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we're back because I'm not done talking about the Galaxy s8 now I know I put that video together alright Galaxy s8 does it suck a lot of people got all fired up how dare he even put that combination of words together in the title in the headline Galaxy s8 and the word suck well they kind of see they miss the does it part and then they also miss the end part in which I say that he doesn't suck at all in fact it does the opposite funny how that works human hearing and comprehension remember that when you're in school the report card Jack got a very good no he didn't failing grade I kind of open that video talking about a few of the things that were bugging me about the phone towards the end I got to some of the things that I liked you know people were getting fired up rightfully so I don't mind to be honest one thing that came across to me from the audience is that the audience wanted more you wanted something comprehensive you know sometimes I forget that I'm in this position here where you're kind of relying on me maybe you want to sit down with a bowl of cereal for half an hour and listen to me dive deeply into this device so what did I do I put on is this blue I put on a blue sweatshirt I love this device that's what I was trying to get across to you guys just maybe I didn't cover all those little nuances so today's the day may be the start of something new in which you and me we spend even more time together in a video becomes an experience we get intimate all because of the galaxy essay so take another bite of cereal sit back relax here is the good the bad and the ugly when it comes to the Samsung Galaxy S II number one in the good category in the good column we're talking about this display you don't need me to tell you how beautiful this display is you've heard it everywhere and if you've ever used a Samsung display before certainly in the last few generations and you know these guys are setting the standard you have an AMOLED panel here from a contrast perspective whether it's in a phone or in that TV over there the ratio between dark sections of the screen and light sections of screen let me I just want to bring up so you can truly appreciate what's going on but generally to the average person a pleasing image has a ton of range between the dark portions on the display and the bright one when it comes to color you're looking for this kind of vibrance this saturation and so on now I've mentioned before this is an unusual aspect ratio and it's an unusual curvature to the glass of course they're calling it the infinity display this is going to give you a sense of immersion into the content that goes beyond the bezel and it's not just the fact that it's AMOLED but it's super-high resolution by default coming out of the box it's not going to be in maximum resolution but that's going to provide you with some extended battery life nonetheless if you want it 29 60 by 1440 in a 6.2 inch display here or on the regular sa 5.8 inch but it doesn't really stop there because there are a lot of options here for configuration now in the first video I think a lot of you guys look at the way I was talking about it in a really negative light assuming that what I was saying was the dish was somehow disingenuous and maybe there's an element there where I think Samsung probably could have delivered the max capacity out the box but it wasn't it wasn't all negative for certain users myself included having the option to go in there and make those tweaks and configuration for a power user like myself possibly a lot of you in the audience you like this ability to dive into the settings and create your own viewing experience so it doesn't stop with brightness and resolution it also dives into this blue light filter which I think it's one of the best implementations I've seen so you've probably heard about this in the past where you can kind of shift the color temperature to something that's pleasing to you or you can you have it shift throughout the day to help you go to bed at night what you can do here is you could turn it on manually and get this warmer color tone or you can schedule it so it comes on at a certain time of night where you're trying to relax and you're trying to see these warm tones so that your brain doesn't think you're looking at sunlight and it refuses to shut up now there's this goes a lot deeper into the investigation into human circadian rhythms and all this other stuff but essentially a warmer tone should help you relax should help you fall asleep at night this is especially important on a samsung Display because it's got this kind of cool tone to it and I'm going to max up the brightness as well but I've also got this video enhancer enabled as well which is supposed to enhance the image quality of various apps that playback video I mean I did a little bit of research here and it's hard to know exactly what it's doing essentially you're seeing a bump in the appearance of contrast and a slight bump in saturation as well it exists in YouTube it'll also function in Netflix Google Play movies things like that now what you'll notice I'm just going to put this side-by-side with the exact same window on my pixel XL which I will also have a full brightness it's a very well lit environment so it might be hard to tell but you can see over here this is a more warm tone it's got a kind of yellowish maybe even greenish to it whereas the Samsung display on the SA and this can be said for previous AMOLED displays as well they kind of trend more into the cool tones which that is my personal