i never realized that the s8 is about the size and screen size as the x. i have a 6s plus and my wife has an s8 and her screen is larger and the phone itself is smaller.
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That is generally the idea behind the X. Plus size screen on a non-plus sized device. Only Apple is skipping the bigger than plus sized screen on a plus size device... which equals the Note 8 and s8+. When I was trying to evaluate whether I wanted to even consider an X, I used the s8 in the store to get a feeling for how it would be. The Note 8 is so much more for the money frankly.
And, I think the early adopters are going to get very frustrated with FacialID being the only security mechanism other than PIN. Its not proven. It doesn't cover some use cases at all (discretely looking at your phone in a meeting under the table, in a theatre, etc.), and its set to fail and go to PIN after two fails rather than five on TouchID. It even failed in the keynote. People are going to be frustrated. They should have included both. I could be wrong, but I would hate to spend over $1,000 to be an experiment on unproven tech that impacts you daily.
i lmaoed when i saw faceid fail during the keynote! i am surprised they didn't put the touchid sensor on the power button like kyocera did on the duraforce pro. if i stick with iphone i will get the x but my wife keeps saying get the note 8.
Do it! Your wife gives good advice. You don't want those problems anyway. Get the Note 8!
the wife always gives good advice even when she doesnt! youre right for the sake of no problems i should get the note 8. there is one app that android doesnt have and that is logten pro which is an electronic logbook for flight hours. if it were available for android i would have gotten the s8 or s8+ when my wife got her s8. its available on my ipad so it wouldn't be a total loss but the convenience factor isnt there. were going out to dinner tonight so i will make it a point to stop in best buy or a carrier store and take a look. thanks for the encouragement!
Hello everyone I am torn what to do as I currently have a iPhone 7 Plus and I have to say it has been the worst iPhone yet, overheats on me then shuts off when I am doing my business Facebook live.
There has been antenna issues galore on this phone dropped calls static etc, all my previous iPhone's have never had these issues.
I pre ordered the new 8 Plus but returned it because I didn't notice a difference between the two devices and felt like I was honestly holding my 7 plus. I also have a new car with a charging pad and the wireless charging wouldn't work on it because the plus is to wide.
Long story short I want to try the Note8 I know its a completely different phone but also curious if I should give the X a shot before making this decision as I am worried I won't be able to notice a big difference since Apple doesn't make huge upgrades on their phones lately (my personal opinion).
I do have a MacBook and a iPad so everything syncs seamlessly and I love that and can also answer text messages on my iPad if I am live for my business.
Has anyone on here had the Note8 and went back to iPhone or the other way around?
What is your opinion for my dilemma I am so torn I guess I am a Apple fan by heart but getting bored of the same stuff but feel the X may be what I am looking for it looks totally different.
Hoping the X will fit on my wireless charging pad, does anyone have a template that I could cutout and try in my car I know this was done a few years ago when the Plus was first released.
Thanks so much for any help in making my decision
For me, I got bored with iOS. Just like you, I got the feeling that my 7+ felt the same as even my iPhone 5. Obviously it has a bigger screen, and was smoother flipping threw my home screen and what not, but the apps ran pretty much the same.
I'd expect the X to also feel the same as iOS isn't changing (except for the fact that you'll be swiping more as you don't have a home button.
The Note 8 though is a totally different beast as Android is endlessly customizable to make it look and feel differently.
Then there's the S-Pen and all the features it brings. I don't think I can give up the ability to take partial screenshots and annotate them. Also don't think I can give up the ability to quickly sign PDF's with the pen (good luck trying write legibly with your finger).
My opinion is give the Note 8 a try, as it sounds you were like me and are just bored of iOS. The physical appearance may change a lot with the iPhone X, but at the end of the day, iOS is still going to look and operate pretty much identically.
Also, Samsung has a 14 day return policy, you can always get the Note 8 and give it a solid 10 days to get used to it.
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My main issue with android as a main phone has always been texting. iMessage to me is just far too superior. 90% of my contacts have iMessage. Delivered / read notices. Group message. Games, etc.
When i used android as my main device I would never feel confident that people received my sms messages and group messages were just a nightmare.
When i used android as my main device I would never feel confident that people received my sms messages and group messages were just a nightmare.
