Samsung Galaxy Note 9 vs. BlackBerry KEY2 - Are They Worth it? By TechOdyssey

Hey everybody welcome back to tech Odyssey, so today, I'm here with a bit of a unique video I haven't done with these before it is a comparison, video and probably a little surprised by the header on my YouTube video. This is the Samsung Galaxy Note 9, vs. I, guess vs. it's more for compare than a vs. and the blackberry key -. So both of these devices are unique in their own right because they take the Android experience, and they add an extra element to it.

That's different, then pretty much each and every other Android phone that's available out there. There are people who, like both of them myself, I like both of them. Of course, blackberry I've been using them since 2005 I love the physical keyboard, which is continually what keeps drawing me back in and then, of course, the note series which was your knowing the first real true phablet of breaking boundaries. Each time they come out with a new phone, bigger, better, more and, of course, the stylus, so the s-pen as they call it so both of these phones unique, very different from different other Android phones. But of course, they also come with a special price tag for what it is that they had to offer, which is one of the hard selling points, especially for either one of these, because while the BlackBerry KET doesn't necessarily excel in any one area other than just a physical keyboard, it's still a fantastic phone.

That has a lot of positive things to offer for just about anybody. You just have to want the keyboard or be willing to try to keyboard, and then, with the note, it's amazing it's its a wonderful phone. It has the best fit. There really is the offer out there in the Android world right now, you're running the top align snapdragon 845 baselines, six gigs around you can get eight. You can even get up to 512 gigs of storage, but it comes with a hefty price tag.

So you're, looking at $9.99 just to get your foot in the door with the note and 649 to get a blackberry key to, and, of course, if you want to get the 512 gigabytes of storage and the 8 gigs of ram you're, going up to 12, 49 and, of course, I think that that's incredibly unnecessary, the reason being you can get an SD card, I'm, not even sure the price, a 512 SD card, I, think I. Looking at the other day, you can find some on sale, I, think for like 50 or 60 bucks, but you're talking about adding two extra gigs of RAM, and you're talking about putting in 512 gigabytes of storage, which I can't even touch the 64 that I have in my blackberry or my s, 9 plus or in my G 7. So some people, especially you're, shooting 4k video and, of course you can shoot.4K video with the note vs. the 1080p footage that you get with a key -. It's going to eat up a lot more storage space.

Of course, you get the slim mode, videos as well, and really I think the best way. To contrast, these two phones is the experience because of course, they're both running Android they're, running Android 8.1, both of them straight out of the box and both of them are promised to get PI I'm, assuming it's probably gonna, be sometime around the launch or early spring for launch of the whatever the next iteration is of the S series, yes 10 or which is around April to get high. It would be my guess, and then for this one it took them about a year after the little over a year after the key one came out to get Oreo running on it, so starting with the blackberry, so it's 649 bucks. Why would you want to buy that? Well, if you want to buy this phone is primarily because of the physical keyboard, and some people are like. Well, that's ancient technology.

Why would you even worry about that? Well, the wonderful thing about having the keyboard is everything you press is what you get. Of course, you get all the cool shortcut keys are built-in. You get the short press, you get the long press, you get the speed key. This phone is built for productivity is built for accuracy and, of course, you get that wonderful tactile feeling from the keyboard. The tactile response is the feedback.

It's great now, arguably, the best keyboard ever on a blackberry and I, absolutely love it. Of course, you get your convenience key over here, which you can set to any app that you have on your phone. You press it whatever you're doing it'll pop right up the power button and then, of course, you have your volume, rockers and I love that there's no extra buttons on the left hand, side everything's on the right hand, side now. This is rocking the snapdragon 616, which is the latest and greatest in the mid-tier, a performance processor for Snapdragon, and it pairs beautifully with this phone for any hangups you might have had with the key one slowing down memory. This has it all, and they bumped up to six gigs of memory, which six gigs I think is kind of a magical number.

Now, for the year 2018 now looking forward, I think you're going to see most flagships for now and probably come out with six gigs or at least have a six gig model and with all the things that are run nowadays and just for a short little brief explanation of RAM and how it works. Ram is random access. Memory versus storage and people have confused those for years, especially you know salespeople or the way the medium Marx is. Oh, it's got 128 gigs of memory. Well, memory is not the same as storage space, so you get 64 gigs of storage space, but you get 6 gigs of memory.

