A processor that's smarter than you.

In recent days and even hours, more and more comparative materials have appeared on our website, which prove that buying an iPhone 8 Plus is more justified today than purchasing an iPhone X.

I share my personal opinion on this matter, which claims to be an objective assessment of the situation.

#1. Term of adaptation of developers to the new screen

The reason for his work was the notorious "hump" at the upper edge of the new Apple flagship, which obviously eats away the usable space from the larger (according to the manufacturer's marketing materials) iPhone X screen.

He received the following values, which relate to the total area:

iPhone X- 81.6 square centimeters
iPhone 8 Plus- 83.6 square centimeters

And he noted that the iPhone X display seems a little larger due to the increase in height and decrease in width (6.2 centimeters versus 6.8 for the iPhone 8 Plus).

In this case, part of the screen obviously eats off the lower slider, which turned out to be a replacement for the Home button.

#5. iPhone 8 Plus is significantly cheaper than iPhone X

To summarize, let's turn to Apple's pricing policy in the Russian Federation - that's it.

iPhone X:

64 GB - 79,990 rubles
256 GB - 91,990 rubles.

iPhone 8 Plus:

64 GB - 64,990 rubles.
256 GB - 76,990 rubles.

Each of the iPhone 8 Plus models of similar memory costs as much as 15 thousand rubles. more than the iPhone X. At the same time, the latter actually wins only in smaller dimensions.

All this will definitely make many people think about buying the iPhone 8 Plus instead of the iPhone X. But the feeling of owning a fundamentally new device after buying the first one will definitely not arise. It is for him, in fact, that you have to pay extra.

Choosing a smartphone is a difficult and painful task. Aggressively promoted devices are not always the best in their segment. We have collected devices that fully pay off the price and may well compete with more expensive models.

The smartphone costs 37-40 thousand rubles, for this money you will get a full-fledged flagship on Snapdragon 845 with top-end screen, camera, speakers and power.

The ZenFone 5z feature is artificial intelligence. The system adjusts the processor for a specific application or game, optimizes power consumption and adjusts the screen for different types of content.

The second feature of the device is high-quality stereo speakers. The smartphone stands out for its volume - it is a complete replacement for a portable speaker. Artificial intelligence is also involved here: algorithms analyze the level of external noise and, depending on this, adjust the volume. The sound in the headphones is also very high quality. All in all, in terms of sound quality, the ZenFone 5z is one of the best smartphones on the market.

The main camera is truly flagship. It is equipped with two 12 + 8 MP sensors. With its help, high-quality photos are obtained in any lighting, and algorithms adjust it to different conditions, and also process the images already taken.

The ZenFone 5z is equipped with optical image stabilization. This improves the quality of videos and night photos. The presence of a second lens gives the device an optical zoom and portrait mode with bokeh effect.

At its price point, the ZenFone 5z simply has no competition. inferior to him in terms of image quality, especially in low light. In addition, the BBK sub-flagship is more expensive in Russia than in China due to VAT.

This is the basic version of the latest generation of the line. The quality of the smartphone is also above average in the price range of 25-28 thousand rubles.

The smartphone set a record for the speed of sales in the Indian store Flipkart: a batch of 100 thousand copies was sold out in 5 minutes. This fact is enough to characterize the smartphone: the manufacturer offers the maximum functionality for the minimum price.

For 23 thousand rubles, POCO sells a smartphone with a top-end Snapdragon 845 processor. The most top games fly on it.

The second feature of Pocophone is the ability to experiment with firmware. This is what makes it different from other Xiaomi smartphones. Ideal for geeks: inexpensive, powerful, and totally free.

A nice addition is a high-quality selfie camera. She does a good job under any conditions. There is also the ability to record Full HD video with digital stabilization and 4K without stabilization.

The camera and the screen cannot be attributed to the pluses or minuses. The smartphone shoots at the level of its segment, 20-25 thousand rubles. The screen is decent: made using IPS technology, Full HD resolution. The picture will be clear, the brightness will be enough for comfortable use on a sunny day, the image will not be distorted if the device is tilted. There is fast charging - already usually for the middle level.

To release a smartphone with top-end filling for 20 thousand rubles, the manufacturer obviously saved a lot. Pocophone F1 received a plastic cover, the device does not support NFC. We didn't bother with the design either: the smartphone is packed in a classic 2018 case with a bang. Also, bold frames and a huge chin speak about its budget. But in terms of performance and autonomy and user-friendliness of the interface, there are no complaints about it.

Samsung Galaxy S8

The main Android hit of 2017 does not lose its relevance by the end of 2018. For 40 thousand, you get a compact flagship with a chic appearance, top-end performance and a stunning screen. For the next two years, you obviously won't have to think about changing your mobile device.

The S8's camera is the same as the S7. But it is better than its predecessor, the company paid a lot of attention to the software: the camera produces images with high details and excellent color reproduction. Plus, it copes well with tasks in any conditions thanks to its aperture: during the day, pictures are obtained without flare, at night, frames are produced with high sharpness and a minimum amount of noise.

You shouldn't turn away from the smartphone because of the single main camera, the S8 shoots high-quality portraits even without portrait mode. The software reduces the sharpness of the background, resulting in an illusion of blur. The only thing the device limits the availability of only one lens is the optical zoom, which is not here.

The smartphone has a Super AMOLED screen with modern 18: 9 aspect ratios and Full HD resolution. Super AMOLED has a much wider color gamut than IPS. This ensures the most accurate color reproduction, the images come out colorful and rich.

The rest of the device also works at the top level: autonomy is the best among all smartphones of the S8 and S9 series, flagship performance, support for fast and wireless charging, protection against water and dust according to the IP68 standard while maintaining a 3.5mm audio jack, NFC chip.

iPhone 8 Plus 64GB

For the price point, the iPhone X is still at the cosmic level. In addition, it has been discontinued and this model will soon not be found. In this case, if you want an iPhone with all the modern chips, but are not ready to take the latest generation, the 8 Plus with 64 GB for 55 thousand rubles is your choice.

The device has a completely updated hardware, in particular the camera - the aperture is better than in the 7 Plus. This provides a higher quality photo, in particular at night: there is a lot of transmitted light, almost no noise. The 8 Plus also came with X to offer a Portrait Lighting feature to add a studio light effect.

The A11 Bionic delivers some of the most powerful augmented reality games and apps ever, and it's Apple's best device in terms of battery life. There is support for fast and wireless charging.

