so I hope you enjoyed that intro portion for the video because Samsung actually
took us on a helicopter ride throughout New York City to check out the landscape
and stuff this is my first time here in the city so it was definitely an awesome
and breathtaking experience with the helicopter and of course I took my scene
100 so the shots that you saw an intro was you know Shaun the scene went under
some of it on the scene 100 and some of it on the note 8 and I have it right
here so let's actually talk about this phone because this has been quite an
exposed excitement a lot of people I've been excited about the note 8 I
certainly was because of course we've you know seen you know things of the
past we're just not gonna talk about that but the noh8 has been interesting
so let's actually dive in into the specs and my initial impressions about this
phone the Graham spectrum keyboard bike Tesoro comes with a new mechanical agile
switch with low profile key caps with super fast response and shorter
actuation distance plus all the customization included with RGB lighting
and macros for a premium user let's kick things off with the display because it's
actually one of the main selling features for the note 8 the signature
infinity edge display has made its way into the device and it looks amazing in
person Galaxy Note fans are definitely going to love this implementation and we
kind of saw it coming especially after all that praise for the s8 in the NSA
plus technically what you're looking at is a 6.3 inch Super AMOLED quad HD Plus
display with a resolution of 29 60 by 1440 so it's slightly bigger than the si
plus we're talking point 1 inches so it's really not that big of a difference
so it features the same 18 by 9 aspect ratio like the Galaxy phones so you'll
be able to get a lot more vertical screen real estate to view content on
now just like any other Samsung flagship phone you're getting ip68 water and dust
resistant rating so that's a great feature to have on the note
we're also having in terms of specs raw performance you're looking at an
octa-core Snapdragon processor with six gigabytes of RAM and 64 gigabytes of
storage there's also expandable storage which is
great so if you wanna expand the storage to 120 gigabytes or even higher you can
definitely do that the front in the back are made out of Gorilla Glass 5 now like
I mentioned in my galaxy si+ review I'm really not a fan of this glossy material
and glossy texture so I guess we'll have to see how it holds up in my full review
so yeah stay tuned for that did I also mention that it comes with a headphone
jack yeah it comes with a headphone jack which is great now one of the reasons
why people consider the note series of Samsung phones compared to the Galaxy
phones or the Galaxy S series of phones is obviously the implementation of s-pen
so in this case we have a really intuitive S Pen and I feel like this is
an excellent tool to take notes if you're you know someone who's just
working on the go but let's talk about some of the more impressive and really
cool features that I found to be really interesting the first thing that caught
my eye was the screen off notes feature so basically what this means is when
your phone is idle you can pull out the Samsung Galaxy S or the S Pen and start
taking notes on the screen by itself so it has a completely black screen so now
since it's an AMOLED display what you're basically seeing is just your notes so
you don't have to physically unlock the phone and start taking notes so it's
like right on time quick you're really quick to taking notes you can take up to
100 pages as far as I know but again this is an awesome feature especially if
you're you know you know if you're about to leave the grocery you can just
quickly jot down when you need to grab or what you need to get but also if
you're you know taking quick notes on making a video like what I am doing you
can definitely do that with this we tried the S Pen features a point seven
millimeter tip but it's what's even interesting is that it can even write on
the phone when it's wet so again it's also high p16 water-resistant so it's
not just a phone alone the S pen's water-resistant which is great all right
so let's talk about the camera or cameras to be more specific on the
Galaxy Note 8 now Samsung decided to go with a dual camera system this time
around first camera is a wide-angle lens with a
12 megapixel sensor and an F 1.7 aperture the second one is a telephoto
lens with a 12 megapixel sensor and an F two-point-four aperture with two times
the optical zoom both of them feature dual pixel autofocus so expect faster
autofocus focusing just like the Samsung Galaxy s8 on the si+ I should also
mention that both these cameras come with optical image stabilization so you
know this should help you compose better low-light shots so you won't really
expect lens blur when you're shooting low light photos but like I said I'm
really excited to test the cameras on the note 8 in my full review so here's
some test samples that I took with the note 8 throughout my helicopter ride
exploring New York City again it was an awesome experience and I was able to
capture those moments with this phone and it was really an interesting
experience I want to hear your thoughts about your initial impressions on the
quality of these pictures you know talk about its dynamic range you know I'm
gonna let you guys judge it for yourselves
one of the main selling features with the dual camera systems is the light
focus feature so essentially when you point at a subject when you switch to
the light focus feature within the camera app you have the ability to blur
out the background so to create this portrait effect so kind of like the
iPhone 7 like currently the effect that what you get with the iPhone 7 plus or
if I recall some other Android flagship phones have that feature this seems like
an interesting approach especially taking advantage of the dual cameras and
creating this blur effect with certain pictures especially if you're taking
portraits like I said expect full thorough in-depth review about the note
8 and I'll definitely cover the cameras and of course these new live focus
features in the full review price-wise you're looking at nine hundred and
thirty dollars us and $12.99 Canadian for the Galaxy Note 8 it is a steep
price to pay for a smart phone and availability such as September the 15th
so you'll be able to pick one up if you really want the best of the best from
Samsung so I want to hear your thoughts on the Galaxy Note 8 are you excited
about it are you not excited about it what are some of the features that
interests you the most you know the s-pen like some of the features that yes
man like the screen off a note-taking feature or the dual cameras like I said
stay tuned for the full review I'll be testing on the phone in thorough depth
in depth but yeah I guess I' Eber with Hardware Canucks thank you so much for
watching and we'll see you in the next one