1
00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:07,759
this is a look at my morning with the samsung galaxy s9

2
00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:12,080
i wake up very good time am i always on OLED

3
00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:18,560
display and hit the snooze button

4
00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:21,039
just like i did with my s8

5
00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:26,480
i eat breakfast and read the news silently appreciating the tall 18 and a

6
00:00:23,519 --> 00:00:31,119
half by nine aspect ratio just left by good with my ass right

7
00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:35,280
i grabbed my keys and jacket and asked bixby what my schedule for the

8
00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:40,559
day oh man no no i'm just kidding about that

9
00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:45,600
last one but but but seriously as someone who legitimately loves the

10
00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:52,640
galaxy s8 what exactly do the s9 and the s9 plus

11
00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:56,320
apparent carbon copies of the last gen

12
00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:58,399
really change and does any of it matter

13
00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:02,879
let's find out after i tell you today's video is

14
00:00:59,920 --> 00:01:08,560
brought to you by zotac zotac's mech 1 gaming pc is an ultra slim desktop pc

15
00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:11,960
featuring a sleek robotic style design check it out at the link below to learn

16
00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:20,640
more

17
00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:23,280
okay so

18
00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:31,600
here are the improvements to the s9 family on paper

19
00:01:28,799 --> 00:01:35,680
you get a faster octocore processor of the snapdragon or exynos variety

20
00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:41,280
depending on your region some more memory but only on the plus a brighter

21
00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:45,439
screen a bump to maximum cellular data rates and a camera with two yes two

22
00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:53,040
aperture sizes and then all of this other stuff is

23
00:01:50,399 --> 00:01:58,880
basically the same with some of it like thickness appearing to get worse

24
00:01:56,320 --> 00:02:04,799
so this means by my calculations here the days of

25
00:02:02,159 --> 00:02:09,039
big generational improvements to cell phones

26
00:02:05,759 --> 00:02:11,760
these are officially over however

27
00:02:09,039 --> 00:02:18,239
unlike a lot of the tech press i am not going to crucify samsung over

28
00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:20,959
this the s8 and the s8 plus are a year

29
00:02:18,239 --> 00:02:24,640
old now and still competitive with much newer devices like

30
00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:30,560
the 5t from no longer that budget brand oneplus even

31
00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:35,519
if the pixel 2 and the iphone 10 have edged them out in dxomark and besides

32
00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:39,440
while the improvements are small a lot of them are pretty meaningful

33
00:02:37,920 --> 00:02:45,200
so in order of importance to me personally one the audio setup is great

34
00:02:43,599 --> 00:02:50,480
and i'm sure there are discerning audiophiles out there who take exception

35
00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:52,000
to samsung's choice of dac but as far as

36
00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:56,879
i'm concerned the retention of the headphone jack at all and the inclusion

37
00:02:54,879 --> 00:03:02,640
of an amplified earphone speaker that gives me stereo sound on the better than

38
00:02:59,519 --> 00:03:05,280
ever OLED super wide display make the s9

39
00:03:02,640 --> 00:03:10,560
and especially the plus variant the ideal movie watching phones period

40
00:03:08,239 --> 00:03:14,400
second and this is a close second is the camera even if

41
00:03:12,239 --> 00:03:20,560
in practical terms the difference between f 1.5 and f 2.4 physical

42
00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:25,040
apertures is less than it sounds like

43
00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:31,040
with how wide the main shooter's lens is you're not gonna suddenly see like a

44
00:03:27,920 --> 00:03:33,040
huge difference in true boca past you

45
00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:39,280
know six inches away like you would on a real dslr you're still relying on

46
00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:41,840
software selective focus on the s9 and

47
00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:47,680
dual capture with processing on the s9 plus which is better than this one but

48
00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:48,640
still has issues with that said it is

49
00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:55,200
still more than a full stop meaning that at

50
00:03:51,519 --> 00:03:58,239
1.5 a lot more light hits the sensor

51
00:03:55,200 --> 00:04:00,720
physically while at 2.4 the image should

52
00:03:58,239 --> 00:04:07,360
be sharper letting samsung in theory have their cake and eat it too

53
00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:10,879
now subjectively the pixel 2 xl's color processing looks more true to life to me

