After the disaster of Note 7, Samsung is preparing a Galaxy S8 innovative – The Figaro

The next smartphone from Samsung, expected for the month of march, should have a screen very wide and get rid of their home button.

Difficult for Samsung to forget about 2016. After a year marked by the continued troubles on the Galaxy Note 7, a smartphone that was supposed to compete with the iPhone 7, the south Korean manufacturer hopes to find success in 2017 with new devices. He is currently preparing for the release of the Galaxy S8, according to Bloomberg Businessweek, which cites sources close to the matter, but anonymous. The smartphone should be equipped with several innovations unprecedented for a Samsung smartphone. For example, its screen will take the whole surface of the device, almost without borders.

Samsung is not the first manufacturer to attempt to remove the edges of its smartphone. In October, the chinese Xiaomi has introduced a phone that is almost invisible, that is to say, the screen covering the entire surface of the device, the Mi MIX. The iPhone 8, expected next year, could also take this direction with a back and a front glass, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, of KGI Securities. Samsung has a card to play in this area. The south Korean manufacturer was the pioneer of the screens with curved edges, with its Galaxy series Edge.

Another innovation, the Galaxy S8 will not have a home button, as is currently the case for other smartphones of the brand. He will be replaced by a touch button, that you can press on the lower part of the screen. The iPhone 8 could be endowed with a similar function. Apple has already changed the home button with the iPhone 7, released in September, moving from the mechanical to the touch.

The Samsung Galaxy S8 should in theory come out in the month of march. Its output, however, may be shifted in April, due to testing of enhanced security. Samsung does not want to relive a disaster as one who has touched the Note 7. Supposed to be its smartphone star of 2016, the unit has suffered serious problems at the level of the battery, sometimes resulting in its explosion. Samsung initially attempted to minimize the affair, then ended by recalling millions of phones. The sales of the Note 7 have been permanently halted, in October. This fiasco could cost up to $ 6 billion dollars business, according to estimates from Bloomberg Businessweek.

“One of our missions, the most important is to provide the highest possible quality. Recently, we have failed at this promise. We are sincerely sorry”, apologized Samsung in October, through a page of advertising purchased in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Washington Post. The group promised to “take the necessary time to get the right answers” as to these combustion spontaneous. They are not the only ones to investigate. Instrumental, a company specializing in test and analysis of smartphones, has made its own conclusions on the case at the beginning of the month. It says that the battery of the Note 7 was too big and there was not enough room in the phone, causing a continuous pressure on the machine.