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Joycon Boyz.
Yo guys, Jonathan here.
Literally just got back from New York to LA
where I had a chance to go hands-on
with the brand-new Galaxy S8.
During the plane ride back
while I probably should have been sleeping,
I spent a majority of the time
reading comments from you guys.
And there were some pretty interesting things
that Samsung really didn't talk about.
Now to quickly answer this question
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Now before I jump into the juiciness,
I wanna preface this video by stating:
I am a fan of the Galaxy S8. I'm excited for it.
It is a beautiful device, but there were definitely
some question marks after yesterday's event.
Firstly and rightfully so,
there is a ton of hype around Samsung's big,
beautiful edge-to-edge Infinity Display.
Which packs a pretty impressive 2960x1440 resolution,
but if you check out the website and look at the fine print
things get a little interesting.
The Galaxy S8 is advertised as a 5.8" quad HD display
which designates 1440p.
Same goes for its older brother, the Galaxy S8+.
But then come the asterisks.
Infinity Display: a bezel-less, full-frontal
Damn, Samsung getting PG13
except you're not getting a full-frontal in PG13
so it's actually rated R edge-to-edge display.
Where it gets juicy though is the next asterisk.
Default resolution is Full HD+ and can be changed
to Quad HD in Settings.
So what this means without all the fancy-pants tech talk
is even though Samsung is clearly
marketing this as a 1440p phone,
out of the box it is set to 1080p.
Now before anyone out there freaks out and
runs to grab a pitchfork,
I personally do not think this is a huge deal.
I thought I was in Canada for a second.
A wild Linus showed up.
- Hello everybody.
I have no idea what video this is.
I'm gonna assume it's about like Apple sh*t or something.
- It's actually Samsung.
- Oh. Okay. Well that's cool too.
- I'll see you in a little bit, man.
Have fun with your thermal paste and overclocking.
I will.
Love you.
Yeah it's a little weird with Samsung
clearly marketing one thing and then delivering another.
Especially in fine print,
but at the end of the day if you want those extra pixels
and that extra screen real-estate,
it is something that you can quickly change in Settings.
I assume the sole reason Samsung is doing this
is simply to manage efficiency in terms of power.
Plus for all we know it could be
part of their eight point battery inspection
to keep those batteries cool.
Now next what I wanna talk about if I'm being honest
is something that blew right past me
in my limited amount of time with the device.
That is regarding the camera.
Specifically, the rear shooter.
We all know the front-facing camera got a solid upgrade
up to eight megapixels better in low light.
So that part is cool.
But if you look closely,
the rear camera is pretty much the same as the Galaxy S7.
Honestly why I think it blew past me
is when I saw 12 megapixels I kinda just assumed
cool they're keeping the megapixels the same,
but they're gonna widen up the aperture.
They're gonna make the pixels bigger.
Insert fancy marketing term here or here.
But in actuality it is pretty much the same.
Now again, I don't necessarily think
that this is a deal breaker.
Maybe if anything it is one less reason to upgrade
from the Galaxy S7 to the S8.
But it is slightly weird that there is
no advancement whatsoever in terms of the rear camera.
On top of that I'm also pretty surprised
that Samsung did not opt to go for two cameras.
Maybe on the Galaxy S8 I could see that,
but it's super surprising
not to see that on the Galaxy S8+.
If you caught my hands-on yesterday,
there really are only two differences between the two.
The Galaxy S8 is a 5.8" display.
Whereas the Galaxy S8+ is a 6.2" display.
But both share the exact same resolution.
The difference however lies in the battery department.
The Galaxy S8 features 3,000 milliamp hours,
but the Galaxy S8+ is slightly larger at 3,500.
So you can clearly see there really isn't
that big of a gap between the two.
And maybe if Samsung would have at least
opted for a dual camera in the S8+,
that would have made sense.
Now lastly, something that personally
I still do not have clarity on.
I've read conflicting reports of
some say yes, some say no.
And that is whether or not
the Galaxy S8 features stereo speakers.
I kinda just assumed no because Samsung did not
talk about it at yesterday's event.
If it were a new feature,
you would think they would wanna brag about it
but they did not say a word.
Still though, I've read some articles that say
yes it does have stereo speakers
and some that say no it clearly does not.
So if you guys have any insight,
definitely let me know as well.
Now flipping the switch and
talking about some things that
you may have missed but on the positive side.
The Galaxy S8 is actually
the first phone to feature Bluetooth 5.0.
What's cool about Bluetooth 5.0 is you can actually
output to two separate Bluetooth devices
and control them individually.
So if you wanted to go to a pair of headphones,
to a Bluetooth speaker, or two headphones,
You can do that.
And I guarantee someone out there is gonna be unimpressed.
Why do I need to output two Bluetooth devices?
And come on man, it is cool.
Maybe you're on an airplane, you're watching a movie.
And you want to stream audio
to two separate Bluetooth headphones.
Maybe one person likes to listen to things loud
and the other has super sensitive ears
and needs to keep things down.
Did you ever think about that?
Lastly, and just to clarify.
Samsung did mention this yesterday.
I just happened not to talk about it in my video
and thought it was worth mentioning still.
With each Galaxy S8 and S8+,
Samsung is including a $100 pair of AKG headphones
which I thought was awesome.
Aside from that, hopefully you enjoyed the video.
Maybe you found it helpful.
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And if you could not get enough of the Galaxy S8 goodness,
make sure you check out that video here.
This is Jonathan and I will catch you guys later.