54
00:04:09,599 --> 00:04:15,439
here here here here and

55
00:04:12,959 --> 00:04:18,720
well in most situations but

56
00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:23,520
this is a characteristic of the samsung camera experience that i've mostly come

57
00:04:20,799 --> 00:04:30,000
to accept especially if i get something worthwhile back in exchange and i do

58
00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:34,400
this challenging high contrast shot in direct sunlight reveals that one

59
00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:40,240
modern phone cameras are getting really good across the board and two that when

60
00:04:37,199 --> 00:04:42,160
we do pixel peep the s9 whether you love

61
00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:47,199
or hate their more aggressive sharpening filter captures more detail

62
00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:52,240
and in this shot of my cat sleeping next to me in bed the iphone 10 holds up

63
00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:58,000
reasonably well but the pixel 2 gets curb stomped i mean for some of you this

64
00:04:55,280 --> 00:05:03,120
is probably a meaningless edge case but i'm not a wannabe photographer i just

65
00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:07,680
like capturing cute pictures when i'm spending time with my kids and because i

66
00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:13,440
live in raincover six months out of the year that takes place inside my house a

67
00:05:11,039 --> 00:05:18,400
perpetually dim environment thanks to my dark floors so it makes a really big

68
00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:23,199
difference to me moving on to the fingerprint sensor location this never

69
00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:30,160
really bothered me on the s8 however on the s8 plus and on the note 8

70
00:05:27,280 --> 00:05:37,120
next to the camera up there is basically unusable with my small hands so the s9

71
00:05:33,759 --> 00:05:39,520
plus is an enormous improvement

72
00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:44,479
then the last big one for me is the structural changes that samsung has made

73
00:05:41,919 --> 00:05:50,160
under the hood the new phones are made of more durable aluminum with thicker

74
00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:53,199
glass giving them spectacular rigidity

75
00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:54,960
other than a dbrand skin i prefer no

76
00:05:53,199 --> 00:05:58,639
protection and so it's comforting to know that my chances of surviving a drop

77
00:05:57,280 --> 00:06:03,360
are better but some trade-offs were made here the

78
00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:09,280
increase in weight won't be noticeable to any but the

79
00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:12,319
daintiest users but in spite of a

80
00:06:09,280 --> 00:06:13,759
thickness jump the battery capacity of

81
00:06:12,319 --> 00:06:18,960
both models is unchanged from last year now samsung

82
00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:24,800
has been quoted as saying that their eight-point battery check will give the

83
00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:27,520
s9 family 95 of their day one battery

84
00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:31,280
life after two years and if that holds true then that's swell

85
00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:36,720
or not as it were but as a heavy user the

86
00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:42,000
s8 had middling battery life from the get-go once all my stuff was installed

87
00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:43,520
so i'm on the pixel 2 xl my galaxy s8

88
00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:46,960
something i have installed on it is making the battery drain really fast i

89
00:06:45,199 --> 00:06:51,840
haven't had the time to deal with it as much as i loved the form factor i just

90
00:06:49,840 --> 00:06:55,199
couldn't keep using it so

91
00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:58,479
my new daily driver is going to have to be the s9 plus then

92
00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:04,880
and that's about it pretty much every other complaint that i

93
00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:09,599
have about this phone is either in software or has a simple solution like

94
00:07:07,840 --> 00:07:14,400
the bixby button nothing personal against bixby she can actually do some

95
00:07:11,919 --> 00:07:18,560
really cool stuff that it baffles me that google assistant and siri can't do

96
00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:22,000
you can actually do much more advanced things like this go to the home screen

97
00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:27,360
boom but the placement of this button

98
00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:31,599
directly opposite the lock button was and still is an ergonomic disaster

99
00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:36,160
however samsung supports disabling it outright

100
00:07:33,919 --> 00:07:41,919
and you can use third-party software to remap it now intelligent scan where the

101
00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:44,000
phone chooses iris or facial recognition

102
00:07:41,919 --> 00:07:46,960
depending on the scenario isn't as consistent as face id

103
00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:52,319
but it doesn't have to be because they

104
00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:54,080
didn't pull off the fingerprint reader

105
00:07:52,319 --> 00:07:59,120
you can just use whatever you want which

106
00:07:55,759 --> 00:08:03,520
honestly for me is like okay look here

107
00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:08,000
did you know that the s9 has nine yes

