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oh this is already not going very well so I'm here for the Samsung Note 8 launch I forgot my shaving supplies and they didn't have a budget to send me with a camera person so I have to figure out how to put this camera together oh I wish Brandon was here yeah the Corsair one features a compact form factor that is fast quiet and you guessed it compact check it out through Amazon or Newegg at the links below ok well at least the camera will look good even if the operator doesn't I think I've got the audio working I'm not sure the audio level monitoring is here but I'd love to play around with this but in my infinite wisdom I didn't bring a charger for the batteries so I've got what I've got and besides I've got to be over at the event in late oh great don't have a charger for that either ok so hopefully this sounds ok because otherwise I'm screwed I still don't know exactly what today's format will be so right now I'm just lamenting that I didn't bring a better way to carry this stupid camera around with me all day this thing is very heavy and I'm filled with regret right now but on a positive side Ubisoft followed me on Twitter oh my god they break my skills but hold on you're out of focus oh man I can't even use the phone great fish kills them how - oh wait wait my skills on operating the red camera out of 5 1.2 oh my god there's so many stairs this thing is so heavy fortunately for everybody who's with me I've resolved to suffer in silence all the silence that's pretty good I got Austin's approval let's not be rash here and say approval it's not throw works like that around also you can sue men right like you can do like something oh I could yo rate I do a little write business a zoom lens yeah so you can do like that and get actual proper eek oh there you go there we go 8k Wi-Fi password booyah oh man I finally pull out the camera and it's over and now I get to hold it down all the stairs it's a good thing I got all that great footage presentation in a que you've got Thank You rotations 3 watermelon amazed Victorian as you later hey guys we can just wait here for a bit drop on the stairs well come on like this is a concern I'm trying to get me walking on the crazy water display and I can't even get my SSD them out come on red there's one thing this is an epic epic fail wow this is a super trippy oh I'm not apparently allowed to be out here well everyone else was walking on it it is a freakin zoo in here try and get some oh you have gotta be kidding me Austin's Meg isn't mounting now either I'm gonna have a new red rant pretty soon the last one was it's expensive the next one's gonna be it doesn't work when you need it to work your Meg's not detecting dude it's really broken look I know I'm not even joking it's gonna be your camera dude well I mean that's not good news either oh this is like terrible I'm not using and just shoot it on the iPhone yeah after four minutes of detecting we have SSD okay time to get some flares before I breathe on it too hard alright so let's get some initial handling impressions here well Bixby is still there so if you were hoping that wasn't then you were hoping wrong in fact one of the big things they were talking about is how you can use Bixby to essentially program like voice-activated macros which does sound kind of cool although I'd have to spend some time with it to evaluate exactly how well it works like the note 7 the hold ability is much better than previous notes for me thanks to the rounded shape along the edges I don't know how people do this whole like filming yourself like I'm back here trying to hold it up and keep it in focus this is impossible Austin you just wrecked my shot again bro I was trying to show off the Bixby button Wow what Wow I always get such a kick out of people who carry around cleaning cloths for phones because like I carry around a cleaning cloth it's called my shirt sucka look at that okay well it didn't do a great job yeah maybe worse wow I think it's is that scratch oops I don't even drop it look babe it installed - drop proof floors this carpet so we're actually going to lunch with Samsung back Erik going out bad lunch ish so I don't really need the lunch but check this out it's like a it's like a happy meal you don't really want the food but it's the goodie that's that's important it's got a spins inside okay I can't find my yes pen well one of them's an S Pei it's got like a little plastic covered on it but the other two are just pencils well now I feel like an idiot for shooting anything back at the event this place is way cooler check this out and Ebers here too and we've got our own phones to run around and shoot b roll bit so as long as the cameras working then hopefully i'll get some more footage here good news the camera is working and the more serious setting is gonna bring about a more serious tone to the rest of the video let's talk about some actual impressions here so number one ergonomics a lot of what was good about the note 7 returns like the note 7 this is a phablet that is actually hold a ball even with my tiny lady hands part of that is due to the fact that the sides are curved on both the front and the back and another part of it is actually due to this flat part that they've got on both the left and right side it gives it a little bit more grip around the edges and I personally really like the change other changes the screen it's still the 18 and a half by 9 aspect ratio that I personally absolutely loved on the galaxy s 8 just more of it whether you're scrolling through you know long walls of text or your twitter or instagram feed or watching wide aspect ratio content like Brandon's recent review of the red weapon 8k camera there's just more of it to love I'm a huge fan I absolutely love the taller size with that said it does affect ergonomics a little bit and I'm probably not the only one who was really hoping that Samsung was going to deliver an under screen fingerprint sensor on this guy rather than the one at the back because it takes me a couple shuffles to get up there to unlock the phone another improvement on the screen though is the always-on functionality so I checked this out on the show floor but now you can actually create up to a hundred pages of notes just on your lock screen in a way that consumes very little power and allows you to quickly jot down like a tracking number or phone number or whatever else the case may be the camera is already generating some mixed feedback the telephoto lens which has a 2 X optical zoom does not capture images that are nearly as sharp as the wide-angle but for me personally I don't mind the approach because with dual capture you've got the option to do the whole like adjust the background blur bokeh thing in post which is neat if you're into that kind of artsy stuff but it's really not my bag but for me what's cool about dual capture is the fact that I don't really have to compromise so I can try and capture the close-up but if they kind of look soft or doesn't look as good or I got the framing kind of wrong then at least I can fall back to the wide-angle shot and know that I've captured the moment which is far more important for me when it comes to cell phone cameras on the subject of things that matter to me styluses generally not so much the note 7 was my first note device and I had precious little time with it before the recall so I never really have gotten in a habit of using a stylus but apparently this one's better than ever with more pressure levels and lower latency so I look forward to you know kind of tinkering around with it over the next couple of weeks while I work on my flow review and on that subject Bixby voice has finally launched in Canada so when I did my s8 review Bixby seemed pretty freaking pointless just a regrettably Unruh mapable button on the side that i would always hit by accident and that would annoy me hopefully I'll change my mind their pitch for it is like pretty hardcore than like yeah you can change your Wi-Fi you can adjust your screen brightness it to do everything but that remains to be seen I've been promised that I can talk naturally to my device and it will behave in a way that I'd expect a lot of times and it's never really come through but one thing that's gotten my attention is apparently the ability to program Bixby with like macros so you can tell it to take a picture save it to a particular album and open up a photo editing program or something like that whether you're sending a few quick emails from the airport's free Wi-Fi network er doing some emergency banking at that random cafe you might be giving away all your personal information but tunnel bear can solve this problem once and for all tunnel bear is the simple VPN app that makes it easy to browse privately and enjoy a more open Internet with tunnel bear turned on your Wi-Fi connection is secured and your online activity is kept private from your internet provider 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