what's up guys is Kota here and today in
this video we're gonna be talking about
the iPhone 8 and whether or not it's
actually worth that price tag that Apple
is probably gonna put on it in the next
couple of weeks so if you guys haven't
heard the new Apple event for the iPhone
8 is gonna be September 12 invites I've
already gone out people are receiving
them so we should expect to find out
everything that we want to know about
all the products that Apple's gonna be
releasing at the end of the year in that
event so I'm really excited for you know
September 12 I usually do like a live
tweet I might be doing that this year so
if you guys follow me on Twitter you'll
be able to keep up with that if for
whatever reason you can't actually watch
the event like you have a job which most
people do but rather than talking about
everything that's going to be announced
at the event let's talk about the iPhone
8 so I know I put out a video you know
several weeks ago talking about how the
iPhone 8 probably was gonna suck now I
have to eat my words at this point
because I am really really excited about
the iPhone 8 and the the major point
that was really irking me with the
iPhone 8 is having that touch ID sensor
on the back I thought it looked
ridiculous but thankfully they've gotten
rid of that the rumors have shown that
this is definitely not going to happen
and thank God Apple did not go with that
design so for the most part I'm happy
but the thing that is going to deter a
lot of people from getting the iPhone 8
is that price tag so if you guys haven't
heard the new price tag that is rumored
to be for the entry-level of the iPhone
8 is 999 dollars now that sounds like a
lot of money it is a lot of money but
you have to remember that this is a
device that you're gonna be using every
single day like a lot every single day
now key also keep in mind that this
phone right here this is an iPhone 7
plus and it's a 256 gig model and this
was 969 bucks so anybody that purchased
you know an iPhone 7 at 256 gigs really
shouldn't be complaining about an extra
30 bucks but I will say that the new
iPhone 8 does not come with 256 gig at
an entry-level it starts at 64 gigs
according to the rumors and it goes up
from 64 up to 2
56 and then even a reported 512 now 512
gigs is a lot of storage so even with my
256 gig I am not even close to filling
this thing up but one thing that I don't
do is I don't record in 4k on this phone
now if I had a 512 gig phone then I
definitely would be recording everything
that I have in 4k so that's one of the
reasons that possibly you want to pick
up a 512 gig device and of course it's
going to be a lot faster there's reports
saying that the new chip which is the
a11 is literally crushing every single
Android out there so we'll have to see
once we actually get our hands on these
and you know do some benchmarks against
some androids even against the iPhone 7
to see how much of a difference we're
gonna get with that a 11 chip but I
can't guarantee you that it's going to
be a whole lot faster than what we have
on the iPhone 7 right now next is facial
recognition so this is something that
I'm kind of I think it sounds cool
but I'm not quite sure yet if I'm gonna
be completely on board with facial
recognition just because I really like
touch ID and they are apparently
completely removing touch ID for facial
recognition so I'm hoping that facial
recognition will still work for Apple
pay and hopefully or I'm almost positive
it's going to be secure because apples
always secure with everything that they
do but it's just one of those things
where there's a lot of unknowns around
facial recognition how it's going to
work and where it's going to work and if
it's going to work with Apple pay that's
another thing that I'm just gonna have
to wait and see once I actually get my
hands on the device now what about
wireless charging well everybody calls
it wireless charging but it's not
necessarily Wireless this is going to be
more inductive charging which is very
similar or is exactly like what your
Apple watch would do so it'll be a
magnet put your phone on the magnet and
it's going to charge it now how fast
that's going to charge we don't know yet
it might not be incredibly quick but I
can't tell you how excited I'm gonna be
if I have you know just something that I
can put my phone on without having to
plug it in and it's going to charge the
device even if it charges it slow I'm
still excited about it because if I'm
sitting on my computer at my desk or at
work and if I have just a little pad
just put my phone on it and it's
charging while I'm working then I'm
gonna be happy with that
now something I am very excited about
and something that I've been doing a lot
of research on is a Ark it a Ark it
looks awesome all the applications that
people are demoing and just betas
they're coming out or just showing you
exactly what you can do with a Ark it
some of the things like I don't even
that's you don't even think about it
would be helpful for but these people
are coming up with these ideas that are
going to literally I think revolutionize
how you use your device and how
augmented reality is perceived because I
think there's going to be a ton of
awesome things that people are going to
be doing you know this time next year
with a our kid I think it's gonna be
awesome so just having that type of
functionality in your iPhone 8 to me
that's probably almost worth the upgrade
in and of itself hopefully I'm not
eating my words there and it's not like
a flop I don't I don't think you could
possibly be a flop but I think it's
gonna be pretty sweet
now it's also a possibility that the
iPhone 8 is going to be compatible with
the Apple pencil that would be pretty
cool too now I don't have an Apple
pencil and I've thought about getting
one for a long time and I might just get
one just because I mean if it does come
out with the iPhone 8 and the Apple
pencil works with the iPhone 8 I
guarantee you there's gonna be a
shortage of Apple pencils so if you
think there's a possibility that the
iPhone 8 is going to have Apple pencil
capabilities I would suggest you pick
