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Samsung Note 8
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Actually they are. I’m in Vegas right now and with the fight and a ton of celebrities all the ones I saw had iPhones.
I'll have to try out the fingerprint scanner and see if I can get on with it. However I've not really liked any of Samsung's previous fingerprint scanners on both the S7 edge or swiping one on the S5.
Yet I'm not that bothered because I can use iris scanning, facial recognition or even bixby voice to unlock my phone. Also at home I'll use trusted places and I'm keen to use the force Touch home button to unlock when I'm at home so I've got plenty of options if the FPS sucks.
Re the dual sim phones, I think it's only the unlocked Note 8 that is dual sim in Europe?
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Yes the Kardashains all have iPhones, Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Mariah Carey etc.
That's possible, but they're all unlocked here anyway as the concept of carrier locking died off rather quickly.
Just played with it again and had some time with the camera, and wow that's nice, the 2x zoom is awesome, much better than what I had on my 7 Plus.
But of course. Who wouldn't outsource their choice in tech to renowned experts such as the Kardashians?
Sadly not here on Ireland.
Even their 'unsubsidised' phones on Pay as You Go tariffs here are locked to the carrier.
So you pay €999 for the Note for example and it's still locked with each carrier having various and sometimes draconian unlock requirements.
Ouch, that's nasty. I guess over here carrier locking was more of hassle than benefit for the carriers as most advantages they'd have were mostly negated by customer protection laws and maybe in the end all the additional hassle and badwill related to locking wasn't worth it.
Actually the Note 8 has been out a while.That's because the Note 8 is not out, yet.
http://m.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_note_8_0-5252.php
But the Note8 isn't
There's a reason Samsung dropped the space between Note + 8 .... 
Oh oh, better stop my Note 8 plans. I need the same phone as celebrities have. And while I'm at it, let me get my addiction to pills happening like celebrities, and oh yeah, gotta get my private pics and videos leaked too.
How was the zoom better? In what way? Please tell
The ois, it is sooo smooth at that zoom level. And looked clearer too, less noise.
The iPhone's read/write speed is always glowingly rated by Anandtech. I'm agnostic on the SD question -- to each their own -- but you cannot deny the quality of the iPhone's internal storage...
And now some initial impressions after using the Note 8. Remember how last year when the Note 7 was unveiled, everyone's first impression was to call it an S7 Edge with a SPen, and now the Note 8 is basically being viewed the same way. Then the Note 7 went on to be praised as one of the best phones that year, once the reviews started rolling in. Even Erica Griffin mentions this in her Note 8 impressions video. So she's reserving any opinion till after using it. Slowly but surely, we will see more videos like the one below. Guaranteed.
He made a good point about the Spen that I always loved about it. There are plenty of apps and websites that you can't highlight and copy text, which can be annoying when you really want to. But the Spen can basically highlight any text anywhere and copy it.
I'm really looking forward to using Bixby. This guy keeps putting up good videos on how to use Bixby. All the reviews I've seen from the big tech sites like Engadget, Android Authority, and The Verge don't even mention any of the stuff this guy does. Especially the Q&A part of Bixby.
I know most sites are just writing it off because it can't match some of the other assistants when you ask it a question. However that's not what it's for and it can do a lot more. They just don't take the time to test it out properly.
Don't know why you guys bother to reply to him, he seems to be happy with Apple dictating how he must use a phone, if tomorrow Apple added expandable memory his argument would change.