not just speculations.
The image render of the smartphone shows the absence of a physical home key just right below the display. It has been speculated that the Korean tech giant will be ditching the traditional physical home button. The render also shows the smartphone to have a curved display.
The absence of a physical home button is not what is stirring everyone's excitement. The presence of a hardware button believed to be for Bixby, Samsung's new virtual assistant, is. The Korean tech giant has neither confirmed nor denied the existence of Bixby but analysts believe it to exist.
The button is shown to be positioned on the left side of the smartphone just below the two volume rockers. The power and lock button is located on the right side.
If all other speculations prove to be true, the Samsung Galaxy S8 will come in two variants, an S8 with a 5.8-inch screen and an S8 Plus with a 6.3-inch screen and feature edge-to-edge Infinity display, a fingerprint sensor, an iris scanner, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835, and an IP68 certification. Additional speculated features include Bluetooth 5.0 and a 3,250 mAh battery, 250 mAh higher than the S7 and 350 mAh lower than the S7 Edge.
There has been no official word from Samsung yet as to what the upcoming smartphone will offer exactly. Consumers will just have to wait until the Korean tech giant unveils the smartphone possibly at the MWC 2017 this coming February or at a separate event in New York in March.
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