Samsung seems to have gone all-out to provide the same smartphone experience regardless of your screen size preferences, and the Galaxy S8's specs bear that out. Any of this look familiar?

5.8-inch, dual-edge, Super AMOLED display with 2960 × 1440 resolution (570 ppi)

Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 or Samsung Exynos 8895 processor, with 4 GB RAM

12-megapixel rear camera with dual pixel autofocus and 4K video capture; 8-megapixel selfie camera

64 GB internal storage, expandable via MicroSD card (up to 256 GB additional)

IP68 water resistance rating

Android 7.0 Nougat

Dimensions aside, the S8 fairly identically clones the look of the S8+. Features include:

Speaker grille and microphone hole

USB-C charging port and headphone jack (Apple: 0 Samsung: 1)

Pulse reader/flash assembly

Rear-facing camera

Fingerprint reader

The S8 is a safe evolution on the S7 Edge—proportions, camera and sensor package location, and size are all fairly on par.

The Galaxy once again rocks the glass-on-glass design, making our lives difficult. We heat the heck out of this panel and apply plenty of prying picks.

Once we get an edge open, the iSclack helps us crank through the rest of the gnarly adhesive (which will need replacing upon reassembly—*groan*).

And we're in—to an S8+? This guy looks pretty darn identical.

The fingerprint sensor lives in the rear case, somewhat controversially placed. Using the thing (with your right hand) requires blindly stretching and blotting out the camera...

The good news is that this sensor is modular and can be popped right off its adhesive for replacement. All it takes is a little heat and a good push.

As with its S8+ sibling, the S8 employs some sweet hardware multitasking. The speaker/antenna array, and antenna/NFC coil assembly, do double duty as the phone's midframe.

We're almost running out of things to say here—the rest of the phone looks pretty much like the S8+ too, down to the wee pancake vibrator. It's like someone left the S8+ in their pocket on laundry day and it came out of the wash slightly shrunken, but no worse for wear.

You'd think that after Samsung's less than stellar battery record, they'd have a quick eject system for these little bombs packs. And yet, this cell is firmly (and we mean firmly) adhered.

And it's not like it's especially hard to have a removable battery—it's done all over the phone world.

The Samsung-branded battery clocks in at 11.55 Wh—comparable to the Google Pixel's 10.66 Wh, but dwarfing the (slightly smaller) iPhone 7's 7.45 Wh battery.

The I/O board connector is under the motherboard in these late-model Galaxy phones. Because why not make things harder?

The motherboard itself pops out with relative ease, giving us a peep at that now-Samsung-standard heatpipe.

The I/O daughterboard configuration matches the S8+ right down to the modular headphone jack.

We checked the genetics chips in the S8 to see if it is truly a smaller twin of the S8+:

Samsung K3UH5H50MM-NGCJ 4 GB LPDDR4 RAM layered over the MSM8998 Snapdragon 835

Toshiba THGBF7G9L4LBATR 64 GB UFS (NAND flash + controller)

Qualcomm Aqstic WCD9341 audio codec

Skyworks 78160-11

Avago AFEM-9066

NXP 80T71 NFC controller

Silicon Mitus SM5720 Interface PMIC

On the opposite side we find:

Murata KM6D28040 Wi-Fi Module

Qualcomm PM8998 (similar to PM8920)

Qualcomm WTR5975 RF Transceiver

Avago AFEM-9053

IDT P9320S

Maxim MAX77838 companion PMIC (similar to MAX77829)

That's it for the vanilla S8. If you haven't already guessed, we've got a more detailed breakdown of the S8+, so check it out if you haven't already.

With that, let's give the Galaxy S8 its repairability score.