August 9, 2018 • 8 mins
Samsung unveils the Galaxy Note 9 smartphone with a bigger screen, bigger battery, double the storage, Bluetooth S-Pen and a more intelligent camera. Here are my first impressions and what you need to know about this $1000 device.Watch my hands on video:https://youtu.be/li3tUwaseVkFollow Rich on Social Media:Facebook: http://facebook.com/RichOnTechTwitter: http://twitter.com/richdemuroInstagram: http://instagram.com/richontechEasy ways to listen on your phone or smart speaker:"Hey Google, Play the Rich on Tech Podcast""Hey Siri, Play the Rich on Tech Podcast""Alexa, Enable the Rich on Tech Flash Briefing"
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Samsung Galaxy Note nine is now official. What's going on?
I'm Rich Demiro. This is rich on Tech. Well I
got to go hands on with the brand new Galaxy
Note nine, and while there's not one big new feature
that's gonna blow everyone away, well, there are a lot
of little improvements that I think people are going to like.
Before we get into all of the new goodies, let
me just explain what the Galaxy Note is all about.
(00:26):
This is really Samsung's flagship phone. It's their most premium device.
It's the one that they put all the new features
on first. So again, this was one of the first
big large screen phones back in twenty eleven. It also
was the first that had the stylus. They made the
multi window popular, the curve screen, the dual camera, and
the Note customer is kind of known for being that
(00:48):
mobile professional, the person who wants to get work done
on the go without sacrificing pretty much anything, because with
this device you can do it all. So the Galaxy
Note nine will come into color at US launch, lavender,
purple and ocean blue. That's an interesting choice by Samsung
because you're not getting that typical black or gray color.
(01:09):
But I think most users will be happy with one
of these two colors. The ocean blue is definitely a
deeper shade of blue. The lavender purple is a really
nice purple color, not too purply. So let's get into
those specs you want to know about. For starters, there's
a six point four inch screen, which is a little
bit bigger than last year. When it comes to the cameras,
those are very similar to the cameras on the S
(01:32):
nine plus. You get a dual camera setup. You've got
the rear camera at that dual aperture F one point
five F two point four, and that is going to
be a twelve megapixel camera. Then on the front you've
got that eight megapixel camera with a one point seven aperture.
When it comes to memory on this thing, man, you
get a lot. The standard is one hundred and twenty
(01:53):
eight gigabytes, double last year's model. Then there's also six
gigabytes of RAM standard, and you also you get that
micro SD card slot which you can add another five
hundred and twelve gigs on top of that. Now there
is another model which comes with five hundred and twelve
gigabytes of storage plus eight gigabytes of RAM and You've
got that micro SD card slot for another five hundred
(02:15):
and twelve gigs if you want to add a card
that will give you one terabyte in your pocket. Yeah,
this thing is powerful. Battery is four thousand MILLIONAM hours,
that is more than last year's model. And of course
you get all the different ways to charge, including wireless
and wired. Was a little surprised to see that Android
eight OREO is on this device. I guess I'm not
(02:36):
too surprised because nine came out at kind of like
the worst time, the week right before they're announcing this device.
So hopefully we will see a software update to Android
nine soon on the Note nine. It would have made
a lot more sense to say the Note nine with
Android nine. That would have been nice. As for the
rest of the stuff, you get all the typical things
you get on the Samsung phone. You get that fast connection,
(02:58):
you get the payment Samsung Pay, You get all those
sensors like the accelerometer, the heart rate sensor, what else.
Authentication you get, the iris scanner, you get the fingerprint scanner,
the facial recognition, and that's gonna do it for the
main features. So you're thinking to yourself, wait a second,
there's not too many crazy new things on this device,
(03:19):
but one of the biggest things that they improved over
last year's device, the No. Eight, is the placement of
the fingerprint reader that was in a really bad place
on the Note eight. Basically the only thing I didn't
like about that device. Now the fingerprint reader is in
the right place, right underneath the dual camera setup. You
can reach it a lot easier, especially with your eyes closed,
(03:39):
especially without looking. So I think that alone is enough
to get this device. If you're holding off on the
Note eight because of the placement of that fingerprint reader,
this device fixes that. So basically I can't find anything
wrong with this device on the surface. Now let's talk
about that Spen for the first time. The Spen comes
in a color, so the one that I checked out
(04:01):
was the Ocean blue with kind of like a yellow Spen.
