Gadgetory

so I got my hands on the Galaxy s8 these are pretty looking things you probably already knew that though I was lucky enough to get my hands on these pre-release models before the actual retail version is available and I figured hey you guys are going to want to know about these devices the the ups and downs the things I like the things I don't like and so on so that's why we've got the video the way that we do today it's a bit of a bit of a hot take if you will I've been using the s8 plus for somewhere in the neighborhood of 24 hours so I have some thoughts one of the things you're going to notice right away the footprint is very similar to the pixel XL what ends up happening here through the elimination of the bezels on the right and left side and these extremely thin bezels on the top and bottom is you end up with more display and less body less foam body so once again as a comparison I think a lot of people are going to pick up this phone and go man it's such a big screen but it feels so thin well there's certain applications like video for example in which this aspect ratio is a bit bizarre so if I go ahead and launch you to the entire interface I'm you know you're taking up top to bottom it's all usable space but then you notice those things that you were trying to avoid those bezels they come right back one of the reasons that a lot of people go for a bigger display in the first place is to have a bigger video viewing experience but since nothing truly fits this aspect ratio natively you end up with these black bars now granted within the app there's the opportunity to punch in but what you notice there is the top of my head for example starts to get chopped up a little bit because video makers like myself we're not framing or creating for this bizarre aspect ratio it sounds like I'm I'm hating on this decision I'm really not it's just something that you should probably know now talking about the screen a little bit more this is uh it's a nicer screen ever put on a smartphone it's OLED now a weird thing about the brightness if you scale it up to full blast it kind of gives you a warning experience the highest quality display with maximum brightness and screen resolution this may reduce your battery life the weird thing is the way I'm looking at this is in the in wake of the note seven of course that whole fiasco with batteries expanding and exploding and so on it's not the most confidence-inspiring thing to have to manufacture tell you to not use your device at maximum capacity it's blue all the way up and you get to the very end and it turns orange to me there's a strange kind of subconscious implication that I'm not using the device properly or that I'm pushing it to the extreme there's also this performance mode but dedicated button which will push your brightness up 10% it's that last 10% represented by the orange color on the bar and then it'll also give you the actual screen resolution that you were buying the wqhd plus this is where things get super weird by default out of the box you're not getting the full res of the display which by the way the most beautiful display ever you would think hey Samsung you've innovated here you've created this incredibly beautiful display wouldn't you want people to have all the pixels out of the box by default it's an F HD plus so to-220 by 1080 so a little bit beyond 1080p but of course not nearly as groundbreaking as this wqhd plus 20 960 by 1440 this is where that resolution is going to run in the center and you've got to decide to go up to the next one once again for me not the most confidence-inspiring thing maybe this is about giving you option but this note 7 thing is looming it's looming over a lot of customers heads and if you don't believe me go watch the 90 million views that they're buying on that commercial about quality assurance I think it should be full res out of the box with the option to toggle it down if you want increase battery performance going with this incredibly beautiful design has the consequence of not having huge batteries in the first place so this is 3500 milliamp power 3000 no real increase there from the previous models and that's something I think a lot of customers would have liked something worth mentioning is that the s7 edge had a tiny bit more battery than this bigger footprint device the s8 plus it's worth noting but you have the ability to set up edge panels so you could hide some apps in there if you like it my issue with having this thing over here is inevitably what ends up happening is in a particular app where I'm grabbing from the side of the display to scroll especially if you're using the device in landscape mode and you're kind of scrolling up and down sometimes you can toggle that accidentally so the device I've been using I just turn that off another big thing worth mentioning is what Samsung has done with the software here it seems weird to say but it's probably my favorite development I like the kind of stripped-down clean version of Android as it was intended now Samsung has made their own tweaks to this skin this thing in no way reflects what TouchWiz used to look like in fact it's a lot closer to the way the pixel looks and stock Android behaves by default you have no apps natively in the display section here like you would on an iPhone for example they're all hidden in this little drawer which you pull up on look at this way cleaner for the first time ever I've got the back button in the right location