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iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus review

The iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus aren't mere alleviation prizes to Apple's pricier flagships. They pack a ton of practiced features, including blazing fast processors, solid cameras and wireless charging. And because of they're relatively low prices, they're still some of the best phones you lot can buy today.

Starting at $449 and $549, respectively, the iPhone viii and 8 Plus are as well considerably more than affordable than the iPhone xi. Between the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, our top pick remains the Plus because of its larger screen, longer battery life and more versatile dual cameras. However, the iPhone 8 remains one of the best small-scale phones on the market, and an fantabulous option for one of the best used smartphones, given how it's gone downwardly in price over the years.

iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus review: Blueprint

I'g torn about the await of the new iPhones. On the one hand, the new glass back looks elegant while being less slippery than my matte blackness iPhone vii Plus. Apple tree'due south new phones are also built stronger, with the company claiming that the iPhone viii and eight Plus boast the most durable glass ever on a smartphone. This is due in part to a deeper strengthening layer. (More than on that in a moment.)

On the other hand, seeing bezels this big on a late-2017 telephone above and below the display seems dated compared not just with the iPhone 10 but as well the Galaxy S8 and other Android phones that are going the edge-to-edge route. My complaint isn't but nearly aesthetics; having smaller bezels makes it easier to employ a telephone with one hand and fit it in a forepart pocket.

I do like how the strong 7000 serial aluminum ring on the iPhone 8 is color matched with the pearlescent rear. On the aureate iPhone 8 Plus I tested, the back looks similar a true rose aureate and less pink than previous model. I also tested the silver iPhone 8, whose back is a less exciting gray. The new iPhones are besides available in Space Gray.

For us minimalists, there's no pocket-sized type proverb where this device was assembled or its model number beneath the word iPhone. Now, it just says iPhone.

Measuring 5.5 x 2.7 ten 0.29 inches and weighing five.2 ounces, the iPhone 8 is a scrap heavier and a smidge thicker than the iPhone 7 (5.4 x 2.6 x 0.28 inches, 4.ix ounces), merely I barely noticed the difference. I'm guessing the extra girth comes from adding the wireless-charging capability and reinforced glass back. The iPhone 8 Plus (7.1 ounces, 0.3 inches thick) sees a similar pocket-sized bump upwards versus the iPhone 7 Plus (vi.6 ounces, 0.29 inches).

While the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus still lack a headphone jack, music lovers will appreciate that they sound meliorate sans headphones, thanks to stereo speakers that are now 25 percent louder. When I streamed "An Honest Mistake" by The Bravery, I noticed deeper bass and more than natural-sounding vocals on the iPhone 8 versus the iPhone seven Plus.

iPhone eight and iPhone viii Plus review: Durability

Nosotros tested the toughness of the iPhone 8 past dropping it on its face onto woods from a tiptop of 4 feet and 6 feet; we so dropped it on its edge and face onto concrete from 4 feet; we then dropped it on its edge and face from 6 feet onto physical.

The iPhone 8 survived drops from 4 and half dozen feet onto wood without incurring any damage. A 4-foot drop on its border onto concrete acquired a minor crack and scratching forth the lesser, which grew larger with a face driblet from 4 feet onto concrete.

Apple'south telephone lasted all the way up to a 6-foot face up drop onto concrete, when its screen stopped working. The result of this testing was that the iPhone 8 achieved an okay toughness score of 4.9 out of 10. To see the results of other smartphones, every bit well equally our complete scoring methodology, check out our smartphone drop tests.

iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus review: Specs

	iPhone 8	iPhone 8 Plus
Cost	$699, $849	$799, $949
CPU	A11 Bionic	A11 Bionic
Capacity	64, 256 GB	64, 256 GB
Rear Camera	12-MP	Dual 12-MP (f/1.8, f/ii.viii)
Forepart Camera	7-MP FaceTime Hard disk drive	7-MP FaceTime HD
Unlocking Method	Touch ID	Impact ID
Colors	Space Gray, Silver, Golden	Space Greyness, Silver, Gold
Screen Size (Resolution)	four.7-inches (1334 Ten 750)	five.5-inches (1920 Ten 1080)
Size	5.v x 2.7 x 0.29 inches	6.2 x 3.one x 0.three inches
Weight	5.22 ounces	7.13 ounces

iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus review: Performance

If always there was an apt name for a processor, A11 Bionic is it. This chip admittedly smokes every Android phone on the planet. The A11 Bionic is a six-core CPU, with two functioning cores that promise a 25 percentage heave in performance over the A10, and four high-efficiency cores that promise up to a 70 percentage comeback. Terminal but non least is an Apple-designed GPU that's supposed to be 30 percent faster.

