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Samsung is set to launch the Galaxy Note 8 at an event in New York City on August 23rd CNET section editor Jessica dole cook gives us the lowdown on what to expect from the note 8 and what it can do to win back customers after the note 7 debacle so it's out that the Galaxy Note 8 is gonna have a larger screen with possibly curved sides all around a dual camera that means a second camera lens on the back and possibly a stylus that you can talk into so it takes our voice memos there are also rumors that there might be a pressure-sensitive display that you can touch down on sort of like on the iPhone and also that the fingerprint sensor could be underneath the screen and that would be a big change because on the galaxy s 8 it's on the back of the phone next to the camera and it's pretty inconvenient this phone is so important for Samsung the Galaxy Note 7 had this battery disaster some units went up in flames this was really bad Samsung had to recall millions of units and it took the phone off the market so this is actually the first time in two years that loyal Samsung followers have been able to buy a new note device there are a ton of huge devices coming out this fall including the follow-up to the Google pixel the Apple iPhone 8 LG's got the V 30 coming up it's just gonna be a really really busy time for Android and Samsung has to prove itself it's gotta prove that the note 8 can be safe it's got to prove that it can be good and it's got to prove that it can be worth the money especially these V the competitors that are coming out it will be really interesting to see if this is the last that Samsung talks about the new at 7 disaster and if they go out of their way to address battery concerns or if they'll kind of paper over it and just carry on but it's possible that they'll emphasize again what happened and what they're doing this time to make sure that the battery is safe and that could just be going over what the procedures were what the findings were with the inquest we might also see a change to the battery or they might tell us that they've gone ahead and changed to other manufacturing procedures in addition to the 8 point battery test that they already talked about I think it just makes good business sense for Samsung to reward these loyal note followers who had to go through all of the inconvenience and maybe the fear that their device might blow up throughout the recall and then come back to Samsung and by its most premium device and one that is really for power users so Samsung already does wireless charging and water-resistant and it's expected that the iPhone eight is gonna have it too and really really narrow that gap between them also if the iPhone eight manages to come out for the same price or a little bit less you know I think it's going to be a tougher sell for Samsung so try to get people to want to buy a note device with this extra s-pen if these people might be just as happy spending a little bit less for the Galaxy s8 or the Galaxy S eight plus so if the rumors are true then the only difference pretty much between the note 8 and the s8 plus would be the S Pen Stylus and a second camera on the back unless any of those other features come into play too