Samsung Galaxy note 9 : Gaming Review

Release date: 2018, 24 August | Weight: 201 g (7.09 oz)  |  Dimensions: 161.9 x 76.4 x 8.8 mm (6.37 x 3.01 x 0.35 in) | OS: Android 8.1 Oreo | Screen size:6.4 inches, 103.2 cm2 (~83.4% screen-to-body ratio) | Resolution: 1440 x 2960 pixels, 18.5:9 ratio | CPU: Snapdragon 845/Exynos 9810  | RAM: 8GB | Storage: 128GB/ 512GB | Battery: 4,000mAh | Rear camera: Dual 12MP | Front camera: 8MP

• Great Battery
• Beautiful design
• Big Screen 
• Great Power
• And also S Pan 
• Capable cameras

The biggest, beastliest phone of the year is here, and spoiler alert, the Galaxy Note 9 lives up to the lofty expectations. In addition to a huge battery, large screen and generous onboard storage, Samsung taught the old S Pen a few new tricks that should make the stylus more useful to a wide audience. The Note 9 has a few minor quirks, but overall it feels like more than the sum of its parts.

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If you're familiar with the Note8, then there aren’t a ton of surprises in its successor. The AMOLED screen moves up to 6.4-inches from 6.3-inches in the Note 8. The Note 9 also uses the newest Snapdragon 845 processor and moves up to a maximum of 512GB of storage, which you can eventually expand up over 1TB with the release of Samsung’s 512GB MicroSD card. It’s all more than the average person really needs. The storage is enough for tens of thousands of photos and hours of 4K video. 

Playing the game

The download itself is big, checking in around 2GB, which is where that extra storage on the Note 9 comes in. Other popular games like Blizzard’s Hearthstone or Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds Mobile also require gigabytes of storage that would eat up a 32GB phone’s space in a hurry.One notable difference, however, between dedicated gaming phones like the Razer Phone or the not-available-in-the-U.S. ROG phone, is that this Samsung device has a typical 60 Hz refresh rate. Other phones have cranked that stat to 90 Hz or 120 Hz to make motion appear smoother on the screen, but motion on the Note 9 feels like a typical smartphone. There are so few high refresh rate phones around that this isn’t a knock against the Note 9, but maybe an indicator of what we’ll see from future Galaxy devices if the focus on gaming remains.

Should you buy it and play Fortnite on it?

If you’re seriously into mobile gaming, then the Note 9 has a lot going for it. It doesn’t have the fancy, fast-refreshing screen of the Razer phone, but you do get all the other Galaxy features, including the excellent S Pen stylus (which has also gotten some key improvements, but they have nothing to do with Fortnite, so we won’t go into those here).

The bottom line when it comes to considering this phone is how much you really crave overkill. While Apple charges you $1,000 for an iPhone X that’s more sophisticated and refined than its typical iPhone offerings, Samsung is about brute force power and features.