The majority of everything, including price | The Samsung Note 9 dribbles with a level of premium and ability that is essentially unmatched by its opponents | Samsung's flagship smartphone gets greater, quicker, and more grounded | No bargains !!
Motivations TO BUY
+ Specialized equipment pioneer
+ 6.4-inch Super AMOLED screen is best on the planet
+ New S Pen computerized stylus works greatly
+ Sound is the top draw, with Dolby Atmos and UHQ upscaling
+ Extensive Samsung programming suite
Motivations TO AVOID
- 4,000mAh battery is just aggressive, not champion
- Bixby AI aide is still certainly a work in advance
- Costly, notwithstanding for the section demonstrate
World NOTE 9 SPECS
6.4-inch quad HD OLED show
Snapdragon 845 processor with 6/8GB RAM
128/512GB capacity with microSD bolster
4,000mAh battery with wired and wireless quick charging
Double 12-megapixel raise camera with OIS and switchable aperture
8-megapixel front camera with self-adjust
Gigabit LTE Cat. 18
Iris, facial, and unique mark biometric verification
Android 8.1 Oreo
Welcome to full, featured, Samsung Galaxy Note 9 audit. This is the climax of my weeks-long exploring process that has seen me examine all aspects of the leader handset, all keeping in mind the end goal to check whether it is the best Android telephone on the planet, and in addition on the off chance that it does what's needed to enter our renowned best cell phone purchasing guide.
This full Samsung Note 9 survey, thusly, covers each part of the handset, and is separated into the center scoring areas of the plan and assembles quality, equipment and screen, camera and S Pen, battery and sound, and additionally Bixby AI right hand, highlights, and OS.
Along these lines, to see whether the Note 9 is superior to anything Samsung's other 2018 lead telephones, the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus, and additionally in the event that it can battle off savage difficulties from match gadgets like the Huawei P20 Pro, read on.
First up, however, I'll cover the Samsung Galaxy Note 9's value, models, and accessibility.
SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE 9 REVIEW: PRICE, MODELS
The Samsung Galaxy Note 9 cost is £899 ($1,000) for the section level model and £1,099 ($1,250) for the best spec show.
The two models are specced indistinguishably beside the included RAM and inward storage room, with the base model pressing 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage room, and the best spec demonstrates accompanying 8GB of RAM and 512GB of storage room.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 9 is accessible in three colorways Midnight Black, Ocean Blue (the model checked on), and Lavender Purple.
SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE 9 REVIEW: DESIGN AND BUILD QUALITY
Open the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 box and the main thing you see while lifting the telephone out of its inner support is exactly how thick the gadget feels in the hand.
Notwithstanding its slimline design, with its aggregate measurements estimating in at 161.9 x 76.4 x 8.8 mm, the Note 9 not the slightest bit feels light, plasticky or empty, which a couple of different leads have done in 2018 with disappointing outcomes.
Take a gander at the spec sheet, however, and that excellent grope is upheld by a significant 201-gram weight, which even exceeds specialized form quality pioneers like the HTC U12 Plus, which itself felt exceptionally premium in the hand.
The additional weight could come affability of the gadget's expanded 4,000 mAh battery, which is far bigger in limit than its predecessor's, which was only 3,300 mAh.
Opponent producers' earnest attempts at an exceptional look and feel are overwhelmed by the new Galaxy Note 9
This blend of slenderness and thickness implies the Note 9 just oozes quality as far as feel, while its dribbling with-luxury 6.4-inch Infinity Display (more on that tomorrow) finishes the bundle – match producers' earnest attempts at an exceptional look and feel are overwhelmed by the new Galaxy Note 9.
Truly, the Note 9 does look and feel like the Samsung Galaxy Note 8, and in the event that you put the telephones next to each other screen up then, they are almost indistinguishable to take a gander at.
Be that as it may, when you draw near up, and particularly when you clock the re-situated unique mark peruser on the backplate, which is currently situated beneath the camera focal points instead of on their right side, the little upgrades Samsung has made on this new Note turn out to be more apparent.
