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what's happening Brian Chong here with Google issues for everything Google you can think of and this week it's all about our reactions from Samsung's unpacked event now we know it will always be about the Galaxy s8 for Samsung and they delivered with one of the best-looking phones we've seen to date at least on the front see that screen that screen that infinity screen sure the 2 by 1 ratio is going to be a little odd with bigger black bars on the sides when you're watching 16 by 9 video when you're not it's five point eight inches of Galaxy s8 screen and six point two inches of s8 plus screen goodness the home button is part of the screen on the bottom but the fingerprint sensor has been moved to the back and one of the dumbest design flaws that almost anyone outside of Samsung could have figured out like they put the fingerprint sensor directly next to the 12 megapixel rear camera lens welcome to smudge ville population all y'all with a galaxy s 8 now who approved that come on son now the good thing the face unlock on the phone works like a charm but you'll still have to align your face with the phone to do it the phone still looks amazing it brings back a headphone jack and it's still just as waterproof with an ip68 rating compared to certain phones you know without one iPhone alright I've also got to give props to Samsung you can always go to the easy battery jokes but they're taking it head on with a new eight point battery safety check system and even making batteries better with claims that they won't wear out as quickly and will still hold 95% of its charge after two years of use you know when you'll probably have a new phone by then anyways you can dock the phone with Samsung's decks that turns it into a desktop PC we've seen it before but this phone has the power to back it up in an optimized version of some Android apps to give you a full screen experience but come on how many of you are really going to do that not too many but it's a nice feature mede Bigsby also the biggest unknown how good will Bixby their virtual assistant really be that's still to be determined even with our early hands on it wasn't complete and it's still a work in progress now we know they're making a lot of promises for it and it's trying to make using the s8 a whole lot easier but at the same time it doesn't look near smart for grabbing general information or things you might ask Google and Google's assistant still looks like the best AI on the phone right now and it's going to get better now the s8 is a great phone for Samsung fans I have major screen Envy but no phone these days is really doing enough to convince a large amount of users to completely switch over to a whole new platform true now the Samsung gear VR gets a new motion sensing controller and support for the new s8 phones it's a nice add-on that others have but the product I'm most excited about from this keynote is the 2017 Samsung gear 360 the first gen was one of the best ones last year but you know a little awkward to carry around because it was basically a big eyeball round bulge if you put in your pocket which I did the new one is much smaller with the dual fisheye lenses at 8.4 megapixels for each sensor the battery is in the handle it's part of the camera and you get two hours of shooting in 2k resolution with recordings on a micro SD card and yes it's still dust and water resistant you can live stream to YouTube Facebook or Samsung VR 2 but will it work with periscope come on some get on it now the best feature you can use it with is the newest 8 at 7 at 6:00 is a note 5 but you can also use this with the iPhone 7 7 plus 6 s 6s plus + se with Mac OS desktop software available for viewing and editing I know which 360 camera I'm getting on the go pricing is not set but it will cost less than last year's 350 dollars alright the keynote was good for Samsung users but the post keynote buzz was really not that big of a deal I threw out a poll and yes there's a lot of people that follow me that use iPhones but still of the 38 percent of people remaining that our team samsung only 12% of you can't wait to get one now if this phone was really a big deal for you all it should be a lot higher than that but it's not now the rest of you weren't convinced and even more of you were turned off after the note 7 to me and many of you the Galaxy s8 has an amazing screen probably the best design right now on the front but doesn't really have anything else that truly makes it a must-have phone we'll find out you can email me at Google issues at cnet.com or tweet me at Bryant on to let me know what you think about the s8 and we'll put some of your feedback in the show next week and if you write nice YouTube comments I might use those too otherwise I'll just read the ones that tear away at my soul and break me down little by little day by day thanks for watching now we will catch you all next time for some more of that Google ishes delicious