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Every hero needs a sidekick and every flagship needs accessories. Samsung has been offering exclusive companions since the Galaxy S III - whether it's cases, docking stations, wireless chargers, VR headsets, or even some premium headphones - there is always something to consider for your new Galaxy S phone. And the Galaxy S8 and S8+ are no exceptions. Samsung will be selling quite a few cases, a compatible Gear VR, a new wireless charger, and a very interesting DeX station that turns the Galaxy S8/S8+ into a mighty desktop computers. So, let's start with that, shall we? Samsung DeX Station Do you remember the Microsoft Display Dock for the Lumia 950 series? It's a rather compact dock for easy monitor, keyboard and mouse connection and it offered desktop Windows experience. Now Samsung has the same thing, but thanks to the new Galaxy S8 hardware it should provide a better experience with the desktop Android OS.         Samsung DeX Station The DeX Station its...

Design, display, hardware If there's one truly major change about the Galaxy S8 and S8+, it has to be design, and with it the display - inseparably intertwined these two. Bezels are so very last year, and in 2017 everyone is trimming every possible millimeter that's not display. Well, LG and Samsung are, at least. Samsung's got one more on LG, though - its Super AMOLEDs are curved on the sides, and however LG is trying to present that as an impediment to handling, it's actually drawing people to the Samsung flagships. It's got to be a winning design if there's no flat-edged Galaxy S8 at all this year, right? It's also the year of crazy display ratios, because that's what happens when you stretch a display to cover most of a phone's face, without actually making the phone that much larger. LG went with 18:9 on the G6 (which every 5th grader would tell you is 2:1), but Samsung has now one-upped them, or rather half-upped them - the S8 and S8+ ...