The way memory works is if it's not an active use, then it's available. So every time you load an app it loads it into the memory. So that way it's already there, and you can access it quickly. So the more memory you have, the more applications that you can have loaded and applications. You know differ in size based off of what they are.

So if you want to run fortnight, it might be like a 1 gig file, that's loaded into memory, but that active memory is what it allows you to run things quickly, so whenever they get a little on memory, that's when you get the shuttering this. When you get the page flipping that slows down. That's whenever you start having performance issues or apps crashing over. Here you get the same thing in the note 9. You also get 6 gigs of RAM up to 8.

Really, though, I can't think of any potentially even feasible position. You would find yourself in where you would need a gig of RAM, which is why I don't recommend at all anyone buys the upper-end model, which is the 512 storage and the 8 gigs of ram. You can't add more RAM, but you can't add more storage. So really, if you're talking about apples to oranges, you can get the same experience with the 6 gigs of ram really save yourself. The 250 bucks, you know: go get a $50 SD card and top yourself off, and you're good over here, 64 gigs of storage.

It has expandable storage support. So you can put an SD card in there as well. If you need it and 64 gigs is really acting. It's pretty good, especially for what you have to offer here so now that you know about a little about memory and why I think it's really not so important, and I have a bit of a computer background. I've been building computers for about 20 years now, so the way that they interact.

This is a computer, it's just it's a handheld one, which is what we wanted for years and years and years- and you know the distinguishable. Differences are narrowing. Each iteration these products, so I mean in the BlackBerry you've got two 12 megapixel rear cameras on the note.9 you've got two 12 megapixel rear cameras. They both have 8 megapixel front facing cameras. Now you get 4k here with the note 9 you get 1080p on the key to the key to has a 4.5 inch LCD panel versus the Super AMOLED panel on the Samsung, which is at six point four inches. The biggest difference is you get.

There is the color saturation and the brightness, typically with the amyloid they're better at darker dark themes, better conserving battery, they have very rich saturation and the best blacks that you can get in your pixels versus the LCD, it's brighter. It has a more blue or white colored LCD presentation, so it's better for looking at the mountainous, Sun they're, very power efficient as well, especially the new LCD's and they look good and there have been significant improvements, I think in the overall software behind the panel and the key to versus a key one. So on the note, 9 of course get the fingerprint sensor on the back. Where should the front here? Get your side-by-side cameras there? Of course, you've got your bio. Your bio sensor you've got here that you have for the Samsung health app and then, of course you have your dedicated Bigamy button, and you're buying buttons over here on this side.

So I'll go ahead and fire this up. Let you look take a look at the screens, and these are both at max brightness that we have right now, overall, brightness is very comparable. I haven't seen too much in that. Of course, you get the smaller scale down screen in the resolution here, but 1080p is very adequate for a 4.5 inches. The reason being is your eyes really can't detect the difference between 4k and 1080p at this size.

From what I've read you have to get at least a 5.3-inch screen or larger before your eyes can really differentiate between 4k and 1080p over here. If you have a 1080p resolution on a six point, four-inch screen, it's detrimental to the experience, I think because it's just not enough pixels, it's not a high enough pixel density, so the experience is not going to be as good, so you really have to have a 4k in a screen, this big and, of course, its industry-leading standard right now, at six point four inches: it's got the curved glass display. It's just amazing. It's a beautiful experience. Of course, Samsung loves their exaggerated extra saturation, which can really make things stand out.

Pop out the colors they just look phenomenal. This is probably the best multimedia experience can get on the market, so those are some side-by-side comparisons, but really what sets these two phones, apart from the rest of the phones out in the market, and what makes you want to pay 999 dollars because, let's face it, you can get the exact same phone in a s9 plus the s9 plus comes with the same Snapdragon 845. It comes with the same six gigs of ram. So whenever you factor that in and talk about paying, why would I pay $9.99 versus like $7.99, or they have other carrier incentives, logos and all that good stuff? There are really is a hard case to make for wanting to buy this, especially if you don't care for the stylus. I mean I, don't care if the stylus, it's a nice implementation, if you're a business-oriented.

If you need to do some drawing some fine-tuning, you want to draw a squiggly message. I mean it's really cool, plus it has the Bluetooth implementation now. So whenever you pull this open, you get all this cool stuff. So you can create a note view. All notes: smart selects, so you can select stuff on the screen right.

