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remember last year's exploding Galaxy Note at 7:00 well Samsung hopes to wipe those memories away with its new phone for power users the Galaxy Note 8 and it plans to do that by introducing top-notch tech and tricks that you can't do on any other phone using the dual cameras on the back this is a first for Samsung and the nodes trademark stylus the note eights to 12 megapixel cameras have a portrait mode that artfully blurs the background this isn't new it's on phones like the iPhone 7 plus but what is new is that the note 8 goes a step further and it also saves a wide-angle version of the image so you get two shots for the price of one and then there's the S Pen Stylus which you use to write draw and navigate around the note 8 lets you write yourself a note on the home screen this is called off-screen memo and you can also pin it to the home screen without ever unlocking the phone if you remember this from the note 7 before it was recalled what's different is that you can now make this up to a hundred sheets long you can also use the stylus to create an animated gif of a picture or word that you can then share with your friends and any app that supports gifts including Facebook Messenger and whatsapp look it's not essential but it's pretty fun finally if you like using two apps at the same time say YouTube and Google Maps then you can ramp up your multitasking by pairing the two together you start from the app edge tab on the side of the screen that's not all that the Galaxy Note 8 is plying you with it's also got an 8 megapixel selfie camera with the usual filters and a high resolution 6.3 inch screen there are curving sides with barely a bezel and Samsung's Bixby voice assistant that you launched with that button on the side the whole phone is water and dust resistant to even the s-pen there's wireless charging fast charging through the USBC port a powerful processor and a headphone jack that comes with a pair of AKG earbuds in the box now the Galaxy Note 8 runs Android nougat version 7.1 0.1 but Samsung says it will upgrade it to the latest version later on all of this sounds good but the biggest red flag for the note 8 is that the fingerprint reader is just like on the galaxy s 8 to the far edge of the camera array the note is a big phone which makes this placement very awkward to the unpracticed finger on the other hand the iris scanner on the front is another alternative if you own the note 7 which was a really beautiful phone then the note 8 looks and feels very familiar but the battery on this model is actually smaller which is good if it makes the note 8 susceptible to exploding however apart from the addition of a second camera on the back and the Sears new stylist tricks the note eight doesn't seem to push too many boundaries especially compared to the Galaxy s8 and si+ but from what we've seen so far it has all the ingredients to be Samsung's most powerful capable phone for 2017 you