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The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is an awesome phone but I think most people would be better off spending their cash an a Galaxy S8 or Galaxy S8+. If you've got the cash for the Note 8 you'll be happy with it but your dollar goes a lot further if you spend it on a Galaxy S8 or S8+.
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The Galaxy Note 8. I got my hands on it. You guys have been harassing me. Lou, where are you here? Where's your Note 8 video
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It's a new device. We come to you to hear about the new devices. Well, here it is
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Now at first glance you're going to say, wow, that's a big device. And that's because it is
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It's one of the biggest devices out there. 6.3 inch screen. And just like the other Galaxy devices, you have this incredible screen to body ratio
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There are a lot of things to like about this phone. It's probably the best screen in the business right now
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I mean, to look at this for multimedia consumption and so on. You sit back, you relax, it's huge
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It might even be your main computing device. You add to it the pen, now you're tapping around
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I don't know what you're into. Maybe you enjoy a little sketching, for example, taking notes
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I mean, I've even seen people with this thing get into a spreadsheet, if that floats your boat
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For me, I never get too excited about spreadsheets in general. But hey, you can get some business done with the pen. It's very precise
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You still got a headphone jack. For everybody looking for everything on their device, this is it
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The headphone jack is there, the speaker is there, USB Type-C is on this unit
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It's the first Samsung device that I'm aware of with a dual lens setup
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A dual camera setup. Samsung has finally entered this party. You now have a portrait mode, okay, which you can toggle before or after the image
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All the magic happens in this location right here. And this is also the first device that features optical image stabilization on both lenses
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Not just the main lens, but also the zoom lens. Now, during the demonstration, they showed this image stabilization for both video and photo up against the iPhone 7 Plus
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And, of course, it performed better. Optical image stabilization is something that for anyone who's ever used it, you couldn't live without it after you had it
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So having it on both lenses seems like a no-brainer. Now you've also got a lot of horsepower in here, as you'd expect
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The latest from Snapdragon inside 6GB of RAM. It's water resistant just like the other devices and if you were wondering about the pen
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even when that pen is removed, it remains water resistant. It's got Bluetooth 5.0 and it has expandable storage
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These are all things that you would love to have in your dream smartphone
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Alright, so some other special stuff. Obviously, this device is large. So of course, Samsung has given you the ability to take advantage by launching more than one app at once
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in what they're calling pairs. You can see here, for example, YouTube and Internet
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I can access that via the app's edge. Now, if I load that up, I have YouTube up at the top
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And then over here, look, I'm just browsing. I'm browsing the web. I'm watching YouTube
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Well, I'll type in unbox therapy so I can actually play a video here. Okay, cool. Here's a fresh new video
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Okay, so there you go. You can imagine this scenario. You're watching a video up top, browsing the web down here, doing a little shopping
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Now, of course, there's all kinds of note-taking stuff as well. From in here, you can go ahead and launch screenwrite
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You can also send these things called live messages. This will allow you to script out some kind of message here
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That doesn mean anything but I could send that to someone The personal touch a little bit of romance If you need advice on romance then you found the right channel They need some advice on romance
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Go hard. Oh! So, the pen is still a key part of the Note series
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And I think, you know, a lot of people that want to purchase this thing are going to do so because they think they can utilize this pen and its features
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Okay, now what about the camera? I told you about this, this dual lens system
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I know that you are fired up about it. Okay, so I'm going to launch into live focus mode here
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And this lets you kind of compose your image with a very
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specific area of focus. It's meant to emulate a lens a camera lens like this one got one right over here with a big aperture
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You see that in the middle there? I select the object that I want to focus on and I snap a photo
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Alright, and I end up with an image like this and hopefully will can pick that up
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and what you can see in this image is that the camera here in the foreground is
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completely sharp but the edges you know on each side of it are really soft almost
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dreamy dare I say well that's the effect that you're trying to recreate by
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merging this dual camera data now what's cool here is you're not stuck with this
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image in this format I can adjust it after the fact like this so I can take
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the background blur out and you can see it comes into focus and sharpens up I'll
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I'll go back and show you again. Maximum, very, very soft around the camera itself
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And I pull it back, we have sharpness around the entire frame
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Now alternatively, you can use each of these lenses independently. So I could just go ahead, snap one photo here at the wider focal length and then just tap
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And now I'm at 2x. And that's of course optical because it's two separate units
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So to give you a better idea of that, here is the wide angle shot and here is the 2x zoom
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So similar quality because you are switching over to the longer lens as opposed to a digital zoom that you'd be getting on a single lens system where you just kind of pinch in and ultimately what you're doing there is degrading the image by using less of the sensor
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I can't see anyone complaining about having a dual lens system. Of course, options are always better, though there have been other implementations
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For example, there's been LG devices that put a far wider angle lens to go with the standard one
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And then, of course, more recently in the essential phone, you had a monochrome sensor to go with the standard one
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Point is here, Samsung, they're in the party now. Better late than never
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It's the first dual lens Samsung phone. So right about now, you're saying, Lou, I'm hearing you
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You're saying a lot of nice things about that device and it's true that, you know, I am
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And that's because it's a nice device. It's got all the things I look for. It's even got wireless charging
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But here's the thing. I think there's a better phone for your money than this one
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See, the problem with this phone is price. This guy right here is going to retail for $930
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We're hitting a new threshold now for what you're expected to invest into one of these
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Now the real issue with that price point is not just that it's expensive for most people
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The problem with that price point is the Galaxy S8 Plus or even the S8 for that matter See here the thing this one is as I mentioned before and the Galaxy S8 Plus this guy right here which is so similar in form factor in fact the screen size is
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what? 0.1 inches smaller? The same resolution and a better screen to body