On Geekbench iv, which measures overall functioning, the iPhone 8 was in another league, turning in a multicore score of 10,170. The iPhone viii Plus was a bit faster at 10,472. The Galaxy Notation 8, complete with Qualcomm'south Snapdragon 835 chip and 6GB of RAM, scored 6,564. That means the iPhone 8 is a whopping 54 percent faster than the fastest Android flagship.

To put those numbers in perspective, the iPhone 8 likewise beats the 7th-generation Core i5 MacBook by a tad, which turned in ix,213 on Geekbench four. The Dell XPS 13, our favorite Windows laptop, hit 7,159. For more on one these comparisons hateful, see our in-depth commodity on the iPhone 8'southward performance.

There was an even bigger operation gap on 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited, which measures graphics performance. The iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus notched 62,352 and 64,412, respectively, compared with 39,834 for the Notation eight. So Apple's handsets pack near 63 percent more than graphics might.

What about real-world performance? We edited and exported the aforementioned 2-minute 4K video clip on the iPhone viii, Galaxy Note 8 and Milky way S8 using the Adobe Premiere Clip app, and it wasn't fifty-fifty close. The iPhone 8 finished the job in 42 seconds, compared with more than three minutes for the Galaxy Notation eight and more than 4 minutes for the Galaxy S8+.

The iPhone 8 also opened larger apps faster than both its predecessor and the peak Android telephone correct now. It took the handset 11 seconds to fully load the Injustice two game, compared with 14.53 seconds for the iPhone 7 Plus and 19 seconds for the Note 8.

For more results, including opening a big file, check out our in-depth iPhone viii speed tests.

iPhone viii and iPhone eight Plus review: Cameras

With a bigger and faster sensor, the 12-megapixel photographic camera on the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus takes some of the best-looking photos I've seen from a phone. In fact, some shots I took outshone the stellar Galaxy Notation 8, which was previously rated our best photographic camera phone. Now the iPhone viii Plus is in the peak spot, and yous tin check out our photographic camera face-off with the Notation eight to see the results for yourself.

Take this photo of colorful flowers virtually Madison Foursquare Park. The leaves' edges on the iPhone 8 shot have a subtle orange toward the tip and more sharpness overall, while the Note eight's photograph isn't as well divers and misses some of the gradation in hues.

In low light, the iPhone 8 and Annotation 8 were expressionless even regarding item, but the iPhone 8 produced more natural-looking colors with this group of toys. Furby in particular has the correct pink, and the Tygra figure in the iPhone 8 shot is less blurry.

The iPhone did a better job overall with this tricky image of the Flatiron Building, as the bloom in the foreground is sharper and the blueish sky and clouds look realistic. On the Note 8, the sky got blown out, but the building itself pops more because information technology'south brighter.

Simply the Annotation 8 fought back in some other shot of a fountain; while the iPhone 8 offered more detail when zoomed in, Samsung's image made the leaves look brighter in the surrounding trees.

Only as with the iPhone 7 Plus, the iPhone 8 Plus offers a truthful 2x optical zoom via its 2d telephoto lens, only now you can have a lot more fun with portraits. Portrait Way stil artfully blurs out the background with the so-called bokeh effect — and it looks a fiddling more natural now — while a new Portrait Lighting feature (in beta) lets you adjust the lighting of your shots earlier and after y'all shoot with several effects.

I took some portrait photos of my colleague Caitlin, and I was very impressed with the subtle merely powerful changes Portrait Lighting tin make to a photograph. When I switched from Natural to Studio light, Caitlin's face became brighter without blowing out the shadows. The Contour setting introduced more contrast and shadows, which is kind of similar adding makeup.

The Studio Light feature is the near ambitious effect, as it strips out the existing background and makes information technology totally black. And, if you desire something even more dramatic, you can go for black and white with Stage Light Mono.

All the same, the Phase Light effect could be striking or miss; you need to get in pretty close to the person's face up to go the best results, and long hair tin expect a flake unnatural when it gets cut off and put on black. In addition, I noticed that this effect took longer to process than the others. To be fair, Portrait Lighting is in beta and could improve via software updates.

The iPhone 8 Plus doesn't have all the fun. In that location are new Live Photo effects in iOS 11 that piece of work with both new Apple handsets. Loop replays the activeness, while the fifty-fifty cooler Bounce plays the motion backward and forward, equally seen in this bound by my colleague Kenneth.