preference I actually prefer this kind of look so like screen to screen this year is no contest to me send them with them both on a couch max brightness this thing was like blowing me away but without this whole setup and all this lighting this si extends this lead in terms of brightness beyond what the pixel can deliver now keep in mind some of these features I just mentioned are software based so you could go to an s7 for example I've got one over here with the latest software on it you can adjust the opacity as well as when to turn it on some of this stuff I'm going to talk about as pros in the essay you also exist in s7 let's just if you have an s7 you're going to want to know this now the next thing the curvature here okay what this curvature enables is these kind of unusual experience when you're scrolling back and forth like this it's really easy to hit to understand where to begin that motion versus a device which has a sharper bezel where it's a little bit harder to know exactly where to start pulling in front part of that I think it's just a consequence of not knowing looking down where the bezel ends where the cutoff is of the actual touch of properties this device almost encourages you subconsciously to reach for that very edge I don't know how much this is going to apply to every single user but I get a weird kind of sense of satisfaction gripping from over there that brings me to something else this little side panel I told you guys in the last week I'm not a huge fan of this side panel one feature that I don't mind using the side panel toggle device maintenance and the reason I don't mind it for this purpose is because this stuff is generally buried a little deeper in the menu system versus like apps edge having your apps over there in which case it's like why like they're already right there same goes for contacts I'm not calling that many people I'm much more likely to go into messages for example and have everybody there after one click anyway having this here you can you can actually do some things quicker so this one here is probably the simplest point and probably the one that you are most aware of the screen is the best there is the best there was and the best there ever will be probably not no screens will always get better but anyway today is it's an epic adventure we're going to talk about general hardware the positive stuff to do with the hardware you're going to have this infinity display it's going to change the format of the device how it feels in the hand especially when you compare it to the old edge version ok the s7 edge which was kind of sharp not very fulfilling you've got a narrower body so even though there's a six point two inch screen packed in here it's easy to hold here's one that's been important to me for a long time and I didn't mention in the last video so hence the comprehensive version wireless charging you see a nice little B brand skin there as well as a little bonus for you but underneath that be brand skin is wireless charging and one of the few people that seems to care about this but they're the last of a dying breed so I want to send boatloads of encouragement to Samsung to keep doing this okay you put one on your desk to put one on your nightstand you pull it in your car and you're never thinking about jamming cables in ever again there's a lot of rumors out there that the next version of iPhone the iPhone 8 or whatever they call it might have that feature as well so all of a sudden all the accessories start coming up and then everybody wants but let's say for some crazy reason you don't want to use wireless charging guess what you've got the next best thing on here as well which is USB type-c nothing proprietary nothing weird it's an incredible connector lots of capabilities quick charging as well you can see it right there and most importantly Universal alright this is the connector of the future everyone should have it everyone deserves it down by that connector is a headphone jack a headphone jack is a positive thing all right I've got it what do I have an iPhone 7 over here yeah fine you can use wireless headphones but we're not there yet all right now listen I didn't lose sleep over the lack of a headphone jack on the iPhone I'm you know I can figure it out plus they gave you the adapter but you can't tell me it's a negative thing having it there put a headphone jack on there maybe you get a nice pair of headphones that brings me to another thing now I don't have this in front of me because this is not a retail s8 these are going to ship with a set of AKG earbuds these guys legends in the game you're kidding me in the box they might be now I'm tried done but it might be the highest ends pair of earbuds included in a smart phone box well let's go over some of the other things that Samsung is famous for on their carrying forward in this device here expandable storage don't have that on iphone how you can argue expanding your storage later is not a good thing also boatloads of RAM to bring in the a spec hardware for you if you're an ace spec kind of guy it's in here also water and dust resistance this one is becoming a little more difficult as a differentiator for brands to use in the marketing lingo local got some water here we're going to mix it up you're sitting there looking for something comprehensive so we might as well dunk it all right so here we go I'm going to turn the screen on and we are going to dunk it and it activated something but it should be okay here we go anyway you get the point no need for so much of drama here but water ain't going to hurt it dust ain't gonna hurt