- Greetings Aron with 4 the Love of Tech,
Samsung would like to extend an invitation to you
to attend the Unpacked Event announcing the Note 9
in New York City on August 9th of 2018.
That was in my spam folder, I just checked and it was there.
They invited me.
No, that never happened, silly.
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While Samsung does invite a bunch of tech YouTubers
and other guests to attend their Unpacked event,
I was not one of them.
I'm not special enough to get invited, yet.
I'm still special.
My mom tells me I'm special, so that counts, right?
The only information we've received about the Galaxy Note 9
so far is from Samsung themself.
And from their guests that were selected to go ahead of time
and the individuals that received the phone.
For all I know, this phone is just as amazing and fantastic
as everybody says it is.
And that's the thing,
everyone is saying this phone is phenomenal.
Even though I haven't received the Galaxy Note 9 this year,
next year for the Galaxy Note 10 I guarantee you
Samsung will be knocking on my door.
(knocking)
Asking me if I want to come to the Unpacked event.
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What are the YouTubers actually saying about this device?
Let's start with MKBHD, he titled his Note 9 video
The Galaxy Note 9 Impressions: Underrated
- [MKBHD] The funny thing is, I've seen a lot of people,
especially during the leak, saying this is like
a boring incremental upgrade.
That it's basically the same as last year,
and I think if you said that,
you'd be severely underrating this phone.
- Next, let's take a look at Jonathan Morrison.
Jonathan titled his video
The Galaxy Note 9 Surprised Me: Hands On.
He went on to say.
- For those who love specs, get ready to salivate,
because there's one with eight gigabytes of RAM,
and 512 gigabytes of internal storage.
- Meaning, it is specced out.
Next he says!
- For those out there who love their FLAC files,
their raw photos, for those who hate the cloud.
- You're going to love it,
because you can get up to one terabyte of storage.
Now about this whole terabyte of storage thing,
last time I checked, a terabyte is a thousand gigs.
If you're giving me 512, and then I am putting in 512,
my math is telling me 1024.
I don't know about you, 24 gigs is a lot to store stuff on.
So let's not forget about these 24 gigs.
You're gonna get 'em.
They're still there.
Basically the running theme of Jonathan's whole video
is specced out, specced out, specced out, specced out.
And then we move on to Flossy Carter,
who we all know and love, Flossy's phenomenal.
But once he got back in his studio,
he's unboxing his device, he opens it up and he says.
- [Flossy] Y'all know how I feel about paying
a thousand bucks for a phone.
But if you don't, I'll say this one time.
- This device is too expensive.
He didn't say it quite like that.
His voice was slightly more expressive than mine.
And he used a dirty word.
He said, if you're going to pay
a thousand dollars for a phone,
this is the phone that you're gonna pay
a thousand dollars for.
- [Flossy] This phone checks every box
in my must-have features category for a 2018 flagship phone.
- So there's some good news, it checks all the boxes.
So he loves it,
but the price tag is where he gets hung up on.
It's an expensive device.
So just some general questions about these YouTubers.
They get to attend this Samsung event,
this is the thing, now they're invited.
Are they paid to be there?
I'm pretty sure, I don't have confirmation
because I don't know the details,
that they've received the device for free.
So they've received the device, I'm assuming,
are they paid to be there?
Are their travel expenses covered?
Do they get put up in a hotel room?
Or, does Samsung just invite 'em,
they come on their own, and then they get their phone.
But everyone's saying amazing things about this device.
And this is where I'm getting tripped up.
No device is perfect.
There are flaws, there are things wrong.
And we're not hearing about them.
We're just hearing it's too expensive.
But if it's perfect, and there are no flaws,
then it would demand that price tag, right?
Then I ask myself, if I was in their shoes,
which are the shoes that I would like to be in.
Mind you, that's the goal here.
Would I do it any different?
If I came out the gate and I said, boo boo phone,
Doo doo color options, it's garbage,
the S-Pen isn't that exciting,
so basically all you gave me was a bigger battery,
a slightly bigger screen, a couple few tricks on the S-Pen,
and that's about all you- oh you gave me the storage.
That's about it.
So we basically only have three main features
that distinguish this device from last year's Note 8
to this year's Note 9, and then the price.
Because the Note 8 last year was still an expensive monster,
it was expensive.
Jon Prosser, creator of Front Page Tech,
a Daily News Channel that is hilarious,
I watch it every single day.
But Jon has been heard saying on numerous occasions
that the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 is doomed to fail.
Even before it launched.
And he goes on to support his statement with some opinions,
facts, and evidence of this.
- Okay, what would you do as a business,
what do you do as a business
if your product has been out for a little while
and sales have slowed down,
you want to kick back up those sales?
A buy one, get one sale of course.
A good old BOGO sale, everyone loves one of those.
Well what do you do as a business if you
haven't launched your product yet
and you already know it's going to flop.
Well of course you do a BOGO sale before launching it.
- The Note 9 hasn't even launched yet
and already Samsung is offering amazing deals
to entice people to come to it.
They're offering headphones that are like,
I think they're 299 bucks, they're not cheap.
They're offering this Fortnite skin,
they're offering a buy one get one free on certain networks.
So Jon goes on to say that Samsung is using basically
every trick up their sleeve in order to
get their sales numbers up.
Even if they have to give the phone away
and discount it by several hundred bucks.
That's a concern, and Jon brings that up
in several of his videos.
My buddy Leo over at Android Stud
(laughs)
I actually, it makes me laugh,
Leo over at Android Stud says
you get a super duper beefed up,
actually I think his words were a steroid S-Pen.
- [Leo] That's a pen that you can take pictures,
as you can see, you click it and it takes a picture.
That's one of the new features,
a super duper steroid S-Pen in the pee yellow.
- That everyone's raving about.
So if you're into pee yellow this is,
the blue and yellow's for you, is what Leo said.
He's just not sure if it's worth the money.
I asked my buddy Travis what his thoughts were
on the Galaxy Note 9 and this is what he said.
- To be honest, it's basically like a Note 8 but better.
And the Note 8 was wildly regarded as a really great phone.
I mean, I have one, I love it, so it's not to say
that the Note 9 won't be a great phone,
I actually expect it to be really awesome,
but it's not exciting,
it's just better than what I have now.
- And then I asked the Unnamed Review guy
what he thought about the Galaxy Note 9
and this what he said about the colors.
- I'm most disappointed with the colors.
I wish at least a black color would've been available
if you're in the States.
The blue one isn't bad, it actually reminds me a lot
of the old Note 7 color.
- Now everyone says the Galaxy Note 9 is the best
2018 flagship phone out there right now.
But we're halfway through 2018,
and 2019 is just around the corner.
So to compare this phone to last year's phone,
or phones that haven't even come out yet,
isn't really fair.
The question is, for you, is it worth it?
It all comes down to what device you're on now.
If you're like me,
you're gonna get the device no matter what.
I think everyone has to evaluate their situation,
their bank account, their wallet,
their purse, their everything.
It is a very personal intimate decision.
And right now, until I have the device in my hand,
I can't recommend whether or not this phone is for you.
So the question is this:
Are you gonna get the Samsung Galaxy Note 9?
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