Note 8 Reveal, Shot by Linus! He's... Terrible
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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2,052 words · ~10 min read
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oh this is already not going very well so i'm here for the samsung note 8
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launch i forgot my shaving supplies
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and they didn't have a budget to send me with a camera person so i have to figure
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out how to put this camera together oh i wish brandon was here
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the Corsair one features a compact form factor that is fast quiet and you
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guessed it compact check it out through amazon or newegg at the links below
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okay well at least the camera will look good even if the operator doesn't
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i think i've got the audio working i'm not sure the audio level monitoring is
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here but i'd love to play around with this but in my infinite wisdom i didn't
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bring a charger for the batteries so i've got what i've got and besides i've got to be
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over at the event in like
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oh go for eight don't have a charger for that either
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uh okay so hopefully this sounds okay because otherwise i'm screwed i still
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don't know exactly what today's format will be so
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right now i'm just lamenting that i didn't bring a better way to carry this stupid camera around with me all day
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this thing is very heavy and i'm filled with regret right now
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but on a positive side ubisoft followed me on twitter
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i'm famous oh my god okay break my skills with hold on oh
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you're out of focus oh man i can't even use the phone rate my skills on how to
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oh wait i don't know how to use the phone rate my skills on operating the
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red camera out of five 1.2
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uh one
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oh my god there's so many stairs this thing is so heavy
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fortunately for everybody who's with me i've resolved to suffer in silence
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all the silence that's pretty good yes i got austin's approval let's not be
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rash here and say approval it's not throw words like that around i'll see
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you you can zoom in right like you can do like some like oh i could oh right i
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do all right this is a zoom lens yeah so you can do like that and get actual
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proper 8k oh there you go there we go 8k wi-fi password
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thank you everybody thank you
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oh man i finally call up the camera and it's over and now i get to haul it down all the
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stairs it's a good thing i got all that great footage during the presentation
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and ak you've got it thank you
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access to the product demo space auditorium as well
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well come on like this is a concern i'm trying to get me walking on the crazy
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water display and i can't even get my SSD amount come on red
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there's one thing this is epic epic fail
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wow this is a super trippy oh i'm not apparently allowed to be out here well
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everyone else was walking on it it is a freaking zoo in here
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uh try and get some oh you have got to be kidding me
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austin's mag isn't mounting now either yeah
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i'm gonna have a new red rent pretty soon the last one was it's expensive
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the next one's gonna be it doesn't work when you need it to work your mag's not
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detecting dude it's not is it really broken look
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no i'm not even joking it's gonna be your camera dude well i mean that's not good news either
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holy crap this is like terrible
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and not use it and just shoot it on the iphone
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after four minutes of detecting we have SSD okay
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time to get some footage before it i'd breathe on it too hard all right so
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let's get some initial uh handling impressions here
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well bixby's still there so if you were hoping that wasn't then
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you were hoping wrong in fact one of the big things they were
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talking about is how you can use bixby to essentially program like voice
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activated macros which does sound kind of cool although i'd have to spend some
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time with it to evaluate exactly how well it works
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like the note 7 the hold ability is much better than previous notes for me
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thanks to the rounded shape along the edges
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i don't know how people do this whole like filming yourself like i'm back here
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trying to hold it up and keep it in focus this is impossible
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austin you just wrecked my shot again bro i was trying to show off the bixby
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button wow
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wow i always get such a kick out of people
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who carry around cleaning clothes for phones because like i carry around a
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cleaning cloth it's called my shirt
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sucka look at that okay well it didn't do a great job
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yeah i think you're just making it worse wow i think it's is that scratched
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oops i didn't even drop it look they even installed Linus drop proof floors
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this carpet so we're actually going to lunch with
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samsung but they're going out bed lunches
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so i don't really need the lunch but check this out it's like it's like a
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happy meal you don't really want the food but it's the goodie that's that's
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important it's got s-pens inside i can't hey i can't find my s-pen our uber is
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here oh dude
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s-pen what is this
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you've got to be kidding me
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this this that's not what's what it's not an x-men well one of them's an s-pen
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it's got like a little plastic nubbin on it but the other two are just pencils
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well now i feel like an idiot for shooting anything back at the event this
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place is way cooler check this out it's pretty cool and eber's here too and
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we've got our own phones to run around and shoot b-roll with so as long as the
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camera's working then hopefully i'll get some more footage here good news the camera's working and
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the more serious setting is gonna bring about a more serious tone to the rest of
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the video let's talk about some actual impressions here so number one
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ergonomics a lot of what was good about the note 7 returns like the note 7 this
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is a phablet that is actually holdable even with my tiny lady hands
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part of that is due to the fact that the sides are curved on both the front and
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the back and another part of it is actually due to this flat part that
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they've got on both the left and right side it gives it a little bit more grip
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around the edges and i personally really like the change
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other changes the screen it's still the 18 and a half by nine aspect ratio that
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i personally absolutely loved on the galaxy s8
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just more of it whether you're scrolling through you know long walls of text or
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your twitter or instagram feed or watching wide aspect ratio content like
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brandon's recent review of the red weapon 8k camera
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there's just more of it to love i'm a huge fan i absolutely love the taller
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size with that said it does affect ergonomics a little bit and i'm probably
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not the only one who was really hoping that samsung was going to deliver an
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under screen fingerprint sensor on this guy rather than the one at the back
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because it takes me a couple shuffles to get up there to unlock the phone another
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improvement on the screen though is the always-on functionality so i checked
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this out on the show floor but now you can actually create up to a hundred
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pages of notes just on your lock screen
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in a way that consumes very little power and allows you to quickly jot down like
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a tracking number or phone number or whatever else the case may be
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the camera is already generating some mixed feedback the telephoto lens which
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has a 2x optical zoom does not capture images that are nearly
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as sharp as the wide angle but for me personally i don't mind the approach
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because with dual capture you've got the option to do the whole like adjust the
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background blur bokeh thing in post which is neat if you're into that kind
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of artsy stuff but it's really not my bag but for me what's cool about dual
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capture is the fact that i don't really have to compromise so i can try and
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capture the close-up but if it
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kind of looks soft or doesn't look as good or i got the framing kind of wrong
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then at least i can fall back to the wide angle shot and know that i've
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captured the moment which is far more important for me when it comes to cell
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phone cameras on the subject of things that matter to
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me styluses generally not so much
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the note 7 was my first note device and i had precious little time with it
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before the recall so i never really have gotten in the habit of using a stylus
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but apparently this one's better than ever with more pressure
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levels and lower latency so i look forward to you know kind of tinkering
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around with it over the next couple of weeks while i work on my full review
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and on that subject bixby voice has finally launched in
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canada so when i did my s8 review bixby seemed pretty freaking pointless just a
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a regrettably un remappable button on the side that i would always hit by
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accident and that would annoy me hopefully i'll change my mind their
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pitch for it is like pretty hardcore they're like yeah you can change your Wi-Fi settings you can adjust your screen
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brightness it can do everything but uh that remains to be seen i've been
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promised that i can talk naturally to my device and it'll behave in a way that
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i'd expect a lot of times and it's never really come through but one thing that's
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gotten my attention is apparently the ability to program bixby with like
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macros so you can tell it to
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take a picture save it to a particular album and open up a photo editing
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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
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it i did my best without a camera person
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and editor which is not really my forte
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