it and listen if you're talking about a flagship you better be talking about durability at this point you better be talking about it all right next up Bluetooth now it's weird to identify Bluetooth as like a point in the positive category because you're like what do you mean Lou like everything everything has bluetooth but this one has new bluetooth getting real excited about new bluetooth here's the thing I just want to give you a quick breakdown on why you might care about new bluetooth it's Bluetooth 5 oh it's the first device that has it all right it ain't in your iPhone the way bluetooth 5.0 works it can go up to 240 meters now now again obstructions and so on will obviously diminish that number but maybe the promise of like whole-home bluetooth is an actual thing now you know we've got a speaker over here sometimes jack he goes even goes downstairs and the concrete floor it cuts them off maybe a 5.0 not so much you've also got more broadcast capacity in fact it's about 8 times the previous version bluetooth bluetooth 4.0 4.2 4.1 ever and what that means is there's the potential here to send higher fidelity audio over bluetooth so maybe we don't need as much compression maybe we just get better recordings it doesn't have to be one headset either you may remember a video I published recently where's myself and Tom sitting right over here allowed you to pair multiple headphones to one single audio source by talking to one another 5.0 supports that natively two different Bluetooth headsets two different Bluetooth speakers one Bluetooth headset one Bluetooth speaker whatever scenario you want to present you can now support that with 500 so that's that's that is a positive thing I apologize for not making a point of it in the previous video and saving it for the comprehensive version but you needed something to do while you were eating that bowl of cereal anyway so that's why we're back next up this one climbing near and dear to my heart we can talk about software a couple different videos I've been talking a lot about the Google so alright because the Excel has been by my side hasn't done me wrong in the past there was a wide gap between Samsung's interpretation of what Android should look and feel like and what was happening on the stock side through Google developers for like kind of the flagship software so to speak some very pleasant things have happened here because they have trimmed down TouchWiz in a big way I didn't think it I don't even think they use that term anymore they probably they treat it like the place TouchWiz bit of a nightmare for a while coming from a guy who's like I said in the past I've tried out all these different Samsung devices and what they've done here is gone with a far more streamlined vision and when compared to stock Android you've got something that is incredibly similar I could choose to put apps on the display elsewhere by the way on this Samsung device that's not the way it looks right now but anyway things in general are a lot cleaner in my opinion and some of the tweaks and enhancements in the software are actually useful software has gotten a lot closer to the stock version and it should make for me the transition over to the essay as the daily device a lot easier than previous version okay what about the camera loo everyone loves to talk about cameras cameras are so important on smartphones now they're the main camera for many people no one has cameras anymore so everyone wants to know like I said before the camera has not changed that much with the exception of the front-facing one the software has changed substantially and believe it or not it applies to the old version to the s7 with the exception of the Bigsby button and those snapchat like filters if I scroll over here selphie wide selfie which is a cool feature I'll show you in a second virtual shot selective focus oh and I just noticed something the old one has live broadcast still on it I remember that feature when it launched the new one doesn't have that anymore the back camera which isn't seeing too much right now you'll see the same thing applies auto mode promo panorama hyperlapse slow-mo a video collage they got rid of as well maybe the retail version will have it so long as you've got the most updated software it looks like it applies across the board the specs for the re camera is still a 12 megapixel camera iphone on Galaxy s8 honestly you're not going to see too much of a difference here on the rear camera that's not really a big deal though because this thing the s7 s7 edge it has a great camera to begin with now on the front-facing camera side it has gotten a bit better it's now an 8 megapixel camera wide-angle selfie I'll show you how this works okay so I snap and then I kind of tilt it and then I go to the other side like this and then I end up with something way wider than what I shot this is useful if you have multiple people in the frame here we go virtual shot and in this one you move all the way around I'll hit this and then I'll kind of do a little bit of this action a little bit more a little bit more as I twist the action takes place also something I noticed the autofocus on the front-facing lens super snappy I come right in it grips me it grips me right away tugs on my heartstrings look at it I don't know these these make me feel a little bit strange I don't know what you're going to do with that Internet I really don't look at old man loo what are you you like that one jack hey you like that guy right there another thing about the front-facing camera you can actually record video beyond 1080p now so if you're