Hey, how's it going Dave 2D here So I'm not a huge fan of the note series
I've often found a little bit overpriced and the features that are built into the Note line is not stuff that I personally use
I just prefer personally, the regular Galaxy S line over the note line, but
D-brand hit me up there. Like "hey, we got this new phone in the note 9. We've skinned it. It looks pretty cool
And the marble that you liked you want to check it out". I was like sure
But I'd seen the leeks right? I knew that it wasn't gonna be a particularly exciting phone at least
I thought it wouldn't be and we look at the specs
It's more of an iterative bump from the previous generation than some like massive innovative piece of technology
That's normally how the Note line is. But this year just felt a little bit more boring than normal
I mean, it's a cool phone looking at the paper specs
But nothing really jumped out to me, as being something like really really interesting about it at least for me personally
But ever having spent the day with it
It's a pretty cool phone. So the biggest change for me is actually the battery size
This might not affect everybody but that's a huge bump up
That's like 20% bigger than the note 8 and the other thing is like 4,000 milliampere hour batteries
Do not exist in North American phones
Like we've seen 10,000 or 20,000 milliampere hour batteries from super-thick phones in Asia, but in a North American phone that's pretty impressive
The other thing I thought was interesting about this phone was the new DeX
so Samsung has had this thing for a couple years now where you can plug up your phone to a dock and then you can
use it as a computer and I've always thought it was kind of useless because you need a proprietary dock for it and it just
Didn't really make sense from a usability standpoint
But this new version allows you to stick a USB-C cable directly into the phone and that'll pipe DeX onto that screen granted
This is with a USB-C enabled monitor
But if you don't have one you can still use a USB-C to HDMI adapter
And then you can do the same kind of thing. Now, in terms of the actual usability and practicality of DeX
It's a lot better now because of a single cable
But I still don't find it a compelling thing for most people to use. The idea is really cool
I gotta admit that but, I
mean if you have access to a note you probably have access to a laptop or some other computing device where you can do the
Same kind of thing
It's neat. I'll give it that okay
This thing supposedly has a new thermal system they're calling it "Water carbon cooling" which honestly sounds really gimmicky to me
I ran some quick test between the S9 plus and the Note 9
Just off of 3D Mark. And if this new water carbon thing is doing anything
It's really slight like both systems seem to have pretty decent thermals, but maybe because of the fortnight exclusive of Samsung right now
They're trying to play it up a bit
Truthfully when I played Fortnite on this it doesn't feel that great
Like there's something about the curvature on the phone that just makes it feel
Different from what I'm used to I wasn't able to play fortnite on the Razer phone yet
But just playing any game on the Razer phone, which is a dedicated gaming phone feels
Significantly more comfortable and just more ergonomic. I don't know, but fortnight Android that's what people are here for nowadays
Right. Ok, the other thing that they're showing off pretty heavily was this new pen
So it now has bluetooth support you can charge it and you can use it as a remote to control
Stuff on the phone like you can use it to control music to take pictures. It's cool
It's just not something that I would use regularly on a daily basis
It's also been upgraded with massive amounts of storage. You can get up to 512 gigs on this thing
I don't know who's gonna be using that much but it is available if you want it. Now as
A whole I feel like this phone has had some very very like iterative and just small changes
But when you take a step back and you look at what this phone is
It is really
the most powerful and feature-packed
Android phone on the market right now and that you got to give Samsung credit for that the phone looks good
The screen looks really good
It's actually quite similar to the s9 plus screen in terms of just image quality and it's just a well rounded phone that unfortunately cost
$1000 so this is where
not that the phone like
Falls apart or anything like but I just got a pic on that price tag a little bit
I said this last year about the original thousand-dollar phone the note 8, but I got to say it again
$1000 for any kind of phone right now is nuts
you can get an S9 plus or a Note 8 which have very similar usability to the Note 9 for like
600 bucks maybe 500 if you go used a thousand for the Note 9 feels. It feels really steep
But that says something about the phone industry right now
right Like the fact that, the fact that Samsung is doing this much marketing and this much work
To promote a phone that is a relatively minor and iterative change from the previous generation
Like this is where we are right now. We have pretty stagnant
Like we just that's what the phone industry is right now minor bumps for a huge huge increase in price
So if you're someone that's guys price conscious or value conscience, then I would skip this phone. It's a great phone
It's the best Android phone you can get on the market right now in terms of like features and stuff
But I would still skip it just because of the price I think next year when the S 10 launches in the spring
That's gonna be a big bump in tech like maybe fingerprint readers built into the screen lots of more innovative stuff
we're just seemingly innovative stuff this
There's no innovation but it's still the best you can get right now. Okay. Hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs
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