Regarding the physical design of the catches and stylus port, which presently houses the as good as ever form of Samsung's S Pen, it is nothing new. Same, as well, with the gadget's earphone jack (yes, Samsung keeps on avoiding the pattern on the remote just sound push) and SIM card/microSD card opening, which stays on the upper left of the telephone.
Regarding outline, the Note 9 includes a brushed metal outside edge that converges close consistently with the telephone's Gorilla Glass screen and backplate. This feels smooth and cool under the skin and is just hindered by the Note 9's different ports and cooling/sound vents.
In conclusion, an extra point to note about the Note 9's construct quality is that the gadget is likewise IP68 water and residue safe, which for a gadget that expenses almost £900 in its base setup are characteristics that are unquestionably generally welcome. Not the slightest bit should this gadget like this at any point come into contact with water, or extensive heaps of residue, however, it feels great to realize that the telephone has this official affirmation in its locker.
SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE 9 REVIEW: SCREEN AND HARDWARE
Notwithstanding every one of those anecdotes about opponent parts creators snapping at Samsung's foot sole areas in the development of AMOLED shows, the 6.4-inch Super AMOLED introduced on the Note 9 reminds you, on the off chance that anything, that those contenders are still roads behind the South Korean producer.
The 18:5:9 Infinity Display on the Note 9 is, basically, an undeniable shocker and the best cell phone screen on the planet at the present time.
Its super size, regardless of the abhor heaved by substantial telephone naysayers, is a thing of iPhone-beating magnificence, with its rich and lively shading generation, solid splendor, high-determination (1,440 x 2,960, 516 ppi) picture sharpness, HDR support, and lavish bended glass totally obliterating the opposition.
I thought the screen on a year ago's Note 8 was exceptionally solid, and the unit introduced on the Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus similarly shocking, yet the somewhat taller board settled into the Note 9 is – barely – the best of the parcel. Its devotion, energy, and land are just unparalleled.
From gushing HDR motion pictures from Netflix, to getting a charge out of a few rounds of extraordinary hand-to-hand battle in Dragon Ball Legends, to perusing the fine, fine substance on T3.com, and onto taking notes and taking some time out to pen some epic outlines with the Note 9's S Pen advanced stylus, this current telephone's screen makes it a flat-out delight.
As far as equipment, the Note 9 is up there as far as 2018's lead Android telephones, and unquestionably at Samsung's very own similar level Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus leads, which both vacuumed up 5 stars from T3.com when we looked into it.
The new passage level spec Galaxy Note comes pressing a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor, 128GB of storage room (a 512GB form costs more), 6GB of RAM (this is expanded to 8GB on the 512GB stockpiling model), and a 4,000 mAh battery.
Running the telephone through GeekBench 4, as you would expect, it returned exceptionally sound scores, indenting 3,750 of every a solitary center test, and 9,016 in multi-center. These are scores that, OnePlus 6 aside, are best of the Android tree. Furthermore, perhaps with the additional 2GB of RAM introduced on the higher-spec Note 9, the supreme lord.
The Note 9 bonds the arrangement's notoriety for being a specialized pioneer in the cell phone field.
As far as RAM, CPU, and capacity this analyzes either indistinguishable or, comparable to a large number of the current year's best leader telephones, including the Sony Xperia XZ2, OnePlus 6, HTC U12 Plus, and LG G7 ThinQ, while apparently beating a year ago's iPhone X serenely on paper.
A year ago's Galaxy Note 8 was a comparative specialized powerhouse, as you would anticipate from a telephone that has a legacy of specialized greatness (possibly besides the Galaxy Note 7 and its battery issues), and keeping in mind that you could contend that the Note 9 doesn't convey a spec that ranges intensely into the future, it delivers a brilliant all-round bundle.
As you would anticipate from such a lead review inside equipment suite, utilizing the Note 9 is a fast, liquid ordeal: I encountered zero back off or slack while opening and utilizing applications, playing amusements, exchanging utilization modes, (for example, when utilizing the S Pen), downloading substance and perusing the web.
To be straightforward that level of execution should totally not out of the ordinary at £899, however.