looking for like super high res this stuff vlogging and so on q HD 2560 by 1440 and I am now recording front-facing camera galaxy si also you can probably hear the audio from this right now and you should see fairly decent resolution as well you can tell I'm a professional vlogger right now just got to go find my boosted board right so cool now the rear camera goes up to 4k so it goes a step further and we'll do a similar test here we are it's the front-facing camera it's obviously very dark back here not so dark up here I don't know on this screen it looks pretty amazing to me awesome camera look at this it's a lovefest samsung you're going to be on the phone soon be like Lou we love the video man here's the thing I said at the beginning it's going to be the good the bad and ugly because that's what you need it's what you signed up for and you're all move done that bowl of cereal right now so it's time to move on the stuff Nick not everybody's going to tell you all right the screen wait Lou excuse me you said all these amazing things about the screen true is my favorite screen ever it's the best screen does that mean I can't say that I don't like some aspects of it No so this screen right here it's got this this unusual aspect ratio okay now these are the stuff right now I'm about to talk about it that just sets the sets the Samsung fans off into the stratosphere steam coming out of their ears but with this aspect ratio there are some drawbacks it's not all good it's not all roses and you get these black bars okay bottom line so you're left with this this punch in button crop to fit there you go crop to fit but then then all of a sudden the head I'm getting cut off a little bit that tries me crazy even more crazy than the crop so I just end up watching it this way not losing sleep over it I'm not dreaming about I'm not seeing infinity edges love looking at this thing but it's a bit weird the fact that it's so tall yeah I mean I don't have I don't have small hands they're not you jeez I mean they're average I kind of want to hold it there but you can imagine with one hand getting up there it's a bit of a thing now if I grab an s7 look at this Oh iPhone 7 plus who is getting up there so everyone that's saying feels so good in the hand it's like it's true it does but there are again some things to think about when it comes to this now granted most six-point-two device is a two-handed device all right so get with it get with the times pull down from the top menu with your other hand this infinity edge as immersive as it is can create some weird reflections the reflection on the top edge there and that you can probably see this best on the overhead it creeps into the actual frame especially against the dark scene now if this was flat that wouldn't be the case because it would have to dip a lot further to pick up the reflection and this is the reason why the regular s7 was the one in my pocket and not the edge something to think about oh yes the fingerprint sensor location everybody's talking about it so my it's impossible to ignore it it's impossible to avoid not doing retina scan glass is on it's the whole thing it's a whole issue I'm not doing a facial scan people already hacked it pixel okay nice round perfect location not going to be confused with anything else their camera layout is obviously much different are you telling me the phone would be worse if the camera layout was here in the fingerprint sensor was there or maybe the fingerprint sensor was around as opposed to rectangular easily confusable or maybe the fingerprint sensor was was down a little bit for I don't know not a major drawback will not in my opinion change the amount by which you love this device if you if you want this device you completely understand this trade-off and that there are better implementations out there it's just part of it it's something to accept I mean you can look at various Samsung devices from the past and you'll see that camera almost always lives in the exact same location there must be some design advantage giving the type of sensor they want to use who knows if it were somewhere else or slightly different it might be enhanced it's something to put out there kind of get used to landing your finger right there it's tougher for lefties you touch this lens you're smudging it up so much so that when you launch the software it actually recommends you clean your lens left-handed users that's a lot less comfortable obviously you wanted a comprehensive video you're getting it the speaker yeah right let's play it let's go let's do it again one made of charge time can provide two minutes a cell phone talk time which in an emergency could be the difference that's the maximum volume on here it's easy to cover it up listen it's Audrey gone from evaporation right this ain't science class here but you already knew that iPhone which as you know right speakers also in a bottle possible to cover them up let's do a quick comparison we might as well since we're here I'll play the same video in fact here and we can do an a/b same distance from the microphone air ethylene glycol and diethylene glycol stove / charge portion a cell phone talktime which in an emergency would be the difference I don't know how well it's going to come through zombie apocalypse this is a much more full sound you can't block it coming out of the earpiece up here as well this one a tough one because speakers on phones in general are not really great there's been so few phones that have like really amazing speakers on them but this one is below the caliber of some stuff that I've got sitting