Microsoft now sells Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ online

As starting time spotted by MSPU, Microsoft is now selling Samsung'southward Galaxy S8 and S8+ smartphones at its online store

Through its online shop, Microsoft is offering both versions of the Galaxy S8 either unlocked or in AT&T or Verizon variants. The standard array of colors is also available, including choices of blackness, silver, or orchid gray. Equally for pricing, you lot're looking at $724.99 for the unlocked S8 or $824.99 for the unlocked S8+. Carrier variants differ in price slightly. If you lot're looking for a discount, nonetheless, yous might desire to expect until Nov 23, when Microsoft will exist offering $150 off the unlocked models for Black Friday.

That Microsoft sells the Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ isn't new, just the smartphones' arrival at Microsoft's online shop is. Microsoft offset began selling the Galaxy S8 earlier in 2022, but information technology kept sales restricted to its concrete retail stores and so store reps could "ensure a best-in-class customer feel." Though the phones sold were the same equally Samsung's standard-event Milky way S8 handsets, Microsoft associates were available to aid customers fix their devices, which also presumably entailed installing any Microsoft apps they might desire to have advantage of.

As you might expect, Microsoft is taking the opportunity on its Shop page to pitch its recently released Microsoft Launcher as a way to customize the feel and aid the GS8 work in concert with your Microsoft account and Windows PC. It may not be Windows phone, but as nosotros've seen with our own experiments, the GS8 with a complement of Microsoft apps can brand for a pretty solid Microsoft phone.

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