Apple's strategy for releasing two iPhone models at the same time with a different size is apparently considered quite successful by the Cupertino California-based company. This year Apple even threw three iPhone models to meet market needs, which are currently in love with the bezel-less cellphone model. But due to the limited supply of OLED screen components, Apple was finally forced to make the decision to continue selling models with IPS LCD screens and selling models with more sophisticated screens in much smaller amounts.
Launching first, the Apple iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus come with different screen sizes but with a similar design outline. After considering the differences between the two, Kellytech made the decision to review the Plus variant which is sure to bring more advantages and features. Although the iPhone 8 Plus unit that was tested by Kellytech was obtained from non-official channels, but with the issuance of TKDN certificates for the three devices made by Apple, it is certain that consumers will be able to get it officially in the country. While waiting for his arrival in Indonesia, see the full review first in the following article.
As you can know from the dimensions that have been carried, the iPhone 8 Plus is only about 0.2mm bigger than its predecessor the 7 Plus series. If the previous iPhone version uses materials made of metal as a whole, the most recent iPhone version comes with a glass wrap on the front and back of the device.
The frame of the device of course uses aluminum series 7000 which increasingly confirms the impression of luxury for this smartphone. The choice of glass material is needed so that this device can be charged using the Qi wireless charger on the market. Naturally, if in the end the final weight of the iPhone 8 Plus has increased from the previous version which weighs 188 grams to 202 grams, aka up to 14 grams adrift.
The existence of the difference in dimensions certainly makes the entire accessory casing used on the iPhone 7 Plus no longer usable for this newer device. You who intend to upgrade, of course, must prepare extra funds. Moreover, the glass material adopted also requires more attention to avoid all kinds of damage that might occur.
Although Apple claims that the glass material used is scratch resistant, but some tests that you can easily see on YouTube show that this device is very easily scratched. On the left side of the device, a mute button and volume control are installed. While the nano SIM card slot and power button are embedded in the right side. The bottom is crammed with lightning ports that are flanked by speaker and mouthpiece gaps. Turning to the rear, you will find a prominent dual camera sensor that was accompanied by a quad-LED dual-tone flash.
LED Backlit IPS LCD with TrueTone
Having a 5.5-inch screen span, iPhone 8 Plus gets the addition of new technology nicknamed TrueTone. This is a brand new technology that allows the device to adjust the screen's white balance by utilizing the light four channel ambient sensor that it provides. The color change on the iPhone screen with TrueTone active and inactive does look quite clear which is ready to provide better vision and comfort. Night mode called Night Shift as usual will filter blue light from the screen which will help users rest more deeply in the mix.
His screen is also classified as very bright which allows users to get brightness numbers up to 530 nits. When you use your smartphone outdoors with hot sunlight, the brightness will even continue to increase up to 620 nits. This means that users are guaranteed to be able to see the menu display more sharply without encountering any obstacles.
Following the trend of today's smart phones, Apple is also collaborating with Netflix to provide HDR10 video content. Although video shows that support technology like this are not yet widely available, the efforts of the producers to complete them are businesses that deserve to be thumbs up. In the specifications page, the iPhone 8 Plus is also said to support content shows in the Dolby Vision format.
The 3D Touch functionality of Apple's latest devices is also continuing to progress with the presence of routine updates that continue to be rolled out. In iOS 11, you can use 3D Touch on a variety of application icons, notifications, toggles to application pop-up content. For the uninitiated reader, 3D Touch itself is a function that is crammed on the iPhone screen that allows the device to provide different responses based on the strength of the user's finger pressure.
For example, if you gently press the Mail application icon then you will see a cross in the upper corner that allows the user to move the location. But if you press harder then you will see other options to access your inbox, search or write new messages.
iOS 11
The Apple iPhone 8 Plus comes with the best operating system Apple iOS 11 which offers a series of improvements both in terms of performance and interface. You can set the notification center now. If users want to protect their privacy, they can set it so that notifications will only appear when the screen is unlocked. In other words when the screen is locked, the iPhone will not display any notifications. You can also turn it off at once by selecting Never alias Never.
