Customer Reviews for Samsung - Refurbished Galaxy S8+ 4G LTE with 64GB Memory Cell Phone (Unlocked) - Midnight Black
Customer Rating
1
Screen Breaks Easily
on December 6, 2017
Posted by: malbright11
from Plant City, FL, United States
I purchased 3 Galaxy S8+ phones within the last two weeks. While pressing the button to turn the one phone on, the screen cracked across the phone. The second vibrated itself off an end table falling onto carpet and shattered. All have Defender Otterboxes and the Invisible Shield Glass Curve Protective Screen. I am not happy. I have never had a phone break since the days of the Motorola Star-Tac phones (about 16 phones ago).
This phone is quite impressive to me. It has a lot of great features that make it very easy to use. The fingerprint scanner is so much better than in previous models and the iris scanner can unlock the phone with ease. You can multiple apps open at the same time with no trouble at all. The infinity screen may be a very popular feature at the moment but it seems to have one major problem - glass strength or lack of any strength. I love the features on this phone but am highly disappointed with the quality of the glass and that problem is compounded with both the front and back being completely covered with glass. It may be a beautiful look straight out of the box but let this phone fall 10 inches and you have a whole new look to your phone, complete with 'spiderweb' cracks and that was with an expensive name brand case on. I am not saying that it is a bad phone but it definitely needs to be handled with care (and good insurance!)
What I liked about Galaxy S8+: big screen, long battery life, and all the benefit of having Android System, that I can install apps from different sources, convenient widgets from different apps, etc. I have What I didn't quite like about S8+: 1) The fingerprint scanner is right beside camera, not only that it's easy to have fingerprints on camera, but also inconvenient to unlock when you have techou-style phone case. 2) When using android pay, I have to unlock twice. 3) Takes quite a while to replace the Samsung apps with google apps 4) Touch screen multi-touch issue, it's better than Pixel 2 XL, however it's still not quite good enough. When playing touch intensive games, it sometimes misinterpret the action and may fail me in game. I'm uncertain if it's a common issue. 5) Doesn't support Chromecast on FHD+ and WQHD+.