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.
Yeah
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Ok, 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 great, don't have a charger for that either
Ok so hopefully this sounds ok 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!
Rate my skills with... hold on, 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 5
1.2
Ah, 1.
Hahahaha
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
I got Austin's approval Let's not be rash here and say approval
let's not throw words like that around. Also you know you can zoom in, right, like you can do like something
Oh, I could oh right, I do a little, right, this is a zoom lens
Yeah, so you can do it like that and get actual proper 8k. Oh, there you go. There we go, 8K Wi-Fi password
Booyah!
Thank you everybody
Thank you
[clapping]
Oh man, I finally pull out 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.
In 8K.
You've got to be kidding me... Access to the product demo space... Wait, what?
Hey guys, we can just wait here for a bit
We're trapped on the stairs
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 to mount. Come on, Red!
There's one thing that is epic. An 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 freakin zoo in here
Try and get some... oh, you have gotta be kidding me
Austin's Mag isn't mounting now, either.
I'm gonna have a new Red rant 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 What? It's not?
It's really broken? Look! No, I'm not even joking
It's gotta be your camera, dude. Well, I mean, that's not good news, either.
Holy crap, this is, like, terrible.
Shoot it on an iPhone, man. I'm not using it and just shoot it on the iPhone. Yeah
After four minutes of detecting
We have SSD. Okay...
Time to get some footage before I breathe on it too hard.
Alright, so let's get some initial handling impressions here
Well, Bixby is 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 holdability 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, what?
Wow!
I always get such a kick out of people who carry around cleaning cloths 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? Hahahahaha
Oops, I didn't even drop it! Look, they even installed Linus drop-proof floors. It's carpet!
So we're actually going to lunch with Samsung, but they're giving out bag lunches
So I don't really need the lunch, but check this out. It's like a it's like a Happy Meal
You don't really want the food, but it's the goodie that's important. It's got S-Pens inside.
Okay, I can't find my S-Pen! Our Uber's here...
S-Pen...
What is this? You've got to be kidding me... Hahaha
That's not, wait, what? That's not an S-Pen.
Well one of them's an S-Pen, it's got like a little plastic cover 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.
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 is 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 1/2 by 9 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 boka 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
regrettably un re-mappable 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 to do everything."
But that remains to be seen. I've been promised that I can talk naturally to my device and it will 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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