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you guys johnathan here and I'm gonna save the Galaxy Note 8 is getting way too much hate like way too much now by far the biggest critique and shot fired I've seen taken against no date is that as an overhyped si+ with an S Pen a dual camera for some reason a slightly smaller battery more RAM and I'm not gonna lie at the no dative and I jokingly called it an s8 plus plus my reacting to the si plus but you're acting - I'm sorry in actuality though that really isn't the case yeah you are paying more for the know date but that is because you are getting more - the battery if we're to break this down into its simplest form no one's gonna yell at a cheeseburger for being a glorified hamburger are they similar yes but you know the difference and you have no problem paying extra because it's an option same thing it to pull a you want guac you are ponying up the cash and I guess in some strange way what I'm trying to say is spen equals avocado ultimately in some weird way Samsung has almost kind of screwed themselves by having too many options if we're being honest the only reason Samsung's Plus models exist is to compete with Apple and their plus model phones for simplicity's sake imagine there was no s8 plus just the s8 that was their smaller flagship and then in turn we had to wait for the note 8 as they're bigger flagship conversely after what happened last year Samsung could have easily killed off the note lineup and brought the s kind of over to the si plus but something about that really just wouldn't have felt right because ultimately what makes a note of note is the S Pen and that's how it's always been so mini right outside actually you really like to notate and by far what stands out to me most of this of course is that giant beautiful display it is big and it is beautiful this here is a 6.3 inch display and again it's not much bigger than the s8 plus which sizes in at six point two inches but the thing we got to get out of our heads is that displays between the note 8 and the s8 plus are not gonna be deciding factors again it comes down to the S Pen to the dual cameras but regardless Note 8 has a beautiful display you guys know I love what Samsung did with their and finish this place not only does it look fantastic just simply using the phone but of course consuming media with it looking at photos video and on top of that aesthetically I think it takes these phones to the next love and honestly I think so far they're the best looking phones of this year your move next Apple now specs wise one thing that separates no date from the s 8 + + S 8 for that matter is Ram this is packing six gigabytes in the side which makes sense because Note has always kind of been known as that multitasking machine speaking of multitasking being able to use multiple apps simultaneously in separate windows isn't new but what is is the ability to create app pairs so instead of opening an app running through the process every single time you can actually pair up apps that you use most frequently and from there it is only one step and I think that is awesome switching gears one weird thing spec wise with a note 8 again is battery capacity not only is it smaller than last year's Note it's also smaller than the s8 plus which kind of leaves you scratching your head the note 8 is a bigger phone whether it's just barely bigger it is still bigger so the fact that it has a smaller battery really doesn't make sense and again as much as a notice kind of been synced up with multitasking I think the note has been synonymous with big battery life so I can see why people will be upset here past that though I think there are still a ton of enticing elements with no date and there's not a whole lot you can complain about you have USBC a headphone jack quick charging wireless charging water resistance micro SD card expansion overall it is a really solid package so from there I think we all know it s-pen is about what it can do so I first want to focus on the dual cameras because that is what really impressed me you have dual 12 megapixel sensors a wide-angle lens and then a telephoto lens what what makes us really special is the fact that both of these have oh is and that makes a big difference speaking of stabilization I do want to slightly call out Samsung for their Oh is video demo at the note 8 event if you watched it they compared the note 8 against an iPhone but something was clearly off like could you imagine the behind-the-scenes on that jokes aside that we have clearly seen and know what the s8 and s8 plus cameras are capable of and I think with a note a it kind of takes things to the next level now one of the biggest camera features on the note 8 is live focus and yes some people are gonna say it is very similar to portrait mode on the iPhone 7 plus and really every other dual camera out there for that matter but in particular what I love about this is not only the quality but the flexibility there definitely are other smart phones out there that give you the ability to edit things in post but it usually comes with a sacrifice and quality as far as notate goes it's not perfect and it's not gonna work every single time but as a whole it is super impressive the ability to adjust the amount of blur to really fine-tune and dial in and find that point of clarity and both naturalness is really cool but on top of that what I think is the coolest thing about this is you have the ability to go back at any time and view the wide-angle version of that photo which is crazy now beyond live focus mode in terms of the camera as a whole no surprise it is really good here's an example of jumping from the wide-angle lens the telephoto lens and yes you do lose a little bit of light with an f-stop of 2.4 on the telephoto lens but look at the pictures you can see both are really nice in this picture here this is the telephoto lens but what stands out to me here is the sharpness and the detail it was just about sunset so you can really see that Sun beaming down on the floor but beyond that the detail and the leaves and the concrete's I think one might call it crispy in this picture here in particular the dynamic range is really impressive we see the blue of the sky we see the clouds we see all the lighting of the signs nothing's blown out and overall it's just a really really well-rounded photo now if things started to get a little darker this was one of my favorite shots not a ton of light in the foreground just a light bulb itself but we still see the clouds we see a little bit of that Sun blown out and overall it is just a beautiful picture as far as the front-facing cameras I think Samsung has done an amazing job that last couple years and again nothing has changed shirts and no dates this is how this shot looks on a red camera and here's how it looks with the front-facing camera of the note 8 jump it over to an outdoor selfie again great dynamic range great sharpness I love the fact that you have a wide-angle lens and really there's not much more to say than great job Samsung on the cameras video quality wise here's a quick example of how that looks how the stabilization works and also I'm gonna shut my mouth for a second so you can hear the microphone quality oh the shine so from there I want to round things out with s-pen because again that is ultimately what makes the note a note it has definitely evolved a ton over the years but there really wasn't a huge jump in features from this year over last year but that's not necessarily a bad thing smart select and screen writes are useful as always live message while it isn't necessarily original is actually a lot of fun to use with a physical pen you kind of just draw out your message but it's nice having that extra bit of accuracy with that physical pen you can play it back make sure you just screw it up and then send it off definitely though one of my favorite features with s-pen is the ability to integrate that with Samsung's always-on display if you just need to jot something down quickly or you need to remind yourself you don't have to go into the phone just bust out the pen write it down and it will stay there as a reminder in your face overall the Galaxy Note 8 while it's not perfect it is a damn impressive phone if you know what you want you want that s-pen but you kind of been skeptical because people have been a little too hard on the note eight forget the haters grab it you will enjoy it I want to give a huge shout out to my boy Benjamin who I met out of London super humble super hard-working but also has a really underrated youtube channel definitely check them out I will link them down below he actually helped me get a hold of the note 8 a little bit early so this entire video is thanks to him thank you guys for watching this is Jonathan and I'll catch you guys later