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  • I haven’t owned a Note since the Galaxy Note 4, so I’m pretty excited for this phone. I currently own a Galaxy S8 Plus on Verizon.

  • and samsung still sucks.. there hasn’t been anything exciting from them since the s3

  • Looks great so far. Love my Note 8 except for the stupid Bixby button. Samsung, please delete Bixby, it’s worthless.

      • I understand the button and push for Samsung to have their own “Google assistant” software. I simply don’t like Bixby and don’t want a extra button just for it. Samsung shouldn’t force a button on their product, just make it a app.

  • I generally agree with all of your points except one.

    It’s not the best handset, it’s 2nd best. #1 is now the Blackberry KeyTwo, without a doubt.

  • I’d be lying if I did not admit that there’s a part of me that is tempted, I just do not think I can go back to the land of jenky software, pointless curved screens and poor battery life. I just can’t, but I’ll probably go look at it and play with it in store lol.

  • 4000mAh battery but with Samsung’s bastardized version of Android the battery life will probably still suck. The S8+ and S9+ have way worse battery life than they should for a 3500mAh battery. My Pixel 2 XL with the same SoC and battery capacity as the S8+ destroys the S8+ in battery life.

    I’m with you on the notch sucking but I’d still take a Pixel with a notch and a pure stock Google over a Samsung phone with no notch but its bastardized version of Android.

    TouchWiz (or whatever it’s called now) is a mess. As long as that disaster still exists Samsung won’t get a dime from me.

    • yeah the s9 plus has better battery life than my pixel 2 xl on both oreo and p beta. Check youtube comparisons and i also speak from personal experience. There are pros and cons to skinned vs stock and vice versa but that batttery statement is null and void seeing how the s9 plus has bettery battery than the pixel 2 xl and the note 9 will have an even larger one.

      • I haven’t really looked at battery life on the S9+. The S8+ is a more fair comparison since it has the same SoC as the Pixel 2 XL. If the S9+ has better real world battery life than the Pixel 2 XL then the SD 845 must be better than the SD 835 on a scale that is unheard of. It would be a miracle.

        It is also possible that the display settings on the Samsung phones have a much lower resolution set to get that kind of battery life. The Pixel 2 XL is fixed at the 2880×1440 resolution whereas Samsung phones can be scaled down to 2220×1080 and I think even 1480×720

    • “…but its bastardized version of Android.”

      Wow. Said that twice. Expound on “bastardized version of Android” since you cared to redundantly repeat yourself.

      • Android is open source. Developers can do pretty much whatever they want to the OS at all levels. Samsung makes HUGE changes to the point where it’s basically a different OS that is just based on Android.

        That’s why using the word “skin” to define the Samsung customizations is really a bad description. A “skin” would indicate surface level changes. To keep with the human body analogy of “skin” the changes are really all the way down to the bones, muscles, nervous system, etc of the OS.

        Bastardize: to lower in condition or worth.

        In my opinion that is exactly what Samsung is doing.

  • Why does everyone bash Samsung for not drastically changing their design every year, when Apple changes theirs every 2 to 3 years? If they achieved a close to perfect design with the Note 8, why change it dramatically?

    • Perfect? don’t think so..top heavy, very uncomfortable to hold, 19:8 aspect ratio

      • Tis why I said, “close to perfect”… no phone is perfect and they are all pretty much uncomfortable to hold in the hand. What newer phone do you think is comfortable?

  • Samsung has been just boring as hell lately. Same phone every year with very minor tweaks in each new version. Honestly, the only thing that tempts me anymore with them is the heart rate / stress / blood pressure sensors. But, they aren’t enough for me to keep shelling money out to Samsung.

    I’ve now gone the longest stretch in YEARS with no phone purchases (usually one or two a MONTH –> I have issues. Literally trying every new flagship for the past 4-5 years or so, some, twice over the course of a year). Currently, nothing is tempting me away from my p2xl so much so, I even sold my last two “bored with the current one ‘swap'” phones (S9 & Note 8).

    And, knowing the p3xl is almost certainly going to have wireless charging, once I get that, I don’t see anything steering me away from it without some drastic new design or feature changes.

    • It’s only been the same phone for 2 generations…. What do you mean? The S8 and S8+ were different than the S7’s. Y’all are just becoming picky AF! ITS A PHONE

  • Bummer it’s not “exactly” like the Note 8.

    Now I will have to buy a new case 🙂

    Upside is that whoever buys my phone on Swappa gets a free case.

  • either give me 2 pens, with one being the same color as the phone, or let there be an option to choose…

  • Tim O’Tayto – What’s happening with the articles? It seems there fewer than before.

  • So, here you are again. I’ve blocked your dumb @ss for YEARS now, and you keep changing your screen name. You need to get a life, and there are people like me who don’t want to see that developmentally-challenged looking face of yours.
    #S8PlusIs Boss
    #Note8isBoss
    S6andNote4isBoss
    #Note5IsBoss #SamsungKnights
    S6EdgePlus IsBoss
    Tabs2IsBoss

      • I love the way I pound these online wankers it helps them to remember me forever.

        I get a great laugh out of the damage I do to people it’s funny as hell. ????????

  • SIDE NOTE:

    I support DL 1000% (I’m here every day after all). And i’m very ANTI-Ad Blocker…..but I swear you guys are killing me with this new AD space in the comment section. That’s pushing it.

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