Apple iPhone 8 Plus Review - NO Reason To Buy?! By C4ETech

A brand-new look and almost all display front a freshening way to use your phone. If these are things you want in a new iPhone, well, you're going to have to wait for the iPhone 10. Today, though, let's take a look at an iPhone, that's available right now, the iPhone 8 plus, but before we do. If this is your first time here or in case the blood loss from the kidney you had to sell to get, this phone has led to memory loss. My name is Ashe you're watching slippery tech. You know yeah if you do end up liking.

What you see please hit that like button also subscribe and hit that Bell icon. So let's now get started now. Let's start this with obvious cons. First, the design for the fourth year running Apple stuck to the same own design, they've kind of gone back to the iPhone 4s style glass. Back though this is probably the largest form factor for a phone with a five and a half inch display.

To give you some perspective, the note 8 with a six point. Three inch display is still narrower and just a tad taller and thicker. The eight plus also happens to be quite heavy weighing in at over 200 grams. The display resolution, though, still remains the same at Full HD and the headphone jack well Jack still dead. All these together make the A+ look dated and even for iOS fans, it seems to be quite as the tough sell given the lower than ever demand.

That said, look a little closer and apples actually put together quite a compelling package with a ton of positives. So, let's start with the design again now the glass mark is not there just to look cool, it enables wireless charging, and thankfully it is not something proprietary but the regular QI standard. So the A+ can be charged wirelessly. With most existing wireless chargers, we've been used for Android devices. Now the fact that it's glass does make it slippery, and that is why I quickly added a deep brown skin to mine.

If you like me a reverse to scratches and want to protect that glass back while still managing to make the phone look good check out D brand, our sponsors for this video at the link in the description below anyway, this back is where you'd find those dual cameras. At first glance, they might look like the last generation cameras. In fact, a quick look at the specs might lead you to believe the same: 12 megapixel, sensors, f1 point and aperture for the primary 2.8 for the secondary, but Apple claims. The camera can now capture 83 percent, more light and the results seem to justify it. They may just look better than one shot with the seven-plus outdoors and the good lighting conditions.

The 8 lost Lux images that are very sharp. With a ton of detail. You could read those names when cropped. Ten hundred percent, the color rendering is great. The colors look true-life had absolutely no issues whatsoever.

Given the F 1.8 aperture, the depth of field is quite shallow. On macro shots like these meaning there is more blur to the background. The dynamic range is excellent and gets even better when HDR is turned on look at the Sun. Now the secondary shooter can get you pictures with 2x lossless zoom. Yes, the pictures turned out really well, but at times, if you look closely, it has a tendency to over expose things.

Look at the pedals here, the same secondary camera helps you get portrait mode shots like these. These are probably the best executed portrait shots by any phone, something you guys judged in our portrait mode, blind test. Here's a car to that video- if you haven't checked it out yet to check it out now, Apple's introduced a new feature called portrait lighting. There are a few lighting options to choose from before, or even after clicking the picture. Some of them look cool, yes, they're, not perfect, but it is worth knowing that this feature is still in beta.

It should probably get better by the time. The final version rolls out and in low light the A+ doesn't fail to deliver. Obviously there is some noise, but it still manages to capture a lot of detail. The images are moderately bright and have got colors. A lot of phones tend to mess up white balance and a low-light, but here it is on point: that's it I do kind of miss that I've used from time to time on, say the node eight and wish I really wish the A+ had it, because if I wanted to get better pictures, you know I could even do that on a mid-range electron of nine I.

So cannot strange to see apples not implemented yet anyway. The selfie camera pretty much reminds the same from last chance having megapixels it gets the job done. Super sharp images, good color, reproduction and dynamic range I hate the narrow field of view, though these days, almost all phones across various price segments have wider selfie cameras. Anyway, moving on the biggest changes with videos, the iPhone 8 plus can shoot 4k video at 60 frames per second 1080p videos at 240 frames per second now. This is something even some.

DSLR can do, let alone smartphones. The footage is spectacular. Great deal of detail. Excellent dynamic range thanks to OS. The footage is quite stable too.

