Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Should You Buy The Samsung Galaxy S9?”.
I know you guys have been watching me now. I’M watching you see here’s the thing all right. I told you a little while back I switched over to the s9 plus, and I thought it was gon na be a painful experience, because I was so into the pixel to excel. But then a few of you guys who saw some follow-up videos in your leg. I saw he’s using the pixel in that video, so he did that video was shot beforehand. All right, I have legitimately been using this s9 with my sim card in it as my exclusive device. I didn’t reach for this guy on the right at all.
It’S like Lou, you told us you would switch. How does it break down? How do I spend my dollars? I worked so hard for those dollars. What should I do? I have some thoughts, but I want to talk about a few differences. Few things that I’ve noticed. Two things that matter few things you should think about: the entire tech community is sorta in love with this pixel device. Because of that beautiful little camera up there, pixel to XL single lens, can do some of the dual lens effects that you’ve seen just through software and one really nice camera module on the s9 plus you get the dual lens setup: the variable aperture on one of The two lenses bit of a gimmick, if I’m honest, but it’s still a two lens setup, so there is an actual two times: optical zoom, straight up, no zoom image for image.
My eyeballs still like the pixels to excell camera a little bit. Alright. I don’t know why there’s something going on with the software processing it just. It creates a really nice image.
That said, you throw in the little bit of optical zoom on the s9 plus and all of a sudden there’s a little extra versatility there. I was using it the other night. I was at the Raptors game rest in peace, Toronto Raptors. I hit the 2x zoom all sudden, I’m at it’s like I’m standing at center court for the tip-off just a little bit of extra optical zoom. Don’T need to induce the digital version, the pixel nightmare, the scrambled eggs that are induced by that you don’t have to do it. You got optical zoom because of that I kind of like level the two out little extra versatility over here slightly better software over here. Nonetheless, you’re making nice photos with either of these. I promise you that, since we’re looking at the backs of the devices here, I might as well talk about that to design functionality first off the glass back situation, not really my thing all right, that’s why I’m always talking about putting like a case a leather case Or some kind of texture on the back of it, a glass is a bit dainty.
Little fragile little fancy might work for Jack Jack’s a fancy boy. You already knew that, but there are advantages that come along with it like one of my favorite features in the world that many people will argue until the end of time. Wireless charging check the record books. I’Ve been talking about wireless charging for a decade. It’S a nice thing to have. I got the fast charger sitting beside the bed.
I get home, it’s late. I slap it down. No fiddling. I never want to be a fiddler.
I guess it’s an instrument a fiddle so that guy wants to be a fiddler, but that’s he’s the only one anyhow, you plop it down and now, with the new fast charging stuff over wireless you’re, actually not giving up very much in terms of speed either pixel To excel no wireless charge, that kind of got used to not having it, but then going back to the s9 plus it was like. You know, I got ta, have it, what are we doing this day and age granted? It means you get this glass design. You get this fingerprint magnet speaking of finger prints these two things: they have much different, fingerprint layouts, all right, the pixel to excel, in my opinion here, far superior and the reason is the shape and the location, no competition with the camera. You know exactly where it is they look at the shape of my finger. Is that more rounded or more square? This is what they should be. A nice little circle like that capacitive fast.
Every time nail is now on the s9 plus they did improve it over. The previous version, I was really critical of the location on the previous version, because it could quite easily be misconstrued for the the camera lens like you could mix the two up less so here because you know it’s the first thing you touch and if you put A case on like I did and would then you just look for the ridge and bam, but Samsung is still worried about it, because when you launch the camera out it still tells you hey make sure you got a clean lens, because a lot of people I Hand this to a friend actually like what are you using these days? Lou, that’s what the real conversations happen. What’S the phone in your pocket, should I buy one? Should I get it s9 plus I took it out of the case. I handed it to him immediately.
He reached up, he put his fingerprints all over the camera lens all right, no granted, he would get used to it, but I get it from a design perspective, but you just can’t compete with the layout over here for capacitive finger prints. Now you have other options on your iris scan facial recognition. But for me the only face unlock that I really like is on the 1 5 t fast kablammo. That said, security disadvantage over the capacitive fingerprint I’ll still use the fingerprint scanner over the face unlock, and that remains true. With these two devices right here, you probably noticed an extra port there, that’s a headphone jack, useful I’ve used it many times already it’s much like. I was talking about in the apex video.
It maintains a headphone jack. Alongside the USB type-c connector, we have a traditional 3.5 millimeter headphone jack. It’S not doing anything to the form factor, it’s not making the phone bigger or harder to hold. There’S a really, no downside.
If they can fit a headphone jack in that device with like no bezel anywhere, I’m not satisfied with this situation anymore. I got a headphone jack. You don’t go, take a nap.
I do prefer this texture, though, if I was gon na go caseless the pixel 2 XL has a little grit to it. This has a little confidence to it when you hold it, if you choose to go caseless, this is probably the better option. From a texture standpoint, but it’s not all rosy over here on the s9 plus side, this Bigsby button is still here.
It’S still there. Obviously I would choose Google assistant 999,999 times out of a million a million times out of a million seemed like. Why do you want to battle with a system? Are you insane you won’t go head to head? You won’t go toe to toe with assistant. Why don’t you go ask Siri how that’s going I’m dying.
