Should You Buy iPhone 8 Plus or Galaxy S8 Plus? By Nick Ackerman

So, what is up guys, Nikki your, helping you to master your technology and should you buy an iPhone, 8 plus or a Samsung Galaxy S, a plus now I've used both of these phones for quite a while now, while the eight plus for a few days here, but I've been using it hard, and it doesn't take me long too really. You know absorb what a phone's all about, and I've been using a galaxy s, 8 plus for a while now, and I want to share with you, which one might be the better phone for you across multiple sections. So let's get into the first one, which is gonna, be body and build okay, guys so beginning with the body in the build of these smartphones. Let's start with the iPhone eight plus, so the iPhone, eight plus, when you first look at it. You're going to think wow that looks very similar to the phone last year, and you wouldn't be wrong in thinking that, because it does look very similar to the iPhone, 7 plus and I. Don't have it here right here with me.

But if you look at the box of the seven plus, even it's a very similar smartphone here in the 8 plus the camera lens is one of the most familiar things here and it does add, some metal around the camera lens I think giving it a little more of a premium look now. The Apple logo is behind the glass here, so you cannot feel it no more as well as the flash, so that makes it feel a little more premium. In my opinion, also, the iPhone logo is just iPhone logo and Apple had to go through quite a bit to make sure that they don't have to have no writing on the back of this iPhone, but around the sides. It's exactly the same feeling as the 7 plus, even maybe the 6s plus is very similar as to even the 6 plus from 2014. So if you're not looking at this room from the back nobody's, going to know you have the new iPhone, so it really isn't that huge of a design, update, I think it's more of an incremental one.

It's one that you're going to like when you first see it. You first hold it, but once you put a case on it, and you start using it for a few days, you're going to feel like oh, so I'm using an iPhone, it's just another iPhone. So in my opinion, the body and the build here very classy on the iPhone 8, plus it's very premium, as it's always been, but those bezels on the front are thick as always, and it's not a huge design update it, some incremental one in my opinion, but still feels a little more premium, a little heavier than prior iPhones. Now on the SA plus here in terms of body in the build design, you do get a very radical departure from the past here and all screen design, curvy, and it's clean. So overall, this one right here is a win easily in the design department, the body in the build.

This is a lighter phone than the is plus. It feels in the hand it's not as hard to reach over because of its aspect ratio here and overall, it's a very clean design as well. Now you might not like it, you may not like the curved display here. This isn't going to be questionable, for some people are used to flat displays. I do think that Apple did a better job with the way their flash and her camera looks.

This is a little off with the fingerprint scanner here, but this is a symmetrical design as well. So the glass on the rear is curved in the same way that the front is curved. So it's a very nice phone here in your is plus and in terms of the body in the build I, have to give the win easily here to the is plus, so that that's what I think when it comes to body and build. Let's talk a little about specifications now so over here on the iPhone 8 plus, you are gonna, get an apple, 11 Bionic chips at three gigs of ram, and you're going to get a slightly smaller battery than the iPhone 7 plus here. But overall, you know, I find this phone to run about the same as the a10 fusion did.

Last you get IOS 11 out of the box, and this iOS 11 is a little choppy right now. It still needs to get a few updates before it's. You know running pristine over here on the s8 you're going to get Android 7.0 nougat here, you're also going to get a snapdragon, 835 or Enos depending on your market. If you do get the Enos model, you're, probably gonna, get a little better performance, but on Snapdragon you're going to get a little better battery life. You can't get this in four gigs of ram and for certain markets, six gigs of ram.

Now this comes in about four different colors. The iPhone 8 plus is gonna. Come in the three different color options. You got the gray, the Space Gray. You have the right here or the Silver Edition, and you have the gold and on the is+, you're gonna, get coral blue, maple, gold, silver and orchid gray.

So there's quite a few color options for both. Although it's a little harder to get your hands on all the colors of the essay, it depends on your market, so Apple gets a win there, but in terms of the specifications both these are powerhouse smartphones in terms of specs. So you don't have to worry at all when you, when you're paying this kind of money, you know you're getting a top-of-the-line technology. That's currently available, but in terms of just raw, sheer specs I think that the iPhone 8 plus is gonna. Give you better processing, specs but I.

