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Samsung's next Galaxy Note is just around the corner and I've always had a soft spot for this particular series of smartphones ever since I had my note 4 from back in 2014 with that in mind hey guys my name's Ryan Thomas with addre authority and in today's episode of redux we're going to be taking a look back at the often overlooked note 8 taking a closer look at its update support hardware flaws and viability over 20 months after its initial release it's no secret that Samsung has been leading the smartphone design game for the past couple of years and the note 8 feels no more out of place than the note 9 in today's crop of handsets bezels are still thin with this consistently small chin and forehead along with sweeping and smooth glass curves and a metal rail it lacks the famous punch hole that we see in the galaxy s 10 series however if you want the latest in OLED innovation this isn't it the screen holds up very nicely in 2019 with a great array of colors excellent brightness and contrast and a more than respectable resolution the Snapdragon 835 or Exynos 88-90 5 and 6 gigabytes of RAM still hold up ok in 2019 835 isn't the fastest example in this due to one UI it's pretty heavy skin and the speed isn't perfect I've experienced a little bit of lag some hangings is actually a couple of force kind of crash restarts which definitely isn't amazing for a modern smartphone but you've got to remember that this thing is a couple of years old now the performance is probably the notates biggest blunder apart from this battery you see 3300 milliamp hours isn't a big battery in any phone especially one as big and as beastly as the note 8 battery life is poor and there's no getting around that although we still have quick charge 2.0 which is good and we also have wireless charging which is very convenient the pair of OS equipped 12 megapixel cameras on the back certainly seems pretty normal one of those is a telly as opposed to a white like we see on the more recent s10 YZ dual setup and by extension a trend that we're starting to see become more prevalent the camera quality doesn't seem to have improved in updates but what is staggering to me is how poor the dynamic range is compared to the latest phones it really does show progression if anything it's not a bad camera setup for any means and even the 8 megapixel self issues it's still capable of capturing a good image but you are missing out on some great shooters just by the older notate pricing is pretty respectable in most markets being around 300 great British pounds 300 u.s. dollars and around 25,000 rupees these prices are for a base model in decent condition and that puts it in the same kind of price range as he used 1 + 6 or a brand new pocket for f1 Samsung promised a note 8 owners an update at 8.0 Oreo and it delivered on that promise in March of 2018 in fact Samsung even pushed out 9.0 pite of the device with its shiny new one UI skin pi was in a beta for about a month before it was released as an OTA update in around February of this year since it was the first phone since the infamous exploding note 7 Samsung's main focus was promising that this one didn't blow up being very careful about its battery and thankfully we didn't get a repeat of that so they kind of held up on their claims of it not blowing up even if it was at the cost of having a very very small battery the most current and up-to-date version of the software on this phone is one UI one point now based on Android 9.0 PI and it runs ok we still have a lot of the modern Samsung aesthetic and it certainly feels more fresh than the Samsung experience skin that was on this family released 9.0 is probably as far as we're going to go platform wise although I'm expecting some security updates over the next one to two years but for those of you hoping for Android 10 on this phone I don't think we're gonna get it officially maybe in third-party software on the surface the note 8 seems like a decent used smartphone in 2019 with features like wireless charging dual cameras a fantastic screen and a headphone port but since you can get a used to note 9 for just around 100 pounds or $100 more it makes it really hard to recommend this from the likely soon ending platform updates to poor battery life so the fact that for the same money you can go and get a far more fleshed out device I don't think I can really recommend the note 8 in 2019 unfortunately we'd like to hear your thoughts on the note 8 in the comments below do you have a note 8 and what's your experience with it are you looking to buy a used Note 8 or have you ditched that and gone with the note 9 which is definitely a more flash style device anyway that's about it from me thank you so much for watching please do like comment and subscribe if you're new around here never miss a video like this one I've been Ryan Thomas with Android authority and I see you later peace