5 Must Have Accessories For Galaxy S8

The Samsung Galaxy S8 is a couple years old now, but it’s still a formidable phone today. It was packed with all of the latest hardware when it launched in 2017, and that hardware is still good today. It can handle just about any app on the market today, and still has really good battery life. If you were to buy the Galaxy S8 today, it would last you a good couple of years.

Want to make sure that you have the best experience with the Galaxy S8? There are plenty of accessories that you can use with the smartphone today as well. Not sure what all the “must haves” are for the Samsung Galaxy S8? Follow along below, and we’ll show you five that will improve your experience tenfold. Let’s dive right in.

Anker PowerWave Wireless Charging Pad

First, and most importantly, Anker’s PowerWave Wireless Charging Pad is one that you have to pick up for the Galaxy S8. You can say goodbye to wires once and for all, charging your Galaxy S8 over wireless. It revolutionizes how you charge your phone, completely removing the need for a variety of USB-C cables. This pad has some awesome features inside.

The design of the pad is fairly standard. It comes in a circular format, which is the tradition for most charging pads. It only comes in a black / dark blue color, but works with most environments, whether home or at work.

Unlike popular belief, charging with this wireless charging pad is actually pretty fast. Anker built this one with the Samsung Galaxy family of devices in mind, bringing you quick charging speeds. There’s a whole 10 watts of charging power delivered to all recent Galaxy smartphones, including the Samsung Galaxy S8.

Anker has a safety chip built into the circuitry as well. This ensures that you won’t have any issues with electrical problems, such as over charging, voltage spikes, foreign objects, and so much more. Anker is one of the few that offers charging through cases, too.

amFilm Tempered Glass Protector

One of the other important devices that’s worth getting for the Galaxy S8 is the amFilm Tempered Glass Protector. By using this protector, you prevent scratches and nicks from accruing on your screen. That keeps your reading and viewing experience unhindered, and on top of that, it also keeps the phone’s retail value intact, allowing you to sell it for more with the screen being in mint condition.

amFilm only has one protector in the package, but includes an alignment tool so that you get the perfect application the first time!

Anker PowerCore Ultra Small

Anker’s PowerCore Ultra Small power bank is one that everyone should keep with them. while on the go — If you’ve ever been in a situation where you were on the brink of your smartphone dying with nowhere to charge it, the PowerCure UltraSmall is some nice insurance against that.

Anker has actually designed it to be small and portable, allowing you to easily carry this with you wherever you go, enabling you to charge your phone from anywhere in the world. This could easily fit in your back pocket, if you wanted.

You can expect to get tons of room of charging power out of the PowerCore Ultra Small as well. Anker has equipped it with a whole 10,000mAh inside, allowing you to easily charge your Galaxy S9 from dead to full at least four times.

Bestrix Magnetic Car Phone Holder

Have you been looking for a good way to be able to monitor your smartphone, but without taking your eyes off of the road? Enter, the Bestrix Magnetic Car Phone Holder. This is so nice to put in any vehicle, as it enables use of the important functions of your phone during driving — phone calls and GPS navigation — and without taking your eyes off the road. Bestril makes it easy for you to monitor GPS navigation and phone calls while driving.

This one is actually extremely unique, allowing you to hook up the Bestrix to your car’s CD player slot instead of using a suction cup, screws, or some sort of adhesive. This keep your dashboard fully intact, and actually gives you a bit more strength than most mounting methods. Bestrix actually throws in three different sizes of CD-player insert tabs, ensuring that this car phone holder works with any vehicle you might own.

In addition, this one uses magnets to keep your phone secure in place — no phone cradle required.

Wall Charger Station

iClever’s own USB Wall Charger Station is another must for the Samsung Galaxy S8. If you want a wall charger that can charge multiple devices at the same time, and without a reduction in charging speeds, the iClever Wall Charger Station is a must have.

iClever has actually equipped their Wall Charger Station with something that they’re calling SmartID technology — this SmartID tech is able to provide your phone and devices with 2.4 amps of charging power, or 2.4 amps per port, bringing the total maximum charge to 8 amps.

And don’t worry, even though this is what many would consider an off-brand charger, the iClever Wall Charger Station has a lot of built-in protections to keep itself and your phone protected from electrical harm — they actually have a safety chip built into the circuitry, which means you can expect safeguards against overheating, overcurrent, over voltage and short-circuiting.

Verdict

Samsung’s Galaxy S8 might’ve launched in 2017, but because of the hardware packed inside of it, the phone is still an excellent competitor today. Save yourself a few hundred dollars by picking up the Galaxy S8 over a just-released flagship phone, and you’ll still have a cutting edge Android experience. We think the amFilm Tempered Glass screen protector and the Anker Wireless Charging Pad are some of the most important here, with the former keeping your device safe and its retail value intact, and the former revolutionizing how you charge your device.

Do you have a favorite accessory for the Galaxy S8? Sound off in the comments section below, and it may just be added to our list later on!