beside me here if there is a consolation prize here on this negative that the speaker isn't great is the fact that you've got your headphone jack which you don't have on iphone 7 and there including really nice AKG headphones you wanted a doughnut you got a cook let's talk battery this is something that I covered in a previous video it's being talked about a lot the fact that it doesn't ship operating in its maximum performance mode and again this is a decision that Samsung made in order to enhance battery performance for the average person me I'm a bit weird I like maximum brightness all the time I don't use any kind of automatic brightness settings I just have it completely jammed out when you get to that last bit of brightness it's in orange kinda seems like a warning and then if you turn on performance mode it basically tells you hey you're going to take a battery life hit here if you increase the screen resolution to the maximum and increase the brightness all the way so it's almost like it doesn't really recommend it if I go a step deeper and click on the battery settings you can kind of modify it even more and this is kind of a weird one because I'm stuck here in the negative aspect so I actually like this here which is you can turn on various power savings mode even even look I mean I can't go with the max mode here which is not only going to decrease brightness change the screen read the CPU change in a way that apps are using the network in the background and it can I mean they're saying it's going to give me 19 hours and 25 minutes options are good in this environment so you could take this for a plus/minus depending on which side of it you sit on but one thing that you can't deny though is that the battery on this guy isn't physically bigger it doesn't have more capacity than the previous version so the edge has 3600 milliamp hours this one has 30 500 milliamp hours and what happened here is you've increased the screen resolution at least the potential screen resolution you've increased brightness this this one gets brighter than this one it's pretty easy to tell here you got a way bigger display you've got more modern specs theoretically a faster phone should be more power-hungry assuming you want to use it at max performance right problem there is you didn't get a bigger battery to go with it this is tough because I mean it's really not a phone that exists it has as much battery life as I would like right now so it's more wishful thinking here that maybe they went a slightly different direction but it's got 3,500 milliamp hours it could have been better would you have mind it if it was a little bit thicker I don't think I would have listened you walk through supermarket you're in the produce section you got the Red Delicious that's the least delicious Apple everyone knows that looks brilliant though they got it all waxed up shined up it's kind of weird for me texture it's not too sweet it but it looks great so you pick it up and you're like I need to buy that I'm going to you buy with your eyes you know what I think if you see this thing in a store like damn look at it I got to have it it was a little bit chunkier you might not say that so they're trying to sell you on that first impression but day-to-day life long-term you're looking for all reliable you're looking for that battery life so this is something to consider you guys are power users would you take 4,000 milliamps and a slightly fatter phone you know you what you know you would software I talked about it earlier I talked about it in the positive camp on the negative side it's not completely stock Android nothing it ever will be and this is a small one because this really applies to me pixel users old-school Nexus users but not being full stock Android means you can't be like a hundred percent guarantee that you're going to see new features first now you're going to see the latest OS getting rolled out now granted the old models right s7 s7 edge they've gotten updates pretty quickly I'm pretty happy about that going forward you're not necessarily sure how your stuff is going to be treated are you are you going to get the latest right away can you be guaranteed for example s7 edge Batman Edition and also the Olympic edition no update rollout yet I was sitting there trying to manually I felt like where is it where's my nougat at but because of the skins and various things going on you didn't roll out so you can't really guarantee it's still not stock it's a lot better than it was but it's still not 100% there at some point someone Sandra may have some advantage over this software right now it's a mix up price is always it's a thing it governs everything the price of something it's different for everyone alright somebody wants to walk out and walk into a store and spend $6,000 on a fancy purse it's not me but somebody wants to do it into them that's valuable but if we're comparing apples to apples no pun intended smart phones - smart phones then it's true there's some stuff out there that delivers on a lot of what this delivers for a fraction of cost and the issue that Samsung has the Apple doesn't so much is that those that are scratching it their yields are running the same OS for the most part Android at 300 Android at 400 and right at 500 700 you name it $1000 in the iPhone world it's Apple all the way they don't care what you buy buy this version by the old one keep paying us because there is no other iPhone version from some third party manufacturer that's a tough one you always pay more for the premium right you want the best of the best you pay more then you're