So there are three new iPhones that are being released this year. The iPhone 8 the iPhone 8 Plus and that major
redesign: the iPhone 10. Now everyone just wants the iPhone 10 obviously.
It's the best iPhone that Apple release this year
The best-looking one and the most advanced one when it comes to, you know, technology features and everything. But it's way way way
too expensive. It starts at a thousand Dollars or a thousand Pounds in the UK and it's actually even more than that in other
countries. So what about the iPhone 8? It has mostly the same specs and
mostly the same features as the iPhone 10
But it's also cheaper, it's much cheaper than the iPhone 10 so if you're coming from, let's say an iPhone
7, should you actually upgrade to the iPhone 8? Is it worth the upgrade?
But what about if you're coming from something older, like an iPhone 6S and such? So here's everything you need to know
between The iPhone 8, the iPhone 7.
So yeah everything in terms of design, specs,
display, special features, capacity, price. Everything you need to know - battery - covered in this video so grab some snacks and enjoy!
Okay so starting off with the design first. Design-wise the iPhone 8 has almost the exact same design as the iPhone 7
So the only difference is the glass back which Apple claims that it's the most durable glass in a smartphone. Now I'm not exactly sure
what they mean by durable, because It can mean, you know, durable when it comes to drops, so impact
resistance, or It can be durable when it comes to scratches. So I'm not sure which one of these Apple actually means.
We'll have to see
in a Few Days. Now another difference is when it comes to the colors. So the iPhone 7 comes, well, used to come in six
colors so Black, Jet Black, Silver, Gold
Rose Gold and also a new Red color. Now the iPhone 8 and the iPhone 8 Plus, they actually come in three colors. So only three colors, we
have Black, or Space gray, then Silver and a new Gold color Which actually think looks much, much better than the old Gold and
Rose Gold color options. Now when it comes to the dimensions, the iPhone 8 is
Actually both thicker and heavier than the iPhone 7. So the iPhone 8 is now
7.3mm thick versus 7.1 - the iPhone 7 was, and the iPhone 8 plus is now
7.5mm thick versus 7.3 - the iPhone 7 Plus was and weight-wise the iPhone 8 now weighs in at
148 grams versus
138 grams and the iPhone 8 Plus weighs in at 202 grams, versus 188 grams on the iPhone 7 Plus.
So what does this all mean? Well,
Basically only new cases for the iPhone 8. So if you have some really tight cases that you used on the iPhone 7
you will need new cases, but if you have some silicone cases
that were a bit loose - those might still fit. But you will most likely need new cases. But overall design-wise,
the iPhone 8 is just an old design. So it's essentially the 4th generation - the 4th generation iPhone 6
essentially. So this could be called the iPhone 6S
SS
essentially. And when you compare this design to something like a Samsung Galaxy S8, an S8+ or Note 8, or even the iPhone 10
The iPhone 8 looks so old and outdated. So design-wise I would say that this is a really strong reason not to upgrade.
Because you're not getting anything new except for, obviously, the glass back.
Which i do personally like - I actually prefer having a glass back than an Aluminum back.
But that's maybe, that's just me. Most people actually prefer having an Aluminum back because you don't get smudges, you don't get
scratches that easily and it's also more durable. Let me know in the comments by the way: a glass back or
Aluminum back on phone. Which one would you best prefer? Now moving on to section no. two, we have the display.
So we actually have a few changes when it comes to the display. But first I just want to talk about
what remained the same. So display size is the same. 4.7 Inches on the iPhone 8
5.5 on the 8 Plus - same as with the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus.
Now when it comes to the display resolution, we have
1334 by 750 on the iPhone 8, which gives us a ppi of
328 and 1920 by 1080 on the iPhone 8 Plus. So same as on the iPhone 7 Plus which gives us a ppi of
401. Now we do get one display improvement and
that's a True Tone Display on the iPhone 8. So same as we have on the iPad Pros - the 2017 iPad Pros or
2016 9.7 Inches iPad Pro. It basically adjusts the color temperature of the display based on the current lighting
conditions. So it's a pretty cool feature to have, it's not that, you know, obviously a promotional display a
120 hertz, the display panel Would have been much more useful.