The smartphone has two serious drawbacks. 16: 9 aspect ratio screen - it will display less content than frameless ones. Apple itself humiliated its most underrated smartphone on its XS and XS Max ad page under the slogan "The difference is clear." Also, fast charging will have to be purchased separately - the box contains a regular 5-watt adapter. In general, if you are not confused by the outdated design, you will not find any serious drawbacks in the device.

And now they are the most modern devices made by Apple, apart from a much more expensive model. They are not inferior to her in performance and have high autonomy. With the screen on, the iPhone 8 Plus lasts 10.5 hours, and the standard version 8.5 hours. Under medium load, this will keep most users away from recharging during the day.

If you want to get even more, you can use the power saving mode, but then there will be no notifications and the speed of work will decrease. Below we will describe how you can extend the life of smartphones without such sacrifices.

1. Disabling the Raise to Wake function

In iOS 10, it became possible to wake up the device when you pick it up. Using sensors, the smartphone detects that you took it from the table or took it out of your pocket and look at the screen, which immediately turns on. Unfortunately, it activates in the same way when you are not looking at it, if you turn the device in your pocket, bag, etc. Of course, the screen lights up for a short time and at a low brightness, but still the power consumption increases, so it is better to disable this function.

Even when it is disabled, the screen is automatically activated if you pick up your smartphone immediately after receiving a notification.

2. Management of notifications

Activating the screen when receiving notifications consumes a little power, but still reduces battery life. You can turn off lock screen notifications for unimportant apps.

3. Disable background app updates

Each smartphone has many programs that need to update their content frequently. You do not run many of them every day, or even every week. For this reason, you can restrict their work. Such programs will continue to send push notifications, but will not preload their content and update it.

4. Reducing the time to automatic blocking

Often the smartphone is left on on the table and users forget about it. If the automatic screen lock is set for a minute or for 5 minutes, such cases accumulate and lead to an increase in energy consumption. To prevent this from happening, you need to reduce the time before automatic blocking.

Whichever time you choose, if the iPhone displays the home screen, this time will be half the time.

5. Disable Bluetooth

In iOS 11, turning off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth from Control Center doesn't actually turn off the modem. The iPhone keeps looking for a new connection and is ready to go as soon as you flip the switches.

You need to completely disable Bluetooth in the system settings. If the AirDrop option is active, it automatically turns on Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, so you need to turn that off too.

6. Disable location services

It is not necessary to turn off all location services completely, otherwise the smartphone will no longer be so smart. As with notifications and app updates in the background, you can tweak it.

iOS 11 forces every app to have three location settings: never, when in use, and always. Previously, many applications only had “never” and “always” options. The intermediate option now saves energy.

7. Disable vibration and haptic feedback

The vibration motor also consumes energy. You can make the vibration work only when the smartphone is muted, you can remove the tactile response from pressing the buttons.

8. Disable automatic download

Do you need apps to keep up to date when you are away from home, at work and in your daily activities? If not, turn off automatic updates and check for updates at home in the evenings when your smartphone is plugged in. At the very least, you need to prevent applications from updating over the cellular network. Even if it is allowed, iOS 11 will not install updates larger than 100 MB over the mobile Internet. Such files can be obtained via Wi-Fi in a few seconds, so there is no point in downloading them throughout the day and spending energy and traffic on it.

9. Set the email check time

Some email clients can display messages on their own, others must force data to be retrieved. You can set the time for checking mail for an hour, 30 minutes, 15 minutes. The longer this interval, the less energy will be consumed.

10. Updating podcasts

If you listen to podcasts, you get new episodes from time to time. iPhone checks these episodes every hour. If you are subscribed to broadcasts that occur once a week, this frequency of checks is not necessary.

Last year, the iPhone X was in the spotlight, and we haven't ignored it: read our articles and. In addition, we told you about the compact model. But next to these two novelties, the iPhone 8 Plus faded into the background, which seems to be not quite a flagship, but at the same time cannot boast of the compactness and attractive price of the iPhone 8. However, it would be wrong to completely discount it. Therefore, we decided to use the iPhone 8 Plus in real life and share our impressions of it - both in comparison with the iPhone X and with. But, of course, you will find traditional test results in the article.

Let's take a look at the characteristics of the new item.

Specifications Apple iPhone 8 Plus

Apple A11 Bionic SoC (6 cores, 2 of which are high performance and clocked at 2.1 GHz, and 4 are energy efficient)
GPU Apple A11 Bionic
Apple M11 motion coprocessor including barometer, accelerometer, gyroscope and compass
RAM 3 GB
Flash memory 64/256 GB
No memory card support
Operating system iOS 11
IPS touch display, 5.5 ″, 1920 × 1080 (401 ppi), capacitive, multitouch, support for 3D Touch technologies and Taptic Engine response
Cameras: front (7 megapixel, video 1080p 30 fps, 720p 240 fps) and rear with two lenses (12 megapixels, optical zoom 2 ×, video shooting 4K 60 fps)
Wi-Fi 802.11b / g / n / ac (2.4 and 5 GHz; MIMO support)
Cellular: UMTS / HSPA / HSPA + / DC-HSDPA (850, 900, 1700/2100, 1900, 2100 MHz); GSM / EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz), LTE Bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 38, 39, 40, 41, LTE Advanced support
Bluetooth 5.0 A2DP LE
Fingerprint scanner Touch ID version 3
NFC (Apple Pay only)
Universal Lightning connector
Supports Qi wireless charging
Li-polymer battery 2675 mAh, non-removable
GPS / A-GPS, Glonass
Dimensions 158 × 78 × 7.5 mm
Weight 202 g

For clarity, let's compare them with the iPhone 8 and iPhone 7 Plus, in order to understand, firstly, what is the difference between the two generations of larger Apple smartphones, and secondly, is there a difference between the two models of the new generation (in addition to size, of course).

