Trying the Samsung Galaxy S8 #Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin and stay in here

in New York City for the launch of the

Samsung Galaxy s8 the first thing that

jumps out to me is the display so since

I already had a curved edge on the s6 as

well V at 7 but here with the s8 they

really pared down the top and bottom of

the bezel on the bottom instead of

having standard physical keys with a

fingerprint sensor instead you know I'll

have Android soft keys and that's not

exactly anything new most Android phones

have already been doing this for quite a

while what is kind of interesting is

that the home button actually has some

tactic feedback so when you press it you

actually feel the phone vibrate a little

bit like force touch up top everything

has been crammed into the tiny bezel so

now I do have an upgraded front-facing

camera but you also have all the sensors

up here including the new iris scanner

now this was originally launched with

the galaxy note 7 and we all know how

well that went but it is a nice

additional feature to be able to use not

only iris scanning but as well as facial

recognition to be able to unlock your

phone it's not going to be a secure

something like a password or fingerprint

but it is an option with those smaller

bezels though comes a very weirdly

shaped screen so the resolution is 29 65

1440 and what that means is the screen

is very very tall much more so than a

traditional smartphone so in most apps

it's not a big deal

for example when you're watching a

YouTube video all you'll see is just a

few black bars on the left and right but

I think some apps are still going to

need to be updated to support this sort

of weird screen resolution and we've

seen the same issue with the LG G 6 but

when you're holding in the hand it does

give you extra screen real estate the

screens are the big difference between

the s8 and the s8 plus so the standard

model has a five-point aged display

where the plus bumps that up to 6.2 now

these are huge displays but because they

have such small bezels the phones

themselves are actually not that bad so

for example while the s8 is a little bit

bigger than something like an iPhone 7

the plus is almost the exact same size

as the iPhone 7 plus a little bit taller

not quite so wide considering that

you're getting a much larger display it

actually looks pretty good the screens

themselves look great and you have some

cool features like HDR support but the

real star of the show here is absolutely

how big of a screen they were able to

fit in such a small phone take a look

around the rest of the galaxy s 8 and

you'll see it kind of looks a lot like

the s7 some of the big changes is that

the fingerprint sensor has been moved to

the back of the phone now this is not

exactly a bad idea I especially like

poems like the pixel which put it right

in the middle

but because the s8 puts it right beside

the camera it's a little bit awkward to

get to now

a big deal but expect a lot of

fingerprints on your camera vision Yelp

cameras the Galaxy s8 has the exact same

one from the f7 now it's not a huge

disappointment as the s7 had one of

these best cameras when it came out last

year but that was last year and this

year there were phones like the iPhone

and pixel which absolutely compete with

it to be very Samsung does have some

interesting things going on with

software this year so for example is

constantly taking multiple shots and

sort of merging them to create a better

shot like the pixel does but the fact

remains that this is not going to be a

huge camera upgrade and we just got

kicked out because we were telling faz

when the event was over but no big deal

because there's more to talk about with

the Galaxy s8 one of the big

announcements was Bixby now this is a

virtual assistant very similar to

something like Siri or Cortana or

especially Google assistant what it will

do is the standard voice stuff for

searching that's a list of cards for all

the different activities you have

throughout the day what's a little more

interesting is it has a dedicated Bigsby

button which will pull up all of that

stuff but you can also use the camera to

scan things of course like the infamous

hugely popular Amazon fire phone you can

use this to scan products and buy them

in real time because you know that

worked out really well last time also

I'm kind of salty that they kick this

out something a little bit more

interesting as decks now this is similar

to the Windows Phone continuum feature

and that if you drop the Galaxy s8 on a

dock and connect mouse keyboard and

monitor it turns into a computer sort of

this essentially is running Android apps

and a window desktop so you can think of

it as sort of a weird hybrid I guess I

mean sure it's going to be nice to say

edit a PowerPoint on a display with a

mouse and keyboard versus on your phone

but I'm curious to see how many apps are

actually really going to take advantage

of a bigger screen or even going to be

useful they're powering the galaxy s 8

is either a Snapdragon 835 or Samsung

Exynos octa-core processor what's

interesting about these is they're both

based on the brand new 10 nanometer

process and Samsung love talking about

this on stage essentially what it means

is that the chips are going to be

smaller and either provide more

performance which they do by like 10 to

20 percent but more importantly they're

going to help save battery and that's

important after the disaster that was

the note 7 with its exploding batteries

since link definitely was a little bit

conservative this year so the s7 has a

3000 milliamp hour battery and the plus

has 3500 now that's about what you would

find on the s7 but the difference is the

new phones have much larger displays so

yes that processor should be

power-efficient those displays are

definite going to suck up a lot of Jews

so we'll see how battery life actually

stacks up thankfully we have a lot of

good features in the galaxy s7 so

there's still water resistance with ip68

certification so if you want to go

swimming with your Galaxy s8 you can it

also still has both a USB C as well as a

headphone jack

which is awesome because you know why

wouldn't you not have that on a

smartphone in 2017 the Galaxy s8 will be

available for pre-order starting

tomorrow and it'll be on sale on April

21st in the US so I'm curious what do

you guys think about the Galaxy s8 for

me I think would be nice if it had a

better camera and some less gimmicky

features but that design really does go

a long way don't be sure to let me know

what you guys think in the comments

below anyway guys thank you so much for

watching and I will catch you in the

next one