Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Unboxing + Test! By iJustine

- Hey guys, it's Justine and today we are unboxing the Samsung Galaxy Note8. Cue the music. ♪ Haters in the building. ♪ I spend a lot of time in the comments and on twitter fighting with Android users. And it's silly because I'm not sure if they realize that they're not trolling me. I don't care that you think that Android is better than iOS.

I don't care that Apple fans think iOS is better than Android. It's a never-ending dilemma, it's a fight that I just don't really care about fighting. I like what I like, you like what you like. And guess what? That is perfectly fine. No one's gonna be criticizing you for your favorite color.

I mean, they shouldn't, I mean my favorite color's black and then I get criticized because black is not a color. It's the internet, I don't know when I will learn that you can't ever make everyone happy. I'm sure many of you are confused because the iPhone is coming out tomorrow. So Justine, why are you unboxing the Samsung Galaxy Note8? I did an Essential Phone unboxing and a lot of you guys were like, well where's the Note8 unboxing? And I was like I don't know, here it is. I plan on doing an extensive test between all of the phones that I have.

Now I can add the Galaxy Note8 to that test. In the Essential Phone unboxing, I did the S8, the Pixel, the Essential phone and my iPhone. So now when the iPhone 8 comes out, I will have an arsenal of test footage from all of these phones to sort of go through and pick what I like the best. Let's hop right into this unboxing and get this thing all set up so I can start to test it out before the iPhone comes out. Unfortunately, I'm going to be traveling the day that the iPhone is released but put on your calendars, for Saturday and Sunday and pretty much every day next week, I will be putting out a bunch of iPhone videos all next week so stay tuned and follow me on Twitter, Instagram and wherever else it is that I post that stuff, Facebook too.

(lighthearted music) So I love having a second phone as an Android phone because I love that everything integrates incredibly well with Google. YouTube, email, I love doing email on Android because I feel like the Gmail integration is always extremely seamless. So I'm going to be looking forward to testing this out in the coming weeks. Here it is. It's got a nice feel to it.

So the size is not that much bigger than the S8 but I do feel like if you have an S8 you're probably not going to be switching to a Note8 unless that's the type of person that you are. So let's turn this guy on. The Note8 is a little more rectangular where this has some very nice curved edges which I think I feel like I do sort of like this look a lot more. Setting up facial recognition, alright. So here is the set-up screen and what's interesting is this is very different from the set-up screen on the new iPhone X.

My face has been detected, okay. Setting up facial recognition on the new iPhone X is kind of interesting because you will be looking at it and it makes you go through a series of motions rotating your head, making sure that it gets the entire view of your face. I'm doing it like I'm actually doing it right now. I'm just remembering, at the Apple event, what the set-up looked like. Look at this picture of me.

(laughs) That's something that you can't unsee. Okay, facial recognition, swipe screen to unlock, it's unlocked. I'm just so excited, I love technology! So let's take a picture of you guys. Now let's try the Live Focus and this is something I'm really excited about. It's basically the same thing as portrait mode on the iPhone.

So I'm gonna take a picture of you. Wow, this looks really good, actually. So here's the picture that I took. This is kind of a really difficult photo to distinguish between what should be in focus. So here's the background focus.

So you can turn it all the way down or you can turn it all the way up. And if you guys can tell, the background was completely blurred out. Does this have some kind of like filter on it already? Because why does my skin look nice? Oh yeah, it definitely does. I was like I don't have bad skin or anything but like it looks real good. Oh my god.

(laughs) Well, if I was on any of those dating apps, this would definitely be my profile picture. Like you can slim your face, I can make my eyes bigger. But... but what's wrong with how I am? I mean, look at all these options. It's basically like you're not good enough, let's fix you.

Alright, so let's turn everything all the way up. I'm gonna turn the skin tone all the way up. That looks good, I'm so blurry you can't even tell. Slim my face, I'll make my eyes big. I kinda look like, in the Mario Brothers movie, the Goombas.

Could I just take like a normal picture? Oh my god, all the effects are still on. I don't want large eyes, I want mine. Now let's take a normal picture. Hi, I'm normal. What I love a lot about the Samsung phones is the front-facing cameras are very wide angle.

Okay let's do a little video test before I end this unboxing video. Image stabilization looks nice. You can see my... Wow, this is very smooth. Like when I move this, it almost looks like it's on some sort of glider.

I wonder if it looks like this when I watch it, the playback. Now let's flip it around and see what the front-facing video looks like. Hi, it's Justine, if you didn't know, got my S8. Filming this little video on my Samsung Galaxy Note8. It's already taken a fall.

I don't think there's any damage but it definitely took quite a tumble and the sound that it made, I thought it shattered. But guess what? It didn't, it's still here and I've only had it for 24 hours. We're gonna test out some of the photo and video features. So Jenna, would you like to be a model for me or what? - Sure, sure. - Sure.

- I'll go smile. - Cool, alright. So, much like the iPhone 7+, this has dual cameras. We're gonna be using Live Focus which allows you to blur and deblur the background. While taking the photo and in post and it's windy.

Alright, are you ready for Live Focus? - Yes, what's that mean? - Don't move. Live Focus is available, okay, wow. This is struggling a lot because of the background. Are you having fun? - No, my eyes are watering 'cause the wind. Did you take it yet? - It actually looks really good.

- It looks like I'm going to school, my school picture. - It does, look, there's a little bit of non blur right there. But okay, that's a little much. But to be fair, this is pretty good. So here's what it look like with the blur all the way down, all the way up, mid range.