But you know this one is one of those features that's, you know, pretty nice to have. Moving on to the camera, we
finally have some pretty big changes here. So the front-facing camera actually remained the same so we have the exact same
front-facing camera as on the iPhone 7 - so 12 megapixel sensor on both
f.22 aperture and then 1080P video recording Up to 30 frames per second but the back facing camera actually got a
few pretty big changes. So the first one is in terms of video.
We're getting 4K video at 60 frames per second which is,
this is massive. So 4K video at 60 frames per second, this is something that
well no other phones can do. So this is the first phone in the world that supports it. Now the Note 8 will be getting
a software update to enable 4K 60, but it's not out yet in all regions.
So that's coming soon. But yeah iPhone 8 which is getting released this Friday, this is going to be the first phone in the world
to support 4K video at 60 frames per second. And what's even more interesting about
supporting 4k at 60 is that not even a lot of cameras
support it. So one example would be the Panasonic GH5, which by the way, i'm using to record this video with
and this one can do 4K 60, but it's like a 2,000 Pound camera. So,
obviously this thing is expensive compared to an iPhone - an iPhone 8. So it's
almost double the price and the iPhone 8 is a phone. Now this is because of that Apple A11 processor which I'm going to get
in more detail soon. But now let's talk about a few more additions to the camera. So,
the camera on the iPhone 8 now supports 24P video recordings of 24 frames per second. So if you want to get that cinematic
look, you can already do that straight from the camera app, you don't have to download a Third-Party App so this is pretty useful
when it comes to cinematography and videography. And also speaking of video, Slow Motion got some pretty big updates. So now the iPhone 8 can do
1080P and up to 240 frames per second. Whereas the iPhone 7 was limited to
720P and up to 240 frames per second or 1080p at
120. So yeah, we are getting some big updates when it comes to slow motion and then another big update is the sensor
itself. So the sensor has been improved. It's a brand new sensor and
Apple said that it actually lets up to 83% more light into the camera, so yes much better low-light photography
Thanks to adding a new sensor and the colors and everything do you look more vibrant on the iPhone 8 than on the iPhone 7.
So.
The iPhone 8 also comes with something called a Smart Camera which I'm going to cover in a second. And besides this the flash has
also been improved so we had a True Tone Flash on both. But on the iPhone 8 we get something called True Tone Flash with Slow Sync.
So what it does is that It syncs up with a short speed on the camera and
basically all the shots that you take with the flash in low light are gonna look
much more natural than the ones on the iPhone 7 for example. And then finally, we also have a pretty unique feature on the iPhone
8 and that's Portrait Lighting. So this one basically eliminates
the background so you can add some sort of, like a studio type look and feel to your photos so you can change the light.
It looks pretty interesting. It seems to work pretty well from what I've seen and
other than that, we have no changes to the cameras. So by the way we still don't
have Optical Image Stabilization on the zoomed lens, on a telephoto lens on the iPhone 8 Plus.
So same as on iPhone 7 Plus when we have Optical Image Stabilization on the regular lens of the dual camera module. So if you
take shots with the zoomed lens, they're gonna be, you know, more shaky and
lowlights it's pretty bad on the zoom lens. So yeah, no changes when it comes to cameras.
Except for these. Next up let's move on to the specs.
So in terms of the RAM, we got the same - the exact same amount of RAM on both of these phones.
So on the iPhone 8, we have two Gigabytes of RAM same as on the iPhone 7, and 3 Gigabytes of RAM on the iPhone 8 Plus same as
on the iPhone 7 Plus.
So the biggest difference when it comes to specs and performance is in terms of that new Apple A11 processor. So A10 on the iPhone 7,
A11 on the iPhone 8. Now the A10 was already crazy powerful
but the Apple A11 is even more insane. So it's a 6 core processor now, but all cores are actually independently addressable. And
by the way these are the Geek Bench scores of the Apple A11 chip and they actually, if they're actually higher
than a 13-Inch MacBook Pro - which is crazy.