It'll automatically take a screenshot of the screen as it is live message you can doodle around, and it gives you a certain amount of time of writing so that it will save it and then, whenever you send it to somebody, it shows you know drawing out translate for text and pin up here, which is cool, so you can get on here, and you can draw and do that fun. Stuff. I haven't done that yet because I'm not much of an artist I dabble in the realm of stick figuring, but whenever you pull the S Pen out, it goes ahead, and it puts this logo here, and you can move it around from one side of the screen to the other and then, whenever you put the stylus back in it goes away. But one cool thing is because it's Bluetooth, you have the fancy button right here now you can set the button up. You can set it to where you can take pictures.

So whenever you have the camera app open, taxa tables kind of dirty there I have to do is just press that, and it takes pictures so really cool, no more pictures, so yeah, it's taking pictures all over the place. So there is that, and that's one nice feature so really the added incorporation of the s-pen is what sets this aside. Of course, it's one extra in point, one inch in the screen, because the Samsung Galaxy S nine plus, has a six point. Three-inch screen. Everything else is the same.

So really, if you want to get your foot in the door with Samsung, you don't want to spend the nine hundred ninety-nine dollars introductory price to get this phone. Then you can get the same thing ? that stylus I think for around the $7.99 price range, roughly I'm, not sure exactly what they're going at right now and then this one of course at 6:49, is a little harder sell because you're not getting top-of-the-line in pretty much any area. Yes, you get the door, the Plans setup on the back, but the camera and the software is not as good as some other 12 megapixel cameras and, of course, all cameras and lenses and sensors are not created equal, so the phone. The note 9 takes amazing pictures. It takes amazing video, the best that I've ever seen are used in a smartphone.

Of course, I haven't used some of the other ones that are claimed to be good, like the highway p20, especially the pro model. Of course, if you're not looking at the samples where they're using a DSLR camera to take them, but that's in the whole other story. The pictures over here on the key tube it takes perfect pictures in ideal lighting, so perfect, daylight outside exposures, are really the best. If you take, indoor pictures are still okay, but whenever you have varying light sources, you're going from light room to dark room less than adequate lighting, selfie camera, they really don't live up to the six hundred and fifty dollar price tag versus the note nine. It thrives in excels in pretty much any environment.

Of course, with the adjustable aperture as well, it's just an amazing piece of work. You can use this and typically now that I have. This is what I used to record my videos with, so I'm recording this with the g7, but you'll see some of the videos that I have coming out in the next couple of days that I have recorded with the note naught and it just it's uncanny. It's so good, whereas with the key tube you can take, video I mean you can get decent quality video out of it. But it's not something that I want to use for my video recording for my reviews or for anything else really just because that's not what it's geared for.

So this is the ultimate everything, but you're going to pay for it, and then this is the ultimate in multitasking and, of course, this wonderful keyboard, which I love is so near and dear to me. So you've seen the implementations that you have with the s-pen, but let's see a little about what the BlackBerry t2 can do. So what you have is you have the convenience key I use Slack. So all I have to do is hit the convenience key, and it pulls slack right up so anytime anywhere you're doing anything, and we go into Crack Berry up here, and I'll go ahead and hit that BAM right back over. So the app is already loaded just loaded into memory, you just pop it over there.

It's super quick, so the other cool things that you can do is you can swipe on the keyboard, because the keyboard is capacitive, you can hold down shift. You can slide. You can select text which is great. Furthermore, you've got your Alt key. Furthermore, you can press the button here, so you can put the microphone.

If you want to talk, you have to symbol key it, and I'll show you this be key in a minute and of course, you've got the ever-so-popular D tech security, software suite, and then you got the hub which it compiles. Everything that you have its puts it in one convenient location so over here, and you can see. You've got blackberry, messenger text, messages, email, kick, Reddit, signal slack, it's got everything, and then you can put it into a default view where it pulls everything up, and you can see everything all at once so super cool there, and on top of that I'm going to show you the shortcut keys, so I'll go ahead, and I've got G. A short press set for Google pulls Google writes up, which is really nice, and then I don't have a long one set for G. So that says something for G real, quick Gmail.

There we go long, G will be Gmail, so I'm going to hold down the G button. Now taxa pulls up my Gmail, so you've got that now. The way the speed key works is this B key works whenever you're inside an app. So let's say I'll go back into Crack Berry and let's see that capacitive keyboard again see taxa I'm scrolling I'm scrolling, though fingers on the screen great. Alright, so I want to go to Google, well, speed, key G, BAM right back to Google so, and you see it's very quick, both of them really for day-to-day usage and the actual user interface and operating the phone speed wise.