Quick toggle or quick shortcuts still remain in the Control Center that users can access by swiping a finger from the bottom of the screen towards the top. Interestingly, if you turn off the Bluetooth or Wi-Fi line from the existing toggle, the iPhone 8 Plus will only disconnect, even though the features themselves don't die. For example, when you turn off Wi-Fi, only your network connection to a particular hotspot is disconnected and the Wi-Fi settings button is still on. This step is done so that Apple's file sharing and link feature nicknamed AirDrop can continue to be active at all times.
The front of the screen as usual contains a variety of default applications or that you install yourself. Apple is the party that pioneered the elimination of app drawers or application drawers on modern smartphones which were followed by its competitors. The leftmost part of the main page or homescreen you can find the search box which is then followed by a variety of up-to-date information related to the weather, agenda, application suggestions and so forth. This new page by Apple is called the Today Page, which you can turn off either when the screen is locked, is open or both.
Unlike the iPhone X which removes the fingerprint scanner sensor, you will still find the physical home button on this device which also functions to unlock the device through recording the fingerprints that you saved earlier.
Apple A11 Bionic
Guided by the Apple A11 Bionic processor, the iPhone 8 Plus is accompanied by 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal space. In order to sustain its performance, this brand-new processor now uses six cores, each of which consists of two high-strength cores nicknamed Moonsoon and four lower-strength cores called Mistral. Inti Moonson presents a performance that is 25% higher than the previous core of the Apple A10 Fusion processor. Similarly, the other four cores are also claimed by Apple to work 75% faster than the core processor used in the predecessor's chipset.
The new graphics chip is also promised to be 30% faster than the GPU crammed into the previous generation iPhone. Analysis of comparisons made even mentions that inside the Apple A11 Bionic processor chip has up to 4.3 billion transistors.
While the Snapdragon 835 and Kirin 970 chips have 3.1 and 5.5 billion transistor units respectively. The hardware acceleration function of AI machine learning is also supported by the presence of dual-core neural engines embedded in this A11 chip.
To measure the performance of the device, Kellytech uses GeekBench and AntuTu whose results you can see in the included table. The choice of a processor chip made with a 10nm production process and a full HD class screen seems to play an important role in boosting the performance of the battery. You can see the complete performance test of the battery in the following graphics.
12MP Dual Camera with Portrait Mode
Like its predecessor, the Apple iPhone 8 Plus also uses a dual camera as the device's main weapon to aim at valuable moments of users with colleagues or relatives. Although the resolution used remains at 12MP, Apple says that the camera sensors they adopted have a larger size and more light-sensitive pixels.
Pixels in his sensor also now implement a better color isolation process to produce sharper quality images closer to the original.
The dual camera of the iPhone is very easy for you to choose just by selecting the zoom or zoom located at the bottom of the viewfinder. In outdoor shooting, you can choose a telephoto lens that offers 2x optical zoom capability to enlarge objects in the distance.
The photos are also fairly clear with the original color without saturation. While for minimal light conditions, make sure you use a standard wide angle camera that is supplied. Quad-dual-tone flash LEDs which were previously available also on the iPhone 7 Plus now come better with the support of slow-sync flash which will make the LED flash light up longer to provide a more natural lighting situation.
Portrait mode on the iPhone 8 Plus is now also equipped with a new mode called Portrait Lighting that will isolate the subject and increase its brightness to produce a much brighter image. Still in beta, Kellytech discovered edge-detection or the process of isolating the edges of the subject missed in several tests. The edges of the subject that should be sharp actually appear blurry. However, the process of shooting images with the bokeh effect that Apple called the Portrait Mode is fairly fast and easy to do.
The new camera used now also supports the new HEIF image format and the new HEVC video format that results in more compression that saves the internal space of the device. The size of space that can be saved is even close to half. However, if you don't want to use the new image and video format, users can disable it in settings -> camera -> formats and choose the most compatible. However, it should be noted also if you choose the Most Compatible format, your iPhone 8 Plus will not be used for 4K video recording at 60fps or full HD at 240fps.
As in its predecessor the iPhone 8 Plus is also equipped with OIS which can be applied to image shooting and video recording. OIS when shooting images combined with a lower shutter speed and a new image processing algorithm will certainly be very suitable for shooting at night. Provided OIS features when recording video will certainly be very useful so that the resulting image is not easy to shake.
