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i loved the galaxy s6 active but

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aside from being kind of a frump compared to its much hotter cousin the

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s6 it lacked a fingerprint sensor at a time

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when that was the next big thing to have

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for quick secure authentication the next generation of active integrated

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a fingerprint reader with the clicky home button for a truly no compromises

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experience though except the regular s7's killer new

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feature was ip68 water resistance removing one of the active's main

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selling points that and the s7 active was really bulky

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even for inactive so

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as you'd probably expect this generation is full of compromises

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again here we go

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now in terms of the internal hardware the s8 active is every bit as worthy of

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the flagship label as the s8 and the

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note 8. it's got an octa-core processor four gigs of RAM 64 gigs of storage with

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microsd expansion i mean you guys know the drill but it's also got a couple of

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tricks up its sleeve that they don't first is the shatter resistant screen

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encased in a mil standard 810g temperature dust shock and pressure

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resistant enclosure and second is the

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massive 4 000 milliamp hour battery

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inside let's start with a closer look at the screen

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this one is a bit of a mixed bag from the regular s8 it carries over the

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bright accurate once configured correctly 5.8

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inch 2960x1440 amoled panel the unusual eighteen and a

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half by nine aspect ratio and on-screen buttons including a pressure

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sensitive home instead of hardware buttons

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a tough pill to swallow for some long time active fans though it wasn't a huge

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deal for me i personally like the flexibility of being able to hide them

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for more room for consuming vertical content

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not to mention horizontal content the big screen makes the s8 active supremely

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awesome for watching movies or other ultrawide aspect ratio content when

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you're on the go as long as you don't mind using headphones or the in my opinion

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inexcusable in 2017 mono bottom facing

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speaker configuration but

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if you were hoping for a shatter resistant display that also manages to

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somehow wrap around the edges of the device infinity style

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then you'll be sorely disappointed by the flat glass and

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definitely not bezel-less 75 screen to

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body ratio though again this isn't something that

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bothered me that much the s8 active is

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actually as big an improvement over the s7 active in terms of its screen to body

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ratio as the s8 was to the s7

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the bigger issue is that while both

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phones use gorilla glass 5 many users are reporting that the

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shatter resistant coating seems to make this one much more susceptible to micro

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scratching and mine does definitely have some micro scratches

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though with that said my s8 has just as many from similar use in my pocket so

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take that as you will i actually have a theory that whether it's corning's batch

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to batch variation or the different

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configurations that oems request for it

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uh their glass products are ending up with the same name for marketing

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purposes but really different characteristics the droid turbo gen one

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that i used for a year and then that taren has been using since has gorilla

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glass 3 but it has almost no surface

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imperfections to this day while the rest of my phones

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apple and Android usually end up scuffed to hell by pocket lint within a few days

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anyway i digress let's talk about the second big selling point of this phone

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the battery even as a pretty heavy user i managed

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only once to kill the s8 active in a single day and that was only because i

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subjected it to over six hours of simultaneous gps navigation and wi-fi

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hotspot sharing during an all-day on-location shoot down in seattle

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this is by far my favorite thing about active phones i mean i still end up

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charging every night but most people would easily get two days or more with

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some of the clever power saving features in the Android 7 nougat version of

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samsung experience but wait a second don't active phones

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have a third awesome selling point ah yes

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the programmable button on the left that wait what the

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it's a bixby button just like the rest of samsung's current lineup now

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i mean at least they let you disable it for accidental presses now but i'm still

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gonna copy-paste my usual spiel about how they should allow native

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reprogramming you know like they used to

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speaking of copy paste the camera including the front-facing iris scanner

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that i still don't find as fast or reliable as the fingerprint reader is

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literally copy-pasted from the galaxy s8 and that's a good thing i never noticed

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any difference in image quality or launch times on the rear 12 megapixel

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camera that records 4k video at up to 30 FPS

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and while it doesn't have a dual sensor

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system like the note 8 for optical zoom or fake bokeh which i'll be calling foca

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from now on honestly that matters way less to me these days

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than a quality front-facing camera and this one gets me better results than

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even the iphone 8. i mean it's not like i take a bunch of selfies with my

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duckface friends in the club or whatever but when i'm hanging out with my kids i

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end up capturing a lot more moments thanks to the wider angle lens and it's

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decent low light performance just remember before you use it make

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sure you turn off all the cheesy face shaping and skin smoothing effects

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now let's talk gripes

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the samsung experience on this phone is not the smoothest experience

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this device crashes more than every other phone that i've reviewed

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combined it's not every day or anything but it's

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too much everything from random reboots to

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the screen staying on with the clock stops so clearly not working until i

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hard reset to the phone clearly being

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working like it'll lock and unlock with the buttons but the touchscreen is

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totally unresponsive until i hard reset it

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and before you ask i checked a t site to

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make sure that i was running the latest software so

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samsung an update would be super swell

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and while you're at it you can't move an expanded list around

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on me while i am swiping stuff away from it

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and fix this one too when you hit the fingerprint sensor

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which i still don't like on the back by the way see

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there you go that's what it's supposed to do dump you on the home screen

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perfect but if you hit it sometimes when the

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phone isn't actually locked for some reason

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i then have to swipe before i can see the home screen

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why would i want that i mean it's not like it matters that

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much the instability that i've experienced already rules this phone out

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as a daily driver for me but if that could be fixed

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i otherwise really like it it's like it's like a dog that's smart

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friendly playful and pees on your stuff

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it just needs a little bit more work

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my phone needs a little bit more work i want to spend some time making it look

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awesome and making it resistant to scuffs and scratches well dbrand has got

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