Galaxy Note 9 Hands-on Review: A $999 Water-Cooled, AI Camera Beast

[Mark Spoonauer]

The Galaxy Note 9 doesn't wow with innovations, but its bigger battery, beefier storage, water cooling and AI camera should satisfy power users.

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[fox1x]

The Huawei Mate 10 pro also doesn't need a dock like dex. Just a cable. Huawei also had scene recognition (you mentioned P20 Pro I realize.). Seems for once someone is copying China than the other way around.

 

[u2haveaniceday]

Mark been reading Tomsguide for long time and always come back because you guys always have Awesome articles. I'm big Note fan and I really enjoyed the article the good the bad and in between. Thanks so much for sharing.Keep up the Awesome Reviews and Articles Always enjoy Deb ????

 

[dansourile]

If you buy this phone, it's because you are after a stylus. And there is NOTHING that competes in that realm if you want premium. Also, here's my issue with all these people docking it for being expensive... The S9+ is $840. No one cares or complains. For $159 more, you get on the Note9 (1) a larger battery, (2) double the storage, (3) a screen that is slightly better/bigger AND detects 4096 levels of pressure sensitivity in Wacom-like fashion, (4) a slightly improved camera, and (5) the all-important stylus which is obviously the centerpiece of this phone. I think most people would pay $159 for that package to upgrade their current phone and it wouldn't be an unreasonable ask.

So why so much complaint over this price? It's reasonable IF you think the S9+ is a reasonable price.

 

[darkomaledictus]

Nice, definitely my next phone. No need to wait for next Iphone (locked environment and emulators are a pain to install even rooted) and new pixel doesn't do sd card.

 

[shut_the_flash_up]

Was the review done with same 150nit brightness? I was expecting to see a 1hour gain from 700mAh. The other reviews show that 1 hr gain but yours. Were you using the spen during the test?

 

[richhpal]

Nice and the. Nice kuvality phone

 

[cassian]

I used Blackberry phones for many years, then moved to two good Android phones before moving to the Samsung S8+ and now to the super Samsung Note9 with 512GB. I use it for business communications and calendaring everything I do. I use it for documents and Internet browsing. The stylus!! Nothing equals its convenience as a smart smartphone tool.

 

[mackamsterdam]

This review is really bad. Compare the Note 9 with 6gb Ram to the other ones?
If you put it to the test take the 8gb with 512gb.
Its the best phone on the market and iphone doesnt have half of the function the Samsung have