Samsung's New Flagship Phone Hits the Market

Many have been waiting for the release of the Galaxy Note 9 to see if this company, which is in tight competition with Apple, can send a serious competitor to the market against the 'iPhone X'. Contrary to expectations, this phone does not differ much in design from its predecessor, the Note 8. Many were hoping that instead of a fingerprint sensor, Samsung would use a facial recognition system like Apple and remove the fingerprint sensor. However, this did not happen in this product, and contrary to many predictions, the fingerprint sensor was not even moved under the display. The 6.4-inch display of the Galaxy Note 9 uses a panel with a resolution of 1440 × 2960 pixels. In terms of processor, this phone does not have much to say, using the Snapdragon 845 in models for the U.S. market and some other markets, and the Exynos 9810, which is Samsung's own processor, for Asian and Middle Eastern markets. This product is sold in two versions with 128 and 512 gigabytes of storage and 6 and 8 gigabytes of RAM. In this regard, the Note 9 has increased the RAM compared to the previous version in the full model. Considering the explosion of the Galaxy Note 7 model, Samsung is still acting conservatively in increasing the battery capacity of its flagship product. In this product, the battery capacity has increased by 700 milliamp-hours, and now this product has a battery capacity of 4000 milliamp-hours. Samsung claims this battery can provide enough charge for the user for a day. In terms of camera, nothing special has happened compared to the S9 model, yet Samsung says it has made software optimizations in some minor issues for this product. This phone uses two 12-megapixel sensors for capturing images, which use lenses with variable apertures of 1.5-2.4 and a fixed aperture of 2.4, and it is possible to achieve 2x optical zoom in this phone. The selfie camera uses an 8-megapixel sensor with an aperture of 1.7. For slow-motion video recording, a rate of 960 frames per second is used in this phone. However, 4K video recording is ultimately possible at a speed of 60 frames per second. What differentiates Note phones from others is having a stylus called the S Pen. Samsung claims to have upgraded some features in this new pen. This pen, with a low-power Bluetooth module, can act as a controller for taking photos and navigating between slides. This phone can be converted into a home computer using an HDMI to USB Type-C adapter. With the addition of a stereo speaker optimized by AKG, sound performance has improved. The software of this phone is based on Android 8.1 Oreo and has been developed with Samsung's proprietary user interface. In this phone, there are not many changes in the software section, and almost everything is designed similarly to the S9 and S9 Plus. The price of this phone in the base model is set above one thousand dollars. Overall, it can be said that in the Galaxy Note 9, only some optimizations have been made compared to the previous model, and we are not facing a completely new product, and contrary to predictions, Samsung has acted very conservatively in this product. Meanwhile, Samsung's Android competitor, Huawei, has appeared much more creatively in its products over the past year. Perhaps if Samsung continues like this, it will hand over the game to Chinese companies.