this has been hands down the worst work trip i've ever been on i lost my
luggage we lost all the footage from a previous trip so instead of going home i am
actually going to be going to ottawa after this and then we tried to stream our galaxy
note 9 coverage from here at unpack 2018 for 45 minutes before finally giving up
but at least there's a bright spot and the bright spot
is that the galaxy note 9 may very well be the sexiest phone we
have ever seen in fact not just may very well be look
if i pull out the black one i think you've got a perfect reflection
of brandon in there making this officially the sexiest phone
ever right right thumbs up for brandon sexy please
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so i had a whole bunch of plans you know
best laid plans of mice and men we were gonna do the whole thing live i had this
i had this whole joke where i was gonna do like our whole our old intro and i
was gonna i was gonna hold it up for for the camera oh look look it's the Linus
tech tips intro lol you know what we're going to do it anyway
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to do with Linus tech tips anymore okay
so the whole keynote started with a lot of very bold claims in grand dewey's
messaging seek a life fulfilled with purpose and
motivated to do more and the kinds of people who they imagine a no customer
would be but of course all that does is set very high
expectations for someone like me of this device and they've actually managed to
do an incredible job of living up to most of it so specs run down it's got a
6.4 inch display and the first thing i noticed about it once i got my hands on
it was that it's actually got a slightly
by the look of things slightly wider bezel
than the previous s9 plus and i actually
am fully supportive of this change because i do find that every so
occasionally i'll have difficulty pressing something especially when i'm
reaching across the screen and i end up interfering with my button presses when
i'm trying to type it's got a 10 nanometer octa-core
processor this was actually very telling one of the most interesting moments of
the keynote for me was at the very end when their uh smartphone division head i
forget what his actual exact title is it's something along the lines of
every year we work to make the note the most
powerful most amazing smartphone ever it's not easy every year frankly
speaking and then he kind of laughed and it
unlike the entire rest of the presentation really sounded genuine and
he goes it's not easy
and it really is a great point because you can't just keep stuffing better and
better specs into a phone every time so it's got an octa-core processor which
depending on which region you're in might actually mean something different
so i've got my review device here which i have already started to load apps on
and of course the first thing was CPU zed so it's going to be some combination
of dual sourced snapdragon 845 processors and some variant of exynos
probably the same thing from the s9 and the s9 plus you can see that the
snapdragon is the one that turbo's up to 2.8 and i think the other one maxes out
at 2.7 so they're even listing separate frequencies for the different products
depending on which capacity you get i believe these are all 128 gig versions
you'll get either six or eight gigs of RAM they're all ip68 water and dust
resistant i refuse to call it waterproof they've all got fast wireless charging 4
000 milliamp hour batteries this is another huge change i was not that
impressed with the note 8 and one of the things that i complained about was that
i felt like samsung was being really conservative with the battery capacity
of it on the heels of the note 7 fire
fiasco gone is that strategy so they've brought
their multi-point battery inspection process to a higher capacity 4 000
milliamp hour that is a great they're messaging it as
an all-day battery and i actually believe it
physically there's not going to be a lot of surprises here i actually really love
the color choices this year so they've got this they're calling it copper to me
it's more of like a bronzy type color really like this one they've got purple
making a return they're calling it lilac or something along those lines i like
the s9 plus purple a little bit better but this one's pretty smexy too they've
got a blue and then of course they've got a more traditional black and most of
them have matching s pen colors but the blue one gets this really bold yellow
color one of the things that stood out to me about all of the color choices
this year is that samsung really has their own identity for colors now they
have not piggybacked on anything that apple's doing there's no gold there's no
red everything here is uniquely samsung one of the other big physical changes is
the movement of the fingerprint sensor so we've got tons of different options
for biometric security once again fingerprint sensor at the back facial
reader in the forward-facing camera as well as their iris scanner and these two
you can put together for what they're calling intelligent scan they spent a
lot more time talking about their vast ecosystem of other products including
mentioning things like refrigerators as they work towards sort of building a
more connected world one of the more connected things that i saw demoed on
stage was decks so dex has gone from being this sort of uh weird feature that
doesn't make a ton of sense to me because you have to buy this extra accessory to something that looks very
seamless so now all you need is a usb type-c to HDMI adapter and boom you plug
that into a display and presumably you can connect a keyboard and mouse via
bluetooth though they didn't demo that they demoed using the note 9 as a
touchpad that's it that's all it takes to get a
desktop experience now Android still isn't a great desktop or laptop
experience this was particularly clear when razer was showing off their concept
for a phone that kind of slotted into a laptop shell
but with some work and it does seem like we're going the right direction that
could be a great way to take your work with you on the go
of course one of the big things they were talking about ooh yes yes this is
exciting was how much work you can take with you on
the go or how much stuff so with the 512
gig version which is going to be 1249 us and then
it's uh 9.99 oops that's the wrong thing 9.99 u.s for the 128 gig version
they are saying that you can have up to a hundred
whoa there it goes you can have up to one terabyte of capacity in a phone well
i say why wait because samsung was saying well you know you got to wait for
samsung's 512 gig micro sd not me
i have the integral 128 gig micro sd so we're going to do it
first just for lols
i actually don't even know if this is a 512 gig phone
oh look at that it's got a sim in it yes
you saw it here first my friends that is assuming that i can get this in
here
512 gigs of microsd going into a note 9.
i gotta remember to take that with me that thing's like four hundred dollars
tab here to transfer media files boom just like that it comes up
absolutely gorgeous get more space yeah right as if i need it last thing i
really want to spend some time on is the s pen the s pen is something that i've
always looked at as a really cool feature that i'm not likely to use but
that all changes this time so somehow without changing the form factor at
least to my eye i don't have a note 8 on me today they have managed to cram
wireless charging bluetooth and a battery into this thing so now you can
use it as remote capture for taking selfies you can use it to advance a
powerpoint presentation and they are even opening up the sdk i think very
soon they didn't actually give a timeline on it but they're going to make the sdk available to everyone so it'll
be up to app developers how they want to use this and i'm assuming it was by
clicking and double clicking but they were even able to go forward and backward within powerpoint that is
absolutely fantastic it charges in a minute lasts for 90 minutes and still
has all the regular s pen functionality that you would expect passively without
the battery on board being charged so this is a potential game changer for
someone who is a reluctant s penner like me
the speakers are stereo now so that's fantastic and they are akg but
it always becomes a little bit less meaningful when someone like samsung
says yeah they're akj speakers but then they ran out and they acquired harman
which is the parent company of akg last year so it probably wasn't that hard to
get the certification and i think that's pretty much it they
didn't say much about performance specifically other than that it's got a water carbon cooling system which is
probably fancy branding for a heat pipe
and oh yeah right they announced the galaxy
watch which i wasn't going to review but now i feel
like i really need to get my hands on this thing is absolutely gorgeous it's
got lte connectivity just like apple's latest generation watch they say it
lasts for three days on battery which is a huge boon for someone like me who's
been whining about watches not having a
either always on displays or b good batteries since they pretty much
showed up on the market so let me know in the comments below if you'd like to
see a dedicated video on that also they did a bixby smart speaker which
sure let me know if you want to see that too so thanks for putting up with our
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