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it's Joshua Vergara what's going on everybody and we're taking a look at the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 versus the galaxy s 8 now Samsung smartphone range has grown larger in more ways than one with the launch of the Galaxy Note 8 today and at first it kind of looks a lot like the galaxy s 8 plus we wouldn't really blame too many people for making this distinction only that the Galaxy Note 8 comes with the s-pen however there are a few different changes in the design overall the note a just takes the galaxy s 8 plus body and makes it just that little bit wider taller and also that little bit thicker the result is a phone that seems quite more square than before but it still retains the Infinity display that put a 6.3 inch display onto that body and makes it so that the bezels are as minimal as possible so you get pretty much all screen all the time the note line also now takes on the button layout that the Galaxy s8 line has where there's no longer a tactile home button or capacitive keys and now you have a key underneath the screen and soft keys but you can also press very hard on the bottom in order to trigger what is basically the home button now the Galaxy Note 8 does retain the fingerprint reader location that the s8 provided and it was a bit polarizing it's a little bit hard to reach up there and actually get to the fingerprint reader but at the very least there are other ways of unlocking the phone but next to the sensor is one of the largest differences we have now a dual camera setup here on the galaxy s 8 the lens and everything surrounding it is quite square and sits between the heart rate monitor and the LED flash with a fingerprint reader on the right however all this has been sort of consolidated along with the second lens and it's all housed in one large black area this area is a little bit high contrast compared to the non black editions of the device blue gold and grey but overall the design of the note a pretty much follows the Galaxy S a its meaning you still have the USB type-c port the return of the headphone jack thankfully and of course with the note 8 now we have the Bigsby button which comes over from the Galaxy S a line we mentioned the infinity display and now you have a few different sizes of the display to choose from among everything in this comparison the galaxy s 8 and the si+ had 5.8 and 6.2 inch displays respectively while the Galaxy Note 8 is slightly larger with 6.3 inches in its screen all our Super AMOLED quad HD panels and or the 18 point five by nine aspect ratios for taller but more narrow displays than previous years and as we also mentioned before having that slightly larger screen also means that the Galaxy Note 8 is a bit beefier all around it is certainly heavier than the galaxy s 8 plus by about 20 grams 193 grams to be exact compared to the galaxy s 8 plus at 173 underneath that display all of the main similarities the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor along with the six gigabytes of RAM in the Galaxy Note 8 put it as the premium above the 4 gigabytes of RAM found in the s8 line and of course when it comes to the battery Samsung is taking a lot of precautions to make sure the Galaxy Note 8 does not continue the poor legacy of last year's device as such the note 8 sports a 3300 milliamp hour battery which is actually in the middle between the Galaxy S state and the SI Plus which had 3,000 and 3,500 milliamp hours respectively now of course the main thing that differentiates the note line from the Galaxy S line is the S Pen and it returns here with a number of enhancements and one main new feature you still have the ability to open up the pen command menu and show pretty much everything you can do with the s-pen no creation smarts the legs and even a coloring book if you want to pass the time the main addition here is the inclusion of a live message which makes an animated gif out of the paths that you make with your written word and then with screen off memo which is a very popular feature for the Galaxy Note line you are able to make up to 100 editable pages using the turned off screen putting the s-pen back into its slot however we can take a look at what enhancements are made into general software experience the Galaxy Note 8 now includes a feature that will help multitaskers and it's called app pairing multitasking or rather the multi window has been used by a lot of people and in order to make that easier you are now able to create shortcuts that will enable two different applications in multi window automatically there are a lot of different combinations for this kind of feature you can have the calendar and an email application or YouTube and pretty much anything else and of course the main additions in software are going to probably come through Samsung Bigsby which we have been told will be updated further in the Galaxy Note 8 so we will do our further testing to see what Bixby can offer after its evolutions so we can go to the main story here and that is the camera now the camera experience of the galaxy si was lauded as one of the better ones out there for the 12 megapixel dual pixel camera at F 1.7 aperture however with the Galaxy Note 8 you get the same type of lens however it comes with a buddy now you now have a 2 X optical zoom 12 megapixel F 2.4 lens that provides that zoom capability that gives this phone more shooting possibilities one of the best additions that Samsung has managed to put into their dual camera however is optical image stabilization found in both lenses this dual camera setup on the Galaxy Note 8 brings some new features to the forefront you have the live focus feature which now returns and it's kind of front and center because it adds depth of field effects to portraits of either people or things there's also a dual capture mode that allows you to get the picture from both lenses at the same time this might be most useful during the live focus feature where you can have the zoomed in image for a good portrait with depth of field effects and then the regular portrait using the wider lens so you have choices between the two overall the note line still retains its position as the more premium device in the galaxy line not only does it provide the S Pen and it's really the only phone that does so it also provides some higher specifications over the Galaxy S 8 and the s 8 plus that people have probably been enjoying up until this point if you have a galaxy s 8 or an S 8 + chances are that the differences might not be enough to make you switch however if you're looking for that dual camera or the S Pen those are two big features that actually differentiate these two lines of course with the Galaxy Note 8 you really only have a large display to choose from but with the S Pen and the dual camera that large display is going to give you all of the real estate and the great display experience that you need to enjoy those features otherwise the Galaxy S a is still a very easy to handle device that is great for daily usage so let us know which one you would pick in the comments below and sound off on the Galaxy Note 8 that was just announced this week so let us know here in the comments below and then subscribe to the channel if you haven't already so you can keep up with all of our Samsung Galaxy Note 8 coverage because we are your source for all things Android