Samsung Debuts New Galaxy Note 9, Galaxy Watch, Wireless Charger Duo, and Galaxy Home Smart Speaker

[AZ63]

lol do you know how cheap batteries are? specially if you make your own LOL, and Samsung makes memory, so you are describing things that they personally make, which means their cost should not be a "huge" factor.. Again, waiting to see why the $150 jump

Cost has very little to do with price hikes. Look at Apple. Remember how Apple would charge $100 more for a phone with double the memory. No other change and $100 more. Not even close to what it cost them. Don't look for a justification based on your criteria. In general, most companies look at what the going market is and then base their price on their best guess at what people will pay. If people don't buy then they lower the price. Apple, as we know, is far more stubborn when it comes to lowering the price regardless of sales. Look at how long the Mac Pro sat before Apple dropped the price. But Apple is a far different company and with their fat wallet they do as THEY please. I gave Apple my money for a long time. I have stopped due to their choices in their product lines. I still use the headphone jack enabled 6s. My MacBook Pro is the 2012 version as Apple has decided to go with the design philosophy of, for less flexibility we charge more. If people love it, great for them. For me, it is not compelling.

 

[apolloa]

Looks ugly without a notch

So your saying every single iPhone that isn’t an iPhone X is.... ugly? Interesting opinion.

 

[Shanghaichica]

lol do you know how cheap batteries are? specially if you make your own LOL, and Samsung makes memory, so you are describing things that they personally make, which means their cost should not be a "huge" factor.. Again, waiting to see why the $150 jump

Obviously Apple are the only ones allowed to charge £150 for a storage increase?

 

[GuruZac]

The future folks, except it will also have the ability to do it wirelessly either while placed on a charging platform or while on your person.

I agree. Phones are powerful enough to do it. The next major leap in home computing will be smartphones docked to the accessories-mouse, keyboard, monitor. That is a cool possibility IMHO.

 

[SuperMatt]

Samsung DeX is an extension of Android N's Multi-Window mode. Additional code development has also been included by Samsung that adds extras features and integrates it with Samsung hardware, such as the Iris scanner.

There are no proprietary Samsung APIs needed to launch apps in Samsung DeX. Apps typically run as long as they adhere to Androids best coding practices.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.zd...ur-galaxy-phone-a-primary-computing-platform/

Thanks for the info. I read a handful of reviews of this quasi-desktop mode - none of them good. It's an attempt to force android onto the desktop with mixed results (to be kind).

 

[fokmik]

Obviously Apple are the only ones allowed to charge £150 for storage a increase?

ofc, because that storage is coming from samsung or toshiba

 

[hypertoast]

Also included, the famous Samsung and carrier bloatware!

Baseless.

So much for IOS not even allowing me to select a different default email/ browser app and the likes.
IOs apps on iphone are bloatware from Apple for me.

PLus Unlocked version does not have any carrier "bloat"

 

[1050792]

It still remains the only thing they do really well.

And thats whats being discussed here? Samsung Hardware? Like the Note9 which includes the best Hardware in the market right now.

 

[Shanghaichica]

Thanks for the info. I read a handful of reviews of this quasi-desktop mode - none of them good. It's an attempt to force android onto the desktop with mixed results (to be kind).

You’re moving the goal posts. First you were claiming that this was no different to screen mirroring on the iPhone and now you’re saying it’s crap.

 

[Rocko99991]

Honest question: has Samsung developed any innovative smartphone features that have stuck around for more than a couple years?

OLED, wireless charging.
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Very similar to the Note 8 - looks like Samsung phoned this one in. *ahem*

Kind of like all the iphone S models.

 

[fourthtunz]

Does this look like something you can do with your iPhone via screen mirroring?

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Very cool no doubt, not sure it will do multi screen as I have no need for it.
If I go to a friends house I can run video from my phone or stream from netflix,amazon etc..otherwise I don't
carry a monitor around, I take my laptop or at home run my laptop into my monitor.

 

[christo747]

Apple were not the first to have a fingerprint scanner on a phone. 3D Touch is based on haptic technology which has been around on android for years.

Microsoft had the surface pen out before the Apple Pencil. Samsung also had tablets with a stylus going back as far as 2012.

The pencil is not a stylus. Those are two different concepts. And, I didn't mean the list to be things where Apple was first but how they made those features stick.

 

[Ursadorable]

PLus Unlocked version does not have any carrier "bloat"

Except for the Samsung bloat.

 

[Shanghaichica]

The pencil is not a stylus. Those are two different concepts. And, I didn't mean the list to be things where Apple was first but how they made those features stick.

They are tools that people use to draw and take notes on touchscreens. They might have different names but they all do the same thing. I’m fact the surface pen and the S pen do even more than the Apple Pencil. Apple popularised a lot of things but the I don’t agree on the Apple Pencil. Touch ID, they weren’t the first to do but once Apple put it one the iPhone it was widely adopted on android phones. I don’t see the see the same with the Apple Pencil. It’s a pretty niche device.

 

[pxxalex]

$999, $1299? Weren't Samsung fanboys blasting apple for the $999 price tag? LOL go figure, Samsung always secretly milking apples nuts all the time

Big difference between thinking a phone is wroth the price its selling for, you get better specs(Galaxy Note 9) for the same(base model price and high-end on the iPhone). No notch and a headphone jack that alone is nice and I have a iPhone 10.

