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today we are unboxing the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 I'm pretty excited about this little tablet it is sort of bucking the seven inch tablet trend by going all the way to eight inches although that trend let's be fair it was first bucked by the iPad Mini so let's get this thing out of the box and check it out do not accept if the steel is broken this is a really nice box it sort of feels like it's like all recycling you know a slightly more responsible steaming box it's not shiny so we have the Wi-Fi 16 gig version unfortunately there is a three version that has 3G connectivity built in but that one's not coming out in the US only the UK Galaxy Note 8.0 I love this new trend towards stickers I tell you everything that's going on inside the tablet the tablet itself though nice lightweight nice big camera right on the back and let's see what else is in the box alright so we have our little manual our white charging cable which se is my favorite microUSB pretty good size power brick alright and that is it and then I'm sure we could just recycle this no problem I'm gonna go through some setup and in the meantime here are the specs on the Galaxy Note 8 the Galaxy Note 8 runs Android 4.1 jelly bean with Samsung's custom TouchWiz UI it does have a stylus which they like to call the s-pen I do not like to call it that I like to call it a stylus it has a 1.6 gigahertz quad-core processor with 2 gigs of internal ram the no dates display is 8 inches with a 1280 by 800 pixel resolution that's not bad compared to the iPad Mini which has just 1024 by 768 samsung claims you'll get 14 hours of battery life which is not bad but of course we'll have to test that front-facing camera is not impressive 1.3 megapixels the rear-facing camera is also not that impressive at 5 megapixels in terms of course you get microUSB a slot for the s-pen and a micro SD card slot the note 8 is expandable up to 64 gigs now for the bad news the iPad Mini cost 329 dollars to start the note 8 which is probably its best competitor is 399 dollars wha-wha so let's compare the note 8 to its primary competition the iPad Mini now the screen is better and I actually prefer the size a little bit the notates a little bit taller than the iPad but what I really like about it is that it has this sort of extra bezel space on the side that actually makes it easier to hold than the iPad Mini because if your thumb kind of strays onto the screen you'll start making things happen this one if you're using it as an e-reader or something like that you actually have a place for your thumb all of that said this is a wonderful tablet with a truly bummer price tag when I found out it was $399 I was crushed because I think it has so much potential it's so nice to use and it's such a nice size but with all those 7-inch tablets being $200 or less about 399 tags could be a killer now for the most part our CNET editors do agree with me but go on over to cnet.com to read the full review yourself you