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this versus video is brought to you by audible the best way to take your audio books with you anywhere you want to go on any device you want to use two phones seemingly identical looking we got the iPhone eight plus and the iPhone 7 plus if you can't tell the difference between these two phone by looking at the front you are like most people because I was kind of lying to you this is the A+ and this is a 7 plus they look identical from the front the back and the internals are another story I know a lot of you guys are debating whether or not to upgrade to the 8 maybe you want to wait for the iPhone 10 or maybe you're coming from an older iPhone or Android so I want to take these two phones and compare them head-to-head and decide if you should pick up the iPhone 8 stick with what you've got or perhaps wait for the 10 or another device let's jump in I'm gonna focus mostly on the plus miles here since those are the higher end of the devices but the non plus models almost everything when to talk about it's going to be pretty close to identical so looking at these phones they look very similar in fact the iPhone 8 is the fourth iteration of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus design that we've seen not say it's a bad design but it is a very familiar design but it's definitely the best version of it and I mentioned the Front's of these devices look identical but I was actually surprised how different the backs actually look with the glass back and the glass back brings one big difference with two phones you are getting qi wireless charging and I'll talk about Apple's air power thing that's coming some time next year this is true wireless charging I put this phone on my samsung wireless fast charger and it wirelessly charge which is really nice to have about having to deal with a third party case wireless charging is a big deal for me it may not be a giant deal for you but if out the convenience was putting your phone on a pad huge props to the iPhone and I guess the apples monitor here is was better like than ever but it is definitely here another surprising difference between the phones is actually the colors so the iPhone eights are available in silver space grey and gold and all three colors look vastly different than the last gen phones so I've got the silver right here which i think is actually a beautiful color but it doesn't look silver looks more eggshell white the goal as more of a muted gold the space gray is kind of a darkish black gray hue different than sort of the straight and matte black we had with the last gen the colors are very different I imagined by designs the phones can look different if you want a phone that's going to sort of just aesthetically appear to be a different device it did a nice job with the eight actually really liked all three colors I'm gonna get the same things out of the way about these phones the big disappointment for me other screens the same 5.5 inch 1080p 401 PPI screens we've seen for years it's not a bad screen they just don't look just crisp you flock what's the opposite of crispy soggy soggy I mean it looks a little soggy if you used a modernist Samsung device you can see definitely see a difference in the screen and that's where you may want to wait for the iPhone 10 it's getting a higher res screen there's actually going to be made by Samsung it does bring a true tone display which is nice it doesn't do that much for me you can sort of change the way the screen looks spending on your environment it's fine it's not gonna be a differentiating factor we're not you should buy the phone or upgrade from the seven so the mortal here despite true tone display the screens our screens are pretty much identical from purely spec standpoint these phones read almost identical at least on paper same camera hump and all they both had the same from 12 9 pixel sensor the same set of megapixel sensor on the front the same wide-angle F 1.8 aperture in the same 2.8 telephoto so the a 11 Bionic chip inside which we'll talk more about it's gonna do a lot more processing than what the a10 fusion chip could do so the pictures are going to look different despite the hardware being relatively similar so bear that in mind there's obviously a big difference on paper with the a 11 chip versus previous generation I thought what's that going to mean to the end-user Apple's not about raw horsepower about user experience and it's a fast user experience on the iPhone 8 I never thought the 7 plus was a slow foam but you see the difference here opening up apps opens up faster on the iPhone 8 plus that's something you gonna notice and perhaps will add up over time to a lot of time other things you're gonna do like gaming of course are here a Ark it's gonna be nice and fast I think you're gonna be very quick on the iPhone 8 and if you want a phone that's going to last you for years I get the feeling the iPhone 8 and 8 plus are going to be a foam that's going to be quick for a long time the difference appears to be drastic over the iPhone 7 plus the A+ has a bit of a smaller battery but supposedly processor improvements on the a11 will know that milliamp hour difference they should get the same battery life on both devices price a big trimming factor now if you pick up any phone the iPhone 7 and 7 plus are still obviously less expensive options starting at 549 or $6.99 depending on the 8th of 7 or the plus the 8 got a $50 price bump or what they used to be when the 7 and 7 plus was new it's now at $6.99 or $7.99 as your baseline I want to thank my friends audible for making this vs. video possible you probably know audible chances are already using audible but if you are not you should definitely check them out this is what I use anytime I am in my car right now I'm listening to James Patterson's black a book it's my third book by him I really like the guy who's doing the narration on it but I change phones a lot so I love the fact that I can always pick up where I was in my audio book for that I'm using the new iPhone 8 or the Galaxy Note II transfers all the books over for me went on a bit of a kick with historical fiction now I'm back to kind of regular fiction I'm waiting for the new Dan Brown book to hit sometime next month it's the next one in the Robert Langdon series so I'll be my next book we've got more than books there - they've got original audio shows they got news comedy kind of anything you can listen to audibles giving away a free 30-day trial you also get a free audiobook to go with that if you want to check it out go to audible.com slash techno we link to it here and also down below so that's my opinion on the iPhone 8 and a plus but what I think doesn't matter when you think of what you do with your dollars do and are you gonna put that hard-earned cash towards a brand new shiny phone let me know in the comments down below find a comment that gives a good insight we'll pin it to the top and you can you can be be well-known there until next time I'm John Ranger and techno-bubble