Samsung Note 8 : Samsung Has It All
What do you need to be a flagship smartphone in 2017? Dual cameras? Near bezel-less display? A powerful processor? 2K+ resolution? Well.... Samsung has it all! And they're calling it, the Note 8. But... will the new Note 8 be a lesser disappointment than it's predecessor?
Samsung's Move
After Samsung meticulously disastrous release of the galaxy note 7, fans were left hugely disappointed up until the release of the Galaxy S8. With the sS8, Samsung highlighted a new aspect to the smart phone game, the infinity display. Yet, the company still was missing a charm. The cherry to the cake came in a bit late in the form of the Note 8, and the dual-camera setup. While all the Samsung-crazy fans are losing their mind over it, people like us, well, we seem to think of this move from Samsung a bit irrational.
One must not think of the Note 8 to be an incapable device, neither should it be underestimated of it's potential. With 6GB of RAM and Qualcomm 835/ Exxynos 8895 inside, this is one blazing fast device. But, the real question is that, was it necessary for Samsung to introduce nothing but a stylus and a seemingly late move of including dual-camera setups, in a very minutely larger body than Samsung's previous flagship?
Samsung Backfired
Most of us would agree to thr fact that Samsung failed to achieve it's main goal in the current smartphone monoply. Especially at a time when Apple is almost about to launch it's new iPhone 8. What Samsung did meaninglessly wrong was using a brand title to refurbish a few months old flagship. The Note 8 is basically Samsung's frustrated attempt to stay in the top of the food chain. One can simply take the S8+, add 1/10th fraction of an inch to the screen size, a stylus and dual-cameras, and voila, you have the Note 8, for just about $250 more, and 200 mAh of battery power reduced. A nice move, eh Samsung?
We can understand the fact that Samsung felt that they were left behind without having any dual camera phone, but everything has a particular moment to be introduced. The company certainly backfired, probably not literally like the last time, but yes.
The Unnecessity
The Note 8 franchise is particularly famous for it's ergonomically big displays and an amazing stylus. It was basically to please comtent creators of every field to have a writing pad available at their disposal any time. The Note series in itself remained distinguished from ever Samsung device of that time, let alone other Android devices. But this time it couldn't. Previously with the Note 8 people were particularly let down with it being discontinued, because it was a great phone with all the top of the line specs of 2016, and much more as well. But this time it just feels an unnecessary reboot of a phone that is barely a few months old.
The internet might find Samsung's motive to be rather fulfilling, but not a few of us would. And pretty mych all the previous generation Note users might just agree with the fact that a stylus and an always available writing pad isn't many peoples concern.
Specs and Details
The Note 8 looks mostly similar to the S8+ in almost every aspects. It just doesn't have the curved screens and rounded edges as the S8+, which is an advantage and a drawback as well. The absence of a curved screen helps in gripping the device from the sides, but the rounded corners added a firm grip while single habded usage.
Specswise it's the same with slightly more RAM at 6GB. The dual-camera setup is the main focus here. The dual 12MP lenses deliver satisfying shots in both well lit and low light conditions, mostly due to the presence of OIS in both the sensors, first time ever in a dual camera phone. Samsung has opted for a telephoto lens for the second lens. The images produced are really praiseworthy and are perhaps the best android cameras ever.
Other than these minor upgrades, Samsung has added a few software tweaks which adopt with the 18.5:9 aspect ratio of the screen. This mostly includes the ability to launch a pair of apps in split-screen mode at the same time, from the edge menu. The pair of apps can be customised and selected as per the users need. This is a feature needed in rest of the Samsung phones.
Also, for $930 Samsung isn't even giving a bigger battery, instead reduced it's capacity than the $650 S8+, at 3300 mAh. This might be considered as a precautionary step from Samsung after last year's fiasco.
Conclusion
Although most of the people are praising the Note 8, which absolutely deserves to be praised, some of us believe this to be Samsung's unnecessary ball to the bat. Well in the long run, this might prove to be fruitful, but all we wanted Samsung to do was to bring in a few more surprises with their new Note 8 rather than just rushing to a bad decision.
Thanks for reading, and please do give your views opinions regarding the new Note 8 from Samsung. Have a great day.
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