Speaker 1: Samsung Galaxy Note nine is now official. What's going on?
Speaker 1: I'm Rich Demiro. This is rich on Tech. Well I
Speaker 1: got to go hands on with the brand new Galaxy
Speaker 1: Note nine, and while there's not one big new feature
Speaker 1: that's gonna blow everyone away, well, there are a lot
Speaker 1: of little improvements that I think people are going to like.
Speaker 1: Before we get into all of the new goodies, let
Speaker 1: me just explain what the Galaxy Note is all about.
Speaker 1: This is really Samsung's flagship phone. It's their most premium device.
Speaker 1: It's the one that they put all the new features
Speaker 1: on first. So again, this was one of the first
Speaker 1: big large screen phones back in twenty eleven. It also
Speaker 1: was the first that had the stylus. They made the
Speaker 1: multi window popular, the curve screen, the dual camera, and
Speaker 1: the Note customer is kind of known for being that
Speaker 1: mobile professional, the person who wants to get work done
Speaker 1: on the go without sacrificing pretty much anything, because with
Speaker 1: this device you can do it all. So the Galaxy
Speaker 1: Note nine will come into color at US launch, lavender,
Speaker 1: purple and ocean blue. That's an interesting choice by Samsung
Speaker 1: because you're not getting that typical black or gray color.
Speaker 1: But I think most users will be happy with one
Speaker 1: of these two colors. The ocean blue is definitely a
Speaker 1: deeper shade of blue. The lavender purple is a really
Speaker 1: nice purple color, not too purply. So let's get into
Speaker 1: those specs you want to know about. For starters, there's
Speaker 1: a six point four inch screen, which is a little
Speaker 1: bit bigger than last year. When it comes to the cameras,
Speaker 1: those are very similar to the cameras on the S
Speaker 1: nine plus. You get a dual camera setup. You've got
Speaker 1: the rear camera at that dual aperture F one point
Speaker 1: five F two point four, and that is going to
Speaker 1: be a twelve megapixel camera. Then on the front you've
Speaker 1: got that eight megapixel camera with a one point seven aperture.
Speaker 1: When it comes to memory on this thing, man, you
Speaker 1: get a lot. The standard is one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: eight gigabytes, double last year's model. Then there's also six
Speaker 1: gigabytes of RAM standard, and you also you get that
Speaker 1: micro SD card slot which you can add another five
Speaker 1: hundred and twelve gigs on top of that. Now there
Speaker 1: is another model which comes with five hundred and twelve
Speaker 1: gigabytes of storage plus eight gigabytes of RAM and You've
Speaker 1: got that micro SD card slot for another five hundred
Speaker 1: and twelve gigs if you want to add a card
Speaker 1: that will give you one terabyte in your pocket. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this thing is powerful. Battery is four thousand MILLIONAM hours,
Speaker 1: that is more than last year's model. And of course
Speaker 1: you get all the different ways to charge, including wireless
Speaker 1: and wired. Was a little surprised to see that Android
Speaker 1: eight OREO is on this device. I guess I'm not
Speaker 1: too surprised because nine came out at kind of like
Speaker 1: the worst time, the week right before they're announcing this device.
Speaker 1: So hopefully we will see a software update to Android
Speaker 1: nine soon on the Note nine. It would have made
Speaker 1: a lot more sense to say the Note nine with
Speaker 1: Android nine. That would have been nice. As for the
Speaker 1: rest of the stuff, you get all the typical things
Speaker 1: you get on the Samsung phone. You get that fast connection,
Speaker 1: you get the payment Samsung Pay, You get all those
Speaker 1: sensors like the accelerometer, the heart rate sensor, what else.
Speaker 1: Authentication you get, the iris scanner, you get the fingerprint scanner,
Speaker 1: the facial recognition, and that's gonna do it for the
Speaker 1: main features. So you're thinking to yourself, wait a second,
Speaker 1: there's not too many crazy new things on this device,
Speaker 1: but one of the biggest things that they improved over
Speaker 1: last year's device, the No. Eight, is the placement of
Speaker 1: the fingerprint reader that was in a really bad place
Speaker 1: on the Note eight. Basically the only thing I didn't
Speaker 1: like about that device. Now the fingerprint reader is in
Speaker 1: the right place, right underneath the dual camera setup. You
Speaker 1: can reach it a lot easier, especially with your eyes closed,
Speaker 1: especially without looking. So I think that alone is enough
Speaker 1: to get this device. If you're holding off on the
Speaker 1: Note eight because of the placement of that fingerprint reader,
Speaker 1: this device fixes that. So basically I can't find anything
Speaker 1: wrong with this device on the surface. Now let's talk
Speaker 1: about that Spen for the first time. The Spen comes
Speaker 1: in a color, so the one that I checked out
Speaker 1: was the Ocean blue with kind of like a yellow Spen.
Speaker 1: And then the Spen also now has Bluetooth built in.
