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hey how's it going Dave 2d here so I was able to play with the Samsung Galaxy s8 for a couple of days and want to share some my thoughts with you the first thing I want to talk about is the screen so it's big it's high-res it's bright the aspect ratio is stretched out so widescreen content fits it better the extra visual real estate is nice but using a one-handed is and I'll come back to that the second thing is the design I mean visually it looks amazing but it's more than that this is the first film that I've used where the curved screen felt really comfortable in my hand when it comes to phones I don't care too much about millimeters and grams and stuff like that I just want to feel comfortable my hand and most curved screens just don't feel good in the hand but this one does and it comes from this thing right here the frame the transition from the front glass to the frame and then to the back glass feels almost seamless there's just nothing with texture it's really nice to hold but it's also really slippery I would strongly recommend getting a skin for this thing I'll link the ones I use below they're from D brand and they're awesome the other things I like are wireless charging to the headphone jack a Bluetooth 5.0 I love the extra range you get from that I like the microSD slot the USB C port and the performance feels really quick so far all good stuff the camera hardware is similar to the galaxy s7 but let's be honest the camera on the s7 was awesome so it's not too big of a deal to me that they didn't upgrade the camera here are some comparison photos I mean this isn't a review or anything but in case you're interested the front-facing camera has improved quite a bit and considering how many selfies get taken every day I think this is a good call now these devices have large screens that are super bright and have high resolution so there's a lot of pixels to process and the battery size isn't huge so I wasn't expecting amazing battery life the first full day of use I ended the day with 32% left relatively heavy use over the course of the day at night I charged it back up watched some YouTube videos and then I streamed a twitch channel overnight with max volume max screen brightness highest resolution not feet and EP plus default but the 1440p plus and when I checked it eight hours later it was at 36% screen on time was basically the same I think that's not bad I mean if I streamed that on an iPhone 7 I'd probably get some very similar numbers Samsung Dex is kind of cool I don't know how many people would use it I mean turning your phone into a tethered desktop experience is not something that I would use very much personally but it's there the options available if you need it the facial recognition is awesome it works fast and it's reliable I tried it with sunglasses just to see and I mean these are the sunglasses I use they didn't work very well just straight up doesn't recognize it now I don't wear glasses like regular glasses and I just wanted to know what would it be like for people that do or glasses so I popped out the lenses for my sunglasses this is going to look ridiculous I wore it on my face and I tried to get the phone to record because these look look amazing I tried to get the phone to recognize my face and it was like hit or miss sometimes would work sometimes it wouldn't I should wear this for the rest of the video okay the fingerprint scanner isn't in the best location I have to stretch for it but really since the facial recognition is so good I'm totally fine with it being on the back like this the Galaxy s8 is packing a lot of cool tech and let's just tell Samsung roles they take the top of the line in phone tech and they stuffed into the phones and they usually end up with something like this really high-end tech in a top-tier flagship phone but hardware specs aren't everything for me user experience is by far the most important thing when it comes to any kind of device and with this there's a couple things that kind of detract from the user experience the first is that on screen home button I think it could or should be a little bigger and the haptic feedback isn't good it feels like a regular phone vibration if you're going to do this you need a more localized vibration like how the iPhone 7 button feels the speakers are also not stereo and I know a lot of people don't care about this but it's important to me I consume most of my media on my phone and it's so weird watching super high-res video that looks gorgeous on the screen while having tinny audio that just comes out from one side of the phone it just feels off the screen is also difficult to use one-handed so a wide phone like the Google pixel XL this is already wide and a little bit uncomfortable to use but it's okay I managed the s8 because of the tall screen the vertical stretch is crazy this is actually the first phone I've had to use one-handed vote and this was on the s8 it's going to be even worse on the s8 plus the last thing is probably my most personal opinion I know a lot of people are going to disagree with this but I don't love where they're going with big speed and I know I haven't given an extended trial but Bigsby is such a heavy investment and commitment into the exact type of stuff that I don't like but some of Samsung software their proprietary samsung apps that are just stuck on your phone you can't get rid of and this time it comes with a dedicated Hardware button so if you're interested in this phone and you enjoyed the s6 and/or the s7 user experience you're going to love the s8 it's just a basically an elevated version of those phones truly next-level hardware you're going to love it but if you didn't like the s6 and/or the s7 because of the user interface because of the user experience it's going to feel very similar that's the end of this video hope you guys enjoyed it some of you liked it subview loved it see you guys next time