Samsung Galaxy Note 9 First Impressions By Slashdot

Hey, what's going on Co bags, BUH HD here hope you guys are doing well and the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 was launched about two weeks ago and for personal reasons that I'm not going to delve too far into I'm a little late to covering this phone. You can follow me on Twitter. If you want to find out what I was doing, but I've been spending the last few days playing around with this phone and I have a few things to say about it. First, the only two colors you can buy right now that I'm aware of are lavender purple and ocean. Blue I went with the lavender purple because it's the newer color it's light with subtle hues of pink. It might not be the most manly choice, but I, don't think that matters I think it looks pretty darn clean, Samsung, even colored the aluminum frame and the s-pen a purple color.

The big difference between the purple note, 9 and then blue note.9, aside from the external color differences, is the s-pen. The blue note 9 has a bright, yellow, S Pen that contrasts the color of the body. While the purple s-pen is more like the rest of the phone, also depending on your model, the digital ink will match the color of the pen. In my case, the ink is purple by default. I.

Think that's a really nice touch. The build is spotless and sturdy, there's no flex or creaking when the phone is under stress I, like the relocated fingerprint scanner, because it's easier to reach it'd be nice if the black model was more readily available in the US, but the color choices aren't too bad I'm. Guessing the note.9 will be the last Samsung flagship to support the headphone jack, but hopefully I'll be wrong. The Bixby button is still here, but, unlike the s9, you cannot disable it. You can toggle off some functionality, but you cannot disable the button.

You also can't natively remap the button you'll have to download a separate app like B X actions, I'll link it down below. If you want to check it out, Samsung, please issue an update to let us remap this button to whatever we like nobody likes to be force-fed, anything especially a half a digital assistant. That's always going to be worse than the Google Assistant with that said, it's impressive to consider everything. That's packed inside this phone. The base model features a hundred and twenty-eight gigabytes of internal storage with support for a micros card, but you can opt in for 512 gigabytes of internal storage, one of the few phones to offer so much storage, Samsung also managed to pack in a four thousand William hour battery, which is significantly larger than the note eights battery like I, said.

I haven't used this phone enough to fully grasp the strength of the battery and several other areas of the phone, but heavy users should really be able to get a full day of usage with some juice to spare. The model I have features a Snapdragon 845 outscore processor, with 6 gigabytes of RAM, but it does max out at 8 gigabytes of RAM, with the 512 gigabyte model that retails for $1,200 and $0.49. No, it isn't it retails for 1249 dollars. The base model is $1,000. I think you'll be hard-pressed to find a major difference in performance between the two models out of the box.

The note 9 seems very fluid and responsive, but that shouldn't say too much because a new phone is going to be responsive. It doesn't quite have that smooth frame rate that stock Android phones usually have. But if you go into developer settings, you can speed up the animation scale to make things appear more smooth that that's what you want. One thing I did change right away. Was the navigation button layout so that the back button is to the left of the home button? That should be a standard set up.

If you ask me, I also enabled unlock with home button to unlock the phone by heart, pressing the home button, which skips the lock screen entirely. There doesn't appear to be a gesture navigation support on the note 9 at least natively, but you can hide the nav bar and go into a full-screen mode to maximize your screen real estate, but, as I was saying, the phone performs really well. It's quick and responsive. The software is very similar to the Samsung phones to come before it. I, don't really see anything too different in terms of aesthetics.

You still have a gazillion different gesture and non gesture related features in the settings that should help you further customize and tailor your experience. The display is especially big this year. It measures in that six point four inches, as opposed to the note. Eight six point: three inch display I really like that signature curve that Samsung is added on the sides. Viewing angles colors and brightness are all excellent based off.

First impressions, I'm really happy to see Samsung, add stereo speakers to the note 9 in a similar configuration as the Galaxy S 9, where audio is blasted out via the call speaker and bottom facing speaker. The cameras are the same as the 6.2-inch Galaxy, S, 9 plus, and it has that variable aperture that lets you switch between an F, 1.5 and F 2.4 lens to improve low-light performance, so I'm expecting similar results as the s 9 Plus, which was able to capture very good images in all sorts of different conditions. It's definitely in the top 5 maybes top 6 or 7 of all-time best smartphone cameras, but it's going to be tough, I think to top the pixel 2 camerae and overall quality and with a pixel, 3 and iPhone X s on the horizon, it might move down a few slots. I will say the ability to capture photos using the s-pen now is actually pretty. Neat I was able to get pretty far away from the phone too, but I just wonder how often I'll actually be in a situation where I can effectively execute this remote shutter I, don't usually use a tripod with my smartphone, but hey I guess the option to be able to remotely capture a photo with the s-pen is nice to have with that said, those are my first impressions of the Samsung Galaxy note 9 for all of you at Loyola phone up, yours I, appreciate you and I appreciate you for being patient with this coverage, expect more coverage in the not-too-distant future, as always: I'm BO HD from phone comm.

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