- What's up guys?
Saf here on SuperSaf TV and we've got a very exciting
and special unboxing for you guys today.
Here in front me are three brand new,
sealed Samsung Galaxy Note9s.
Whoa, whoa, isn't the Note9 supposed
to be announced next week?
Yes, that is right.
It's supposed to be officially announced next week
but there's a catch.
These are not official Samsung Galaxy Note9s,
they're actually clones.
Now these clones tend to pop up near the launch
of a new device and some people can even get scammed
with one of these thinking that it's the official device.
We're going to make sure that that doesn't happen to you here.
And why do we have three?
Well, we do things SuperSaf style,
so I've got them in every color available.
Let's get them unboxed.
So first up, looking at the boxes themselves,
I have to say, they do look very legit.
We've got the Note9 logo here
which is in that reflective coating material
that we're used to seeing
and all of the text and everything seems
to be in the right places.
Just bringing in the Note8 here for comparison,
you can see that things do look very very similar.
We've even got an image of the S Pen on the right hand side
and we've got the info at the back although,
the font does seem slightly off here on these clones.
And here's the thing, if you are to just have a look
at one of these at first glance,
you might not even be able to tell that it's a clone,
and that's the first sign,
you need to make sure you look inside.
Now as you guys can see, these are completely sealed,
I wanted to check these out with you guys,
so the first time I'm seeing this
will also be the first time you're seeing this.
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Right, let's do this.
And once again, the inner boxes as well
look very very similar to the original,
we've got the Samsung logo here, let's get them opened.
The Note logo here is slightly off,
and we've got the three colors here,
the first is the blue, then we have a gold,
and finally, the black.
Now once again, these protectors,
the back have these with logos
which you generally would not see
and they seem to be covering the Samsung logos
that are beneath these.
We'll come to those in a second.
Inside the boxes, we actually have
very convincing-looking accessories.
Quick start guide, SIM card ejector tool,
a power brick which once again, looks very very legit,
a USB Type-A to USB Type-C charging cable,
as well as some earbuds.
So they've really gone to a lot of effort
to make everything inside here look legit.
Right, now, let's get to the devices,
we'll get rid of these stickers.
So that's the blue,
we have the gold,
and finally, the black.
So from the back, they actually look pretty convincing,
I have to say we've got the Samsung logo in the right place.
Once again, the text does seem slightly off
but it might not be obvious to the untrained eye.
We do have the new camera arrangement
that we've seen on many leaked renders.
It's horizontal with the fingerprint scanner
now resting below the cameras
rather than besides them that we had before.
Now in terms of the build quality,
it does seem like we've got a metal frame,
unless that's just made to look like metal,
and we do have a glass back,
but the edges are not seamless like with official Note,
everything just kind of blends in so nicely.
With this this I can actually feel the edges,
although the glass backs are curved on the sides.
Now let's move over to the front
where I think things are really going to start falling apart.
So we've got a completely black screen protector
which is going to prevent you from seeing the display.
So that's something definitely to look out for,
if somebody's trying to sell you one of these.
We've got the Samsung logo as well
as the Samsung Galaxy Note9 logo on startup,
and we've got the Samsung Galaxy S9 wallpapers on here,
not the Note9's because we still don't know
what the wallpapers are going to be looking like.
And you'll also see that the bezels
are not like an Infinity Display,
they're not as small as what we're used
to seeing from Samsung,
although they're not massive.
I'm pretty surprised by this.
They're not the size of something
like the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus.
And if you just quickly bring in
the Samsung Galaxy Note8 here for an example,
you can definitely see that the bezels
on the Note8 are smaller,
and they might be even smaller on the Note9.
But to the untrained eye,
you may not be able to tell that these are smaller.
We've also got curves on the edges of the Note8,
on the fake clone Note9s, it doesn't really curve in as much
although there is a slight curve in the glass,
it's not anywhere as smooth as what we've got on the Note8.
In terms of the software,
it does seem to be replicated of Samsung's own UI,
so you can swipe up to bring your apps,
but things are just so slow.
Now going into the software settings,
you can see here that it says
that we've got Android version 7.0,
of course the Note9 is going to come
with the latest version of Android.
Now let's check out the S Pens.
The first thing is that the S Pen
doesn't actually pop out when you push it,
you actually have to pull it out.
It also feels very weird,
if you've ever tried an S Pen before,
this just feels very very cheap,
there's no buttons on here.
But it does actually work on the screen
and we get the S Pen icon on here.
Let's try to do some screen writing.
Okay, so it's definitely nowhere near as smooth as
what we've got on the official Note but it does work.
Now you guys may know that the Note9 is going to come
with some dope new S Pen features
and that includes possibly having Bluetooth
within the S Pen itself,
so you can use it as a remote trigger and things,
that's based on the leaks.
I have done a leaks and rumors summary in a previous video,
you can check that out in the cards
and in the description below.
This clone S Pen definitely does not have Bluetooth.
Now taking a quick look at the cameras,
we've got dual cameras on here
but only one of them actually works,
and the quality seems extremely extremely bad.
Selfie camera, it seems just as bad
and of course that's something
that you just simply cannot replicate on clone models.
They're going to have absolute potato cameras,
they're not going to have the proper crispy quality
that you'll be getting on the official Samsung Galaxy Note9.
Now display quality is not good at all,
viewing angles are really bad, colors or not punchy,
resolution is really low, it looks like 720p max.
Of course Samsung makes the best displays in the market,
they also make the display for the iPhone X
and the Note9 is going to have one
of the best displays out there.
This definitely does not match in any way.
Right, now I've also just noticed now
that there is a Bixby button on this clone too.
Pressing it, brings up fake Bixby.
Pressing and holding it, still just brings up fake Bixby,
it's not going to give you none
of the voice commands or anything.
But it's crazy the amount of detail they've gone into
to make this look legit.
Now in terms of the general feel of this,
things are very slow and sluggish
and that's because we've got some very,
very basic internals in here,
nothing compared to what we're going to have
on the official Samsung Galaxy Note9.
And there you have it guys.
These are the Samsung Galaxy Note9 clones.
I got to say they are getting better and better
and it's going to be more and more difficult as time goes on
to be able to tell a clone apart from the original.
If you want me to do a detailed comparison
of the official original Samsung Galaxy Note9
when it's released versus the clone
to really tell a difference
and make sure you don't get scammed,
then definitely let me know in the comments below.
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What do you guys think of the Samsung Galaxy Note9 clones?
Definitely let me know in the comments below.
My advice would be stay away from these.
Don't actually go ahead and buy these
and make sure you do not get scammed.
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Thanks for watching this is Saf on SuperSaf TV.
I'll see you next time.
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