Microsoft, in March of this year, entered into a partnership with Samsung in which the deal would be good for both parties. The agreement provided for the Redmond giant to include several services pre-installed on Samsung devices and even start selling the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus in its physical stores.
Samsung, in turn, has obtained a portion of royalties that it needs to pay for some features in its products to be amortized. After a few months of partnership, Microsoft will start selling the S8 and S8 Plus in its online store.
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Check the device specs:
- 5,8 (S8) or 6,2 inch (S8 Plus) Super AMOLED curved screen, protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 5
- Resolution of 2960 x 1440 pixels, 570 or 529 pixels per inch
- 4 GB of RAM
- 64 GB of memory for internal storage
- MicroSD card slot up to 256GB
- Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 platform (MSM8998) or Exynos 8895
- Qualcomm Adreno 540 or ARM Mali-G71 MP20 as graphics card
- Access to 4G LTE networks (nano SIM)
- 12 MP main camera | f/1.7 aperture, 26mm lens, PDAF, OIS and LED flash
- 8 MP front camera | f/1.7 aperture, dual video call support and auto HDR
- Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.2, NFC e GPS
- Reversible USB Type-C port
- Fingerprint reader and iris sensor
- Other sensors: accelerometer, gyroscope, proximity, compass, barometer, heart rate, SpO2
- Battery of 3.000 (S8) or 3.500 (S8 Plus) mAh
- Android 7.0 Nougat as operating system under Samsung's own interface
