Galaxy Note 9 vs Note 8 FULL Comparison with Camera Test! By Danny Winget

What's up everybody, this is Danny and today, let's get to the video that everybody's been asking me about, and that is the brand new Samsung Galaxy Note 9 versus the Galaxy Note 8. Even though this is an evolutionary upgrade. Let's cover all the new features. In the Galaxy Note, 9 brings over the Galaxy Note 8 and, most importantly, let's look at if the dual aperture camera on the Galaxy Note 9 is actually better than the dual camera system. That's on the Galaxy Note 8 make sure you stay tuned. For that you may be a little surprised.

I want to thank Qualcomm for partnering with the channel for more coverage of the Galaxy Note 9 their chipsets power, both these phones and is what makes most of these improvements possible. The first major improvement that the Galaxy Note 9 gets is the newer Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor, compared to the Snapdragon 835 processor, in the Galaxy Note 8. They both get 6 gigabytes of RAM standard, but in the note 9 there is a variant where you can get 8 gigabytes of RAM, with 512 gigabytes of internal storage if you're willing to pay for it. What is awesome about the note 9? Are you get double the standard internal storage? So you get 128 gigabytes this year versus the 64 gigabytes that was in the Galaxy Note 8, the Snapdragon 845 upgrade means you're going to get a 20% increase in performance all across the board and even though it's more powerful, it has less power drawers. What's going to help with better battery life, they asked another thing about the Galaxy Note 9.

That is huge for me this year is that it has a four thousand William hour battery and that's up from the 3300 William hour battery. That was on the note 8. So this is a big deal, also you're getting a nice bump up in graphics performance. So, if you're into mobile gaming, then you might want to go for the note 9. This should help you get faster frame rates, smoother gameplay and even though the note 8 still plays games great.

The note 9 should perform a little better. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 is paired with a newer modem, the X 20. So theoretically, this will bump you up to an insane speed of up to 1.2 gigabits per second compared to the one gigabit per second. That was available on the note 8 so to prove this I went out and did a little test. The note 8 and note 9 were both on the T-Mobile network to keep things fair.

So when I did this test, the note 8 did really well hitting 150 megabits per second download, but x20 modem in denote. Nine outperform denote a giving it over 200 megabits per second down in the exact same location. So this is the network performance bump that you can expect from the note 9 if you upgrade here's an iPhone 10 in comparison for speed on the T-Mobile network in the exact same place. So it's fast, but it's not note 9 fast. The snapdragon 845 also brings improvements to the camera as well, but we'll get to that later on.

When it comes to the build quality, they are both top-tier, nice, glass and metal frame sandwich. The note 9 does bring back the Sham furred edges, making it a little more classy in my opinion, but they both feel very premium. The note 9 is actually a little thicker and a little heavier than the Galaxy Note 8, but I'm totally cool with this, because they bumped up to that big four thousand William hour battery, so I hope other manufacturers do this I, don't mind if it gets thicker. If you get a bigger battery, the displays on both are incredibly best in the business they're. Both super AMOLED, both quad HD plus and resolution, both with HDR support.

But the note 9 display is slightly larger at 6.4 inches versus the no date 6.3 inches and a note 9s display is about 27 percent brighter than a note, eights display with peak brightness at 710 nits, and also having a higher contrast at full brightness, and it can go all the way up to a crazy 1015. It's in certain parts of the display. So if you want the best of the best go for the note 9, but honestly, the note eights display still looks incredible. So I wouldn't make this a factor when it comes to a decision to upgrade the thing that does make a big difference is the dual speaker setup here. On the Galaxy Note 9, the earpiece now doubles as a secondary speaker with Dolby Atmos support, so it does sound.

Much fuller sounds much better to me. No more blocking the speaker with just one finger, so I'm going to do a speaker test here. Let me know if you can hear the difference. They both have fingerprint scanners on the back, but I much prefer. The placement of the GAO see note 9s fingerprint scanner underneath the camera module instead of beside the camera module like on the note 8 now when it comes to intelligence, can where it combines both facial recognition and the iris scanner I'm, not sure why that's only on the note 9, it's just a software thing, I'm pretty sure they could put that on the note 8, but when it comes to Android versions.

Right now, the Galaxy Note 8 is running Android, 8.0 Oreo, where the note 9 is running 8.1 Oreo. So it's a little further ahead, but I hope to see both of these on Android PI very soon. Another feature I can see being very valuable to some people are the Dec support. Now that's built into the Galaxy Note 9. So if you don't know what DEX is usually a station that you can hook up to a monitor that kind of gives you a desktop experience.

So now you don't need any of that for the note 9 you just plug in a USB c2, maybe an HDMI cable, and now you have a full desktop experience. So, if you're a student- but you can write papers with this, you can play games on it even, and you can browse the web on a bigger monitor. So this could be a big deal for some people, so no more buying a deck station. If you have the note 9, besides that, both of these phones have premium flagship features, they are both ip68 water and dust resistant. They both have headphone jacks, yes, headphone jacks in 2018.