you can swap the back button to the other side which is the way that it's been another thing to mention in the absence of a physical button this home button here on the si plus NSA has a little haptic feedback to it similar to what the iPhone has but I like that they're not taking up too much real estate with that section either these are nice little buttons these two phones actually have the same resolution the same resolution potential there is absolutely no pixel breakup at all I don't know that the human eye is capable of picking up that variance in pixel density at this scale here but it's an interesting thing to note one of the things I appreciate about these displays is the fact that they have just cool color temperature you can toggle this blue light filter to warm up the tone and if I click down here another nice thing is you can kind of toggle how much of it you want so you might like a really warm tone or something a little bit cooler does this whole thing about using warmer tones at night help you go to sleep I wouldn't know about it 3:00 a.m. I'm trying to go to bed you know how to go so there's been a little bit of talk a little bit of chatter about the speaker situation on these devices which is a little bit strange to me because it seems pretty obvious there's a single speaker grille even though there were rumors that we were going to have stereo speakers on here not so much the case you have a similar speaker layout to the old stuff you see of course we have USB type-c at it now and still a traditional headphone jack which I know a lot of people are going to be happy about they're going to include some pretty high-end AKG headphones with a retail version of this device chances are they're going to be a huge step up on what you're used to receiving included in the Box message board stock quotes news email notifications google analytics I heard McDonald's is hiring you ever flip a burger so the front-facing camera got an improvement in terms of number of pixels so it's an 8 megapixel front-facing camera now on the back though you still have 12 megapixels from what I can tell though from what Samsung is saying there are some software differences in how these images are being handled theoretically maybe there's a slim improvement I think you're going to see images very close to what the s7 was doing is really amazing the quality of images we're making right now we now have two HD available on the front-facing camera when we switch to the back facing camera of course we go all the way up to UHD you can see the default setting is F HD 1920 by 1080 plenty of options above that which you have to select yourself including a 60 frames per second option at 1080p this might be a huge consideration this might oh my goodness might be the deal-breaker for you it's hard to take a bad photo on this camera I'm not like condemning the device as a whole here when I talk about the fingerprint scanner when I pick this up look look where my hand falls boom I mean it's just so natural for it to fall there but the issue here is that the fingerprint sensor is right beside it maybe this was the only place they could put it but maybe they could change the shape I don't know what ends up happening you end up putting your finger in many cases on the camera lens and smudging it up this gets even funnier when you first launch the camera app in which the app prompts you to wipe your lens there's also a couple of other options for unlocking the device the iris scanner which takes way too long so I'm not going to use that and it's a little odd because sometimes you want to unlock your device without looking clearly added like lining up like as if you're taking a selfie your other option is this face on lock in which case you hold it up to your face it's incredibly quick and so on but that one makes me nervous because I'm like this face is out there I just don't feel secure with it so I'll be using this fingerprint sensor even though it's a little bit odd oh this is kind of cool the adaptive display this again allows you to optimize the color range saturation and so on select from these options here AMOLED cinema which is a slightly warmer tone AMOLED photo this dedicated button for this assistant called Bixby this could be useful in the same way that Google assistant is you can still launch Google assistant if I hold down here on the home button you'll see but they've given it this dedicated button so for most users they're gonna click on the side over here now I looked around the settings menu I can't find any kind of way of remapping that button to something else which would have been nice if I click this little button in the corner here it brings up this thing called big speed vision which is probably the coolest part of Bixby right now after I pop off a photo of the camera it'll bring up similar things that that it searched for on the web I don't know immediately how that's useful you take a picture of a banana what do you see more bananas okay how you gonna compete with Google so the big question remain Galaxy s8 s8 plus does it suck you can probably tell no not at all alright it's a beautiful thing you'll be happy if you buy it you just got to figure out if you could have spent that extra money on something else go with a cheaper phone all of a sudden maybe you take a vacation you meet the love of your life now you're on a sailboat or you can just spend alone time with your si your 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