 Oh, this is already not going very well. So I'm here for the Samsung Note 8 launch. I forgot my shaving supplies and They didn't have a budget to send me with a camera person. So I have to figure out how to put this camera together. Oh I wish Brandon was here Yeah Music The Corsair one features a compact form factor that is fast, quiet, and you guessed it compact. Check it out through Amazon or Newegg at the links below. Okay, well at least the camera will look good even if the operator doesn't. I think I've got the audio working. I'm not sure the audio level monitoring is here, but I'd love to play around with this But in my infinite wisdom, I didn't bring a charger for the batteries So I've got what I've got and besides I've got to be over at the event in like Oh great don't have a charger for that either Okay, so hopefully this sounds okay because otherwise I'm screwed I still don't know exactly what today's format will be so right now I'm just lamenting that I didn't bring a better way to carry the stupid camera around with me all day This thing is very heavy and I'm filled with regret right now, but on a positive side Ubisoft followed me on Twitter I'm famous. Oh my god. Okay, rate my skills with hold on. Oh, you're out of focus Oh, man, I can't even use the phone. Rate my skills on how to oh wait I don't know how to use the phone. Rate my skills on operating the red camera out of five 1.2 1.2 My god, there's so many stairs this thing is so heavy Fortunately for everybody who's with me. I've resolved to suffer in silence All the silence. That's pretty good. Yes. I got Austin's approval Let's not be rash here and say approval to throw work like that around also you can zoom in right like you can do like I'm like, oh I could see all right. I do all right. This is a zoom lens Yes, you can do like that get actual proper. Oh, there you go. There we go. 8k wifi password Booyah Oh man, I finally pull out the camera and it's over and now I get to haul it down all the stairs It's a good thing. I got all that great footage during the presentation In 8k you've got to be kidding me Access to the product demo space What? Hey guys, you can just wait here for a bit on the stairs Well, come on like this is a concern I'm trying to get me walking on the crazy water display and I can't even get my ssd amount. Come on red There's one thing this is epic epic fail Wow, this is a super trippy. Oh, I'm not apparently allowed to be out here. Well, everyone else is walking on it It is a freaking zoo in here Try and get some oh you have got to be kidding me Austin's mag isn't mounting now either I'm gonna have a new red rent pretty soon. The last one was it's expensive The next one's gonna be it doesn't work when you need it to work your mags not detecting dude Is it really broken look no i'm not even joking it's gonna be your camera dude I mean that's not good news either Holy crap. This is like terrible And not use it and just shoot it on the iphone. Yeah After four minutes of detecting we have ssd. Okay It's time to get some footage before it I breathe on it too hard. All right, so let's get some initial handling impressions here Yeah, well bixby is still there so if you were hoping that wasn't then uh You were hoping wrong In fact, one of the big things they were talking about is how you can use bixby to essentially program like voice activated macros Which does sound kind of cool. Although I'd have to spend some time with it to evaluate exactly how well it works like the note 7 the hold ability is Much better than previous notes for me. Thanks to the rounded shape along the edges I don't know how people do this whole like filming yourself. Like i'm back here trying to Hold it up and keep it in focus. This is impossible Austin you just wrecked my shot again, bro I was trying to show off the bixby button Wow what Wow I always get such a kick out of people who carry around cleaning cloths for phones because like I carry around a cleaning cloth It's called my shirt sucker Look at that. Okay. Well it didn't do a great job Yeah, I think you're just making it worse. Wow. I think it's is that scratched Oops I didn't even drop it look they even installed linus drop proof floors This carpet So we're actually going to lunch with samsung, but they're giving out bed lunches So I don't really need the lunch but check this out. It's like uh, it's like a happy meal You don't really want the food but it's the goodie. That's that's important. It's got s pens inside I can't hey, I can't find my s pen our uber is here our What is this That's not like what it's not an s pen well one of them's an s pen It's got like a little plastic nubbit on it, but the other two are just pencils well now I feel like an idiot for shooting anything back at the event. This place is way cooler. Check this out And ebers here too, and we've got our own phones to run around and shoot b-roll with so as long as the camera's working Then hopefully i'll get some more footage here good news the camera's working and The more serious setting is going to bring about a more serious tone to the rest of the video Let's talk about some actual impressions here. So number one ergonomics a lot of what was good about the note 7 returns Like the note 7 this is a phablet that is actually holdable even with my tiny lady hands Part of that is due to the fact that the sides are curved on both the front and the back and another part of it Is actually due to this flat part that they've got on both the left and right side It gives it a little bit more grip around the edges and I personally really like the change Other changes the screen it's still the 18 and a half by nine aspect ratio that I personally absolutely loved on the galaxy s8 Just more of it whether you're scrolling through you know long walls of text or your twitter or instagram feed Or watching wide aspect ratio content like Brandon's recent review of the red weapon 8k camera There's just more of it to love. I'm a huge fan. I absolutely love the taller size with that said It does affect ergonomics a little bit and I'm probably not the only one who was really hoping that Samsung was going to deliver an Underscreen fingerprint sensor on this guy rather than the one at the back because it takes me a couple shuffles to get up there to unlock the phone Another improvement on the screen though is the always on functionality So I checked this out on the show floor But now you can actually create up to a hundred pages of notes just on your lock screen In a way that consumes very little power and allows you to quickly jot down like a tracking number or phone number Or whatever else the case may be The camera is already generating some mixed feedback the telephoto lens which has a 2x optical zoom Does not capture images that are nearly as sharp as the wide angle But for me personally I don't mind the approach because with dual capture You've got the option to do the whole like adjust the background blur bokeh thing in post Which is neat if you're into that kind of artsy stuff, but it's really not my bag But for me what's cool about dual capture is the fact that I don't really have to compromise So I can try and capture the close-up But if it kind of looks soft or doesn't look as good or I got the framing kind of wrong Then at least I can fall back to the wide angle shot and know that I've captured the moment Which is far more important for me when it comes to cell phone cameras On the subject of things that matter to me Stylus is generally not so much The Note 7 was my first Note device and I had precious little time with it before the recall So I never really have gotten in the habit of using a stylus, but apparently this one's Better than ever with more pressure levels and lower latency So I look forward to you know kind of tinkering around with it over the next couple of weeks while I work on my full review and on that subject Bixby voice has finally launched in canada so when I did my s8 review bixby seemed pretty freaking pointless just a A regrettably unremappable button on the side that I would always hit by accident and that would annoy me Hopefully i'll change my mind their pitch for it is like pretty hardcore They're like yeah, you can change your wi-fi settings. You can adjust your screen brightness. It can do everything But uh that remains to be seen i've been promised that I can talk naturally to my device and it'll behave in a way that I'd expect a lot of times and it's never really come through but one thing that's gotten my attention is Apparently the ability to program bixby with like macros So you can tell it to take a picture save it to a particular album and open up a photo editing program or something like that Whether you're sending a few quick emails from the airport's free wi-fi network or doing some emergency banking at that random cafe You might be giving away all Your personal information But tunnel bear can solve this problem once and for all tunnel bear is the simple vpn app That makes it easy to browse privately and enjoy a more Open internet with tunnel bear turned on your wi-fi connection Is secured and your online activity is kept private from your internet provider Advertisers or anyone looking to track you or profit from your data start your seven-day free trial at tunnel bear.com slash Ltt we'll have that linked below So that's it you guys that's my note 8 initial hands-on. 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