Speaker 1: So what does that mean. Well, you can use the
Speaker 1: Spen up to thirty feet away from your smartphone and
Speaker 1: it becomes basically a little remote control. It is water
Speaker 1: and dust resistant, it'll last for thirty minutes outside of
Speaker 1: the device. But the cool thing is if you want
Speaker 1: to recharge it, you just pop it in the device
Speaker 1: and it will get to a one hundred percent charge
Speaker 1: in just forty seconds. So what can you do with
Speaker 1: the spen? Where you can press and hold the button
Speaker 1: on the Spen by default that's going to launch the camera.
Speaker 1: You can double click the button to toggle to the
Speaker 1: selfie camera and then one more click of the button
Speaker 1: will actually take a picture. Now you can do whatever
Speaker 1: you want with these buttons. You can program them to
Speaker 1: do whatever you like in your apps, and developers will
Speaker 1: have access to them as well. One other fun little
Speaker 1: thing the spen does, since it is now in color,
Speaker 1: when you write on the screen with that screen off memo,
Speaker 1: it will come in a color as well. So when
Speaker 1: I wrote with a yellow pen, the screen, the writing
Speaker 1: was in yellow. I thought that was pretty cool. It's
Speaker 1: a little thing, but it's kind of nice. All right. Now,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the camera because you always want to
Speaker 1: know what's improved in the camera. So the camera is
Speaker 1: basically they didn't say it was the identical setup from
Speaker 1: the S nine plus, but it sort of looks that way.
Speaker 1: The main thing they've improved here is the software. So
Speaker 1: they have this new thing which they call intelligent camera,
Speaker 1: and what it does is when you aim the camera
Speaker 1: at something, it will analyze that scene using an algorithm
Speaker 1: and it can figure out twenty different scenes. Those scenes
Speaker 1: include food, portraits, flowers, indoor scenes, animals, landscapes, greenery, trees,
Speaker 1: sky mountains, beaches, sunrises, sunsets, water slides. That's very specific,
Speaker 1: street scenes, night scenes, waterfall, snow birds, backlit scenes, and text.
Speaker 1: So basically you don't have to fiddle with those pro controls.
Speaker 1: The camera, when it sees what you're taking a picture
Speaker 1: of on the device, will figure out what you're taking
Speaker 1: a picture of, adjust the settings accordingly, and make your
Speaker 1: picture look great. That is really cool. I tried this out.
Speaker 1: I aimed it at some food and immediately I saw
Speaker 1: the little food icon. I aimed it at a plant,
Speaker 1: I saw a little plant icon, and Samsung says, your
Speaker 1: picture is gonna be better. I haven't had enough hands
Speaker 1: on time just yet to figure that out, but I
Speaker 1: would hope that your pictures are gonna look better because
Speaker 1: a lot of times you do take a picture of
Speaker 1: a sunrise sunset. Cameras are pretty good at figuring that out.
Speaker 1: But knowing that that's a sunrise or sunset could definitely
Speaker 1: make your pictures look just a little bit better. One
Speaker 1: other thing the camera does now is something called flaw detection.
Speaker 1: So you know how when you take a picture, if
Speaker 1: someone blinked or if there's a smudge on the camera,
Speaker 1: you kind of look at the review of the picture
Speaker 1: and then you take another one if it's messed up. Well,
Speaker 1: now the camera is smart enough to kind of look
Speaker 1: at your picture before you can even review it and
Speaker 1: let you know in a little message on screen if
Speaker 1: someone blinked, if the image is blurry, if the lens
Speaker 1: has a little smudge on it, or if the image
Speaker 1: is too backlit. So literally your phone before you can
Speaker 1: even get to that review to look at it in
Speaker 1: the gallery, will tell you that there's something wrong, and
Speaker 1: that way you can take another picture instantly. You don't
Speaker 1: have to go and look at the picture. That's kind
Speaker 1: of a cool little feature. We'll see how it works
Speaker 1: in real life. I tried it out just quickly at
Speaker 1: the Samsung demo and it wasn't exactly working one hundred percent,
Speaker 1: So we'll have to see how that works in real life.
Speaker 1: So the big question how much and when the Galaxy
Speaker 1: Note nine, Like I said, earlier is in two colors,
Speaker 1: Ocean blue and Lavender purple. They will have unlocked versions
Speaker 1: from Samsung, and it'll also be sold by AT and T, Sprint,
Speaker 1: T Mobile, Verizon, and others. The one hundred twenty eight
Speaker 1: gigabyte version will sell for nine hundred ninety nine dollars
Speaker 1: and ninety nine cents, basically one thousand dollars for the
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty eight gigabyte version, and if you
Speaker 1: want that five hundred and twelve gigabyte version, that will
Speaker 1: be available for one thousand, two hundred and forty nine
Speaker 1: dollars and ninety nine cents again, twelve hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: dollars for that five hundred and twelve gigabyte version. Here
Speaker 1: you have it a quick look at the Samsung Galaxy
Speaker 1: Note nine and if you want to see my hands
Speaker 1: on video with the new device, go to my website.
Speaker 1: It is richon tech dot tv. I'm Rich Siemiro. Thanks
Speaker 1: so much for listening. I'll talk to you real soon