New Delhi: Samsung has unveiled its long-awaited Galaxy S8 smartphones –the Galaxy S8 and S8+ handsets, incorporating its virtual assistant Bixby, as it battles to regain the market leadership it lost to Apple Inc after the embarrassing withdrawal of the fire-prone Note 7s.
Two versions of the Galaxy S8, code-named Dream internally, were launched at a media event in New York on Wednesday, with 6.2-inch (15.75 cm) and 5.8-inch curved screens - the largest to date for Samsung`s premium smartphones. They will go on sale on April 21.
Though Samsung did not officially announce the price of the smartphones, US carriers T-Mobile US Inc and Verizon Communications Inc announced retail pricing for the same.
The smaller S8 will be priced at around $700 while the larger phone will sell for $840 at Verizon and $850 at T-Mobile.
Considering the prices, we can calculate the India price of the S8 phone at around Rs 45,500 while that of the Galaxy S8+ will be around 54,600.
In addition the phones in India will come with Exynos processor, so we can add another Rs 5000 to the price of both the phones.
The S8 features Samsung`s new artificial intelligence service, Bixby, with functions including a voice-commanded assistant system similar to Apple`s Siri. There is also a new facial recognition application that lets users unlock their phones by looking at them.
With Agency Inputs
