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Galaxy S8 vs Galaxy S7: What Buyers Need to Know

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Camera & Storage

Camera & Storage

We touched on this a moment ago, but it's worth stating with more details. The Galaxy S7 has 32GB of storage and a micro-SD slot. Many run out of space, even with transferring apps to the SD card and being cautious. It's frustrating. 

With the Galaxy S8 you'll get double, with 64GB, and a microSD slot that can extend storage to over 300GB total. Potential buyers will love that. Especially when you take 4K video with the camera. 

Last year Samsung made a big change to the camera. Going down from a 16 megapixel camera to a 12 Dual Pixel sensor in the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge. It had a larger sensor that captured more light, a fast f/1.7 aperture, and used all the pixels to have one of the fastest auto-focus systems on the market. The results were one of the best smartphone cameras ever released. Often beating out the iPhone in independent tests. 

From what we can tell the Galaxy S8 is using the exact same camera sensor. So the camera experience might not be vastly different, but it will be better. Samsung made a few small changes to improve performance, auto-focus and low light photography. Not to mention made tweaks to the software and processing to deliver better photos. One area that did change is the front selfie camera. It went from 5MP in the S7 to 8MP in the Galaxy S8. It takes better photos and video, has a fast f/1.7 aperture, wide angle and should be one of the best phones for Snapchat. 

That fingerprint scanner, though. 

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