Apple iPhone 8 Plus GOLD Unboxing, Setup & What's New By Grant Likes Tech

Positive on grant here welcome back to the channel and happy iPhone day to me now. I know I'm very late to the party here, and I have not been able to unbox this yet, but I'm. Finally, going to unbox, this, the iPhone 8 plus I've, not even seen this in stores I'm, not physically, seeing the iPhone, 8, plus and storage and in person. Obviously I've got the gold version here. I've not seen that, but let's get price out of the way, because that is probably the number one spec for a lot of people and, as you can see here, I've got the 256. Gig version invest 900 for $9 base, plus our great California tax for a grand total of $100036 and 78 cents ouch that hurts just saying it, but it is what it is: it's its basically a thousand dollar phone, and so, if people who we're talking about the iPhone X and saying spending a thousand dollars on that phone folks, if you get the iPhone, eight plus 250 gig version plus tax, you are in the territory of a thousand dollar phone.

Congratulations and that being said, I'm not going to let that spoil this unboxing for me, because I only get to do this once a year for iPhones, and I'm going to enjoy it. So let's go ahead and get this thing open. I do like how Apple is including the pull tab now, so you don't have to use unboxing knives or anything like that barbaric. It's very easy to unbox this thing and let's go ahead and open it and I really don't like how they don't show the phone up top of him. Morris you're really expecting to see the phone.

Instead, we get this card. So let's pull that up with your paperwork and stickers. I'm going to be sure that that's the case, so that is just some people with their sim eject tool from Apple a lot of ejector sims and some other info there and your great Apple stickers, still white, not color, coded to your phone, unfortunately, but really quickly. There is the phone and, as you notice, the box matches the phone color. So it's kind of lay the cream color tint on this box.

It's not a white box. That's kind of cool nice little touches, and also you see that gold shining iPhone sign there. So it's color coded to your phone color most nice and there is the phone there and let's feel this wow that's got some weight to it. I have to admit: that's probably that glass back there. It is adding that bit of weight to it so first impressions, it feels a little heavier than my iPhone 7, plus, and I've been using that for a while, now I pretty much use that almost daily I always use an iPhone and an Android, and so I know.

You know this immediately feels a little heavier and I have to, say first impressions on this gold color, it's pretty cool I was gonna, opt for the silver color, because that looked pretty clean, looked pretty nice with that you know white front face with pretty much a white looking back and just that silver trim that look pretty nice, but gold is owed. The old goat is new again, so you know apples bring back that old gold color, but they can't just bring back gold. They no longer have rose gold, so they kind of have this more bronzes cut bronze, is kind of gold. It's not that yellowish gold! It's not rose gold. Furthermore, it's kind of a bronze is code.

To me, nice trim, they're kind of cop perish actually first impressions under this light- and this is kind of almost say, I, don't know a vintage kind of back here. It's not gold. It's not really pink! Furthermore, it's already orange! You know it's kind of a milky kind of bronze color too. It's kind of got a vintage look to it to me and that camera ring color matched to the color there. So I'm liking.

That and I think the ring around the home button is colored much as well. So let's get this plastic off, Oh beautiful, so I love. How Apple does that ? nice, one piece Ripoff, you don't have stickers on both the front and the back and I got to say you know the general aesthetic, yes has not changed. If I just looked at this from the front, it is definitely knifed on the front has not changed but true up a fashion that ring matches the color code. So that's very nice, and I got to say first impressions, I am digging.

This copper color will see when I get in sunlight or other lighting conditions well how it changes, but under these LED lights, I like that copper I, don't really like that bright, yellow, goad, so I'm definitely liking this gold and an Apple logo. There I think that's under the glass, so hopefully that is and it is won't scratch up like how it has in the past. So that's one positive to having glass and, of course, with glass, you've got less charging welcome to 2017 Apple and the rest of the box is the usual stuff you get from Apple. You get a kind of, let's just say it's a lame charging plug a very slow charging plug here. I, don't know why I don't give you the fast charger in the box.

I know other people have said the same, but really it's got fast. Charging this time give us a fast charger for a thousand bucks. Man, you know, would have been nice. Your typical air pods in this cardboard plastic, no longer that nice plastic case. We used to get your headphone adapter lightning to headphone adapter, because this still does not have the headphone jack and unfortunately, it still does have a lightning port.