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ratio percentage wise. Plus this guy here it's got the curvature okay you can see
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that the edges are slightly more curved now these are already big devices so
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when you grip onto these things that's important. You can see when I hold this here you kind of dig the curved corner into your hand. So by having slightly
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more curve it makes it a little easier to get up to that fingerprint location
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which as far as I can tell no one's a fan of to begin with. Now on this device
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here it's even more difficult to get there because of that sharp edge you
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kind of feel like you make an adjustment you almost slide your hand up it to get
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to where you need to be. So ergonomically for me hands down the S8 Plus is the
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better choice. Oh what else? Here's the other problem. The S8 Plus has a bigger
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battery than the Note series. Now fine, maybe with the Note series they wanted to
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back off a little bit because of the battery issues on the last one. Plus they
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had to slide the pen in there. Plus it's an incredible feat of engineering to get
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this dual-end system completely recessed into the unit. But that doesn't change
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the fact that you're dealing with a 3300mAh battery on the more expensive
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device on the Note device where you've got 3500 mAh in the S8 Plus. Now the S8 Plus originally
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retailed for $825. So right now you might be thinking, I don't get it Lou, $930, it's not
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that expensive, it's $100 more than the S8 Plus, but you get the pen, you get the dual lens setup
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and so on. But here's the thing, that's not what you're going to pay for an S8 Plus today. In fact
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that price has plummeted. Right now on Amazon, you can pick up this device, which is 98% this
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device. You can pick this up for $675. So we're talking about almost $300 more for the Note versus
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the S8 Plus. What are you going to do? You're going to take a couple portrait shots. You're going to, what are you going to do? You're going to get your puppy dog out, blur the background
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Is that $300 to you? I don't know. You could buy a lot of pizza for $300. You're going to be
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what are you going to do? You're on the, you're on the bus. You're drawing, you're drawing pictures. Is that worth 300 of you? I don't know. Alright, I'm sure for the right person you can make the justification
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But I'm here to break it down for the average person. Hey Lou
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Is that gonna be worth the extra money to me? And here's the thing about those features. They sound great, but they're kind of
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Aspirational it's like oh I might get around to using that. Oh the S Pen. I like to know that I've got it there
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One day I'm gonna be an artist one day I'm gonna take some notes take it from a guy who's used
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6,000 phones over the last five days. Put the disclaimer slight exaggeration right there. I've
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used a lot of phones. Every time I get a note series, I just can't get in the habit of pulling
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this thing out on a frequent basis. You might be different. That's me. Same thing goes for the
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portrait mode. Maybe you use it a little bit here, there, who knows? But when it comes to battery
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you use it every day. Even a little bit of extra battery is something you can utilize right now
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I mean, tomorrow you got five extra minutes. It's that phone call you need to take. It's that text
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that you cannot miss This will affect your life immediately and as of right now S8 Plus outperforms the new device at Now if you want to get real crazy I going to pull in another device over here
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The device that I've actually been using. This guy right here. The standard Galaxy S8
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Knock another hundred off and you're on this guy. And for all intents and purposes, it's the same phone
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I mean, it's a smaller display. Okay, fine. I get that. But it's still super high res
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It's still got the same horsepower. and in some cases, it's a little bit more usable
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Certainly for one-handed use. And that's 100 bucks less. I'm telling you, if people come up to me
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which they do on the street, Lou, what's in your pocket? What should I get
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$575 on Amazon. Think about that increase in price up to this guy
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up to the note. That's huge. $575 to $930. I mean, just think of all the other gadgets you could get
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with that extra cash. You can get yourself a nice set of headphones. You could probably buy a PlayStation or an Xbox or something
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What are those portrait photos worth to you and the potential for a little bit of zoom
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And what is that pen worth to you? If you want a big screen go for this guy right here
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The S8 Plus you don't need the pen if you're an artist. I apologize
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I'm not speaking to you directly if you're one of those guys with with the pen inside the spreadsheet
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I'm not speaking to you either I'm speaking to everybody else You probably won't use it as much as you think you will now
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I understand what Samsung's doing here with the note 8 I mean all everybody's talking about this next-generation Apple device
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It's going to be expensive. The rumors are sitting around a thousand bucks. They're putting themselves into that marketplace
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You can't blame them. Plus, the original retail cost, the cost that's still on Samsung.com for the S8 Plus is $825
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So maybe this has a little bit more to do with just buying a device the minute it comes out on pre-order versus getting the S version phone
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which comes out before the Note. That's the value point. You just get more for your money
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If you got unlimited cash, fine, pick up the note, whatever, maybe you use those features
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But I really think the responsible recommendation coming from me right now is the S8 Plus or the S8
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If you want to know more about either of those phones, you can go watch the videos that I made about them
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What can I say? I got to be honest with you guys. Alright, so I'm going to put links to these devices down in the description of this video, make the right choice
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A lot of times we make these videos and we don't even really tell you what we're thinking
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I wanted to change that with this one. I wanted to tell you which is the best one to get, in my opinion, for most people
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So there you have it. Don't buy the new Note. Get yourself an S8+. You'll be happier
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You'll spend your cash on something better. Or you'll just save it. I don't know. Get a college education or something
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Also, I know you're wondering, why do they look so pretty? These are courtesy of D brand
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If you don't know them, I'm kind of amazed at this point. But these guys, they'll let you personalize your device regardless of which one you choose
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They'll even sell you a skin for the Note 8, even though I just told you not to buy it
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Ultimately it's up to you. It's your money at the end of the day, but definitely put a skin on it I mean gives you a little more grip a little bit of protection
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You can still wireless charge through it. You don't have the bulk of a case. You know the game check them out as well
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It's all down in the description. Thanks for watching
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