In 2023, I bought a Samsung Note 8 from 6 years ago
Although 2023 is not over yet, I think the two most satisfactory idle fish shopping this year can be determined - one is the Pixel 7, which only spent 2,500 yuan at the end of April, and the other is today's protagonist.
Since I joined a second-hand trading channel at the end of August, it has become one of my daily must-visit places, although I initially just wanted to sell something on it and didn't think about buying, but when I brushed such an idle one on the 10th, my fingers immediately couldn't walk:
In my impression, until the Galaxy S10, Samsung's screen burning situation is generally not optimistic. And the burning screen during that time was not simply uneven brightness, but often a large pink scar - naturally unacceptable for my kind of screen obsessive-compulsive disorder, and trying to find an old model with good color can usually only be stuck in the stage of encounterability...
- But such an old model really made me wait.
The moment I just got it, the network access license sticker and model label of this dark Galaxy Note8 have left an extremely stubborn residue on the back glass because of years of attachment, and finally had to use isopropyl alcohol to completely clean up. But the rest is also as the second-hand brother said, not only the factory film behind it, but even the small label of QUALCOMM® 4G on the top bezel is still there.
The fly in the ointment is that compared to other parts of the fuselage, the preservation of this Note8 screen glass is relatively not so good, some subtle scratches are secondary, and the oleophobic layer aging of the edge surface and the upper and lower borders is a little surprising to me. Perhaps in the first half of its career as a competitor analysis, it has been pasted with that kind of tempered film that is not fully covered.
A Wear Distribution Based on Screen Curvature
But the flaws are not hidden, once you light up this 6.3-inch Super AMOLED "full-view curved screen" with a higher PPI than the S23 Ultra and are intact, and feel that the curved glass on the side almost allows the screen to flow into your hands, you have to admit: the curved screen is still very good-looking in addition to being difficult to use.
Although the S10 series is often jokingly called the explosion-proof shield, the real ancestor of the explosion-proof shield is probably Note8 - the horizontal arrangement of dual cameras and the flash sandwiched in the middle and the pulse sensor, as well as the fingerprint module on the far right together to form a long window, successfully achieving the effect that fingerprint unlocking is neither easy to touch nor easy to find. After insisting on it for a few days, I still chose to give up and bound it with a Bluetooth headset to use as a trusted device to unlock, saving the need to enter the password every three or five times.
I know there is also facial recognition and iris recognition, but after using Face ID, it is difficult to adapt to slower unlocking
However, although the unlocking experience is poor, the simplification effect achieved by this design in terms of vision is indeed indispensable, and compared with the inverted "convex" word of Note9, I think Note8 is more concise. In addition, its fingerprint sensor also supports the gesture of sliding down to expand the notification bar (that is, the same function on Pixel), which is still obvious for efficiency improvement if you can use it.
And Samsung has been doing a good job in controlling the size of the camera, visually speaking, the camera bulge of Note8 is even lower than that of Note7 - although the real reason is the increase in the thickness of the fuselage - but compared with the various strange powers of today's mobile phones, even if it is called a flat camera.
The magic machine of the Snapdragon 835 era can be described as endless, Xiaomi 6, Sony XZP, HTC U11, etc., just pull one out can meet a large number of fans. But put 835 on Samsung, this matter becomes: 835 can indeed be, but OneUI (especially OneUI 1.0) has a big problem - may be still in the throes of transition from Samsung Experience to OneUI, or maybe the new design specifications squeeze the space for performance optimization, in short, in Galaxy S8 and Note8, OneUI 1.0 has dragged down the normal play of Snapdragon 835 to a considerable extent. To make Samsung's already scheduling-performance scheduling worse - if it weren't for the 6GB of memory to help achieve quite good background retention, the Note8 experience would be criticized as unqualified for me who was used to using the silky native of Pixel.
But then again, who bought a Galaxy Note8 in 2023 for its performance? Although impulse consumption accounts for most of my reasons for buying it, some of it is actually to replace the Xiaomi Mi 11 Youth Edition, which has been used as a spare machine with it. Part of the reason for this is very simple: although OneUI 1.0 is broken, Note8 supports SD card expansion, and there is no mess of "security" functions under MIUI, and it is convenient to set and adjust some things with ADB. And, most importantly, it supports wireless charging –
Mobile phones cannot lose wireless charging, just as the West cannot lose Jerusalem
On the other hand, after a few years of Pixel edification, Note8's camera performance is not so outstanding compared to the classicity of its hardware itself. In other words, whether it is color processing, HDR intensity or telephoto lens detail processing, it is good to treat it as the average of 2017, Samsung's old models do not eat the dividends of long-term algorithm updates like Pixel, and the Snapdragon 835, which is limited by OneUI 1.0, also makes it difficult to say what is outstanding about the camera experience. So although the Pixel 3 and Note8 have only been released for a year, the generation difference between their camera performance today is far more than one generation:
What's more interesting is that from the perspective of 2023, the finished style of the Note8 main camera is very strange. In addition to Samsung's consistent preference for coloring photos, the Note8 main camera will have a very strong smear even in very good light, but the f2.4 telephoto naturally retains a lot of detail - of course, it may be that I am used to the high sharpness of today's mobile phones, and I feel that there is a smearing when I look back.
The sunset is arguably a great brightness environment, and HDR pressure isn't high, but the smearing of the main camera is still noticeable
But once it comes to the Galaxy Note, how can it be missing the true logo of the Note series? That's right – let me press your S Pen.
Since Samsung invested in the old tablet manufacturer WACOM in 2013, there will be more tablet-level technology on the S-Pen, such as the 4096-level pressure sensitivity on the Note10. However, falling back to the daily use of Note8, the most I use is actually the screen off note, that is, the quick note function that directly pulls out the S-Pen to write when the screen is off, and the notes at this time can be fixed on the AOD, rounding is a purely manual "real-time activity". When I went to the minority headquarters last week to attend a movie viewing event, I threw the iPhone 13 mini into my bag and used Note8's information to track the train information:
Of course, the most used scenario of this function is actually to temporarily record the pickup code of the express, so that when you go downstairs, you don't have to flip through text messages or click on Taobao to see the opening screen advertisement.
All in all, as a spare, the Note8 is perfectly qualified for me. This 64+256 configuration (I used a microSD card) allows me to easily transfer the entire apk backup library and music archive in, and the complete Google framework under Android 9 and Hong Kong version of OneUI also makes this Note8 a good retro game console - "Galaxy 2" that always has scaling bugs and high-frequency frame drops on the Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite runs very well on the Note 8.
Coupled with a ready-to-use stylus, this Note8 is simply a Moleskine to listen to, not to mention this (near) collectible quality – so it will be the coolest spare machine and draft book I have on hand for the foreseeable future.
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