Now the iPhone 7 was already really powerful so it was comparable to a 2015 13-Inch MacBook
Pro. So both of these phones are
really really fast and crazy powerful. Okay but why would you actually need so much performance in a phone?
Well you probably don't. I mean most people just use their phones for, you know, social media like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat,
Web Browsing and so on. Sometimes even for YouTube videos, but nothing really demanding like Music Production or
4K Video Editing which by the way, you can do both on both of these phones and
Apple Also said that the Cameras on the iPhone 8 have been optimized for AR by the way. And
that's because of that Apple A11 processor so you should be able to see improved AR on the iPhone 8 Plus
versus on the iPhone 7 Plus for example. Now Moving on to the special features we get a
few new features on the iPhone 8. So actually more than you would expect. The first one is actually Bluetooth 5.0.
So we have finally get Bluetooth 5.0 versus
Bluetooth 4.2 the iPhone 7 and the Bluetooth 5.0 actually has twice the signal strength and the signal
penetration and also a range of up to 200 meters.
Which is really, really impressive. Now something cool about Bluetooth 5.0 is that it can actually
... it lets you connect up to two devices,
audio devices at the same time, so you can listen to two separate Air Pods so to say
and have different songs on both. Now Apple hasn't said anything about this by the way, so
at some point we will see this because obviously
headphones need to support Bluetooth 5.0 as well so to expect an update in the future to both iOS and
updated headphones, Air Pods and so on with Bluetooth 5.0 to support this. Then a second new feature on the iPhone 8 would
be Wireless Charging. Now what's really cool about this is that it actually works with any Qi
Enabled Charger - or Qi - I think that's how you pronounce it. Any Qi enabled chargers, Wireless Charges. So any cheap charger from Amazon
will indeed be supported, which is definitely not something that I was expecting Apple to do. And
also something regarding the display, the iPhone 8 actually supports playback of
Dolby Vision and HDR 10 even though you know, the display cannot actually show
HDR 10 and Dolby Vision
because you know, the only - iPhone 10 can do that. Only the iPhone 10 has a true HDR display. So if your content
would still work on the iPhone 8, but it won't
look as good as on the iPhone 10. Now going back to the Apple A11 chip, the iPhone 8
obviously has the Apple A11 Chip and it's actually called, yeah, Apple A11 Bionic Chip and that's because it has a dedicated Neural Engine.
Which, is found on both the iPhone 10 and the iPhone 8 and the iPhone 8 Plus and
on iPhone 10 it's used for Face ID and Animojis.
But it's not really used on the iPhone 8 other than the Smart Camera which by the way in case you don't know, it basically
analyzes the elements from a scene, and then it adjusts the settings for that specific scene for the camera.
So every single shot that it take, the vibrancy will be increased if needed,
shutter speed will be adjusted much better and more accordingly to that shot
compared to the iPhone 7 for example. But other than that the Neural Engine is not really used for anything yet.
So i do see this being used in the future for maybe of smarter version of Siri I believe, so it's actually a future-proof
feature to have. So,
definitely get the iPhone 8 if you think that Apple will be using this in the future.
No, not really. But it's, you know, it's one of those features that's actually future-proofing your device for future iOS updates.
Ok.
So we've seen the design, the display, the specs, the special features. What about...
What about the battery? Well, the battery in terms of the battery, iPhone 8 actually has a
smaller battery than the iPhone 7. Same applies to the iPhone 8 Plus versus the iPhone 7 Plus. So,
2675mAh on the iPhone 8 Plus versus 2900mAh on iPhone 7 Plus and
1821mAh on the iPhone 8 verses 1960mAh
with the power on the iPhone 7. So quite a big difference to be honest. Now the Apple A11 chip is indeed more power efficient than
the Apple A10 is because it's finally based on a smaller 10nm processor and
so the battery life should be essentially about the same. Now if you go on Apple's website,
they actually say that the battery should be about the same. They don't say exactly the same, they say about the same.
