a custom skin).

For starters, Samsung’s skin has a much nicer visual design than any previous version of TouchWiz.

The design looks pretty good these days, and stands out from the crowd of other Android handsets.

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Samsung has cut down on unnecessary crap here in favor of just the elements you need.

The condensed submenus are a godsend and they just make sense, separating options into clear categories.

Previously this area was an absolute mess.

As you’d expect from a Samsung gear, there are alotof features throughout the software.

I didn’t want any of that garbage on my phone, so I opted not to install it.

This doesn’t rid the S8+ of bloatware entirely.

I guess you’re free to’t win everything.

Iwouldtalk about the Edge screen features, but there’s not a whole lot to discuss.

Perhaps the only useful feature here are the screenshot tools.

Bixby is split into three parts: Home, Voice and Vision.

And Voice wasn’t available in Australia, so I couldn’t test it.