Played around with the S8 at Best Buy for five minutes. Here are my quick-fire first impressions:
- overall aesthetic is best in market
- screen has much more subtle curve than I remembered in past edge-screen models, in a very good way
- screen is GLORIOUS; watching video is visually immersive
- speakers suck compared to iPhone 7's stereo speakers; dulls video-watching experience
- Iris Scanner not as practical as fingerprint for unlocking; requires phone at very specific angle and eyes at specific distance. For a feature that is used an average of 120 times per day to unlock the phone, this would be a persistent annoyance.