iPhone 8 Plus review By TechRadar

Hello and welcome to the eighth plus review from Schrader we're looking at this new phone from Apple and in many ways it could be the best one they've ever created because it's the plus, which we always think is the best version. So it's got the best battery the biggest screen, etc. , etc. But this year we've got the iPhone X. So the key question is: do you spend this much money on the A+ or do a little more and get the iPhone X? So the main thing about the iPhone 8 plus? Is it looked very similar to Apple's iPhones before the plus variants are very similar shapes your cases will work. For instance, it's still ip67 water-resistant, but the big difference is got a glass back now.

Well, that enables is wireless charging, and it does look a little different. So if you've got the iPhone side-by-side, you will notice a little of a difference, but it's not massive. The shape is still very similar. You still got the camera. Bezel, you've still got that kind of rounded edge, but it's a little sharp on the back, where the two glass and metal bits meet together compared to the iPhone X for the iPhone 10.

If that's what you want to listen to from Apple, the iPhone 8 plus is quite a stay. Design. We've seen this for a good few years, where the X really takes things forward. Now, when it comes to the screen, you're going to think I've. Seen this before and to a degree you have it's a full HD 5.5 inch display LCD, no new tech on offer there, but there are, is a better color. Reproduction involved apples tweets it a little, so the colors are a little wider and there's true tone technology as well.

That means that if you're in a very candlelit situation, I'll be a bit warmer in the daylight, it'll be a little the only brighter a little cooler. Basically, it mimics the situation like you're. Looking at piece of paper. Does it make a difference not really that much you've already had a fairly good screen from the iPhone before and that's present here again? So, let's talk about the way the iPhone, 8 plus works, and the big change here is iOS 11. Yes, you can get this on the older phones, but on the iPhone 8 plus it works the best and that's because of the 11 Bionic chip, which is our name we're very much in favor of because chipsets generally have boring names now, in terms of day to day use.

The a11 hasn't really impressed us in terms of its speed. That's not because it's bad, it's just because iPhones before I've always been really quick, but if you look at our benchmarks, while this thing is incredibly fast, it decimates anything from the Android world and people are gonna, enjoy that if you want some really heavy lifting apps now the way iOS 11 works. Well, it's still the same core. You are you've seen before you understand how an iPhone works, so it hasn't really changed, but the little flourishes that are there do genuinely work. You've got an improved four.

The buttons look more rounded and kind of just more cohesive. The control center is much improved and 3d touch is much more present throughout this phone, as ever has been before so long pressed on the torch. You get gradients of brightness things like that, really work, and genuinely they work the best on the iPhone 8 plus, and that is a good thing now. Let's talk multimedia on your iPhone 8 plus now one of the key things here is there's still no headphone jack. It would have been weird for Apple to bring it back, but you're going to have to get used to the fact using Bluetooth, headphones or speakers or using the ear pods that are in the box.

There, ok, quality, nothing great otherwise, going to have to use the adapter that's linked inside now, in terms of the day-to-day use of the multimedia experience. The screen is great: it's really bright, really clear and if you even flew in direct daylight, you can still see what you're watching that's a key thing. That's very important. It will also play HDR films, but it's not an HDR screen. That means it doesn't actually offer a lot, but the slight tweaks, the color and brightness Apple says that makes a difference, in our opinion not really much again.

This is where the iPhone X is going to come into play because it does have an HDR screen, and we're pretty sure that's going to do very well, because HDR generally does make a difference in terms of the speaker's Apple has upgraded these again with 25%, more brightness and more base. Now. Is that going to make a difference day to day slightly compared to the iPhone 7 plus is demonstrable Aide, but if you're cooking and listening to a podcast, for instance, you're getting very similar performance right. Let's talk camera now on the back of the iPhone 8 plus you've got two 12 megapixel sensors, one. That's got telephoto lens for 2-ton zooming and one just standard snapping.

Is this better than the iPhone 7 plus or anything else on the market right now, it's getting difficult to tell, but it's definitely better than the iPhone 7 plus, because it's naturally an upgrade you're getting things like better textures. The exposure is slightly better and low-light performance has seemed to be slightly improved. The key difference really here is portrait lighting, where you've got this their depth effect, and you can change the lighting conditions or cut out your selfie in stage life effect. This is genuinely a step forward and works far, far better than the 7 plus, but if it's the best camera on the market right now in a smartphone, it's difficult to tell because it's very subjective, most phones are actually getting pretty good at taking pictures, and while the iPhone 8 plus, does take some stunning snaps, you can't set it out-and-out the best, because there are little things like it's slightly over exposures or in low-light struggles to get all the detail, but we're talking very nitpick things here, because is a very good camera. Noise is still in issue, of course, and if you use in the two time zoom in low-light, that's we will see the biggest effect of that noise because it hasn't got the same aperture it strolls a little in that situation.

So if you go taking, low-light photos stick to the main camera and that's where you get the best experience. We don't generally talk too much about the video performance or the smartphones, because they're generally much of a richness, but with the iPhone 8 plus things have moved on because of that an 11 Bionic chip. You can now record 4k at 60 frames per second, and it does look really, really smooth. This is future proofing, your video. So if you want to take a picture of your kid playing a birthday party or a sporting situation, if you know watch this back in ten years time, it will still look pretty slick.

The problem here is that it takes up loads of storage. You take a three-minute video, you get out, two gigs worth of storage. Take up and given you've got 64, gigs or 256 gigs to choose from. If you can do this a lot you're going to have to go for the larger, more expensive version. The other change as well.

It's fairly full HD slo-mo. This is a big deal, because if you like slo-mo videos, this is good enough quality. For most things previously, he had just HD, it wasn't as sharp, and it didn't really look as nice on a big screen. Full HD definitely takes things forward and is good enough to be able to choose exactly where you want the slo-mo to be okay, so we've done camera now, let's talk about battery on the iPhone 8 + +! Well, it's good enough. If you're used to an iPhone, this is definitely the best battery life you'll see on anything because it has the largest battery and the best chipset.

We didn't expect a little more. To be honest, though, because of the 4 cores of the efficient processor in the AF and Bionic chipset, and while yes, if you leave the phone on a counter all the time and don't use it much, you will see a very low dissent. If you use it for too much more stuff, you will have a little of a problem and fine. You have to reach the charger and little too soon. Now this has helped a little by having wireless charging if you've got a charging pad at work or at home.

You're going to pop it down easily and get little juice tops all the time, and you'll generally find that sorts you out. If the iPhone 8 plus has done anything for the battery world, its main streaming, QI charging, so you're going to see wireless charging, many more places and that's a big plus. So all in all this is a solid phone. The iPhone 8 plus do we expect it to and does it fairly well, if you're grating from a 6 plus or 6s plus, for instance, definitely go for this phone. If you can afford it, because it does everything really nicely if you've got a 7, definitely not worth the effort if you're on the fence.

Right now, we say should definitely wait until November, because the iPhone x, / 10, is coming out then, and you want to make the decision whether that's the phone for you thanks very much for watching this video and, as ever, keep it locked to Schrader for all your phone needs. You.

Source : TechRadar