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