Galaxy Note 8 Review: Samsung Sets the Bar Again Last year was an interesting year in Android phones and not just thanks to Samsung’s unfortunate Note 7 debacle . Modular phones came and mostly went and, more importantly, Google released the Pixel, the phone by which all other Android phones would (and should) be judged. Somewhat ironically, if it weren’t for my tragically brief love affair with the Note 7 , I might not have even bothered to check the Pixel out. But I did and it changed how I looked at other phones. Fast forward to this year, Samsung is back with a new Note to complete the 2017 Galaxy line. The Galaxy S8+ didn’t do much for me. It was sleek and so very pretty, but I still preferred the straight up unvarnished Android OS, along with the boxy, bezeled design of the Pixel. The sleek curved “infinity” screen of the S8 drove me nuts with unwanted interactions nearly every time I held the thing. The fingerprint scanner worked unreliably and fo...