And then the Spen also now has Bluetooth built in.
So what does that mean. Well, you can use the
Spen up to thirty feet away from your smartphone and
it becomes basically a little remote control. It is water
and dust resistant, it'll last for thirty minutes outside of
the device. But the cool thing is if you want
(04:24):
to recharge it, you just pop it in the device
and it will get to a one hundred percent charge
in just forty seconds. So what can you do with
the spen? Where you can press and hold the button
on the Spen by default that's going to launch the camera.
You can double click the button to toggle to the
selfie camera and then one more click of the button
will actually take a picture. Now you can do whatever
you want with these buttons. You can program them to
(04:45):
do whatever you like in your apps, and developers will
have access to them as well. One other fun little
thing the spen does, since it is now in color,
when you write on the screen with that screen off memo,
it will come in a color as well. So when
I wrote with a yellow pen, the screen, the writing
was in yellow. I thought that was pretty cool. It's
a little thing, but it's kind of nice. All right. Now,
let's talk about the camera because you always want to
(05:07):
know what's improved in the camera. So the camera is
basically they didn't say it was the identical setup from
the S nine plus, but it sort of looks that way.
The main thing they've improved here is the software. So
they have this new thing which they call intelligent camera,
and what it does is when you aim the camera
at something, it will analyze that scene using an algorithm
and it can figure out twenty different scenes. Those scenes
(05:31):
include food, portraits, flowers, indoor scenes, animals, landscapes, greenery, trees,
sky mountains, beaches, sunrises, sunsets, water slides. That's very specific,
street scenes, night scenes, waterfall, snow birds, backlit scenes, and text.
So basically you don't have to fiddle with those pro controls.
(05:53):
The camera, when it sees what you're taking a picture
of on the device, will figure out what you're taking
a picture of, adjust the settings accordingly, and make your
picture look great. That is really cool. I tried this out.
I aimed it at some food and immediately I saw
the little food icon. I aimed it at a plant,
I saw a little plant icon, and Samsung says, your
picture is gonna be better. I haven't had enough hands
(06:13):
on time just yet to figure that out, but I
would hope that your pictures are gonna look better because
a lot of times you do take a picture of
a sunrise sunset. Cameras are pretty good at figuring that out.
But knowing that that's a sunrise or sunset could definitely
make your pictures look just a little bit better. One
other thing the camera does now is something called flaw detection.
So you know how when you take a picture, if
(06:34):
someone blinked or if there's a smudge on the camera,
you kind of look at the review of the picture
and then you take another one if it's messed up. Well,
now the camera is smart enough to kind of look
at your picture before you can even review it and
let you know in a little message on screen if
someone blinked, if the image is blurry, if the lens
has a little smudge on it, or if the image
is too backlit. So literally your phone before you can
(06:58):
even get to that review to look at it in
the gallery, will tell you that there's something wrong, and
that way you can take another picture instantly. You don't
have to go and look at the picture. That's kind
of a cool little feature. We'll see how it works
in real life. I tried it out just quickly at
the Samsung demo and it wasn't exactly working one hundred percent,
So we'll have to see how that works in real life.
(07:19):
So the big question how much and when the Galaxy
Note nine, Like I said, earlier is in two colors,
Ocean blue and Lavender purple. They will have unlocked versions
from Samsung, and it'll also be sold by AT and T, Sprint,
T Mobile, Verizon, and others. The one hundred twenty eight
gigabyte version will sell for nine hundred ninety nine dollars
(07:39):
and ninety nine cents, basically one thousand dollars for the
one hundred and twenty eight gigabyte version, and if you
want that five hundred and twelve gigabyte version, that will
be available for one thousand, two hundred and forty nine
dollars and ninety nine cents again, twelve hundred and fifty
dollars for that five hundred and twelve gigabyte version. Here
(08:00):
you have it a quick look at the Samsung Galaxy
Note nine and if you want to see my hands
on video with the new device, go to my website.