By and large, at that point, the Note 9 is a specialized juggernaut regarding screen and interior equipment, with the gadget solidifying the arrangement's notoriety for being a specialized pioneer in the cell phone field.
SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE 9 REVIEW: CAMERA
In the event that you need to have a smart thought of how the Note 9's camera framework performs you should look to the Galaxy S9, which it has acquired its double opening back camera highlights from.
The Note 9 includes a support of 12MP back camera focal points and a solitary 8MP front camera focal point.
The double gap raise setup enables the Note 9 to switch between a f/1.5 gap for low-light photography, and afterward a f/2.4 opening for general lighting conditions, conceding the telephone fantastic flexibility when shooting, particularly when conditions get cloudy or dim, or when the light is level.
The auxiliary back camera on the back of the Note 9 additionally comes pressing a 2x optical zoom, taking into consideration some truly not too bad zoomed in, fax style shots. Both back cameras come pressing optical picture adjustment which I find most valuable when hauling out the telephone to take fast previews.
SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE 9 REVIEW: About That S Pen
A week ago, when I discovered that the Note 9's S Pen was not only a stylus but rather now likewise a Bluetooth remote-control stick for the telephone, I said this was an appalling contrivance. I wasn't right. The S Pen as a Bluetooth remote-control stick has enchanted the general population around me as we've utilized it to take selfies in the course of recent days. (I've even punked individuals by giving the new telephone over to them and after that, as they're analyzing it, propelling the camera application with the S Pen in my grasp.) It's unbelievably valuable as a device for opening the telephone when it's resting a couple of feet from you at your work area and you don't have a craving for lifting it up and utilizing your face or finger to open it. Selfie stick S Pen, I salute you.
Exactly when I thought there wasn't substantially more Samsung could enhance its S Pen, it goes and adds Bluetooth Low Energy to the stylus and transforms it into a remote.
For non-craftsmen like me, the S Pen's remote highlights (great from a separation of up to 32 feet) are much more valuable than what number of levels of weight the tip can react to (FYI, it's 4,096 levels) or that it's additionally IP68-evaluated.
Nothing amiss with a fine-tipped stylus that is extremely responsive for composing, drawing, or making a GIF, however utilizing the S Pen as a remote control for taking selfies, or propelling pictures in a photograph collection (useful for introductions), or Spotify or YouTube controls? Those are everything I could see myself utilizing all the more frequently by and by and for work.
My most loved S Pen remote component is utilizing it to take selfies and aggregate photographs — I indicated it off to a few companions and they all were quite flabbergasted — yet it's still extremely early days. Who realizes what sort of remote highlights engineers will concoct once they get their hands on the S Pen's SDK. I would already be able to envision it being utilized as a controller (but an exceptionally restricted single-catch one) for diversions. Flappy Bird with a S Pen, anybody?
SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE 9 REVIEW: BATTERY AND AUDIO CREDENTIALS
The battery introduced in a year ago's Samsung Galaxy Note 8 was, as we noted in our audit, a "moderately little 3,300mAh" unit, which was much littler than the battery introduced on the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus, as well.
This prompted a not as much as stellar execution return on the ground-breaking, 6.3-inch screen prepared Note 8, which requested power that its interior battery could extremely just convey just barely.
This was in all likelihood down to the disaster the South Korean creator had landed itself in the prior year with the Note 7.
So shouldn't something be said about the Note 9? All things considered, fortunately, the new Galaxy Note comes pressing an unmistakably intense 4,000mAh battery, which not just feels more appropriate for a super-great leader telephone with monstrous 6.4-inch Super AMOLED screen, yet in addition unquestionably focused with its opponent gadgets, as well.
The Huawei P20 Pro, for instance, packs a 4,000mAh battery, and with bits of gossip about the approaching Huawei Mate 20 Pro swinging a significantly bigger battery than that, the Note 9 expected to contend in a similar ball stop.
Furthermore, as should be obvious from the adjacent boxout, when I ran the Note 9 through the GeekBench 4 battery test, the telephone proceeded a stopped a bigger score than a year ago's entrance, rounding up 5,672 indicates up correlation the Note 8's 3,892.
