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as a tech reviewer bias is something we're always trying to fight against we have preconceived notions going to any sort of testing but our job is to push those to the side and review a product objectively I'm gonna pull back the curtain a little bit when the iPhone 8 and I thought 8 plus were announced I was not excited about it I didn't think it was anything revolutionary were giant we knew and I expected to be overwhelmingly disappointed with the iPhone 8 and the iPhone 8 plus but in my five days of testing I've actually been pleasantly surprised with what Apple has done here so I'm going to talk about the iPhone 8 in the iPhone 8 plus its review for both devices and I'm gonna try to not talk about the iPhone 10 and focus on these devices as they exist on their own let's get started for me one of the most appealing things about Apple products in the past has always been the design and a look and feel and this is a very familiar design for an iPhone it's the fourth iteration of the same design that we saw with the iPhone 6 when you flip the devices over though it's an entirely different story these things look much different than the press photos maybe hands-on videos like you to believe Apple has no uniform color for Space Gray at all this version around is almost a dark gray and I love the way these colors look the silver is kind of an eggshell white the gold is now a more muted gold all three colors tree looked drastically different and I think very much improved over their namesakes from last generation the glass back to make the phone field pretty different as well if you've held a modern Samsung device if you've held you know an s8 or Note 8 you're gonna know what that glass back feels like a lot of people like it I'm one of those if you get the darker color it's gonna be a fingerprint magnet and it can't make it a little bit slippery so if you want to sort of protect that you can put a D brand skin on the back of it link to them down below at long last wireless charging is here and maybe you don't care about what I was charging but for me it is a giant deal and I am so happy that it is here and I give Apple credit cruising the Qi standard not going with some weird proprietary Apple only wireless charging I've got the Samsung quick charger I use with my note 8 put this on it and it worked immediately which is really nice to have I will say though the charging rate was definitely slower than most modern wireless charging capable Android devices I've tested but for me I put it on turn off the phone wake up in the morning and it's charged so for that use case why those charging works and works as advertised so I mentioned the beginning I was surprised by the iPhone 8 and 8 plus I've primarily been using the plus for my testing and battery life has been way better than I thought I could have not only on a mobile device but on an iPhone in particular by the end of the day I'm generally at fifty five to sixty percent battery life left and that is a staggering number for me and about twenty percent higher than when I'm at with almost any other phone including when I was with the iPhone 7 plus but if you're traveling got a day trip you almost don't have to bring your chargers you put on battery saving mode and you turn off some app so you turn on your screen brightness so might be able to push it to two and a half three days hats off to Apple making a phone with pretty damn good battery life we've done something I get a chance to say very often performance tears really fast now with performance and might be a little bit psychosomatic I know we've seen the Geekbench scores and it's crazy fast off the charts so it seemed fast to me but the things I notice that I can quantify boot up is stupid fast now on the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 plus apps open and definitely faster on the iPhone 8 and 8 plus vs. previous gen phones everything else just filled zippier to me I never felt that iPhones were slow my church the imagination but it handles iOS 11 smoothly I can multitask it out any problem or these how app allows you to multitask without any problems games works really quickly the phone is just quick and it's probably going to be very quick continuing into the 12 18 to perhaps 24 months that you might have this phone screen there are two schools of thought when it comes to apples Apple screen you're like I don't mind 1080p for battery life and why can't I get a high res screen on the iPhone 8 plus I think that I maybe somewhere in the middle I don't want to be a Prakrit and say battery life is awesome but should have higher risk rings I know there'd be a trade-off there but as far as 1080p screens go it looks good it doesn't look best in class anymore I think by any stretch of the imagination it is above average though in direct sunlight which is odd it's not the brightest screen in the world but you can definitely see it when you go out and if that trade-off for battery life is important you you're gonna be fine with the screen if you've been served longingly looking at Android phones with 2k and a higher resolution screens then you might be as appointed here but know that going in the screens fine it's serviceable it works well it's just not the best anymore in the business so true tone is a new addition to the 8 and EA plus it mattered legs between 0 and next to 0 to me I guess you only notice that we have another phone next to it that doesn't have true tone but it really didn't impact my impressions on the screen at all here cameras are perhaps the biggest reason people choose phones a generation over generation if you look at just a spec sheet between the iPhone 8 + a + versus the lash ID and in fact we did a versus video comparing the two you might think they are identical same megapixel same apertures but that is not the full story at all especially when it comes to the 8 + this is an instance where the processor makes all the difference these cameras are incredible in direct sunlight photos look beautiful they're not as saturated to get with the Samsung phones the color reproduction is more true to real life in low-light they were great the shutter speed is incredibly fast the video capture looks great I like still having a 2 x optical zoom I very rarely used a ten-time digital but it's there if you need it portrait mode we had with the last gen with the iPhone 7 plus it's here as well and our process is that portrait mode way faster than the 7 + so portrait lighting is also here on the A+ and that was a cool almost like a cool party trick I liked trying it I had inconsistent results Bona worked it worked really well we've done some portrait lighting for our headshots here at the office and they looked pretty close I'll forgive inconsistency so since it is definitely still in beta but it does come damn close to working exactly as every time I give a lot of questions I reviews on the speakers on the phones so I'll run through this really quickly the speakers are actually pretty good about 25 percent louder that we have for the last gen they don't sound this tinny as the iPhone 7 plus they sound loud they sound fine they're on the higher end of average when it comes to phone speakers so another instance where I was surprised was actually when it came to storage so these phones ship either 64 to the six which are big size discrepancies and you're probably like me think you need the larger size I set up my f-18 Plus from scratch and I haven't you done that probably the past five gens of phones and I was shocked when I set the phone up from scratch and I had all of my photos backed up in the cloud I was using less than 18 gigs of storage Apple's got a new file system with iOS 11 I'm sure that plays a big part of it I might want to even consider that 64 gigs for the $6.99 or $7.99 depending if you go for the 8 or the 8 plus you might not need as much as you think but obviously you're used to a very I think I would be completely fine in the 64 I never thought I would say that if you can't tell I came away impressed with the IFO dating A+ and I didn't think I was going to there's a lot of little things that make up a really nice whole when it comes to the phone I like the way it feels I like to speed the speakers are surprising coming back to iOS has been a nice experience it was kind of a welcome home I still wish a lot of things could change but the OS still is what it is it's still the grid array of icons and if you like that or if you're okay with that this is the best implementation of it quite obviously now there's a specter of what's coming next from Apple what the iPhone 10 is going to be but this phone as it exists in the market it's still a really good choice it brings it up to close to parity with those features inspect to Android has and that's what a lot of Apple aficionados and a lot of Apple fans have been asking for you've got things like wireless charging you've got water resistance here and it just works out of the box and for a lot of people that is the ideal mobile experience and it might be one of those folks again so that's my take on the 88 plus what matters is what you do and what you do with your wallet are you spending your hard-earned money towards an 8 or a + are you waiting for the iPhone 10 you switching to Android let us know why down below