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Samsung Reveals Galaxy Note 8 With Dual Rear Cameras and 6.3-Inch AMOLED 'Infinity Display'

I watched until the complete garbage they were talking about the camera. The arrogance was just coming over as being really petty.

Revolutionary camera feature blah blah blah ... oh Dual OIS ... yaaaay ...

The video comparison though of iPhone 7 vs Note 8 was awful. If they shook the iPhone anymore the person would of thrown it. Sooo tacky.
 
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jamesrick80 said:
Its nothing not beautiful about the Note 8. Enjoy your ugly notch on the iphone 8. The nerve to criticize a device that simply has any iphone beat.
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Umm the iPhone 8 has not been released yet - how can you say this has "any iPhone beat". I do recall the S8 still cannot outperform an iPhone 7Plus and that phone is over a year old.

You might be getting a bit too enthusiastic here.

I will admit it looks nice and has a nice screen - yet it runs Android. So that puts it below an iPhone for me.
 
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MacFather said:
Nice hardware, terrible software.
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Have you tried os from samsung?
[doublepost=1503511338][/doublepost]Phone is nice but keynote was lame. The woman was hot until they demostrated the dex with digital camera showing her big nose. I like samsung but their matching price with apple is suicidal. I don't believe samsung has that kind of respect power to put the price close to 1k.
 
cgsnipinva said:
Umm the iPhone 8 has not been released yet - how can you say this has "any iPhone beat". I do recall the S8 still cannot outperform an iPhone 7Plus and that phone is over a year old.

You might be getting a bit too enthusiastic here.

I will admit it looks nice and has a nice screen - yet it runs Android. So that puts it below an iPhone for me.
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Wow performance is arbitrary on any modern device when most phones do not use their full power due to needing to conserve battery life. Performance has not been a issue on iOS nor android modern phones for a long time.

On another note, if the iphone has all of that performance and power. It should be utilized. The note 8 at least lets you have a desktop experience, s pen experience, and a VR experience which makes the power it has useful. You guys will update to the iphone 9 next year never using the so-called power that the iphone 8 had....now thats laughable.
 
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To those complaining about the tall device:

It can split-screen multitask, like the last three generations (and the iPhone still can't).

The extra real-estate is most welcome in my book.

My company is replacing my Note5 and it'll be difficult for me not to choose this over the iPhone.

I have Macs at home, but PCs at work and need and want a lot of control on my device.

But I'll wait to see what Apple does before I make my decision: Better Device vs Better Ecosystem (at home at least).
 
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cracksoup said:
Yeah no thanks. The iPhone 6 has literally better RAM management with 1GB of RAM than Sammy has with 6GB of RAM. It's embarrassing at this point. Looks good though.
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EDIT: Let me edit my original post as I got a lot of sh#t thrown my way for claiming that the iPhone 6 has better RAM management. Shut up and watch this
 
jamesrick80 said:
If you were a past note 7 owner, you get a discount up to $425.00 when you trade in a old device. How cost effective is that for you? Most of us past note 7 users can get this discount.
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Theres a reason why the s pen has a dedicated slot. I'm sure the apple pencil has a greater chance of getting lost if it wasnt so gigantic like the pre-school fat crayons.
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Nice answers!
You should get a discount if you had a note 7, by selling the note 7 to customers they endangered customers life and there was a lot of hassle getting your money back if if you returned it.
So 4 million former note 7 users get a discount! Great! That probably is the reason why people moving from another smartphone to the note 8 have to pay that much more, for little.
 
cracksoup said:
16 apps and the iPhone 6S held 14 of them in memory.
EDIT: Sorry it held 13 of them.
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Never said the S7 could hold more, at least in a rapid succession, just that RAM isn’t a problem with it. In real world use where you use each app for hours will not hold 14 apps in the RAM. Like for example if you had 5 safari tabs open with that, it’d quit most of those apps for it, or in a game where the ram spiked, it’d close them in a second.
 
Sedulous said:
As others have already said, looks nice but does not seem like it would actually be nice to use.
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The way I see it, if you take a consumer who only uses/experiences Android, that's all they know or have been subjected to. So they wouldn't know if the software would be laggy or slow compared to iOS. So the consumer is likely perfectly fine using Android because they have no experience with any other operating software.

