You can see how the Note 9 absolutely missed on both white balance and at recognising a piece of cake. Note the second to last image in the slide show above. However, the Note 9 wasn’t always impeccable. The Pixel 2 XL did a better job of preserving the texture on the concrete parking garage in the back, while the Note 9 did more to eliminate the heavy yellow tint in the center of the frame, and something the Pixel 2 can’t match is the 2x optical zoom on the Note 9’s second rear camera. Picking between the two is basically a toss up. This time, both phones captured fantastic looking shots that if I had seen them more than a year ago, I would have been floored to learn they came from phone cameras. In both situations, the Note 9’s scene optimizer correctly identified that it was a nighttime pic, which when combined with the phone’s wider max aperture of f/1.5 resulted in wins for Samsung.Īfter a pretty heavy day’s use spent watching YouTube videos, playing games, and more, I was astounded that after getting over 6 hours of screen-on-time, the Note 9 still had nearly 30 per cent battery in reserve.īut what impressed me the most was when I tried to take a shot in the rain. In another photo of a diner shut down for the night, the Note 9 once again captured a significantly better looking image, with much less grain and clearer objects, especially as you look into the background. And with those spotlights pointing up on the sides, this scene wasn’t really all that dark. Take for example a shot of a nearby church in which the Note 9’s pic is superior across the board with richer colours, less noise, sharper details, and better exposure. However, in low light, I ran into multiple situations where the Note 9 out shot a Pixel 2 XL. I will say, that with Google’s advanced HDR+ processing, the Pixel 2 tends to has a slight advantage over Note 9 in bright, daytime situations.
#Handy note 9 pro
Between the iPhone X, the Pixel 2, the Huawei P20 Pro and the Galaxy Note 9, there isn’t a single smartphone that beats out its competition 100 per cent of the time, or depending on the match up, even 75 per cent of the time. However, to all those people who continue to swear up and down about how the Pixel 2 is clearly the best smartphone camera, just stop it, it’s not. The fingerprint reader is now below the camera instead of off to the side, but its horizontal position sometimes doesn’t feel quite right. That said, it seems graphics performance doesn’t benefit quite as much from the Note 9’s improved thermal management, because when I ran 3DMark Slingshot Extreme Unlimited one more time, both phones posted nearly equivalent marks of 4,974 for the Note 9, and 4,923 for the S9+, down from 5,021 and 5,033 respectively. The Note 9 fell a bit down to 8,053 (a drop of around 10 per cent), while the Galaxy S9+ suffered significantly more, with its score falling over 25 per cent to 6,171.
Then, I ran Geekbench one more time to see how much each phone’s performance had been impacted. Basically, anything I could to stress out the phone and turn up the heat. So after running my initial benchmarks, I tested this by taking the Note 9 and a Galaxy S9+ out for spin involving a few rounds of Fortnite, repeated runs of 3DMark’s Slingshot Extreme graphics test, and downloading a few torrents, all back to back. That means in addition to letting the Note 9’s Snapdragon 845 processor run more freely, resulting in slightly higher scores in Geekbench 4 (9,012 for the Note 9 vs 8,414 for S9+), the Note 9 can also sustain that performance for longer periods of time. Samsung also paid attention to little things like Note 9’s thermal management, and installed carbon fibre heat spreaders that are three times larger than the ones in the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy Note 8.
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