You know with fast charging. If you want it, you have to get that type C, brick or that is available for the MacBook, and then he because of that it has a type C port coming out of it. You got a get the type C to lightning adapter cable you have to, buy both those things to get fast charging and I. Don't know why Apple would just would not have gone to type C and just given up lightning they've got type C on their MacBooks. I, don't know why they wouldn't just go to type C here, so you can have a standard type C, cable, they're holding on to lightning, probably because of accessory makers.

You know licensing out the lightning technology to accessory makers, I'm sure that's a moneymaker for Apple. They don't really want to give that up on their biggest seller. The iPhone would have been nice if they transitioned over in the iPhone 10 or the X. Whatever you want to call. If I think that still has a lightning connector, unfortunately, whatever nice, if they just made a clean break with a design as well as a type-c connector, and that one, but that's just wishful thinking and of course you have your standard type, a USB to lightning headphone, cable or cable that you always get with all your iPhones.

So that's it for the unboxing portion. Let's go ahead and get this thing set up, so you've reached the main screen here in typical Apple fashion. You've got hello in many languages, and I'm not tried at iOS 11, because I'm not upgraded. My iPhones or my iPads to iOS 11 I wanted to try Alice 11 brand new on brand-new hardware. Then it's meant to be running on, and I haven't even tried any kind of Iowa's beta, so there's going to be all new for me.

So, let's see if this setup has changed here in iOS press home to open, okay, okay, English- and this is unlocked version. So that's why I know sim was inserted. It's the unlocked version straight from Apple us and, of course you need a sim required to activate your iPhone, for whatever reason we cannot get through the setup without inserting a Sam, so I'll pause the video and be right back. So we've got our sim card inserted. We're going to try this again.

Okay, so we can set up touch ID. So lets kind of see how long this takes here. So we'll set this up in real time. So you can see it's about seven to eight taps there and wants me to adjust my grip, so we'll do that few more taps and done cool, create a passcode, so I've got to enter a verification code if I want to restore from iCloud I'll. Do that right now? Okay, so now that took a while, that's a couple of minutes and I can select my settings for my backup now.

Okay, so now I've set this all up. It took a little while because I restored from iCloud, so that definitely took several minutes there, but we're back all set up here, and it's just restoring a bunch of apps right now. But what I really want to do since this now has a glass back and wireless charging is test out wireless charging, and this is going to be awesome. We've got my Samsung Bosch charger I'm, going to throw an iPhone on the Samsung wireless charger and there you go wireless charging so as you can see charging up. So while it's charging nice feature, unfortunately, it's probably take forever to charge up the iPhone here and that's because it doesn't have fast charging wireless charging like Samsung, which definitely improves the charging speed.

So while convenient it's going to take a while to charge this way so yeah just best for a kind of overnight charging. Wirelessly just throw this on to your nightstand or whatever else before you go to bed no fumbling in the dark. So that's definitely convenience, but it's definitely taken a while wish they had fast wireless charging, I'm thinking a lot of people when they start using their new iPhones they're going to dig the wireless charging, because it's kind of cool just like how we did with Android when you first get it, but after a while I think, I realize going to take too long any gonna rather plug in, but maybe not you know, because Apple iPhones they take a long time to charge up even when they're plugged in so. If you only charge up overnight, I, don't think it's a big deal, but really fast Wallace charge would have been nice, but it is nice that Apple chose to use a standard wireless charging technology like QI. So it's good that it went with an industry standard and then try to invent their own, so good and Apple.

For that and like most people pointing out, we suspect that there'll be a ton of Chi chargers, popping up at Starbucks and everywhere else. Now that iPhones have wireless charging, so that is kind of a positive. You know you've got wireless charging in your phone and whether you got an Android phone or a brand-new iPhone. You should start to see a lot of wireless chargers in public places. More so that's a positive thing.

We can take advantage of that. So try to look at the positive side there, and we can just do a quick comparison with the iPhone 7 plus here. So, as you can see, I had the all-black the matte black version here, not the jet black, so I want to go with something different I haven't had a white iPhone in a long time, I've gone with the all-black for a while now so gone with something different white face. I'd rather have a black face, but it's okay, it's something different and from the back there you go, looks exactly the same. Just I get a glass back here.

