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Welcome to amazing episode of 140 of the Apple Insider Podcast. I'm your host Victor and joining me is

Daniel Erren Dilcher. Hi from San Francisco. Welcome. It's a beautiful day

here.

Tell me about this iPhone 8.

So I got the iPhone 8 thinking it was going to be the moderate improvement of the existing 7. The standout features are actually kind of similar to iPhone

10. You have the similar cameras, at least in the back, and the same chip. So a lot of the kind of super new stuff

that Apple developed for the 10 is also part of the 8.

So it gives you a alternative way

to get into Apple's technology without either being on the cutting edge of price or the cutting edge of things having changed.

I think we kind of discussed that before.

What are the cutting edge of weight times? Yeah, it looks like the antenna is going to have a harder, it's going to be harder to get.

So instead of it being just yet another iPhone, what is it really to you? Well, in a lot of ways it is like the new iPhone. What is it really to you? Well, in a lot of ways it is like the new iPhone.

I mean, it's very similar in how you use it.

I mean, it's identical.

But the things that are different are kind of wearing off all the things that are difficult

to do on an existing iPhone, specifically to the camera.

One of the hardest things to take pictures of is in the light photography and I'm noticing I mean I was trying to take a lot of pictures back and forth between my 7 plus and the 8 plus and the biggest thing that I notice is low light because in if you have bright light there's less of a difference

in terms of just taking photos you really notice that when you're taking low light

photos it does a much better job of balancing what's the exposure across the scene that you're taking.

One of the examples in the review that I did, if you just hold up a phone and try to take a picture of something, a lot of times it will

balance it out to the point where any bright lights are too bright and the dark areas are

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