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it was going on guys - trav which consumer and today we're gonna be spending a real day in the life with the Samsung Galaxy S 9 plus now if you've never seen one of my real day into life videos you're pretty much gonna be spending the day with me and the new phone and we're going to see how it works in the real world testing out things like the display the camera battery life performance everything you want to know but it's time to see how this phone did when we put it through its paces so we are officially starting our day pardon that rude dog in the back there but yeah this is the start of our day it's about 12 o'clock so we are running a bit late but just to give you guys an idea of when we're starting and also this is on the front-facing camera of the galaxy s 9 plus I am holding this thing with my hand so it's a little bit shaky but this should give you an idea of the quality and the audio quality that you're gonna get out of this but yeah this is what you can expect now guys let's talk for a second this is a beautiful phone it's great feels nice in the hand but what's not great is how slippery it is I unfortunately already have a few dents on the phone I actually dropped this guy it breaks my heart to admit it but it happens so immediately we're gonna start off this day by throwing a case on it I got like a see-through case to not hide the beautiful design as much as we can but this is what we're gonna be using today I don't want any more accidents let's keep this thing safe alright guys so one thing that's been introduced with the s 9 + s 9 plus is this new intelligent scan which uses the face recognition and the iris scanner to unlock the phone but let's see how it performs so I'll just turn it on the phone I get into it pretty quickly that's not bad at all I like that coming from an iPhone okay I don't have to do a swipe up or any other gesture all I do is hit that power button and I'm in but it's not as good as the 1 + 5 t where I could just pop it open and boom I'm in there this is the best probably the least secure of the three so far from what I've seen on the s9 plus it's been a really really smooth experience you guys know I've been playing the sonic forces game like crazy and this is like my own little real world benchmark to see if you know it can handle a game like this where there's just a lot going on on the screen at once and this thing has an 845 Snapdragon processor on it so there's not gonna be any issues to think and handle pretty much anything you throw at it a regular everyday person playing games or just surfing instagram or twitter you're gonna be completely fine the real test here is to see how it does over time like in a few months that's what you gotta see okay guys so right now we've got the GPS going we've got about eighty percent battery left and we've got a 17 minute ride we're gonna actually be going around a few different places so we're gonna see how much the GPS drains the battery but just so you guys know 80% 17 minutes to go so we made it here I resent the eyebrow threading spot and as far as battery life girls we are at 75% so 17 minutes took 5% out of here and in terms of screen on time let's take a look we've actually got an hour and 54 minutes of usage so that's actually pretty good one hour 54 minutes of active use 25% left that's not bad 35 hundred million power battery so I expect some good results so we have to make a little pit stop to pick up some batteries because our mics just keep sucking up the juice out of the batteries that we had for them so we're gonna go pick up Ari right now so go see what she looks like now that she got her caterpillars tamed take a look at her now so how does it look how's it look how's it look it's okay it looks too thick alright well perfect time we're gonna take a picture this looks good good this is a sharp cameraman so first off I want to let you guys see some of the detail here in her scarf in the jacket I'm like really zoomed in but this is really sharp on a bunch of other cameras that would have been a really blurry look as soon as we zoomed in that far but it looks great good job kid jack guys arrow you just gave me a great idea she actually left and went and sat in the car because she didn't want to be out here while we were filming because it's cold but it's all good right here we have a sign and one of the features of the s 9s 9 Plus that they're talking about a lot is the ability to use big speed to translate in real time so we've got a reserved parking sign right here and since it's in English you can actually change the language to whichever language you want to translate to so we can have a go from English to Spanish which is what we're gonna do now so let's see how this works reserved parking reserved righto now you see I have no idea this is right or wrong so I'm just going to screenshot it and boom I'll check with my translator area to see if she has any clue but it seems to work translator let us know is this correct Spanish is it this is in reserve does that mean parking all right you can put your window back up for my spanish-speaking folks who watch this channel please let me know if this is the correct translation seems right but I don't know so we just did another 20-minute Drive and we've got about 60% battery left so you know using it up with the GPS and all of that but more importantly we are at my favorite ramen spot bot and ramen we're gonna have some good food I'm gonna take some food pictures and enjoy so real quick taking a look at the cameras the s9 + has two of them so we've got a wide-angle 12 megapixel lens at the top and a telephoto 12 megapixel lens at the bottom so the only other phone that Samsung has made that can do this or it has the dual camera lenses is the note 8 so it's nice to see it on the s9 so now we're gonna try super slow motion for the record I hate these