The Notation eight yet has one primal reward over the iPhone 8 Plus in that both of the dual lenses on Samsung's telephone have optical image stabilization, which means meliorate low-light functioning when zooming and steadier footage when shooting video. The iPhone 10 will accept OIS on both lenses.

iPhone eight and iPhone eight Plus review: Video

The iPhone 8 and 8 Plus both step upwards their video game, as they now record 4K resolution video at upward to 60 frames per second (up from xxx fps before), and you tin now capture slo-motion footage at a super-wearisome 240 fps without sacrificing sharpness, as it's in 1080p. Other phones like the Note viii and Galaxy S8 are stuck at 720p. The Sony Xperia XZ Premium shoots at a much slower 960 fps, but that'south too at 720p.

To evaluate the 4K capabilities, I shot some footage at Bryant Park in New York City, and I could make out nearly every cheat and cranny in a h2o fountain, including the angry stone faces spitting out the water. The iPhone 8 also had no problem rendering multiple birds as they flew by without distortion. I could even run across the fine mist from the fountain as I panned to the right toward the sun.

I'g a sucker for slow-mo domestic dog footage, so I turned the iPhone eight Plus on my gilt retriever to see how it could handle him retrieving a lawn tennis ball. The grass could look a footling crisper, but it was still pretty cool to see his fur swaying and jowls bouncing as he ran toward me.

iPhone eight and iPhone 8 Plus review: Augmented reality

Thanks to iOS xi, you lot can savour augmented-reality apps using Apple's ARKit applied science on any phone running the software with an A9 or newer scrap. So that means even the iPhone SE and older iPhone 6s tin use a growing number of truly immersive apps that employ the photographic camera's live view and overlay anything on top, from games and home effects to educational content.

Simply the iPhone viii and iPhone viii Plus (as well as the upcoming iPhone 10) accept been specially optimized for AR via the A11 Bionic chip, calibrated cameras and a new gyroscope and accelerometer. I tried out a few apps and came away impressed, but I was also left wanting more, as there's not a ton of options — notwithstanding.

What is available shows off ARKit'southward potential. The InsightHeart app, for example, displays the wireframe of a homo in front of you lot along with his center. You so you tin learn about this very important organ by getting in really close and looking at it from multiple angles.

I can meet a lot of people using the Ikea app to figure out how furniture looks in their dwelling house before they purchase. I replaced the desk-bound in my abode part with a white Micke desk and added a chaise from the Soderhamn drove. The iPhone 8 did a pretty good job scanning the room even without much light, though the furniture itself looked more similar animations than the real thing.

The Thomas & Friends Minis app is something I wish I had when my kids were younger. You tin can build your own railroad train tracks right on the tabular array in front of you lot. I felt like a kid over again when the railroad train jumped in the air off one of the ramps and flipped right in front end of me. You can even walk around the virtual rails to take in dissimilar views. It'due south pretty amazing.

Other ARKit apps are on the manner, including an MLB app that will show you a live view of who's on what base when you're at the game, forth with fundamental player stats. And I'm really looking forward to Warhammer 40K Freeblade, a robot-fighting game. I spent a scrap of time with The Machines, a existent-fourth dimension multiplayer strategy game, and I was impressed not just with the graphics but how the sound intensified as I got closer to the action.

What I'd like to see is a defended department in the App Store for AR experiences, which I'm guessing is on the horizon, given the overhaul of the App Store that iOS xi has introduced.

iPhone viii and iPhone 8 Plus review: Displays

Given that the iPhone 10 boasts a beautiful 5.eight-inch OLED display with 2436 10 1125 pixels, and the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus sport 5.8 and 6.2-inch quad OLED screens, at that place's no question that the LCDs on the iPhone 8 and iPhone viii Plus are a stride behind. They but don't have the sharpness, wide viewing angles and perfect blacks the OLED contest has.

Nevertheless, Apple has made some improvements to the 5.5-inch, 1920 x 1080 screen on the iPhone eight Plus and the almost-puny-by-modern-standards four.vii-inch, 1334 x 750 console on the iPhone 8.

For starters, the True Tone feature has migrated from the iPad to the iPhone, which automatically adjusts the white balance on the display to match the ambience light. This can reduce center strain. The two LCDs also benefit from a wide color gamut, as evidenced when I compared a photo of a lake; a gray house looked more white on the iPhone 7 Plus' screen, and greens looked more lush on the iPhone viii Plus.

On our lab tests, the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus delivered a very good 119.6 percentage and 122.five percentage of the color gamut. That'southward great for an LCD, just trails OLED phones like the Notation eight (204 percent) and the Milky way S8 (183 percent).

