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The other thing that makes the phone fit the hand well besides the curved edges is the screen shape. Where most smartphone screens have a 16:9 format, this is 18.5:9 which means the 5.8inch display of the S8 and even the 6.2-inch screen of the S8+ don’t stretch your hands. It’s hard to overemphasise the important of this. These are big-screened phones which feel anything but. The S8+ is only fractionally taller than the Apple iPhone 7 Plus and is noticeably less wide.

The face recognition was less reliable than iris scanning. It sometimes launched the screen instantly, which felt intimate and enjoyable but other times it said no match or no face was found.