bottles it's really hard to drink out of but it's gonna make for a good slow-motion shot so some of our foods just came but the show must go on we're rolling all right Wow I am so sorry man for the record it is bottled now you guys have to see this amazing shot so I am actually going in I'm pressing it but it knows exactly the right moment to start slowing everything down and look at that amazing shot yeah definitely didn't mean for this thing to explode the way it did but it looks great on camera so basically what you guys just saw was a 940 frames per second shot and what makes this so special is that you can grab those moments to happen in an instant like this and see it unfold in a much longer duration then it happens in real life so good job CIN all right guys so we had a great meal Sun is going down going for some low light shots and I've got the perfect place Gundam planning you know what it was come on oh this is a really cool scene you see how they recreated this like a battle I think this one was really good on camera this looks really really good of course you can see like some of those plastic bags over there but this looks awesome I'm actually gonna do a little coloring to this and kind of show you guys what it looks like when you really make it come to life but so far right out the camera this looks really good now I don't know how it's coming off on camera but this door is actually pretty dim when it comes to lighting and I want to get a shot of this pose because I want to recreate it at home I'm actually gonna take a picture here actually I'm going to put this in pro mode and then we'll see how the variable aperture effects the different shots we can guys so we're gonna see it at 2.4 at 1.5 aperture and see what the difference is so this is at 2 for 5 see that but that has a major difference from just an aperture change Wow so after some Gundam we have to go pick up some bubble tea because you guys know our routine we get ramen we go to see some Gundams we get some bubble tea and oh thank you my dear I got some Naruto plain I feel like I got it not an hour to a burrito I'm catching up and I got to say in terms of the display and the combination of the nude stereo speakers it's pretty good viewing experience this has Dolby Atmos surround sound for you know mobile devices and it's nice it's nice to have stereo speakers I don't think they're super duper loud it's like right now I'll be able to hear this no problem but this is the max volume this will probably definitely disturb the people around me so I won't keep that going but it sounds pretty decent I'm liking it especially for outside environment and when it comes to the display you guys already know how Samsung does it the Super AMOLED this is a quad HD Plus display so slightly higher than 2k because of the 18 by 9 aspect ratio but yeah so we've got a crisp screen great colors and Samsung always kills the display so there's no complaints here and now with the addition of stereo speakers it just makes an overall better viewing experience okay guys so we're back at the studio and we've been here for a few hours now it is 10:30 6 p.m. so in terms of screen on time let's check the battery usage 5 hours and 40 minutes I was actually really good we've got 10% left this is a 3,500 milliamp hour battery so this is the kind of performance that I would come to expect at this size but honestly I'm a bit surprised coming from a galaxy device usually these phones don't have the best battery in the world but this one has held up pretty well alright guys I got to go ahead and pull out the Samsung Galaxy s8 plus to let you know what the difference is if there's a big enough difference to jump ship and go to the s9 plus if you already got it or the 9 if you have eight already but my boy a sure on my discourse server wanted to know if it was worth it and to be honest I don't really think so what you get with the s9 plus is of course a better camera you know better performance upgraded performance but this is no slouch so are you going to see a huge difference in terms of performing between the two honestly probably not if you've got the last iterations of these unless you really need a better camera with better low-light performance or even those AR emojis then you're probably gonna be fine with this there's also super slo-mo but I mean I don't know this is bad porn to you that's the differentiating factor alright guys so we just got that last call about the battery about to die so we got about let's see here six hours and ten minutes of screen on time which is really good stuff this and the real day in the life portion very impressed with the battery so far after what we put it through and boom there you guys have it that was a full day with the phone of course I spent much longer than you guys saw in this video I got it as soon as it was announced but there are some things that I liked about this phone and some things that I wasn't too crazy about so let's go over those of course the first thing we got to talk about is the design it shares the same design as last year which isn't exciting but luckily for Samsung it is a good-looking design although I do find it to be a bit too slippery so I did have to throw a case on it but I'm already used to that so that's not an issue and it still has that beautiful infinity to display Samsung has some of the best displays on the market so of course this one's no different it looks great colors look great and it's a qHD display so of course it's very sharp but even if you want to bring that down to maybe Full HD you're gonna be fine with that save yourself some battery I actually enjoyed watching content on this and thankfully Samsung has now introduced Dolby Atmos speakers on these so they sound much much louder that if something Samsung phones has suffered from for a long time having that one measly speaker on the bottom that you can easily cover