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hey guys the Austin today I'm here in New York City for the launch of the new Samsung Galaxy Note 8 my first thought with a note 8 is that it actually does feel a little bit different to the galaxy s 8 and s 8 + so when you look at up front it looks very very similar yes it does have a 6.3 inch display instead of 6.2 on the s8 + but in hand it actually has a little bit more of an edge before it was very much sort of like a tapered thing all the way from the screen to the back but now there's actually something to grab on to the note 8 still has the infinity display so this means that it has super small bezels on top and bottom it does have a curved display on the edges and it also does have the sort of wraparound edge on both the left and right side all this jargon means it actually does feel really nice in the hand the Galaxy Note 8 is still going to be water resistant which is nice and taken as a whole the hardware does feel very similar to the galaxy s 8 and especially the s 8 plus it's not going to be a huge jump what you're really getting here is the S Pen especially that new dual camera setup this guy is rocking a pair of 12 megapixel cameras that are very similar to the iPhone 7 plus so there's one wide-angle lens as well as one telephoto it's a 2x crop and there's a lot of cool things that you can't do it Meli do we have the wide-angle lens but you can also jump into the telephoto and if we had live focus essentially what we should be able to do so we actually just took three photos so now I did use the wide-angle shot but we also do have the telephoto and we have a version with background blur so it's interesting about the no days you can actually adjust this so you basically turn all the way off or go maximum blur looking at it closely it looks decent but he's a little bit soft now I think that's actually an issue I've found a lot with the iPhone 7 plus with the portrait mode and this is a sort of similar setup but in theory they actually have done a better job of implementing it by actually allowing you to take multiple photos over this while it did a good job of sort of isolating him from the background it looks very similar to what you get on the iPhone now beyond that it's a fairly similar setup like I said they're both 12 megapixels and to my eye it looks pretty similar to the photos you're getting on the galaxy s 8 but thankfully there is no camera bump what's not great about that is that it also means the fingerprint sensor is still going to be around back so it is still very very easy to accidentally touch your camera when you really mean to unlock the phone so Jimmy what are your thoughts on the Galaxy Note 8 dude it fits in my hand that's crazy it's fine like I like iPhone but the screen is really nice and it's fast I think I'm gonna take over the video again the new date is rocking a 6.3 inch Super AMOLED display now I think honestly this is probably one of the best smartphone displays around but Simpson has kind of been on top of the game for a couple years now here I gotta admit when the galaxy assay came out I felt like that was the best Hardware on any phone and the note is super similar so it still does have nano USBC but also a headphone jack which is nice to see but of course being a note it does have the s-pen this bin has gained a few new features like you can use it to translate text as well as of course you can use it to doodle and sketch and that kind of stuff now I know a lot of people do really like the s-pen but personally I don't find a ton of use for a stylus on a phone and that actually brings us to one of the downsides of the note 8 it has a fairly small 3300 milliamp hour battery now for comparison the galaxy has a plus with a slightly smaller screen has a thirty-five hundred million power battery the note 7 was a big part of the presentation today so in case you've been living under a rock the Galaxy Note 7 was kind of a big deal and by big deal I mean it kept exploding and yeah did not go well so of course the battery is smaller here I think they're being a little more conservative and I think that is a good thing but also means that with such a giant display and pretty powerful specs I'm curious to see what the actual battery life is going to be inside the note 8 is rocking a Snapdragon 835 processor as well as an X notes option in some international markets it has six gigabytes of RAM 64 gigs of storage as well as a micro SD card slot this is very similar to what you're getting on the Galaxy s8 the biggest difference is you do have that two extra gigs of RAM but to be totally honest it's going to be a very similar experience the note 8 also has a bixby button because you know that was a huge hit on the s8 it launches bixby which still exists it's slightly better now moving on what is a little bit cooler is Dex so this is Samsung's solution to be able to turn your phone into somewhat of a desktop so if you get the Dex doc you can hook up a monitor mouse keyboard kind of like some of the Windows Phone stuff that taking a look at recently now this says she worked pretty well on the galaxy s 8 and they've done even more improvements with more apps and more features on the no-date it's still not quite there for me as essentially you're just running windowed Android apps but I feel like as this gets better and better it's going to become more and more of a reason to pick up a Samsung device which brings me to my next point the rest of the software it's exactly the same as the galaxy s 8 kind of a trend with this video I think so it's not bad it's not like TouchWiz back in the day but it is nowhere near stock Android and because of that this guy is shipping with Android 7.1 nougat as a post Oreo which of course is not quite out yet but still expect a little bit of a delay on getting updates with this just like every other Samsung phone one cool thing Samsung did with the note 8 software is a pair so this is kind of like spaces on your desktop you can have a pair of apps set to automatically open together and it will have the correct sort of multitasking setup and that is kind of cool for example you can have YouTube launched with say Twitter or whatever you want to do and you can have that kind of custom it's not a huge feature but I guess it's something with the no-date Samsung they've taken what is arguably one of the best designed phones out on the market right now and added the s-pen as well as the dual camera setup now if you're looking for a large screen smartphone honestly kind of a no-brainer over the si plus I feel like the dual cameras alone are going to make it worth it but what do you guys think about the Galaxy Note 8 let me know in the comments below and I will catch you in the next one