Which means that it's not really as good as on the iPhone 7 - tiny bit of worse. Then the iPhone 8 also supports Quick Charging
so you can charge it in up to 50% in just 30 minutes.
But by the way, that won't work with the included Adapter.
So the Adapter that you get in the box - the power charger/the charger - that won't work.
That won't give you Quick Charging so instead, you have to use a more powerful charger such as, for example, a MacBook Charger with a USB-C to Lightning cable
and in that case you have Quick Charging. So,
the iPhone 8 kinda has Quick Charging, kinda. But not really. Now moving on to the storage options.
The iPhone 7 used to come in 32
128 and then 256 Gigabytes. Now The 256 GB option was indeed removed now.
And the iPhone 8 comes with 64 and 256 - so, two options. Now this is both Good and Bad
on the iPhone 8. It's good that basically the baseline option has been doubled in capacity from 32 to 64.
Which is obviously really good, but it's also bad because if you were using a 128 gigabytes iPhone 7 or 7 Plus like i am,
now you have to upgrade to a 256 iPhone 8. Which by the way is more expensive now than the 128
iPhone 7. Okay so when it comes to the price,
the iPhone 8 is
more expensive than the iPhone 7 was at launch. I'm not sure how many of you have noticed this, but yes the iPhone 8 - more
expensive than the iPhone 7 used to cost when it was launched. So the iPhone 8 now starts at 700 Pounds in UK
Versus 600 Pounds like It was before. So 100 Pounds more expensive which is a pretty big difference,
And yes that's exactly 700 Dollars in US because, you know, Apple now uses a 1:1 conversion ratio for US and UK and
outside UK, it's even more expensive than that. So prices are really really bad right now. And then the iPhone 8 Plus, it starts at 800
Dollars or 800 Pounds. So depending on which model you get, the iPhone 8 is about
almost a hundred Pounds or hundred and twenty Dollars more expensive
than the iPhone 7 was. And the iPhone 7, if you get a browny...
Brand new, because you can buy an iPhone 7, Apple still sells it. It's about 50 Dollars or
50 Pounds cheaper. But it's not cheap enough honestly, for a One-Year-Old smartphone, just fifty Dollars off an iPhone 7 or
fifty Pounds, it's not enough. Okay so in the end, should you upgrade from the iPhone 7 or the iPhone 7 Plus
to the iPhone 8 or the iPhone 8 Plus?
Definitely not. No. Don't, don't upgrade. Seriously, if you want to upgrade
go for the iPhone 10 if you can afford it. If you can Easily afford it. But
just don't get the iPhone 8, it's essentially the same design for four generations
already, and even if it wasn't for, you know, the same design, you're still getting the same
resolution display as back in 2014. I mean come on Apple, everyone else is offering Quad-HD
Displays even you know with the iPhone 10 it's almost Quad-HD,
720P, well just over 720p, on the iPhone 8 and it's still an LCD Display
even though it's the best LCD display on the Market in terms of color reproduction, but then not even to mention those really really thick
front bezels. So even though the iPhone 8 has the features of a 2017 smartphone, it kind of looks like a
2014 smartphone. So i would say, honestly, get a iPhone 10 if you can afford it.
But only if you can easily afford it. Otherwise, just wait until 2018 when the iPhone 10 is gonna be cheaper and
Apple is most likely going to release 2
iPhone Models in 2018 to all th iPhones and
they're gonna remove this design for the iPhone 8
most likely. Now if you have an iPhone 6S or an iPhone 6, i would still say don't upgrade to the iPhone 8 yet. Just
try and get the iPhone 10 if you can afford it or wait until next year. If you have an iPhone 5S or an iPhone 5?
Then yes, an iPhone 8 would be a pretty good option. I still won't recommend it because it's way
too expensive then, you know, for such an old design and such an old display, and
such a low resolution. But if you have like a Carrier Deal,
then the iPhone 8 would be a pretty good choice if you're coming from a 5S or older.
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