WEBVTT 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:06.399 I finished my 30-day iPhone challenge months ago so why am I still dailying 00:00:04.480 --> 00:00:10.440 this thing it's not cuz I love it it's cuz I've been waiting for this as 00:00:08.480 --> 00:00:14.240 someone who daed the Galaxy Note 9 for over 5 years I've come to appreciate 00:00:12.440 --> 00:00:18.720 Samsung's one UI as well as their inclusion of useful features like micro 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:23.359 SD expansion a headphone jack and of course an integrated stylist now some of 00:00:21.199 --> 00:00:29.720 those features have been courageously lost on the latest spiritual successor 00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:31.920 to my beloved note 9 but I do still find 00:00:29.720 --> 00:00:35.800 that Stylus is incredibly useful day to-day when marking up documents or 00:00:33.719 --> 00:00:41.079 screenshots and there are some new things that I have come to love about 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:43.160 Samsung's latest best starting of course 00:00:41.079 --> 00:00:48.559 with the screen just like last gen we get a whopping rated 2600 nits of peak 00:00:46.199 --> 00:00:53.680 brightness which our Lads testers found it was able to exceed in a 10% window 00:00:51.280 --> 00:01:00.239 and we get a second generation of corning's incredible glare reducing 00:00:56.719 --> 00:01:02.879 coating look at this this is a studio 00:01:00.239 --> 00:01:07.640 light okay let's grab my iPhone by comparison that is flipping incredible 00:01:06.119 --> 00:01:10.880 and of course it's not you know just that the iPhone is bad or whatever you 00:01:09.439 --> 00:01:16.920 take an old Android device and do the same thing and you're going to have a pretty bad time wow gamechanging how 00:01:15.280 --> 00:01:20.799 does it compare to last gen though here's an s24 ultra for comparison yeah 00:01:19.520 --> 00:01:25.040 I don't know if I'm convinced it's changed that much and honestly from our 00:01:22.960 --> 00:01:29.479 measurements it really doesn't look like it has both of these within what we'd 00:01:27.400 --> 00:01:33.680 consider to be device to device variants hit a about the same brightness and 00:01:31.520 --> 00:01:36.799 about the same overall performance which isn't to say that Samsung didn't change 00:01:35.280 --> 00:01:42.560 anything about the performance on the inside it uses the latest Snapdragon 8 00:01:39.520 --> 00:01:45.079 Elite processor a 3 nanometer chip that 00:01:42.560 --> 00:01:48.520 delivers markedly better performance compared to last gen this might be the 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:54.759 biggest generation overgeneration Improvement that we've seen in quite some time I'm talking a 10% Improvement 00:01:52.280 --> 00:01:58.680 in single-threaded performance and a 30% Improvement in multi-thread performance 00:01:56.680 --> 00:02:03.159 even in light performance mode which goes up to more like 30 36 and 38% 00:02:01.719 --> 00:02:07.399 performance Improvement if you're running in the standard performance mode 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:11.959 that's really impressive it's got 12 gigs of RAM up to a terabyte of storage 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:17.680 and feels just butter smooth with a variable refresh rate display that can 00:02:13.400 --> 00:02:20.720 do anywhere from 1 to 120 HZ man it 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:24.160 feels smooth it's a 1440p class screen 00:02:20.720 --> 00:02:25.599 specifically 3120 by 1440 so even the 00:02:24.160 --> 00:02:29.000 very eagle-eyed among you will appreciate its sharpness but it should 00:02:27.640 --> 00:02:34.560 be noted that you might not be appreciating it for as long compared to 00:02:31.760 --> 00:02:39.080 the last generation s24 Ultra we actually measured about an hour less 00:02:36.599 --> 00:02:43.159 battery life NVIDIA playback at the same screen brightness running the same 00:02:41.200 --> 00:02:47.920 video under the same conditions it's still 20 plus hours but it is something 00:02:45.920 --> 00:02:52.200 for you to watch out for and our best guess is that this comes down to the 00:02:49.959 --> 00:02:57.400 more powerful processor on board while Samsung still hasn't adopted any of the 00:02:54.560 --> 00:03:00.080 just wild High wattage charging rates that some of the Chinese phone 00:02:58.640 --> 00:03:04.200 manufacturers have we found found that it only takes a little over 70 minutes 00:03:02.080 --> 00:03:07.799 to go from zero to a full charge unfortunately the wireless charging is a 00:03:06.120 --> 00:03:12.640 bit more of a downer it supports what Samsung calls their fast wireless 00:03:09.400 --> 00:03:15.040 charging 2.0 which is limited to 15 00:03:12.640 --> 00:03:20.440 watts and while it's ready for G charging 2.1 which allows magnetic 00:03:18.120 --> 00:03:24.400 alignment just like Apple's mag safe it doesn't have the magnets for the 00:03:22.120 --> 00:03:28.760 standard so you have to get a case with the magnets in order to align with the 00:03:26.040 --> 00:03:32.640 magnetic charging thing let's try the camera the preview is definitely 00:03:30.760 --> 00:03:39.760 oversharpened let's see how the final image looks damn that's a lot of 00:03:34.840 --> 00:03:42.599 resolution 50 megapixel Ultra wide 200 00:03:39.760 --> 00:03:49.000 megapixel wide 50 megapixels on the Tet 2 lens and 10 megapixels on the Tet 1 00:03:44.959 --> 00:03:51.439 lens that is flipping wild that is 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:55.879 definitely a more pleasing Zoom even on the 00:03:52.959 --> 00:04:01.439 plus whoops yeah that color way better yeah skin tone