Hey there Alex Kidman from finder.com.au with our video review of
the new iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus. Now
obviously these devices sits somewhat in
the shadow of the upcoming iPhone X
which we're yet to test out but they're
actually quite exceptional devices in
their own right and there's a certain
argument that could say that they might
actually be a smarter buy than the
iPhone X. The huge standout factor has to
be the new Apple A11 Bionic processor. Now
in its keynote Apple talked up the A11
Bionic as the next coming of computer
processors and you know this great
wonderful thing that of course they're
always going to do that because that's
what hype is about.
But hype has to live up to reality and
the reality is that the A11 Bionic
really does. In our benchmark tests the
iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus both ace
those tests going way and above any
other smartphone we've tested by a
significant margin both in straight CPU
performance but also in 3d rendering
performance. Now that's undoubtedly at
least partially because Apple has such
tight control over iOS and everything
that goes into it it only has to address
a few hardware parameters whereas
Android has to address a multitude of
phone sizes and processes and approaches.
So Apple can basically fine tune for
performance but the benefit for these
phones is that they are very very
powerful phones it's also kind of
interesting because Apple has gone for
the same processor across the 8 the
8 Plus and the X and that means
we should see broadly similar
application performance out of all three.
The other really exciting factor and
this is something that I never really
thought I'd be putting into any iPhone
review is the battery life. Now Apple
took an interesting step with the
battery life on these particular phones
because they actually shrunk the
batteries down from last year's 7 and 7
Plus phones and you'd think well that's
not a great idea Apple because your
iPhone battery life's never been that
exceptional but this year it really
genuinely is. In our battery life test
the iPhone 8 managed to crack more than
10 hours of battery life way ahead of
any of the smaller iPhones we've tested
previously and the 8 Plus is actually
currently the best factory performer
we've ever seen and that's an
extraordinary thing for an iPhone
that has less battery power than last
year's model. It speaks to the efficiency
of that A11 Bionic processor. So those are the
good side, what's not so good well
obviously the design. I mean this still
looks like an iPhone. It looks like a
classic iPhone and they really haven't
changed that up and obviously if you
want that newer design if you want to
see where Apple's going the iPhone X
might be the way to go because while
this has a glass back on it to enable
wireless charging it's still ostensibly
just the same old iPhone kind of look
and this year we've seen a lot of phones
go bezel free this still has a pretty
significant bezel. The other problem
issue is the camera. Now the camera is
not bad these are still very very good
cameras but to take Apple's hype on them
and certainly to take their price
position you might expect them to be
absolute best in class and at least in
my testing I don't think they are.
They're very good cameras especially of
course the dual lens that you'll find on
the 8 Plus you only get a single lens on
the 8 and that's a little more
limiting in terms of scope but in things
like low-light performance for example
there are a number of Android handsets
I've tested which do just a little bit
better than these do the reality here is
basically that 2017
has been a really good year for
smartphone cameras. Apple is competing in
this space but it's definitely not
leading now if you want more detail on
these phones, if you want our full review
go to finder.com.au today.
