what's up guys david here and by now you
probably know
a good amount about the galaxy s8 you
know that it has a big beautiful
infinity display
and that the fingerprint scanner is now
on the back but
is really hard to reach you know that
the navigation buttons are now software
based and that the home button
is always on and pressure sensitive and
finally you know that samsung added a
dedicated button to the side of the
phone
for their new voice assistance called
bixby not that anyone was really asking
for it so
today i figured why not do something a
little bit different and talk about the
things you probably
don't already know starting off with the
higher end
third model that not only has more ram
at six gigabytes instead of only four
but it also has more internal storage at
128 gigabytes double what's available on
the other models now if this sounds like
the galaxy s8 for you and for me
honestly
well the bad news is you can only buy it
if you live in china or korea
unless of course you plan on importing
it but if you don't want to import and
have to give up things like support for
samsung pay
the second thing you might not know is
samsung is going to offer
an unlocked model of the galaxy s8
without any of the carrier bloatware
just three weeks after the initial
launch
but be warned samsung did a really bad
job at updating the unlocked galaxy s7
last year which you would think would
kind of be the other way around but
it wasn't and there's no telling if the
story will be any different with the s8
third thing you might not know is there
will actually be two different chip sets
on the galaxy s8 one with qualcomm
snapdragon 835
and the other with samsung's exynos 88
95.
and according to some benchmarks it
looks like the exynos variant is going
to be a little bit more powerful
of course we won't know the full story
until our fumble style speed test thumbs
up if you guys are excited to see that
but to be honest i wouldn't be surprised
if the exynos variant
outperforms since this is exactly what
happened last year with the s7 the good
news is
the fourth thing you might not know is
that all of the s8 variants will be
using faster
ufs 2.1 storage compared to ufs 2.0
which first debuted on the galaxy s6
this faster storage
should improve things like multitasking
app load up times
and file transfer speeds ufs 2.1 should
also lead to faster burst shot and
panorama stitching in the camera while
also making photo thumbnails in the
gallery load up faster as well
which brings us to the fifth thing that
you might not know which has to do
with the camera so with the help of a
new image signal processor or isp
the s8 is capable of multi-frame
processing which will take multiple
photos when you press the shutter and
then use those multiple frames to create
a better looking final photo this is a
lot like what google is doing with the
pixels hdr plus but it's happening at a
hardware level
on the s8 meaning it should take less
time for it to process the photo this
allows you to review it right after you
take it without having to wait for the
photo to finish processing in addition
to the isp the s8
is actually using a new camera sensor
one of the new variants is sony's imx
333 which is the same sensor sony is
using in their upcoming
xz premium a phone that's capable of
shooting slow motion video
at an incredible 960 frames per second
but before you get too excited from what
i've seen
it doesn't look like the s8 will be able
to shoot at 960 fps but the point here
is that the sensor is technically new
the sixth thing like the camera doesn't
look any better on the spec sheet but
is actually better in reality in an
improved battery no i'm not
talking about an improvement in battery
life on any given day but an improvement
in the life of the battery in any given
year
according to samsung the s8 battery
degrades much more slowly than the
batteries on
other phones with it having an effective
battery capacity of 95 percent
after a year's worth of charge cycles
for comparison the s7 has an effective
battery capacity of only
80 after a year so if you do the math
after a year of normal charging the s8
battery would be an effective 2 850
milliamp hours
compared to the s7 2400 milliamp hours
so while the battery life won't be any
better than the s7 on launch day
over time the s8 battery should last you
a little bit longer the seventh thing
that you may not know
is something that does show up on the
spec sheet and that the s8
is the first phone to use bluetooth 5.0
now why does this matter well in
addition to having four times the range
of bluetooth 4.2 bluetooth 5.0
also offers two times the bandwidth one
of the benefits of this is you can push
audio over bluetooth to
two different headphones or bluetooth
speakers at the same time now while this
is definitely cool the feature
i'm actually more excited about is an
option the s8 has to control audio
output at an app level so for example
you can set it so only the audio from
your music app
outputs over to your bluetooth speaker
while the rest of the phone's audio
whether it be a snapchat or a text
message ringtone
will come through the phone's speaker
itself the eighth thing that you may not
know about the galaxy s8
is it's also the first phone to support
gigabits lte speeds which is over double
what the s7 could do now for most people
this is overkill as you probably don't
live in an area that supports gigabit
lte
but if you do then no other phone is
gonna give you faster data
the ninth thing that you may not know
about the galaxy s8 is samsung didn't
initially plan on putting the
fingerprint scanner on the back it was
originally supposed to be under the
screen where the pressure sensitive home
button is but apparently they ran into
some issues where like things wouldn't
have been ready in time so they opted to
put the fingerprint scanner on the back
now like that sounds like a reasonable
excuse but at the same time i'm not sure
why they couldn't have put the
fingerprint scanner a little bit lower
but hey
at least samsung added a gesture that
lets you bring the notification shade
down by swiping on the scanner
and then finally the 10th thing that you
may not know or at least there seems to
be some confusion about
is no the s8 doesn't have stereo
speakers okay
it's a single bottom firing mono speaker
and from what i can tell it's no better
than the speaker
on the s7 maybe only a little bit louder
however samsung kind of makes up for
this by including akg headphones in the
box which
is supposedly a 99 value but then again
they raised the price of the s8 by a
hundred dollars over what they sold the
s7 for last year
so yeah the s8 is officially more
expensive
than the iphone who would have ever
thought anyways that is it for me in
this video
there will be a bunch of coverage on the
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thank you guys for watching and as
always i'll see you
in the very next episode