Apple's phones do offer very accurate hues, though, equally they turned in a Delta-E accuracy ratings of 0.89 and 0.25 (0 is perfect). Samsung'south OLED handsets do well here, too, as the Galaxy S8 scored 0.28 and the Note 8 0.5.

iPhone eight and iPhone viii Plus review: Battery life

Despite the serious speed boost, both the iPhone 8 and the iPhone 8 Plus offer slightly longer endurance than their predecessors — noteworthy since Apple was only promising similar battery life to the iPhone 7 and seven Plus with its new phones.

On the Tom's Guide Battery Test, which involves continuous web surfing over 4G LTE (in this instance T-Mobile), the iPhone 8 lasted 9 hours and 54 minutes, which is slightly to a higher place the 9:xl smartphone boilerplate. The Galaxy S8, by comparison, turned in a longer runtime of x:39. Terminal year's iPhone 7 hitting ix:03.

The iPhone eight Plus lasted an even better 11 hours and xvi minutes, which will put it on our list of longest-lasting phones and too puts information technology on a par with the Galaxy Notation 8 (xi:11). The Galaxy S8+ was in the same ballpark at xi:04, while the older iPhone 7 Plus lasted x:35.

iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus review: Wireless charging

The expert news is that the iPhone eight and iPhone eight finally support wireless charging, and they should piece of work with any charging pad that supports the Qi standard. When using Belkin's $59 Heave Up pad, I plant that the iPhone 8 Plus charged at near the same pace as when connected via Lightning cablevision.

In the case of this Belkin and the similarly priced Mophie Charging Base, both will support faster wireless charging at 7 watts once Apple rolls out an update afterwards this year. They're currently outputting 5 watts, which is the same as the standard Lightning wired charger.

The iPhone eight and iPhone viii Plus are capable of reaching 50 percent charge in merely thirty minutes over a wired connection, but only if you invest in additional gear. You'll demand to spring for a 29-watt USB-C power adapter ($49) and a USB-C to Lightning cable ($15 to $25). That'south pretty crappy given that phones similar the Galaxy S8 come up with a fast wired charging adapter and cablevision in the box.

iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus review: Software

In twenty-four hours-to-solar day use with the iPhone 8, I'd say the biggest changes you'll discover in iOS xi will be the new Control Heart, Alive Photo furnishings in the camera and a more than immersive App Store. Siri too has a more natural-sounding voice.

Command Eye is now easier to utilise considering it crams more than controls into a smaller infinite. For instance, the wireless controls and music controls are now on the same screen. When you long-press on one of the controls, yous'll see additional options, such as Night Shift and True Tone for effulgence. Nonetheless, I'one thousand nevertheless waiting for Apple tree to make it easier to change Wi-Fi networks by long-pressing the Wi-Fi icon.

If you desire to discover new apps, and you're tired of scrolling through summit lists, the new App Store will be a breath of fresh air. You tin meet spotlight stories on specific apps, and at that place's a redesigned Games section that makes it easier to discover new titles in multiple genres.

iPhone 8 and iPhone viii Plus review: Verdict

The $699 iPhone viii and $799 iPhone eight Plus correspond a leap forwards in functioning and camera quality, merely I wish they came in packages that looked and felt more "new." That's why I'm personally waiting for the $999 iPhone X, which as well adds Face ID and a more colorful OLED screen. Yet, both iPhones 8 have very good LCD screens, better audio than their prededessors, wireless charging and strong bombardment life — and for more accessible prices, to kick.

If you're into Android, Samsung doesn't make you choose between getting a cut-edge blueprint and spending close to a one thousand. The $750 Galaxy S8 and $850 S8+ evangelize neat cameras and edge-to-edge OLED screens for only a scrap more than than the iPhone viii and eight Plus. However, neither Galaxy phone can affect the operation of the iPhone 8, and I expect them to trail Apple tree on the augmented-reality app front. Want dual cameras? You'll take to spend $930 and upward for the Note eight, which approaches iPhone X territory.

Overall, my pick betwixt the ii new iPhones is the iPhone 8 Plus. It gives you lot a significantly bigger screen than the iPhone viii, longer bombardment life and more versatile dual cameras for just $100 more. The regular iPhone 8 is expert, just iv.7 inches simply doesn't cutting it for me anymore.

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Mark Spoonauer is the global editor in chief of Tom's Guide and has covered engineering science for over twenty years. In addition to overseeing the management of Tom's Guide, Mark specializes in covering all things mobile, having reviewed dozens of smartphones and other gadgets. He has spoken at key industry events and appears regularly on TV to talk over the latest trends, including Cheddar, Fox Business and other outlets. Mark was previously editor in chief of Laptop Mag, and his piece of work has appeared in Wired, Popular Science and Inc. Follow him on Twitter at @mspoonauer.