Samsung seems to be playing it safe with its first major smartphone since the embarrassing recall of its fire-prone Note 7. The Galaxy S8 features a larger display than its predecessor, the Galaxy S7, and sports a voice assistant intended to rival Siri and Google Assistant. But there is no increase in battery capacity, providing the battery more breathing room. The Note 7 pushed the engineering envelope with its battery, which contributed to a series of spontaneous smartphone combustions. The Galaxy S8 will come in two sizes, both bigger than last year's models. Both models have screens that curve around the edges and get rid of the physical home button. The Note 7 recall cost Samsung at least $5.3 billion.

Samsung has launched the highly anticipated Galaxy S8, the latest - and quite possibly the greatest - flagship mobile on the market. For many consumers, the battle for smartphone supremacy has long been a war between Apple and Samsung. However, early impressions suggest the South Korean firm has blown all of its rivals away with its latest device. If you're looking to purchase a new high-end handset, here's why you should choose the Samsung Galaxy S8 over the iPhone 7. Apple's biggest advantage over all of its competitors has traditionally been design, but that's no longer the case. The iPhone 4, launched way back in 2010, is to date the best-looking version of the iPhone.

Samsung announced the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus smartphones Wednesday morning at a launch event in New York City. Samsung mobile chief, DJ Koh was met with a round of applause as he took the stage to discuss what he calls "a new era of smartphone design." The Samsung Galaxy S8 features a 5.8-inch Quad HD dual-edge curved display, while the Galax S8 Plus features a 6.2-inch display. With the physical home button removed and embedded underneath the glass, the devices have an 18.9.5 aspect ratio and screens that are 83 percent functional display. This updated design also allows the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus to be smaller in size than predecessor devices.

Samsung seeks to up their game and reputation with the release of its new life-proof Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus. In case you haven't heard, the Galaxy S8 is coming. Samsung is hosting an "Unpacked" press event where it will take the wraps off its latest flagship Galaxy phone. The phone sits in a dock connected to a monitor, keyboard and mouse. "The concept is a really good one, particularly for the enterprise, and its degree of success will be determined by the right apps being enabled for the right experiences," says Moor Insights & Strategy analyst Patrick Moorhead.

Samsung seeks to up their game and reputation with the release of its new life-proof Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus. The S8 phones greatly reduce the bezels. NEW YORK--Samsung took the wraps off a premium smartphone that it hopes will at long last get you to stop talking about that other smartphone. The highly anticipated new S8, and its larger sibling the S8, are fast, sturdy, good looking curved glass phones, with 64GB of expandable storage, large and stunning displays (5.8 inches and 6.2-inches, respectively), iris scanner, and a new AI assistant named Bixby. It's all packed in a relatively compact design.

Samsung officially revealed the new Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus here in New York, and it seems safe to say that we got what we expected. The lack of a home button; the new AI assistant; the near bezel-less, curved screens; the rear-mounted fingerprint sensors -- all the leaks were true. What ultimately matters more than the lack of surprises are ambition and keen execution, and Samsung clearly embraced both when building the S8s. It's a good thing too: After the Galaxy Note 7's rise and fiery fall, Samsung needed to prove that it could craft some flawless smartphones. Well, I'm not sure about flawless, but the S8 and S8 Plus are both gorgeous and full-featured -- for now, the good certainly seems to outweigh the bad.

With its latest Galaxy S8 and S8 smartphones, Samsung also launched its very own AI assistant, Bixby. We know what you're thinking -- do I really need yet another Android helper bot like Google Assistant or even Cortana vying for my attention? Actually, Bixby might prove to be useful for Galaxy S8 owners than we expected, thanks to to its tight integration with the smartphones' hardware. Bixby has its own access button on the Galaxy S8 that helps you navigate services, apps and more via voice, touch and text commands. It also comes with a card-centric user interface that looks a lot like Google's former Now app, letting you save cards as reminders for later use.

Infinity Display and design: Ten years ago, designers did mockups of what phones would look in the distant future as one slab of glass. The S8 is the closest phone yet that represents that vision. The 5.8" and 6.2" are not only large display, but have incredibly-high resolutions of 2960x1440 (Quad HD) with 570 and 529 PPI (pixels per inch). The Infinity Display is stunning and I'm looking forward to seeing how this performs with the GearVR where PPI is paramount to the experience. DeX docking: There have been many attempts at smartphone-to-PC modularity and each one gets better.

Last year, the Galaxy Note 7 phablet was hailed as one of the best Android phones out there, but all that positive reception was quickly swiped away by one big problem: the phone's batteries were prone to catching on fire. The fiasco ended up hitting the company with about $5 billion in losses. On Wednesday morning, Samsung launched the Galaxy S8 and S8 phones that it's hoping will save its place as the biggest player in mobile. The phone features all the latest and great internal components you'd expect: Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor or Samsung's own Exynos 8895 processor based on the market. There's also a cellular modem that supports Category 16 LTE, which is a type of advanced LTE that theoretically supports download speeds of one gigabit per second depending on the carrier network. But instead of going over every feature, which has pretty much already leaked everywhere by this point, below are the three biggest features I think Samsung is bringing to the mobile market.

After the Note7 recall stripped us of our end-of-year Galaxy fix, Samsung has officially unveiled its flagship S8 and S8 phones, and they should be enough to make you forget all about the phablet fiasco. Packed with a slew of high-end features and wrapped in a stunning, near-bezel-less enclosure, the Galaxy S8 and S8 are sure to turn heads, dispensing of the home button and the somewhat stale S7 form factor, and putting Apple and its rumored iPhone 8 on notice. With the S8, Samsung has returned to the flagship market in a big way, and assuming they don't have any recall-level issues, it should rocket the company back to the head of the class. Out of this world: Samsung may have made us wait a few weeks longer than usual for the S8, but it's been worth it. Samsung has clearly used the Note7 debacle as motivation for the S8, and the result is a sexy, powerful handset that just might be the coolest phone ever made.