 

[FightTheFuture]

The Samsung brigade in full force in the comment section today!

The iPhone X ate the Galaxy s9’s lunch - gotta let it go.

 

[BPresh]

This comment makes me laugh and is a microcosm of Apple users as a whole. No matter what Apple device you have you have to give credit where credit is due to Samsung. Samsung dropping that 4000mah battery is HUGE! Samsung's display on their devices are gorgeous. Apple users have to turn loose their notions that our products are superior in every way because they are not. Their whole presentation was extremely impressive and interesting. A watch that last for days and multiple faces to access the apps needed is nice too. I am more than willing to bet that if this was Apple' keynote someone like you would gawking all over it hollering "innovation innovation" from the roof tops.

Good job Samsung!

No, I wouldn't. I'm impressed with the quoted battery life of the watch (and also gave them kudos for a much-improved aesthetic) but I would not be hollering "innovation, innovation."

The power mat and the existence of their sound-quality-focused smart speaker variant (compared to something like the Alexa speakers of old) are direct responses to what Apple did (except for the weird tacked-on tripod). Honestly, their HomePod ripoff is flat-out lazy. And yes, their displays are gorgeous, as are Apple's... but that isn't anything new. Was there some display innovation I missed this year?

If this were Apple's keynote and Samsung had released the HomePod and announced AirPower last year, Android fans would be laughing their butts off here. Further, even the Apple fans wouldn't dare be screaming "innovation," as you claim.

It's hilarious how Samsung can release such retread devices as the Galaxy S9 and Note 9 (S-Pen improvements notwithstanding) and be heralded as "innovative," and then Samsung trolls on this site can see something released last year like the iPhone X and somehow claim it is less innovative and moves the needle in a lesser fashion. Further, while I have no idea where your allegiances lie, if we're talking "microcosms" I think the aptest microcosm of all is the manner in which Samsung fanatics hang out en masse on Apple forums to try and claim that an increase in the mah size of a phone battery is "innovation." Stupendously ridiculous.

You won't see me make a single post on any Android forum anywhere and I never have. The reason? I don't possess that kind of insecurity over my tech choices.

 

[gijoeinla]

Apple should learn with Samsung to add new features to make their devices better instead of removing them.
#nobodywantsanotch

My X is full of new features. It’s a shame you obviously don’t have one. Kuo was right on when he says Face ID is years ahead of EVERYONE and so far it hasn’t been duplicated or bettered by anyone.

Let’s take AirPods - they are selling still faster than Apple can make them as a FIRST generation product. They’ve become a standard in technology equaling the success of the iPod and iPhone. Smash hit. Ahem.

Apple Watch - most of the Apple haters and many lovers said it would die a miserable death - same thing - it rules its catergory and has become an item to need just like Jobs did with so many other Apple devices. The first stand alone cellular watch. Duh!

I must say the X for me has been a great ride. It’s damn fast and it’s been fully reliable — for me.

Seriously.

 

[justperry]

One word:

Fugly




*Especially the back, and then they still have that fingerprint scanner on the back, morons.

 

[Shanghaichica]

My X is full of new features. It’s a shame you obviously don’t have one. Kuo was right on when he says Face ID is years ahead of EVERYONE and so far it hasn’t been duplicated or bettered by anyone.

Let’s take AirPods - they are selling still faster than Apple can make them as a FIRST generation product. They’ve become a standard in technology equaling the success of the iPod and iPhone. Smash hit. Ahem.

Apple Watch - most of the Apple haters and many lovers said it would die a miserable death - same thing - it rules its catergory and has become an item to need just like Jobs did with so many other Apple devices. The first stand alone cellular watch. Duh!

I must say the X for me has been a great ride. It’s damn fast and it’s been fully reliable — for me.

Seriously.

The Apple Watch wasn’t the first cellular smart watch.

I think google might have some 3D sensors in that awful notch in the pixel 3.

I agree that Apple have the best overall package. However I believe in giving credit where it’s due. Instead of trying to rubbish competing devices and just shouting copy cat.

 

[ColdSugar]

Honest question: has Samsung developed any innovative smartphone features that have stuck around for more than a couple years?

Yes—2. The giant size, which nobody was doing at the time of the first Note, and the stylus, which nobody had gotten right besides them

 

[justperry]

YOU'RE getting more for 1k though. Sorry

Well, what about:

LESS security.
LESS privacy.
LESS OS updates if any.
LESS support, if it even exists.
....
....

 

[Gilligan's last elephant]

Or better yet, iCloud photos. Don’t have to worry about precious photos getting lost.

Why would they get lost any more than they would from the storage that came installed with the phone. SD card is fit and forget. It stays in the phone. Nothing to stop one backing it up.

 

[TonnyM]

Personally there is completely nothing interesting here for me as an Apple customer and happy iPhone X user. If I wanted to experiment with Android, I’d pick One Plus 6, which distroys every Samsung with Snapdragon 845 in performance and is half the price. I’m also surprised Sammy didn’t take any risk in 3D face recognition or in display fingerprint scanner, they are so late in biometrics people already complaining of smaller and hardest to reach fingerprint scanner on Note 9.

 

[topmounter]

No Pie for you Note 9!