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age Joshua Vergara what's going on everybody and this is the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 now Samsung has had a bit of a resurgence since the galaxy s 8 trying to make up for the problems of the past but how does one of the most feature packed phone lines redeem the pass well that's what we hope to find out it's easy to think that the Galaxy Note 8 will basically be a galaxy s 8 plus with an S Pen and while that's not too far from the truth it's also just a tad bit too simplistic to start the phone currently comes in four colors black grey golden blue or the US market there will only be the gray in black editions that's why I went straight for the blue one because I don't feel like I'll be able to use it any more after this so let's get the obvious part out of the way the phone looks and feels a little bit big much like with the galaxy s 8 plus it has a screen that comes in at six point three inches think about that for a second the note line used to be known for its 5.7 inch displays and now they're finding ways of extending it by three-quarters of an inch thankfully we have the curved infinity display that helps with handling but this is still not the most ideal phone to use in one hand the display continues the trend of steeper aspect ratios and it continues the other trend of taller and more narrow displays the difference here is that the curves have been dialed back a tad mainly because the phone itself is a little bit bigger a little bit taller and a little bit thicker all around but it's hard to knock the size too much because that large screen size remains one of the most enjoyable parts of the note in order to make room for this the noh8 also catches up to the new design aspects like removing the tactile home button and capacitive keys and a button basically underneath the screen that will vibrate when you press down hard enough speaking of buttons the rest are all where you would expect to though the Bigsby button now finds its way into the note line the next enjoyable part of the note when compared to the Galaxy S line is the more premium experience the note generally tried to have better specs and that philosophy returns in the note 8 there's one obvious spot of discretion however the battery is 3300 milliamp hours while we always would prefer a bigger battery for better longevity we also kind of understand what the motivations were here the Snapdragon 835 keeps the phone as updated as it should be but six gigabytes of RAM is the real big story here this is the first time that Samsung is going past the four gigabyte mark for all of the devices across its release and that six figure bytes of RAM should be able to help with a lot of features like the edge UX it gets one useful update for the multitaskers out there users have told Samsung that due to the large screen multi window has been utilized a bunch for those users the note a adds in dual app shortcuts called app pair they can be created in the home screens or nestled in the edge panels for easy access and the open up to user-defined applications at once in multi window automatically there are a lot of different combinations that would help with multitaskers out there like the calendar and the email app or in my case pretty much YouTube and anything else which brings us to the S Pen the main extra for any note device over the years the S Pen has been given many new features that it's kind of hard to list them all open up the pen command menu and you'll see all of the different features smart selection no creation screen capture and there's even an option for using the pen and all of its brushes to do some coloring maybe you would like to share some of your doodles in the pen up artsy social media network or just use the s-pen pretty much like a mouse to do things like click drag and drop translate has been updated so it can translate more than just single words at a time and for the real note taker the screen off memo that activates from standby can now record a hundred pages of editable notes without the need to unlock the device first now the main new feature here is actually a fun one but it's still kind of practical the live message which records the users path to writing a short message into an animated gif added effects like sparkle is a neon lighting give it a little bit more Flair helping to make pleasing gifts that you can sense a friend significant others or pretty much anyone that deserves that little bit extra all of this is on top of the Samsung UI that continues to look about a streamlined as ever the software on the note 8 looks very similar to the one from the s8 with very few changes in the look the updates are happening mainly in bigsby where we were told that more voice commands will be made available and we can expect more updates to the rest of the capabilities Bixby has like vision will continue to test Bigsby and see how every aspect gets better on the Galaxy Note 8 so with all of that out of the way we can talk about the main addition to the Galaxy Note 8 the camera as expected the dual camera has made it to the Samsung ecosystem adding that second lens on the back in an obvious black area a black color to this whole area is a little bit jarring when you see it on every device no matter what color it is and it kind of adds a high level of contrast when you're using a non black device how it looks is kind of up to you but these cameras really pack a punch 12 megapixel dual pixel sensors with OAS in both lenses and one lens is a 2 X optical zoom at f/2 point 4 aperture 10 X digital zoom is possible but overall having oh is in both sensors is kind of a big deal it will really help for when you go tighter into a shot and all of those jitters are actually being compensated for the interface where the camera has changed a little bit to reflect this new hardware change live focus is not only still available it is now kind of front and center much like the portrait modes from the iPhone and the oneplus 5 the note 8 will use a combination of the zoom lens and software enabled depth of field to make subjects stand out from the background but one really cool feature about this is that you get both photos you get the picture from the zoom lens that has the depth of field and you also get a picture from the regular lens so you have both to choose from we of course applaud the move to a dual camera setup and so far it seems that Samsung is putting some real thought into their iteration it already benefits from fast focusing dual pixels the dual o is and pretty much every other mode that you would expect in a Samsung camera and all of this is alongside the front-facing 8 megapixel camera that has autofocus and 2k video recording will be putting all of these lenses to the tests when we get our hands on our review unit and so there you have it the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 consider for a fact that everything that I told you in this video is basically what is new and there's still so many other features that you may or may not already be familiar with inside of the Galaxy Note 8 so far the Galaxy Note 8 manages to be just slightly larger than its predecessor but much bigger and badder in every other area that truly counts the screen continues to be a sight to behold adding a zoom lens gives people more shooting possibilities and the s-pen remains one of the most useful tools for anyone that bothers to use it especially for productivity we're excited to get our hands on the note 8 as always and we will be bringing you our full review soon pre-orders start on August 28th the phone going out on September 15th and until that time you can continue to watch all of our coverage of the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 here at Android authority so LIKE this video and subscribe to the channel if you haven't already to keep up with all of the grades news and announcements regarding the note 8 because we are your source for all things Android