oh this is already not going very well so i'm here for the samsung note 8
launch i forgot my shaving supplies
and they didn't have a budget to send me with a camera person so i have to figure
out how to put this camera together oh i wish brandon was here
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okay well at least the camera will look good even if the operator doesn't
i think i've got the audio working i'm not sure the audio level monitoring is
here but i'd love to play around with this but in my infinite wisdom i didn't
bring a charger for the batteries so i've got what i've got and besides i've got to be
over at the event in like
oh go for eight don't have a charger for that either
uh okay so hopefully this sounds okay because otherwise i'm screwed i still
don't know exactly what today's format will be so
right now i'm just lamenting that i didn't bring a better way to carry this stupid camera around with me all day
this thing is very heavy and i'm filled with regret right now
but on a positive side ubisoft followed me on twitter
i'm famous oh my god okay break my skills with hold on oh
you're out of focus oh man i can't even use the phone rate my skills on how to
oh wait i don't know how to use the phone rate my skills on operating the
red camera out of five 1.2
uh one
oh my god there's so many stairs this thing is so heavy
fortunately for everybody who's with me i've resolved to suffer in silence
all the silence that's pretty good yes i got austin's approval let's not be
rash here and say approval it's not throw words like that around i'll see
you you can zoom in right like you can do like some like oh i could oh right i
do all right this is a zoom lens yeah so you can do like that and get actual
proper 8k oh there you go there we go 8k wi-fi password
thank you everybody thank you
oh man i finally call up the camera and it's over and now i get to haul it down all the
stairs it's a good thing i got all that great footage during the presentation
and ak you've got it thank you
access to the product demo space auditorium as well
well come on like this is a concern i'm trying to get me walking on the crazy
water display and i can't even get my SSD amount come on red
there's one thing this is epic epic fail
wow this is a super trippy oh i'm not apparently allowed to be out here well
everyone else was walking on it it is a freaking zoo in here
uh try and get some oh you have got to be kidding me
austin's mag isn't mounting now either yeah
i'm gonna have a new red rent pretty soon the last one was it's expensive
the next one's gonna be it doesn't work when you need it to work your mag's not
detecting dude it's not is it really broken look
no i'm not even joking it's gonna be your camera dude well i mean that's not good news either
holy crap this is like terrible
and not use it and just shoot it on the iphone
after four minutes of detecting we have SSD okay
time to get some footage before it i'd breathe on it too hard all right so
let's get some initial uh handling impressions here
well bixby's still there so if you were hoping that wasn't then
you were hoping wrong in fact one of the big things they were
talking about is how you can use bixby to essentially program like voice
activated macros which does sound kind of cool although i'd have to spend some
time with it to evaluate exactly how well it works
like the note 7 the hold ability is much better than previous notes for me
thanks to the rounded shape along the edges
i don't know how people do this whole like filming yourself like i'm back here
trying to hold it up and keep it in focus this is impossible
austin you just wrecked my shot again bro i was trying to show off the bixby
button wow
wow i always get such a kick out of people
who carry around cleaning clothes for phones because like i carry around a
cleaning cloth it's called my shirt
sucka look at that okay well it didn't do a great job
yeah i think you're just making it worse wow i think it's is that scratched
oops i didn't even drop it look they even installed Linus drop proof floors
this carpet so we're actually going to lunch with
samsung but they're going out bed lunches
so i don't really need the lunch but check this out it's like it's like a
happy meal you don't really want the food but it's the goodie that's that's
important it's got s-pens inside i can't hey i can't find my s-pen our uber is
here oh dude
s-pen what is this
you've got to be kidding me
this this that's not what's what it's not an x-men well one of them's an s-pen
it's got like a little plastic nubbin on it but the other two are just pencils
well now i feel like an idiot for shooting anything back at the event this
place is way cooler check this out it's pretty cool and eber's here too and
we've got our own phones to run around and shoot b-roll with so as long as the
camera's working then hopefully i'll get some more footage here good news the camera's working and
the more serious setting is gonna bring about a more serious tone to the rest of
the video let's talk about some actual impressions here so number one
ergonomics a lot of what was good about the note 7 returns like the note 7 this
is a phablet that is actually holdable even with my tiny lady hands
part of that is due to the fact that the sides are curved on both the front and
the back and another part of it is actually due to this flat part that
they've got on both the left and right side it gives it a little bit more grip
around the edges and i personally really like the change
other changes the screen it's still the 18 and a half by nine aspect ratio that
i personally absolutely loved on the galaxy s8
just more of it whether you're scrolling through you know long walls of text or
your twitter or instagram feed or watching wide aspect ratio content like
brandon's recent review of the red weapon 8k camera
there's just more of it to love i'm a huge fan i absolutely love the taller
size with that said it does affect ergonomics a little bit and i'm probably
not the only one who was really hoping that samsung was going to deliver an
under screen fingerprint sensor on this guy rather than the one at the back
because it takes me a couple shuffles to get up there to unlock the phone another
improvement on the screen though is the always-on functionality so i checked
this out on the show floor but now you can actually create up to a hundred
pages of notes just on your lock screen
in a way that consumes very little power and allows you to quickly jot down like
a tracking number or phone number or whatever else the case may be
the camera is already generating some mixed feedback the telephoto lens which
has a 2x optical zoom does not capture images that are nearly
as sharp as the wide angle but for me personally i don't mind the approach
because with dual capture you've got the option to do the whole like adjust the
background blur bokeh thing in post which is neat if you're into that kind
of artsy stuff but it's really not my bag but for me what's cool about dual
capture is the fact that i don't really have to compromise so i can try and
capture the close-up but if it
kind of looks soft or doesn't look as good or i got the framing kind of wrong
then at least i can fall back to the wide angle shot and know that i've
captured the moment which is far more important for me when it comes to cell
phone cameras on the subject of things that matter to
me styluses generally not so much
the note 7 was my first note device and i had precious little time with it
before the recall so i never really have gotten in the habit of using a stylus
but apparently this one's better than ever with more pressure
levels and lower latency so i look forward to you know kind of tinkering
around with it over the next couple of weeks while i work on my full review
and on that subject bixby voice has finally launched in
canada so when i did my s8 review bixby seemed pretty freaking pointless just a
a regrettably un remappable button on the side that i would always hit by
accident and that would annoy me hopefully i'll change my mind their
pitch for it is like pretty hardcore they're like yeah you can change your Wi-Fi settings you can adjust your screen
brightness it can do everything but uh that remains to be seen i've been
promised that i can talk naturally to my device and it'll behave in a way that
i'd expect a lot of times and it's never really come through but one thing that's
gotten my attention is apparently the ability to program bixby with like
macros so you can tell it to
take a picture save it to a particular album and open up a photo editing
program or something like that
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so that's it you guys that's my note 8 initial hands-on i hope you guys enjoyed
it i did my best without a camera person
and editor which is not really my forte
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