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this video is sponsored by pub G mobile hey guys Boston this is the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 if you go all the way back to 2011 when the first Galaxy Note came out it kind of changed smartphones in a big way quite literally a big way as not only is it one of the biggest smartphones of its time but fast forward to 2018 and that has kind of become the standard this has a massive six point four inch screen but the real question is as the note 9 even worth it with an eye-watering lehigh thousand dollar plus price tag at first glance the note 9 doesn't look all that different than its predecessor however that's not necessarily going to be a bad thing the previous phone was one of the nicest builds and designs of any smartphone in 2017 and that definitely follows through in 2018 with an all-glass aluminum build there's no one who's gonna complain to the note 9 is an ugly-looking smart phone annoy problems and this is actually kind of shared with the note 8 is that it is really really big now I know I just talked all about how the note was one of the very first phones to bring phablets to the mainstream but this is just really tall as you'd expect from the Samsung flagship you are going to be getting ip68 water assistance wireless charging and if you look on the bottom what's very unique with this almost no other phone has it actually open this up here you're going to see a little round port now this is actually not all that common in phones these days but it's known as a headphone jack it's not really something that most people have this is back in the days before Bluetooth where you use like wires or something to connect your headphones I know it sounds really weird I don't think anyone actually uses it but if theory if you wanted to plug in your headphones to your note you can do that there's also an S Pen but no one cares about that one of the big upgrades on the Galaxy Note 9 this year are stereo speakers which is especially helpful concerning that before having a single speaker on the bottom of such a giant phone scene ridiculous what they're doing here just like on a lot of other phones including the s9 the iPhone is they're going to be using the earpiece as well as the Bond speaker to give you a pretty convincing stereo effect it also helps that it's properly loud you're also going to find the Bigsby button I'm still going to complain about it and Samsung is still going to do absolutely nothing to fix it but luckily I have a much better solution one thing I have had some issues with is the fingerprint sensor now thankfully Samsung has moved it to below the cameras as opposed to right beside it which is a nice change however the problem is is it actually isn't all that accurate what's new this year is that you swipe your finger across the sensor wants to be able to enroll it as a fingerprint now that sounds great it's a lot faster to set up so the problem is it's just really an accurate for me now sure being able to tap your finger on a bunch of times when you first set up the phone is kind of annoying but at least you know the fingerprint sensor is pretty good whereas here no matter how many times I try to reinstate fingers it just isn't all that accurate for me maybe it's just an issue with my note 9 whether it's the software or the hardware but the good thing is the facial recognition is going to be pretty solid so you have a form of base ID known as face unlock as well as iris recognition which in combination should be able to unlock pretty quickly that's not going to be quite as fast as something like to be one plus six but it's around on par with the iPhone 10 and honestly security wise just be okay it won't unlock for can it'll unlock for me so I guess that's a good thing with a snapdragon 845 onboard just as you would expect this is going to be right up there with the rest of the Android flight ships of this year and while on paper it's going to fall a little bit behind the iPhone 10 and it's crazy fast AAA 11 chip you're definitely not going to be disappointed with the performance of the note 9 what this isn't at least based on my first impressions is as fast as the one plus six and considering that this is going to be about double the price that's not really going to be a good sign now a big part of that has to do with software oneplus has a fairly stock looking skin which doesn't have a lot of extra bloat so I don't want to say that the note 9 is full of all the old-school TouchWiz of Samsung's past but it is definitely not going to be as speedy and that high-resolution screen doesn't make things better one of the big advantages of the note 9 that has to do with its gaming capabilities so of course there's the biggest hottest games of 2018 which are available on the note and of course we have to talk about the Battle Royale that everyone is playing right now pugsy mobile who are awesome enough to sponsor this video this is the official mobile version of player unknowns battlegrounds if somehow you haven't heard of it it's a free-to-play Battle Royale game on both Android and iOS which features a hundred players all dropping into a massive Island for a winner-takes-all battle I don't need to tell you that you played pop G right well pup geez now on your phone I should expect with a high end phone like the note 9 it's going to have no problem playing pub G at fairly high settings but since its Android you can actually customize it all the way up to Ultra HD you can change the frame rate cap you can even change the style of the game it's especially impressive considering that you're getting the full experience with both of the games huge maps and it's all going to be powered by Unreal Engine and give you full 7.1 audio hours Meli can you play with four people on a squad but they're going to be faster paced arcade modes which are over in 8 minutes for a quick game I'm always going to be partial to a mouse and keyboard but the controls really are not going to be bad especially for a mobile shooter the moral of the story pop G mobile is fun regardless of where you play it that's especially good on the note 9 with a six point four inch 20 960 by 1440p AMOLED display it shouldn't be any surprise that this is one of the nicest smartphone screens on the market now so when you put a side-by-side with the iPhone 10 it looks very similar and to be totally honest Samsung has done on top of the panel game for a few years now so even something like an s7 or s8 looks good but this this is about as good as it gets one of the more surprising upgrades with the note 9 it has to do with the battery and no it's not that it's going to catch on fire anything cuz that's totally not what it used to happen instead the Galaxy Note 9 has a much larger four thousand milliamp hours sell maybe because of that Samsung was a little conservative last year with a fairly small 3300 milliamp hour battery but this year with a full 4,000 on board now these are going to easily last through a full day something that couldn't always be said about the note 8 or even the s9 but also get some differentiation which has always been one of my big issues with the note if you're not into the s-pen a lot of times it just makes sense to buy the normal galaxy s so at its core the note 9 still has a pair of 12 megapixel cameras one wide-angle camera with a variable aperture as well as a telephoto option now I've always felt like especially on the s9 the variable aperture is nice but doesn't make a huge difference no it's not necessarily a new camera feature the s-pen has been upgraded with the ability to use it as a selfie pen remote I guess just snap selfies by pressing the button it's pretty cool so we do have the live focus mode which is going to be the same as the galaxy s 9 and while it works for the most part it does have some problems with some pretty major differences in contrast that's not great I've noticed a lot of overexpose in the background with this especially in some of the pictures that I've taken it definitely has that issue one of my big issues with the note 9 is that you get about the cheaper and almost identical galaxy s 9 + 6 months ago now sure smartphone is definitely evolving and there are some advantages with going with the S Pen and with the notes but when you look at other phones like the Oppo find X which brings terrific design and somebody that's legitimately different around this price point this is kind of a harder sell especially when you consider that the 1 plus 6 is equal to this in a lot of ways at half the price on top of that there's some serious competition coming up with the next generation iPhone a pixel right around the corner now sure if you really need that s-pen by all means go pick up a note 9 but at $1000 plus I just don't think it's worth it for most people and of course huge shout out to pubsey mobile you guys wanna check it out the link will be in the description and let me know would you actually want to pick up the Galaxy Note 9