The next generation of Samsung's flagship smartphone, called the Samsung Galaxy S8, is due for release in the coming months.

Samsung will be hoping to regain consumer trust after the botched release of the Note 7 phone last year with the S8. As part of its bid, it will bring some of the standout features of the recalled Note 7 to the S8, as well as safe batteries and a new AI assistant.

Voice assistant Bixby, the much-rumoured artificial intelligence system, will be introduced when the Galaxy S8 smartphone is unveiled later this month, Samsung has confirmed.

The device will be unveiled on Wednesday March 29 at 4pm.

What features and specs will it have?

Samsung is expected to ditch the home button on the upcoming Galaxy S8 to make way for a larger screen that fills the front of the device.

It will reportedly come in two sizes, with 5.8-inch and 6.2-inch curved edge screens - with the larger being called the Galaxy S8 Plus. The curved screen was used in the S6 and S7 Edge, but this would be the first time it features on both of Samsung's flagships.

Such large displays might sound like they mean enormous phones, but the screens are set to take up a massive 83pc of the front of the phone, meaning the size of the device itself will not change much.