Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The Flagship Phone that’s now $330…”.
When it comes to smartphones, there are a few aspects that age quickly and a few that don’t you’ve got things like processing power. You’Ve got things like cameras, they’re, improving so fast each year that some mid-range devices can make mincemeat of flagships from just a few years ago. But then you’ve got materials. The quality of the display and subtler things like how good the vibration motor is, and it’s in these aspects that all the flagship smartphones come out on top versus cheaper, newer ones.
Those phones may look just as good on a spec sheet, but they’ll feel nothing alike. When you pick them up, enter the Samsung Galaxy S, 9, plus a firm that is recent enough – that it still comes out on top in terms of power and cameras, but is now old enough that you’re getting those premium quality materials for not a huge amount of Money, but how much, if you’re, really keen on getting on brand new you’re, looking at somewhere between 450 and $ 500, but things get really interesting. When you start looking at the refurbished options, you can get the s9 plus for about 330, the standard s9 for about 280 and then, if you’re willing to accept one in worse condition as low as $ 1.99.
All right, late last year, Dave 2d made a video about how this was a brilliant phone for $ 500 and since then the phone has become not just even cheaper, but even better. Take a listen to this. When the s 9 plus launched it got good reviews. It was a great, but unsurprising, upgrade with a 4 to 5 star rating across the board.
The main complaints were that it’s expensive, considering it’s an iterative upgrade. They are emojis kind of sucked, and I had a software scheme that felt sluggish so fast forward a year and whilst they are emoji continues to make me look like, I should really get some help. The phones, other two weaknesses, have been more than just fixed. We’Ve had warned you I, which is massively boosted performance, you’ll notice it when you’re flicking through your recent apps or changing the modes of the camera. We’Ve got a knight mode, which is not just a fresh coat of paint but saves battery too, and this new material design brings the phone more in line with Google’s own. I was never a fan of the way samsung’s previous space-age theme looked, but one UI has kind of turned that negative to a positive.
There have also been subtle. Upgrades Samsung has tweaked the front camera to allow it to better expose your face, and it now lets you like the S 10, just the field of view when taking selfies they’ve, also added in the same scene, detection algorithm you get on the newer phones. Another example of a cool new feature that comes with this Android 9 upgrade is say, for example, you’ve turned off auto rotate because you usually use your phone in portrait, but then for one particular task. You wanted to use landscape.
You now get given this little indicator in the corner that lets you temporarily switch orientation. The point being that, compared to the original Samsung experience skin, that the phone launched width there is just been a whole load of quality of life improvements when it comes to flagship, smartphone pricing and there are exceptions. But this is what tends to happen. The phone launches, and for at least a month, it’s almost impossible to get it below the launch price and a couple of deals and discounts start coming in you might be able to get 10 % off.
We see the most significant drops, though, when new phones come out from the same company, and so the s9 plus saw one drop when the note nine came out roughly six months in and then another when the s10 came out in total one year later. After this point, once the phone has been effectively replaced, whilst it will continue to fall in price, the rate at which it falls will be lower. Long story short right now is a sweet spot right now. This phone makes sense at close to three hundred and fifty dollars the kinds of phones you could, alternatively, buy this year.
If you wanted brand new are things like the Huawei, P, 30 light the red magic Mars or the Xiaomi me 9 s II and those are all good phones but you’ll struggle to find devices that have IP 68 water resistance phones that can do wireless charging. Phones with dual speaker, setups or even just a camera – that is this consistently good. Don’T get me wrong? There are reasons why you might want to buy a newer, cheaper phone as opposed to a may be used flagship, but performance is not one of them. A top-end chip from last year is still gon na massively outperform any kind of current mid-range chip.
If you’re a gamer, then games are still gon na run better on this phone than them. You might have seen my video on the best smartphones of 2019 so far where I mentioned that this smartphone is a better buy than the Galaxy Note 9 and to clarify it. The note 9 is similar to the s 9 plus, but with a noticeably larger battery.
It’S a better phone all round, but the thing is, I couldn’t find one for less than about $ 500, and so the takeaway is, if you can find an amazing deal on it, then it’s worth going for, but from what I’ve seen at the s9 is consistently Better bang for your buck right now, at least and yeah. This video shouldn’t take away from the appeal of the s10 ferns either they are a massive improvement in not just performance and battery but design you pretty much lose the bezels and you get an even better display, but very expensive twice the price, and so I really For a different type of consumer, if you can spring for that, I’d recommend it. But if you can’t, then I’d pay attention to the galaxy s 9 and s 9, plus, if you enjoyed this video it’d, be massively appreciate it if you could subscribe to the website. My name is Aaron; this is mr.
who’s, boss and I’ll catch you in the next one. You .