The phone does not have good response when pushing buttons or fields. There are three screens before you get into the phone. The sleep screen, a second screen a security screen finally your in. Very frustrating.
The buttons on the bottom are not real like the last phone. You must swipe up to get a return button and it pops up over the delete button. There is a fear your going to delete rather than return.
The features on the last galaxy were much better. I can hardly wait to get my next phone. I have only bad this one a month.
I must say this is by far and away the best phone I ever had. However, my last phone was a Galaxy S3 so you know I was way behind in the tech tree...hahaha It's just the finest phone I could imagine. No issue's at all, and I've had it 3 months. Buy it, you'll love it......
This phone works great as long as you're not trying to use it to make calls. When trying to use this phone as a phone you can't hear anybody that you're trying to talk to you have to put it on speaker phone to actually be able to hear them I would not recommend this phone if you're going to use it for speaking to people.
Within 24 hours of having the phone and being very careful with it, I noticed a tiny crack. It looked more of like a pinhole. A couple days after there was another and another. Next thing I know, there are 5 little cracks all over my screen. I continued to use it and not worry about them, but now it shattered. I had my phone on my desk and accidentally dropped a key on it from about 6 inches up and it shattered!!! This is supposed to be an active and it's not supposed to shatter like that! The screen lags sometimes, but besides these two HUGE issues, it hasn't been that bad of a phone.
My Samsung Galaxy S8 Active is my first smart phone. I'm still learning how to use all of the features, though I'm getting quite proficient at taking pictures and adding them to social media. I am glad I got the Active with the steel case, as my phone fell out of my robe pocket one morning. I didn't have to worry about it breaking.
This is my 3rd Samsung galaxy s phone. S4, S6 and now S8 active. Each new model has always been better than the previous model. The battery in s8 is great. Charge only once a day. s6 was twice a day.