Samsung Galaxy Note 9

[Jetcat3]

Actually, DisplayMate gave credit to Samsung first for developing and manufacturing the OLED display. Take a pause for a second. Can you imagine if a company in China took the iPhone, and changed only the look of iOS to their liking. Nothing else under the hood of iOS, only the look of it, very slightly. Then presented and sold that phone as their very own. Now imagine millions upon millions of the Chinese population loyal to that phone without a fault, and giving that Chinese company full credit for coming up with such a phone. Not even mentioning how Apple did years of work creating iOS. Just imagine how shameless that would look. Imagine the loyal users of that Chinese company and its new phone, being completely blind to how everyone else is telling them, " Hey, they just rearranged a few things and just changed the look of iOS little bit. It's all Apple that created the original." kinda nutty.

There’s no iPhone X without Samsung Display but when you completely discount what Apple did with the panel that was lame.

“First we need to congratulate Samsung Display for developing and manufacturing the outstanding OLED display hardware in the iPhone X.

“But what makes the iPhone X the Best Smartphone Display is the impressive Precision Display Calibration that Apple developed that transforms the OLED hardware into a superbly accurate, high performance, and gorgeous display!!”

 

[FFR]

There’s no iPhone X without Samsung Display but when you completely discount what Apple did with the panel that was lame.

“First we need to congratulate Samsung Display for developing and manufacturing the outstanding OLED display hardware in the iPhone X.

“But what makes the iPhone X the Best Smartphone Display is the impressive Precision Display Calibration that Apple developed that transforms the OLED hardware into a superbly accurate, high performance, and gorgeous display!!”

He is under the impression that Samsung invented oled.

Samsung licenses their oled tech just like everybody else.

 

[ramram55]

Actually, DisplayMate gave credit to Samsung first for developing and manufacturing the OLED display. Take a pause for a second. Can you imagine if a company in China took the iPhone, and changed only the look of iOS to their liking. Nothing else under the hood of iOS, only the look of it, very slightly. Then presented and sold that phone as their very own. Now imagine millions upon millions of the Chinese population loyal to that phone without a fault, and giving that Chinese company full credit for coming up with such a phone. Not even mentioning how Apple did years of work creating iOS. Just imagine how shameless that would look. Imagine the loyal users of that Chinese company and its new phone, being completely blind to how everyone else is telling them, " Hey, they just rearranged a few things and just changed the look of iOS little bit. It's all Apple that created the original." kinda nutty.

Correct way is to point out Apple next phone, copy N9 and use Apple pen. And name it XS, price it above 1k with $250 cost. A big profit. No wonder they are always making money.

 

[LIVEFRMNYC]

For those that love to gloat benchmarks ......

 

[jamezr]

There’s no iPhone X without Samsung Display but when you completely discount what Apple did with the panel that was lame.

“First we need to congratulate Samsung Display for developing and manufacturing the outstanding OLED display hardware in the iPhone X.

“But what makes the iPhone X the Best Smartphone Display is the impressive Precision Display Calibration that Apple developed that transforms the OLED hardware into a superbly accurate, high performance, and gorgeous display!!”

Then THIS year......
Galaxy S9

The Galaxy S9 is the most innovative and high performance Smartphone display that we have ever Lab tested, breaking and establishing many new Display Performance Records that are listed above. The Galaxy S9 delivers uniformly consistent all around Top Tier display performance and receives All Green (Very Good to Excellent) Ratings in All of the DisplayMate Lab Test and Measurement Categories – the first display we have ever tested to get All Green in All Categories. The level of display performance and excellence has been increasing each year, and the Galaxy S9 has raised the bar higher...

Note 9

The Galaxy Note9 is the most innovative, and high-performance smartphone display that we have ever lab tested, breaking and establishing many new display performance records that are listed above.

I'm sure the iPhone Xs (or whatever the name will be) will push the boundaries a little further.
That is usually how it works in the smartphone industry....you're only on top til the next model comes out.

I think it is interesting so many apologists are here in the Note 9 thread touting the iPhone x.

 

[Shanghaichica]

For those that love to gloat benchmarks ......

I was going to post this.

The note 9 is plenty fast.

 

[samplez]

Don't fall for it, it's nonstop excuses with these guys. The iPhone comes last, and they look at every possible way to minimize the damage on Apple's image. Just look at the speed test from everythingapplepro. Encoding 4k video? Really? Who the hell does that on their phone. It was the only way to give the iPhone a chance. In every other speedtest on YouTube, the S9+ already destroyed the X. With that said, I really prefer not to give any of these speedtest any attention. We simply don't use our phones like this. Regardless, as long as the iPhone uses Samsung OLED, Samsung always wins. I don't give a company credit for calibrating a display. The credit goes to the company that did all the heavy lifting, innovating display tech to where it is today.

Quoted for truth. By the way, congrats to Samsung on delivering another fantastic display. "Visually Indistinguishable from Perfect."

 

[The Game 161]

This speed tests are what they should be. A year old phone shouldn’t be faster really than a new device. Note 9 is a beast after all.

 

[Sevanw]

He is under the impression that Samsung invented oled.

Samsung licenses their oled tech just like everybody else.

Actually no I'm not under that impression. It's you're hate for Samsung that's putting those words in my mouth. That being said, let me just borrow something Apple diehards love saying about Apple, except I'll use it in the case of Samsung. Samsung never created OLED, they perfected it, and made it popular.

