iPhone 8 / 8+ Review – A PC Hardware Guy’s Perspective
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,662 words · ~8 min read
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the next generation iphone is here man i was like omg i need to go line up
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to get one so that i can no i'm just kidding
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uh d brand dealt with that for me thanks
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bros and uh don't take this the wrong way but
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it is undignified to stand around in
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front of a store like a sucker waiting for the privilege to buy
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a new gadget i mean okay yeah
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but if it's like a super cool gadget then it's
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totally different the iphone 8 and the iphone 8 plus
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just aren't that cool which is what i'm going to talk about
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after i thank cyberpower for sponsoring
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link below
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tldr apple's a talent was busy making
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the iphone 10. i mean it's not like the
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engineers haven't been doing things over the last couple of years both the 8 and
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the 8 plus are packing the all-new 6
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core a11 processor they have apple's
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first ever in-house designed GPU an incredible accomplishment by the way and
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they've got more storage on the base models than ever before not to mention
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here is where my iphone 6's screen buckled yes i actually had it happen
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while i was carrying it around for mp3 player duties in my backpack and that is
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totally not a thing anymore apple's design team on the other hand
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has clearly had other priorities i mean you are not going to tell me that they
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spent a year deciding to get rid of my favorite color are you
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no you're not so in a nutshell then the iphone 8 and 8
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plus are what apple would normally call a
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7s no sexy new form factor just updated
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guts and some features like a revolutionary glass
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back for qi wireless charging man do they really think our memories
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are that short anyway basically i'm not going to spend a ton
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of time on the hardware other than to say that most people
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didn't really need a 7s the battery did last longer for me than
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my 7 but aside from edge case workloads
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like video encoding most people would be
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very hard pressed to notice a speed difference between a seven and an eight
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even comparing them side by side you can only see the difference in loading times
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for quite large apps and it's just not
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feelable in day-to-day use the camera system is better though
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selfies seem to be a bit of a side grade rather than an upgrade but as for the
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rear 12 megapixel shooter it's got
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even more frames per second in slow motion which is cool if you're into that
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kind of stuff and in low light the viewfinder is much smoother thanks
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probably to the faster processor on the subject of low light in this low
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light shot you can see that it retained more detail in the brushed finish of the
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logitech logo on my keyboard compared to the 7 and in this high contrast shot
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with direct sunlight and very hard shadows the improved resolution is very
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obvious in the chain around the cat's neck and from having been there in
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person the coloration is more true to life so they get kudos for that
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the display also got an upgrade it's still lcd with wide color gamut support
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not OLED like the 10 but it's more
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better and it's got this true tone mode that's supposed to adapt to ambient
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lighting conditions to look more natural but from my experience just made the
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screen look dingen yellow all the time and this is kind of a curious one they
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added support for HDR video content even
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though apple specifically says that it is not an HDR display so it appears that
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on netflix anyway the new iphone takes
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the hdr10 or dolby vision encoded stream
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then like backwards converts it to
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this display why they would do that is inexplicable
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to me but in terms of results it ends up looking
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subjectively better in some cases and worse in others
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one thing that i'll say was different for me this time around with the iphone
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is that i spent a lot more time with the plus model than i have in the past
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i still don't like the form factor it's just too big for me but the way that
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some apps utilize the extra screen space ipad style and the
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spectacular battery life are fairly compelling selling points
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even if i'm not too keen on the dual lens camera
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fake bokeh really doesn't do much for me and like
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the note 8 the telephoto camera is so much softer that it doesn't look that
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much better to me than a digital punch in on the wide angle lens
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so that's it the new iphone everyone
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it's a bit of a non-story and appears to just be apple's strategy to keep overall
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unit sales from dropping while OLED panel supply is too tight to produce all
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the iphone 10s that they need so why is this video still going
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i'll tell you why because iOS 11 is
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flipping awesome and i want to talk about that now
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i don't actually remember the last time that i really
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noticed a software update like this going into this video i watched apple's
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keynote but i'm gonna ignore the headline stuff like augmented realities
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tldr it's neat but call me in a year when the apps are a lot better and i'm
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gonna ignore anything that i found in a comprehensive list of all the new
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features all the stuff i'm gonna mention now
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i found naturally while using the device completely intuitively the way it's
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supposed to be control center is now a single
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customizable page with media controls
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and networking controls built in and this super intuitive force touch
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integration that makes it just so deliciously functional it even finally
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has a quick access button for mobile hotspot
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so the only thing missing there is a hard press on the wi-fi icon to see
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nearby networks and connect to them and maybe a vpn toggle i'm psyched on the
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built-in screen record functionality my local radio hosts were especially
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fixated on this one apparently they were excited that you could record uh
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snapchats or something i don't know anything about that but
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it'll definitely make doing these reviews a lot easier the end dictation button has been
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relocated a couple of centimeters to the right making it easier to stop it when
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you're holding your phone in one hand haptic feedback when starting and
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stopping recording in the camera app is a godsend
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though at this time i don't know if this feature is actually getting ported to
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older phones it's not doing it on the iphone 7. the new quick start feature is amazing
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letting you set up your new iphone with the old one just by moving them close to
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each other it should be noted that probably for security reasons it doesn't
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carry over third-party credentials but weirdly twitter actually worked for
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a few minutes before prompting me to re-enter my password anyway it did save
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me a fair bit of time and screenshot management is so much better with
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cropping markup sharing and discarding
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of screenshots whose only use was to show them to someone else all handled on
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one screen there are some things i'd still like to see changed sure like
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volume adjustment for ringer notifications and media playback still
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isn't intuitively separated like it is on Android
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i don't consider enabling apple pay to be an integral part of setting up the
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phone so go away obnoxious red marker and finally
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how is it even possible that we're still not allowed to rearrange icons on the
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home screen to our heart's content but
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overall as someone who already liked iOS and Android pretty well equally
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it went far further than i expected to the point
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where oreo has its work cut out for it
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so i really like this phone i am back on iOS
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for now even if i still use wired headphones
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like a caveman and i don't prefer the extra baggage
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speaking of extra baggage if you've got your iphone bumping around
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in your baggage you don't want it to get scratched so why don't you cover it with
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a sexy dbrand skin they've got a ton of
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different colors and textures and they use only high quality authentic 3m vinyl
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not to mention their unrivaled precision like everything fits flippin
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awesome their customer service is spectacular
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and if you don't know if your device is going to look good with a dbrand skin
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they have an amazing configurator on their site that allows you to just swap
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on different skins and set it up exactly
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the way you like your device to be their products are affordable and they ship
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worldwide check them out at the link below
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