So I'm gonna get to the video but before lets just play a quick game
how many months ago do you think the iPhone 8 and the 8 Plus came out the answers
is a very surprising at least for me four months ago I had to look it up September
22nd Apple released the iPhone 8 and the iPhone 8 Plus we've had a lot of time to look at
it now a lot of my testing time has been spent admittedly checking out the iPhone
X but I went back and looked at the 8 in the 8 Plus to revisit it see if it's
still the phone but I know a lot of you guys are considering buying is you look
at the iPhone X and you're like so my initial review was that the phones
really surprised me I wasn't expecting that much from the 8 and the 8 Plus and
that's kind of changed a little bit because I started using it then I
started expecting a lot from it the performance on the phone is absolutely
credible I never thought that most modern release iPhones were ever slow
they're always behind you when it came to raw horsepower but iOS was optimized for
the hardware the phone here still feels incredibly fast with iOS 11 boot up is
insanely fast as fast of course you get with things like the iPhone X games
load incredibly quick third-party apps load fast you can throw geekbench
scores all you want but end user experiences what matters the phone still
feels extremely fast the big difference for me coming back to the 8 plus I spent
a lot of my time testing with from the 10 was getting used to touch ID again
I'm so used to not having a home button and got used to using gestures that was
definitely a learning curve but if your coming from an iPhone that wasn't the
iPhone X we're gonna be right at home with this experience touch ID here still
works very well in fact it looks better for me more accurately than Face ID
does but certainly you have to you know use your thumb to do it it was
a bit hard to get used to not having gestures again but after two days it
really wasn't an issue this multitasking very quickly at least how Apple allows
you to multitask with giant air quotes battery life is
also another area where I became extremely impressed with the phone I've
been super disappointed battery life on the iPhone X on the iPhone 8 Plus I can
almost stretch this thing out to two days with normal usage and auto brightness
turned on battery life is damn incredible when it comes to the iPhone
8 Plus and I mentioned battery life before I got the screen because I'm probably
gonna seem like a bit of a hypocrite here and I'm totally aware of that
it's a 1080p screen and you can take that for what you want it's no longer a
best-in-class screen that's like doesn't work great it's still really solid
outdoors picture still a great text still looks crisp you're not seeing any chunkiness
you're not see any pixels cuz it's still more than the eye can see
but it certainly doesn't look as good as a competition especially the equally
priced competition but of course the trade-off you're getting awesome battery
life so again like I said I know it's super critical to be like I want a
higher-risk green and awesome battery life because you give you just clearly
can't have everything as you saw what happens to the iPhone X battery life
but I'd probably sacrifice like a tiny bit of battery to maybe get a higher
resolution screen on it but if you're coming from an older Jen Plus device
you're not gonna lose any difference here on the screen at all it's similar
experience it works well it's true tone display is nice actually I kept it on
here so it boils down to this screen is fine I really love the way the glass
back feel on this generation devices I also really like the color I wish Apple
could decide what the heck color space gray actually was it's like six different
versions in eight different iterations but I liked away Space Gray looks I
really liked her the eggshell white of the silver
I loved that wireless charging is enabled here the Space Gray is definitely
fingerprint magnet so if you go for that color I definitely recommend putting on
a dbrand skin so you get a little bit more grip on it well link to those down
below if you want to check them out my issue with the 8 plus and this is a
minor issue than the design front it's the fourth iteration of the same design
we saw this back from the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus things haven't really changed
that much but if you like that design you're still getting a really good phone
and that's kind of the moral of this whole video you're still getting almost
everything that you get from the iPhone X with a few exceptions certainly the
front-facing camera you're not getting portrait mode you're getting close to
the same rear camera and of course the same speed you
with the iPhone X if you want to save some money you want the latest Apple experience I'm
still really enjoying the iPhone 8 plus but I will say the plus feels gigantic
in my hands so if you don't mind the giant screen size you want to go back
something like the iPhone 8 which it's a whole other discussion when it comes to
the screen on that phone that's the decision up to you it's certainly a
better value if you can save value when it comes to an Apple flagship phone and
you're still getting close to what you get with the iPhone X so let me know
what you guys picked up I know a lot of you guys decided to go for the iPhone 8 or the
8 Plus over the X if you switch to Android it all together and of course hit the
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that's all next time I'm Jon Rettinger from TechnoBuffalo