Both have wireless charging, also fast charging Bluetooth 5.0 both have Samsung pay, which is really underrated. In my opinion, both have micros cards for easy storage expansion and, of course, they both have the s-pen. The Galaxy Note nines S Pen has a little of a trick up. His sleeve is now having an internal battery, and it's connected by Bluetooth LE. So it's going to give you some extra functions like you're gonna, be able to control PowerPoint presentations with this.

You can use this as a remote shutter. Now, which is really cool. I, can see that being very useful when it comes to social media, or you try gate group pictures. The open also has media control, so you can keep this out and while you listen to music, you can pause, you can skip tracks and, if you're, watching YouTube or anything like that, you can actually pause and play with this too. So there's an open SDK for this pen, so the possibilities are endless.

I can't wait to see what other developers do to their apps with this S Pen SDK. So let's get to the camera. What everybody's been asking for I'm gonna start with the front-facing cameras. First, they both have an 8 megapixel sensor with F 1.7 aperture and the quality of the selfies are very similar. Let me know if you can see any difference here, but the thing that you will get with the note 9 are the AR emojis.

We first saw this in the galaxy s 9 plus, and this is possible with Qualcomm spectra, 280 ISP, and this is where you can make your own emoji. If you want- and you can record messages like this, and it all tracks in real time. So if this is your thing, then you're going to need a note 9 on the rear that Note 8 has dual 12 megapixel cameras with the main having an aperture of f11 and a secondary with an F 2.4 aperture. Both lenses with optical image, stabilization and the note 9 gets the upgraded camera system with the dual 12 megapixel cameras, with the main having dual aperture at F, 1.5 or F 2.4, depending on the lighting and the secondary camera and F 2.4 aperture. Also, both lenses optically stabilized on the video side.

They both can shoot 4k and they both have great-looking video, but the Galaxy Note 9 can shoot 4k 60 frames per second thanks again to the Qualcomm Snapdragon, a 45 supporting this natively. This feature is great to capture superfast motion or for me to get super high quality slow motion. When it comes to video stabilization while walking they both do a great job. Let me know which one that you think looks better. This is 4k footage while walking.

Also, the note 9 has a very cool super slow motion at 960 frames per. Second, this is not available on the note when it comes to photos in good lighting, you aren't going to be able to tell a ton of difference. So if you take a lot of pictures in daytime, then I probably wouldn't upgrade, because they both look good. They both have nice dynamic range and nice colors, but where you'll see a slight differences in the new scene, optimizer mode where it detects scenes like if it sees a plant, the note 9 automatically adjust colors and contrast to give it a better image and I find it works very well with preventing, highlight, clipping and also kicking up shadows and also being more aggressive with Auto HDR. So I tend to leave it on at night is where I see probably the most difference.

The note 9 does really go warmer in tones, but it does have much better dynamic range in auto mode, but the thing that I notice is that the pictures have much better sharpness overall, but the big key here is noise reduction. I didn't realize how noisy the note 8 images were until I did this video, and especially in nighttime, 4k video, that noise is terrible on the note 8, so low-light improvement with the F 1.5 aperture on the note.9 is really noticeable. You're also going to see some improvements in low-light life focus mode, even though this is a noisy mess. It at least took the picture where the note 8 gave me this error. So the note 9 is gonna.

Give you a little better results in life focus shots. Let me know if you want to see a full camera comparison in the comment section below the camera. Differences are here: they're, not as dramatic in daylight, but they're. Definitely different in low-light. So is the Galaxy Note 9 worth upgrading to me? Guess if you have a Galaxy Note 8 already and if you're happy with it, then I would say, go ahead and stick with the note 8, you have to think about all the new things that the note 9 brings and if you don't need those new features, then I say go ahead and stick with it.

But if that big battery is important to you, which it is important to me, because getting through a full day with no problems, is a big deal. I really like the dual speaker setup, because to me when I watch, videos, the dual speaker, sounds so much better and of course the Snapdragon 845 s, and they give you faster performance, better graphics, performance, faster LTE speeds. So, if you're really into that kind of stuff, you need to go ahead and get the note 9. But if you're happy with the node 8 I'd say go ahead and stick to that now, if you don't own a note at all, and you want to jump into the note system, and maybe you're moving from like an iPhone or something. This is the best time to buy a note, because this is the best Samsung phone.

That's ever been made super clich? to say, but it's that perfect combination of the Galaxy S series and the note series- and it's kind of in this big hybrid phone note 9 right now- is the most complete smartphone that you can buy. The note 8 is discounted, pretty heavily right. Now, maybe even half the price of what you could probably get a note 9 for. So, if you don't care about note, 9s new features, you might want to look at a note 8. Thank you for watching this comparison.

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Source : Danny Winget