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Title: Can the Note 8 out-iPhone the iPhone 8?
Post by: HCK on August 30, 2017, 04:05:17 pm
Can the Note 8 out-iPhone the iPhone 8?

The Galaxy Note 8 is Samsung's best phone ever, but can it compete with the upcoming iPhone 8?



Last week, I went hands-on with the new Galaxy Note 8, Samsung's latest, best, and most powerful phone. The narrative around its announcement and release was, predictably, both humble and overwrought — a typical Samsung-specific mixture of sentiment and braggadocio.

It's a really nice phone, with plenty of reasons to be excited, especially if that S Pen is your jam. It's my jam — I like writing on paper, and this feels about as close to that as, say, the Apple Pencil on iPad Pro — so I'm excited about using it. The Note 7, as you are probably well aware, didn't go so well for Samsung, which is likely why, even with its new near-bezel-less design, the Note 8 is about as conservative an upgrade as you'll find in today's world.

I compared the phone to the iPhone 7 Plus, which feels massive in comparison. Both phones are built solidly, with perfectly-machined aluminum and h...

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