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this is a look at my morning with the samsung galaxy s9

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i wake up very good time am i always on OLED

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display and hit the snooze button

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just like i did with my s8

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i eat breakfast and read the news silently appreciating the tall 18 and a

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half by nine aspect ratio just left by good with my ass right

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i grabbed my keys and jacket and asked bixby what my schedule for the

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day oh man no no i'm just kidding about that

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last one but but but seriously as someone who legitimately loves the

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galaxy s8 what exactly do the s9 and the s9 plus

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apparent carbon copies of the last gen

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really change and does any of it matter

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okay so

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here are the improvements to the s9 family on paper

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you get a faster octocore processor of the snapdragon or exynos variety

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depending on your region some more memory but only on the plus a brighter

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screen a bump to maximum cellular data rates and a camera with two yes two

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aperture sizes and then all of this other stuff is

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basically the same with some of it like thickness appearing to get worse

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so this means by my calculations here the days of

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big generational improvements to cell phones

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these are officially over however

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unlike a lot of the tech press i am not going to crucify samsung over

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this the s8 and the s8 plus are a year

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old now and still competitive with much newer devices like

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the 5t from no longer that budget brand oneplus even

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if the pixel 2 and the iphone 10 have edged them out in dxomark and besides

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while the improvements are small a lot of them are pretty meaningful

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so in order of importance to me personally one the audio setup is great

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and i'm sure there are discerning audiophiles out there who take exception

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to samsung's choice of dac but as far as

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i'm concerned the retention of the headphone jack at all and the inclusion

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of an amplified earphone speaker that gives me stereo sound on the better than

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ever OLED super wide display make the s9

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and especially the plus variant the ideal movie watching phones period

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second and this is a close second is the camera even if

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in practical terms the difference between f 1.5 and f 2.4 physical

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apertures is less than it sounds like

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with how wide the main shooter's lens is you're not gonna suddenly see like a

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huge difference in true boca past you

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know six inches away like you would on a real dslr you're still relying on

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software selective focus on the s9 and

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dual capture with processing on the s9 plus which is better than this one but

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still has issues with that said it is

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still more than a full stop meaning that at

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1.5 a lot more light hits the sensor

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physically while at 2.4 the image should

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be sharper letting samsung in theory have their cake and eat it too

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now subjectively the pixel 2 xl's color processing looks more true to life to me

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here here here here and

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well in most situations but

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this is a characteristic of the samsung camera experience that i've mostly come

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to accept especially if i get something worthwhile back in exchange and i do

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this challenging high contrast shot in direct sunlight reveals that one

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modern phone cameras are getting really good across the board and two that when

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we do pixel peep the s9 whether you love

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or hate their more aggressive sharpening filter captures more detail

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and in this shot of my cat sleeping next to me in bed the iphone 10 holds up

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reasonably well but the pixel 2 gets curb stomped i mean for some of you this

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is probably a meaningless edge case but i'm not a wannabe photographer i just

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like capturing cute pictures when i'm spending time with my kids and because i

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live in raincover six months out of the year that takes place inside my house a

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perpetually dim environment thanks to my dark floors so it makes a really big

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difference to me moving on to the fingerprint sensor location this never

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really bothered me on the s8 however on the s8 plus and on the note 8

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next to the camera up there is basically unusable with my small hands so the s9

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plus is an enormous improvement

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then the last big one for me is the structural changes that samsung has made

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under the hood the new phones are made of more durable aluminum with thicker

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glass giving them spectacular rigidity

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other than a dbrand skin i prefer no

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protection and so it's comforting to know that my chances of surviving a drop

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are better but some trade-offs were made here the

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increase in weight won't be noticeable to any but the

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daintiest users but in spite of a

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thickness jump the battery capacity of

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both models is unchanged from last year now samsung

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has been quoted as saying that their eight-point battery check will give the

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s9 family 95 of their day one battery

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life after two years and if that holds true then that's swell

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or not as it were but as a heavy user the

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s8 had middling battery life from the get-go once all my stuff was installed

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so i'm on the pixel 2 xl my galaxy s8

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something i have installed on it is making the battery drain really fast i

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haven't had the time to deal with it as much as i loved the form factor i just

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couldn't keep using it so

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my new daily driver is going to have to be the s9 plus then

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and that's about it pretty much every other complaint that i

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have about this phone is either in software or has a simple solution like

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the bixby button nothing personal against bixby she can actually do some

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really cool stuff that it baffles me that google assistant and siri can't do

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you can actually do much more advanced things like this go to the home screen

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boom but the placement of this button

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directly opposite the lock button was and still is an ergonomic disaster

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however samsung supports disabling it outright

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and you can use third-party software to remap it now intelligent scan where the

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phone chooses iris or facial recognition

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depending on the scenario isn't as consistent as face id

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but it doesn't have to be because they

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didn't pull off the fingerprint reader

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you can just use whatever you want which

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honestly for me is like okay look here

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did you know that the s9 has nine yes

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nine different ways to take a selfie

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now most of them are weird gimmicks that i never used and neither will you

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but i guess that's the samsung experience in a nutshell

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packed full of features some of which are seemingly random like

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do you guys remember that thing they were doing where the screen would scroll

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with your eyes and then this year's half-baked

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inclusion is a crude rip-off of animojis but but with lots of things that are

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great panorama selfies so that i can fit all

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of my friends in the frame awesome faster fingerprint registration

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with a swipe well it doesn't come up very often but heck yeah landscape mode

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on the home screen like a tablet why did that take so long

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launching two apps and split screen from a single button sure why not

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well okay actually i can think of one reason why not so that you could have

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your software team spending more time maintaining the latest software on your

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existing devices instead of creating fluff that no one

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asked for the s7 is still in the testing

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phase for Android 8.0 oreo just one year ago that was samsung's

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flagship phone think about that

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so the s9 looks solid especially at the

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unlocked price and the s9 plus gets a straight up recommendation to buy i

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would take it over the more expensive no date for sure

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but with the caveat that until samsung makes

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a real commitment to support at the very

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least its flagship devices the way that apple does

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i can only unequivocally recommend them to people

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who upgrade every couple of years and they're never going to truly stand

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out from other Android manufacturers until they address this which

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given the way that they're catching up in key areas like camera image quality

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means that samsung you guys got to be paying attention because the window is

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