The Samsung Galaxy S8 will have a smaller capacity battery than the ill-fated Note7 which literally went down in flames.
The battery capacity will be 3000mAh. However, the S8 Plus will have a battery that has a capacity of 3500mAh, according to the South Korean news website News1, the same as that of the Note7.
The outlet said its information came from an unnamed Samsung official.
The batteries will be manufactured not by SDI and ATL in China as has been the case but by Samsung SDI and Murata Manufacturing in Japan.
{loadposition sam08}The Galaxy S8 will have a 5.8-inch display while that of the S8 Plus will be 6.2 inches.
The phones are expected to be released on 29 March in New York.
These sizes will be achieved by cutting back on the top and bottom bezels; the chassis of the S8 and S8 Plus will roughly be the same size as the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge respectively.
News1 said the S8 and S8 Plus would have an average of 2.5 hours more usage time on a full charge.
But Forbes, which quoted from the News1 report, said the battery capacity was bad news, pointing out that while the new Exynos and Snapdragon chipsets would be more power efficient than those used last year, the larger displays would drain power more quickly.
The Galaxy S7 had a 5.1-inch display and a 3000mAh battery while the 5.5-inch Galaxy S7 Edge had a 3600mAh battery.
Forbes said that RAM for the S8 would apparently be unchanged at 4GB.