Sounds like the demo note 8 that store had was busted. My sister has a note 8 and it is smooth. No lag at all.
Now as for its awkward size that's a personal preference.
But the performance of the note 8 is one of the best.
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Sounds like the demo note 8 that store had was busted. My sister has a note 8 and it is smooth. No lag at all.
Now as for its awkward size that's a personal preference.
But the performance of the note 8 is one of the best.
I have an iphone 6 and a samsung note 8 - I like and use them both. I don't find the note 8 laggy at all and it fits in my relatively small hands a little better than the iphone 8+. I will probably upgrade the iphone 6 to next year's iphone - but I like using both android and iphone - I don't find one superior to the other for my uses.
Hi Mr. B,
I have the Note 8 and iPhone 8. As someone else already mentioned here, those Samsung demo phones are impossible to use because the demo keeps interrupting what you are trying to experience, just like the demo phones at AT&T.....terrible, impossible actually to get a feeling for the device.
There is absolutely positively zero and I mean zero lag anywhere in the OS of the Note 8.
As far as awkward to hold...the Note 8 is narrower than the iPhone 7+ so it should have been easier to hold. The Note 8 is taller though.
The Note 8 camera is instantaneous and yes the colors are over saturated by default but you can change that.
Yes the speaker on the Note 8 kinda sucks, the dual speakers on the iPhone are much better.
The iPhone 8 I just bought yesterday is going back Monday, I do NOT like iOS 11 at all and the scrolling lag evident almost everywhere in the OS is exactly like the iPhone 7 I had that ran 10.3.3. So to me its very very crystal clear Apple has no intentions to fix it.
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My one day old iPhone 8 is stuttering and lagging really bad too, so did the display 8's in the Apple Store. Really kinda sad and embarrassing for Apple.
So 6gb doesn’t really make a difference?
I read the note 8 wasn’t selling that well, sort of makes sense.
There are many posters in the alternative section that have returned their note 8 for other android or iOS devices.
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I want to point out guys that I also used the demo version of the iPhone 7+ and it was still smoother than the Note 8.
That 7+ has been sitting there for 7 months prior to the Note 8 being installed in that kiosk.
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This is something that people tell me all the time when I compare phones.. “ you rely on Apple to dictate what gets installed into your phone ? “
Well, yeah. I don’t want bad apps to be installed on my phone that can potentially compromise its performance or battery life.
I want my phone to have first-time-out-of-the-box performance 1.5 years after I first power it on. Samsung phones don’t do that unless you’re constantly baby sitting it. The demo version I used is a testimate to that.
The Note 8 has 6GB of ram. Dude that’s as powerful as a computer. No way should the camera even flicker once while using it.
My 7 plus which has been dropped, ran over, over heated a bunch of times, left in the desert for 4 days in the sun ( went to Vegas and lost it while 4 wheeling ) screen cracked in bottom corner from my St.Bernard thinking it was a chew to etc be able to be smoother and the camera much more silky than a 2 month old state of the art flagship store demo phone. Makes no sense whatsoever.
This phone is rock solid. I am never going to get rid of it lol. No way will a Samsung be able to survive everything my 7+ has been through.
Unless I root it and become it’s personal Janitor then yeah maybe. But I don’t have time for that nor interested.
That 7+ has been sitting there for 7 months prior to the Note 8 being installed in that kiosk.
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This is something that people tell me all the time when I compare phones.. “ you rely on Apple to dictate what gets installed into your phone ? “
Well, yeah. I don’t want bad apps to be installed on my phone that can potentially compromise its performance or battery life.
I want my phone to have first-time-out-of-the-box performance 1.5 years after I first power it on. Samsung phones don’t do that unless you’re constantly baby sitting it. The demo version I used is a testimate to that.
The Note 8 has 6GB of ram. Dude that’s as powerful as a computer. No way should the camera even flicker once while using it.
My 7 plus which has been dropped, ran over, over heated a bunch of times, left in the desert for 4 days in the sun ( went to Vegas and lost it while 4 wheeling ) screen cracked in bottom corner from my St.Bernard thinking it was a chew to etc be able to be smoother and the camera much more silky than a 2 month old state of the art flagship store demo phone. Makes no sense whatsoever.
This phone is rock solid. I am never going to get rid of it lol. No way will a Samsung be able to survive everything my 7+ has been through.
Unless I root it and become it’s personal Janitor then yeah maybe. But I don’t have time for that nor interested.