Think all around on Hardware you're, getting some cooler technologies in the is+, like a heart rate, monitor you're. Also getting you know the curved infinity display. That's 2k, not just a 1080p display here, even though it's true tone. This is a 2k display. So in terms of just hardware, sheer hardware you get Bluetooth, clamp or, and all you get Bluetooth 5.0. The is+ might have a few advantages when it comes to the hardware aspect of specs but processing the iPhone is ahead there.

Let's take a quick second to talk about the displays more in-depth, so the iPhone 8 plus here is gonna. Give you know a pretty solidly bright display! Think it's like 500 minutes or so something like that to true tone here. It does give you true tone and if you ever used an iPad. You know this is a killer feature here for the iPhone 8 plus it gets plenty bright, it's definitely not as bright or even close to as bright as DSA plus. So, if you're looking for the brightest smartphone on the block, this is not gonna, be it here, but I think it's gonna, please iPhone users, it's gonna, be very crisp sharp, and it's going to look very good at reading at nighttime I've noticed it's actually a little better than the seven plus when it comes to its color accuracy, as well as its it's just a slightly better display than the seven plus all around.

It's not a huge update, though so, if you're using a seven plus, you turn on night shift mode, you're, basically getting the similar feel to true tone, but true tone slightly better than night shift mode here. But overall it has great color reproduction great viewing angles. It's a solid 1080p display, probably one of the best 1080p displays money can buy here on iPhone, 8 plus, and it's gonna, please iPhone users. Now over here on the s8 plus, we know we're getting a quad HD here, Super AMOLED panel, and this gets over a thousand nits of brightness. So this thing is extremely bright here and the is+ extremely colorful, and also got very deep blacks, as well as very punchy colors, the best AMOLED display on any AMOLED panel right now.

The note 8 is probably slightly better, but we're talking about is plus here in regular smartphones. Not the note series of smartphones here so definitely easy win over the iPhone 8 plus. If you ask me in terms of display now some people don't like AMOLED, they prefer LCD, and this year, you're going to have an option between AMOLED on the iPhone 10 or AMOLED or LCD on the iPhone 8 series. For this comparison right here, the SI plus is an easy win in the display department and people might be asking. Why are you giving it an easy win? Well, I'm, giving it easy win because it has a higher pixel per inch, which means it's a sharper display.

It has a higher brightness capacity, so it's brighter than the iPhone 8 plus, and it stretches all the way. So it gives you more display in addition to that, you do have your edge panels here on this display. In addition to that, you also have deeper blacks, punchier colors. You have more tweaking options where you can change to adaptive display. You can tweak the color on a display.

So that's why I'm, giving the is plus a win here in the display? Department, ok guys so on the iPhone A+. You are looking at iOS 11 here. The first edition or gold master release and I could tell you right now: it's a very modern slick user interface. It departs a lot from iOS 10 in that you have a file system, a new control center. You have a few features and settings that changes up a bit.

So it's quite a nice departure from iOS 10 here, but overall I think that iOS 11 still needs some work, but still a premier operating system has plenty of very well optimized apps, but some apps are dropped. A lot of 32-bit apps are dropped here on iOS 11, so in terms of software I also lean still need some work and right at this current point on the 8 plus, it doesn't run as fantastic as iOS 10 ran last year when the iPhone 7 plus was launched. So it's slightly disappointing in my opinion, and how iOS 11 is running even on the most current iPhone 8 plus you can buy today. Now Samsung is kind of at a disadvantage here because they haven't even updated. My is plus one since I've, got it about 6 months ago, so Samsung needs to work on getting their updates out quicker to their phones, whereas Apple device, you're gonna, get them all the time.

Now. This is the best Samsung experience I've ever had on any Samsung phone in the past. This is not touched, which is a Samsung experience. I've said, touch was in the past, just to make it easier for people to understand. But this is the Samsung experience you get Samsung pay.

