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Hey how's it going Dave 2d here and in front of me are two phones the Apple iPhone 8 and the 8 plus and if these are the only two phones that Apple put out this year at this video would be a lot easier because I could just give you my honest opinions on these phones and we'd be done but that's just not the case the iPhone 10 has a couple weeks out and it makes it difficult to give you an honest opinion on these things because there's just a bigger and better phone a few weeks away so ok I'm going to talk with these phones about the things I like and dislike about it and then we'll kind of get into a more meta discussion at the end the things I like the most about these phones just three big ones the first is wireless charging now wireless charging is one of those things you only start to appreciate when you've used it a lot and I'm surprised Apple took so long to stick it into their phones but it's finally here see the thing is with cables like finding the cable sticking into the slot and just charging your phone that way there's something about that extra step of like plugging your phone in that is enough to dissuade everybody around the world to leave their phones half charged very often it's just because we're lazy species or something having wireless charging pads is really convenient the thing is wireless charging isn't cheap Apple doesn't include one in the box you have to buy them and then like 20 30 bucks at like the mid-tier and they can go up to like 50 60 maybe even more if you wanna get some really premium ones so yeah it's expensive to equip everything in your life to have wireless charging capabilities but it is convenient the other thing I really like about the iPhone 8 is the processor and they talked about it a lot during the presentation the whole AAA 11 Bionic chip to the point where I thought they were over hyping it but it's very impressive I think it's the most impressive thing about the phone to me it benchmarks incredibly fast on multi-core stuff now whether or not it really matters I mean if you look at any other phones that this thing beats on that chart those phones are still super fast like the actual UI feels really smooth on any of these phones but where this thing will start to make a difference is with augmented reality stuff so that is a very processor heavy application any kind of AR thing but right now in like mid 2017 we're not seeing that much AR stuff being used like there's a lot of tech demos and impressive apps but most of that stuff isn't everyday useful but give it eight maybe 12 months and I think we'll start to see that AR Tec kind of trickled down into more everyday stuff and that's when really powerful multi-core chips will start to shine but right now it's cool but it's not super useful the last feature I want to talk about on the iPhone 8 is the camera and this was way better than I expected it to be so Apple's cameras are always pretty good but last year the iPhone 7 I felt like that camera to me wasn't as impressive as the pixel camera or the cameras on the Samsung phones out of the galaxy or the note this camera impressed me particularly in low-light I feel like the images are a good blend between what you see in real life and a bit of software optimization to make it look a little bit better the portrait mode on the iPhone 8 plus is still something I'm not into the tech is good and they actually do a good job at it is just I never take photos like that the studio effects on the 8 plus are pretty cool and again the tech is impressive the images look very convincing to me but I feel like I'm not the target user for this feature like I don't take photos of myself or my family and friends and kind of wish they were professionally lit but the technology is super impressive so those are the three main features about the iPhone 8 that are important to me the camera the wireless charging and the new processor there's some other stuff like the true tone display but I want to talk about things that I dislike about the iPhone 8 and the first one is the design this is a very long running design this is year 4 of this shape and I think it's the longest running design that Apple has had on an iPhone and at this point it's a very iconic look like you recognize it right away because of the bigger bezels and just the shape of the phone but it's super stale and when a brand new phone from 2017 looks pretty much the same as a phone from 2014 that's no good the glass material in the back is nice it's definitely less slippery than the full aluminum on the iPhone 7 it's a nicer material to hold at least it's still slippery I don't know if I'd put a skin on it I mean it looks like it would crack pretty easily but I do like the color of it the white back is cool but the dark grey one looks really nice to me another thing I dislike is the cost of all the accessories so this is Apple they love selling accessories but this time around I feel like it's an extra bitter pill to swallow because this phone supports fast charging but they only include a regular wall bridge you have to buy a different adapter and a separate cable to take advantage of fast and I feel like in 2017 every flagship phone out there if it supports fast charging includes the fast charging cable and wall adapter but not here they include this thing okay none of that matters because the thing that bugs me the most about the iPhone 8 is the fact that the iPhone 10 is just around the corner and every conversation that anyone has about the iPhone 8 right now is shaded by the incoming iPhone 10 and it's not that the iPhone 10 is a significantly better phone and it just crushes everything that's not what I'm saying what I'm saying is that right now if you're buying a phone or if you're interested in buying a phones you're buying a phone that will instantly become quote unquote obsolete the moment the iPhone 10 comes out just because that has a home button and it's not Apple's flagship phone anymore I mean this is still a good phone despite how aged it looks but it's weird that the iPhone 10 is gonna be the phone that everyone wants that's the phone that matters that's the phone of Apple's future so it's weird to invest any kind of money into this thing something that we already know is on its way out the home button is gone we're not gonna be using that in the future so it feels like a bad investment if you're gonna spend money on a phone now not to say that this is a bad phone these are good phones but because of the iPhone 10 it makes these things significantly less attractive for someone who's enthusiastic about tech okay hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs if you liked it subs you loved it see you guys next time