If you have a consumer who has experience with both Android and iOS, then they can formulate opinion on what they like and dislike about both operating platforms.
 
jamesrick80 said:
I could never use iOS again. Thats such a restricted OS to remain in. You guys suffer but enjoy your limitations at the same time ironically. Its almost like you are brainwashed and will accept anything apple gives although they seem to remove more than what they give lately.
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All those restrictions you mention are what keep application quality high, updates smooth, and it includes an integrated ecosystem from desktop to tablets, and to TV.

You point to everyone here as being fan boys but your posts sounds like the unreasoned rants of a fan boy.
 
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ValO said:
Ok, we can agree to disagree.
But it is almost the same phone as the s8 that was released 5 months ago, for a steep price and has to remain competetive for a year until the next note. Technically it is an s8 that was released 5 months ago. And the placement next to the lenses of the fingerprintreader is a pain, face recog and irisscanning are still the same and very receptive to fraud. So feedback of consumers, reviewers have not lead to improvements.
Sorry, not enough.
The g6 vs v30 is not the apropiate equation.
V30 has an oled instead of lcd of the g6, and a snapdragon 835 instead of the older version snapdragon of the g6, a 16mp camera instead of a 13mp and a better aparture, a .3 inch bigger screen, smaller bezels, better bezel ratio, design, etc.
And a rumored price of 699 us.
I think it is a fine improvement over the g6. Other than de note over the s8.
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Well, the S7 to the Note 7 wasn't a huge upgrade either. People happily purchased the Note 7 nevertheless before the battery fiasco. Samsung isn't making that many stark differences between the S and Note lines as the past. Plus, there are reports saying that the S9 won't even have the fp sensor underneath the OLED panel.

The G6 and V30 is a fair comparison. One is meant to be a spring release while the V line is the fall flagship. There used to be an Optimus and an Optimus G Pro. And of course the V30 will be much more of an upgrade over the G6 because Samsung had a timed exclusivity with the 835 processor. LG is confident enough in its POLED screens to put it on the V30 and could put another on the LG G7. A better camera is fine and all, but the concepts are the same: dual camera with wide angle lens for better photos at the time.

The LG G6 is much aligned with today's Android flagships: 4+ GB RAM, QHD screen, smaller bezels, 18:9 aspect ratio, facial recognition, USB Type C quick charging, IP67 water resistance, dual cameras, big screen, superb build quality.

Considering the LG G6 is encroaching $350 category, it's a great value purchase at this point in time. The V30 has more room to grow because Samsung used AMOLED tech for years. I think the comparison is just fine.
 
cgsnipinva said:
All those restrictions you mention are what keep application quality high, updates smooth, and it includes an integrated ecosystem from desktop to tablets, and to TV.

You point to everyone here as being fan boys but your posts sounds like the unreasoned rants of a fan boy.
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Your best apps are the Google and Microsoft Apps which android already has. What ecosystem are you getting at when the Apple ecosystem doesn't translate well across all boards. If anything, samsung followers have a better ecosystem that integrates across all areas with no hassle. You keep using your outdated iTunes and the Apple TV no one cares about.
 
jamesrick80 said:
Theres a reason why the s pen has a dedicated slot. I'm sure the apple pencil has a greater chance of getting lost if it wasnt so gigantic like the pre-school fat crayons.
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I noticed the phone having a slot. But how many people will remember to put the pen back in the slot? How many people will be in a rush using the pen?

Just a thought here.
 
cracksoup said:
Yeah no thanks. The iPhone 6 has literally better RAM management with 1GB of RAM than Sammy has with 6GB of RAM. It's embarrassing at this point. Looks good though.
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Embarrassing would be constant tab and apps reloading, like the iPhone 6 does. It's not hard to run on 1 GB if you kill and unload everything that isn't currently displayed. Makes for a ****** user experience, let me just look that up in safari, goes back to app and everything has to load and login again.
 
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macsba said:
I noticed the phone having a slot. But how many people will remember to put the pen back in the slot? How many people will be in a rush using the pen?

Just a thought here.
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OMG, do you not know that the s pen has a warning system when the pen is not in the slot are in your hand after a certain period of time. Its been here since I think the Note 4. Please increase your Galaxy Note knowledge. You walk a certain distance away from your s pen, your note will surely warn you with a message and a sound (cant say the same about the apple pencil).
 
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