Samsung Galaxy S8 duo smashes pre-order records in Korea

10 April 2017
In the first two days, the S8 and S8+ scored more pre-orders than the S7 and Note7 combined (for the same period).

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  • Anonymous
  • P@Y
  • 15 Apr 2017

Wow

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    • TkG
    • 14 Apr 2017

    AnonD-647900, 14 Apr 2017Still doesn't have the title of best smartphone display lol Oh, is that so? Then "enlighten" me, what smartphone does, hmmm?

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      • Y7u
      • 14 Apr 2017

      RaghavaZ, 10 Apr 2017Very eagerly waitng for this "Mind you, when Sony makes com... moreDamn Sony's total annual sales number can't even beat one Galaxy model let alone the iPhone. You can't help but laugh when you read such things as "Mind you, when Sony makes competitive phones, Samsung and Apple are going down easily." lol

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        • 14 Apr 2017

        AnonD-57516, 10 Apr 2017Everything of Sony is going downhill. They used to rule the... moreWell said! Sony is just too stubborn to change and they never will. Soon they'll be hammering in the final nail into their coffin.

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          • Y7u
          • 14 Apr 2017

          AnonD-628531, 12 Apr 2017wrong. Xperia XZ Premium's 4K HDR 10-ready equipped with Do... moreStill doesn't have the title of best smartphone display lol

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            • Y7u
            • 14 Apr 2017

            "Pre-orders will last until April 17 (by then the number may reach a cool million)," "An official from a local store reports that 80%-90% of visitors were there to pre-order the new Galaxy flagship," "On the world stage Samsung plans to beat the sales of the Galaxy S7, which moved 49 million units in a year," "Analysts expect around 13 million S8 phones to find their new owner in just the first month of availability," wow this is beating even my expectations!

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              • tZk
              • 14 Apr 2017

              Koreans show patriotic.

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                • nE0
                • 12 Apr 2017

                kakouille, 10 Apr 2017Wrong,1rst best smartphone screen.Ask displaymate.wrong. Xperia XZ Premium's 4K HDR 10-ready equipped with Dolby Vision screen, "mate".

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                  • Anonymous
                  • Xu6
                  • 12 Apr 2017

                  Anonymous, 12 Apr 2017You're wrong, it's a fork. It's to Google's android what De... moreDude the link you provide does not contain any article about fork(software development), infact the topic fork(sortware develoftment) does not even exist.

                  For your furthur information, when you say fork you mean you are copying the project from original project to other branch/folder for testing, improvising, etc, purposes. Its a parent-child concept. If you've used github you will constantly come across forks. MIUI is totally build on top of android architecture. Android maybe linux but it is a strip down customize linux kernel, this same kernel is use by miui (incase of tizen they dont use this same kernel though the implementation is similar). Most importantly, miui is using Android Virtual machine though maybe little bit customized, android sdk, and so on... So it is still an Android os but its not stock android... They call it android replacement os. You may call it different os when it doesn't run apk and utilizes its own vm. If you compare linux os like ubuntu to android than they are not same ok...kernel maybe same but the os designed and the way they operate are different. Ubuntu runs natively on hardware, their design consist of shell on top of kernel, shell is where everything operates on ubuntu. On android things are bit different, everything happens on Dalvik Virtual machine. Anyways it will take whole year to explain their differences, youll have to go through Advance OS Desing and Architecture subjects to understand everything.

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                    • Anonymous
                    • pVN
                    • 12 Apr 2017

                    Anonymous, 11 Apr 2017Dude MIUI is not based on Android, it is android, an oem... moreYou're wrong, it's a fork. It's to Google's android what Debian is to Ubuntu

                    Fork: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_(software_development)

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                      • Anonymous
                      • pVN
                      • 12 Apr 2017

                      RainX, 12 Apr 2017hey bright boy... MIUI(Mi User Interface) is not an OS(Oper... moreIt heavily modifies both Android runtime and android framework.
                      It's a fork not a UI, nor a OS

                      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_(software_development)

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                        • 12 Apr 2017

                        Anonymous, 11 Apr 2017Because you never owned not even seen a flagship Xiaomi. Pe... morehey bright boy... MIUI(Mi User Interface) is not an OS(Operating System) it is an Android Skin :)

                        Here one for you and learn a bit... http://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=os

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                          • 12 Apr 2017

                          I think it's a lie.

