Samsung launches dreams of recovery with Galaxy S8

S8 features Samsung's new AI service, Bixby, with functions including a voice-assistant system

Samsung Electronics unveiled its Galaxy S8 flagship smartphone as it battles to regain the market leadership it lost to Apple Inc after the embarrassing withdrawal of the fire-prone Note 7s.
 
Boasting some of the largest wrap-around screens ever made, the long-awaited S8 is the South Korean tech giant’s first new premium phone since the Note 7 debacle in October, which wiped out $5.48 billion of profit and helped Apple overtake Samsung as the world’s top smartphone maker in the fourth quarter.
 
Two versions of the Galaxy S8, code-named Dream internally, were launched at a media event in New