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The Samsung Galaxy Note9 - Demo & Review!
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May 29, 2025
There are about a million smartphones you can buy nowadays, but even in a sea of options the Samsung Galaxy Note9 stands out. A gorgeous screen, crisp and beautiful HD video, splendid photos, the super fun - and surprisingly functional - S-Pen stylus and so much more. And did I mention the edge-to-edge 6.4" AMOLED screen? Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the Samsung Galaxy Note9 and finds it's the first smartphone to make his Apple iPhone X look old and dull. There's a LOT to like about the Note9 as his extensive review - with lots of demo footage and samples - makes abundantly clear. Check out the Note9 at https://www.ATT.com/
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this might be the best smartphone on the
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market let's have a look Dave Taylor
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here and I'm looking at this this is the
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Samsung Galaxy Note 9 and it is gorgeous
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it's a beautiful smartphone and as you
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can see it's a big vivid screen 6.4
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inches 514 pixels per inch super amo LED
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screen running 29 16 by 1440 with
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Gorilla Glass 5 so I'm pretty sure that
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means that a gorilla can use this phone
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not sure don't mean to offend any animal
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activists gotta be careful nowadays
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right but here's one really cool thing
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you can do is its USB C which I like
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you can plug in a USB C to HDMI adapter
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and plug this into a television and boom
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you've got enough you know
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1080p HD TV running off of your phone
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look gorgeous you can do everything
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including take phone calls while it's
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plugged in how cool is that
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now the CPU underneath this I'll let you
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see the screen the CPU inside here is
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the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 running at
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2.7 gigahertz octa-core with 6 gig of
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ram and you can get it with 128 gig or
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512 gig of storage but that's not all
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because the SIM card slot also supports
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a micro SD card and Samsung says it'll
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support up to a 2 terabyte micro SD card
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now I don't know where you get a 2
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terabyte micro SD card or how much it
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would cost but there's a lot of storage
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to have on your phone jeez now it's
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running Android 8.1 Oreo so you know
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we'll see as that evolves and Samsung
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experience 9.5 so it's not exactly
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straight Android but Samsung has done a
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really nice job of putting some things
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on top of it now the phone also supports
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fingerprint and iris scanning so I just
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unlocked it by looking at it just like
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an iPhone 10 right and it also has a
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four thousand milliamp hour battery and
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Qi fast charging the
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the wireless charging and it's the fast
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charge so it's only a couple hours to go
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for a full charge and four thousand
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milliamp hours it's like finally Samsung
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got over all the angst around its
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exploding batteries on earlier
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generations and so this is a nice big
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battery that should give you an entire
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dawn till midnight run on your phone
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which is great now the whole thing is
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only 8.8 millimeters thick and it's 200
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grams so it's not quite as light as
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maybe you expect but seriously 200 grams
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it's not like this is a big heavy
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clunker is a really nice phone and
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there's so much going on not the least
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of which is that there is a stylus this
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is so cool we're gonna come back to this
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this is called the s-pen welcome back to
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it in a minute okay be quiet jeez it
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keeps trying to turn on Bixby one of my
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least favorite features of any Samsung
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phone it's another story now let's talk
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about cameras because there's so much
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for me to share with you on the cameras
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so the rear facing camera it's actually
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two cameras and it's 12 megapixels one
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is an F 1.5 the other one is an F 2.4
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and then the forward facing camera is an
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8 megapixel at F 1.7 now here's what's
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cool is Samsung has this AI powered
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thing called scene optimizer and it
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gives you all sorts of really good
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smarts in terms of adjusting and
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tweaking the pictures so let's have some
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examples here first off here's a photo
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of my cat and we did a little color
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enhancing in the gallery editor so it
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gives it a little pop and now this
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second example is a barn just down the
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street from me actually and you can see
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the colors are just stunning
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that is an unaltered unadjusted hashtag
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no filter photo now let's talk about
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video 2 because this does crazy good
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with video because it supports UHD or
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ultra high def at 3840 by 2160 at 20 I'm
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sorry at 60 frames per second that's
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really cool but where you really get
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that is let's have a couple of examples
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first one is and I'm hand-holding so
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it's not quite as steady as it could be
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but this is just a stream up the street
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for me and you can see it's just
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beautiful I mean this is like you know
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Zen meditation on your TV level video
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but there's more fun so let's look at
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hyperlapse and this is me driving down
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the road and you can see it's really
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hard to hold the camera while you're
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driving do not recommend this but it's
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really fun and then super slow-mo and
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this is something Samsung's really been
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experimenting with on this particular
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device and they actually had a software
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update after they shipped this
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particular note 9 on its very first
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generation and so this is the new
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improved super slow-mo it's pretty fun
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so again none of these I have altered
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there's no color adjustments I haven't
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done any editing in the video editor all
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I did was import this footage and show
