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It’s really difficult to unlock the phone. Maybe a tiny bit less, but we still don’t like its off-center rear location for the same reason: we keep blindly smudging the far-too-close dual-lens camera. We hate the fingerprint sensor on the Galaxy Note 8, just as we did on the S8 and S8 Plus. Iris scanner and face unlock are poor substitutes.

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It's further away from the camera vs the S8 and S8 Plus sensor.

No physical home button means a rear fingerprint sensor.

The fingerprint sensor has marginally improved Unfortunately, the fingerprint sensor has moved there, too. There’s also no camera bump, and that gaudy Samsung logo has been moved to the rear, no longer staring you in the face. The Note 8 is IP68 water-resistant, so it can survive up to 1.5m (5ft) underwater for 30 minutes, and it uses the reversible USB-C standard. Samsung has yet to deliver dual front-facing speakers like the Sony Xperia XZ Premium, or customizable Hi-Fi audio like the LG V30. It's a multimedia powerhouse visually, but its bottom-firing speaker still had us cupping the bottom of the phone to get better audio. You also won’t get the best sound from the Note 8. Samsung, annoyingly, refreshes its phones with new colors after a few months, much to the chagrin of loyal early adopters. This vibrant blue and tempting Maple Gold colors were first launched in other regions. It came in muted tones of Midnight Black and Orchid Gray and we only recently saw the Deep Sea Blue color launch in the US. There were very few Note 8 colors at launch. Sorry – you’re going to need a case with this phone. Why? The added grip (and peace of mind) let us operate it with one hand, whereas we struggled with the pure glass body at such tall and wide dimensions. While we spent most of the time using this phone naked (that’s without a case), we did test several Note 8 cases and instantly felt more confident carrying it around. Combined with its size, this makes for one slippery smartphone.

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The entire front glows with unimpeded information – as long as you don’t drop and crack it, and you’ll need to be extra careful as the entire phone is enveloped in glass wrapped around an aluminum frame. Lit up, the all-screen Note 8 feels like we’re carrying around a piece of light when we’re out and about. It's much better than the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL display, Google's biggest weakness. It's Always-On Display continues to be an appealing feature in a smartphone. Its maximum brightness, 3K resolution with Mobile HDR Premium, and wider color gamut are hard for anyone else to compete with. Samsung keeps topping itself, launching phones with the world’s best display every six months. That's a lot less screen for such big phones, at least until iPhone 8 arrives to change everything. The iPhones have a 67% screen-to-body ratio for comparison. Its expansive 6.3-inch display – now without a physical home button – has an unheard-of 83% screen-to-body ratio. Stretching your fingers is well worth if you can physically manage it. We're hoping the Galaxy Note 9 fixes this in a couple of months. The on-screen button that replaces it works fine, but the fingerprint sensor is now located on the back of the device and off-center – it’s a textbook flawed design, and the alternative iris scanner doesn’t always work when you want to unlock the phone. Second, the big screen also comes at the cost of the Note’s usual oval-shaped fingerprint sensor home button. You’re going to need a Note 8 case to confidently hold this unwieldy glass beast, and two hands to operate it.

It does, however, cost you in multiple ways. This is still one of the most powerful Samsung phones with a stylus. Of course, it's not quite a match for the Samsung Galaxy Note 9, but given its lower price it doesn't have to be. Over the S8 Plus, the Note 8 also benefits power users with 6GB or RAM and a superior dual-lens camera, both features passed on to the S9 Plus. Why buy this instead of the 6.2-inch Galaxy S9 Plus? The extra tenth of an inch of screen is insignificant and doesn’t matter, but Note fans adore the S Pen stylus functionality and its more square shape.