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some of you have noticed the apple watch on my wrist recently and

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it's true i got so frustrated with Android's

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craptastic power management for background tasks that when i reformatted

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my Android daily driver galaxy s7 and

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started carrying the iphone 7 as a stopgap solution along with a lightning

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to three and a half millimeter adapter i never went back

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but the iphone is far from flawless sure

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symmetry is beauty but the ergonomics leave a lot to be

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desired and iOS works damn well these

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days even for heavy google service users like me

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but it still has redonkulous limitations

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like not being able to move icons around at will

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so then will the galaxy s8 be enough to bring me

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back let's find out

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hp's new omen x line up comes equipped with Intel's seventh generation core i7

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processor check it out at the link in the video description

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meet the galaxy s8 samsung may have lacked the courage to

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remove the three and a half millimeter jack but other than that it's got almost

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everything you'd expect from a 2017 flagship with top of the line specs and

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modern features like usb type-c wireless

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charging and ip68 water resistance

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this is indisputably the finest design

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work ever from samsung's mobile division

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and i remember like it was yesterday being blown away by the quantum leap

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forward that they took with the s6 edge but that was nothing compared to this

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i already liked the curved front and rear glass from the note 7 so i was

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amped to see that return but when i first heard about some of the other

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changes like the taller than usual 18

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and a half by nine aspect ratio and the

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decision to remove the hardware home button that's been a galaxy staple since

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they first blatantly ripped off the iphone seven years ago

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i was pretty skeptical but

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what samsung has done here is amazing

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for reasons that probably aren't immediately apparent

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let's get back to the whole ripping off the iphone conversation

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whether they actually did that all those years ago and to what degree

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still hasn't been resolved but that's what's different with this

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phone no objective person can make that

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argument today both of the s8 and s8 plus are

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significant steps forward from an aging

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iphone design that's been with us for nearly three years now

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the curved front and rear shape that made the note 7 the most holdable

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phablet ever work just as well on the s8 plus and

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then even better on a line of size device like the s8 and this together

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with the tight integration of biometric authentication has managed to change

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long time phone use habits of mine in a matter of hours an impressive feat

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first is the way i access apps

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i've dismissed samsung's previous efforts to make the curved screen useful

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as contrived but as someone with only a handful of

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frequently used apps and basically no friends

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i can now do over 90 of what i would do on my phone including

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capturing screenshots with a simple swipe from the right

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second is the way i unlock my phone

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i don't recommend samsung's uh facial

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method could get a little messy for you if someone uses a picture to unlock your

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phone but there's lots of other options and

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between google's own smart locking based on location and sensor data

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samsung's retina unlock that picks me up a good 60 plus percent of the time

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during normal use and the rear fingerprint sensor it's

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finally gotten to the point where nobody else can pick up my device and just

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start using it but for me i'm not thinking about security while i

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try to use it which is the holy grail of

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biometric security though with that said i still would have

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very much preferred the rumored fingerprint sensor under the on-screen

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home button which leads us then into big change number three the way i interact

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with the phone's home back and multitasking buttons which by

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the way can be rearranged if you want now

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yes i never missed my precious dedicated

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buttons once unlike other Android phones that require

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an extra press to unhide the buttons that then cover up valuable vertical

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scrolling real estate or whatever content it is you're trying to enjoy

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samsung's unique aspect ratio leaves enough room that it never feels like

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they're in the way and even when they're hidden you can still access the home

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button with a hard press from anywhere it is so

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intuitive which isn't to say that there's nothing about the s8 that falls

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behind the iphone apple's 3d touch pressure sensitive screen is just

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so much better aside from the obvious it

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covers the whole screen aspect the quality of the haptic feedback is an

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area that samsung could definitely stand to improve

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and while i'm whining now that apple's fixed it that single bottom speaker

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without stereo backup from the earpiece speaker that's already there just use it

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please is so 2015.

