The G8 was one of Last years flagships. It was panned, not for doing anything poorly, but for not wowing with any of it's features. It retailed for around $850 and the popular consensus seemed to be that it was a winner @ $650.This has made for a delightful situation when it comes to the value-oriented consumer. While the Samsung S10's are still selling in the $450-$500 range, here is a phone that has the same system internals (Both are powered by the Snapdragon 855 in the US) and similar, if somewhat lesser camera and screen for $198.And when I say lesser, it's academic. If you take a pic of the same subject/time/location and scrutinize, you can tell a difference. However, you will never shoot with this and say "That would have looked better on an s10" It's like a GPU that gets 300fps vs. one that gets 250fps. You can objectively tell the diff, but in RL, you will never notice. Same story with the screen. Samsung is definitely better, but you can't tell if not a side-by-side. Both have amazing screens and cameras ( I appreciate that if this doesn't seem dated in a gen or 2 that something terrible has become of the phone industry).If you enjoy quality audio on a phone, then the situation goes sideways for Samsung. My audio experience for the S line comes from the S10+ but I doubt it's worse than the S10. The G8 is far superior in respect to audio. If you no longer plug in headphones, it won't matter, but if you use your phone as an audio source, the G8 is it. I admit the "Quad DAC" deally sounded like marketing wank, but whatever they are doing, they are doing it right.I can't directly compare battery life as my S experience was from the larger and more expensive S10+, but battery life seems very good. I'm not the kind of person who trys to go as long as they can between charges. I have chargers everywhere around me, so I never really let phones die.Immediately updated to Android 10 OTA as well.Phone came is seemingly flawless condition with charger, cord, and sim key all equally pristine. At $198 or less (at the time of writing) I don't think you can get a better deal on a phone.The price does seem to fluctuate as things do on Amazon. As of this writing its a little high, but hold off a bit and it'll go back down.Couldn't be happier with this purchase!