one up right now of course only if you
think it's worth it next is the OLED
screen so if you guys haven't messed
with OLED before I can tell you right
now that it's amazing I love it I love
OLED you get those deep deep dark blacks
basically every single pixel can turn
itself off so rather than having a
backlit display you can actually turn
off every single pixel by themself
individually so that's what's gonna get
you the deepest and darkest black so o
le D is for organic light-emitting diode
so if you guys don't know anything about
it I'd actually cover quite a bit of a
led in a TV review that I did quite some
time back I'll put a link in description
below if you guys want to check it out
that's still the TV that I use in my
living room I have to say
that I absolutely love it it makes
everything look great
so I'm really excited about having that
on my iPhone just to see the difference
between the iPhone 7 and the iPhone 8 in
terms of display quality not to mention
that OLED display is actually going to
save battery life so there are rumors
that we're going to get a bigger battery
in the iPhone 8 and it's going to be
more efficient because it's not gonna
have a backlit display so with OLED you
get a better display and you get more
battery life that seems like a homerun
to me now every single year Apple comes
out with a camera upgrade I guarantee
you they're not gonna have the exact
same camera from the iPhone 7 in the
iPhone 8 there's probably gonna be some
really big improvements with the iPhone
8 there's even been some research in iOS
11 as well as the home pod files showing
that there is new software around iOS 11
in the software for the camera so
basically what the software is going to
do just from what we've found so far is
be able to determine what you're
basically pointing your phone at so if
you're pointing at you know a sunset
it's going to change what the color
contrast filter all that stuff does and
it's gonna make it look like it would if
you know you had a DSLR and you were
changing all these settings with
brightness contrast you know aperture
all that stuff and it's going to
automatically do all this stuff
depending on what type of scene you're
pointed at not to mention just that but
also you know fast moving things so
it'll detect if you know you're watching
your kid play soccer and they're running
across and it'll determine that
something's moving really quick okay
we're gonna have to make the shutter
speed really quick that way we get a
clearer picture so things like that are
going to come with the iPhone 8 and
these are all being referred to as smart
camera features now what type of
upgrades are we going to see on top of
that it's hard to say right now and it
wouldn't surprise me at all since Apple
has done this before in the past with
the iPhone 7 even that the iPhone 8 is
going to have some type of high-end
feature that the iPhone 7s does not have
so very similar to what you saw with the
iPhone 7 and 7 plus so with the iPhone 7
plus you have the dual lens where you
can basically zoom in to two times and
still get that really clear picture and
you also have portrait mode with the
iPhone 7 plus with the iPhone 7 you have
neither of those so I would expect
something very similar to that in the
iPhone 8 as well there's also rumors of
a brand new color so there is black
there's silver and then there's a new
copper gold which in my opinion actually
looks a whole lot better than the rose
gold that we saw previously but I don't
know it's still a little too pink
reddish for me copper it's not quite
copper if it was like a hardcore copper
I think I would be more into it it looks
really good don't get me wrong it's
still think it looks really good I just
don't think it's one that I'm gonna pick
up I'll probably end up with the black
one just because I don't know that's
what I always end up getting but all the
colors look really good now a color that
I still stand by one that I brought up
several times before is I wish they
would do a black and gold iPhone if they
would do a black and gold iPhone I
guarantee that thing would sell out I
just think it looks really really
awesome I think some people don't like
it for sure
but for the most part I think a lot of
people would totally be down for a black
and gold phone I know I would I'd be
picking it up day one
now it's also reported that we're not
gonna get a bump in memory so with the
iPhone 8 we're gonna have three gigs of
RAM but one thing we are going to get is
a higher end haptic engine so what this
would allow it to do is create more
complex tactile vibrations which is
gonna be very helpful because we're not
gonna have that touch ID button anymore
we're not gonna have a home button
anymore it's gonna be completely glass
all on the front no more home button
like we're used to on all previous
models of the iPhone so again I know I
said that the iPhone 8 might suck I'm a
liar I think I didn't mean to at the
time I really did think that I was like
totally bummed about the iPhone 8 but
now we're so close to the event
September 12th and then September 15th
is probably when you're going to be able
to pre-order and then September 22nd is
when you're gonna actually get your
phone so I'm getting really excited
about the iPhone 8 I hope you guys are
getting excited about it too if I were
to answer is this phone worth a thousand
dollars I would say I spent over a
thousand dollars on this one right here
with tax and everything it's only gonna
be thirty dollars more than my iPhone 7
plus with 256 gigs of memory so yes I
would say it is worth it now of course I
want to know if you guys think this
iPhone eight is going to be worth $1000
now
keep in mind that the thousand dollars
is going to get you a 64 gigabyte iPhone
8 of course it's gonna get more
expensive the higher the storage
capacity goes up so at the 256 gig it's
going to be $1,100 and at the 512 gig
it's gonna be $1,200 so up to $1,200 if
we're talking about this is Mac Book
pricing range at this point so do you
think that it's worth a minimum of
$1,000 all right guys that's all I got
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