Multimedia
In the sales package, Apple includes Lightning Earpods, whose function is actually the same as the Earset with the end of the Lightning connector. However, users do not need to worry if they want to buy accessories in the form of headphones or earphones themselves because you can use the included 3.5mm lightning to audio adapter. Like previous traditions, Apple still continues to maintain the existence of iTunes as the only means to move files to the iPhone.
Moving on to visual shows, users certainly can't expect much on the default video player. Sound output from the iPhone 8 Plus is now also stereo with two speakers located on the earpiece and the bottom side of the device. Enjoying streaming video shows does look very satisfying with a wide screen and the quality of the audio produced. You can also shop music and movie shows from the iTunes Store using a credit card, of course.
Special Features
Because of the many special features prepared by Apple on this champion device, Kellytech decided to discuss it in a separate section. The first feature that is quite interesting for you to try is Handoff who uses your iCloud account to continue accessing from iPhone to Mac or vice versa. For example, you can copy a line of text from a Mac and paste it into a Notebook on the iPhone 8 Plus. Not only copying, you can also read the iPhone tips on Kellytech online from Mac in the room then continue on the iPhone 8 Plus when you have to leave the room.
As for sharing data, you can use AirDrop which works on all devices made by Apple. The process of transferring data that occurs through Wi-Fi networks can occur either through the same hotspot network or by creating a standalone path resembling Wi-Fi Direct on an Android device.
Apple's smart voice assistant feature named Siri is now also increasingly sophisticated with an increasingly fresh interface. Users can now also ask Siri to translate sentences from English to Chinese, French, German, Italian or Spanish. Although it does not yet support Indonesian, but Kellytech found this device sensitive enough to recognize even unusual English accents. Interestingly, users can now also activate text to communicate with Siri. Of course you have to activate it first through the Settings menu -> General -> Accessibility -> Siri.
Still in the accessibility menu, users can also disable autobrightness whose settings are under the Display Accommodation menu. You can now also record screen activity or a record screen by going to the Control Center that you can access by sweeping your finger from the bottom screen to the top. Your comfort in typing is also increasing with the one handed keyboard feature that you can turn on by entering the globe icon in the lower left corner.
iMessage on iOS 11 also gets a lot of updates in the form of the ability to send Apple Pay Cash. This feature is actually not very useful for Indonesian users because Apple's digital payment system is not yet officially available in the country. Users can now also share links using 3D Touch by pressing the hard link until the "share" option appears. If you are browsing the web and want to share a link, you can also take the same way to share the link through the application installed on the device.
Another interesting addition is two screen effects (screen effects) that will make your chat with friends even more interactive. Still with 3D Touch technology, type the message you want to send and press the send message button hard until the Bubble, Screen, Slam, Loud, Gentle, and Invisible ink options appear. Well then select the screen and swipe your finger to the right or left side to choose the effect you want to use. There are many effects embedded in it, but the Echo and Spotlight effects are two new effects that you will only encounter on iOS 11. Echo will make your text chat like a soap bubble, while spotlight will highlight the text you send like a stage spotlight.
Conclusion
Although in terms of the design has not changed, but the innards of the latest generation iPhone has undergone a lot of reforms which of course will be very dear to miss. The surge in performance that comes from the Apple A11 Bionic chipset made with the 10nm process even scores beyond the Galaxy Note 9. For those of you who are reluctant to leave the device's fingerprint sensor, the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus are certainly also the most reasonable choices .
The dual camera that is only found on the iPhone Plus series is certainly of course more value that distinguishes it from the standard iPhone version. Although the size of the resolution used is the same, but the pixel quality greater than the iPhone 7 Plus is certainly an increase that will be very feasible to obtain. Moreover, the DxO Mark records the camera quality of the iPhone 8 Plus, which is equivalent to the quality shown by the Galaxy Note 8.
Like other Apple devices, the iPhone 8 Plus also comes with a premium price benchmark. Priced at a new motorcycle, the iPhone 8 Plus 256GB internal storage version is indeed a flagships device that is far from simple.
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