	Apple iPhone 8 Plus	Apple iPhone 7 Plus	Apple iPhone 8
Screen		5.5 ″, IPS, 1920 × 1080, 401 ppi	4.7 ″, IPS, 1334 × 750, 326 ppi
SoC (processor)		Apple A10 Fusion (4 cores, 2 + 2)	SoC Apple A11 Bionic (6 cores, 2 + 4)
Flash memory	64/256 GB	32/128/256 GB	64/256 GB
Connectors		universal Lightning connector	universal Lightning connector
Memory card support	No	No	No
RAM	3 GB	3 GB	2 GB
Cameras	main (12 megapixel; 4K 60 fps video) with two lenses and front (7 megapixel; shooting and transferring Full HD video)	main (12 megapixel; 4K 30 fps video) with two lenses and front (7 megapixel; shooting and transferring Full HD video)	main (12 Mp; 4K 60 fps video) and front (7 Mp; Full HD video shooting and transmission)
User identification sensors	Fingerprint's scanner	Fingerprint's scanner	Fingerprint's scanner
Hull protection	IP67 (water and dust proof)	IP67 (water and dust proof)	IP67 (water and dust proof)
Battery capacity (mAh)	2675	2900	1821
Operating system	Apple iOS 11	Apple iOS 10 (update to iOS 11 available)	Apple iOS 11
Dimensions (mm)	158 × 78 × 7.5	158 × 78 × 7.3	138 x 67 x 7.3
Weight (g)	202	189	148
Average price (for the version with minimum flash memory)
Apple iPhone 8 Plus Retail Deals (64GB)
Apple iPhone 8 Plus Retail Deals (256GB)

The main difference between the larger new iPhone and its younger brother (in addition to the size and display area, of course) is 3 GB of RAM instead of 2 GB. We'll talk about how this affects performance later. As for the comparison with the iPhone 7 Plus, here it is worth paying attention to the emerging 4K 60 fps video recording mode (the "seven" had only 4K 30 fps), as well as to the slightly reduced battery capacity. However, it is too early to draw any conclusions from this - one must look at it in practice.

Well, let's get to know the smartphone live.

Packaging and equipment

In terms of the set, the iPhone 8 Plus is completely identical to its younger brother, the only difference is in size. And in terms of size, it, in turn, is completely identical to the iPhone 7 Plus - so much so that even covers from that will do.

However, using a case with an iPhone 8 Plus is a dubious idea, because you won't feel like switching to a new iPhone if you had an iPhone 7 Plus before. Of course, the main design innovation is the glass back.

I must say that in addition to the obvious aesthetic advantages, it also has an important practical plus: it is much less scratched than the coating on the iPhone 7 Plus in Jet Black. In less than a year of use, our iPhone 7 Plus Jet Black is already covered with scratches, although the vast majority of this time the smartphone was in a case. In the case of the iPhone 8 Plus, for a month of equally active use in everyday life, no visible damage appeared - not a single smallest scratch, although it was not always in the case.

At the same time, it is quite obvious that the case reduces the likelihood of breaking the smartphone and allows it to keep its “marketable” appearance longer. So the question of whether to use the cover or not remains open. By the way, for the new iPhones, Apple has released new cases: in the photo below - the iPhone 8 Plus in a charcoal gray leather case.

As for the colors of the smartphone itself, then, as you know, the iPhone 8/8 Plus is sold in three colors - silver, gold and space gray. Pink is no longer in the assortment, as is Jet Black. But the gold version that we used just gives a noticeable pinkish tint. This is an effect on the amateur, albeit a very curious one. The other two colors are more versatile.

The glass back has another plus (at least that's what Apple claims to be): the new iPhones support wireless charging. We mentioned this in our review of the iPhone 8, but now we decided to check how this is in practice.

IPhone 8 Plus Wireless Charger

Unfortunately, Apple has not yet released a proprietary AirPower charging station, so you have to use third-party solutions.

iPhone 8 Plus (as well as iPhone 8 and iPhone X) support the Qi standard. This is the most popular wireless charging standard, so if you see wireless charging in the store it will most likely be the right option.

As it turns out, finding inexpensive wireless chargers in retail is not easy. The author went to a number of large chain stores near the central stations of the Moscow metro and everywhere came across the bewilderment of sellers. At first they did not understand what wireless charging was, in principle, then some of them recalled that “it seems we have it, but only for Samsung phones” (they had to explain that it would work for the iPhone too), but in the end it turned out that the only option costs about 4,000 rubles, and the desire to buy it immediately disappeared.

However, if you go to the sites of the same stores, we will easily find many more attractive offers. Prices start at 1000 rubles. True, charging really needs to be ordered - either with delivery by courier, or for pickup from some store. Apparently, they are not in sufficient demand to put them on the shelves.

So, we decided to try one of the cheapest options - the Buro Q5 - and measured how long it takes to charge the iPhone 8 Plus.

The result was not very happy: in half an hour, a heavily discharged iPhone charges by about 12%. In total, the process will take at least four hours. Here, however, it should be noted that the current strength of the Buro Q5 is 1 A. Of course, there are wireless chargers for 2 A on sale, but there are much less of them than single-amp ones, and their price is from 2000 rubles.

In general, if you want to use a third-party wireless charger, you can do it, and there shouldn't be any problems, but be prepared for a slow recharge, or look for a dual-amp charger and pay much more for it.

Screen

The screen parameters of the iPhone 8 Plus do not differ from those of the iPhone 7 Plus: 5.5-inch diagonal, IPS-matrix with a resolution of 1920 × 1080. By modern standards, these are far from record-breaking parameters. However, as we know, the quality of the screen is not determined by the resolution alone. On top of that, the manufacturer has implemented a number of interesting technologies in the new generation screens.

The editor of the "Monitors" and "Projectors and TV" sections will tell you about the quality of the display. Alexey Kudryavtsev .

The front surface of the screen is made in the form of a glass plate with a mirror-smooth surface, resistant to scratches. Judging by the reflection of objects, the anti-glare properties of the screen are better than those of the screen (hereinafter simply the Nexus 7). For clarity, here is a photo in which a white surface is reflected in the turned off screens (on the left - Nexus 7, on the right - Apple iPhone 8 Plus, then they can be distinguished by their size):

The screen of the Apple iPhone 8 Plus is slightly darker (brightness in photographs is 104 versus 113 for the Nexus 7). The doubling of reflected objects in the screen of the Apple iPhone 8 Plus is very weak, which indicates that there is no air gap between the layers of the screen (more specifically, between the outer glass and the surface of the LCD matrix) (OGS type screen - One Glass Solution). Due to the smaller number of boundaries (such as glass / air) with greatly different refractive indices, such screens look better in conditions of intense ambient light, but their repair in the case of cracked outer glass is much more expensive, since the entire screen has to be changed. On the outer surface of the screen there is a special oleophobic (grease-repellent) coating (effective, similar to that of the Nexus 7), so fingerprints are much easier to remove, and appear at a slower rate than in the case of ordinary glass.

