Samsung Galaxy Note 8 (SM-N950F) - SIM-Free Smartphone - 64GB - Midnight Black

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It's only missing one thing: T-Mobile's new Band 71, which will give users additional rural coverage (it's currently only in the upcoming LG V30). When you capture a portrait, depth of field is continuously adjustable after the fact via a bokeh slider.

It's a multimedia powerhouse visually, but its bottom-firing speaker still had us cupping the bottom of the phone to get better audio. Those who are willing to pay more for the best smartphone they can get their mitts on already know exactly where to turn. Xiaomi Mi Mix, which has only a bottom bezel and requires you to turn it upside down to use the bizarrely placed selfie camera. By connecting the Note8 to the Samsung DeX you can watch your favourite videos and view important documents from your phone directly onto any large screen.But Samsung isn’t taking no for an answer, and it’s now raised the curtain on the Note 7’s do-over: the Galaxy Note 8. Despite having so much going on at the rear – two cameras, a flash, a heart-rate scanner and a fingerprint sensor – it all lies completely flush with the phone’s chassis, and that is evidence of the company’s meticulous design. It's really nice to be able to sign and send things without printing them out, something Apple has also been promoting with the Pencil on its iPad Pro.

The company will have taken the greatest amount of care to ensure everything works as it should, and it would be hugely, hugely surprising to see it repeat the same mistakes. It’s a multimedia powerhouse visually, but its bottom-firing speaker still had us cupping the bottom of the phone to get better audio.

It has also added the best part of a centimetre to the phone’s height, and the most obvious difference when viewing the Note 8 next to the Galaxy S8 is how much taller is this handset. Several professional testers have claimed that the Note 8 offers some of the best cameras on the market. Under the hood is an octa-core processor paired with 6GB of RAM, which makes it a very powerful handset indeed, ideal for multi-tasking and heavy use. That telephoto lens is a fantastic addition to the Note, producing detail-rich images with very little noise compression or artefacting.

Samsung has yet to deliver dual front-facing speakers like the Sony Xperia XZ Premium, or customizable Hi-Fi audio like the LG V30. Samsung’s excellent S Pen stylus – the pointing stick that gives the Note its name – can now be used to jot quick notes on the screen while it’s off, for on the fly note-taking. We had feared Bixby would be an unnecessary extra feature, given that the Note 8 also supports the Google Assistant, but it is arguably easier to invoke with the press of a dedicated button rather than having to say “Okay Google.The screen has the same technology as Samsung’s Galaxy S series, with a super-high resolution Quad-HD+ Super AMOLED display (though in common with the Galaxy S8 it’s set to full-HD by default to preserve battery life). We and our partners also use cookies that allow us to measure traffic and show you personalised content and ads rather than basic shiz.