too but hold on hold on 00:03:58.720 --> 00:04:06.799 if you're coming from an old note huh yeah okay okay there's some generation 00:04:03.879 --> 00:04:11.400 overgeneration Improvement there HH dude those skin tones though that is not what 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:14.239 this man looks like I don't know we can play around with the telephoto let's 00:04:12.640 --> 00:04:18.239 play around with the telephoto all right how does it nail the skin tones now 00:04:16.799 --> 00:04:23.320 sorry the top down doesn't look very good I've got the brightness up too high for you right now hold on hold on too 00:04:21.359 --> 00:04:28.120 bright you shine too bright Mr bellance that's way better what the crap it's 00:04:25.919 --> 00:04:31.720 almost like there's tradeoffs for everything look at this 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:38.759 hot actual garbage so your mileage may 00:04:35.960 --> 00:04:42.880 vary ladies and gentlemen I am not a fan of how every phone is just like a 00:04:40.440 --> 00:04:47.080 squared off brick these days I picked up my old iPhone 6s the other day cuz I was 00:04:45.479 --> 00:04:51.960 thinking of taking it with me on a trip just like loading some media on it having like a beater phone with a 00:04:49.919 --> 00:04:57.600 headphone jack that I don't care about and I picked it up and I was like damn 00:04:54.440 --> 00:05:00.320 phones used to be so light and thin and 00:04:57.600 --> 00:05:04.759 pocketable and it's like like you can you can hear it like you can hear the 00:05:02.440 --> 00:05:08.800 sound when this thing falls down uh on the right we've got the volume rocker as 00:05:06.759 --> 00:05:12.919 well as our lock button on the left we got nothing as it should be so you have 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:17.160 a surface to brace yourself against on the top we've got I don't know noise 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:24.160 cancelling microphones and then on the bottom we've got our USBC Port SIM tray 00:05:19.680 --> 00:05:26.560 as well as our stylus that like what a 00:05:24.160 --> 00:05:30.759 weird cost-saving measure no longer includes bluetooth support I used the 00:05:28.759 --> 00:05:35.840 remote shutter feature on this thing all the flipping time it is awesome because 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:39.960 what it allows you to do is if you're you know able to get good instead of 00:05:38.199 --> 00:05:44.319 using your selfie camera which is particularly bad on a phone this old I 00:05:42.240 --> 00:05:48.800 can use my rear camera and take a little picture it's freaking awesome that's the 00:05:46.880 --> 00:05:51.960 only thing that I cared about Bluetooth for but I don't know what because 00:05:50.440 --> 00:05:57.360 Samsung doesn't advertise the feature enough and not that many people use it they just rip it out of the phone by 00:05:54.639 --> 00:06:02.720 default is it at least generation over generation compatible I don't think so 00:05:59.720 --> 00:06:04.440 no look at this they are ever so 00:06:02.720 --> 00:06:09.560 slightly a different length there's a bunch of AI stuff you can hold the power 00:06:06.639 --> 00:06:12.280 button to have Gemini do stuff open the camera and take a 00:06:13.599 --> 00:06:18.639 selfie oh I actually was not expecting 00:06:17.039 --> 00:06:22.440 that to do anything open up a note taking 00:06:20.479 --> 00:06:26.280 app what if I don't know what my note taking app is called Samsung Notes oh we 00:06:24.599 --> 00:06:29.880 haven't talked about gaming performance this thing performs like a hot Dam even 00:06:28.440 --> 00:06:34.479 once it reaches steady state it absolutely crushes the last generation 00:06:32.120 --> 00:06:37.000 as well as the pixel 9 Pro we did find a weird issue by the way I probably should 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:41.400 have mentioned this when we were talking about the screen if you like auto 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:45.680 brightness no problem this thing will do over 2,000 nits and it'll just adjust to 00:06:43.960 --> 00:06:50.440 whatever is going on in your daily life if you don't like auto brightness though 00:06:47.919 --> 00:06:55.800 in SDR it'll only go as high as around 450 nits they do have like an extra 00:06:53.720 --> 00:06:59.919 brightness toggle that you can put on but that still only gets up to around 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:05.560 850 so you're not really taking advantage of the entire capability of 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:09.800 this display I have waited so patiently Samsung for you to give me a successor 00:07:08.080 --> 00:07:13.800 to this something with handsfree unlocking this one had an iris scanner 00:07:12.160 --> 00:07:18.160 gone so now I just get the unders screen fingerprint scanner or I have to use the 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:20.560 camera no Bullet Hole or notch in the 00:07:18.160 --> 00:07:25.960 display expandable storage headphone jack like what I really want is for Sony 00:07:23.080 --> 00:07:29.680 to fix the ability to swap the multitask and the back button I would just use an 00:07:27.960 --> 00:07:33.400 xeria so that I could have my headphone Jack but as it is they don't do that and 00:07:31.759 --> 00:07:38.160 as a right-handed person who likes to press back here and not across and risk 00:07:35.919 --> 00:07:42.400 dropping my phone it's just simply not an option and yes I'm aware that 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:47.240 gestures exist I just daed a phone with gesture control for like 3 months I 00:07:44.720 --> 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