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it to you now so nice really you know so
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much to love about this but let's get
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back to that s-pen because this s-pen
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whoops which fell the s-pen is so cool
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because it does a lot in addition to
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letting you do artwork and you can see
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it automatically brings up this range of
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different apps you can launch but in
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addition for you doing sketch on screen
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it also lets you use it as a clicker for
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presentations you can use it as a remote
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trigger for your camera which is really
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nice you can even control music playback
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and video playback with it but it's
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really what's sketching and art that I
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think it's the most fun and my
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daughter's both adore this phone because
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of the art they can do and here's a
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couple of examples of what they've done
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with just a few minutes of poking around
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and exploring the note app really pretty
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straightforward and beautiful art really
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really fun now as I said the phone also
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features what Samsung calls their Knox
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security and has both a fingerprint
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located right smack dab in the middle of
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the back which is nice and iris scanner
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so in effect when you unlock the phone
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all you have to do is glance at it and
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boom it's unlocked if someone else wants
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to unlock it they're going to need
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to have a code or password or whatever
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so that's really nice so let me give you
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now that we've come this far let's give
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you a quick tour of the different edges
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here because on the right edge you have
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the power button that's just regular old
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on/off and then on the bottom you have
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the space for the s-pen assuming you do
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not fling it on to the floor like me you
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have a speaker space and you actually
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have one only on the bottom actually and
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the USBC connector for charging if
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you're not going to use wireless
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charging and let the heavenly choir sing
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an actual headphone jack so Samsung even
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with the latest and greatest is still
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giving you a headphone jack Thank You
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Samsung that's really nice of you on the
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left side you have the Bixby or shortcut
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button and the volume up and down and on
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the top you really it's pretty much the
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only thing that you have there of any
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note is the SIM card slot on the back
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you have the two cameras and the flash
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and all of that and then underneath that
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you have the fingerprint scanner and of
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course on the front you have this
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absolutely gorgeous screen if will
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unlock for me and there we go
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so it's unlocked and I just want to say
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that I have an iPhone 10 and I really
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like my iPhone 10 but this is the first
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other device of used where my iPhone 10
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feels a little bit old so there's a lot
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I really like about this and let's just
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look at if nothing else let's just look
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at screen size I mean obviously the note
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is not exactly intended to be the same
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size but if we put them both here you
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can see significantly bigger screen but
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more importantly it's a brighter more
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vivid screen and because they did the
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edge style where the screen sort of goes
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off the sides it really is a full-screen
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view and it's quite extraordinary it's a
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beautiful screen and it's just a really
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nice phone you know if you're happy with
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Android
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if you like Oreo if you're a fan of
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Samsung and you like the Samsung
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experience this is a heck of a phone and
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that big screen you'll never complain
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your screen is too big and everything
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you do from reading in a Kindle app to
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watching videos on Netflix to doing all
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your own stuff is all gonna just be
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fantastic big big fan really very little
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not to like about this Galaxy Note 9 so
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only thing left to talk about is the
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price but before we get to the price let
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me ask if you can click on that
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subscribe button really appreciate that
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now the price well actually before we
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get to the price let's talk about color
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schemes so this is blue with the
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mysteriously vanishing yellow S Pen it
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didn't vanish it's just on the floor so
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this is what they call ocean blue with
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the yellow S Pen but you can also get it
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in black with a black pen or purple with
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a purple pen or copper with a copper pen
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so you can mix and match I think you
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could also buy a second s pen but the S
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Pen is a little more sophisticated than
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you might think because it actually has
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its own battery and multiple buttons so
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it's gonna be a fairly spendy add-on if
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you want to buy a second one and don't
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lose it man you really don't want to
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lose one of these because it's gonna be
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as I said probably fairly spendy but the
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phone itself is actually surprisingly
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not out-of-control expensive it is
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actually less expensive than the iPhone
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10 at 999 dollars and 99 cents at AT&T
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com which means you can also use a TN
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t--'s payment plans and that gets it
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down to a very modest $33 and 34 cents a
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month for you to have the Samsung Galaxy
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Note 9 in your hands this is Dave Taylor
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and I'm really tempted to keep this and
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not send it back to AT&T sorry guys it's
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a really nice phone
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so I'll figure that out while I work on
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the next step so I will
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you in my next video
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