It is a layer on top of Android negate. That gives you much more customization options. It's a very different experience than what stock Google wants you to believe, and you can't have it all screen where there's no app drawer. You have you know very Samsung, like features in here. If we go into settings it's a lot of the same stuff.

Samsung has been giving us for a long time. They just cleaned it up a little here, and it's super slick and super smooth. So in terms of the software I think they're, pretty close to even, but I think that for the long term, the iPhone 8 plus is gonna. Give you a better software experience in terms of updates, so I might have to give a slight win to the 8 plus, just because it's going to be a better long-term phone for updates, but as they currently stand, if you pick up both of these today, you're going to be very happy with how smooth em and the amount of features you get on both of them. You're going to have a little more freedom here on the s8 plus to do whatever you want, but over here on, 8 plus you're going to be a little stuck with your grid of icons.

So if you want to customize, go with your s8 plus, if you do want to just use the Polish apps to refine experience of iOS 11 get the 8 plus in that regard. So how is the 11 versus the snapdragon 835 of 4 gigs of ram? Well, I did a Galaxy Note 8, and it was basically about even with that- and it has the same processor here as the SI plus I will be doing a speed test between these two so stay tuned. For that. But overall I would say that you know the 11 doesn't feel too much faster than we have on the s8 plus here. However, if you do video rendering and heavier stuff like that, not day-to-day test, not just rope any apps and stuff like that, the iPhone 8 plus is gonna easily beat the galaxy s 8, plus in terms of benchmarks.

The iPhone 8 plus is going to crush it. So if you care about saying I got a higher benchmark score yeah, your iPhone 8 plus, is easily gonna. Take it to the galaxy s A+, but day to day task. Opening applications are you know, but fast on both I think that the SI plus is doing a better job right now than the iPhone 8 plus at you know, lets app crash less apt lag and this has to do with iOS 11. So, right now, I would say that the SI plus a little more reliable because iOS 11 is having some bugs with its third-party apps and things like that.

But that's only as of right now this will probably be updated. Maybe by the time you see this video, if you're, seeing it currently as of today when it was first released. I think the SI plus is a little more reliable when it comes to its app. So right now and the SI plus does have faster animation speeds than the iPhone 8 plus, but the iPhone 8 plus will get faster over time with its updates in iOS 11, and it's 11 Bionic on paper is a faster chip. So in terms of performance, if you want pure performance, I do have to give the win to the iPhone 8 plus, hey guys.

So what about their cameras? Should you buy the iPhone 8 plus, or should you buy the S 8 plus for their cameras well using the iPhone 8 plus yesterday, and it was rated the best camera on the smartphone market right now by DX Oh mark um, it's pretty fantastic! First, camera that can shoot in 4k 60 it does have portrait lighting, gives you a very natural look and feel when it comes to its camera department, and the photos are just fantastic on the iPhone 8 + haven't done a full camera view. Yet so it's not going to be totally fair here to compare them in that regard. Just yet I'm working on that right now, but you can see just the level of detail. I just took this picture. Downtown Chicago River, just the level of detail here on the iPhone 8 plus, is phenomenal.

I mean it reminds me a lot of a high end, like you know, canon camera or something like that. It's got a very natural look. Photographers are going to love. It PSA plus, is well it's typical Samsung. It's going to give you that over saturated beautiful truer to life picture, and it's got super blazing fast autofocus here.

There's zero shutter lag, though on the iPhone 8 plus in this is a toss-up, but I would say that the iPhone 8 plus, might have a slightly better camera than the is plus here on the real. Now that's a bus is no slouch, though don't get me wrong, I'm, not this! Not even it's not a landslide, like the is plus is still fantastic. It's I mean if you look at this picture right here. I took this little macro. Shot.

Look at the level of detail here, so this is not no easy win for the iPhone, 8 plus, but I. Think that, because you know it's got zero shutter lag. Details are a little more natural I. Think it's a slightly better camera than the is plus, but the is plus is, if you like, over saturated colors you're, not gonna, choose the iPhone 8 + /, VIA plus. So it's really.

