Mashable Choice highlights the best of everything we cover, have experienced first-hand and would recommend to others. The Samsung Galaxy S8 is good enough to make people forget the Note7. Beautiful, thin, and wrapped in glass, it’s a handset that elicits ooh's, ah’s and requests for more time with it. That isn’t the only measure of a good smartphone, but it’s a start. For Samsung, getting something out into the market quickly was imperative.