Yup. I never though I'd say this but SAMSUNG has reached a point where their version of Android is better than stock (from a person who's owned many, many Nexus phones as well as the first Pixel).
Yeh, I was also worried about that. Thus far this time around it hasn't really been an issue. You don't get read receipts, but I don't really care for those... my wife drives me crazy with it. Group messages in the past got all messed up with Android in the mix, but I haven't run into it with the Note 8. If it happens, we are already setup to use GroupMe.
I was thinking the same thing, but you can get shot saying it around some Android folks. I really like most of the Samsung apps. I was doing some work in Contacts last night and ended up in the Google Contacts app, and it was terrible compared to Samsung's. Samsung has done a good job with the Note 8 making it unique. That said, I have loaded the new Microsoft Launcher in prep for the Fall Creator's update. I really like it and it hasn't removed any of the Samsung features. Once I get the update on my Surface Pro next week I'll be able to then continue files back and forth between the Note 8 and Surface Pro; and with the S-Pen continue working on OneNote notes I started on my Surface Pro.
With Android you use what you want as your default app. I use Textra and I turn on delivery notifications on both sms and mms so I know if the recipient got my text. It's always uninformed people like yourself keeping people from trying a platform they might like better with misinformation. Do your research please.
Go in store and try the Note8 for a bit, even if it's a good 30mins of just familiarising yourself with it, if you find that you don't like it then get the iPhone X.Hello everyone I am torn what to do as I currently have a iPhone 7 Plus and I have to say it has been the worst iPhone yet, overheats on me then shuts off when I am doing my business Facebook live.
There has been antenna issues galore on this phone dropped calls static etc, all my previous iPhone's have never had these issues.
I pre ordered the new 8 Plus but returned it because I didn't notice a difference between the two devices and felt like I was honestly holding my 7 plus. I also have a new car with a charging pad and the wireless charging wouldn't work on it because the plus is to wide.
Long story short I want to try the Note8 I know its a completely different phone but also curious if I should give the X a shot before making this decision as I am worried I won't be able to notice a big difference since Apple doesn't make huge upgrades on their phones lately (my personal opinion).
I do have a MacBook and a iPad so everything syncs seamlessly and I love that and can also answer text messages on my iPad if I am live for my business.
Has anyone on here had the Note8 and went back to iPhone or the other way around?
What is your opinion for my dilemma I am so torn I guess I am a Apple fan by heart but getting bored of the same stuff but feel the X may be what I am looking for it looks totally different.
Hoping the X will fit on my wireless charging pad, does anyone have a template that I could cutout and try in my car I know this was done a few years ago when the Plus was first released.
Thanks so much for any help in making my decision
The Note8 is a content creation, multimedia and productivity convergence device, if you are not going to fully utilise what it offers, you'd be wasting your money on it, it's quite simply not for everyone.
I may sound negative about it but I bought the Note8 having come from a Note 4 and S7 Edge, and while using the S7E realised how much I require what a Note offers, countless times I was tempted to go back to my Note 4, but the S7Es battery life was so much better that I was stuck between. Finally the Note8 arrived bringing back the Note features, plus the S7E battery life with a bigger display and all the RAM to thoroughly enjoy it all allowing me to push this thing to places an iPhone simply couldn't cope.
You may rather want to look at a regular Galaxy S8 as that's more comparable to an iPhone X, the Note is a whole other type of beast that is not for everyone.
well I got the Note 8 just haven't had the courage to activate it LOL I am scared they don't make it easy to activate the devices back and forth you have to call every time you want to switch one out.
I have the iPhone X stuck in the back of my brain idk why.
If you are still having qualms about switching to Android then that's one thing. But otherwise you should just activate and use the phone. They're isn't going to be a better phone this year than what you already have. The IPhone X is just a smaller version with no S Pen, no expandable storage, Samsung's panel from last year, no headphone jack and no TouchId. All for a more expensive price. Basically the X should only be in consideration of you are dead set on staying on IOS. Otherwise there are far better options including one you already own.
I noticed playing with the Note8 I can't reverse the camera on my Facebook like to show numbers for my clothes I sell.
I had the Note 8, and got rid of it today for a iPhone 8 plus. Glad to be back in iOS. Had the Note 8 for a month and it's weight, and size was just getting to me. It was snappy, and fun to use, but I like the phone to be easy to do on everything like iOS makes it. Both are great phones. I hope to have good battery life on the 8 plus, unlike my 7 plus.
