Smartphone test iPhone 8 Product Red

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Apple currently has the three latest smartphones in its offer, and the iPhone 8 is the smallest of them.It has the same processor and most functions as the iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X. It differs in a smaller screen, battery and in that it has a single camera instead of a double.This time we are dealing with a limited red version - Product Red.These are products presented once a year, about halfway between the presentation of the last and subsequent Apple smartphone model and some sales profits support the fight against HIV/AIDS.In my opinion, this is the most beautiful color of the iPhone that is available, especially since in the latest Apple model combined red with a black front, which in the previous edition was white.Let's take a closer look at him.

The main pros and cons of the iPhone 8 Product Red smartphone

Benefits

Disadvantages

The iPhone 8 Product Red, like the iPhone 8 in more traditional colors, is an extension of the traditional design of Apple smartphones.This means that it has a home button with a built -in fingerprint reader under the screen and quite large frames around the display.This translates into a not very favorable ratio of the size of the screen to the size of the entire smartphone - at the screen above the inch smaller than in the iPhone x the phone housing is only slightly smaller.

Traditional design, however, has some advantages.Some people still prefer Touch ID instead of a face ID, because in this way it's easier to unlock the phone when it lies flat on the table, or reaching it with your hand from their pockets.The lack of a change in habits is also important.However, it cannot be hidden that both at the iPhone X and other latest smartphones, such as Huawei P20 Pro or Samsung Galaxy S9, the classic iPhone 8 gives the impression of an outdated design.

The smartphone is sealed.Wireless charging, which was warmly received by many users, went to the versions 8 and X for the first time.The Lightning socket is similar to USB C symmetrical and can be inserted in two ways, and by the way it is smaller than USB C. The phone also has a physical mute button, which is a practical addition that I enjoyed with pleasure.

The sound quality from built -in speakers is good with high volume.The sound is extracted both from the grille on the bottom edge and from the place where we put the ear -from both sources in a similar volume.

The size of the iPhone 8 is 138.4 x 67.3 mm x 7.3 mm.Weight is 148 g. We are dealing with one of the smaller "cool" smartphones on the market, although it is paid for the screen of the screen only 4.7 inches.

In this particular model, the color of the housing separates an important role.The red is deep and very red.It is not matte, as in the red edition of the iPhone 7, but shimmering due to the glass located at the back of the housing.It works great with a black front.In short, the iPhone 8 Product Red looks phenomenal (which can be seen in our photos).It is worth emphasizing that the iPhone X is not in the red color version yet.

Apple has always been known for high quality displays and although only the iPhone X has the latest OLED screen, the iPhone 8 also does not give a reason to complain.The matrix was made in IPS technology.Resolution 1334 x 750 at a 4.7 -inch diagonal provides a pixel density of 326 ppi.The resolution seems small against the background of Full HD resolution today even in budget android smartphones, not to mention QHD in flagships.However, this does not have a significant impact on the comfort of using the smartphone.The Retina standard has been ensured.

The screen supports the 3D Touch, distinguishing the strength of touch, can display a wide range of colors (P3) and has True Tone technology, introduced first in the Pro.It involves adapting the screen to lighting the environment, but not stopping at the brightness adjustment itself, but also changing the color temperature.The iOS system factory supports night mode that saves.

The only thing to keep in mind is the fact that the screen has a diagonal of only 4.7 inches.This is a guarantee of convenience, but it is at the expense of space for consumption of content.If we like to view photos and watch movies on your phone, a larger diagonal will certainly be a big plus for the iPhone 8. It is worth reaching for the iPhone 8 Plus or iPhone X.

Apple designs its mobile processors himself and you have to admit that he can do it.The A11 Bionic processor is one of the fastest mobile processors on the market.The iPhone 8, despite the smaller and lower price, received the same unforced unit as the Plus or X model.

Comparison with the world of Android does not make sense due to the differences in the operation and construction of the operating system.You can compare the results of benchmarks.In Geekbench 4, the single core result is 4245 points, and for the sum of cores it is 10339 points, the total metal score result is 14477 points.This is about 20% better result than the iPhone 7 and almost twice better than the iPhone 6S.In Benchmark Antutu iPhone 8 scored 225920 points.This result is theoretically 13% worse than Snapdragon 845 in the latest Xperia XZ2, while even if this difference is adequate and does not result from the different structure of both platforms, it will still be imperceptible to the user.Just like 2 GB RAM, which cannot be referred to one to one to 4, 6 or even 8 GB RAM in Android smartphones.

