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this video brought to you by D brand a demo area that's beautifully lived with natural light who'da thunk it hey folks one bag now here for pocket now we're just minutes out of the Samsung unpacked event and we're going hands on with the new Galaxy s8 and the s a flush both of these phones very similar just different screen size wide HD plus sort of display it's a little similar to what we were talking about with the LG G 6 a little bit taller and that they're really trying to maximize that screen real estate and bringing in those design elements from phones that are missed like say the Galaxy Note 7 in really creating a beautiful symmetrical device really nice color options and a really great feel in the hand start hearing about a 5.8 inch diagonal display and you start getting a little worried like maybe they're smaller phones really going to be in phablet territory in this new aspect ratio this two by one aspect ratio really does help maximize screen real estate of hacking all that into a much smaller form factor now all of those rumors all of those leaks there weren't a tremendous number of surprises for this phone a lot of this was just getting confirmed we are looking at in April 21st released for this device a little bit earlier than we were expecting so that's definitely great for people wanting to get their hands on the next Samsung and then all of the other metrics were right on point we've got the 12 megapixel camera that dual pixel autofocus that we saw in the s7 and the the note 7 that's made of return and then a number of new fun features that kind of help maximize the screen real estate bringing back some of those customizations from previous Samsung devices I could do split screen especially considering that this is not a standard screen resolution we do have some tools to make sure that our games will play without pillarboxing so that's definitely appreciated and for anyone who is concerned there is a sort of taptic motor II feel to the buttons underneath so that even though we have on-screen controls they do feel they do resemble Hardware controls I'm still a little torn on the placement of the fingerprint scanner on the back every time I reach for this even on the smaller s8 with my little Hobbit hand I know I'm kind of smudging over my camera to get to the fingerprint sensor but if that's not your jam you don't want to have to worry about doing the unlock from the back we do have base on locks and iris scanning so we have a combination of two different facial feature unlock modes from the phone so that should help take some of the pressure off you sort of smearing the back glass of your gout you're pretty galaxy si to try and make sure that you can get into your apps and your services one of the biggest announcements our Samsung on the s8 with a 460 their software layer where they're going to start incorporating more intelligence into interactions voice commands and camera controls unfortunately while there is some Bixby software on this phone it's not fully activated so we can't really show you what that's going to look like that side of some of their demo videos but it does sound like it's got some promise especially if Samsung can continue to reach out to third-party developers and make sure that their services will integrate with Bixby then I think we could see some really cool interactions with getting away from always having to focus both your touch and your eyes and your ears all on one glowing rectangle screen one of the fascinating things about this symmetrical design is it really does cut back on how big these phones feel we put the s8 next to the s8 plus the s8 plus does not feel like a tremendously big device until you compare it to a smaller phone these the way that these sides curve around I'm a little concerned about holding on to this doing our real camera review but when I went over to start shooting all of my hands on footage for this video I was doing almost all of it on the si plus that's why you see the black si plus in this video before I realized that I was actually holding the larger of the two phones I put it up next to my g6 and that's when I realized oh I'm holding the phablet version I should probably switch over it's already making my hands look small enough as it is Samsung is building a little story of redemption the s8 is going to be their flagship phone not only for you know their normal flagship phones delivery at the beginning of the year then also to continue telling that story of their commitment to their consumers listening to the products and to the feature sets and to the experiences that people want to have with their mobile devices and then also looking to the past for some of their missteps to make sure they don't make those same mistakes again moving into the future did you know that pirates wore eye patches so that when they went below deck they could remove it and have better vision in the dark I actually did we'd like to thank our sponsor Dee brand for reminding us that it's tough to see in the dark this Bazaar add-in our Samsung unpacked event coverage is brought to you by Dee brand check them out in the link below reliability consumer safety and of course improving on all of those experiences that we need to have to get our work done day to day that's the story that Samsung is trying to tell and of course we'll be going hands-on with a few more videos with Jules and with hi mate looking at different comparisons looking at the g6 looking at the iPhone and also is this a phone that you should consider upgrading from your Galaxy s7 maybe that one-year upgrade it's a little bit more impressive when we start looking at a change in form factoring capabilities so definitely stay tuned make sure you're subscribed to the channel for our full Samsung unpacked coverage we also got some gear 360s to play with so I'll probably be harassing you guys up 360 degree videos soon for pocket now I'm Juan Carlos bag now some gadget guy on Twitter and Instagram and I will catch you all on the next video