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Saturday
Mar252017

New photos leak the Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus' stunning edge-to-edginess

It's no secret that Samsung's cooking up a big launch for its flagship Galaxy S8 line of smartphones next week (CanadianReviewer will be on hand in NYC for the big unveiling). This anticipated device, which has already been seen in various purported leaks, now gets another photoset thanks to AndroidMX, who seems to have gotten hold of a unit.

This photo shows just how slight the bezels are and how distinct the edge-to-edge display is. The look is quite stunning and its the closest thing to a bezel-less handset we've seen so far.

This leak follows Evan Blass' massive leak of Galaxy S8 renders in various colours (see left) in black, grey and gold.

The look and design of the Galaxy S8 are just one aspect of the device.

Samsung is reportedly launching its advanced personal assistant (replacing SVoice), which is called Bixby.

Samsung purchased Viv, which was the company that developed personal assistant technology, most popular of which is Siri, rival Apple's personal assistant that was really the pioneer in the mobile space.

Samsung is billing Bixby as an entirely new way to interact with your phone.

"When an application becomes Bixby-enabled, Bixby will be able to support almost every  task that the application is capable of performing using the conventional interface (ie. touch commands)," Samsung explains in their website.

Bixby isn't exclusive to smartphones and tablets. It will permeate Samsung's other smart appliances, even air conditioners and refrigerators which is something only a company like Samsung can do, since it has a wide array of product lines.

Then, there's the Desktop Experience Station, a dock that some speculate will allow the Galaxy S8 to be used like a PC.

The DeX has USB Type-C port for you to insert into the phone. This expands the device with two USB 2.0 ports, a 100 Mbps Ethernet port and an HDMI output that can power 4K monitors at up to 30 GPS.

The dock has a cooling fan to dissipate heat and keep the phone coole while it is running as a PC.

It isn't known what OS or apps are going to be available in desktop mode. Google and Samsung have worked  together previously on Chromebooks that run Android apps, so there might be some synergy happening here.

There's a lot to the Samsung Galaxy S8 story and I am expecting a lot of excitement heading up to the big event on March 29.

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