The water resistant Samsung Galaxy S7 is seen at The Samsung Studio at SXSW 2016. (Photo : Getty Images/Rick Kern)
With the success of Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge the rumor mills has started to spin again with the Galaxy S Series. Dubbed as Samsung Galaxy S8, the upcoming member of Galaxy S family is expected to feature new design and a powerful Exynos 9 chipset.
Softpedia had learned that Samsung's semiconductor division has been rising gradually in the last couple of years. The Exynos chipset established in-house by Samsung has been used in the company's phones for a long time now. Also, it has become the custom for the South Korean tech company to launch two varieties of its Galaxy S and Galaxy Note flagship using different chipsets inside; the Qualcomm and Exynos.
Nonetheless, it seems to change as Samsung plans to create a powerful Exynos chipset that will contain the so-called Shannon 359 modem. The said Shannon modem will support just about all the network basebands in the world: FDD-LTE, TD-LTE, TD-SCDMA, WCDMA, CDMA2000, CDMA, and GSM.
Apart from that, Daily Star reported that Samsung Galaxy S8 will receive a new design. It was noted that both versions of the Galaxy S8 will arrive boasting a curved display, rather than just the premium edition. It can be remembered that Samsung has only incorporated curved display in the more premium edition of its flagship smartphone as seen recently in the Galaxy S6 and S7 edge handsets.
There were also reports suggesting that Samsung is planning two separate Galaxy S8 phones for next year. So together with a normal Samsung Galaxy S8, there will also be a bigger handset that will be called the Samsung Galaxy S8 plus. Speculations stated that the standard Samsung Galaxy S8 will have a 5.7 inch screen which makes it a little bit larger than the 5.5 inch Galaxy S7 Edge. Nonetheless, the Galaxy S8 plus may be the company's biggest smartphone to date as it may feature a 6.2 inch nearly edge-to-edge display.
Lastly, the Samsung Galaxy S8 is supposedly set to arrive boasting a super-smart AI voice assistant called Viv as Samsung takes on the likes of Apple and Google. The company is also predicted to ditch the industry-standard 3.5mm headphone port just like what Apple did.
