So it's been about a month since the Note 8 came out and I've been using as
my daily driver for three of those weeks and then in conjunction with an iPhone
8 Plus so I've got a good sense of the phone I know it's nuances I know what
makes it hum and purr and my opinions have changed a little bit from our
review so I thought I'd revisit the Galaxy Note 8 if you haven't picked one
up and maybe help you decide whether or not
you should and if you bought one perhaps or perhaps not justify your purchase so
let's start with the good on the Note 8 holy moly that's 6.3 inch screen is
still absolutely beautiful there sometimes I look at the screen and I'm
still shocked that it's actually on a mobile device it looks like a sticker
the screen is absolutely beautiful black levels are really black it hasn't been
as good that would like in direct sunlight
I usually don't keep out of brightness on on my phones but I had to keep it on
on the Note 8 so I can see it in direct sunlight it kicks all the way up to max
brightness so if use your phone outdoors all the time you might be disappointed
in the screen but if most of your usage is like indoors you're gonna be really
happy with the screen so I didn't use the edge panels at all and surprising to
me in initial review was I didn't really use app pairing either and that was a big
thing for me when I did the review because when I did it for that first week I used
it all the time and part of me just stopped doing the top and bottom multi
tasking just using one app at a time I was a disappointed myself that I didn't
that I didn't use that pairing then I remembered and oh I should probably
use that and I just forget about it again so as much as I thought that's
gonna be a reason to perhaps buy the Note 8 again perhaps sheer laziness or
forgetfulness I did not use it as much as I thought I was going to and speaking
of not using as much as I thought the S Pen that's a big reason why a lot of
people get the note devices they want to have the functionality of the pen I probably
only use a pen maybe ten times throughout my month but it was really
handy to have it those ten times and despite not using the s-pen I always
liked knowing it was there it's kind of like a safety net I started using it a
lot at the beginning to take notes and meetings and then gradually I just
stopped using it like anything sort of over time but having it for shopping
lists having it for annotating screenshots having it for drawing mustaches on
pictures of mark and Ralph we're
helpful I didn't find myself making many gifs or animated pictures on it as often
as I thought I was going to but I really liked having the safety net of the s-pen
I know that's kind of doesn't make that much sense I didn't use it but I like
having it I don't know perhaps I'll use it more as I keep using the phone but I
was shocked that I didn't use it as much as I thought I was going to but what I
did use more than I thought I was going to was the camera so these cameras
are absolute incredible we covered him at length in the review the portrait
mode is absolutely beautiful on here and I used that a tremendous amount I love
this camera in every situation that I took pictures in they always look good
whether it was sort of low-light shots whether not I was in broad daylight
outside at the park wherever pictures always looked good next to the camera
is still that fingerprint sensor and listen I read the comments you guys
think I'm over blowing the location of fingerprint reader you think oh you put
a case on it and you could find it well I don't have a case on this
I got a dragon skin dbrand skin on the back because the black one is a
fingerprint magnet which coincidentally if you want to check out will link to it
down below that fingerprint reader is a joke to me I never use it when I can
find it with my finger it doesn't work all that often I find myself using the
facial scanner and the iris unlock more than I used a fingerprint reader but
perhaps that's a testament to how many different options you got to unlock your
phone if you don't like the location of that or you're left-handed it's hard to
find there are other options but I hope for the next-gen for the s9 they move it
somewhere or get rid of it to put it somewhere I can reach it and
you can yell at me again in in the comments the 3300 milliamp hour battery
my thoughts on battery life it's kind of the same for the review it's good I can
get through a full day which is what matters I wish I could get through like
a day and a half for a day of heavy usage or day of video streaming I do
like having a fast charging that's nice to plug in for 10 or 15 minutes but the
fact that I can just put it on a wireless charger I'm sitting on my
office really alleviates for me a lot of battery concerns other intangibles I
love about the phone always-on display I still really like so before you guys
tell me that Samsung pay is the same as Apple pay and Android pay it does the
same stuff with an extra trick in terminals that don't
except tap the payments so don't take NFC Samsung pay will still work it'll
put out a magnetic fields like your credit card you just hold the next two
terminal making it work almost anywhere so I still really like having Samsung
pay on here the phone is still fast I don't know if it's psychosomatic because
the extra 2 gigs of ram versus the s8 plus 6 gigs of ram is nice probably not
necessary but though I never had any slowdowns there any stutters I didn't
have through of OS lag and some people claim Samsung has in fact I really like
the software that Samsung has on a device now I wish that or you already
who knows when that's gonna come if you want the latest software updates you're
gonna want to look at the Pixel 2 but if you want a phone that's a really overall
good package that's got decent enough battery life and incredible camera a
beautiful screen perhaps a poorly placed fingerprint reader on the back a lot of
other options to unlock your phone get the Note 8 I can still absolutely
recommend in the note 8 so if you haven't tried it try it if you're
thinking about switching just do it their deals to be had right now it's an
incredible phone perhaps my favorite device out there what do you guys think
about the Galaxy Note 8 did I echo your sentiments you guys gonna yelling about
the fingerprint reader I want to know your thoughts in the comments down below
so next time I'm Jon Rettinger from TechnoBuffalo