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samsung's galaxy note 7 was such an incredible step forward for Android

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phone design as a whole that i like many people

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couldn't help but get wrapped up in a whirlwind romance

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but like the bad girl who lights your world on fire

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then lights your house on fire our relationship was over as fast as it

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began so is the note 8

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a note 7 with the arsonist tendencies

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removed and is that even enough a year

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later let's find out

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immediately obvious feature of the note 8 is the same nearly bezel-less design

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and 18 and a half by nine aspect ratio OLED screen is the galaxy s8 but

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bigger indeed at 6.3 inches this is the

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biggest screen they've ever crammed into a note device and i want to get this out

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of the way very early in the video whether you prefer the default more

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vivid color profile or the more true to the original content developer mode srgb

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tweaked one content consumption on this device is an

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unbelievable experience if you love scrolling vertically then whether

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it's photos or text you'll be seeing more of it and bigger than ever before

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and i'm not sure if they planned it this way

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but the perfect black levels of the OLED screen makes 21x9 content appear as

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though it has a perfectly even frame around it that's super small it's less

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like watching a movie on your phone and more like holding a movie in your hand

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unfortunately you'll also be holding the audio in your hand

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even apple has finally implemented earpiece assisted stereo sound so what's

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the excuse samsung is this just a courageous move to assume

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that most users who give a crap about sound are using bluetooth or headphones

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at this point that's possible but it still really

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detracts from what could be what i would describe as the near

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perfect mobile movie watching experience

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let's talk about handling i praised the note 7's hold ability with my

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fun-sized hands and some of the same ergonomic tweaks

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return here notably the two-sided curved glass and

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very similar 75 millimeter width with

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nice flat sides that give you a little bit more edge to hold on to

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but the taller screen comes at a cost here

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the note 8 weighs so much more than its predecessor that even though i haven't

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held one of those in months it was obvious to me the first time i touched

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it and it hurts accessibility of both

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top of the screen ui elements like the compose button in samsung's sms app and

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the rear-facing fingerprint sensor from a natural holding position which is

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another disappointment every note device has had something

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noteworthy about it that has set it apart from the s line

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a balls to the wall CPU epic expandability something

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with the note 7 it was the iris scanner which is back and it's pretty handy when

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i'm not outside and it works but what i was really hoping for was the

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rumored under screen fingerprint sensor to bring that back to the front of the

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device and instead of that i got

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i don't know what did i get well compared to the s8 plus it's the

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same 10 nanometer CPU same GPU uh we got

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six gigs of RAM versus four on the micro sd expandable 64 gig storage version and

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i guess we got a dual camera system so it better be a pretty amazing camera

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then right well i'm not going to complain because

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the s8 and iphone 7 are already as good as i feel is reasonable to ask of a cell

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phone at this point anything else is icing and to be clear

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it's better samsung's color science still isn't as

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true to life as apple's but in a way that will probably appeal to lots of

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mainstream folks and i definitely appreciate the easy configuration and

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advanced control options available in their app finally as a daily samsung user their

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lightning fast double tap camera launch continues to allow me to capture

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precious moments with my kids and pets that i would otherwise miss

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it's just that i'm not an artistic photo

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taker meaning that their post-processing blur effect

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on top of looking unnatural next to true bokeh

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doesn't do much for me i super appreciate the 2x optical zoom and the

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optical image stabilization on both of the 12 megapixel rear cameras

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but overall a dual camera system wasn't enough to sell me on the iphone 7 plus

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so it's not enough here and in samsung's case the photos from the zoom camera are

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significantly softer than the wide so a fair bit of the difference can often be

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made up with digital zoom anyway okay then what about the style

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excuse me uh s pen well what to say about that it's cool

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you can highlight text for translation uh sketch or jot down difficult to input

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things like math formulas more accurately and with less latency than

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ever before and they've added a whack of cool features for it including notably

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the ability to jot down up to a hundred pages of memos

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without ever turning your screen on thanks to the always-on OLED display

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i just personally find that not all

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but much of what it does can be easily accomplished with my fingers in the time

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that it takes to remove the s pen from its holster adjust my grip and start

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using it it's certainly not something that i

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would personally give up 200 milliamp hours of battery life for it if given

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the choice which is a drag because getting back to

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our s8 plus versus note comparison that is one difference along with price

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that favors the s8 plus battery life on

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the phone that can do it all is just not

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that impressive something samsung seems to be aware of given that it ships with

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a battery saving resolution downscaling tweak enabled by default

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raising the question of why they bother putting a

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2960x1440 screen on it in the first place and speaking of things i wish they

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hadn't included a non-reprogrammable dedicated button for

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their digital assistant bixby let's say for a minute that i love bixby

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let's say i was blown away by the way that you can basically execute macros on

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your phone i would still understand the point of view of people who think that a

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computer vision based shopping feature that can't recognize a bloody iphone

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doesn't need a dedicated button and i would still lobby samsung to look past

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their own arrogance to the demands of their customers a significant percentage

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of which have gone out of their way to download some janky third-party app in

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order to be able to remap the thing

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so then nutshell time i still mostly like the tweaks in the

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latest iteration of touchwiz screenshot and clipboard management is epic and

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samsung's keyboard prediction is actually better than ever

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but especially at this price i can't help but notice that samsung played it

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really safe this time no squeeze input

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no dolby atmos no built-in sundial no quantum leap forward

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in industrial design the note 8 is not

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bad it's arguably the most versatile phone

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on the market it does everything

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it just feels like for some reason when samsung removed the fire from the note 7

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the spark of our love went out too

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one thing i probably should have mentioned in the main video is how freaking slippery the back of the note 8

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is without a sexy dbrand skin it's just

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something that didn't really occur to me until i was shooting this dbrand

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integration after the fact with dbrand you can not only protect your device

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from incidental scuffs and scratches but you can make it look better and hold

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better too i personally recommend their dragon skin but they've also got a wide

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variety of different vibrant colors and textures that are all authentic 3m vinyl

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the best part of dbrand's site is that it takes out the guesswork you just go

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