Customer Reviews for Samsung - Galaxy S8 Active 64GB - Active Gray (Sprint)
Customer Rating
5
Great Decision
on September 28, 2017
Posted by: REDUNDANT
from Muskogee, OK, United States
Had a Galaxy S6 and was happy with it. Then I checked out the S8 and convinced myself to try it. Absolutely the best cell I have ever had. GO SAMSUNG !!
I've had this phone almost a month now and so far it has lived up to the legacy of its predecessors. I've dropped it a couple times, even chipping the glass screen protector and the devices screen is still exactly as it was when I received the device. Battery lasts a long time, and it's a good deal faster than my S7 Active. The upgrade was a great decision!
Held onto S5 Active until this available. S5 Active still looked new, only scratches around the raised camera bezel. But with only 16G and newest operating system, phone became slow. Glad I waited. The bigger screen, much larger battery are huge wins for me. I did put a screen protector and Speck clear case on the phone so I don't have any issues with slippery feeling and the phone works great. Much faster, even better connections than S5. The fingerprint scanner is in a weird location, but works when needed. Most often the phone unlocks with face or eyes so it isn't a big deal. The screen is brighter, camera much better and the fast charge is amazing. My car has wireless charging and in the drive to and from work I can give my phone a boost. The battery can last 2 days even without the boost but only takes a couple of hours for full charge when I plug it in. I just stuff in back pocket and it doesn't get scratched. Still getting used to Bixby but so far she does better than Siri or Alexa finding answers to questions. I would recommend this phone!
I absolutely love this phone! It has everything you could want and then some. The battery last for a long time, the perfect size, pretty color gold, Wi-Fi calling and so much more. You can't go wrong with this phone. Highly recommend it to anyone. Love love love it!!!!
I have always been a huge fan of the Samsung Galaxy phones. When I've purchased one they've lasted years with no problems. I still have my first Galaxy, which I let my children play various games on when we're taking long road trips. The last one I got was a Samsung Galaxy S5 that lasted through several owners before I inherited it from my mom. When the screen finally shattered after getting dropped one too many times, I upgraded to the Samsung Galaxy S8 Active.
I chose it because of the supposed durability of the phone. I have two young kids that keep me very active (sports, hikes, rock climbing, bike riding, camping, etc) and I thought this would be the best choice for any "oops" that happened while we were out and about.
I've had the phone 3 weeks. In the first couple of days, the screen got many small scratches from pulling it in and out of my pocket. Then my daughter knocked it off the seat of our van and a rock has become imbedded in the screen within the first week of having it.
Now, it's frozen. Since the back is bolted on, I can't remove the battery to see if that will help. Hopefully the battery dies and whatever the problem is resolves itself upon restarting.
The two great things about the phone? The battery fully charged lasts me a couple of days and it takes great pictures.