so quite often I get asked what is my phone of choice what's my favorite phone
and because it is nearing the end of the year I thought it would post this video
my favorite phone my phone of choice it's gonna surprise a Vlade because yes
I am a big Xiaomi fan that I'm not completely blind and blind loyal to
brands no brands in fact but I do quite like Samsung phones now my phone a
choice is this right here which is the Samsung Galaxy S 9 plus and I'll explain
why I ended up buying this one so I had to me max 3 I was happy with it
phenomenal battery life the performance is good from the snapdragon 636 the
camera does take much better photo as it can take a very good photo but the video
quality audio and video when I first reviewed it wasn't too bad from the
microphones Shami came out then with further patches
that destroyed the audio quality they put on like a noise cancellation on
there I was always having the full gestures lag I was getting frustrated
with the phone I got annoyed with it ended up selling it mainly because of
the audio and video because I went down to New Zealand for 5 weeks I wanted a
decent camera because the the best camera that you have of course is the
one on you I could lug around my samsung DSLR which I'm currently shooting on but
I can't carry that in my pocket and I can't have it with me all the time so
that's why I decided opted for this the Samsung Galaxy S 9 plus and I feel now
that it's a phone that is often overlooked now my reasons are getting
this one here was the price of it too I got a brand new it's factory sealed
Samsung Galaxy S 9 plus here from eBay for 519 euros no it's not stolen or
anything like that and the same goes for us that they've had really good deals on
this particular phone so if you compare that for example to the Xiaomi me mix
three that I reviewed and about three weeks ago that is selling for actually
more than what I paid for this phone and to me that's a bit of a no-brainer you
go for this phone here so explain to you in this video why this is my favourite
phone and why I'm currently using this now this Samsung Galaxy S 9 plus so the
s9 Plus has a very good build here I don't like it it's no real problems with
it the only thing that I don't particularly like is having this glass
back here so it is very slippery in winter when you've got cold hands you
go to pick this up it just slides and slips around everywhere and I do have a
course the case for it and I will show you that later on in the video here so
overall build good yes they relocated the fingerprint reader there and the
location of it is fine however it is a little bit slow at time so and it's
gonna lock the screen now and I'll touch it and you can see how long it takes
that it's not actually the fastest now partly to blame could be the animations
there and same goes for face unlocking which can be very slow so lock it now
unlock it okay I've got my camera and stuff in the way but look how slow this
is I mean it's not even no match okay didn't even pick me up so not the best
face unlocking which for me was a bit of a surprise I would have thought that
Samsung would have got this tick down no it's not even gonna pick me up it's cuz
my cameras in the way but other phones be able to unlock so that is a little
bit of annoyance and the screen 1440p very nice display they always have had
nice displays here Samsung if you take a look at my s6 Plus edge this was one of
my favorites still the screen still in 2018 looks very nice really nice screen
this one and of course we've got the curved edge you do get a bit of
discoloration you can see how the green is shifting out so it shifts out a
little bit same happens with the s9 plus but it's not as bad there now this phone
of course looking a little bit dated another reason why I don't like the
glass rare is look at that smashed it I smashed it only after
owning it for a couple of weeks I dropped it and it was like a little bit
of pebble or a rock on the ground boom did that and of course my s7 this is one
of my other favorites - really like this phone just because of the size of it
it's nice and small battery life now after a couple of years I've had it as
horrendous can't make it through a full day with this I would have to charge it
up at least once a day same goes for the battery and the s6 plus it's had quite a
beating s6 plus each battery it's only gonna last about half a day so not very
practical at all good camera on this and of course even better with this phone
right now I'll show a couple of samples here from my trip down in UCL
and this is the reason why I got the phone really for the camera so that two
times optical zoom does come in handy I know other phones have that but it has
optical image stabilization where other brands normally don't have that like the
show me you can see this shot here of my daughter on the swing I think this is an
amazing shot this one really do like it I mean just look at how well everything
has been exposed to look at the clouds so the dynamic range here the exposure
it's all good now you probably thinking the colors look unnatural a little bit
oversaturated you're partly correct there it is spring or was spring in New
Zealand when I took the photo they've been a lot of rain in everything does
actually look super green so that's why it's like that but have a look at these
other samples too very good camera on this and it doesn't this point so this
is definitely good I feel the most time you take a photo it comes out nine out
of ten times whereas for my Shelby's there chamois phones are more hit and
miss with their cameras and to protect my phone I do have the official case
here this is the silicon case and as it expect from a manufacturer that you
manufactures case of course fits it absolutely perfect so there's good
prediction for the cameras face down the fingerprint reader the cameras are not
going to get scratched up it does offer protection for a little screen when it
is face down because it has a raised lip on it the best thing about this case is
it also protects the buttons but the main thing is it is very grippy so in
hand it feels good there's no real way you're going to drop that because it's
got a nice grippy feel to it it does attract however smudges so the oils from
your hands you can see it's gonna end up looking a little bit Messier duty that's
the only real complaint and the other is that yes there's those cases they are
quite expensive the official ones my version of the s9 plus here is the
Exynos one so it's not the snapdragon with the April 5 which probably has
better battery life the performance haven't had any real issues with it you
occasionally see some micro stutters and when you do see that a little bit of lag
is when you go and swipe of course over to the left so this brings up here all