Never noticed lag in the s8 honestly, but I’ve only messed with my friend’s (haven’t even seen a note 8 yet); we traveled to Japan together this summer so I had used the camera in it a number of times, more than any other feature or part of the phone. My worst phone I’ve used to date, when it comes to lag was the iPhone 6 Plus. To this day I regret keeping the thing a full year.
Ots possible there was something going on with that display unit? My wife had a dud of an iPhone 7. It was awful. Bad reception. Battery wouldn’t last the day (if it did it was st single digits), within the last month the gps stopped working (map would spin erratically), screen would lock up completely at random times (sometimes take a full minute to respond). I wouldn’t believe it if I didn’t see it. Apple saw it and said there was nothing wrong with it. After being insistent enough they offered to do an out of warranty replacement; thanks but that’s not a favor lol. She stuck out the year, for the 8, and is over the moon. Battery is now at 55% end of day, she can actually use the phone at work because she gets reception, and everything is fine. Why do I point all this out? If my situation had me deciding the quality of the iPhone overall we would never be going back. You did that over a few minutes with a kiosk model of a phone activating the camera. Just some food for thought.
As far as babysitting the phone, I guess that’s in the eye of the beholder. My work phone is and android, about two years old, I think original retail was less than an iPhone, and it still performs fine. Nothing is being installed in it that I’m not expressly choosifnto install. But I don’t know you and so maybe you would have a tendency to install a whole lot of random (for lack of better words) apps? I have a couple dozen and I stick to that. As always, to each their own.
Fwiw the note is very big. Very very big. About as big as a phone gets before being called a tablet. If size was what you were concerned about I’d look at the galaxy s8 or s8 plus. Those are more comparable to the iPhone X in probably every way. The note 8 will absolutely dwarf the x both in your hands and in terms of screen real estate.
Either way I hope you enjoy the X. Doesn’t really matter what anyone here thinks in terms of what you want anyway.
Ots possible there was something going on with that display unit? My wife had a dud of an iPhone 7. It was awful. Bad reception. Battery wouldn’t last the day (if it did it was st single digits), within the last month the gps stopped working (map would spin erratically), screen would lock up completely at random times (sometimes take a full minute to respond). I wouldn’t believe it if I didn’t see it. Apple saw it and said there was nothing wrong with it. After being insistent enough they offered to do an out of warranty replacement; thanks but that’s not a favor lol. She stuck out the year, for the 8, and is over the moon. Battery is now at 55% end of day, she can actually use the phone at work because she gets reception, and everything is fine. Why do I point all this out? If my situation had me deciding the quality of the iPhone overall we would never be going back. You did that over a few minutes with a kiosk model of a phone activating the camera. Just some food for thought.
As far as babysitting the phone, I guess that’s in the eye of the beholder. My work phone is and android, about two years old, I think original retail was less than an iPhone, and it still performs fine. Nothing is being installed in it that I’m not expressly choosifnto install. But I don’t know you and so maybe you would have a tendency to install a whole lot of random (for lack of better words) apps? I have a couple dozen and I stick to that. As always, to each their own.
Fwiw the note is very big. Very very big. About as big as a phone gets before being called a tablet. If size was what you were concerned about I’d look at the galaxy s8 or s8 plus. Those are more comparable to the iPhone X in probably every way. The note 8 will absolutely dwarf the x both in your hands and in terms of screen real estate.
Either way I hope you enjoy the X. Doesn’t really matter what anyone here thinks in terms of what you want anyway.
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I had the Note 8 for a month. Absolutely no issues. It was fast and fluid. Camera was great also. You can’t trust demo units. People abuse them and mess them up.
I switched to the 8 plus due mostly for iMessage and others. For me iOS is what I always return to not even sure why I switch lol. I do have stuttering but the updates keep smoothing it out. Apple is faster at updates than Samsung so that’s a plus and I have no worries. Get what you prefer. So many great choices out there.
I switched to the 8 plus due mostly for iMessage and others. For me iOS is what I always return to not even sure why I switch lol. I do have stuttering but the updates keep smoothing it out. Apple is faster at updates than Samsung so that’s a plus and I have no worries. Get what you prefer. So many great choices out there.
Was there anything specifically you did not like about the Note 8? Or what its strongest features were?
That's the choice then. I am comfortable babysitting my device and generally have the time to do it. It's maintenance like with a computer (that lots of people never do). Even with my 6s I have to do it some times. You aren't wrong and I respect your thoughts on the matter. We just see it differently.
Spend all that money on a brand new device and you STILL have to work on it after the fact to get it to work well?
No thanks.