It seems like consumers have a relatively short memory. It was a little over a year ago that everybody was taking pot shots at Samsung following its Galaxy Note 7 fiasco. After the release of the Galaxy S8 , all the jokes were quickly replaced by awe and wonder.

Premium build quality; S Pen a standout; Fast processing and multitasking; Superb all-round camera

Design not as eye catching; Pricey depending on model

Design, slim & sleek; Camera is really great, biometrics are quick to respond

Having issue with battery as it goes down very quickly; So I turn on power mode untill i figured out what is chewing battery life; Rest is all good

The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is Samsung's flagship smartphone. It features a dual-camera setup, offering two different focal lengths. It's an update to the controversial Note 7, which you may recall as being notorious for its exploding battery problem - Samsung is of course promising this problem has...

I've had the phone for a couple of weeks. The inbuilt app for the transfer of data and photos from my old phone to my Note 8 was very easy and complete. the note facility before opening the phone is awesome andextremely useful.

After two years South Africans finally have a new Samsung Note smartphone to buy. As you may recall the Note 7 never made it to South Africa due to a battery fault that caused many handsets to spontaneously catch fire.

The Note 8 has a bigger (and notchless) screen, but this means it's a bigger and bulkier device; both phones have good screen-to-body ratios, with minimal bezels.The Note's screen is also sharper, but both are fabulously sharp as it is and we don't think you'd notice much difference in practice.

Both beauty and the beast, the gorgeous Note 8 has an extraordinary feature set and magnificent performance. It's expensive, but can you really afford not to consider it? Find out what we made of Samsung's brand-new flagship, which is now on sale.

Being Samsung's flagship-tier device, the Galaxy Note8 is armed with an Exynos 8895 SoC, ARM Mali-G7 GPU, and 6GB of RAM. This combo should mean that the Note8 crunches numbers very well.

Inarguably beautiful; Powerful enough to run most tasks smoothly; Rear camera setup is good; IP68 S Pen allows for underwater doodling; Plenty of biometric locks

Fingerprint sensor is poorly positioned; Sets a new high for smartphone prices

Great phone full of features absolutely love it the camera is amazing battery lasts all day mainly used internet YouTube and games throughout the day screen quality top notch pencil is great mainly use it for drawing 10 out of 10 top phone

The phone is fast, responsive, intuitive, love the stylus and it's features. However I have to charge it a couple of times a day to make sure it doesn't go flat with frequent usage. As long as you have a charger handy, this is an amazing phone.