Samsung Galaxy Note9 Smartphone Review | Future Reviews | NowThis By NowThis News

The Samsung Galaxy Note9 is Samsung's latest addition to their Note flagship phone line. And it won't be hard to pick out of a lineup. This is a gigantic phone. It's the largest Samsung has ever made. And with big phone, comes big potential. The Note9 has some great quality to it.

It had huge screen, a big battery, and powerful hardware. It comes with either 128 GB or 512 GB of internal storage with the ability to expand if necessary. And it supports fast charging, so you never need to wait too long to have a full battery. Samsung gave us this phone for review purposes, so that's what we'll be using. It's the same phone that you're going to find in stores.

Samsung is killing it with their camera game recently. The S9 has a beautiful camera and the Note9 follow suit. It uses A. I. to detect the scene you're photographing, and changes its settings automatically to give you the finest photo.

So say you're taking a picture of a flower, it might bump up the saturation, or blur the background a bit more than if you're taking a photo of the landscape. And it works in the background, so you don't even notice it. And if you want to photograph like a pro, you can always turn that off, and tweak the settings exactly how you want them. But for most of us this is really great. It also has a dual aperture, just like the S9, which I love.

It can open and close like a human iris to let in more light, which means you get stunning photos very, very low light. One of Samsung's biggest bragging points for this phone is the battery life, and I have to say I was pretty impressed with it. It has a 4000 mAh hour battery, which is the largest ever on a Note phone. And Samsung says it will last all day, and it does. I use my phone a lot.

Like, a ton, all day, and I had no problem with this phone's battery. I'd usually get it down to about 50 to 60 percent at the end of the day, which is great given the size and the power of this phone. Thumbs up on that one. Samsung put a big focus on gaming this time around, which is super important right now. There are a lot of electronic companies that are putting out gaming specific phones, like Razer, like Asus, and others.

And it makes sense. I mean if a phone can handle serious gameplay, it can handle just about anything. Now, I've been playing some graphic-heavy games on this phone, like Fortnite, and it stood up to the test. I'd play similar games on other phones, and it drain the battery, and get really, really hot. So to curb the heat, Samsung added a water-carbon cooling system on the phone, which actually seems to be doing its job.

I mean, I can feel the temperature change when I'm playing, but it's not overheating. And that helps with the phone's performance, as well. The big screen makes games super immersive, too. So, this is one of the major differentiators of the Note series. It's the S Pen.

I have to say, I thought I'd use it a lot more than I did, but I guess I'm a texter more than a drawer. I did use the screen off memos feature more than once, and I found it useful. They actually added Bluetooth capabilities to the pen now, too, which is cool in very specific situations. You can change a song, and you can take a selfie, and flip through a presentation just using the pen, which is really kind of cool, but I don't really do those things on a regular basis. What is exciting are the possibilities of a Bluetooth enabled S Pen in future devices.

I'm picturing like a Nintendo Switch situation, where you can use the pen as a controller for games, or write something on any surfers and it'll appear in your notes. But this is a good half step forward. Now Bixby is a point of contention for me. I respect what Samsung is trying to do. Everyone else has done it with their assistants.

Siri with the iPhone. Google Assistant with the Pixel phones. They build it into the functionality of the phone so that it's easier for us to use. Or rather they force us to use them. But Samsung took it a step further when they introduced the Bixby Key with the S8.

It's a button on the side of the phone that you cannot remap unless you do some very tricksy things with it. See, I kept pressing the Bixby button accidentally when I'd just go to open my phone, and I had to get used to just closing it immediately. And for all of the phones since the S8, you have at least been able to turn off the Bixby Key, so that the key doesn't do anything. But with the Note9, they've even taken that functionality away. I have to say, that sort of made me not want to use Bixby ever.

If an assistant is annoying, you're not going to want to use that assistance. But they're trying to get users to use it because they're building it into all of their other smart devices that they make. So basically, get used to it or get another phone. Okay, so this is a real treat. When DeX was first announced with the Galaxy S8, I was absolutely floored.

But it needed a bunch of extra accessories to use it, like a mouse, a keyboard, and a dock. But Samsung made a bold move and made DeX available on every Note9, and all you need is an HDMI-compatible monitor and a UCB-C to HDMI cord. DeX runs a complete desktop experience from your phone, and the screen turns into a trackpad, so you don't even need a mouse. And the screen also has a small keyboard for typing, but you can hook up a Bluetooth keyboard to the phone if you want more typing space. And with the Note9's powerful specs, the DeX experience is super smooth.

To me, this is the future of laptops, and even some desktop computers. Mobile devices that can be hooked up to larger displays, anywhere, anytime. Since the S8, I think that Samsung has been delivering some really great innovative ideas, but some of them just need a little bit more perfected. Like the S Pen. I love the idea of enabling it with Bluetooth, but I'm really excited to see what they do with it in the future.

And with the DeX system. I love the DeX system, but I need to figure out a way to fit it into my everyday routine. And Bixby. I don't know what to say about the future Bixby, but let's just hope that they find their stride without forcing it on their customers. That said, Samsung is often rolled with the punches, and come back with something really awesome.

And I think they've done that again with this phone. The Note starts at $999, and goes up to $1299. All told, this is a really great phone. If you like big phones, if you like Samsung's brand of Android, or know how to change it if you don't like it, if you play lots of games, if you watch lots of movies, if you take lots of notes, this is an obvious choice.

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