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this video is brought to you by Coolermaster mobile featuring the jazz pro notebook stand check it out at mobile cooler master - usa.com so we're hands-on with the Galaxy Note 8 which is an upcoming tablet from Samsung it's part of their note series which means you get all of those note optimized features things like the included stylus or the whatever it's called the S Pen I think is what Samsung likes to call a stylus as well as the full digitizer built into the display itself so that's going to be extremely useful for users who want more than just the on/off functionality that you get with most touchscreens so instead you're actually able to apply distinctly different amounts of pressure so it's great for for sketching for things like what else I think I gave a couple examples when I did this rehearsal but I can't remember any of them now the point is that if you want to draw on your tablet if you want it to be useful for more than just for artists you know if you're on the go you want to draw something and you want to actually move that over to computer later I know for example here at tech tips we'd love to have a tablet with the digitizer because when we're doing things like storyboarding for episodes it'd be great to be able to draw on something that looks a little bit more sophisticated than just lines in terms of performance it's going to have a quad-core a9 it's an 8-inch tablet so you've got a 1280 by 800 resolution so you can watch 720p HD content in its at native resolution but 1080p content would be down scaled the overall look at the device is pretty much it's got a white back this particular one although I guess actually I have no idea if it's gonna be available in different colors so I'm not gonna promise anything but this is white backs and it basically looks like a gigantic galaxy s3 white because you got your rear camera here you got microSD expansion here on the side and then that's pretty much it for the back your headphone jack is on the top of the device right here and then moving down this side you've got your unlock your volume rocker moving down to the bottom that's where the s-pen is stashed and what's cool about the s-pen is it's not just a storage pocket here it actually opens up the relevant applications when you open it and close it so you can see you pop that back in and it goes back to the home screen also on the bottom you've got Samsung's charging station stair Oh speakers I would love to see more tablet manufacturers move towards stereo speakers preferir preferably optimized for landscape content viewing but I mean hopefully that's something that we'll see sort of moving more forward in the future it's certainly better than something like you know my old iPad 2 which is what I'm still using day-to-day which has one speaker on the back of the device so at least we're moving in the right direction here on the front you've just got your light sensor as well as your front camera and then the usual one hard button for the home button and then back and contacts fuel's we're really excited to bring you guys sort of more information about this little tablet sometime in the future when we get our hands on a working one as you may or may not have noticed the jellybean OS that's on this particular one here it has this yellow text all over it that actually doesn't go away because this is not a finished device yet so I just wanted to show you guys what it looks like in terms of size so I'll do my trademark iPhone for comparison I'm getting evil looks from all the Samsung folks in the room here for for pulling out an iPhone and they're in they're in there sweet but I'm sorry guys I'm sorry I had to do it I do it every time people expect it from me so the actual thickness is is pretty similar to something like like this device and the feel is not super light like we've had with even previous Samsung devices so the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is the one that I actually still use day-to-day for a Samsung tablet and had quite a light feel to it this one uses a bit of a denser plastic and it feels like a thick piece of glass you can you can tell there's there's no there's no flex to the device it is a little bit more solid I personally don't mind this it's one of the things I like about the iPhone 4 compared to other smartphones is it actually has some heft to it it feels like something that you're not just going to kind of go wah and drop all over the place so it comes down to the individual user how they feel about that but overall construction feels solid and I really look forward to showing you guys more about this don't forget to subscribe - tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos and apparently I mean it's sort of a computer but mobile device videos - couple key things that I actually missed before and this I was I was tinkering with the screen I was pressing on it and I was going oh this doesn't look like an LCD it looks like this is I their mo led or super mo led it's it's not an LCD display which is extremely exciting because this is one of the larger format organic LED displays that I've yet encountered looks absolutely beautiful I mean the viewing angles are outstanding and the other thing that I missed before is that is an IR emitter which means that you should be able to use this as a universal remote among all the other functionalities that you can enable with an IR emitter most of which the universal remote