The Samsung Galaxy S8 leaks continue ahead of the full announcement next week. This time there is a photo which suggests that the S8 will have a screen resolution of 2960x1440 and that the phone will employ similar technology to the LG G6 to help cut down on power consumption.
Galaxy S8 Change screen resolution pic.twitter.com/IBpfPEofPa
— Ice universe (@UniverseIce) March 21, 2017
If you haven't looked into the G6 much it's worth knowing that it is able to reduce the amount of pixels the phone renders on the GPU. This means that games can be reduced in either resolution or framerate to save power. This is a useful feature to have, although it will compromise the quality of the image somewhat. Still, if you're on YouTube or playing Pokemon GO it's unlikely to bother you.
What is interesting to me here is that Samsung continues to attempt to compensate for smaller batteries with increasingly intricate methods. But it's understandable, given that users like slim phones and battery technology moves at a glacial pace. Samsung then is forced to drive even more power-hungry phones, and needs clever behind-the-scenes technology to do it. Even so, the rumoured 3000mAh battery in the S8 is lower than LG's G6, which has 3300mAh and will be a similar size and shape. It's also been suggested that the battery vendor for the S8 is, in fact, none other than LG, making the smaller capacity potentially more confusing. The larger S8+, it is rumoured, will have 3500mAh.
It should be pointed out that changing resolutions on Samsung devices isn't new either, you can do it on the S7 too. The key information here is that of the screen resolution.
The same users also Tweeted images of the S8+ box, which confirmed a few extra details.
wow～ pic.twitter.com/f6PeOyi3H8
— Ice universe (@UniverseIce) March 22, 2017
Firstly, this box is for a 64GB phone. No big surprise that this is an option, although we don't yet know what the final storage capacity will be for the phones. It's likely that 64, 128 and 256GB could be on the cards, but don't forget Samsung offers microSD support too.
The one question this leaves, though, is if both these images are from the same source (and that person had the S8+) then do both phones have the same 2960x1440 resolution? Is the S8 a lower resolution than the S8+? I can't see any major problems in either case but it might frustrate some. At this point though we're just days away from Samsung actually telling us all these details, so it's really just a waiting game.