probably getting back as far as the return on your investment from a performance perspective it's more of an intangible sentimental thing like I've got the best maybe you feel good about that maybe that gives you some level of confidence you wouldn't have had otherwise that said I'm putting it in the negative category for price because of what else is out there and a cheaper price and how good that stuff has gotten so you heard about the good you heard about the not-so-good otherwise known as the bad but we haven't heard about yet is the ugly and I think a lot of you guys see what you guys can probably guess what I'm going to identify here a little something called spic speed the name itself was not that ugly I don't know it sounds kind of friendly actually it's kind of a weird name hey Jack can you take Bixby for a walk please please ah a bowl of water some sixty ah that ain't what Big B is is not a cute little dog in fact it's very ugly it's a weird thing that Samsung's doing and I don't know am i piling on is everybody being critical of this probably definitely it's like when Google now got launched which is now called Google I mean they're trying to out Google Google are you crazy you want to out Google Google I want you ask Yahoo how that went also this that go ask them nobody else Google's Google anyhow yes there are some features that don't exist in Google assistant like the camera you take it you take a picture of we have a clip from the last video you take you take a picture of an object it shows you other objects that are like that kind of weird like I don't know how is that useful to me I don't know I see an old car in the street and like what model is that maybe that's that's a maybe that's a big-time Navy you're kind of entrusting Samsung to figure out how to build this really sophisticated piece of software this intelligent assistant kind of software which is not really their cup of tea it's ugly for a couple of reasons not just because it's software that I don't want to use but because it's software that lives kind of lived there permanently like I haven't found a way yet to really get rid of it you can do more with it if you want but when it comes to less it's not really it's not really obvious did I miss something is there away where you at big speak and I'm searching for bixie we're going to see here if there nothing nothing in the settings felt big good now maybe eventually through a software update this could change but for now it lives over there where you would probably want Google assistant you can still launch Google assistant by holding down here boom look how comfy you feel you start seeing those Google colors and the little little logos and you're like please take all my information I can't give you enough they couldn't possibly harm me they're not gonna sell my information to the Russians to give me Gmail and YouTube but here's why it's really ugly because it's got a dedicated button a dedicated button for something I don't even want oh yeah you kidding me it's right over here and even worse you can't really feel the difference between the two this is something that came to me earlier I'm like why am i pixels so comfy for me check this out jack right there there's texture on the buttons it's something that I've seen in various smartphones this one included pixel XL but also Motorola phones you put a slightly different texture on the different buttons and man the confidence I'm like come on this seems nitpicky but got to remember this is a button I don't even want I need to be able to feel the texture so I could stay away from it so there you have it the good the bad and the ugly when it comes to the Samsung Galaxy s8 s8 plus I hope you found this useful it's this comprehensive breakdown if this is something that you want to see in the future for high-profile products you know let me know leave a thumb we can sit down you can eat your cereal you enter pizza whatever it is that you like and we can we can go over every little nuance every little detail also important for me to say before I take off because I think some people really thrive on absolute clarity the s8 and s8 plus are probably the nicest smartphones on the planet right now as they should be they are the latest there are features that exist here that exists nowhere else bluetooth 5.0 for example this infinity display this really interesting aspect ratio which lets you hold a 6.2 inch device in one hand more pixels then probably should ever be in a smartphone they exist right here whether or not it's worth it to you probably depends on the phone if you're using right now if you've got an s7 s7 edge and you're happy with it it's a tough sale because these things do a lot of what this new one does that decision almost exclusively breaks down to the display at this point now if you're coming from an iPhone and thinking about switching camp all together well that that's a much more ambitious move I don't want to steer you away from it though iPhones as we know are set to refresh very shortly will it be an iPhone 8 will there be a home button I mean who really knows buying an expensive phone it's a commitment for people I don't know what kind of upgrade cycle you're on but I can recommend this device you you will be happy with this device the galaxy s 8 probably the best Android phone right now let's see what the next pixel can do though alright goodbye what I mean have a nice life so I shoot them because it was the good Devaney ugly do I squint at them I need a piece of straw like I'm Clint Eastwood here tumbleweed we need more props in here or something