With manual brightness control and with the display of the white field on the whole screen, the maximum brightness value was about 580 cd / m², the minimum - 2.7 cd / m². The maximum brightness is very high, and given the excellent anti-glare properties, the readability of the screen even on a sunny day outdoors will be good. In complete darkness, the brightness can be lowered to a comfortable value. In the presence of automatic brightness control according to the light sensor (it is located above the slot of the front speaker), which is enabled by default. In automatic mode, when the ambient light conditions change, the screen brightness both increases and decreases. The operation of this function depends on the position of the brightness adjustment slider - with it the user sets the desired brightness level for the current conditions. If nothing is changed, then in complete darkness, the brightness drops to 3.0 cd / m2 (very dark), in an office illuminated with artificial light (about 550 lx), the screen brightness is set to 100-160 cd / m2 (acceptable), and in in very bright environments (equivalent to bright daylight outdoors, but no direct sunlight - 20,000 lux or slightly more) rises to 670 cd / m² (even higher than when manually adjusted). The result did not quite suit us, so in the dark we slightly moved the brightness slider to the right and for the above three conditions we got 15, 120 and 670 cd / m² (ideal). It turns out that the automatic brightness control function works adequately, and it is possible to adjust the nature of the brightness change to the user's requirements. At any brightness level, there is no significant backlight modulation, so there is no screen flickering either.

This smartphone uses an IPS-type matrix. The micrographs show the typical IPS subpixel structure:

For comparison, you can see those used in mobile technology.

The screen has good viewing angles without significant color shift even with large gaze deviations from perpendicular to the screen and without tint inversion. For comparison, here are the photos on which the screens of Apple iPhone 8 Plus and Nexus 7 are displayed the same images, while the brightness of the screens was initially set to about 200 cd / m2 (along the white field across the entire screen), and the color balance on the camera was forcibly switched to 6500 TO.

White field perpendicular to screens:

Note the good uniformity of brightness and color tone of the white field.

And the test picture:

Color balance is slightly different, color saturation is normal. Recall that a photograph cannot serve as a reliable source of information about the quality of color rendition and is provided only for a conditional visual illustration. In this case, apparently due to the peculiarities of the radiation spectrum of the screen, the color balance and brightness of colors in the photographs of the Apple iPhone 8 Plus screen are somewhat different from what is seen with the eye and is determined by the spectrophotometer.

Now at an angle of approximately 45 degrees to the plane and to the side of the screen:

It can be seen that the colors did not change much on both screens and the contrast remained at a high level.

And white box:

The brightness at the angle of the screens decreased (at least 4 times, based on the difference in exposure), but in the case of the Apple iPhone 8 Plus, the drop in brightness is less. When deviated diagonally, the black field is lightened to a medium degree and takes on a purple tint. The photos below demonstrate this (the brightness of the white areas in the direction perpendicular to the plane of the screens is about the same!):

And from a different angle:

When viewed from a perpendicular view, the uniformity of the black field is good:

The contrast (approximately in the center of the screen) is high - about 1270: 1. The response time for the transition black-white-black is 26 ms (14 ms on + 12 ms off). The transition between gray tones of 25% and 75% (based on the numerical value of the color) and back takes 34 ms in total. The gamma curve, plotted using 32 points at equal intervals in terms of the numerical value of the shade of gray, did not reveal a blockage in either the highlights or the shadows. The exponent of the approximating exponential function is 1.81, which is below the standard value of 2.2, so the image is slightly lightened. In this case, the real gamma curve noticeably deviates from the power dependence:

The color gamut is sRGB:

We look at the spectra:

Such spectra are found in top-end mobile devices from Sony and other manufacturers. Apparently, this screen uses LEDs with a blue emitter and a green and red phosphor (usually a blue emitter and a yellow phosphor), which in combination with special matrix light filters allows obtaining a wide color gamut. Yes, and in the red phosphor, apparently, the so-called quantum dots are used. For a consumer device, a wide color gamut is in no way an advantage, but a significant drawback, since as a result, the colors of images - drawings, photographs and films - oriented to the sRGB space (and there are an overwhelming majority of them) have an unnatural saturation. This is especially noticeable on recognizable shades, such as skin tones. However, in this case, the color gamut is neatly adjusted to the sRGB borders and as a result, visually the colors have natural saturation.

This applies to those images in which the sRGB profile is registered or no profile at all. However, the Display P3 color space with slightly richer greens and reds is native to today's top-end Apple devices. Display P3 is based on SMPTE DCI-P3 but has a D65 white point and a gamma curve of approximately 2.2. In addition, the manufacturer claims that since iOS 9.3, color management is supported at the system level, which makes it easier for iOS applications to correctly display images with a prescribed color profile. Indeed, adding the Display P3 profile to the test images (JPG and PNG files), we got a wider color gamut than sRGB (output in Safari):

Note that the coordinates of the primary colors almost exactly coincided with those prescribed for the DCI-P3 standard. Let's look at the spectra in the case of test images with the Display P3 profile:

It can be seen that in this case no cross-mixing of the components occurs, that is, this color space is native to the Apple iPhone 8 Plus screen.

The gray scale balance is good, as the color temperature is close to the standard 6500 K, and the deviation from the spectrum of the absolute black body (ΔE) is less than 10, which is considered an acceptable indicator for a consumer device. At the same time, the color temperature and ΔE vary little from shade to shade - this has a positive effect on the visual assessment of the color balance. The change in values from hue to hue indirectly indicates that software color correction is being used. (The darkest areas of the gray scale can be ignored, since the color balance there is not very important, and the error in measuring color characteristics at low brightness is large.)

This Apple device has the function Night shift, which makes the picture warmer at night (how much warmer - the user indicates). For a description of why such a correction might be useful, see. In any case, when having fun with a tablet or smartphone at night, looking at it, it is better to lower the screen brightness to a minimum, but still comfortable level, and only then, to calm your own paranoia, turn the screen yellow by setting the Night Shift.

Also, the smartphone has a function True tone which, when enabled, adjusts the color balance to the environment. For example, we activated it by placing the smartphone under LED lights with cool white light, and ended up with values of 6.6 for ΔE and 6900 K for color temperature. Under a halogen incandescent lamp (warm light), the same parameters turned out to be 4.0 and 6100 K, that is, the color temperature became lower. The function works as expected. Note that the current standard is to calibrate display devices to a white point of 6500 K, but in principle, correction for the color temperature of external light can be useful if you want to achieve a better match of the image on the screen with what is seen on paper (or on any medium , on which colors are formed by the reflection of incident light) under the current conditions.

Let's summarize. The screen has a very high maximum brightness and excellent anti-reflective properties, so the device can be used outdoors without any problems, even on a sunny summer day. In complete darkness, the brightness can be lowered to a comfortable level. It is also acceptable to use the mode with automatic brightness adjustment, which works adequately. The advantages of the screen include an effective oleophobic coating, no air gap in the layers of the screen and no flicker, good black stability to deviation from the perpendicular to the screen plane, high contrast, as well as support for sRGB color gamut (with the participation of the OS) and good color balance. There are no significant shortcomings. At the moment, this is perhaps one of the best displays among all smartphones.

