Samsung Galaxy S8 Active review, advantages, disadvantages and specifications
Samsung Galaxy S8 Active offers a superb primary camera of 12 MP (f/1.7, 26mm, 1/2.5″, 1.4 µm, Dual Pixel PDAF), phase detection autofocus, OIS, and LED flash, It has features such as geo-tagging, simultaneous 4K video and 9MP image recording, touch focus, face/smile detection, Auto HDR, panorama and it takes amazing photos with high quality.
Samsung Galaxy S8 Active advantages
Samsung Galaxy S8 Active has 4K video recording, It offers video of 2160p@30fps, 1080p@60fps, HDR, dual-video rec., It contains a secondary camera of 8 MP, f/1.7, autofocus, 1440p@30fps, dual video call, Auto HDR and it has amazing selfies.
Samsung Galaxy S8 Active offers IP68 certified, It has dust/waterproof over 1.5 meter and 30 minutes, It has MIL-STD-810G compliant – salt, dust, humidity, rain, vibration, solar radiation, transport, and thermal shock resistant and it offers Samsung Pay (Visa, MasterCard certified).
Samsung Galaxy S8 Active comes with a Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, and 16M colors, It has a great size of 5.8 inches, 85.4 cm2 ( ~75.0% screen-to-body ratio ) that is very useful in playing games, watching videos, and browsing the internet.
Samsung Galaxy S8 Active comes with a superb resolution of 1440 x 2960 pixels, 18.5:9 ratio (~568 ppi density), It offers a multitouch feature, It includes Corning Gorilla Glass 5 for screen protection, It supports 3D Touch ( home button only ) and it has Always-on display.
Samsung Galaxy S8 Active has the latest operating system of Android 7.0 (Nougat), It supports Qualcomm MSM8998 Snapdragon 835, It has a fast CPU, It contains Octa-core (4×2.35 GHz Kryo & 4×1.9 GHz Kryo), It presents Adreno 540 and it has superb performance without any lags.
Samsung Galaxy S8 Active has superb expandable memory via Card slot, microSD, up to 256 GB (dedicated slot), It offers a high internal memory of 64 GB, It has a great 4 GB RAM that is very suitable for multitasking performance and it looks very premium.
Samsung Galaxy S8 Active has 2G bands GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900, It offers 3G bands HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 – AT&T, It supports 4G bands LTE, Speed is HSPA 42.2/5.76 Mbps, LTE-A (4CA) Cat12 600/150 Mbps, It includes GPRS and it gives you EDGE.
Samsung Galaxy S8 Active was announced in August 2017, It will be released in August 2017, The body dimensions are 151.9 x 74.9 x 9.9 mm (5.98 x 2.95 x 0.39 in), The weight is 208.1 g (7.34 oz), It offers Aluminum frame, corner bumpers, plastic back and it includes Nano-SIM.
Samsung Galaxy S8 Active has Sound Alert types such as Vibration, MP3, and WAV ringtones, It presents a loudspeaker, it comes with a 3.5 mm jack, It contains superb active noise cancellation with a dedicated mic, It has Comms WLAN such as Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, and hotspot.
Samsung Galaxy S8 Active includes Bluetooth 5.1, A2DP, LE, and aptX, It supports GPS, with A-GPS, and GLONASS, It has an NFC feature, It provides you with USB, Type-C 1.0 reversible connector, It has messaging such as SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail and IM.
Samsung Galaxy S8 Active offers a rich number of superb sensors such as Iris scanner, fingerprint ( rear-mounted), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass , barometer, and heart rate, It presents Browser HTML5, It has Samsung DeX (desktop experience support) and it presents fast battery charging (Quick Charge 2.0).
Samsung Galaxy S8 Active includes PMA wireless charging, It presents ANT+ support, It supports S-Voice natural language commands and dictation, It offers MP4/DivX/XviD/H.265 player, It contains MP3/WAV/eAAC+/FLAC player, It has a photo/video editor and it has a document editor.
Samsung Galaxy S8 Active includes a non-removable Li-Ion 4000 mAh battery that lasts for a long time, Stand-by is up to 120 h (3G), Talk time is up to 32 h (3G), Music play is up to 113 h, It supports misc colours such as Meteor Gray and Tungsten Gold.
Samsung Galaxy S8 Active has a high pixel density, It offers a high resolution that makes the display very clear and bright, It provides you with a flash that enables you to take superb photos in low light conditions, It has a premium & impressive design.
Samsung Galaxy S8 Active gives you a high build quality, It comes with a great camera, It offers Lots of RAM and a large memory, It includes almost every connectives like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, USB, 3G, 4G, and NFC.
Samsung Galaxy S8 Active disadvantages
Samsung Galaxy S8 Active is heavy weight, It does not have Dual SIM, It does not have FM radio, It does not have Java, It has only two colors, It does not have a non-removable battery, It does not have Infrared, It does not support 4G in India ( Band 40 ) and it does not have a Temperature sensor.