Is the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Worth It? #Helpful Post

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hey guys Boston this is the Samsung

Galaxy Note 9 if you go all the way back

to 2011 when the first Galaxy Note came

out it kind of changed smartphones in a

big way quite literally a big way as not

only is it one of the biggest

smartphones of its time but fast forward

to 2018 and that has kind of become the

standard this has a massive six point

four inch screen but the real question

is as the note 9 even worth it with an

eye-watering lehigh thousand dollar plus

price tag at first glance the note 9

doesn't look all that different than its

predecessor however that's not

necessarily going to be a bad thing the

previous phone was one of the nicest

builds and designs of any smartphone in

2017 and that definitely follows through

in 2018 with an all-glass aluminum build

there's no one who's gonna complain to

the note 9 is an ugly-looking smart

phone annoy problems and this is

actually kind of shared with the note 8

is that it is really really big now I

know I just talked all about how the

note was one of the very first phones to

bring phablets to the mainstream but

this is just really tall as you'd expect

from the Samsung flagship you are going

to be getting ip68 water assistance

wireless charging and if you look on the

bottom what's very unique with this

almost no other phone has it actually

open this up here you're going to see a

little round port now this is actually

not all that common in phones these days

but it's known as a headphone jack it's

not really something that most people

have this is back in the days before

Bluetooth where you use like wires or

something to connect your headphones I

know it sounds really weird I don't

think anyone actually uses it but if

theory if you wanted to plug in your

headphones to your note you can do that

there's also an S Pen but no one cares

about that one of the big upgrades on

the Galaxy Note 9 this year are stereo

speakers which is especially helpful

concerning that before having a single

speaker on the bottom of such a giant

phone scene ridiculous what they're

doing here just like on a lot of other

phones including the s9 the iPhone is

they're going to be using the earpiece

as well as the Bond speaker to give you

a pretty convincing stereo effect it

also helps that it's properly loud

you're also going to find the Bigsby

button I'm still going to complain about

it and Samsung is still going to do

absolutely nothing to fix it but luckily

I have a much better solution one thing

I have had some issues with is the

fingerprint sensor now thankfully

Samsung has moved it to below the

cameras as opposed to right beside it

which is a nice change however the

problem is is it actually isn't all that

accurate what's new this year is that

you swipe your finger across the sensor

wants to be able to enroll it as a

fingerprint

now that sounds great it's a lot faster

to set up so the problem is it's just

really an accurate for me now sure being

able to tap your finger on a bunch of

times when you first set up the phone is

kind of annoying but at least you know

the fingerprint sensor is pretty good

whereas here no matter how many times I

try to reinstate fingers it just isn't

all that accurate for me maybe it's just

an issue with my note 9 whether it's the

software or the hardware but the good

thing is the facial recognition is going

to be pretty solid so you have a form of

base ID known as face unlock as well as

iris recognition which in combination

should be able to unlock pretty quickly

that's not going to be quite as fast as

something like to be one plus six but

it's around on par with the iPhone 10

and honestly security wise just be okay

it won't unlock for can it'll unlock for

me so I guess that's a good thing with a

snapdragon 845 onboard just as you would

expect this is going to be right up

there with the rest of the Android

flight ships of this year and while on

paper it's going to fall a little bit

behind the iPhone 10 and it's crazy fast

AAA 11 chip you're definitely not going

to be disappointed with the performance

of the note 9 what this isn't at least

based on my first impressions is as fast

as the one plus six and considering that

this is going to be about double the

price that's not really going to be a

good sign now a big part of that has to

do with software oneplus has a fairly

stock looking skin which doesn't have a

lot of extra bloat so I don't want to

say that the note 9 is full of all the

old-school TouchWiz of Samsung's past

but it is definitely not going to be as

speedy and that high-resolution screen

doesn't make things better one of the

big advantages of the note 9 that has to

do with its gaming capabilities so of

course there's the biggest hottest games

of 2018 which are available on the note

and of course we have to talk about the

Battle Royale that everyone is playing

right now

pugsy mobile who are awesome enough to

sponsor this video this is the official

mobile version of player unknowns

battlegrounds if somehow you haven't

heard of it it's a free-to-play Battle

Royale game on both Android and iOS

which features a hundred players

all dropping into a massive Island for a

winner-takes-all battle I don't need to

tell you that you played pop G right

well pup geez now on your phone I should

expect with a high end phone like the

note 9 it's going to have no problem

playing pub G at fairly high settings

but since its Android you can actually

customize it all the way up to Ultra HD

you can change the frame rate cap you

can even change the style of the game

it's especially impressive considering

that you're getting the full experience

with both of the games huge maps and

it's all going to be powered by Unreal

Engine and give you full 7.1 audio hours

Meli can you play with four people on a

squad but they're going to be faster

paced arcade modes which are over in 8

minutes for a quick game I'm always

going to be partial to a mouse and

keyboard but the controls really are not

going to be bad especially for a mobile

shooter the moral of the story pop G

mobile is fun regardless of where you

play it that's especially good on the

note 9 with a six point four inch 20 960

by 1440p AMOLED display it shouldn't be

any surprise that this is one of the

nicest smartphone screens on the market

now so when you put a side-by-side with

the iPhone 10 it looks very similar and

to be totally honest Samsung has done on

top of the panel game for a few years

now so even something like an s7 or s8

looks good but this this is about as

good as it gets one of the more

surprising upgrades with the note 9 it

has to do with the battery and no it's

not that it's going to catch on fire

anything cuz that's totally not what it

used to happen instead the Galaxy Note 9

has a much larger four thousand milliamp

hours sell maybe because of that Samsung

was a little conservative last year with

a fairly small 3300 milliamp hour

battery but this year with a full 4,000

on board now these are going to easily

last through a full day something that

couldn't always be said about the note 8

or even the s9 but also get some

differentiation which has always been

one of my big issues with the note if

you're not into the s-pen a lot of times

it just makes sense to buy the normal

galaxy s so at its core the note 9 still

has a pair of 12 megapixel cameras one

wide-angle camera with a variable

aperture as well as a telephoto option

now I've always felt like especially on

the s9 the variable aperture is nice but

doesn't make a huge difference no it's

not necessarily a new camera feature the

s-pen has been upgraded with the ability

to use it as a selfie

pen remote I guess just snap selfies by

pressing the button it's pretty cool so

we do have the live focus mode which is

going to be the same as the galaxy s 9

and while it works for the most part it

does have some problems with some pretty

major differences in contrast that's not

great I've noticed a lot of overexpose

in the background with this especially

in some of the pictures that I've taken

it definitely has that issue one of my

big issues with the note 9 is that you

get about the cheaper and almost

identical galaxy s 9 + 6 months ago now

sure smartphone is definitely evolving

and there are some advantages with going

with the S Pen and with the notes but

when you look at other phones like the

Oppo find X which brings terrific design

and somebody that's legitimately

different around this price point this

is kind of a harder sell especially when

you consider that the 1 plus 6 is equal

to this in a lot of ways at half the

price on top of that there's some

serious competition coming up with the

next generation iPhone a pixel right

around the corner now sure if you really

need that s-pen by all means go pick up

a note 9 but at $1000 plus I just don't

think it's worth it for most people and

of course huge shout out to pubsey

mobile you guys wanna check it out the

link will be in the description and let

me know would you actually want to pick

up the Galaxy Note 9