Note
8 is available in 4 colors: Midnight Black Deepsea Blue Orchid Gray
and Maple Gold. So lets check out what this phone is like. Samsung
phones are industry leading in terms of build quality and its the same
case for Note 8.
ABOUT INTERFACE:
On
the phone's front and back is curved glass and the corners are a bit
more square than the S8 lineup which gives the Note 8 a more rectangular
look I personally really like this look Alongside this, the phone also
has IP68 dust and water resistance. Right side has the power button Left
side has the volume buttons and Bixby button On the top is the Hybrid
SIM slot and on the bottom are headphone jack USB-C Port Speaker grill
and S-Pen Slot. Holding the phone in the hand, you can tell that this is
a solid phone and it really feels like a top-notch flagship device. and
spending more than Rs.100,000, this will be very important for most
users. Due to its size, most people were expecting that it would be very
difficult to use the Fingerprint sensor but as I told you in our Note 8
Impressions video, I didn't really have any major issues using the
fingerprint sensor.
DISPLAY:
Talking
about the display, Note 8 has Samsung's Infinity Display Its a 6.3 inch
Quad-HD Super AMOLED display and in my opinion, currently this is the
best display in the industry. Its default resolution is 1080p, but you
can change this to Quad-HD in the settings. I personally feel that
Full-HD is sufficient for daily usage and Quad-HD also drains the
battery much faster. Note 8 does not have the thinnest bezels in the
industry but its look is currently my favourite. Yes there are phones
out there with better screen to body ratios but I feel that this phone's
bezels look quite beautiful.
PERFORMANCE AND STORAGE:
Talking
about performance, Note 8 has a Snapdragon 835 Processor), 6 GB RAM,
and 64, 128 and 256 GB Storage Options. Alongside this the phone also
has a Hybrid SIM slot in which you can either put a second SIM or a
microSD card. In terms of performance, these are very high end specs.
The phone is very responsive and we did not experience any lag and
having 6 GB of RAM Note 8 can keep a lot of Apps open in the background
and the spent waiting for apps to load is reduced. And in our testing,
there were no instances of any Apps reloading. Note 8 also has a feature
called App Pairs which means you can launch two Apps as a pair and they
launch in split screen. Because of this feature, I have started using
Split Screen and the large screen on this phone makes it even more
useful.
CAMERA:
Lets
now talk about the camera, which is one of the main features On the
front is an 8 MP selfie shooter and now for the first time, Samsung has
included Dual Cameras and Note 8 has 12 MP dual sensors on the back. of
which one is a Wide Angle lens, and the other is a Telephoto Lens. and
both lenses have Optical Image Stabilisation which improves low-light
performance and makes videos more stable. Because of these two lenses,
you also get 2x Optical Zoom which means that zooming will not lead to
quality loss. Note 8 has very good picture quality. Images are sharp and
have good dynamic range but as with all Samsung phones, images are
extra saturated and colours are brighter Some people prefer this and
some people prefer more realistic images like those from iPhone This is a
matter of personal preference but there is no doubt that Note is
packing a very powerful camera. Along with this, Samsung has also
included a 'Live Focus' feature This is the same background blur feature
we see in other Dual Camera phones but in Note 8, you can change the
level of blur Note just before snapping the image but also after taking
the picture, Note 8 gives you the option to change blur level. As a
feature, this works pretty well but I don't use this feature much and I
dont know anyone who uses this or iPhone's portrait mode much either.
BATTERY:
Talking
about the battery, Note 8 has a 3300 mAH battery. Which is smaller than
3500 mAH battery on S8+ but according to our research, despite having a
smaller battery, due software and hardware optimization, Note 8 has
better battery life than the s8+ Empty to full charge took 1 hour 45
minutes whereas empty to half charge took 40 minutes. With full charge
and medium usage, the phone will easily last a day and with heavy use,
you may have to top it up during the day It would have been better if
the battery was 3,500 mAH because Note 8 is for productivity and power
use and the reason for a smaller battery is that space was needed for
the S-Pen and after Note 7, Samsung did not want to take any risks this
time. Despite this, battery life is decent and these days most power
users carry a battery pack with them anyway.
S-PEN:
Lets
now talk about the most unique selling point of the Note 8 which is the
S-Pen. This is the only mainstream global phone that has a stylus and
this is this phone's identity. If you remove the stylus and dual camera,
then this phone is pretty much an S8+ With the S-Pen, you get a few
extra features: You can take a note and pin it to the Always-On display
You can write a Live Message and send it in GIF format With Screen
Write, you can take a screenshot and take notes on it With Smart Select
you can extract images or text form any part of the screen and Samsung
Note with which you can save hand written notes. I really like the
quality of the S-Pen Writing with it is a very smooth experience and
while writing with it, I didn't feel like I was writing on glass. Many
people say that S-Pen's utility is limited. and maybe this is true but
the S-Pen is something most people have never experienced on their phone
and maybe if you have it on your phone, you might use it more.
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