It is richon tech dot tv. I'm Rich Siemiro. Thanks
so much for listening. I'll talk to you real soon
Samsung Galaxy Note nine is now official. What's going on?
I'm Rich Demiro. This is rich on Tech. Well I
got to go hands on with the brand new Galaxy
Note nine, and while there's not one big new feature
that's gonna blow everyone away, well, there are a lot
of little improvements that I think people are going to like.
Before we get into all of the new goodies, let
me just explain what the Galaxy Note is all about.
(00:26):
This is really Samsung's flagship phone. It's their most premium device.
It's the one that they put all the new features
on first. So again, this was one of the first
big large screen phones back in twenty eleven. It also
was the first that had the stylus. They made the
multi window popular, the curve screen, the dual camera, and
the Note customer is kind of known for being that
(00:48):
mobile professional, the person who wants to get work done
on the go without sacrificing pretty much anything, because with
this device you can do it all. So the Galaxy
Note nine will come into color at US launch, lavender,
purple and ocean blue. That's an interesting choice by Samsung
because you're not getting that typical black or gray color.
(01:09):
But I think most users will be happy with one
of these two colors. The ocean blue is definitely a
deeper shade of blue. The lavender purple is a really
nice purple color, not too purply. So let's get into
those specs you want to know about. For starters, there's
a six point four inch screen, which is a little
bit bigger than last year. When it comes to the cameras,
those are very similar to the cameras on the S
(01:32):
nine plus. You get a dual camera setup. You've got
the rear camera at that dual aperture F one point
five F two point four, and that is going to
be a twelve megapixel camera. Then on the front you've
got that eight megapixel camera with a one point seven aperture.
When it comes to memory on this thing, man, you
get a lot. The standard is one hundred and twenty
(01:53):
eight gigabytes, double last year's model. Then there's also six
gigabytes of RAM standard, and you also you get that
micro SD card slot which you can add another five
hundred and twelve gigs on top of that. Now there
is another model which comes with five hundred and twelve
gigabytes of storage plus eight gigabytes of RAM and You've
got that micro SD card slot for another five hundred
(02:15):
and twelve gigs if you want to add a card
that will give you one terabyte in your pocket. Yeah,
this thing is powerful. Battery is four thousand MILLIONAM hours,
that is more than last year's model. And of course
you get all the different ways to charge, including wireless
and wired. Was a little surprised to see that Android
eight OREO is on this device. I guess I'm not
(02:36):
too surprised because nine came out at kind of like
the worst time, the week right before they're announcing this device.
So hopefully we will see a software update to Android
nine soon on the Note nine. It would have made
a lot more sense to say the Note nine with
Android nine. That would have been nice. As for the
rest of the stuff, you get all the typical things
you get on the Samsung phone. You get that fast connection,
(02:58):
you get the payment Samsung Pay, You get all those
sensors like the accelerometer, the heart rate sensor, what else.
Authentication you get, the iris scanner, you get the fingerprint scanner,
the facial recognition, and that's gonna do it for the
main features. So you're thinking to yourself, wait a second,
there's not too many crazy new things on this device,
(03:19):
but one of the biggest things that they improved over
last year's device, the No. Eight, is the placement of
the fingerprint reader that was in a really bad place
on the Note eight. Basically the only thing I didn't
like about that device. Now the fingerprint reader is in
the right place, right underneath the dual camera setup. You
can reach it a lot easier, especially with your eyes closed,
(03:39):
especially without looking. So I think that alone is enough
to get this device. If you're holding off on the
Note eight because of the placement of that fingerprint reader,
this device fixes that. So basically I can't find anything
wrong with this device on the surface. Now let's talk
about that Spen for the first time. The Spen comes
in a color, so the one that I checked out
(04:01):
was the Ocean blue with kind of like a yellow Spen.