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and furthermore while the 2960x1440

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amoled display has impressive specs like

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HDR support even with video enhancement off and the

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cinema profile selected it still cranks color saturation in a way that might

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appeal to average consumers but that looks very unnatural next to the iphone

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the non-existent improvements to the camera are a sore spot for some people

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but honestly for me i'm not that surprised that in spite of this sensor

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hardware change not much has been done to image quality

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or features here if you were happy with the lightning

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fast if slightly processing heavy rear camera and wide angle selfie lens from

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before then you'll be happy with them on the s8

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and if you weren't then man come on

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it must be hard being so damn difficult to please do you have any idea how hard

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it is to build a 4k video camera that's smaller than your fingernail

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sorry oops i actually didn't mean to put that right over top of the sensor i was

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trying to unlock the phone or maybe i was trying to touch the heart rate

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sensor uh okay so that is one fair

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complaint to samsung's credit the oleophobic

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coating on the camera glass is really good but you will end up with janky

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pictures from time to time due to the unfortunate placement

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of those sensors on either side let's talk software now the nougat

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flavor of touchwiz or is it samsung experience whatever they're calling it

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is still a mixed bag it's lighter and higher performance than ever with some

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fantastic new innovations to app and

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icon management better multitasking a

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gorgeous new theme that makes the screen feel even more spacious than it is a

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crop mode for the extra widescreen that already works on youtube and enough

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great little customizations that i honestly think apple finally has to

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respond with some customizations of their own in the next version of iOS

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there is some bullcrap though that thing where it installs bloatware

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and locks to the first carrier sim you insert well that's back for another

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round of me hating it the always-on display

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is in my mind pretty useless without a more detailed preview like what motorola

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does when you press on the notifications swiping up and swiping down from

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anywhere bringing up the app tray feels like a waste of a gesture to me

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down should bring down your notifications the ambient light sensor

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algorithm needs some serious work it was all over the place in my use and the

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mobile hotspot button has been removed as an option from the quick settings for

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some reason that is as inexplicable as it is infuriating to me

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furthermore samsung's decision to disallow remapping of the bixby button

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is a purely stubborn move that i hope

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they reverse sooner rather than later without being offensive i hope

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i feel a little bad for people whose lives are so predictable that their

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digital assistant manages to do anything more useful than pop up a card from time

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to time with some recent news i don't personally care about digital

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assistance beyond setting a reminder or an alarm and

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neither do a lot of people and if i did

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i would just long press the home button and use google's

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so final answer time will i switch

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this phone's overall usability is

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wonderful almost every objection

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like the way that the bezel-less design makes edge keys a little more difficult

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to reach while typing can be overcome with a pretty simple habit change but

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my main issue with Android battery management remains

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i mean look at this random notification that popped up informing me that gmail

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was sucking back battery what i even went out of my way on this phone

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to only sync up two of my google accounts a pretty typical loadout rather

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than the five plus that are required to manage all of our youtube channels and

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making matters worse than that when i go to investigate further all i get is a

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black hole what kind of broken math is this

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then the next day having changed nothing about the way i'm using the phone i've

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got 30 left at the end of the day with a more normal battery life decreasing

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curve here but equally opaque numbers

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how is this not fixed by now

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yes there are power saving modes but you know what kind of a solution that is

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that's designing a crummy antenna and telling your users they're holding the

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phone wrong i understand that google and samsung can't control the entire app

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ecosystem but at the very least what i'm asking for is functioning tools so i can

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diagnose the issue myself

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so then yes i am switching to it it's really

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gorgeous but the first time this is the hottest thing

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in my pants when my wife walks into the room i'm going back to

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the iphone

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whoa how'd i get over here i guess i must be filming an ad pickup for you

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guessed it d brand dbrand is the place

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to go if you want a wicked awesome looking vinyl skin that fits your device

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and just plain feels great they use high

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quality authentic true textured 3m vinyl on every product they've got unrivaled

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precision they ship worldwide on the cheap and

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if you guys were impressed by the dragon

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skin skin that i had on this phone

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during this video you're not the only one this has got to be their best skin

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yet it looks fantastic i don't know what

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it is is it scales is it burnt wood is

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it freaking it doesn't matter it looks fantastic and dramatically improves the

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grippiness of the phone at the same time so check it out at the link in the video

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description you can use their configurator to see exactly what your

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device will look like before you buy and uh i guess i've really run out of

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talking points here they're nice people or robots as it were

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