Instead, the metal back there on the seven plus. You don't have all this FCC information here. So that's kinda, nice a lot cleaner on the new iPhone, a plus there, but otherwise everything else. The same. You know the button placements in the same for volume and your ringer switch speaker, grills types, lightning, ports already on the bottom, walk same place, SIM card tray power, button, stay in place and ten lines all in the same place.

So like everyone else, normal design change just say that glass back with wireless charge there, and they say it- is the most durable glass on a smartphone. So we'll see about that, we'll see how many people are going to walk around with cracked iPhone, 8 and 8 plus is on both the front the back we'll see. Maybe it is more durable. They say it is aerospace-grade. So hopefully that's true.

Hopefully, if you drop your iPhone you're, not going to be walking around with a fully cracked phone on the front in the back. It's still IP 67 water and dust resistant and certified. So that's like 3 feet for 30 minutes versus 5 feet for 30 minutes, which is IP 68. So it's IP 67, that's the difference! There. Other changes here on the plus you've got an improved camera.

So it's pretty much the same specs, but Apple says it's a different sensor. It's a larger and faster camera sensor, so that's good should let in more light, they've got a new color, filter, and I've heard. Other people have been saying that their photos coming out a little more saturated, so I'll test that and see if I notice, the difference between a 7 plus and how the 8, plus or processing photos now deeper pixels. Don't really know what that really means. They have added some more frame rates here to your video recording options.

So now, actually, let's go check that out. If you go into settings- and this is the thing that still bugs me I'm pretty sure in iOS, 11 I'm going to bet that your camera resolution, a bit of recording resolution, are still in the actual settings menu and not in your camera, app which kind of sucks, because if you want to change on the fly, you've got to exit the camera come to your settings to make that change, and then you have to find it which should be under photos and camera. Actually, that's nice they've separated out East we've caught photos in camera, now just photos and cameras separately and, of course, I tap the wrong one, but there go camera, and we can now record at slow-motion 1080p 240 frames per second. So that's nice. It used to be 720p slow-motion, and now you've got 1080p slow-motion recording.

So I look forward to testing that out and on the main video you've got some additional settings here as well. You got 4k and 24 frames per second, which is nice for that cinematic. Looking video, and you got four kids 60 for that ultra smooth, maybe too much motion to have a video, but it looks very real to life. So this is kind of like your 120 hurt, refresh rate under TV. That really looks kind of creepy, with a lot of motion going on.

I still haven't gotten used to that. That's kind of what for kids 60s for everything to look like, so I think it's gonna, take some getting used to, and that's just going to be a matter of taste I. Think if you're shooting a lot of motion, you're, probably gonna dumb- that down to 30 frames or probably 24 frames per second, but things like shooting, YouTube, videos of phones and stuff, there's, not a lot of motion or human motion. I think for cat6 is going to look pretty cool, so I look forward to testing that out as well. Other changes that Apple has made under the hood is, in their processor.

They've got a brand new, an 11 Bionic processor. It's a hexa-core processor! Really don't like that name.11 Bionic I'm, not really sure that Bionic was necessary, but hey you got a brand it somehow again it's a hex core processor. They say there's for efficiency cores which are up to 40% faster than the previous 810 fusion. The other two cores are performance cores that are supposedly up to 25 percent faster than the 810 fusion. So we'll see I mean this has been benchmarking at MacBook speeds.

So it's definitely add a lot of horsepower under the hood and that's pretty much to power their vision for augmented reality or AR so really need that part of power. Ar. So we'll see what developers do with that AR kit, we saw that virtual or augmented reality game that they were showed in the keynote that looked kind of odd. You know playing games and AR. You have to move around a lot.

Maybe all these kids get some exercise that way, but I don't really see myself doing a lot of that stuff, but I'll definitely test it out when they're out just to see what it's like. I'm open-minded and one more thing probably worth mentioning with that. An 11 by chip is that they have a new performance controller, so it should enable improve power, efficiency and that's gonna, come in handy because they've actually reduced the battery size from 2,900 William hours in the iPhone 7, plus down to 26 75 William hours in this iPhone 8 plus, so they've reduced the battery size a little to packing a little more into the same frame, and there should be some increased power efficiency with this new a11 Bionic chip, so apple says it Nets out to be the same battery life and performance that you're getting from the iPhone 7 plus. So, even though has a smaller battery, none of it is. You should still get the same: better life you're getting on the iPhone, 7 plus, so I'll test that out I've had no problem getting through a full day on my iPhone 7, plus, with usually about 30 percent left, so we'll see what I get here on the iPhone 8 plus.