And then the Spen also now has Bluetooth built in.
So what does that mean. Well, you can use the
Spen up to thirty feet away from your smartphone and
it becomes basically a little remote control. It is water
and dust resistant, it'll last for thirty minutes outside of
the device. But the cool thing is if you want
(04:24):
to recharge it, you just pop it in the device
and it will get to a one hundred percent charge
in just forty seconds. So what can you do with
the spen? Where you can press and hold the button
on the Spen by default that's going to launch the camera.
You can double click the button to toggle to the
selfie camera and then one more click of the button
will actually take a picture. Now you can do whatever
you want with these buttons. You can program them to
(04:45):
do whatever you like in your apps, and developers will
have access to them as well. One other fun little
thing the spen does, since it is now in color,
when you write on the screen with that screen off memo,
it will come in a color as well. So when
I wrote with a yellow pen, the screen, the writing
was in yellow. I thought that was pretty cool. It's
a little thing, but it's kind of nice. All right. Now,
let's talk about the camera because you always want to
(05:07):
know what's improved in the camera. So the camera is
basically they didn't say it was the identical setup from
the S nine plus, but it sort of looks that way.
The main thing they've improved here is the software. So
they have this new thing which they call intelligent camera,
and what it does is when you aim the camera
at something, it will analyze that scene using an algorithm
and it can figure out twenty different scenes. Those scenes
(05:31):
include food, portraits, flowers, indoor scenes, animals, landscapes, greenery, trees,
sky mountains, beaches, sunrises, sunsets, water slides. That's very specific,
street scenes, night scenes, waterfall, snow birds, backlit scenes, and text.
So basically you don't have to fiddle with those pro controls.
(05:53):
The camera, when it sees what you're taking a picture
of on the device, will figure out what you're taking
a picture of, adjust the settings accordingly, and make your
picture look great. That is really cool. I tried this out.
I aimed it at some food and immediately I saw
the little food icon. I aimed it at a plant,
I saw a little plant icon, and Samsung says, your
picture is gonna be better. I haven't had enough hands
(06:13):
on time just yet to figure that out, but I
would hope that your pictures are gonna look better because
a lot of times you do take a picture of
a sunrise sunset. Cameras are pretty good at figuring that out.
But knowing that that's a sunrise or sunset could definitely
make your pictures look just a little bit better. One
other thing the camera does now is something called flaw detection.
So you know how when you take a picture, if
(06:34):
someone blinked or if there's a smudge on the camera,
you kind of look at the review of the picture
and then you take another one if it's messed up. Well,
now the camera is smart enough to kind of look
at your picture before you can even review it and
let you know in a little message on screen if
someone blinked, if the image is blurry, if the lens
has a little smudge on it, or if the image
is too backlit. So literally your phone before you can
(06:58):
even get to that review to look at it in
the gallery, will tell you that there's something wrong, and
that way you can take another picture instantly. You don't
have to go and look at the picture. That's kind
of a cool little feature. We'll see how it works
in real life. I tried it out just quickly at
the Samsung demo and it wasn't exactly working one hundred percent,
So we'll have to see how that works in real life.
(07:19):
So the big question how much and when the Galaxy
Note nine, Like I said, earlier is in two colors,
Ocean blue and Lavender purple. They will have unlocked versions
from Samsung, and it'll also be sold by AT and T, Sprint,
T Mobile, Verizon, and others. The one hundred twenty eight
gigabyte version will sell for nine hundred ninety nine dollars
(07:39):
and ninety nine cents, basically one thousand dollars for the
one hundred and twenty eight gigabyte version, and if you
want that five hundred and twelve gigabyte version, that will
be available for one thousand, two hundred and forty nine
dollars and ninety nine cents again, twelve hundred and fifty
dollars for that five hundred and twelve gigabyte version. Here
(08:00):
you have it a quick look at the Samsung Galaxy
Note nine and if you want to see my hands
on video with the new device, go to my website.
It is richon tech dot tv. I'm Rich Siemiro. Thanks
so much for listening. I'll talk to you real soon
Host
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