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Here's everything you need to know about the Galaxy S8 launching on March 29

The new smartphones will not have the traditional navigation buttons that have been on every Samsung Galaxy handset in the seven years the line has been in existence.

Leaked images of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S8.

Samsung is getting ready to launch a pair of Galaxy S8 smartphones that will be very different from its past models, reports reveal.

According to popular leak god Evan Blass (@evleaks on Twitter) in an article on Venture Beat, the new smartphones will not have the traditional navigation buttons that have been on every Samsung Galaxy handset in the seven years the line has been in existence.

The smartphones will also have displays that are larger than Samsungs traditionally oversized second-half flagship, the Galaxy Note, the report says.

The two models will have 5.8- and 6.2-inch QHD Super AMOLED screens respectively. The screens will cover 83% of the smartphone's  front panels which makes their aspect ratio - 18.5:9 - slightly different from the industry standard 16:9. Both models will sport Samsung's "edge" display, which curves on both sides of the phone.

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Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 chipset and Samsung's own Exynos chipset will definitely be used in the phones and the chipsets are expected to make the phone 11 percent faster overall than the Galaxy S7, with 23 percent faster graphic processing. They are also expected to be 20 percent more efficient.

As for battery size, 3000mAh and 3500mAh are expected for the 5.8-inch and 6.2-inch designs, respectively. This means improved power consumption will be critical to these phones since they are larger [in terms of screen size] than the S7 which has the same battery size.

Memory-wise, the 4GB of RAM will remain the de-facto RAM size but 64GB will now be the baseline as far as internal memory is concerned.

Charging will be carried out via a USB-C port located at the bottom of the phones right next to a - you guessed it - 3.5mm headphone jack.

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Both phones will have a 12MP rear camera and 8MP front-facing selfie cameras, both of which possess lenses with f1.7 appertures. Also, since there is no hoe button, the fingerprint scanner has been moved to the back of the phone beside the rear camera lens.

Blass says (and he is almost never wrong) both versions of the S8 will be launched at Samsung's Unpacked event in New York on  March 29. They will both go on sale on April 21 and retail for €100 more than the S7 (€799 for the 5.8-inch model and €899 for the 6.2-inch model).

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