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time flies in the world but in the tech world that seems to go at hyperspeed the s8 is almost a year olds and the s9 is coming in about four to six weeks I thought it'd be fun to do a final revisited a last look if you will at all the things the s8 brought to the table and sort of the newness that it was and the climate that it came into the smartphone world Samsung was right off the note seven debacle these things need it to be a hit now while it is the end of the product life for the s8 it's not necessarily the end of when you should buy it they're gonna be crazy deals and then go on on the s9 comes up and the s9 looks to be sort of an S version type upgrade sort of fix some small quibbles and small complaints with the almost perfect s8 and s8 plus and for the sake of this revisited I'm mostly just gonna say SE the phones are pretty much identical save for screen size and a little bit different size in battery so first the s8 got rid of the edge version of phones we saw with the s7 it was just the s8 and they brought in beautifully marketed term infinity display the Samsung displays are absolutely incredible and they did a gorgeous job this time around a big knock I had a previous stance in this blazing they look great when you were indoors soon as you stepped outside in direct sunlight they got completely washed out and almost invisible Samsung fixed that in this time around the display gets incredibly bright don't buy into the marketing hype of how many nits brightness it is that's really just how bright one single pixel can get with some real user standpoint you can use this phone and outdoors these are obviously the best screens that Sam's like had made before the note came out they're pretty much identical but the infinity displayed while looking nice it's still been far from perfect in my use often times I was activating the edge panels by accident that was relatively annoying to have cervan to turn them off so I would accidentally activate them it also makes the phone a little bit on the fragile science and the screen curves around and the front and back are completely coated in glass in fact as we documented on video I cracked my si+ pretty badly and I was sitting down and it fell on a nun carpeted floor so I don't like two and a half feet ish it fell and it would be shattered the screen so it was definitely more fragile than those people like that fragility also goes through on the back in fact I used my si plus in the office without a case as I mentioned in without and you skin on the back and you can see what the back looks like you look totally gross and disgusting so if you pick up and current-gen samsung phone whether it's the note the s8 sa flushed even the x9 when it comes out recommend putting a d-branes get on that to keep the scratches down and also give it some protection I'll link to it down below in case you want to check those out also mark the first time the Samsung got rid of their capacitive buttons and opting for on-screen buttons for navigation I love that change I also love that you can customize it a little bit whether or not you want the backup on the left or the right give you more flexibility though you had all sort of those buttons that were always in the same area so rounding out the awesomeness that the s8 was the cameras were absolute incredible this was before the pixel 2 and before the iPhone tens these were the camera kings they were absolutely incredible obviously making do with single sensors they did incredible job with portrait modes by that I just mean blurring the background they brought a ton of effects the pictures look gorgeous and almost any setting I'll be get a little bit saturated but I tend to prefer it and they give you a lot of granular setting if you want to get in and tweak those these cameras were beyond awesome in the video side the video also looked great the microphone could use a little bit of improvement I think that's the case with almost all smartphones but really good I think salmon did a really good job with biometrics obviously there was some sort of face ID type technology when this phone came out but they're gonna see is absolutely incredible you've got iris game you've got kind of a rudimentary face a lot you've got pin or passcode you've got options and different layers of course the fingerprint sensor on the back as well I liked that there were options that you could pick and choose from but coming to the things that I didn't so speaking of biometrics the fingerprint reader on the back I've talked about this ad nauseam I'm not gonna sort of harp on it I hated the location of mere presence or maybe you guys or other issues that it wouldn't bother you with caisson for me I did not like the location in fact I never didn't use a finger praetor because of that another thing I didn't like was the single downward facing speaker off to found myself covering it with us playing games listen back to two movies or just watching content it's really annoying sort of location of it you're watching something like this you're playing a driving game you gotta make sure you're moving your finger all around and I should mention both of those things but to be improved when the s9 finally hits and of course rounding out the other stuff I didn't really like even used Bixby in that that big speed buttons it's a goodbye to the essay in the essay plus it's an incredible phone and if you have one it'll probably be good to even skip the s9 and wait until the s 10 hits but it's got great battery life the screen is incredible the cameras great on it have that fast charging it's USBC everything about these phones I've absolutely loved I don't want some sort of pour one out for the s8 as sort of it gets overshadowed very soon by the s9 did you pick up an SI you guys upgrade from an s8 are you waiting for the price drop last night I had to pick one of these suckers up if you like these final revisit and let us know I'm gonna do a thumbs 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