Samsung Galaxy S8 Release Date, Specs, Rumors: Here’s Why You Should Wait For Next Gen Galaxy Handset

There's no doubt that Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S8 smartphone is one of the highly anticipated smartphones which has been scheduled for a 2017 release. While, the smartphone maker hasn't revealed anything about what it has in store for the upcoming Galaxy S8 smartphone, a lot of rumors about the handset's possible release date, specs and pricing details have flooded the internet.

The first feature which is almost confirmed for the upcoming Galaxy smartphone is the curved screen display. In fact, according to Ecumenical News, Samsung will completely ditch the flat screen design and roll out only the curved screen Galaxy S8 smartphone. During a recent interview, Samsung Mobile president Koh Dong-jin said that "Samsung has considered that it would make the edge display as the identity of the Galaxy S smartphone lineup if the company can provide consumers differentiated user experience through software and user-friendly functions (for the curved screen)."

There also reports which claim that Samsung's next galaxy flagship smartphone might come with a brand new Exynoss 8895 processor. The Exynoss 8895 processor is rumored to be faster than Apple's upcoming A10 processor and more powerful than Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 830 processor. The Exynos 8895 has a reported speed of 4 GHz, the Snapdragon 830 has a speed of 3 GHz, while Apple's A10 chipset has a rumored speed of 2.6 GHz, reported Christian Daily. The use of Exynos 8895 processor in the upcoming Galaxy smartphone is expected to make the handset 30 percent more efficient than the current Galaxy S7 which uses Exynoss 8890 chip.

Among other specs, the Samsung Galaxy S8 is rumored to come with a 5.5-inch 4K UHD display with a resolution of 3,840 x 2,160 pixels, a massive 6GB of random access memory (RAM), up to 128GB of internal storage, Android 7.0 Nougat, improved iris scanning technology, a new kind of triple-camera system, a USB Type-C port and virtual reality support. As far as Samsung Galaxy S8 release date is concerned, the handset is expected to be announced at the Mobile World Congress 2017 event.

Stay tuned to SWR for more updates on Samsung Galaxy S8 release date, specs and pricing details.