But the stunning feeling from Note series is not that strong as previous as the 6" size phones are already flooded on the market nowadays
it uses the same matte finish as S9
They are not completely symmetric based on the central axis
Although there are so many openings, Note 9 can still achieve IP68 dustproof and waterproof
According to Samsung's official data Note 9 features a 161.9 × 76.4 × 8.8mm size and weight 201g
For a model with a 4000mAh battery, the thickness of 8.8mm is well controlled, not like Sony's.
On color, it added color copper, except the blue color phone with a yellow pen, other pens' color keep the same as the phone
As for China version, it will only be confirmed on the August 15th's Samsung launch event in Shanghai
To be honest, I gotta say the front looks gorgeous even with chin and forehead comparing to those notch design "real" full screen phones
2. Hardware performance
Note 9 series sports two different flagship chipsets for its variants: their in-house Exynos 9810 (2.7GHz + 1.7GHz) + Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 (2.8GHz + 1.7GHz)
Both are 10nm processed
Thumbs up for the storage since it gets rid of 4G of RAM, starts from 6+128 and 8+512 for the advanced version
Also supports 512GB TF card expansion, theoretically supports up to 1TB of storage space
As time is tight I didn't run benchmark of those, but you know with this strong hardware specs, it couldn't be anything bad!
For heat dissipation it adds a new Liquid Cooling System
This is one of the main reasons why in DeX mode it can achieve "single line connection".
It has 4×4 MIMO scheme for antenna, LTE Cat.18 baseband, up to Giga LTE 1.2Gbps network rate
Support Bluetooth v5.0 version (LE up to 2Mbps)
For NFC, Samsung Pay those, it has all
Note 9 features a built-in 4000mAh, which is 21% higher than the previous generation Note 8
It's officially claimed to bring you a full day heavy using experience, we'll give a full test after we getting the phone, stay tuned