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what's good Brian Tong here and welcome to the Apple buy for everything good and bad inside the world of Apple it's the week of reviews for the Apple watch Series three and iPhone 8 so let's just jump in now the biggest talk right now is surrounding the Apple watch Series 3 which had a majority of positive reviews but a few pointed out a major issue where it's LTE connectivity just isn't good enough when it comes to switching off from its connection to the phone and then using LTE the verge is lorne good says sometimes it took many minutes to find LTE sometimes it didn't work at all isn't it quicker I'm service out here yikes now got to the point where Apple issued an official statement saying we have discovered that when Apple watch series three joins unauthenticated Wi-Fi networks without connectivity it may at times prevent the watch from using cellular we are investigating a fix for a future software release so Apple is gonna fix this the question is how long will it take to get that fix done and it makes me really wonder did they really just test this in Apple headquarters and didn't see this coming at all like this is new to them now we already know the battery life is going to be poopoo when it's only using LTE with a one hour life for talktime you know what that's expected but it's got to work on those small trips to the store or supermarket or working out and if it's not what's the point and let's be honest when mostly you got your first Apple watch you were playing with it constantly and touching it so much in the first two weeks that the battery drains super fast and then it normalized after it fit into a normal routine after you got over the honeymoon phase kind of like in real life now I'm getting mine this Friday it's the device I was most excited about from the keynote so I just have to find out how well it really works or doesn't work for me and just another thing watch OS 4 is a whole lot slower on a first gen Apple watch just be ready for it it kind of reminds me of what it used to be like to get a new iOS on an older phone back in the day alright the iPhone 8-inch 8 plus reviews are in and positive across the board with the power from its new a11 Bionic chip true tone display and wireless charging but the real star is the camera on the 8 plus and it's really a preview of what you can expect on the iPhone 10 now we sent seen its own photographer James Martin out with the iPhone 8 plus where he took over 2000 photos James said with a new sensor HDR delivered better details in highlights and shadows HDR is always on signaling apple's deeper commitment to computational photography with the iPhone 8 plus that's different from the iPhone 7 plus which gave you the option to set HDR to auto off or on and you know what those pictures do look very nice now the question is who should upgrade to the eight or eight plus like generally if you're an owner of a 7 or 7 plus there's no major gotta have feature difference to the eight or eight plus so it's not worth it to make that jump you should be fixed on the iPhone 10 if the price doesn't hold you back or wait until next year's iPhone dosac ease and really most people have their eyes set on the 10 but going from a 6s or lower to an 8 is a big jump that's gonna make a huge difference so for you that's worth it but then there's the camp that just buys the newest top-of-the-line stuff like me and you know what Apple likes that group a lot but I did skip the 4s because that phone was not worth it at all all right now when a new phone comes out everyone loves the benchmark test and I can tell you the iPhone eight eight plus and tenth absolutely just destroy anything the Android world has to offer now you can see the geek bench for single core score performance here that hits above 4000 for the new a 11 Bionic based phones and then the performance from the current crop of high-end Android phones that's not even close now let's look at the multi-core performance where a 11 based phones hit pretty much a score of 10,000 and compare that to the multi-core scores of the best Android phones they have to offer again Apple just obliterates them and the reality is that this isn't an indication of real-world performance and day to day use but it feels like Apple is future-proofing itself and giving it a lot more room to do a whole lot more with this new architecture in the future now applicant Bragg here but when it comes to Gigabit LTE Apple is a no-show and they chose not to be able to tap into the super high-speed carriers are building into their networks today there are 10 Android phones on board right now including the galaxy s 8 then Note 8 LG v 30 and others that can reach this theoretical peak speed of one gigabit per second now that's fast enough to download a two hour movie in 15 seconds Apple confirm they do support LTE advanced that has a theoretical peak speed of 500 megabits per second you know what that's fast but not anywhere close to a gigabit now carriers are making a big push for this and we'll see it being rolled out to more and more markets next year we know it's not broadly available right now and surprise Apple was late to 3G and LTE as well but this is important remember the modem Fiasco from last year's iPhone 7 Qualcomm chip can hit the gigabit speed Intel's current modem chip can't you might not care right now but you will in a year or two when your iPhone can't use gigabit LTE because this is tech that will actually make your phone faster later in its life all right if we're looking forward and beyond iPhones and Apple watches and to the next generation of Macs reports from digit times and patently Apple says Intel has delayed the launch of its next-gen Canon like processors until the end of 2018 putting their release a full 18 months behind their original target now this will likely have Apple move towards the less efficient coffee like processors for the next MacBook Pros and it would also require them to stick with lpddr3 ramped limiting the memory of the machines to 16 gigs now that was a big knock on the 2016 MacBook Pros Canon Lake supported ddr4 would have increased that max memory to 32 now Apple could skip over to Canon Lake and make the jump to Intel's ice Lake processors but that would happen in late 2018 to 19 and there's nothing I can do about it so you know what that's a bummer but before we go let's leave on a high note with CNET's own Scott Stein who's playing with a new AR kit IKEA app which is amazing and using it to place a variety of furniture pieces under ground at the New York City Subway that's just great alright that's gonna do it for this week's show you can email us at the Apple bite at cnet.com or tweet me at brian tom thanks for watching we'll catch y'all next time for another bite of the Apple