 

[FFR]

Actually no I'm not under that impression. It's you're hate for Samsung that's putting those words in my mouth. That being said, let me just borrow something Apple diehards love saying about Apple, except I'll use it in the case of Samsung. Samsung never created OLED, they perfected it, and made it popular.

...back to oled

Did Samsung perfect it?

Or did they license someone else’s technology?

I think you might be confusing the two.

 

[michael9891]

Ok, so lots of reviews out there for the Note 9. But why do reviewers rarely talk about the front camera capabilities? It’s like the phone doesn’t even have one.

 

[Sevanw]

I don’t really understand “you are hate for Samsung”

But If your finished with the personal attacks....back to oled

Did Samsung perfect it?

Or did they license someone else’s technology?

I think you might be confusing the two.

So, do you ever qualify every new iPhone feature with talk of buying out a company or licensing to obtain those features? I'm guessing not. I'm guessing you go straight to giving Apple credit. Hell, you already did it with the display. It's pathetic.

 

[FFR]

So, do you ever qualify every new iPhone feature with talk of buying out a company or licensing to obtain those features? I'm guessing not. I'm guessing you go straight to giving Apple credit. Hell, you already did it with the display. It's pathetic.

It’s a licensed technology.
Don’t know why you think that’s pathetic.
Neither Apple nor Samsung own oled.

I think your mixing things up.

 

[Sevanw]

It’s a licensed technology.
Don’t know why you think that’s pathetic.
Neither Apple nor Samsung own oled.

I think your mixing things up.

You obviously don't use swipe. Your closed mindedness keeps taking you down the wrong path. You can't see outside your own experience. As usual, you deflected, and didn't answer my question.

 

[widgeteer]

Kinda interesting that the review unites Sammy has sent out seem to be the 6/128 version. I’m surprised they didn’t send out the higher end version. I guess there is probably very little performance difference between the two.

 

[Michael Goff]

Man, I really wish I had the money to buy one of these. 8gb of RAM would definitely make this a three or four year phone without any slowdown.

 

[Cryates]

Any chance pre-orders through the Samsung site get delivered earlier than the 24th?

 

[samplez]

This speed tests are what they should be. A year old phone shouldn’t be faster really than a new device. Note 9 is a beast after all.

Speed tests are irrelevant now. Most phones these days, even budget android phones, are way faster than they have been ever before. You get what you are paying for and millisecond differences in App opening doesn't mean anything at all in real world usage. But functionality, features, and style on the other hand, is what sets Samsung phones apart from apple.

 

[sunking101]

Speed tests are irrelevant now. Most phones these days, even budget android phones, are way faster than they have been ever before. You get what you are paying for and millisecond differences in App opening doesn't mean anything at all in real world usage. But functionality, features, and style on the other hand, is what sets Samsung phones apart from apple.

Exactly. The Note 9 won't open webpages or apps night & day faster than the Note 8 or iPhone X. There will be very little in it. Also very little difference between 8GB and 6GB of RAM in the two Notes. Tiny improvements.
It will however be a beast of a phone and if you have a Note 4/5, Galaxy S8 or iPhone 7 etc it will be a cracking upgrade. For the rest of us we really need to wait two years inbetween upgrades to see any kind of real improvements in speed and cameras etc.

 

[Sevanw]

Here's a few photographers giving their review of the Note 9 camera.

 

[bopajuice]

There’s no iPhone X without Samsung Display but when you completely discount what Apple did with the panel that was lame.

“First we need to congratulate Samsung Display for developing and manufacturing the outstanding OLED display hardware in the iPhone X.

“But what makes the iPhone X the Best Smartphone Display is the impressive Precision Display Calibration that Apple developed that transforms the OLED hardware into a superbly accurate, high performance, and gorgeous display!!”

I had to laugh. Tooten Apples horn is one thing, but "precision display calibration"? For real? How do you physically transform a display?

Samsung would be nothing without "precision display calibration". Ok...

Good one. Displaymate has really stepped up the PR.

 

[Macalicious2011]

Speed tests are irrelevant now. Most phones these days, even budget android phones, are way faster than they have been ever before. You get what you are paying for and millisecond differences in App opening doesn't mean anything at all in real world usage. But functionality, features, and style on the other hand, is what sets Samsung phones apart from apple.

I would entirely dismiss speed as we interact with our phones countless of times during the day. Yes a few milliseconds isn't the end of the world but when the difference in speed is

Speed tests are irrelevant now. Most phones these days, even budget android phones, are way faster than they have been ever before. You get what you are paying for and millisecond differences in App opening doesn't mean anything at all in real world usage. But functionality, features, and style on the other hand, is what sets Samsung phones apart from apple.

While a few milliseconds difference isn't the end of the world the difference in speed between someone's in opening apps is closer to 0.25-0.5sec. For a device you interact with countless of times during a day that difference does have an impact on usability.

If you have a busy schedule or a day looking with kids than the ability to quickly unlock the phone, open an app tap tap, tap and lock within just a few seconds makes life easier.

Is the Note 9 fast enough? It absolutely is.

 

[Michael Goff]

I had to laugh. Tooten Apples horn is one thing, but "precision display calibration"? For real? How do you physically transform a display?

Samsung would be nothing without "precision display calibration". Ok...

Good one. Displaymate has really stepped up the PR.

But I thought we liked Displaymate because it gave the Note 9 high marks. Or are they not good because they pointed out something the X did great?

 

[yui4]

Was determined to bypass this until the s10 but the upgrade program is calling to me!

 

[Cryates]

The Verge review is out, which is the one I was looking most forward to.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/17/...-note-9-review-battery-specs-price-pen-stylus