I don’t even need to feel bad about it, because you all know that already, if you’ve seen any comparison, man, everyone is trailing so far behind and it’s hard to do hold the whole machine learning AI scenario: you can’t just snap your fingers or some guy and Be like yo, so I try to minimise Bixby’s interference with my day to day and the first step in doing so was putting a different launcher on the phone you’re looking at Nova Launcher right there, even though you can disable the bixby button now in the bixby Settings a left swipe will still bring you there, but if you replace the launcher, which you know in my opinion, you might want to do any ways to get around TouchWiz, then you eliminate the left swipe to bixby that you might not want. So. In this scenario, Bigsby’s never coming up. I got the button.
Disabled no big, be there on the button and then the left swipe is gone as well, and the push and hold down here on the home button is bringing up assistant. So I kind of pixelized, my s9 plus and it’s the beauty of Android. You know turn the interface into something that works for you. Of course, you can go in here and modify even further the size of icons and so on, but nonetheless I made this look essentially like my pixel and completely obliterated the Bigsby button here: okay, let’s, let’s talk about overall usability, because I am such a fan of Stock Android, it’s like what is the downside of going away from a pixel device onto a Samsung device to a lot of bleeps and and Boop’s.
A lot of Samsung sounds and appearances that come with it, but they’re negated in a big way by just installing your own launcher, like I’ve done here in the case of Nova. All of a sudden I was like man, launchers are pretty cool this stuff. You can do the level of control that you get over the appearance and functionality of your device.
I know most users aren’t gon na dive into that alright. Well, maybe you guys will, but maybe the people that you advise they’re not putting launchers on, are they? I mean if they are, I kind of want to meet them. I want to see the the granny with Nova Launcher she’s out there somewhere.
I guess they’re gon na use the phone the way that it is, and in that case I give the software edge to the pixel you’re gon na get the fresh software first on the pixel devices. You have to figure out how valuable that is to you to have the latest features immediately. Super slow-mo is another advantage I will give to this device on the on the camera mode, even though it’s not super high res 960.
Fps is cool. I’Ve never met a person that didn’t think it was cool, so it might not have the most day-to-day usability, but you pull that out and you’re gon na catch some attention. It’S it’s really super slow-mo Jack’s gon na sub, in the clip right now with the lighter and in it I mean you can tell that’s, that’s actual slow-mo and then ain’t some fake slow-mo speakers.
This one is actually probably a tiny bit louder, but it’s not firing at you to the same degree. You get a little high end out of the earpiece region, but on the pixel and get two large grilles on the front. Clarity is probably a little better watching. Video on here from a sound perspective, but I actually think the s9 might go a bit louder.
So that’s a wash as well. There’S some plastic components here, whereas this one build quality wise, like the entire frame, is metal. They both got USB type-c. The s9 plus gives you expandable storage, whereas the pixel choo XL doesn’t I’m starting to paint a picture here, I’m starting to feel a story here. Last thing is the display, but it’s not even worth comparing, because obviously the OLED on Samsung phones, including the s9 plus the latest and greatest that’s top tier everybody’s buying. These displays from them to put them into their devices like Apple, because they’re the best in the biz look at the blacks on there. That’S the absence of light. You can’t beat it. We know about the screen issues on pixel to excel. You will get used to either display, but out of the box, there’s no doubt in my mind that this is the superior one. You guys see where I’m going here see I sat down. I didn’t know necessarily what I was gon na say.
I was just gon na try to put my thoughts out there and come to this conclusion. Live I’m pushing myself to make the best recommendation through my usage and exposure to all be smart, but I mean that’s really the job to be done here. That’S really what I have to do for you if you’re making a decision between these two devices right now. At this moment, I’m gon na say get the s9 plus. You heard this whole story. You heard the whole thing.
I did that video with all those other tech youtubers which phone is in your pocket right now. This phone was everywhere so, where I phones, it was like a split, I mean that’s a lot of people just being dead on it like look. This phone is in my pocket and this phone is in my pocket right now, all right that really happened and it’s gon na stay there. I’M not gon na switch back, I’m not sure the s9 plus represents the best overall value in the entire smartphone marketplace, but I do think it represents a better value at the current price point, then the picks will chew Excel for what you get.
But let’s just do a quick recap on the versatility offered up by this device right here: headphone jack check not on the pixel 2 XL wireless charging, it’s on the s9 plus it’s not on a pixel 2 XL, the camera – maybe not quite so good, but again More versatile, dual lens setup for optical zoom: it’s over here! It’S not over here, expandable storage. It’S over here! It’S not over here, display I’m giving the edge to the s9 plus the beautiful oullette. I’M just gon na give you the advice. Put your own launcher on pixelize, your s9 get the best of both worlds and cherish the versatility when you plug a set of headphones in or when you slap it on the wireless charger. That’S my pick.
I can only pick one I’m forcing myself to make the pick and it’s hard for me to do like I said I really did enjoy using this phone. It’S still really nice, it’s a great device, but I’m supposed to tell you you know the truth on the matter. That’S my job here, taking it very seriously recently the truth on the matter for your dollars.
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