Performance

Like the iPhone 8 and iPhone X, the iPhone 8 Plus runs on the Apple A11 Bionic. It is a 64-bit SoC with 6 cores, of which two are high performance and four are energy efficient. Moreover, at maximum load, all six cores can work simultaneously.

As before, the difference between the iPhone with the Plus prefix in the name is 3 GB of RAM instead of 2 GB for the younger brother. How this affected performance - let's see!

Let's start with browser tests: SunSpider 1.0.2, Octane Benchmark, Kraken Benchmark, etc. Safari browser was used. Especially for a more visual comparison, we ran new benchmarks on the iPhone 7 Plus, updating the smartphone OS to the latest version.

As you might expect, the iPhone 8 Plus outperforms the iPhone 7 Plus, and quite confidently. But there is no superiority over the iPhone 8, in these browser tests the difference in the total memory size does not affect.

Now let's see how the iPhone 8 Plus performs in the comprehensive AnTuTu and Geekbench 4 benchmarks.

	Apple iPhone 8 Plus (Apple A11)	Apple iPhone 7 Plus (Apple A10)	Apple iPhone 8 (Apple A11)
AnTuTu (more is better)	191207 points	171329 points	211416 points
Geekbench 4 Single-Core Score (more is better)	4245 points	3539 points	4266 points
Geekbench 4 Multi-Core Score (more is better)	10378 points	5995 points	10299 points
Geekbench 4 Metal Score (more is better)	15668 points	12712 points	—

Again, it confidently outperforms its predecessor, this is especially evident in the Geekbench tests, which measure the performance of the CPU and RAM. But there is no tangible gap from the iPhone 8, and the larger model even lost in AnTuTu. Apparently, the increased amount of RAM does not give a clear advantage in these tests.

The last group of benchmarks is dedicated to GPU performance testing. We used 3DMark, GFXBenchmark Metal, and Basemark Metal Pro, which is specifically designed for devices with Metal technology.

Recall that Offscreen tests are displaying a 1080p picture regardless of the actual screen resolution. And Onscreen tests are displaying an image in the resolution that matches the device's screen resolution. That is, the off-screen tests are indicative from the point of view of the abstract performance of the SoC, and the rest of the tests are from the point of view of the comfort of the game on a specific device.

	Apple iPhone 8 Plus (Apple A11)	Apple iPhone 7 Plus (Apple A10)	Apple iPhone 8 (Apple A11)
GFXBenchmark Manhattan 3.3.1 (1440r)	28.5 fps	24.2 fps	22.2 fps
GFXBenchmark Manhattan 3.1	45.1 fps	43.0 fps	75.9 fps
GFXBenchmark Manhattan 3.1, offscreen	44.5 fps	41.0 fps	36.9 fps
GFXBenchmark Manhattan	64.7 fps	57.6 fps	94.9 fps
GFXBenchmark 1080p Manhattan, off screen	67.2 fps	58.3 fps	47.5 fps

Judging by the GFXBenchmark, the iPhone 8 Plus is not that much superior to the iPhone 7 Plus, while it lags behind the iPhone 8. But this is quite logical: the lower the screen resolution, the more frames per second the device can show. However, in all tests with a fixed resolution, the iPhone 8 Plus is in the lead, and this is already strange - what ensures such a clear victory over the iPhone 8?

And again, the iPhone 8 Plus outperforms the iPhone 7 Plus, and much more significantly than in the GFXBenchmark. But the difference with the iPhone 8 is already within the range of possible measurement error.

Finally - Basemark Metal Pro.

And here the iPhone 8 is already the leader, for the same reason as in the onscreen tests GFXBenchmark. However, the difference between the devices is not so great, and the advantage of the new products over the iPhone 7 Plus is rather modest (although undoubted).

In general, the iPhone 8 Plus performed at about the same level as the iPhone 8; we did not record a significant effect from the increase in the amount of RAM in our tests. As for the difference with the iPhone 7 Plus, it certainly is, but in different modes it manifests itself in different ways.

Cameras

As before, the difference in cameras between the two iPhones of the same generation is that the Plus has a second lens for optical zoom. As for the comparison with a smartphone of the same size, but of the previous generation, here it is worth paying attention to the emergence of a 4K 60 fps video shooting mode (the “seven” had only 30 fps).

Editor of the section "Digital Photo" Anton Soloviev commented on the shots on the iPhone 8 Plus and tested the smartphone camera on our test bench.

The camera copes well with shooting even in the evening on a cloudy day and in the wind. The program manages to select the exposure in such a way that the fluttering foliage is not smeared, and small details are not eaten up by noise.

The smartphone has two cameras, like the previous generation Plus. In fact, they differ not only in focal length. In addition, in the G8 Apple decided to remove the dubious zoom and endow the cameras with different functions: it is proposed to use a wide-angle camera for normal shooting, and a tele one for portrait photography. It's hard to disagree with this move, but we will still compare two cameras under the same conditions.

29 mm	57 mm

It is noticeable that the portrait camera works a little worse: it slightly lathers in places, makes a little more noise and generally creates a "soft portrait picture". However, for a telephoto lens in such a form factor, this is quite acceptable - for sure, they will someday be brought to a good level, as has already been done with wide-angle lenses.

Here's a portrait camera in its usual pursuit, albeit in challenging environments:

With a lack of lighting, of course, it is difficult to reveal its merits, but still the camera does a good job. And since a wide-angle lens will not give such good geometry in such a close-up, the camera is quite useful. By the way, many modes have been added to it for different portrait shooting scenarios. In particular, the program itself can crop the portrait, as in the third photo. For a smartphone, this result looks very decent.

And a few more shots showing the capabilities and effects of Portrait Mode.

It cannot be said unequivocally that the "deep pixels" promised to us make a tangible contribution to the picture quality, so we will check it out in laboratory conditions.

29 mm	57 mm

Illumination ≈3200 lux

Illumination ≈1400 lux

Illumination ≈130 lux

Illumination ≈130 lux + flash

Illumination ≈1 lux + flash

The sensor's maximum effective resolution has remained at the same level as a couple of years ago. But the programmers managed to tame the noise, and now, even in very low light, the camera practically does not lose detail, which is surprising. The camera actually does an equally good job of capturing a measurement target in different light conditions. And this with good reliability can be extrapolated to ordinary plots not in laboratory conditions. The portrait camera looks more modest - however, we could already notice this when comparing them and shooting portraits.

