 the new Samsung Galaxy S8 is out but let me tell you why I won't be getting this phone. All right, so yesterday Samsung announced the new Galaxy 8 phone, S8 phone and it looks pretty awesome at first glance and I wanted to just take a quick second to talk about why I won't be getting this new Galaxy S phone. Now before you get up in arms I know that this isn't a tech channel per se but as a photographer we use a lot of tech things in particular we use our phones quite a bit especially when we don't have a small camera or DSLR with us we usually reach for our phone and that's not just for photographers per se that's just life these days in this new era. So I wanted to talk about why I won't be getting this new Galaxy S8 phone. First I want to go back a little bit about six years ago you may or may not remember that Samsung and Apple had this huge fallen out this big lawsuit that came up saying that Samsung had patent infringements against Apple and Samsung was supposed to pay Apple $400 million which the Supreme Court overruled and this is still apparently an ongoing battle but ever since then I had bought in my first iPhone now there was a couple reasons for it one the whole patent thing was kind of weird and two I had just gotten into the Apple ecosystem I had just bought my first MacBook Pro I was going to school for design and using Mac products so it just seemed like the smart thing to do was to buy an iPhone so ever since then I've been in the iPhone ecosystem then Samsung came out with the Galaxy S6 the S7 edge which was a phenomenal phone and then now the Galaxy S8 which looks very similar to the 7 edge in my opinion and it's getting some really great reviews another thing was that the Galaxy phones as we know were exploding Samsung is recalling millions of new Galaxy Note 7 smartphones after reports of the electronics catching on fire while charging and so that was another reason why I wasn't really sure but Samsung has ensured us that these new phones the Galaxy S8s won't be blown up anytime soon we must be building up to step into the unknown and humbling to learn from our mistakes we'll see but with that said there are a lot of things to love about the Galaxy S8 as well as some of the new iPhones in my particular instance I'm going to need to pick up a new phone soon because I smashed to pieces my iPhone 6 and so when I started looking at some comparisons whether I was going to buy you know another iPhone 6 maybe the iPhone the i7 or wait for this new S8 to come out and I started weighing all the pros and cons it started to become more obvious to me and so I wanted to share with you a few of the things that brought me to my result first of all the display right we take pictures we look at the display and the display is kind of showing us what's going on and that S8 display is nothing short of excellent it seems like with a 5.8 inch display on the S8 as well as a 6.2 inch display on the 8 plus there's a lot of real estate there and with these new edge to edge images or that beveled lack there of soft edges they're calling it the infinity display you get these beautiful looking images but that wasn't enough to sway me we also have gorilla glass on there which is pretty exciting because it never fails that these iPhone glasses seem to break but that wasn't enough then I started to look at the camera and it looks like while iPhone has made great strides in a lot of their cameras and each phone seems to get a little bit better it still doesn't seem to compare to what the new Galaxy camera phone is doing but there were some things about the phone that made me want to think twice first of all I'm not ready to make the change to USB-C yet and the Galaxy S8 is on USB-C now so is the iPhone 7 but all of my products including my 2015 MacBook are still using a regular USB not USB-C so I'm not ready to start investing in that kind of stuff yet another big big thing for me and the main reason why I find myself not being able to make this switch is the fact that the ecosystem has forced me to kind of stay where I'm at what I mean by that is all of these apps that have been invested in and purchased whether it's for productivity whether it's for photography whether it's just for whatever it is all of these apps and music and such that I've had to pay for over the years I don't want to have to now go to a new system and have to rebuy all of these apps for so that right there is probably one of the biggest reasons that I can't make the switch tack on maybe you know the USB-C thing another thing that I did like was Samsung kept the the headphone jack as we know iPhone 7 they've gotten rid of that so it's close it's a close close thing but not enough to push me over the edge so I'm curious though I wanted to have this dialogue with you nerds out there to find out what if you're in the same boat that I am whether you are kind of getting stale maybe it's time for a new upgrade on your phone and you've been thinking about making the switch to something like a google phone or Samsung but you just haven't been able to pull the trigger maybe because you're locked into your ecosystem as well I'd be curious to hear what you guys have in the to say about it in the comments down below and if you guys have any suggestions as to ways that we can maybe navigate this stuff I would love to hear those options there so drop us a comment down below thanks to my favorite youtubers out there I'll leave links to all of the videos down below so you can check out their channels and see what they have to say about the new galaxy s8 thank you so much for watching we'll catch you in the next episode my name is Adam I'm out