the iPhone 7s and the iPhone 7s plus are joining like a Freddy vs. Jason sequel
and a good video game movie and the list of things that are never going to be
happening today Apple took the wraps off the iPhone 8 and the iPhone 8 plus the
little brothers perhaps to the flagship iPhone 10 so let me tell you a little bit
about the 8 and the 8 plus first there's kind of a newish design
aesthetically the phones look the same they still have the touch ID button the
same bezels but now they're made of glass to support wireless charging which
I give Apple credit for using the Qi standard and I've been saying for years
please give me a wireless charging and Apple now after years of asking finally
delivered and again nice that it's Qi so most of the wireless charges you may
already have at home will work the screen size is staying the same 4.7 inch
and 5.5 on the 8 and 8 plus respectively the resolutions also appear to be staying
the same if you want a higher res screen and OLED technology you want to look
towards the iPhone 10 so despite the resolution not changing Apple is
bringing the TrueTone display that they debuted with the iPad Pro to the iPhone
line so the screens and the pictures at least should look better than last gens
and these screens are gonna be wrapped in three colors either silver space grey
or a new gold new gold does look really nice
also new here Apple's got stereo speakers that are 25% louder and
supposedly deeper bass and powering the new iPhone 8 and 8 plus is the not surprising
Apple's A11 Bionic chip but what's surprising it's the first Apple designed
GPU and what that's going to mean you should get about 70% faster performance
than the last gen iPhone 7 iPhone 7 plus and that is a gigantic jump in
performance so I mentioned these phones sort of look the same and the cameras
looked the same on both so the iPhone 8's got a single sensor 12 megapixel
where's the iPhone 8 plus has two sensors both of which are 12 megapixel
of course 8 plus is going to support portrait mode but the 8 plus is also gonna support
something new at least in beta called portrait lighting where you can
sort of simulated different lighting environments from your phone it can
do it live you can also take a picture and sort of add those effects afterwards
Apples claiming it's way more than just a filter they also claim it's the best
video that's going to be taken in the smartphone slo-mo's gotten way better at
1080p you can go 240 frame per second which is double the frame
rate of the last gen overall the cameras just look better other things you'd
expect here support for LTE advanced which is a huge deal as we start moving
towards that 5g progression LTE advanced they're going to sort of be the backbone
of 5G what things are gonna fall back to you want to have a phone that supports
that so hats off to Apple for supporting that other things you'd expect like
Bluetooth 5.0 are here as well so pricing and storage sizes so sizes are a
bit different this generation it's either 64 or 256 for both phones then
whether or not you go for the 8 or the 8 plus the 8's gonna start at $699 whereas
the 8 plus is going 100 bucks more at $799 and you're gonna be able to pre-order in
just a few days on September 15th and shipping on my son's birthday September
22nd and of course don't forget about the Big Brother the iPhone 10 coming in
November pre-order starting in October you're thinking that that might be the
phone you want to get we have a whole separate video on that I will link to it
here and down below if you want to check it out
so iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 plus they look like nominal improvements over what we
have with the last gen and it's sort of been true with the S line of phones this
would have been an S phone had Apple not decided to jump and just go for a new
number but nice things are here you got better speakers I got a presumably
better display I would have liked higher resolution
I've got wireless charging and of course the stuff that we liked last gen like
dust and water resistance but is it enough for you to pick up an iPhone 8 or
8 Plus these are not cheap phones and stretch the imagination is it enough to
get you back to Apple there's enough for you to upgrade your last gen phone or
you gonna skip this and wait for the iPhone 10 I love to hear your thoughts on it
I'm not sure what I'm gonna do I think I got a wandering eye for that iPhone 10 but
the iPhone 8 plus does have a bit of appeal to me I like the fact that it's
got a physical touch ID button I'm not yet sold on facial unlocking with face ID
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until next time I'm Jon Rettinger from TechnoBuffalo