As a result, we can say that the wide-angle camera turned out to be excellent, it is well suited for various scenes. The portrait camera is rather ordinary, it does not reach the wide-angle one in terms of image quality (but I would like it), but by itself it works well and is quite suitable for creating avatars.

Autonomous work and heating

As noted at the beginning of this article, we used the iPhone 8 Plus for a month in real life as our only smartphone. And these are calls via cellular communication and instant messengers (Telegram, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp) on average one and a half hours a day, communication in instant messengers, regular updates of the FB feed, reading websites, mail with push notifications and a stream of letters in the region of 30-50 a day, less regularly - heavy use of the camera and voice recorder. Almost all the time, the iPhone was connected via Bluetooth to the Apple Watch and for about half an hour a day - to the Apple AirPods.

In the described mode, the smartphone lived for two days, that is, it had to be charged every other night. Let's say you use it on Monday and Tuesday, put it on charge at night; Wednesday morning you have 100% and you use without recharging until the night from Thursday to Friday ...

In general, this is a good result, roughly comparable to the iPhone 7 Plus, especially for very intensive use. Of course, if you play games or watch movies or online videos (we didn’t do any of this during our acquaintance with the device), the result will be different. But, we believe, for the majority of potential owners of the iPhone 8 Plus, our scenario is quite relevant.

Of the minuses, we note that the battery is discharged unevenly. So, at the end of the first day, you usually have about 65% of the charge, and at the end of the second day, the charge is already running out (while it is obvious that the smartphone almost does not lose its charge overnight - a maximum of one to two percent).

Of course, we also conducted traditional testing of battery life in several modes.

	YouTube video playback	Offline Play HD Movie from iTunes Store	3D Game Mode (GFX Benchmark Metal, Manhattan 3.1 Battery Test)
Apple iPhone 8 Plus	9 hours 5 minutes	10 hours	2 hours 24 minutes
Apple iPhone 7 Plus	—	12 hours	2 hours 13 minutes
Apple iPhone 8	6 hours 55 minutes	18 hours 15 minutes	2 hours 10 minutes

Below is a thermal image back surface obtained after two consecutive runs (approximately 10 minutes of operation) of the Basemark Metal test:

The heating is strongly localized in the upper right part of the device, which, apparently, corresponds to the location of the SoC chip. According to the heat chamber, the maximum heating was 41 degrees (at an ambient temperature of 24 degrees). The heating in this test is the same.

conclusions

Moving to iPhone 8 Plus from iPhone 7 Plus doesn't feel like a big step forward. The only joy is the rear glass surface, if you use a smartphone without a case, and the possibility of using wireless charging (although the latter is more relevant, rather, for those who are ready to wait for the release of Apple AirPower).

If we compare the feeling of using it with the iPhone X, then, of course, the iPhone 8 Plus is perceived as a more bulky and less impressive device, but on a single battery charge it lasts a little longer. Plus, the Home button is more comfortable for conservatives, although we've seen the transition to Face ID and full gesture control on the iPhone X go smoothly and quickly.

The above, however, does not mean that the iPhone 8 Plus is bad. On the contrary, the smartphone is good for everyone, it has no serious drawbacks. Screen, battery life, performance - everything is great. But there is still no "wow-effect". Why? Probably because the "wow-effect" is in store for the main novelty: iPhone X. But, for a minute, it is 15 thousand rubles more expensive. A significant difference!

We can say that the iPhone 8 Plus is not an option "for show-off" and not for technologists, but for real everyday use. Of course, it doesn't make much sense to switch to it from the iPhone 7 Plus, the 2016 model remains more than relevant. And even iPhone 6s Plus owners can postpone the upgrade. But if you didn't have an iPhone of the last two generations and the question arose about buying a model with a large screen, and you are not ready to overpay for innovations in the iPhone X, then the iPhone 8 Plus is the most logical option. Moreover, the difference in price from the iPhone 7 Plus is 12 thousand rubles, but the minimum amount of memory is more: 64 GB versus 32 GB.

Everything is in the box as always

Apple has given up on surprises for its fans. There is nothing unusual inside the iPhone box:

power supply unit for 5 V and 1 A (yes, for fast charging you need to buy a separate charger)
Lightning cable
adapter from Lightning to 3.5 mm
wired headphones with Lightning connector

Yes, new iPhones still can't connect to new MacBooks. You need to buy a USB adapter<->USB C for 1500 rubles. Well, or just order a similar adapter from Aliexpress for a dollar and a half, which, in fact, I did.

Only the appearance of the packaging has changed. Now the box is completely painted in the color of the iPhone, which is hidden inside.

New-old design

In front new iPhone 8 cannot be distinguished from the seven at all. Completely black glass panel, 2.5D glass, Touch ID (works great) - everything is as usual.

Of course, glass has an oleophobic coating and it is of very high quality. There is also an anti-fingerprint coating on the back, so don't worry.

However, the Touch ID sensor does not have any "oleophobia". If the glass of the screen is clean, then the sensor catches prints very quickly. But it’s not that bad.

The most important thing! iPhone 8 is less slippery than all of its predecessors.

Glass still clings to the palm better than matte, polished metal, and that's a fact. And Apple also claims that the glass in the new product has become 50% stronger (apparently, relative to its predecessor), therefore, it will become more difficult to break an iPhone. And yet for some reason I am sure that he is still not as strong as.

The glass panel on the back is also needed so that the eight can be charged from wireless charging. Fortunately, Apple did not become wise and the new product is compatible with the very widespread Qi standard. I bought an adapter from Belkin, I will try it in action and will definitely unsubscribe based on the results.

Another small cosmetic change compared to the previous generation - the antenna strips are now shorter and are visible only at the side ends. There are four of them, they look neat, decorous, noble.

If you have any doubts about which iPhone to choose, I suggest looking at the photos below. The usual eight and a giant plus on its background.

Those looking for a truly black iPhone will be disappointed.

iPhone 8 is never black.

It looks black only at dusk or in a room with very poor lighting. In all other situations, it looks dark gray. The backrest seems to be made of smoothly polished stone.

Now for other colors. Be very careful when choosing a gold color. It is better to look at the pipe live before buying, turn it over in your hands. In not very good lighting, the back does not look white, but with a clear pinkish tint.

There is nothing to say about the silver model - the most boring option.

"TruTon" screen

What would I choose: 120 Hz refresh rate or some incomprehensible True Tone? Definitely the first.