That you're, really not suffering at all I mean click on slack. There see how long it takes a little slack. I, take, say Instagram here, so I haven't loaded my account in there. Yet I'll pull up YouTube, so I mean you can see that open slack. That's already loaded into memory.

I'll open up YouTube see how quickly YouTube works, I'll pull up Instagram and then, so you go to Instagram there, and you're really not losing anything speed wise. So the best thing that really sets us apart is, of course, the individual user experience and what you're buying the phone for. So, if you wanted to get a better phone, you can go get in I phone, 7, I'm, sorry, Michael 7 get an iPhone 8 for about 16 50 bucks. You can get one plus 6, you know for like 650 bucks, so 600 dollars, you can get a Samsung Galaxy S 9 for like 699 bucks for this 9 plus, so very comparable products on the market, the LGG, seven, wonderful, wonderful phones, but they're all honestly, the end of the day they're the same you're going to get pretty much the same experience other than some stock features or changes in the user, interface, and you're, just getting a different manufacturer and the way they implement things is slightly different. But with these two phones, you get a customized full from the bottom to the top experience wrapped around the keyboard, wrapped around the user interface and Samsung's, wonderful, overlays and the things that they do and, of course the s-pen.

So like I said, I can't really say as much of a comparison, video as a this. Is why or why not? So if you don't want the s, pin don't buy this if you're not worried about having a snapdragon 845. Well, you can get a note 8 and the note 8 has fantastic deals going for it right now, and it's going to get you 90% of the same experience, even though this has a four thousand William battery. Whatever you have everything maxed out, you can see here. I am not even getting the most amazing screen on time, but I have everything maxed out.

So we'll take a look at this so battery usage, so I've had three hours and thirty minutes of screen on time today and I have thirty-one percent battery left, whereas here we'll take a look at this 3500 William battery I haven't used it too much today, but so two hours of screen on time and two hours, 10 minutes and I last charged at 14 hours ago, so, and I'm still floating at 52% battery. So really they both last a long time so 3,500 William versus five thousand William, which is utterly fantastic for both of them I mean it's a great amount of battery and then the last thing really is just the speakers here. They both have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack, this one's on the top. This one's on the bottom, so you have to worry about the whole dongle life. You got the rear speaker down here on the bottom right on both of them.

This one doesn't have the stereo speaker. This one has the Dolby sound, which is really nice, because you get that extra speaker up there kicking, and it gives you a really great sound experience and the sound on this is perfect. So, overall, I really just wanted to contrast these two but I, think more so looking at it as a versus video I. Think it's a case for each one and really seeing that when you really look at the baseline experience for what you're doing on a day-to-day basis, there's really not much difference. You know speed wise and as far as loading the apps, the multitasking, the extras where it comes in as the camera, the keyboard, the s-pen, the capacitive keyboard, the convenience key, the hot keys.

You know it's these little things is, are what define the experience that you're looking for and that you hope to get in a phone so versus saying: okay, well, I have the iPhone 7. Let me get the iPhone 8. Well, it's really the same thing. You get the iPhone 8. You have the iPhone 10 most roughly the same thing, but they just took out the fingerprint sensor.

Furthermore, you look at the know the f9 plus you look at the LG G 7. Furthermore, you look at the HTC. U 12! You look at anything, and it's its just a regular slab that might have a smart AI button and other than that I mean there's, not a lot different. So that's what sets these two phones apart, I believe from their competitors and makes them unique options, especially with the popular cult followings that many of them have so, if you're looking to get one. Hopefully this gave you a little of an insight onto the performance, some differences in some case for and against getting one of them.

If you're interested the note nine, of course you got the s-pen, but you're paying a ton of money to get the phone and then the BlackBerry key to you're, also paying quite a bit of money for what is arguably a lesser performance, wise experience, what you're sacrificing for a keyboard, which is an experience enhancer? So that's all I got I. Just thought. I would go ahead and make this video- and you know, give you some insight on this and do kind of a comparison side-by-side about the ultimate in two different worlds of the Android experience where you're modifying it by incorporating an implement such as the keyboard or the s-pen. So that's all that I have I know it's a long video I'd like to talk and get long-winded, but for anyone that's interested. Hopefully this has been helpful.

So thanks for tuning in as always, I appreciate it, and if you have any questions you know in the comment section, and I'll see you all next time.

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