ApplesmartphoneLast featured Jun 2018
Apple iPhone 8 Plus
Worth it if…Worth it, with caveats.
Won the test with Touch ID that guides your hand into place and unlocks very quickly, which impressed him.
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- Price when I covered it
- 80 or so dollars (fast charger)
- Featured in
- 11 videos · 2017–2018
- Category
- Phones · Flagship
What I liked
- Fastest to finish 100 unlocks
- Hand naturally guided into place
- Display turns on instantly after scan
- Strong sales
- Efficient relative to its small battery
- Much faster video editing thanks to the A11 Bionic
What I didn't
- Fell into last place for a long stretch
- Not particularly impressive runtime
- Looks dated
- Huge bezels
- Poor battery life
- Only 5W charger in the box
In my words
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“your hand is naturally guided into place and the touch ID is very very fast”
“this was really impressive quite a bit better than I thought it was going to do”
“the iPhone 8 plus at 4 hours 13 kind of what we expected given a specification but again not particularly impressive”
“baked into iOS and the iPhone ecosystem is a lot of really cool stuff that this device just can't do”
“side-by-side with most 20-17 phones make it look like something out of an antique shop”
“one of those ferns is the iPhone eight plus one of them is the Samsung Galaxy Note 8”
Every time I covered it
Most recent first, so you can see if my view has changed.
2:43The ULTIMATE Fingerprint Scanner SPEED Test.Won the test with Touch ID that guides your hand into place and unlocks very quickly, which impressed him.
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0:00Huawei P20 vs P20 Pro vs iPhone 8 Plus vs S9 Battery Drain Test!Lasted 4 hours 13, about what its specs suggested, but was very efficient and noticeably fast at editing video.
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0:22They could not believe how cheap this Phone isUsed as the comparison phone, with the iOS ecosystem offering things the Elephone cannot do.
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3:14Top 20 BEST Smartphones of 2017!Consolidated hardware and software, but dated big bezels and poor battery life aren't enough in 2017.
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3:33MY NEW CAR?! (Q&A)Held in his profile picture alongside the Note 8 while he and Marcus tested the cameras of both phones.
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0:29Oneplus 5T vs Pixel 2 XL vs S8 vs iPhone 8 Battery Charging Speed Test!Very slow with the bundled 5W charger, taking over 3 hours, and the fast charger costs extra.
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0:43Oneplus 5T vs Pixel 2 XL vs S8 vs iPhone 8 Battery life Drain Test!Finished last, giving up after 4 hours 43 minutes, with the battery percentage possibly flattering it early on.
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2:49Samsung Galaxy Note 9 - These features will make it INSANE!One of three phones he loves and rotates between, with an easy portrait mode and better speakers than the Note 8.
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0:12iPhone X vs Galaxy Note 8 vs iPhone 8 Plus - Battery Charging Speed TestCharged almost the same as the iPhone X, taking 3 hours 4 minutes, which is slow next to the Android phones.
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2:43iPhone X vs Galaxy Note 8 vs iPhone 8 Plus- Battery Life Drain TestFinished last in the battery test and was the first phone to die.
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