The iPad Pro 10.5 '', which features a 120Hz display, looks amazing. Any animation on it is perceived in a completely new way, and all other screens after it, including the iPhone 8, are perceived very painfully.

And with True Tone, the panel looks just fun. Yes, the temperature of the colors is constantly changing under the ambient light (the screen mostly shines with a yellow tint). The display is "warming", then "colder" and it's cool, but there is no "wow" here. We lived without this feature, we felt good, and with it ... well, it's cool. No more.

Below in the photo is the iPhone 8 Plus screen (top or left) and the iPhone 8 display (bottom or right).

Otherwise, these are completely identical to the 7th screens. Same brightness, contrast and resolution.

By the way, contrary to the angry smirks of Android fans, on which smartphones with 4K-resolution are found, the density of the iPhone 8 is enough with its head. At least for the 4.7-inch diagonal. At the same time, Apple also saves a lot of money by not ordering expensive panels with a higher resolution for its brainchild.

3D Touch, incredibly cool vibration feedback from the Taptic Engine, maximum pressure sensitivity - it's all in place. However, if we remove all these buns, then we have an ordinary IPS-matrix, which is covered with lilac fog at extreme viewing angles.

IPhone 8 specifications

The easiest way to compare the technical specifications of the iPhone 8 with the iPhone 7 is in the table. Green marked improvements, and red ones that worsened. Yes, there are such parameters.

	iPhone 7	iPhone 8
Display	IPS, 4.7 inches, 1334 x 750 (326 ppi), 1400: 1 contrast, 625 nits brightness	IPS, 4.7 inches, 1334 x 750 (326 ppi), 1400: 1 contrast, 625 nits brightness, True Tone technology, HDR and Dolby Vision support
CPU	A10 Fusion (2.34 GHz, 4 cores, 16 nm) + M10 motion coprocessor	A11 Bionic (6 cores, 10nm) + M11 motion coprocessor
Graphics	Own graphics accelerator	Own tri-core processor (30% more powerful than its predecessor)
RAM	2 GB
Built-in memory	32, 64 or 128 GB	64 or 256 GB
Main camera	12 MP (f / 1.8, 28mm, 1.22μm dot size, sapphire coating, OIS, 4-section True Tone flash, 4K 30 FPS recording, Slo-Mo 1080p @ 120 FPS)	12 MP (f / 1.8, 28mm, sapphire coating, OIS, 4-section True Tone Slow Sync flash, 4K 60 FPS recording, Slo-Mo 1080p @ 240 FPS)
Front-camera	7 MP (f / 2.2, HDR, EIS, 1080p recording)
Battery	1960 mAh	1821 mAh ( fast and wireless Qi charging)
Connectors	Lightning
Sensors	Light and proximity sensor, accelerometer, gyroscope, Touch ID, digital compass, barometer
Water and dust resistant	IP67
Wireless interfaces	Wi-Fi (802.11 ac, Dual Band), Bluetooth 4.2, NFC, GPS, Glonass	Wi-Fi (802.11 ac, Dual Band), Bluetooth 5.0, NFC, GPS, Glonass, Galileo
Connection	LTE-A Cat. 12	LTE-A

Most will definitely like the fact that the smartphone has become a quarter louder. The sound is bass, clear and pleasant to the ear. You can't dig in here. If anything, the main speaker from below is also helped by the conversational one.

The filling in the new smartphone is so interesting that there is a reason to split this case into separate points.

A processor that's smarter than you

The new product has a smaller battery, but it works the same. And all thanks to the new A11 Bionic processor, which is made using a 10-nanometer process technology. The previous chipset (A10 Fusion) is based on a 16 nm process technology.

All this means that the 8 is faster and consumes less energy. Plus and minus give the same autonomy, which we will talk about in more detail later.

Graphics performance has improved dramatically - by 30 percent.

Although, it would seem, much more. And Apple has an answer as to why it is needed - for augmented reality or AR.

Tim Cook is optimistic that soon we will not be able to imagine our ordinary life without AR. And I completely agree with him. Weird and wretched VR is just a toy, and dear. For normal virtual reality, you need powerful hardware, screens with a fierce pixel density (well beyond 600 ppi) and more or less compact dimensions of the final device. And so far no one has managed to combine all this in one device. Bad business.

But AR is the future. I pointed my smartphone at the urban landscape and saw everything that was needed: where there is food and how long to go to it, what kind of monument is in front of you, what reviews about the museum and what it is actually called. In general, we are waiting for the whole thing to grow into a mass phenomenon.

The A11 Bionic is also a chipset that has dedicated resources for machine learning. Separate modules (I suppose) are responsible for studying your habits and optimizing the smartphone for your specific tasks. So, if the processor has figured that, for example, it does not require a lot of resources to check your mail, it will not redirect powerful cores with increased operating frequencies to it in advance. So much for saving electricity.

Does it slow down for an hour?

Of course not! iPhone 8 is very fast, animation flies and doesn't lag a bit.

However, at one point I still managed to catch small, but still brakes. This happened when one of the times I took the device out of my pocket and unlocked it with a completely ordinary touch of the Touch ID sensor. The unlock animation worked with subtle brakes. As if I found the smartphone at the wrong moment, when it was busy processing some processes. An isolated case, no longer repeated.

With regard to performance in applications and games, we can say that the safety factor of the iPhone 8 is still for a very long time. For three or four years for sure.

And, by the way, it is the usual eight that can rightfully be called the most powerful smartphones in the world. Below is a rating from Geekbench that confirms this.

Thanks to the low screen resolution. The processor does not need to process extra pixels, so the 8 Plus and even the iPhone X are a little behind their younger sibling.

RAM test

In the new generation, we, as before, have 2 GB of RAM and by the standards of the Android world this is extremely small. But not for the iPhone 8. Here are the results of my test.

I ran a dirty test: I used my smartphone as usual, 26 apps were open in the background. Launched Safari and opened five of its heavy reviews:

Switching between tabs was painless. Nothing reloaded, YouTube inserts were launched without problems inside the texts, and so on.

Then I went out and opened a few more utilities: Photos, Camera, Instagram, and Google Maps. Back in Safari and all open tabs started reloading. In other words…

2 GB of RAM is still not enough even for iOS.

Against the background of the standard eight, the Plus version looks like a monster and here's why. The older model has already received 3 GB of "RAM" and this allows it to keep 46 applications in the background without any problems, as it was in my case. I opened the same reviews, then launched a dozen other programs, including World of Tanks and the Night Shift AR utility, and only then two of the tabs opened in Safari began to reload. What is called - feel the difference.