As long as it's being captured via the primary camera, because the secondary camera doesn't have OAS anyway, it's also worth mentioning that the A+ captures all videos using the high efficiency, video codec, HEV C, so 4k 60fps clip here is about the same size as a 1080p clip shot a h.264. There are some Android phones like what weighs p10 and mate 9, which already do this, but the adoption is not widespread and I, for one, hope to see the adoption rate pick up, and it usually does when Apple implements something. Another thing worth noting is that the viewfinder is exceptionally smooth. That's probably thanks in large to the 11 Bionic chip underneath now, traditionally, we've kind of gotten used to I phone performing better in regard to single core performance and Qualcomm Snapdragon fluxions outperforming the Apple, a chips with multi-core scores, but this time around Apple 6 core setup, the 11th Bionic Tom native, would France the 11 Bionic is truly a very capable chip, that's put miles between itself and the competition Apple's first gen in-house GPU does quite well too as evident, but the GPU intensive benchmarks, no benchmarks are kind of theoretical right. How does that convert to practicality? Well, firstly, with intensive tasks like gaming.

There are no caveats. It's all smooth sailing. The element doesn't even break a sweat. Day-To-Day usage. Io's element shines here, there's a lot of tiny changes that iOS 11 has brought with it, for example, the revamped control center.

The 3d touch options for all the items. You are I'm still quite unsure on how I feel about the notification bar becoming the lock screen whatever it is. That you're trying to do here is all wrap it fast, but the iPhone 7 plus is rapid, fast -. In fact, the difference here is kind of negligible I mean for more intense stuff, like the new AR apps based on Apple. They are kid.

The iPhone 8 plus does have an advantage, but AR is still in its infancy and isn't really going to bring anything to the table. As of today, once the novelty of the few apps and games wear off you're not really going to do much with it. So, for all intents and purposes, with day-to-day usage, the 7 + gets you almost the same results as the 8 +, despite the 8 plus having been scoring much higher on benchmarks. Now the battery life ?, despite the reduction in battery capacity, was surprisingly good. The 8 + could easily get me through a day of moderate to heavy usage on a single charge.

I found it better than some Android flashes with higher capacity batteries, not a lot changed with the display. The A+ still covers the same white I am talking display. The A+ also supports fast charging. Now I mean you'd have to pay extra to get a fast charger, but you know it still supports its. It is what did I say.

Yes, the display day + still covers the same white DCI, p3, color gamut as its predecessor, so I, don't really notice a lot of differences. Yeah, the quality remained excellent, great viewing angles: natural colors talking about colors apples, now I'm using the two-tone technology that we first got to experience with the iPad Pro. That's now here on the A+. So, basically, depending on the ambient light, the white balance of the display gets recalibrated so that you always see the same thing, no matter what lighting conditions the phones paying viewed at it is a subtle touch, should really help while consuming media. Talking about media consumption did the dual speaker set up from the last generation.

iPhones Returns Apple cleanse their 25% louder, I, don't know if they're any louder, but what I can tell you are that there are a lot cleaner. The stereo effect is very noticeable, and I'd have to say these are probably the best sounding smartphone speakers that have well ever tested all the audio quality was good with both the ear pods and while on calls I faced no issues with changing the reception of call quality so that, let's talk price, the iPhone 8 plus launched in India for 73 thousand rupees and is already selling a bit cheaper around the semi 1k mark right from the launch there I've been cashback offers for about 10,000 rupees for the eighth plus, so it around 65, 70 thousand rupees. Is this a phone? You say you should get well. This is the part where it usually says. If you want the latest and greatest that the brand has to offer then be prepared to spend a lot of money and pick this up.

But here's the catch, the iPhone 8 plus, is neither the latest not the greatest. That Apple has to offer. That would be the 10 day, plus is definitely a great phone, but the 7 plus is almost as good, not on paper the benchmarks to put it far behind, but in reality, whether it's at speeds or camera performance, the 7 plus, is almost there, and it's available at a much lower cost. If you look at the Android side of things, there are phones that look much better half camera square as good, if not better, might not be as fast but bring with them a host of other functionality that the iPhone 8 plus lacks. But if you do have the money to blow and won the best Apple has to offer well, like I said, don't get the 8 plus wait for the 10.

So I don't really see a scenario well, barring one where you're a YouTuber, and you want to review it. So you pie it I, don't really see any other scenario where you'd want to get an A+ now. Well, that's just my two cents on the 8 plus. If you hated this video, you know what to do, but if you did like it give it a thumbs up hit that subscribe button down below also the bell icon, so that you get notified each time. We upload a new video and if you haven't checked out our sponsors, deep brown doing them up, I will have a direct link right there in the description they offer some awesome skins for the latest phones to check it out if you're interested.

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