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                            • Anonymous
                            • Xuf
                            • 11 Apr 2017

                            Anonymous, 11 Apr 2017Because you never owned not even seen a flagship Xiaomi. Pe... moreDude MIUI is not based on Android, it is android, an oem customized rom, you cant call it a different rom or non android. There are plenty of cuntom roms out there which are just like miui rom , battery management/ power management, whatever you name it. The one OS which you can call android based is Tizen, because tizen is totally different os or in other word non abdroid.

                              Main weakness of S8 is Display Easy Broken, Thats why in Malaysia here if preorder they offer 1 time Free Display replacement

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                                • 6jq
                                • 11 Apr 2017

                                Lumina, 11 Apr 2017Wait.. MIUI has good battery life? My sister's Redmi Not... moreYeah, no way the 1080p screen and more power hungry SoC has anything to do with it, it's all on MIUI. No way does j7 get 9 hours sot, 6 hours at the most, 7 hours is pushing it.

                                BTW my mix gets 8 hours SOT with a 6.4 inch screen with all my apps practically in the background...

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                                  • 11 Apr 2017

                                  Anonymous, 11 Apr 2017Because you never owned not even seen a flagship Xiaomi. Pe... moreWait.. MIUI has good battery life?
                                  My sister's Redmi Note 2 has 3000mAh but SOT at most is 5 hours while her J7 2015 also has 3000mAh and can get 8-9hours SOT Everytime...

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                                    • 11 Apr 2017

                                    Anonymous, 11 Apr 2017And android wouldn't exist without Linux yet it rarely is u... moreAnd all of this is on-topic? :)

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • 6jq
                                      • 11 Apr 2017

                                      Someone Else, 11 Apr 2017Wow. Such an arrogant comment. MIUI is NOT an OS. Android i... moreAnd android wouldn't exist without Linux yet it rarely is upgraded to the latest version of Linux kernel.

                                      That's nonsense talk. MIUI used to be a UI on top of android since MIUI 5 it became a fork of android. Do you know what a fork is? Every now and then gets seperate injections from Google code mostly to keep in pace with latest developments on app development but actually has a life of its own.

                                      A miui 8 phone , no matter whether it is running on kit kat, lollipop or marshmallow, is differvent than miui 7 even if (say) miui runs on kit kat or marshmallow too.

                                      There is a reason MIUI 's numbering system is seperate from google's. Because it's the dominant and only relevant one. Of course you wouldn't know that since you never owned or maintained a single Xiaomi device.

                                      In fact I welcome when MIUI refrains from upgrading before the new android's kinks are ironed out. For example you can have xposed support even in the latest version of miui because its runtime is based on marshmallow, yet you *still* have feature parity to nougat (actually you have more features than the ones that you don't ).

                                      Also not unlike stock Google, you never lose speed on the long run. It's a very stable and fast OS. It's hard to go back to amateur work like grace UX or LG's patch job. If I was to use sth other than miui it would be stock Google, it's the only one in that level of excellence ... less supported though (after 24 months googlE drops support of devices).

                                        Anonymous, 11 Apr 2017Because you never owned not even seen a flagship Xiaomi. Pe... moreWow. Such an arrogant comment. MIUI is NOT an OS. Android is an OS. MIUI stands for Mi User Interface (which looks like iOS, tbh)

                                        MIUI wouldn't even exist without Android! How is Android secondary? The fact that it brings weekly update doesn't show that it's better. It shows that MIUI NEEDS a weekly update just to fix some bugs. (Unlike stock Android, Xperia-UI, TouchWiz, LG UX, HTC Sense) Frankly, major companies spent their time and effort building a stable Android skin so that they don't need an often update.

                                        You basically saying that, in a Xiaomi smartphone, MIUI is an OS while Android doesn't matter. I mean, whaaa????? You get it all wrong there. Stop spreading this ridiculous lies.

                                        MIUI is a skin, just like TouchWiz, HTC Sense, Xperia-UI, LG UX. #fact

                                        Btw, there's no need to reply to me.