Excellent thread OP, I am in the same boat as you. Because once again I am underwhelmed by Apple’s new iPhone products, I too am torn between getting the Note 8 or a 2017 iPhone. So I thought I would share my experiences because I once had a Note, albeit it was the Note 3, 4 years ago. But remember, the Note 3 was to 2013 what the Note 8 is to 2017, the most feature packed product on the smartphone market at the time.
As some have suggested, watch a whole heap of Note 8 reviews on youtube, there are hundreds of them. But be warned, a lot of these reviewers are Anroid users so they are not comparing the Note to an iPhone, they are comparing it to other Android devices. The only way to tell if you’re going to like the Note is to use it as your daily driver for 1-2 weeks. I had my Note 3 for 6 weeks and in the end I sold it to a friend and went back to my iPhone 4S. I was not really thrilled with it after one week but persisted for another 5 weeks thinking I might change my mind, but in the end I cracked and got rid of it. But that’s not to say that the Note 8 is not a great device. It looks like an awesome device and is probably without doubt the most feature packed phone on the market today.
The things the Note 8 can do are impressive. It is probably the closest smartphone you can get on the market today to a personal computer. You can personalise your home screen, do real multistasking where you can have several things open at the same time, the screen is brilliant according to reviews, the camera is brilliant according to reviews, you can use the S-Pen as if it was a mouse, it is one step above the iPhone X for water resistance, it looks very premium (unlike the Note 3 which had the removable plastic backing), you can increase your storage capacity, and a whole lot more.
But…at the end of the day it is an Android phone. All the things you have been accustomed to on your iPhone for years, the little things like tapping the top of your screen to take you back to the top, security, ease of use, won’t be there on the Note 8. I liken it to moving to a new country. Suddenly you find yourself in a whole new environment.
With the iPhone, if something goes wrong which is not your fault, the buck stops with Apple. It is the one stop shop for your device. With the Note, if something goes wrong which is not your fault, is it Samsung’s problem or is it Android’s problem? If Apple is the garden wall, then Samsung/Android is an open jungle, and sometimes you feel like you are on your own in the open jungle.
When I got the Note 3, I also got my wife a Note 3. She used the Note 3 to take all these photos of our children and other things. One night I went to back them up onto her PC, and they just disappeared. My wife was devastated and angry at me (saying it was my fault). Hundreds of photos of our kids’ first day at school, birthday parties, trips to the zoo, etc, gone. Not on her PC, not on her Note 3. I had uploaded photos from my own Note 3 several times before and never had an issue. But this one time, the photos that mattered, all gone. Vanished from existence. I spent hours trying to locate them. And didn’t. Samsung wasn’t any help either. I saw a friend on Facebook about a year ago write on Samsung’s FB page that she had a similar issue with her Galaxy 7, all gone. Boy was she angry. Samsung responded to her saying they would look into it and 4 weeks later she wrote on their page again saying you haven’t been any help. One thing with Samsung, it can be unreliable. Never ever had an issue with losing content on an iPhone.
When I had the Note 3, I was alerted several times that certain apps were trying to download something something, even when I wasn’t using the device. Weird. That was the final straw for me. That’s what made me go back to the iPhone 4S. The back buttons I also found annoying and the skin on top of the O/S was confusing as hell. The Note came with bloatware, that the carrier has them pre-install, that I couldn’t delete. And the camera made this god awful and loud camera shutter noise that you could not turn off. One time during work I was at lunch, I was reading the paper, saw an article that I wanted to take a pic of and send to a friend, took a snap and everyone around me looked over at me because of the loud shutter noise. Later that night I was youtubing how to turn the shutter off and it turns out you couldn’t. You may be able to for the Note 8 but the Note 3 you certainly couldn’t.
The Note 3’s battery was nothing special. As bad as the iPhone. And the Note 3 did freeze from time to time, but not as bad as some on here would have you believe.