Apple devices have never offered memory cards, so you have to decide when you buy how much memory it will need for our files.In the case of the iPhone 8 there are only two options: 64 GB and 256 GB.The advantage of such a solution with a permanently built -up system is faster memory, which is not divided into two locations.

The speed of the phone is not only benchmark and computing power, but also the impression it makes in practice.The iOS system works on the iPhone 8 great and only a few, top Android smartphones can match it in this liquidity, even if it is not about the actual time needed to perform the tasks, but more about the fluidity of system animations and the impression that the user provides.

The iPhone 8 is equipped with LTE CAT12 600/150 MBPS and supports VOLTE.Connectivity also includes Wi -Fi 802.11ac with the MC and Bluetooth 5.0 technology.The location is possible thanks to GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and QZSS systems.The smartphone has NFC, but is used only for Apple Pay.

The sensors used are a gyroscope, accelerometer, proximity sensor, external lighting sensor and barometer.

The system, as well as the Apple ecosystem, is the most important difference between the iPhone from the world of Android.Apple was the first to refine the touch screen and phone support to such a good level that he convinced everyone to the idea of a smartphone.It remained unrivaled for a long time in terms of the quality of the mobile operating system and applications available in the App Store.Today, these differences have mostly equalized.Android in many fields caught up with iOS.There is almost no differences in the availability of the application, although sometimes it happens that a specific application works better on one of the mobile systems.

A coherent ecosystem is still a considerable advantage of Apple.Just log in to the WiFi network on one of the devices, and each will be able to connect to the network, regardless of whether it will be a tablet or laptop.Similarly, with evaporation of AIR podside wireless headphones - evaporation is faster than in the case of ordinary Bluetooth headphones, and switching between the phone, the tablet and the laptop is much more convenient.Apple tries to create a fenced garden, in which the grass is more green and it actually works, bringing benefits to the user, provided that it has products almost exclusively with the logo of a bitten apple, for which he had to pay dearly before.

If you are considering the phone in isolation from the ecosystem, you still cannot refuse iOS very smooth, fast and trouble -free operation.It cannot be denied that the system can be adapted to the equipment better when it is to operate on a relatively small number of devices produced by one manufacturer.Apple also offers many mobile applications with very large possibilities.An example would be the Garage Band for editing and recording music and simulating instruments, IMOVIE for edition of video recordings or office package.On the other hand, when it comes to services such as postal and postal application, cloud space or Google car navigation is much better.However, the user has the freedom to choose all Google services are available on iOS and the advantages of both "worlds" can be combined.

The iPhone 8 screen recognizes pressure and offers additional options in the system, allowing you to select a shortcut to a specific function in the application before its opening.You can start navigation home or work, or immediately open the Incognito window in the browser.This improves phone support.The Control Center shortcut screen has been refreshed, which is now one, scrolled list.Here, too, stronger presses reveal additional options.In iOS 11, the lock screen and notification screen were connected into one.There was also an application of files imitating Finder from Mac.

If there is an element of the system to which you can attach, it is above all Siri, a voice assistant that is the most expensive from the competition.For a Polish user, this is still small, because the Polish language is still associated with heavily limited functionality or complete exclusion of voice assistant from each manufacturer.

The iPhone 8, unlike two larger and more expensive models, has only one camera at the back.So he is deprived of a second camera with double enlargement.This is connected with a lack of special portrait mode.The main camera has the same parameters as in a larger plus and the most expensive iPhone X - it has 12 megapixels of resolution and brightness f/1.8.It is also equipped with optical image stabilization.The lighting lamp has up to 4 True Tone LEDs.

The camera has the following modes built:

The camera interface is maximally simplified.With a shutter button, we have the name of the modes that we can scroll left-right.The only additional options are available at the top and include switching on or off the flash, activating the live photo, delaying self -timer and the ability to choose one of 9 filters.On the one hand, this means that the photos cannot be spoiled by accident or something wrong.We get the best effect with a minimum of effort and knowledge about photography.On the other hand, there is no manual mode or other advanced settings that are available on many other phones.