So hopefully we don't really feel the impact of that drop in battery capacity. But what's also really cool is the architecture here. So now it has a dedicated ISP image signal processor in here and that combined with the 11 chip really enables things like real-time image and light processing. So that's their portrait lighting feature here, that's supposedly in beta from what I've seen not a lot of people are getting good results with it, but I'll test it out, and it should also provide some nicer image quality. Hopefully you know what a dedicated ISP on there, combined with that 11 chip with a new sensor, I'm hoping for notice.

We better photos, but we'll see compared to the iPhone 7 plus. If you know is it's worth upgrading to the plus, just before the cameras alone, who knows other things, are there changes that they have true tone display now, so they not have their true tone technology in the display. So if we go into settings display and brightness, if you now see true tone there, so now everyone likes true tone. What this does are with it off it's going to be kind of blue and that LCD blue kind of tone. All the time when you turn on it adapts to the ambient light, makes it look what Apple says more like kind of natural paper, so it's not so blue, not so bright, it'll adapt to the ambient light to make it a little easier on your eyes, not everyone kind of likes.

This I think it depends on the kind of lighting that you have around, so I'll leave it on for now, I use two-tone, but depending on the lighting, it can get a little. Weird sometimes I turn it off, but that is now there on the iPhone, 8 plus and just some little odds and ends Apple says: they've improved the speaker quality. So these acres are louder here. If they do have that dual speaker on the bottom into the earpiece, so they say there are speakers are not louder here. Other little changes under the hood is that it now has USB 3.0, supposedly the iPhone 7 and some plus one he had used to be 2.0. So a little better USB throughput there.

It's got Bluetooth 5, so that brings it with parody with the other flagships. Bluetooth 5 basically gives you a longer Bluetooth range of up to 800 feet away from your device connected device and the main thing is even connected up to two devices at the same time, so things like two speakers or two headphones. You want to share your headphones with. Somebody doesn't need that dongle and the splitter anymore for wired headphones. You can just have two Bluetooth headphones outputting, the same music same thing with two different speakers in your house, so that's pretty cool with Bluetooth five there.

That just brings it on to parity with some other flagship phones out this year, but that is new in the iPhone A+ and, of course, iOS 11, which you can get on your other iOS devices. You get all the benefits of iOS 11 here on the A+ as well. So all the time are changes under the hood. Then maybe some may have thought we'll see if all those changes add up to an overall, better experience between the A+ and the previous generation 7 plus, but my gut feeling is probably not, and I think this is really more meant for folks who are upgrading from an older iPhone like a 6, 6s or five or even older. You know this will definitely be a very nice upgrade if you don't want to wait for the X or you don't want to spend the extra money for the iPhone 10.

Sorry I think it's a very nice upgrade for folks like that I'm some folks who want the latest and greatest sure go ahead and upgrade it. But you know if you get a 77 plus, probably not necessary, but I do think it's probably a nice upgrade for folks with older, iPhones and I. Think really the naming convention on the iPhone 8 is probably throwing people off I. Think people, you know with it being called iPhone 8. Instead of like a 7s, you know people expecting more of an upgrade than they're getting so maybe if Apple just called it an iPhone 7s, it's got the same incremental upgrades that you would get on every S cycle, iPhone and I.

Don't think people would be too upset about that. I think those incremental upgrades are in line with an sky, upgrade and I think that naming convention is just upsetting some folks or at least giving them some ammunition to get upset at Apple for not getting them a bigger upgrade, especially in design in an iPhone quote-unquote, eight and eight plus. But you are getting that design upgrade in the iPhone 10 or iPhone X that bezel us design. So if you want to wait for that, good luck, getting your hands on one of those, but I think that's going to do it for this unboxing of the iPhone 8 plus. For me, if you have any other questions or comments anything else, you want to see I'm going to do my usual camera comparisons and all that kind of stuff.

But if you've got any other requests, let me know in the comments, and always thanks for watching you.

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