I was worried after the Note 7 debacle. Fortunately the Note8 has shown no signs of it's predecessor's mortal battery issue. It's good looking, fast, conveniently sized for the hand, and durable. Let me elaborate on durable: it survived a rotation through Fort Irwin National Training Center intact.

I picked up the Galaxy Note 8 a few weeks back on the T-Mobile, and I was surprised from my initial impressions, from the huge Infinity Display and excellent camera quality, to the feature filled Android version along with Samsung Experience UI.

Still a great flagship for 2018; 6GB RAM/64GB Storage; Expandable SD card; Quad HD Infinity Display; Dual 12MP Camera; Samsung Experience UI is improved

Weird fingerprint placement; Bixby button is a little annoying when pressed unintentionally

Fabulous camera, great video, excellent screen , fast processes, iris scan is great, finger print is fast, top notch personal and great business phone !

Touch screen doesn't work well. Probably it seems that it has a defect on touch screen. I have another Samsung Galacy phone edge, Iphone 7, and newest model X as well. However, it's very difficult to touch to input the keypad with my finger on the screen.

After a tricky year and a few lessons learned, the Note 8 is back to winning ways

Large; bright screen; Well built; Decent audio; with hi-res support; Great cameras; S Pen functionality is well integrated

Battery life could be better; Very expensive

I swore off ‘flagship' phones this year, ditching my weary iPhone 6S and dropping £200 on a mid-range Android phone with a battery the size of a small moon. I'm delighted with it to an increasingly boring extent.

It's the best camera phone I've used and it's everything a high-end phone should be; You can feel where the money's gone

The fingerprint scanner is hard to reach and the face/iris scanning alternatives are unreliable

Just weeks later, Samsung was forced to recall the smartphone after it was revealed, somewhat dramatically, that a dangerous battery flaw saw handsets explode, burn backsides and generally cause chaos on flights.

Eye-catching design, excellent display, performance and camera and, most important of all, it didn't go up in flames; Or, at least, it hasn't yet

Do you really need a device this big, that's awkward to operate one-handed? Bixby is also a work-in-progress and, oh, the price; The eye-watering price

Some thought the Note 8 might never happen. After the successful launch and subsequent disastrous recall and discontinuation of the Note 7, which still gets namechecked on some airlines as a banned object, you'd have forgiven Samsung for dropping the Note name and starting again.

Stunning design and build; Great screen; Well-implemented stylus and software; Superb cameras

Average battery life; Wildly expensive

This phone looks spectacular. The shape is the oblong with curved edges we expect from a mobile phone, with a sleek, slick back which is also composed...

Lovely design and build quality; Impressive dual camera; Excellent display; Good performance; Plenty of useful features

Location of fingerprint sensor; Very expensive

Samsung Galaxy Note 8: The Galaxy Note 8 rises from the ashes of its predecessor; but can Samsung get back in your pocket?

Incredible bezel-less display; Superb dual cameras; Refined stylus

Painfully expensive; Weaker battery life than S8 Plus