Gadgetory

okay so you all know that the galaxy s 9 and acylium plus have great features but did you know that it also has two speakers for surround sound two speakers huh well I got two speakers right here on my razor phone as well and Dolby Atmos sir okay well that's not in Si and Plus have Dolby Atmos surround sound - okay so maybe we should figure out which one of these is better I think it's the razor phone and I think that it really depends there are other things anything that the razor phone does a lot better but at the end of the day I still kind of gotta lean toward the galaxy last night luckily for you we did four tests we got two games it's got to be movies it's gotta be music we got to do calls we did them all so our first test was music we played a bunch of different songs on both phones really wanted to hear a lot of different sounds and to hear how they sounded now now we have the settings exactly the same on both phones and Shawn what was your first impression it really took me a sec to really figure out what I was hearing out of H cuz we had the volume issue right away immediately we're like wow the Samsung phone is louder which I did not expect because you think big speakers on this thing small speakers on that little speaker on the bottom which they can't expect any louder but I didn't like how the s9 sounded at that volume I was like it's too loud it's it's kind of giving me a bit of distortion the hand so we had to pull that down I absolutely agree I got the same thing it was like wow if you want to kill a room with sound it's going to be the galaxy s 9 but what is a good sheet no we really have to take it down a couple for the flat feeling of this until we took it down and then I was like there's more layers in these songs it sounds like there's more depth more richness app in the s9 which I did not expect either so for video one to make sure we could get some atmospheric surround sound but also just human voices like you'd have talking to you in YouTube video so we did both Netflix and YouTube for our video tracks yeah and I thought I was really interesting is that there was a difference between that Netflix show that we saw that really was immersive where you need the sound to draw you into the scene and then the voices that came from some of the YouTube videos and then just some of the music that was playing as part of the videos yeah it was really richer and a lot in a large part four voices on the samsung galaxy s nine but I really preferred the razor phones spatialization you have all these elements all these Foley elements that made you feel like you were really part of a scene yet if your raindrops heat up to footsteps the neon sign lighting on a rat over in the partner you could tell that the rat was in a specific location I agree I did notice that too I think if you weren't if you didn't have the phone side-by-side it wouldn't make a difference but hearing it on the razor phone you definitely got a sense of what the galaxy s going last there but I will say that when you're watching something more instructional or when you're watching an interview with somebody that the voices came out much letter and clearer and that scene we were watching somebody screams that sounded a lot more convincing like painful RAAA on the s9 even in the Netflix surround sound scene I didn't get the surround sound there yeah but I did get that that got a role Valkyrie kind of scream out of that yeah for simple games like Super Mario run I think it didn't really make much of a difference which fun you were using and maybe even if you're using stereo speakers at all or not collecting coins ding-ding-ding sounded roughly the same maybe a little bit different but not the better sounded like coins it's not like coins yeah but then I think when we moved along to the more advanced game like yeah we're placing Riptide GP renegade we've got our little wave race thing going I thought the splashing water sounded a lot more three-dimensional on the galaxy s now I was right there with you and I thought that it was a little bit more suppressed a little bit muted on the razor phone so we're kind of an agreement there but we're we are still pretty close it's still fairly close like I wouldn't pick one over the other because for both of these games the sound doesn't really matter you might play them with the audio off anyhow game-like pubget though where you've got people hunting each other on an eye a little bit more gunshots all around you you're trying to survive a lot of people use headphones for that game anyhow and on the razor phone it sounded much more three-dimensional much more sounds around me so I could tell where things were coming from I couldn't do that with ds9 so at the end of the day I mean if you're somebody who's serious about playing games and the razor phone is definitely going to take that one home for you but I think that on the galaxy s4 and if you're still comparing it between a phone that has stereo speakers or not it's still going to be a better choice but but one last thing you can block the speaker on the yeah so you gotta watch out for that if you're playing games in landscape mode you might block the speech that's a really good point yeah where is the razor phone is definitely a gamer's phone one more thing you might use speakers for how about speaker phone calls so to test this on both phones we use the exact same SIM cards same network and even the same caller mm-hmm and we found out right away was that the razor phone wasn't loud enough immediately we were like we got to boost up this volume thankfully there was a little volume boost button but then we noticed it was a little bit muffled yeah I actually said that it sounded like somebody was holding a pillow over the face of the person we were speaking to the weapon which is a little bit alarming but this person sounded pretty distant and and very muffled but not garbled so we thought razor phone maybe it's not gonna be as good as the s9 so we went over to the SMI and it was a hundred times worse it had all of the volume total distortion and I think you actually called it a garbage it sounded like garbage sounds like hot garbage on the line there were all these things in the background that we could hear over the line they're being amplified by the phone little pops works and things like that yeah modern audio artifacts and then when we actually boosted the volume it just amplified all of the problems so I would say for me razor phone wins and try never to use the speakerphone on the Galaxy S nine unless you absolutely must so we've tested them out but at the end of the day we have to make a decision Sean I gotta say for the games in the movies the razor phone is my pick even if it doesn't have the audio quality for music it's got almost everything I wanted two speakers just maybe not everything I wanted to find I think that if you're not a big gamer and you listen to a lot of music the Galaxy S nine definitely is the better choice because it gives you that richer sound and it gives you that depth I think at the end of the day you know the Galaxy S nine is the phone that most people are gonna hear of and it shows that Samsung has got a little bit more work to do because the razor phone definitely wins in some categories yeah