up with your thumb now you got Dolby Atmos speakers which sounds very very good especially indoors it sounds very loud when you put it at max volume and when you're outdoors like you guys saw it gets pretty loud and you'll be able to hear it with no problem although you're not getting that same effect as you would when you're indoors now while a lot of the hardware choices seem pretty much the same as last year there are a few different changes now the fingerprint scanner is at the bottom of the camera which is something we're all very happy about and there's also two camera lenses on the back of the s9 plus and that's a big thing for Samsung the cameras the performance on the cameras have been great Samsung's really making a big deal about how great the low-light photos are on this phone and they deserve to make a big deal because the low-light photos look great you guys got to see for yourself when I went to gun the planet I took some pictures that came out really dark but when I changed that aperture whoo it made a big difference now that was in Pro Mode but luckily for all the regular users out there the phone can detect when the light is too low change the aperture and you get a much brighter photo without a lot of noise or so kudos to Samsung for making a great low-light camera and even outside of low-light shooting regular everyday shots look great as well and even video has been very impressive now another big feature Samsung is talking about is of course that 960 frames per second super slow-motion and what's nice here is that you can press record and whenever something happens within the little box that shows up on the screen it'll automatically start rolling in slow motion so you're not gonna miss that instance where something special happens it actually worked out really well you guys saw it in person I never expected that soda bottle to just explode like that I didn't time it but the camera did by itself and it caught everything gloriously now that super slo-mo isn't very high quality at 720p but when you go to 240 frames per second which is a little bit faster but still very slow you get at 1080p I also really like the quality from the front-facing camera the video that I shot in the beginning of the day seemed pretty impressive and even some selfies that I took were great something I was pretty surprised to see was the live focus option for taking a selfie I definitely didn't expect that because you usually need two lenses to pull that effect off except if you're the Google pixel - but Samsung was able to offer that with the front-facing camera which was a really nice surprise now camera performance is one thing but another thing that Samsung's really toting with this is the addition of these new Bigsby features that work alongside the camera one thing that I found really cool was being able to use the live translations I actually used it while I was out in Barcelona and it did a pretty good job I was able to interpret the sign without needing someone to come and tell me the sign said so that's a pretty nice feature I like that it can do that some of the other features are like the make up feature that they were toting where it'll scan your face and allow you to try on different makeup now another big feature Samsung's pushing out there with the use of cameras is a are emoji I'll be honest guys not too crazy about this feature I do think it's cool that Samsung's scanning your face and putting it into a live emoji that's kind of like it's pretty much like bitmoji x' and an emojis mixed together and boom you've got a are emojis I get that it's like a caricature of your face but I wish there were more options I couldn't find a hairstyle that matched me whatsoever and neither could Harry and even some other friends of mine who've tried it just couldn't get the hair down but I am kind of curious what you guys think let me know if a our motives are something you guys think are cool or if it's just another gimmick I personally don't really care for it but when it comes to straight-up just using it and the feel in the hand all that stuff I like the phone TouchWiz is the skin that comes with this phone and I said it last year when I reviewed the essay and s8 plus I actually liked the direction Samsung in terms of software everything you need is at your fingertips it's very easy to manage things are easy to find it looks clean so I'm a fan of TouchWiz I like it I don't think there's any real drawbacks although people do complain that it tends to bog down after a while but honestly I like the way it looks I think it's functional and just makes the overall user experience pretty nice now the big question is do I recommend this phone and that is an easy absolute yes this is a great phone great hardware listen Samsung has made no compromises when it comes to this phone there are some silly features but overall it is everything that you can ask for it has all of the top-of-the-line features you've got waterproofing you've got your micro SD card slot so you got expandable storage you also have a headphone jack a headphone jack they trying to kill that thing but Samsung is keeping it alive thankfully on a top-of-the-line phone like this so it is very very nice to see that here there really are just no sacrifices the only thing that's really missing is Samsung really pushing the envelope when the battery life the s9 plus has great battery life easily but I do wish that they just took it to the next level Samsung is capable of that so I would have liked to see four thousand milliamp hours in this we got 3500 it works well you're not gonna complain with it but I do recommend the phone I think it's great easy easy recommendation guys but that about wraps it up for this video guys hopefully you enjoyed it if you did be the cool guy or girl that gives us VL thumbs up and I'll catch you guys in the next one till then it's your average consumer peace