Cameras

At the presentation, they assured that the new smartphone began to shoot even better. Well, let's see.

Front-camera

A common disease of many front-end cameras is exposure errors. The face is visible normally, and the entire background is blown out. Well, or vice versa.

This problem is also present here, but it is very weakly expressed. The algorithms are trying their best to correctly determine the desired exposure, and at the same time not to be mistaken with the white balance, and not to make you a blue face, for example.

In general, HDR works great on the front camera. Yes, the face becomes slightly flat, but the background will not be blown out.

In general, it seemed to me that the camera has not changed in any way. The seven knew how to take great selfies and the eight certainly didn't ruin anything. But it didn’t improve either.

Main camera

Pictures from an iPhone are very easy to recognize - they are all with a yellowish, sandy tint. The same Samsung Galaxy S8 shoots as it is. Well, maybe the colors are slightly lifted, but the photos do not float with any extraneous colors.

Fortunately, in eights this problem is less pronounced than in the previous generation. Desert yellowness is present, but not so noticeable.

HDR shots are as good as ever. The dynamic range stretches out most situations, all objects are visible in the frame, without overexposure and other crime. Let's see how it looks.

Successful HDR performance

Once the automation was stupid and painted the sky in an acid blue tint. Although nothing boded trouble.

Separately, a few words about the macro. It's fantastic!

Yes, now many smartphones are so cool to shoot flowers that you will rock. However, after taking pictures, the iPhone 8 can fall. And here's the evidence (better sit down).

During the day, the iPhone takes exceptionally cool pictures. But even at night the device will not hit the face in the dirt. There are practically no blurred frames, autofocus clings to objects very tightly and quickly. Well, the detail is, of course, very high.

In general, the camera in the iPhone is good because it is maximally adapted for the average person. Everything here is tailored to the "point and shoot" scenario. No need to invent anything with white balance, shutter speed or ISO. For advanced photographers, this is not very good, for most, on the contrary, it's a plus. And with the new iPhone, everything becomes even easier, because it shoots really better.

By the way, this week I will release great comparison of iPhone 8 and iPhone 7... There we will bump our heads against two generations and see how much cooler the novelty is. Keep your finger on the pulse, or rather bookmark the site.

By the way, we take all the originals of the photos in one archive.

There is no second camera. Is it a shame?

Against the background of the older model (Plus), our hero looks faded, because he cannot:

blur background or bokeh
zoom in without loss of quality ("optical" zoom 2x)
it does not have a "Portrait Lighting" mode (a cool feature, which I will tell you about in more detail in iPhone 8 Plus Review)

In defense of those who settled on the usual eight, I will say the following. Blurring the background is a thing that looks very impressive, but for those who don't bother with portraits, they don't need it.

Optical zoom is useful when you can't get closer to the subject. There is a possibility? Consider that you saved ten thousand rubles when buying a smartphone.

Portrait lighting is just a software filter and most likely all of these effects will appear in third-party photo editors. The loss is not great.

Video recording

There are two innovations at once. Let's go in order.

4K and 60 FPS

Yes, iPhone 8 is the first smartphone to shoot 4K video at 60 frames. Videos look very smooth, all movements look very lively.

In addition, such cool content can be successfully worked in video editors. This is a definite plus for beginners and not so video bloggers. Like me, for example. I’m not going to start, though.

Slow-slow Motion

What I love and respect iPhones for is Slo-Mo. No other camera on the market can shoot such high-quality slow-motion videos. Android device manufacturers, for some unexplained reason, forget this. But not Apple!

The eight shoots Full HD video at 240 frames per second. Almost as cool as advanced action cameras. Only this is the phone.

And all this against the background of the fact that many, even top manufacturers have not yet switched to Full HD resolution. So they put their rotten HD at 120 FPS. In 2017!

How much battery life?

Few! For active users, the smartphone will not live up to the evening. In general, all the same pain that was in the sevens.

I am very upset about one fact. iPhone 8 supports fast charging (finally !!! 1), but how to feel it myself - I have no idea.

The kit includes a dead 1 amp power supply, with which the smartphone will charge as always for a long time. To get fast charging, you need an adapter with increased output amperage, but where can I get one? Chargers from MacBooks are not suitable, because they have a USB Type-C plug, not Lightning. What to do then? Where to take the money, Apple ?!

In general, the mythical 50 percent charge in 30 minutes remains a statement on the official website. No more.

But the fact that Apple did not release its own wireless charging along with the release of the iPhone 8 is very strange. For a company of this magnitude! Still, wireless charging of the Qi standard is far from the top space technologies. Koreans have been stamping these accessories since 2014.

Yes, at the presentation we were shown AirPower, it will not be released when it will be released (in 2018), it will not be known how much it will cost, and not everyone needs a platform to charge everything at once. I would like something simpler, so for 50 bucks.

That is why I bought a white Belkin wireless charger (there is also a Mophie in the Apple Store, but black) and will tell you more about it.

From zero to one hundred percent iPhone 8 on such a wireless platform charges in ... 3 hours 30 minutes!

And this despite the fact that the phone has a very weak 1821 mAh battery. Unrealistically long! Hence the simple conclusion - you need to charge your smartphone exclusively at night. Throwing interest quickly in the morning while brushing your teeth won't work. This is not Android!

A couple more points. In a moderately thick plastic case, charging is in progress, there are no problems. The smartphone does not heat up, it becomes slightly warm. Do not believe the opposite statements of some experts from the "Internet".

What's the bottom line? Take?

If you are an ardent "apple", you have a MacBook, Apple Watch and all that from the proprietary eco-system, then buying an iPhone 8 is worth it. But not now.

In three or four months it will be just right. The market will be saturated, the prices for gray pipes will fall to an acceptable level, the first batches will go to service centers with all sorts of children's sores that were not seen during production. Then you can take it. Save up some money at the same time. Do not take on credit!

After all, the iPhone 8 is the top device on the market. It is incredibly fast, has a chic headroom in terms of performance and can finally compete with the top Android gadgets (Google Pixel 2) in photo quality.

But in terms of video recording, the "apple" device has no equal. If this is critical, then take the eight. What other conversations can there be?

But if you compare the iPhone 8 with the same 8 Plus or with the tenth version, then an interesting thing comes out. Despite the fact that we will sell it for 56,990 rubles (!!!), it is never a flagship. The usual eight is like it was created in order to make it clear to you that you dumped a lot of money for an intermediate model. Do you want the best photo quality? Kindly fork out for Plus. If you want innovation, then you have to pay two salaries for the top ten. And all the disgrace Apple does not care.