Tech review of Samsung Galaxy S8 SM-G950

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Main and additional circuit boards

Samsung Galaxy S8 SM-G950
Side 1
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Side 2
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Characteristics

and Features

Features

Type Smartphone
OS Android 7.0 (Nougat)
SIM type/size Nano SIM
SIM Single SIM or Dual SIM
Dimensions 148.9 x 68.1 x 8 mm (5.86 x 2.68 x 0.31 in)
Weight 155 g (5.47 oz)

Display

Display type Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 5.8 inches, 84.8 cm2 (~83.6% screen-to-body ratio)
Resolution 1440 x 2960 pixels, 18.5:9 ratio
PPI density 570
Protection Corning Gorilla Glass 5

Multimedia

Main camera 12 MP, f/1.7, 26mm (wide), LED flash, auto-HDR
Main camera Video 2160p, 30fps
Front (selfie) camera Dual 8 MP, f/1.7, 25mm (wide) / 2 MP
Front (selfie) camera Video 1440p, 30fps
Audio MP3, AAC, WAV, WMA, FM-radio
Headphone jack 3.5mm Jack

Network

Technology GSM / HSPA / LTE
Bands Yes, bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 28, 32, 66, 38, 39, 40, 41
Interfaces Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot, Bluetooth 5.0, A2DP, LE, aptX, NFC
Satellite navigation GPS with A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS, GALILEO

Processor and Memory

System on a chip Samsung Exynos 8895 Octa
CPU Octa-Core 4x Mongoose M2 2.3 GHz + 4x Cortex-A53 1.7 GHz
GPU Mali-G71 MP20
Internal memory 64 GB
RAM 4 GB
Card slot Micro SD, up to 256 GB (dedicated slot)

Battery

Battery capacity Li-Ion 3000 mAh
Charging port USB-C 3.1, Type-C 1.0 reversible connector

Other

Announced 2017, March 29

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Evgenii Kuzmin

Evgenii Kuzmin

Senior maintenance service and repair engineer

Based on our experience, we made a selection of the most common malfunctions of mobile devices and evaluated the difficulty of performing repairs for each of them. The final evaluation of the difficulty of the repair is the sum of all the parameters.

This difficulty rating is also applicable for all models Samsung Galaxy S8 SM-G950 — Samsung G950F (Europe, Global Single-SIM); G950FD (Global Dual-SIM); G950U (USA Unlocked); G950A (AT&T); G950P (Sprint); G950T (T-Mobile); G950V (Verizon); G950R4 (US Cellular); G950W (Canada); G950S/G950K/G950L (South Korea); G9500 (China) released for markets in different countries.

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