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Samsung Galaxy S8 Active Review: Practically Indestructible

Samsung Galaxy S8 Active Review: Practically Indestructible

Posted on September 7, 2017April 9, 2019 By Jarvis

Samsung’s Galaxy S8 is the best smartphone you can buy right now, but it has one glaring flaw: a glass back. It looks damn good, but the glass also makes the S8 prone to slipping off any slightly tilted surface. And if you don’t have a good grip on it, the phone could also slide right out of your hand and onto a hard floor.

So Samsung introduced an Active version of the S8. For a $100 premium, the $850 S8 Active offers military-grade protection from the elements in addition to all the features that made the original S8 so great.

Is it worth the extra cost and added bulk? I put the S8 Active through its paces to see how it stacked up to the Galaxy S8.
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Phones Tags:galaxy, GALAXY S8, review, Samsung, Samsung Galaxy, Samsung Galaxy S8, Samsung Galaxy S8 Active, smartphone, Surface, The Galaxy S8

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