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Samsung is doing it they're bringing back the note so here it is this is the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 coming out very very soon and I know you're wondering why did they bring out another note the last one exploded well samsung says that they're fans of the note that are very very passionate about it and they love them some s-pen so even though the specs on this phone are very similar to the Galaxy S 8 plus there are a few differences with the s-pen that we need to talk about but before we get into that there's a bunch of like standard phone stuff to get into so let's break this phone down so the big thing with every single note is that it has a gigantic screen and on the note 8 it is gigantic it is 6.3 inches but it's basically the same tech as you'll see in the galaxy s 8 at si plus so it's 20 960 by 1440 and 18 by 5 by 9 aspect ratio so it's very very tall but Samsung did a couple of things differently here if you look at the curved screen and of course there is a curved screen it curves a little bit less than it does on the galaxy s 8 and si plus and that's so that you have more writing surface Samsung says they've also added some better multitasking so one of the things you could do is you can launch two apps and pair them together so in your launcher you will have like two app icons next to each other so if you always launch I don't know messaging and memos you can always have those pop up at the same time which is pretty nice not a lot of people do as much multitasking as they could on these big phones but having the S 10 to drag the window size it makes it more convenient and as long as we're talking about the S Pen let's show you some of the other new stuff that you can do so my favorite new feature is they have this thing called a live message so you've happened this some little pop-up that comes up from the S Pen and you can start drawing on it but when you draw the message you can then save it as a standard animated gif so when you send it out by you know text message a lo if you're crazy or whatever messenger service you're using it will work with this thing and when it gets received on the other end actually get to watch the animation happen it's kind of similar to what you can do with an iPhone an iMessage but it works across basically every single app and of course the S Pen Stylus does what sfii have always done if you pull it out the screen off you can take a note directly on the off screen although now on the note eight you can add up to a hundred pages to your meeting note if you want which is nice the slightly larger screen and the S Pen aren't the only reasons to pick the note eight over the Galaxy S a plus or the galaxy s 8 the other big reason are the cameras Samsung is putting dual cameras inside the note 8 without having a big old camera bump on them and they're doing a lot of really cool stuff with these two lenses so first of all they're both 12 megapixel one is a wide-angle lens and one is a telephoto lens so you can turn on dual capture and what that does is it takes a live focus you can see it got a blur and everything else going on here but it also takes both of the wide angle and the telephoto so you've got different options so it's Samsung's flagship phone so you expect flagship specs and flagship right now means a few really straightforward things it means the Snapdragon 835 processor in the US will use on external stuff out pulse for in the world it means six gigabytes of RAM and a default of 64 gigs of storage in the US but it's expandable with micro sd on your own it also means that it has a 3300 milliamp battery we don't know how long that's going to cause this thing to last I'm sure that Samsung would tell you all day we do know that that battery has gone through Samsung's brand-new super safe eight step process to keep explosions from happening and I do to make explosion jokes and of course I'm doing it cuz I like doing easy things but the s8 and the s8 plus haven't had any problems and so it's probably safe to assume that this new Note will not have any problems either last but not least both the phone and you know the stylus our ip68 which means that it is resistant to water and dust when you drop this thing in the toilet or you drop the stylus in the toilet you'll be fine one more thing that's super interesting to me because I'm a super nerd Samsung has updated decks which is this phone dock that you can plug it into and then it turns the phone into a computer you can use it on your monitor with a keyboard and a mouse it's way faster now to switching between phone and desktop is bam bam it used to take them like up to a minute to make that switch happen it is basically like a like a Chromebook or running Android it feels really good to use you will see there's an extra button underneath the volume buttons that is for bixby Samsung's personal assistant that is designed to help you figure out how to do stuff on the phone and not compete directly with Siri and Google assistant and whatever you can hold it down to launch pixie voice you probably can't remap it because you definitely can't do that on the SA and the SI plus it's there Samsung's trying to build an ecosystem and we'll see how they do with that so what do we know about the note 8 well we know it's big it's a note they're really big we know that it has good performance we know that it has some really intriguing cameras that I'm very excited to test out against current generation iPhones and even the next generation iPhone we know it has an S Pen and we know that it's coming soon and last but not least in the u.s. we know that it's only coming in black and gray we may get some other options in the future but we don't know yet is a release date or a price but I anticipate the release date is very soon and the price is very high are you done have I moved out of focus I moved to know a lot of focus ok so if you pull it out the screen up