Samsung may have 'leaked' its Galaxy S8, and boy does it look gorgeous
There's a couple of things we can guess about Samsung's upcoming flagship, the Galaxy S8, but there's very little in terms of actual, official info.
However, Samsung's own display-making arm, Samsung Display, may have been leaking the Galaxy S8's looks for days now, right in front of our eyes -- on its official YouTube channel.
In a series of videos touting the company's new AMOLED displays, a phone with extremely slim bezels and an enormous screen-to-body ratio can be seen -- and it closely matches the renders and rumors about the upcoming S8.
The phone in the videos -- the first of which was spotted by Android Headlines a few days ago -- appears to be a nameless placeholder. But the design, which you can see on the latest three videos on Samsung Display's YouTube page, is very specific, and no Samsung phone (that's currently available) looks remotely like it.
In the latest video, below, you can see the phone from the bottom: it appears to have a headphone jack, a speaker and a USB-C connector. The phone, however, appears to be crazy thin, much thinner than any of Samsung's current models, with all the ports unrealistically small.
In another video, we get a full frontal view of the phone, with a speaker on top and no home button (another rumored feature of the S8) at the bottom.
It's possible that Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S8 will look nothing like this. But the possibility of rumors -- some of which predate these videos -- accidentally matching Samsung Display's mockups so closely, is pretty small.
Expectations are high for Samsung's new flagship(s), which come after the discontinued Note7 and, more recently, the arrest of Samsung Group's heir apparent, Jay Y. Lee, on suspicion of bribery.
The company needs to deliver something customers will love. By the look of these renders, it might be going in the right direction.
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