Apple iPhone 8 Plus review

Review: October 2017

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In a nutshell: The Apple iPhone 8+ is a larger version of the iPhone 8. With a bigger screen and a superior camera, it's the best iPhone of the current generation, but also the most expensive. Compared with the 7+, the 8+ offers more memory, a faster chip and wireless charging.

iPhone 8+ vs iPhone 8

Apple offers you two choices: compact or massive. In other words, the iPhone 8 or the iPhone 8+. The two phones are identical in most respects, so read our detailed iPhone 8 review to find out more. Here we'll just note the differences.

Bigger

Yes, it's bigger. A lot bigger. Massive in fact. Weighing 202g it's even heavier than the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.

It's got a bigger screen than the iPhone 8, with a higher resolution, and yet phones like the Samsung Galaxy S8 give you an even bigger and better screen in a smaller body.

Camera

The iPhone 8+ has a significantly better camera than the iPhone 8, incorporating optical zoom. Twin 12 megapixel cameras, one with a telephoto lens, enable genuine optical zoom of 2x. Serious photographers will certainly appreciate the difference, and there's no doubting that this is one of the best camera phones of all time.

Conclusion

Don't choose the iPhone 8+ if you want value for money or a compact phone. Choose it if you value Apple's ease of use, if screen size matters, and if you're a keen photographer. But be prepared to carry something huge in your pocket.

Apple iPhone 8 Plus features include:

iOS 11 Operating System
12 megapixel wide angle and telephoto cameras with touch autofocus, quad-LED flash, HDR, BSI, optical zoom and optical image stabilisation
Video camera: 4K at 60 frames per second
7 megapixel Facetime camera with Retina Flash and 1080p video recording
Retina HD display with wide colour gamut: 5.5 inch IPS touchscreen with 1920 x 1080 pixels and 3D Touch
Siri intelligent assistant
Fingerprint identity sensor built into the Home button
Assisted GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and QZSS
A11 Bionic chip with 64-bit architecture, embedded M11 motion coprocessor
Memory: 64GB or 256GB
Connectivity: Bluetooth 4.2, USB 2.0, Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n/ac with MIMO), NFC, Lightning connector
4G LTE plus UMTS/HSDPA plus Quad-band GSM
Size: 158 x 78 x 7.5 mm
Weight: 202g
Wireless charging
Video playback: 14 hours

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