what is going on guys today we're going to talk about the galaxy note 9 in 2021 on this video i'm
gonna give you my experience on how the galaxy note 9 performed for me on the past three weeks
two things that i want to talk about first that i look for on a used or older device is how fast is
the device doing and how's the battery life when it comes to performance the galaxy note 9 did not
leave anything to desire for me the galaxy note 9 performed very well on the daily basis
every app that i used performed pretty good no crashes no glitches i didn't notice a slow
down as i was multitasking going from one app to another so shout out to the galaxy note 9
for still holding up the line when it comes to the battery life the battery life still
did pretty well for me the galaxy note 9 i used it for a whole year when it was released and then
i put it away it's been sitting in the closet even after using it for a year i'm still able to
get almost a full day of battery life if i use it extensively of course i have to recharge it
towards around five or six o'clock on a normal day i can go pretty much the whole day without having
to recharge the battery something that i was pretty impressed what about the s-pen the galaxy
note is known for the s-pen that's another thing that we don't really get much of upgrades every
time we get a new node device we get a lot of gimmicks software updates things you can do with
the s pen but the foundation of the s pen things that we've been doing since the galaxy note 4
trying to extract text take more precise snapshots of an image as we're scrolling through you know
you get that experience that the s pen is just premium something that no other device is going
to give you with the galaxy note 9 s-pen i don't really miss the note 20 ultra when it comes to
using the s pen because everything that i did with the note 20 ultra i can pretty much do it
with the galaxy note 9. and when it comes to the cameras the galaxy note 9 did had an improvement
at the time right now the mobile devices have improved when it comes to the front-facing
camera and the rear camera so it's really hard to compare with the newer devices because that's
one of the things that they had focus the most especially on the most recent models that we got
if you have a very bright scenario very bright date you're gonna get some awesome pictures some
awesome video no issues there the problem is is once you go inside you start losing some of the
light you may start getting some grainy pictures some grainy video it's not gonna be that great
also the sound quality remember you got the two speakers here you got a speaker on the bottom
and you got the enclosed speaker the sound quality was good as i was consuming content
the palm of my hand sometimes will block the bottom speaker so i didn't have that issue where
sound will start to get muffled out or you know it will start sounding bad like the galaxy note
8 may also be thinking the galaxy note 9 is about three years old right so it's probably gonna feel
outdated but it doesn't that's the great thing about samsung devices they use pretty good quality
when it comes to what they use on the devices that the galaxy note 9 still feels premium on
the hand the glass back panel the middle frame around it it's just the phone just feels good
it doesn't feel like it's a three year old device the infinity display for me is still
great it still looks good a lot of people don't really like the infinity display but you know
for me it's doing it i usually just rock a case on it and i don't have any issues while holding
the device or having concerns that maybe i may be touching part of the screen and also remember
you still have the audio jack something that we lost with the note 10 plus so the galaxy note 9
was the last note device that had the audio jack in there and also another thing is the ir blaster
something that we lost after this and honestly i did try to use the ir blaster on the note
9 and i was having a lot of issues with it it was i was having a hard time unlocking the device and
sometimes it would go into a glitch mode like the the phone instead of unlocking it would
just go into a black screen and it would just get stuck no matter what i did i couldn't get it to
to unlock for a couple of seconds so i don't know maybe there's a bug samsung is probably
not keeping up with the quality or ensuring that that features is optimized as they continue giving
updates overall the fingerprint sensor in the back worked for me i liked it when i
was using it initially when it was released i know on the latest devices we got the on-screen
fingerprint sensor which is also good and something very important when it comes to security
updates i think samsung now is only giving security updates every three months and very soon
i found a mistake next year they may just stop supporting security updates at all so that's
something you got to keep in mind now when you buy a device nowadays you know you have all
your information in there you want to make sure that they are still supporting security updates
and when it comes with pricing as i was shopping around i noticed that you can pick up the galaxy
note 9 refurbished as low as 300 or as high as like 570 so the price range really varied but
i think overall you may be able to pick it up for around 350 but just keep in mind if you do buy a
used device always make sure you get it from a well-known company and if you get a views from
a private seller make sure that you double check with the carrier that
the device actually belongs to that person just to make sure it is not blacklisted in it
and it doesn't get blacklisted later on in the future because you maybe end up with a brick phone
like i ended up with the galaxy note 4 not too long ago do i recommend the galaxy note 9 in 2021
absolutely if it's a device that you're looking into getting i don't think it's gonna disappoint
i don't know about paying 550 i think that price tag is a little bit too high but 350 400 maybe
i will do it and if you guys want to go watch the review that i did on it but two or three years ago
i have a link here so go check it out thank you for watching and i'll see you on the next one