your information there and I wish I could actually disable this you can't
disable that you can disable the bixby button so now when I tap it it doesn't
do anything which is great don't accidentally launched a Bigsby I'm
not a big fan of Bigsby I don't particularly like it I didn't like the
move when they moved over to the Samsung Galaxy s8 I ended up selling that one I
was just so frustrated with it the move from the s7 to the sa for me was not
really an upgrade and I just disappointed me especially for the price
they paid for that phone when I got up from brand-new so when you have a look
at things like the geek bench scores yeah I mean it posts a really really
good score if you like your benchmark for single core score that is great a
multi-core score as well is not bad at all and when we take a look at the motor
tasking performance no complaints here I don't see micro starters with the
multitasking it tends to always be very quick swapping between and going between
your apps that's not really a problem I don't really have any issues with it
killing off the apps there a lot of the Chinese tech I review some of those
mobile phones they tend to kill things off quite quick this tends to hang
around a little bit longer and the RAM which is great that aids our
multitasking you don't have to load things up as as much there now no full
screen gestures they don't have that yet Samsung now I don't know if they're
going to bring that in with Android Pi I haven't looked into that so let me know
down in the comments if they are but I believe they're gonna save that feature
of course for there is 10 I don't also give you a demo here of Twitter because
sometimes they can really be quite slow with some phones loading that in you get
choppiness but that is pretty quick for me and I'm happy with the scrolling
speed it's not too fast it's not too slow either I feel that overall decent
performance out of this now one another area that does not disappoint
that is the loudspeaker so the AKG Tunes we have one dome with firing one right
here type C port of course is there in 3.5 millimeter headphone jack which is
good to have a lot of fun to dropping that hopefully the s10 is going to keep
it helped a quality from that Jack is good no real complaint it's not the best
I've heard but its overall decent and then of course we do have a secondary
loudspeaker in the earpiece so I'll give you a sample of that now
so you can hear from that that they're reasonable speakers they don't have a
huge amount of bass some phones will probably win there with a little bit
better bass now one thing you probably noticed too is look how deep the blacks
look so you've got the bezel at the top top bottom bezels and they almost blend
in with the blackness of the screen and is it typical Super AMOLED panel but
even on some AMOLED panels and Super AMOLED that I've looked at on other
phones the Samsung's always tend to look a little bit it a little bit darker
there and I think it's to do with the tinting they use on the glass because
when you move it at an angle like now you can just see a little bit of a gray
coming into it but it still looks very dark and always tends to look a lot
better than other manufacturers and one feature that is certainly overlooked a
lot and definitely underused I believe by a lot of people that wouldn't even
bother with this is Samsung Dick's so you can plug this into a monitor into a
TV and you have yourself a laptop basically like a laptop experience like
a computer and you can surf in browse and connect up Bluetooth keyboards mice
you can use the deck stock as well of course you can plug things into that and
then you have yourself a PC and actually the performance of it is pretty good so
you can multitask at the desktop environment
I've got YouTube right here you can see that video before that I loaded up but
the audio sample Chrome and even go through your dialer and whatnot that's
all there and answer whatsapp messages that's handy if you actually take
advantage of it okay so for my personal needs mic choice remember this is my
choice at all the phones that I have with you this does not necessarily mean
it is the best phone out there I feel the same song Galaxy S line plus is
worth a look and even the s9 towed if you're into a new phone and you don't
want to expend the like 800 900 or a thousand u.s. when the new s10 comes out
I feel this is worth a look because these 10 is going to be a little bit
better they're going to have smaller bezels as we're seen from the rumors so
far it's gonna have cutouts for the front facing cameras and I have a
slightly better rear camera hopefully a larger battery and so the battery life
is probably my biggest con with this phone when I first got it I almost
was going to put it back in the box I had had it with her this is not going to
make it through a full day I was so used to my mimics me max 3 was really good
battery life that this one was a huge shock but luckily the battery
performance did improves a better life increased on about the fourth or fifth
charge I could finally make it through a whole day without having to worry about
charging this when I first got the first day was really bad second day as well
was bad I had to discharge it plug it in and charge it all the time but now I go
through a whole day and I have normally around about 20 or 30% left pop it down
on my wireless charger and then in the morning of course pick it up and percent
charge and I know I'm good and I'm set for the day so the other things that I
don't particularly like about this phone is it has very slow face unlocking it's
not the fastest compared to say the xiaomi is 1 plus 6 i'll do this now it
takes up to two seconds and sometimes it just cannot see my face to unlock
fingerprint reader on the rear to hold it up to the camera and they'll touch it
now you can see it it's not actually the fastest out there so it's not going to
win any awards for the fastest fingerprint unlocking or face unlocking
there the one plus six is so much faster the xiaomi me mix 3 as well way faster
there that is really good the other thing too is the front-facing
camera sometimes it's out of focus so it's a good camera when it's in focus
but it is hidden mystery cameras they're really good as i showed you those
examples they're really do like the performance of these of the cameras that
the main kind of reason why i got this phone the overall build quality
everything there's so much to like about it which is why it is my pick for 2018
thanks a lot for watching this video and i do hope to have some more upcoming
videos I'm waiting on possibly a couple of Huawei's flagship phones the mate 20x
and the mate 20 Pro maybe possibly I could be featuring those in the channel
and I do hope to get hold of them thanks so much for watching bye for now