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this has been hands down the worst work trip i've ever been on i lost my

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luggage we lost all the footage from a previous trip so instead of going home i am

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actually going to be going to ottawa after this and then we tried to stream our galaxy

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note 9 coverage from here at unpack 2018 for 45 minutes before finally giving up

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but at least there's a bright spot and the bright spot

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is that the galaxy note 9 may very well be the sexiest phone we

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have ever seen in fact not just may very well be look

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if i pull out the black one i think you've got a perfect reflection

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of brandon in there making this officially the sexiest phone

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ever right right thumbs up for brandon sexy please

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so i had a whole bunch of plans you know

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best laid plans of mice and men we were gonna do the whole thing live i had this

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i had this whole joke where i was gonna do like our whole our old intro and i

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was gonna i was gonna hold it up for for the camera oh look look it's the Linus

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tech tips intro lol you know what we're going to do it anyway

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brought to you by no not ncix ignore the man behind the curtain ncix has nothing

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to do with Linus tech tips anymore okay

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so the whole keynote started with a lot of very bold claims in grand dewey's

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messaging seek a life fulfilled with purpose and

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motivated to do more and the kinds of people who they imagine a no customer

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would be but of course all that does is set very high

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expectations for someone like me of this device and they've actually managed to

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do an incredible job of living up to most of it so specs run down it's got a

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6.4 inch display and the first thing i noticed about it once i got my hands on

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it was that it's actually got a slightly

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by the look of things slightly wider bezel

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than the previous s9 plus and i actually

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am fully supportive of this change because i do find that every so

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occasionally i'll have difficulty pressing something especially when i'm

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reaching across the screen and i end up interfering with my button presses when

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i'm trying to type it's got a 10 nanometer octa-core

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processor this was actually very telling one of the most interesting moments of

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the keynote for me was at the very end when their uh smartphone division head i

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forget what his actual exact title is it's something along the lines of

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every year we work to make the note the most

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powerful most amazing smartphone ever it's not easy every year frankly

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speaking and then he kind of laughed and it

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unlike the entire rest of the presentation really sounded genuine and

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he goes it's not easy

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and it really is a great point because you can't just keep stuffing better and

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better specs into a phone every time so it's got an octa-core processor which

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depending on which region you're in might actually mean something different

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so i've got my review device here which i have already started to load apps on

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and of course the first thing was CPU zed so it's going to be some combination

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of dual sourced snapdragon 845 processors and some variant of exynos

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probably the same thing from the s9 and the s9 plus you can see that the

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snapdragon is the one that turbo's up to 2.8 and i think the other one maxes out

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at 2.7 so they're even listing separate frequencies for the different products

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depending on which capacity you get i believe these are all 128 gig versions

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you'll get either six or eight gigs of RAM they're all ip68 water and dust

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resistant i refuse to call it waterproof they've all got fast wireless charging 4

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000 milliamp hour batteries this is another huge change i was not that

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impressed with the note 8 and one of the things that i complained about was that

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i felt like samsung was being really conservative with the battery capacity

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of it on the heels of the note 7 fire

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fiasco gone is that strategy so they've brought

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their multi-point battery inspection process to a higher capacity 4 000

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milliamp hour that is a great they're messaging it as

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an all-day battery and i actually believe it

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physically there's not going to be a lot of surprises here i actually really love

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the color choices this year so they've got this they're calling it copper to me

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it's more of like a bronzy type color really like this one they've got purple

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making a return they're calling it lilac or something along those lines i like

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the s9 plus purple a little bit better but this one's pretty smexy too they've

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got a blue and then of course they've got a more traditional black and most of

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them have matching s pen colors but the blue one gets this really bold yellow

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color one of the things that stood out to me about all of the color choices

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this year is that samsung really has their own identity for colors now they

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have not piggybacked on anything that apple's doing there's no gold there's no

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red everything here is uniquely samsung one of the other big physical changes is

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the movement of the fingerprint sensor so we've got tons of different options

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for biometric security once again fingerprint sensor at the back facial

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reader in the forward-facing camera as well as their iris scanner and these two

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you can put together for what they're calling intelligent scan they spent a

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lot more time talking about their vast ecosystem of other products including

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mentioning things like refrigerators as they work towards sort of building a

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more connected world one of the more connected things that i saw demoed on

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stage was decks so dex has gone from being this sort of uh weird feature that

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doesn't make a ton of sense to me because you have to buy this extra accessory to something that looks very

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seamless so now all you need is a usb type-c to HDMI adapter and boom you plug

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that into a display and presumably you can connect a keyboard and mouse via

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bluetooth though they didn't demo that they demoed using the note 9 as a

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touchpad that's it that's all it takes to get a

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desktop experience now Android still isn't a great desktop or laptop

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experience this was particularly clear when razer was showing off their concept

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for a phone that kind of slotted into a laptop shell

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but with some work and it does seem like we're going the right direction that

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could be a great way to take your work with you on the go

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of course one of the big things they were talking about ooh yes yes this is

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exciting was how much work you can take with you on

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the go or how much stuff so with the 512

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gig version which is going to be 1249 us and then

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it's uh 9.99 oops that's the wrong thing 9.99 u.s for the 128 gig version

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they are saying that you can have up to a hundred

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whoa there it goes you can have up to one terabyte of capacity in a phone well

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i say why wait because samsung was saying well you know you got to wait for

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samsung's 512 gig micro sd not me

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i have the integral 128 gig micro sd so we're going to do it

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first just for lols

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i actually don't even know if this is a 512 gig phone

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oh look at that it's got a sim in it yes

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you saw it here first my friends that is assuming that i can get this in

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here

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512 gigs of microsd going into a note 9.

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i gotta remember to take that with me that thing's like four hundred dollars

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tab here to transfer media files boom just like that it comes up

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absolutely gorgeous get more space yeah right as if i need it last thing i

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really want to spend some time on is the s pen the s pen is something that i've

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always looked at as a really cool feature that i'm not likely to use but

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that all changes this time so somehow without changing the form factor at

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least to my eye i don't have a note 8 on me today they have managed to cram

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wireless charging bluetooth and a battery into this thing so now you can

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use it as remote capture for taking selfies you can use it to advance a

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powerpoint presentation and they are even opening up the sdk i think very

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soon they didn't actually give a timeline on it but they're going to make the sdk available to everyone so it'll

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be up to app developers how they want to use this and i'm assuming it was by

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clicking and double clicking but they were even able to go forward and backward within powerpoint that is

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absolutely fantastic it charges in a minute lasts for 90 minutes and still

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has all the regular s pen functionality that you would expect passively without

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the battery on board being charged so this is a potential game changer for

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someone who is a reluctant s penner like me

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the speakers are stereo now so that's fantastic and they are akg but

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it always becomes a little bit less meaningful when someone like samsung

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says yeah they're akj speakers but then they ran out and they acquired harman

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which is the parent company of akg last year so it probably wasn't that hard to

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get the certification and i think that's pretty much it they

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didn't say much about performance specifically other than that it's got a water carbon cooling system which is

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probably fancy branding for a heat pipe

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and oh yeah right they announced the galaxy

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watch which i wasn't going to review but now i feel

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like i really need to get my hands on this thing is absolutely gorgeous it's

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got lte connectivity just like apple's latest generation watch they say it

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lasts for three days on battery which is a huge boon for someone like me who's

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been whining about watches not having a

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either always on displays or b good batteries since they pretty much

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showed up on the market so let me know in the comments below if you'd like to

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see a dedicated video on that also they did a bixby smart speaker which

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sure let me know if you want to see that too so thanks for putting up with our

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