The Google playstore. They say it has more apps now than the iTunes store. Don’t be fooled by that. They probably do, but the apps are cheap and nasty. Yes they will have all the well known apps, Angry Birds, etc etc, but it’s the lesser well known apps that only you may know of and love that you won’t find on the Google playstore. On my iPhone 4S, and now on my iPhone 6 Plus, my favourite gaming app is the Yahtzee app. It’s a good little time killer. It’s actually made by the Yahtzee board game company, has the official Yahtzee trademark and all, and it is brilliant. Yet it did not exist on the Google playstore. There were several cheap imitations of the same game, made by developers, but they were terrible. Just cheap and nasty versions of the same game. Most were shocking. Also, I found that there was more than one app store on Android. Google playstore was the main one, but there were also some other small stores as well. Like I said above, it’s a bit of an open jungle. You could download an app that is malicious and not know it. I don’t think Android keeps an eye on the Google playstore the way Apple does with its Itunes store.
When I was setting up my Note 3, which was a long process, the device came pre-installed with the Facebook app. But when I went to use the Facebook app for the first time, I was notified by the device that I should download the Facebook app for Android for a better experience. WTF? So I followed the advice and ended up with 2 Facebook apps, one that came pre-installed with the phone and one that I downloaded because the devfice said it was optimised for Android. Seriously? Lol. Also, you need to spend time searching the playstore for a good malware app, because you hear stories all the time about android devices being infected.
The above are the bad experiences. Now I will share some positive experiences. I don’t know if it is the case today, but with the Google playstore, if you buy, as is spend money, on an app, and for whatever reason you regret buying it, you can within 15 minutes press the refund button and you will be reimbursed. You will lose the app you paid for but you will get your money back. Personalising your home screen is brilliant. I would spend hours playing around with it, trying different things, and when I would get bored, I would change it again because I could, unlike the iPhone. The multitasking was pretty cool too. The S-Pen, I didn’t use as much as I thought and I didn’t once pull out the pen to jot a note on the Note screen.
Hopefully this post has been of some use to you. I’m sure the Note 8 has come on in leaps and bounds since the Note 3 and like I said above, it does look like an awesome phone. If you get it, please share your experiences because I am intrigued by it as well. Hopefully they are all positive.
Cheers.
As some have suggested, watch a whole heap of Note 8 reviews on youtube, there are hundreds of them. But be warned, a lot of these reviewers are Anroid users so they are not comparing the Note to an iPhone, they are comparing it to other Android devices. The only way to tell if you’re going to like the Note is to use it as your daily driver for 1-2 weeks. I had my Note 3 for 6 weeks and in the end I sold it to a friend and went back to my iPhone 4S. I was not really thrilled with it after one week but persisted for another 5 weeks thinking I might change my mind, but in the end I cracked and got rid of it. But that’s not to say that the Note 8 is not a great device. It looks like an awesome device and is probably without doubt the most feature packed phone on the market today.
The things the Note 8 can do are impressive. It is probably the closest smartphone you can get on the market today to a personal computer. You can personalise your home screen, do real multistasking where you can have several things open at the same time, the screen is brilliant according to reviews, the camera is brilliant according to reviews, you can use the S-Pen as if it was a mouse, it is one step above the iPhone X for water resistance, it looks very premium (unlike the Note 3 which had the removable plastic backing), you can increase your storage capacity, and a whole lot more.
But…at the end of the day it is an Android phone. All the things you have been accustomed to on your iPhone for years, the little things like tapping the top of your screen to take you back to the top, security, ease of use, won’t be there on the Note 8. I liken it to moving to a new country. Suddenly you find yourself in a whole new environment.
With the iPhone, if something goes wrong which is not your fault, the buck stops with Apple. It is the one stop shop for your device. With the Note, if something goes wrong which is not your fault, is it Samsung’s problem or is it Android’s problem? If Apple is the garden wall, then Samsung/Android is an open jungle, and sometimes you feel like you are on your own in the open jungle.
When I got the Note 3, I also got my wife a Note 3. She used the Note 3 to take all these photos of our children and other things. One night I went to back them up onto her PC, and they just disappeared. My wife was devastated and angry at me (saying it was my fault). Hundreds of photos of our kids’ first day at school, birthday parties, trips to the zoo, etc, gone. Not on her PC, not on her Note 3. I had uploaded photos from my own Note 3 several times before and never had an issue. But this one time, the photos that mattered, all gone. Vanished from existence. I spent hours trying to locate them. And didn’t. Samsung wasn’t any help either. I saw a friend on Facebook about a year ago write on Samsung’s FB page that she had a similar issue with her Galaxy 7, all gone. Boy was she angry. Samsung responded to her saying they would look into it and 4 weeks later she wrote on their page again saying you haven’t been any help. One thing with Samsung, it can be unreliable. Never ever had an issue with losing content on an iPhone.
