- The Galaxy Note8 was announced today.
The latest in the line-up of Note devices.
And Samsung was kind enough
to give me a little time with the device.
And so here is a quick hands-on
of the new Note8 in all of its glory.
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First off, it's easy to tell this device
fits squarely into the same family
as the new S8 and S8+.
With the same now unmistakable Infinity Edge display,
slimmed aspect ratio, glass backing,
and just over all design language.
The screen is a 6.3-inch Quad HD+, AMOLED display,
which makes the screen .1 inches larger than the S8+.
The body is taller than the S8+
but is only a hair wider
giving it a slightly even more
slim feel in the hand.
Some other similarities include
the same home button in the display,
headphone jack located at the bottom of the phone
next to the USB 3.1 Type-C port,
and fingerprint sensor on the back.
A big change you will notice however
when looking at that fingerprint sensor
is there not one but two cameras on the back of the phone.
These dual cameras are 12 megapixels each.
One is a telephoto F/2.4 aperture,
and the other is a wide-angle F/1.7 aperture
that also has the dual pixel auto-focus tech
that makes auto-focusing super fast on these devices.
Each of which are both optically stabilized.
So you have much steadier shots and much steadier videos
which is actually something I kind of appreciate
because it makes me feel like I'm using like a real camera
and just swapping lenses.
I'm not losing all the other features.
I'm just getting the closer shot or the wider shot.
Because of that two-camera set-up,
Samsung also added some of the same
camera trickery that we're used to seeing,
like portrait mode that blurs the background,
and then like a live focus mode
that allows you to change the focus of the photo
while you're taking it.
They also added a mode though that allows you
to take a telephoto shot and a wide shot
at the same time giving you both,
which I think is also kinda neat.
On the left side,
we have our volume buttons and Bixby button.
On the right, we have our power button.
And at the top of the front of the phone,
we have an eight-megapixel F/1.7 aperture selfie cam.
The phone is running Android Nougat
with the same, thankfully, toned down TouchWiz UI
that the S8 and S8+ have.
But what makes the Note device stand out
so much from the other two devices is of course
the pen.
The pen is flushed with the bottom of the phone
and it comes out by pushing on it
to get it to click and eject itself,
which means that it is also locked-in
and is less likely to get lost.
The device will automatically open
at the wheel of pen apps once it's removed,
including a shortcut to take a note,
view notes, take a screenshot, draw on them,
do live messages which is a new feature that allows you
to send drawings to friends through the messaging app,
and it's drawn on their screen as they see it.
Use the pen to highlight text
to be translated easily, et cetera.
My favorite new pen app though,
the simplest one,
off-screen memo.
If you take the pen out while the screen is off,
hold the button on the pen and tap the screen,
it allows you to take notes on the locked screen basically,
which are then saved to the phone.
It's something so simple,
but what it does is it allows you
to instantly take a note.
And sometimes that's just as important
as like instantly needing to take a photo,
and you don't wanna miss the photo,
you don't wanna miss the information
while you're trying to take notes.
And even then you don't have to open an app,
shaves off precious seconds.
Also because it is an AMOLED screen,
that means that it does not take any power
to show black on the screen.
And since this now is doing
kinda white notes on a black screen,
bonus, you're also saving a little bit of power.
Speaking of power, the device has a 3300-milliamp battery
which is 200 milliamp shy of the 3500-milliamp S8+,
but 300 more than the S8.
The device supports Bixby voice, decks,
has a micro SD card slot,
comes with AKG earbuds,
and will be available here in the States
in gray and black on September 15,
and elsewhere in blue and maple gold colors as well.
Pre-orders will start on the 24th of August.
And if you pre-order, you'll get the choice
of a 128-gig micro SD card and fast-charging wireless pad,
or a Gear 360 Camera.
And there you go,
a quick round down of everything
you need to know about the Note 8
besides pricing.
When we were doing this,
they didn't actually tell us pricing.
But now technically that this is live,
we all know the pricing
because the event is happening right now.
Regardless, if you wanna know the pricing,
you can click the link below
to get to a link to the article on my site
which I've updated with the pricing,
which I couldn't do here in the video,
you understand.
But that's it.
I actually think it's really interesting
that this device exists.
I think that's it's a really good line-up
of these three different devices.
There's enough overlap that you feel like
they're all part of the same family,
but there's just enough differences
that people can kinda pick and choose
between these three devices
based on their needs and, well, frankly, their budget.
And there we go.
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of the device, of this video.
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