Do you know what this is of course he do how could you mistake the new iPhone for anything else put the iPhone 8 next to the iPhone 7 and subtle changes like the new glass back or the revised aluminum sides or the trim around the camera lens it kind of fade away it takes using the 8 and 8 plus to see where they stand out and I’ve spent two days doing just that I’m mr. mobile and this is my initial review of the iPhone 8 and 8 plus brought to you by tech 21 a lot of reviews have already gone up so I’m not gonna retread all the stuff you already know about the iPhone 8 the new iOS 11 operating system the true tone display the spec sheet this is stuff you can read about and I’ll suss out the important bits in the second half of this review landing next week for now I want to talk about the three main standouts that have stuck with me during my time with I more and their two iPhone review devices to a great many of you the first one is gonna be the least important but you know what I don’t care I love it since Palme introduced it in 2009 wireless charging has been one of the most misunderstood smartphone features and I’m not gonna relitigate the case here but I suspect Apple fans will already understand what I mean when I say this should have been on the iPhone years ago the zen-like simplicity of ditching fiddly cables and ports for just placing your phone on a pad it seems especially well suited to the iPhone to be fair even mighty Apple isn’t immune to the drawbacks of physics the charge rate is just as slow as the included wall adapter slower than the fast wireless charging on the newest Samsung phones I still think it’s great that iPhone users now have the option though and Apple’s halo effect means we should see more wireless chargers pop up in more places now fun fact you can charge the phone without taking your case off which is nice the second and by far the most noticeable standout the iPhone eights cameras it wasn’t immediately apparent just how much better they are because Apple is still using LCDs for displays on these whose colors just don’t pop as much as the OLED screens and some Android phones but the I’m or team and I did an awful lot of photo and video capture with the new iPhones putting them side-by-side with shots from Android flagships and I was surprised to see how often the iPhone photos came out on top in terms of detail and low-light performance if you’ve been following me on Instagram for a while you
know I almost exclusively shoot with Android phones most recently the LGP 30 Samsung Galaxy Note 8 but in almost all of our side-by-side shooting this week the iPhone has rendered pictures with less noise or pulled more light from a scene or done a better job stabilizing a bumpy walking video over on the iPhone 8 plus I’m kind of not as enthused about portrait mode still the new artificial studio lighting effects are really amazing to see in person but it usually have to take four or five bad ones before you end up with one you’d want to share I need to spend more time with this to decide how I feel about it but I don’t expect I’ll label it a must-have feature making up for that are the video upgrades shooting 4k in 60 frames a second is something even my primary studio camera can’t do and I filmed for 20 minutes straight with an 8 plus without it breaking a sweat and there’s slo-mo in full HD at 240 frames a second I’m sorry for getting all numbers heavy on you but those numbers give you video like this which you can’t get at that frame rate and resolution with any other phone right now there’s more slow-mo phone dropping candy at the end of the video by the way keep in mind I ended this on Final Cut Pro before I got the High Sierra update so codec conversion has probably dropped the quality somewhat this is something I hope I won’t have to deal with when I publish part two of this review next week many of those camera features wouldn’t be possible without Apple’s new a 11 SOC which is my third big pillar of the iPhone 8 experience I’m not a speck head so it feels kind of weird for me to emphasize silicon but by all accounts the a 11 is a beast of a chip it’s apparently so efficient that the iPhone 8 can run a arc it Apple’s augmented reality suite using something like half the resources the a-10 in the iPhone 7 did the knurl engine in the a 11 also makes a lot of that photo magic possible the stuff I talked about a second ago and it’s a more power efficient processor to boot all that boils down to some significant future proofing in short the iPhone 8 should age well at least on the inside of course despite all those awesome features the predictably designed iPhone 8 won’t be the phone to lure away Restless would-be Android converts that roll falls to the better equipped I phone 10 which offers a much bolder aesthetic to go with its stratospheric price tag but the iPhone 8 isn’t for them it’s for 6 and 6s owners
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