It's super close personally slightly to the iPhone 8 plus. But if you, if you like fast autofocus, and you love over saturated, true-to-life colors, the is plus is going to be the better camera. So this one is close to a draw just giving you my personal opinion. I would choose the iPhone 8 +, so in terms of gaming on both of these devices. We're not gonna talk too much about this.

In my experience, the phone plus is a much faster phone in gaming and as a faster GPU. It has louder speakers. It has more bezel to go ahead and play this game and I think that the better gaming experience in terms of sheer performance which matters in gaming is gonna, be the iPhone 8 plus. Now, if you love your screen, and you want to have an all screen design here, the is+ going to give you a more immersive experience, but its performance is not gonna, be at the same level of refinement as the iPhone 8 plus. So is plus is gonna, be fantastic for immersion.

It has plenty loudspeaker, but you can cover it up here. It's a little awkward at first, because you don't want to touch your game controls while you're holding it, because it's a full curved display yeah. But overall, it's going to be one of the best gaming experience you can get on Android here. So this is close to a draw again, depending on what you like more but I, think that, in terms of full gaming, iOS gets more games, they get updated more frequently. I would pick the iPhone A+ for gaming hands-down, okay.

So let's talk about their audio experience, so the is+ has a single speaker over here. You have dual speakers on the iPhone 8 plus, and the iPhone 8 plus gets plenty loud. So if I go over here and go to one of my videos, let me just go to my videos and I go ahead and fire up a video you're going to hear it here in just a second. So the iPhone 8 plus gives you fantastic speakers when it comes to how loud they're come out from the front and down here, they're base, either punchy, they're loud, and I think they're much better than the ones on the is, plus the is plus R. They got some nice bass to them.

There they're not over. You know tinny or nothing like that. They do get plenty loud on the is plus, but I've covered it multiple times. With my finger on the is plus and I only have one speaker here on the is plus, so we're not going to test. The is, plus the iPhone.

Eight plus is the better speaker here in terms of audio if you're picking up one of these in user speakerphone a lot just go with the iPhone eight plus here. Let's talk about battery life for a little of time here, so the iPhone 8 plus doesn't give you quite as large a battery as you get on the is plus, but I find it to be extremely well. You know it's a perfect battery when you're not doing multiple heavy things, so the iPhone it eight plus sips battery, when your being, so I want to mention that if you can start to get heavy on the iPhone 8 plus, like you, do a lot of heavy stuff you're using this as your main computer you're bouncing between apps that are running multiple things at once. That's where I see a larger hit on the iPhone 8, plus this battery use camera a lot I see a larger hip, you're pulling and cellular data I see a larger hit and I think the power management is slightly better on the galaxy s 8 plus in my experience. So that means, when I'm doing heavy stuff I feel like the galaxy is plus can take a beating a little more than the iPhone 8 plus.

But overall, this is a really close. One I would say that the iPhone 8 plus, might get me a little longer battery life when I'm you doing lighter things, but if I'm doing heavier things, the SI plus is gonna. Get me better battery life. In my experience, both are right. Around the 6 hour 7 hour mark on screen time, they're going to get you through the day pretty easily the Galaxy S II Plus is gonna.

Give you a better experience with charging those, so I'd, rather have the Galaxy, S 8 plus. Surely, because there's a bigger battery and the charge is faster, I, don't care that this has wireless charging. It doesn't charge as fast as an SI plus so in a battery department. I think the SI plus is the way to go between this two okay. So what about calling between these two devices, so we're talking about their dialers? Now we're talking about how the phone call experiences well, the iPhone 8 plus, is a pretty good calling experience not too much different from the iPhone 7 plus, but when it comes to their speaker, phones, this one is a win here for the iPhone 8 plus now.

I think that the Galaxy S 8 plus sounds better when you're actually talking in a phone call, it has a little better voice. The voice is sound a little better to me on the A+, and it holds up to your face a little nicer, because it's easier to grip, it's not as wide as the iPhone 8 plus, so I would actually choose the SI plus for phone calling experience. Because I, don't care about having loudspeakers. Some people do, though, and if you care about having loud speakerphone quality go with the iPhone 8 plus, but in terms of just the sheer you know how it feels in the hand the HD voice, oh with the Galaxy S 8, plus, okay, guys. So let's go ahead and talk about whom this is for.