When I had the Note 3, I was alerted several times that certain apps were trying to download something something, even when I wasn’t using the device. Weird. That was the final straw for me. That’s what made me go back to the iPhone 4S. The back buttons I also found annoying and the skin on top of the O/S was confusing as hell. The Note came with bloatware, that the carrier has them pre-install, that I couldn’t delete. And the camera made this god awful and loud camera shutter noise that you could not turn off. One time during work I was at lunch, I was reading the paper, saw an article that I wanted to take a pic of and send to a friend, took a snap and everyone around me looked over at me because of the loud shutter noise. Later that night I was youtubing how to turn the shutter off and it turns out you couldn’t. You may be able to for the Note 8 but the Note 3 you certainly couldn’t.
The Note 3’s battery was nothing special. As bad as the iPhone. And the Note 3 did freeze from time to time, but not as bad as some on here would have you believe.
The Google playstore. They say it has more apps now than the iTunes store. Don’t be fooled by that. They probably do, but the apps are cheap and nasty. Yes they will have all the well known apps, Angry Birds, etc etc, but it’s the lesser well known apps that only you may know of and love that you won’t find on the Google playstore. On my iPhone 4S, and now on my iPhone 6 Plus, my favourite gaming app is the Yahtzee app. It’s a good little time killer. It’s actually made by the Yahtzee board game company, has the official Yahtzee trademark and all, and it is brilliant. Yet it did not exist on the Google playstore. There were several cheap imitations of the same game, made by developers, but they were terrible. Just cheap and nasty versions of the same game. Most were shocking. Also, I found that there was more than one app store on Android. Google playstore was the main one, but there were also some other small stores as well. Like I said above, it’s a bit of an open jungle. You could download an app that is malicious and not know it. I don’t think Android keeps an eye on the Google playstore the way Apple does with its Itunes store.
When I was setting up my Note 3, which was a long process, the device came pre-installed with the Facebook app. But when I went to use the Facebook app for the first time, I was notified by the device that I should download the Facebook app for Android for a better experience. WTF? So I followed the advice and ended up with 2 Facebook apps, one that came pre-installed with the phone and one that I downloaded because the devfice said it was optimised for Android. Seriously? Lol. Also, you need to spend time searching the playstore for a good malware app, because you hear stories all the time about android devices being infected.
The above are the bad experiences. Now I will share some positive experiences. I don’t know if it is the case today, but with the Google playstore, if you buy, as is spend money, on an app, and for whatever reason you regret buying it, you can within 15 minutes press the refund button and you will be reimbursed. You will lose the app you paid for but you will get your money back. Personalising your home screen is brilliant. I would spend hours playing around with it, trying different things, and when I would get bored, I would change it again because I could, unlike the iPhone. The multitasking was pretty cool too. The S-Pen, I didn’t use as much as I thought and I didn’t once pull out the pen to jot a note on the Note screen.
Hopefully this post has been of some use to you. I’m sure the Note 8 has come on in leaps and bounds since the Note 3 and like I said above, it does look like an awesome phone. If you get it, please share your experiences because I am intrigued by it as well. Hopefully they are all positive.
Cheers.
I'm not sure how it could be helpful to share your experience with a phone that came out over 4 years ago for someone buying a phone now??? I tried a Galaxy S5 for 6 months and hated it, and I have loved my experience with the Note 8. Your are going back 4 generations. Most of the stuff you posted is simply not consistent with my Note 8 experience.
I just moved from the 7 Plus to a V30. Oh how I missed Android. I think they'll both be good phones but I thought the Note 8 was just too darn heavy. The screen just a bit too curved.
Really specs aside, it's about if you like iOS too much to move into the Android ecosystem.
That and I've got to say, going from 1 bar to full bars... I knew Intel had crappy modems but man was I missing out on my unlimited data! Big time...
Really specs aside, it's about if you like iOS too much to move into the Android ecosystem.
That and I've got to say, going from 1 bar to full bars... I knew Intel had crappy modems but man was I missing out on my unlimited data! Big time...
I did qualify it by saying it was a Note 3. The op can make of it what he will.