If you are undecided on which of Samsung's latest flagship phones you should buy, this might help out.

Beyond a faintly larger display & a rather boxier design, the Note 8 has kept a few features to itself when compared to the Galaxy S8 & S8 Plus.

Write on the screen




A staple of the Note line has always been a big screen & the S-Pen. The Note 8's S-Pen is waterproof, more sensitive, & has a smaller tip for easier writing.

Samsung improved 2 S-Pen features on the Note 8, including Screen Off Memo & translation using the pen.

Screen Off Memos is now capped at hundred pages of notes, reminders, sketches or whatever you want. Translate is no longer restricted to single words & can now do complete sentences.

Camera tricks



This is an obvious one, given that it would require a hardware upgrade in order for the S8 to gain an extra camera.

With the second lens on the back of the Note 8, you can take photos that contain more depth-of-field information, which leads to a bokeh effect. In other words, the subject of your photo is in focus while the background is blurry. & with the Note 8, you can actually adjust just how much bokeh is used, before or after the photo is snapped when using the Live Focus feature.

One more cool feature, Dual Capture, gives you the ability to zoom out on a photo captured with both rear cameras, showing the entire scene instead of just the original subject.

Live Messages




Similar to Apple's Digital Touch feature, Live Messages will let you draw or write a message, & then share it in animated form.

Using the S-Pen you can draw on top of a photo or handwrite a message, & the Note 8 will record every pen stroke. The shared image is a standard animated GIF & should be playable regardless of the service used to send it.

App Pair




Multiwindow apps are nothing new to Samsung devices, with the Korean company implementing the feature well before Google integrated it into Android Nougat. With the Note 8, Samsung is making it easier to repeatedly use two apps at the same time.

The feature is called App Pair & is part of the Edge screen feature. Using App Pair, you pick two apps, say Calendar & Messages, as a shortcut. Then when you tap on the pair, both apps are opened in multi-window mode.

You can set any two apps as a pair, as long as each one supports multi-window mode.

Samsung Experience

Some of these features, Live Messages & App Pair, for example, don't rely on hardware. There's nothing stopping Samsung from updating the Samsung Experience software running on all current Galaxy devices with these same features.

A Samsung representative confirmed to CNET some of the software-based features would indeed eventually make their way to the Galaxy S8 & S8 Plus, but stopped short of providing a time frame or specific list.

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Source: http://www.civdigitech.com/2017/08/samsung-galaxy-note-8-vs-galaxy-s8-4.html

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Oh yeah, and it goes for €1000...