108
00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:10,400
nine different ways to take a selfie

109
00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:15,840
now most of them are weird gimmicks that i never used and neither will you

110
00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:20,080
but i guess that's the samsung experience in a nutshell

111
00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:22,879
packed full of features some of which are seemingly random like

112
00:08:21,759 --> 00:08:26,720
do you guys remember that thing they were doing where the screen would scroll

113
00:08:24,879 --> 00:08:31,520
with your eyes and then this year's half-baked

114
00:08:28,639 --> 00:08:35,200
inclusion is a crude rip-off of animojis but but with lots of things that are

115
00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:39,279
great panorama selfies so that i can fit all

116
00:08:37,599 --> 00:08:43,760
of my friends in the frame awesome faster fingerprint registration

117
00:08:41,919 --> 00:08:48,560
with a swipe well it doesn't come up very often but heck yeah landscape mode

118
00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:52,399
on the home screen like a tablet why did that take so long

119
00:08:50,399 --> 00:08:57,760
launching two apps and split screen from a single button sure why not

120
00:08:56,160 --> 00:09:02,240
well okay actually i can think of one reason why not so that you could have

121
00:08:59,839 --> 00:09:05,920
your software team spending more time maintaining the latest software on your

122
00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:12,640
existing devices instead of creating fluff that no one

123
00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:15,600
asked for the s7 is still in the testing

124
00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:20,839
phase for Android 8.0 oreo just one year ago that was samsung's

125
00:09:19,519 --> 00:09:24,480
flagship phone think about that

126
00:09:23,680 --> 00:09:30,320
so the s9 looks solid especially at the

127
00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:35,120
unlocked price and the s9 plus gets a straight up recommendation to buy i

128
00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:37,360
would take it over the more expensive no date for sure

129
00:09:36,560 --> 00:09:42,959
but with the caveat that until samsung makes

130
00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:45,279
a real commitment to support at the very

131
00:09:42,959 --> 00:09:47,680
least its flagship devices the way that apple does

132
00:09:46,399 --> 00:09:52,320
i can only unequivocally recommend them to people

133
00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:56,959
who upgrade every couple of years and they're never going to truly stand

134
00:09:54,560 --> 00:10:01,920
out from other Android manufacturers until they address this which

135
00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:07,360
given the way that they're catching up in key areas like camera image quality

136
00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:11,600
means that samsung you guys got to be paying attention because the window is

137
00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:15,760
closing on finding a new way to differentiate

138
00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:20,320
speaking of differentiating want to differentiate your phone with an awesome

139
00:10:17,680 --> 00:10:24,399
dbrand skin dbrand is your source for awesome vinyl skins available for

140
00:10:22,079 --> 00:10:28,880
laptops phones tablets consoles controllers and more they use high

141
00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:34,000
quality authentic true textured 3m vinyl on every product they feature unrivaled

142
00:10:31,279 --> 00:10:37,920
precision a measure many times cut once philosophy means that the factory fit

143
00:10:35,839 --> 00:10:42,000
for your product will be perfect and not only do dbrand skins look great they

144
00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:46,480
protect against damage and scratches too their customer service robots are easy

145
00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:50,959
to work with and their fantastic product selector lets you see exactly what your

146
00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:54,079
product will look like before you order they're affordable they ship worldwide

147
00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:57,120
and you can check them out at the link below

148
00:10:55,760 --> 00:11:00,959
so thanks for watching guys if this video sucked you know what to do but if

149
00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:04,320
it was awesome get subscribed hit that like button let us know in the comments

150
00:11:02,959 --> 00:11:07,600
what you think of this slightly different format or if you even noticed

151
00:11:06,560 --> 00:11:10,959
check out the link to where to buy the stuff we featured in the video description also link down there is our

152
00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:17,120
merch tour which has cool shirts like this one and our community forum which you should totally join

153
00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:20,640
kind of messed up my outro there that's okay

154
00:11:19,279 --> 00:11:24,240
i don't think anyone cares does anyone still watching at this point

155
00:11:22,959 --> 00:11:29,680
okay feel good

156
00:11:26,079 --> 00:11:29,680
so we still have the green screen and