I was unquestionably cheered to see the Note 9 posting a significantly more grounded score, as while it doesn't approach the battery life ruler, the Xiaomi Mi Max 2 (an enormous score of 6,059), it is presently immovably eating at the best table, as it were.
All things considered, it is essential to take note of that GeekBench 4 restored a general certainty score of "Medium" as far as battery execution, however, and from my own genuine world, everyday utilization, my gut reveals to me that is right.
I feel the Note 9 conveys a battery that can without a doubt go the "throughout the day" encounter that is by and large formally touted by Samsung, and with medium blended utilization, as well. In any case, my opportunity with the Note 9 has driven me to the conclusion that except if you utilize the gadget daintily, you'll once in a while have the capacity to easily expand that over into day two.
This is anything but an enormous issue, similarly, as it isn't with by far most of the cell phones, which like it or not, are still especially secured an every day energize cycle, be it at night or medium-term.
In any case, for a telephone that prides itself on pulling out all the stops in all things, and being a profitability powerhouse, as well, preferably I would need to see a considerably bigger battery opened in the Note 9.
You do get both Fast Charging and Fast Wireless Charging capacities in the Note 9, however, so in any event refilling the telephone's tank is a quick ordeal.
Proceeding onward to sound qualifications, the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 comes pressing an arrangement of AKG tuned stereo speakers (these are boisterous and offer somewhat more profundity of sound contrasted with the Note 8), Dolby Atmos sound help, an in-constructed equalizer alongside selectable UHQ upscale and reverb-arific Concert Hall flip, and in addition the Adapt Sound framework found in the S9.
By and large, at that point, I feel the Galaxy Note 9 does what's needed in the battery office without truly pushing the limits of battery life, and conveys a similarly high caliber, audiophile-prepared sound playback as found on the S9 and a couple of other lead Android telephones.
SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE 9 REVIEW: BIXBY, FEATURES, AND OS
Bixby's back child! Also, besides as yet seeming like one of Bertie Wooster's pals, it comes back to the Note 9 with its own particular devoted, physical catch still in-thoughtfulness.
The Note 9's Bixby catch is situated on the left hand side of the telephone under the volume rocker, with a solitary press opening the AI aide's home screen, where you can enter content charges, design settings, and go through its instructional exercises, and a long press taking you specifically to voice order input.
Giving you empower the alternative, Bixby can likewise be raised with a "Hey, Bixby" voice charge, which worked for me like 8-9 out of 10 times while on the test. As previously, Bixby just perceives certain accents and lingos of US English, Korean, and Mandarin Chinese, however, so you are still blast stuck between a rock and a hard place in the event that you need to chat in another dialect.
Samsung says Bixby is more astute and in excess of anyone's imagination, and it features improved usefulness than previously, for example, more prominent learning capacities that enable it to tailor its reactions and recommendations for you better, (for example, which restaurants to prescribe in view of your past inclinations).
The Note 9 runs Android 8.1 Oreo out of the container and, as you would anticipate from a telephone turning out in the shadow of the approaching Android 9 Pie dispatch, it runs like a without bug dream on the Note 9.
The Samsung Experience programming, which supplanted the unrefined and disagreeable Samsung TouchWiz from prior Galaxy gadgets, has additionally achieved an extraordinarily refined level on the Note 9, with it controlling you constantly with helpful clues and pointers by the way you can explore the simple open and complex working framework on offer.
Joined, Android 8.1 Oreo, alongside Samsung Experience and security stage Samsung Knox, convey a quick, secure portable and registering condition, which ideally may be added to as far as speed and security when the Note 9 gets its unavoidable Android 9 Pie refresh in a couple of months time.
SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE 9 REVIEW: VERDICT
With the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 picture now completely visible, I feel we are left with a gadget that, without question, is the best Android cell phone on the planet at this moment and, in fact, in any event, the best telephone at any point made.
What's more, that is in spite of the Note 9 failing somewhat with Samsung's crazy Bixby AI partner and simply focused, not the champion battery.
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