Other camera settings can be found in the main settings of the phone, so we have to get out of the camera application.It is here that you can activate the three -seat network, decide whether the camera mode and the Live Photo filter and function are to be remembered, or always return to the default value.You can also choose whether the HDR Auto function is to be active, change the resolution of the recorded video, separately for a regular recording, separately for Slow Motion, and also decide whether we want to use the most consistent or most effective formats of photo and video recording.

The format is quite important here.If we choose the most effective format, then the iPhone uses HEVC and H.265, which provides smaller files and potentially better quality, but at the expense of compatibility.Only the latest processors can harden it and a few software supports it (including Final Cut after updating to the latest version).If we want to open such a file on an older computer, or send to friends we may have a problem.I wrote about conversion from HEVC to other formats on my private page.

So you can choose a safer option of consistent formats, if we agree to make video recordings and photos take more space in the phone's memory.However, it should be remembered that 4K 60p and FHD 240P video must be saved in the latest format anyway and it cannot be overcome.These types of recordings are too demanding for older, more compatible ways of compression.

The quality of the photos is at a very good level.The camera sets the focus quickly and flawlessly.It just works and provides good results.The photos are detailed, sharp, nice color.At the same time, Apple lost its priority in terms of mobile photography some time ago and although the photos are very good, they are not the best.The camera tends to set a lighter exposure and in our comparison with Xperia XZ2 you can see that the iPhone 8 more often burns details on a bright background.Although DXO Mark should not be an important determinant for anyone, in it the iPhone 8 takes only 10th place, and the most expensive iPhone X is in 5th position.I would not attach much importance to the ranking - the message is rather that if we care about very good photos from the phone, the iPhone is not the only choice we can make.

For this video recording is at an almost unrivaled level.It is true that the iPhone as one of the few flagships does not record a super slow motion in 960 frames per second or HDR video, but it can record a video Slow Motion Full HD in 240 frames per second without a recording time, and allows you to record video 4K in 60 framesfor a second.This gives great flexibility and hardly any equipment, even among cameras or cameras, offers similar parameters.Video quality is very good.Stabilization works even in the highest resolution.It is hard to attach anything to anything.

The iPhone is one of the best video recording smartphones and very good photos for taking photos.It will appeal to people who value a simple interface and the ease of achieving good results.

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The smallest of the iPhone also has the smallest battery with a capacity of only 1821 mAh and the shortest operation time among available Apple smartphones.Next to the smaller screen and the lack of a second camera, the biggest minus of the smaller iPhone.

Apple informs that the iPhone 8 plays wirelessly video for 13 hours and 12 hours works while browsing the Internet.After starting the playback of Play list on YouTube and set the screen brightness to half the value after 8 hours, I discharged the phone to 12% of the battery charge.After 9 hours, the phone would just turn off.

This is not a bad result.There are a lot of smartphones with worse battery life, but also a lot of models with a much better time of operation.After changing from Xperia XZ2 or Redmi 5 Plus, I had a noticeably smaller supply of battery, reaching zero at the end of an active day, which spoiled a sense of security and comfort.For intensively using smartphones, it may turn out that the battery is not enough for the end of the day.Here the iPhone 8 Plus or iPhone X would work better.

In favor of the iPhone 8 is the addition of very convenient wireless charging, and to the detriment of the lack of a quick charger in the set, which needs to be purchased separately.In the smartphone for 3.5 thousand zlotys, there is no quick charger in the set is a strange that cannot be reasonably justified.The Plus and X model do not have it either.

The color of saturated red in combination with the black front looks attractive and unusual.Without thinking, I would choose a red iPhone instead of golden, silver or gray.

The hardware, like almost every Apple product, iPhone 8 Product Red holds a very high level.

A super fast processor, a well -optimized system, a high -quality screen and a great camera mean that nothing serious can be fault.

The biggest compromises result directly from the fact that the iPhone 8 is the smaller brother of Plus and X.

It has the smallest 4.7 -inch screen, which is unusually small today.There was a lack of space for a second camera and a spacious battery.

People who decide on a smaller iPhone should be aware of this - the alternative is the Plus and X version. However, I do not think that the latest Android smartphones have some complexes towards the iPhone.Today, the choice is mainly to habits and the ecosystem that we like to use.

For whom is the iPhone 8 product red

For whom is the iPhone 8 product red

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