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hey we're here in New York City at the Park Avenue Armory right up to the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 unveiling I'm Scott Stein this is Jessica del Court and we're gonna talk about the no date so Jessica you used it I used it a little bit so this seems pretty similar to the essay in the essay Plus but what are the key features here that make it worthwhile yeah I mean this phone really is a combination of last spring's Galaxy s8 plus and last year's note 7 because there was that double recall in the note 7 there are a lot of features in this phone that people didn't actually get a chance to use especially if they were still stuck on their note 5s so what makes it really different from the s8 plus it's not really the size to be honest it's not things like the processor but there is a second camera on the back and that's what you're gonna be able to use to take portrait mode like Apple's iPhone 7 plus and then there's that S Pen Stylus that you can use to write draw and navigate around so you really have to be I think like a fan of the note series to get this phone over the s8 plus or maybe even the s8 which is a little bit cheaper I like the idea of that stylus I think the dual camera seems like a really useful feature especially for getting that depth of field effect which you can now do but at that expensive price comparatively to where the s8 and si plus are now available for four comparably less you know is it really worth that that's step-up I don't know I like the things that you can do with the pen like maybe spot translation or the ability to bring up special customized apps but I don't know how much of a pen person I am yeah I mean I guess you won't know until you start I mean if you were to buy it you would make it part of your routine then I think it would come to either rely on it or come to decide that you don't really use it and it's not for you and in the past there have been other features beyond that have differentiated it today you wouldn't even need to use the pen and you would still feel like you had a completely fresh different phone and with the exception of that second camera I just don't know that that's really there this could backfire for Samsung or it could move in Samsung's favor for a number of reasons especially based on price because we've got these other big phones coming out right there a lot so yeah we're in the middle of a big phone season LG's got its phone there's the next pixel phone the next iPhone so you know and it sounds like a lot of the prices for these may be increasing so you know is this gonna feel too expensive compared to the others do you want to wait is it gonna feel like the best feature set right exactly it might feel like the most powerful most advanced phone that you can buy on the market depending on what Apple brings to the table right and also Google and LG we just don't know that yet also really interesting for me as what Samsung is doing Samsung is actually acknowledging original note 7 owners and giving them great an opportunity to get the phone for less so whichever phone you have now if you were to pre-order the note or buy the note from Samsung's website specifically then they'll give you an instant rebate on whichever firm that you have and it's pretty sizable so I was really excited to see that because I was really convinced that Samsung wasn't gonna do anything that that was it they had a party and everything they were gonna say about that at 7 and then we're gonna make any other efforts to sort of like put the whole note 7 fire disaster behind it and I'm really glad that the company did and I'm hoping that you know for the gun-shy buyers that that's enough for them to turn the tide if they just weren't sure and is an extra little incentive well that also brings the point for me like how essential is the note 8 at this point because it does feel like its feature set has creeped closer to the galaxy line and it's great for the galaxy line but it just makes it feel more like an extension and to the point where if you opted for the Galaxy phones the Si and si plus you wouldn't really miss all that much and so maybe they're trying to provide an extra incentive there to consider this model as well yeah and that's what they're doing for anybody who pre-orders the node 8 bundle where you can get a gift do you have your choice of one or the other it's like the gear 360 camera or a wireless charger and an extra micro SD card for storage but I do think also what's really interesting about this for Samsung is that they are competing against all these other phones that are coming this is the premium phone it's something that they have traditionally done every single time but I feel like Samsung has played it safe Samsung has held back a little bit I feel like that opens the door to Apple if Apple has this real like giant killer feature that we're all hoping for and expecting and it's anniversary edition phone then you know what is that gonna do for Samsung in the note I understand why they help back I'm saying it's safe they cannot have a repeat but at the same time is it exciting I don't know it's interesting because Apple is talking all about AR with the iPhone while Samsung is not talking about AR right now but they are still bringing up VR which requires its own new headset now to work with the note 8 so it looks so similar I thought it was the same one but you actually have to get a slight variation upgrade that's backwards compatible but you can't take your old one to stick your no date in its that's frustrating but a full review of the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is in the works coming soon so stay tuned for that and more with a lot of other phones here at CNN