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so usually when we do our verses videos it's to flagships from different companies will bash them screen to screen into clear winner but sometimes certain manufacturer from Korea whose name rhymes with Pham Fung releases two flagship phones a few months apart mudding the water is about which phone to actually get thus is the case with the galaxy s 8 plus and the Galaxy Note 8 is a difference more than just a pen I'm gonna try and answer that question for you guys help you decide which phone you should get should you upgrade if you already have a Galaxy S 8 plus or and why would you want to pick up a Galaxy Note 8 so looking at these phones they share a lot in common just looking straight down they look almost identical they've got the same Samsung design language with the infinity display the same pressure-sensitive home button slightly different software experiences but Samsung used to call TouchWiz it's now Samsung user experience but for the most part these phones appear to be the same but there's a lot more inside of these phones that make them different let's start with the screen so the screen on the Galaxy s8 me-sa plus it looks pretty ball or a screen is gorgeous it's Super AMOLED technology it's a qHD screen but and this is something I didn't realize until I tried the note 8 it doesn't get that bright until you compare it with the latest from Samsung so the Galaxy Note 8 actually gets 22% brighter than the galaxy s A+ in case you want to get technical it's 1200 nits versus a thousand it's just by random comparison if you want to know I phone 7 at 625 minutes so that 22% makes a gigantic difference when you are outdoors if you have adaptive brightness on take out your phone in direct sunlight in the middle of the day you can see it much better on the note 8 then you can't on the galaxy s 8 plus and this is sort of a thing of you don't know it until you see it or you don't know which don't know it's always thought the SI plus screen looked awesome and I looked at the note a screen I was like damn that looks so much better so if you thought things look a little washed out on the galaxy s 8 over use your phone outdoors a lot that is a big-ass reason to consider the Galaxy Note 8 so yet again another case of I didn't realize it could be much better until you see something that's much better the cameras on both phones I use a Galaxy s8 in the si+ for months and I loved the camera in those phones and I still love the cameras they're still really good there's some of the best on the market then I started using the camera on the note 8 the pictures that come out of the Galaxy Note 8 look in sane perhaps it's because both sensors have optical image stabilization built-in perhaps it's psychosomatic but the pictures look really good the Galaxy Note 8 also adds a very Apple esque portrait mode where you can blur the background of an image if you even do it after you already took the picture if you go to the Samsung gallery app and open up that photo you can adjust how much background blur you want it works really well what kind of minimal artifacting around the actual focal point of your image and also it's gonna snap too so for pictures you've got your wide-angle shot and your normal shots in case you want to see what was in the periphery of an image you can do that on the node 8 you can't do that on the si+ battery at least on paper I think would be a big reason to give a nod to the galaxy s 8 plus with sheer numbers 3500 versus 3300 in the Galaxy Note 8 and it was very clear that Samsung was let's say good shy from recalls of the note 7 to say went with a smaller battery but super software tends to matter this is running the Samsung software experience 8.5 versus 8.0 on the Galaxy S a plus at least as of this filming and due to optimizations with software I'm still getting almost this thing about 11 hours of battery life that I got on the SI plus now that's on time so when I plug my phone at the end of the day with almost exactly the same amount of usage generally around 20 to 25% and that was true with both phones so despite having a smaller battery I still got same amount of usage on it so it's kind of a tie there and I guess that tie is kind of a win for the note and it's got smaller milliamp hours performance at least pursued performance is another reason to consider the Galaxy Note 8 it's rocking six gigs of ram versus four on the si+ and before you yell at me the comments I know there are versions that have 62 RAM but then one most people have is 4 so 50% Ram made the phone seem faster to me it might have been again psychosomatic I ran benchmarks and all that Geekbench scores and yes it does come across as faster but we will usages what we're talking about here and it does seem pretty good I think where that's going to matter the extra RAM is future proofing so all these things we're talking about batteries screen for four months I've even talked about the s-pen yet and that's why a lot of people at least consider wanting to get the Galaxy Note II that's sort of the big flagship feature about it yes it's here no you can't put it in backwards and it's also IP 68 and it's actually one of the least reasons for me to pick up the note I really like having it it's nice but I don't use it all that often I find myself kind of making up reasons to use it if you're the kind of first untrim stylist and a screen then yeah you already know you want the note but for me there's more icing on a cake instead of the actual cake itself so I mentioned the beginning of the video these phones look identical but they don't feel identical the note is 12% heavier than the Galaxy S 8 plus and that matters the phone is overall thicker it's wider doesn't have that same sort of beautiful design and feel at least that you get with a Galaxy S Bessie plus they seem to hold the phone in your hand just looking at them screen down they do look very similar so if you thought maybe the s8 plus was a little big for your hand and definitely try the note 8 in store first for your side to pick one up on the s8 plus side I think this is the best feeling and best looking phone on the market I think it's incredible a Samsung blended the infinity display the thinness of the device it feels incredible in the hand this still remains the best feeling device that I have ever used so last but definitely not least it's price so there are a ton of sales and Samsung runs trade-in deals and best buys got kills and carriers have deals but generally speaking they're about 300 bucks separating these two phones I don't know if you're getting $300 more worth of value if any that features I mentioned are must-haves for you or sort of all those different parts make a whole that's worth spending about 950 bucks then you're going to love the Galaxy Note 8 figure to get the best camera the best software that Samsung has to offer if you decide that 300 bucks is not worth it for you you are still getting an incredible phone a phone that adds up like a month ago would have been the best phone on the market but it is still a really good phone and will still be a really good phone for the next year or longer so here's what the morale boils down - if you have a galaxy si - si plus look longingly at the node eight be jelly of your friends that maybe bought one but it is not worth paying the money for the upgrade you're coming from a previous gen note that hasn't been recalled so a note five a note 4 or an older a galaxy s device so an s7 s7 edge or older but all means get the note eight you're going to love it notice the differences in improvements immediately so before I end the verses I want to thank the awesome folks at Mac Weldon for making this video possible Ralf and Mark who are off camera tell me where too many ram's gears and then I need more casual clothes so actually I legitimately use the stuff at Macworld and I'm wearing Mac Walden's shirt right now it looks nice it's comfortable it's also 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down below and if we like your answer well pin it to the top and then everybody can see you you can become famous and your mommy proud of you until next time John Ranger from TechnoBuffalo you guys see I do this a lot I guess I do phone