So we talked about multiple sections here between both of these devices. Well, let's break it down right here who is which one for this is a very challenging comparison to make, because both these are extremely nice. Smartphones, here, ok, so if you're, an iPhone you're thinking about switching to the iPhone or the galaxy is+, this is one of the best times ever to do that to a Samsung device. Here, it's definitely ahead in a lot of areas in the iPhone 8 plus. So if you want sheer performance, if you want your phone for the longest time possible, you're, not the type is going to upgrade in one to two years: you're going to go four or five I.

Think your iPhone eight plus, is your phone here. If you guys are looking for the best, you know fingerprint placement on a phone. You want a fingerprint scanner, you don't care about iris scanners, you want a fast, reliable, fluid fingerprint scanner for your security. The iPhone 8 plus, is for you. You guys want a fantastic dual camera that gives you portrait mode ability to blur the background more, and you want probably I would say a better camera overall from our natural colors.

The iPhone 8 plus, is for you, you don't care about curved displays. You want a flat display. You can't see yourself with a curved display after the novelty wears off you just want to flat widescreen display the iPhone 8 plus is for you. Furthermore, you don't use your phone extremely heavily throughout the day, and you want perfect standby time with your battery life, you don't care about long fast, wireless charging, you don't care about fast charging. The iPhone 8 plus is for you and finally, you care a lot about having loudspeakers on your phone.

You don't want to buy. Bluetooth's speakers go with the iPhone 8 plus now, who is the Samsung Galaxy S a plus for here, if you're deciding between these phones here? So if you want a phone that, let's say you want to show off your phone, you want to say: I got a sexy phone. You want to look the best of the best when it comes to design the s8 plus is for you. You want to customize your phone put icons wherever you want, you don't want to be trapped in Apple's ecosystem, and you just want to be had your freedom to use your phone change it up. However, you want the s8 plus is for you.

You want a slightly better phone ping experience. Samsung pay tops Apple in my opinion, so if you're paying with your phone a lot VIA plus, is for you. If you guys want to attach things to this phone, you want a headphone jack. The Galaxy S 8 plus, is for you here as well. The USB connector makes it a lot more versatile for plugging in Mouse as a whole, bunch of attachments and stuff like that to the is+.

So if you like to plug in peripherals and stuff like that to your phone, yes, a-plus is gonna, be for you and if you want better battery life, when you're using heavy use, I think the is+ is doing slightly better right now than the 8 plus. So the SI plus will also be for you. You want true to life, colors you're, a media head. You love to watch media on your phone you're, doing everything, media based, and you just watch a lot of movies and stuff like that SD card expansion, the is plus is for you and other than that. Furthermore, you might also want a lighter phone.

The is plus feels a little more ergonomic. A little lighter in the hand VIA plus is gonna, be for you. So with all those reasons, I'm sure you've figured out between those two. It just counts up how many you resonated more with here between those reasons that I mentioned, and that will be the phone that will please you more so anyway, that is the iPhone 8 plus versus the Galaxy S a plus. Now, if you want my personal answer, which phone I would pick between these two, it would be the Galaxy S 8 plus this feels too dated age.

Now. This is just my personal opinion and bias here. The rest of it is over the videos over when it comes to helping you out now, I'm, just giving you my opinion. If you wanted it, the iPhone 8 plus feels like it's an unnecessary purchase. If you have had you know, iPhone, 6s, plus 7 plus, and those two phones right there.

If you're coming from an older iPhone, it's a nice update, but it still feels dated with its thick bezels when you have this city and buy it aside on the shelf. The is plus just stands out like a sore thumb, it's just very, very a head of the iPhone hate, in my opinion, in terms of design, it's no, it's not even in the same league, so the SI plus will be my choice here between these two. If you were asking Nick the person in his personal life, but I hope this helped you to decide which one is for you and if you found this video helpful go ahead and hit the thumbs up down for me down below and any comments. Question concerns leave those down below as well Nick here, helping you to master your technology. Consider subscribing.

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