Five reasons to buy Galaxy S8
The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is one of the most expensive phones on the market right now. With great price comes great consideration about if it's the right purchasing decision for you. So here are 5 Reasons to consider the Note 8 as your next phone. This is based on my time with a review handset ahead of the launch and I've had a little over a week to come to these conclusions.
1. The Camera
Samsung has, for the most part, nailed it here. Shots on both the telephoto and standard view look great in good light. Things aren't dreadful when the light level drops either, but like all camera phones there are compromises. Low light shots are not, in my opinion, as good as they can be on the Pixel. Google's phone remains the king of very low light photography.
2.Music
Samsung's developed a really nice sound system for it's phones. But for me there's some stuff here that just goes beyond the overall quality. In the EQ menus there are options to tweak the sound for your hearing. There are presets for different age groups that boost the overal sound to compensate for the changes in hearing we all have as we age.
3.Dual biometrics
Forget the facial recognition here, it's pony. Concentrate instead on the fact that you can have both a fingerprint and iris scan on the device. That gives you a couple of options for how to unlock the phone each time you pick it up. If your finger is wet, then you can just hold the phone a bit higher and use your iris scan. If you don't want to do that, then press your finger on the scanner and the phone unlocks. You can use both on the device and switch between them to suit your needs. I like this a lot.
4.Secure folder control
I've loved Samsung's security features for a while. Secure folder is a really good idea and could be a big help in these days of border security paranoia at airports. Put simply, secure folder allows you to lock a load of apps away and keep files away from prying eyes. N9ot only that but you can also hide the folder itself, meaning that it won't be obvious to people when you give them the phone that it has a hidden folder. You can also opt to protect the folder with a different pin to the phone system, and you can also disable biometrics for it.
5.S-PEN 8
Forget the facial recognition here, it's pony. Concentrate instead on the fact that you can have both a fingerprint and iris scan on the device. That gives you a couple of options for how to unlock the phone each time you pick it up. If your finger is wet, then you can just hold the phone a bit higher and use your iris scan. If you don't want to do that, then press your finger on the scanner and the phone unlocks. You can use both on the device and switch between them to suit your needs. I like this a lot.
4.Secure folder control
I've loved Samsung's security features for a while. Secure folder is a really good idea and could be a big help in these days of border security paranoia at airports. Put simply, secure folder allows you to lock a load of apps away and keep files away from prying eyes. N9ot only that but you can also hide the folder itself, meaning that it won't be obvious to people when you give them the phone that it has a hidden folder. You can also opt to protect the folder with a different pin to the phone system, and you can also disable biometrics for it.
5.S-PEN 8
I thought about not bothering to mention the S-Pen as presumably everyone knows that it's a huge part of the Note 8 experience. But one thing stopped me from avoiding it - it's just so good.
The old S-Pen was nice, but the new one feels glorious to use. Like a fresh Moleskine notebook and a good pen, the stylus Samsung gives you with this phone feels really nice on the screen. I like the ability to both write notes from the lock screen, as well as display them there. This means my "to do" list can be hassling me every minute of every day. This is how you make a writer get on with their work - passive aggressive notes on phone screens.
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