I feel like the mid looks pretty good because it blends it pretty well with your hair. - Oh, not so happy there. - Oh! - Oh! - So that's what the picture looks like without - We need help. - the background blur. Look how much better it looks with the Live Focus.

- Yeah, way better. - It's my school picture, okay, let's see. Look at this, I'm cheesin'. Oh, look at that, Jenna you're really skilled. Normal picture, oh my gosh, it's crazy.

- Trash. Very lovely! - Trash. Lovely. Now let's try out the portrait mode on the iPhone 7+ and see what the comparison is between the portrait mode and the Live Focus. (camera shutter clicks) - Oh yeah.

(camera shutter clicks) (Jenna giggles) (fast-paced music) - The Note looks better. I'm shook. Can you maybe take a few more? Maybe you just gotta take it a different way. (camera shutter clicks) So there's one, looks pretty good around your hair. Background, no background.

It sometimes struggles with my blonde hair but I feel like on yours, it did a really good job, look at that. I'm having so much fun today. (Jenna laughs) Matty. Yeah it definitely struggles with blonde hair. (Notification dings) Skrillex.

Now let's do a quick little video test. Oh gosh, oh no, wow! Iphone's recording. Note's recording. There's Jenna. Here's my feet, focus is real fast on this one though.

Like look at this, I'm filming my phone. I wonder how the audio is, how do you think the audio is? Would you like to tell us a story? - So this is a long movie, but I'm curious to see how it's gonna look when it's not in front of me and it's on the screen. - Yeah, okay. - That's a good story but... - It's a great story.

- Tell them about the ice cream man today. - I don't wanna talk about that. Look at this dog. (classical violin music) Which one do you like the best? (classical violin music) One of the biggest difference between this and the S8, of course other than price, the screen is a little bit larger, but it has a stylus. Have you seen my stylus? Probably like four people are gonna get that joke.

This is cool, you can do a bunch of different things. Screen write, I'm gonna do a live message. It's basically like the Apple Watch live messages, yes. Okay, you're so close like you hit me. (Justine laughs) Oh god, I screwed up already, delete.

- What's that gonna show up on my phone as? - I don't know, let's see. Okay, it's preparing, it's preparing... preparing. - That compression looks like trash. - Here's what it looks like on Jenna... It looks really bad, like why even bother? The actual live animation looks incredible but then it turns it into as a gif which is very, very low quality.

I'm not sure if there's a way to change it to make it look a little bit better. That looks bad, right? I'm not impressed. - I'd probably delete your contact. - Oh wait, this is not my... I can't use this.

Another thing that I like is if your phone is locked and you take the stylus out, it'll automatically open up this note, so this little memo screen. So you can basically take notes without unlocking your phone and then save them. This is what I wrote, oh cool, there's a helicopter. (helicopter whirs) Well this is the note that I wrote Jenna. It's a real piece of work.

(helicopter whirs loudly) I'm sorry, I'm... I... it's just... Let's try a screen write. So this is art.

Alright, I'll save it. No and I accidentally moved my pen over here. What was I doing? I'm Jenna, I'm Jenna. (laughs) I didn't set up the iris scanner 'cause it told me to take my contacts out and I was like well, then I can't see. So I'll just maybe set that up later.

(classical violin music) Did you get it? - No! - It's such low res. Why does it look so bad? It ruins the whole moment. I was really impressed with the Note8 camera. The Live Focus feature is incredible. I was really surprised how well the photos turned out, especially in comparison to the portrait mode on the iPhone.

But, with that being said, I'm gonna be really excited to be put this thing up against the iPhone X and see how the photos stand out. (upbeat music) I didn't even open up the rest of the box. So we've got a lot of stuff. We've got a USB to USB-C adaptor and we also have a USB micro to USB-C adaptor. I lose these every single time.

Nice fast charge, this one is just a regular USB which is actually kind of nice because I have a bunch of regular USB to USB-C cables. What's this? I don't know what this is. AKG headphones, these headphones are pretty good. I got a pair of these with the S8 and what I like about them is it's kind of this braided material which I feel like helps this last a lot longer when you kinda are abusive to things and you travel a lot and you throw these in your bag. I carry these as backup headphones.

I use them a lot when I'm playing my Nintendo Switch. (Justine scat sings) So I know I'm kind of a hypocrite because I have a clear case on my S8 and that's one of the things that I've said many times that I do not like. I don't like clear cases because crap gets stuck inside of them. But so far, this case has held up pretty well. I think because it's a very, very tight fit on this phone that nothing is really getting inside of it.

So it has a very similar look to the Note8 except you can tell there is a very big difference with the cameras. The fingerprint sensor is in the same place. Well that was just a quick unboxing of the Note8 because I wanted to let you guys know that I am checking it out and what I have planned for the rest of the week. And to not be alarmed why there's not an iPhone video, it's because I'm traveling. But I do have an iPhone video planned for tomorrow.

It's just not the iPhone 8 yet. I'll be unboxing some accessories for the iPhone 8 and the Apple Watch. So come say hi, check that out and hopefully, you can be patient until the next day when I return home to my new iPhone 8. Let me know in the comments below what phone you have, what you guys think of the iPhone 8, what you guys think of the Note8, what you think of the iPhone X. I'm sure there's going to be a lot of fighting in the comments.

♪ Haters in the building. ♪ Well I'll see you guys tomorrow and I look forward to reading all of the wonderful comments that you guys are going to have about everything. So I'll see you soon, bye. (Justine scat sings) Haters in the building. (fast-paced electronic music).

Source : iJustine