Samsung - Galaxy Note9 128GB - Lavender Purple (Sprint)

So I've been an Apple fan, and deeply entrenched in their ecosystem for many, many years, beginning with the iPhone 3. There is no doubt their products are eye-catching, well-integrated, and something of a status symbol. I have owned just about every type of device they produce (iPhone, iPad Pro, Apple Watch, MacBook). So why leave? Well, to be honest, I'm typing this review on a MacBook Air and my iPad Pro 12.9 is charging. So I haven't completely divorced Apple. Let's just say, we need some time apart. Now I liked my iPhone X but being a fan of technology in general, I keep my eye on the latest, greatest, and upcoming tech items. Samsung releases their Note 9, there is a buzz around this phone, it peaks my interest. I look at the pre-release reviews, watch the keynote address, and finally get my hands on one to demo at Best Buy. Now, I'm in love! This phone is visually stunning! I purchased the blue and it is beautiful. Ok, so it's pretty to look at, but it also functions like no other device I have ever owned. Brains AND beauty. Samsung does an amazing job with their skins over the stock Android OS. Coming from Apple, there isn't much you can customize to truly make your phone "yours". Mostly cosmetic, not much in true customization. With my Note 9 - WOW! I can dig so much deeper into the settings and customizations, truly making this device mine. My productivity is much increased, partly because of customizations, partly because of the amazing S Pen, and partly because the Note 9 makes me WANT to use it. I really enjoy the productivity boost, but also have found myself really getting deep into Samsung Health, more than I ever did with Apple's integrated health system. It really is a pleasure using this phone. Combined with my Gear S3, this is a powerhouse. The battery life - well I am a heavy user and am getting about 30 hours between charges with about 20% remaining on the battery. Much better than my iPhone X. The cameras take amazing, beautiful photos and 4K video. The expandable storage helps keep those stunning pictures and videos right on your phone. Yes, the price is a tad bit steep, but for all you get, I think it's a justifiable purchase. This review could be pages and pages of why I love this device. I'll just end by saying it is a beautiful device, performs flawlessly, incredible power, good battery life, excellent storage capacity, and so much productivity potential it's crazy. The Note 9 has become an integrated part of my daily routine and I am extremely pleased with this purchase.

I came to upgrade one Verizon phone at Xmas. They said could save me money with sprint. I said has to be apple to apples or better. They said yes. The unlimed plan sounded good the cost saving is great. However, that where good ends. I specifically asked about being on a phone call and using multiple apps at once when on cellular due to how much I work from my devices as I travel a lot of time doing screen sharing or remote management of IT assists while on the move during a trouble call. They called A rep from sprint over and she called the back office and all ensured me that my Samsung note 9 can surely do it. so I switch the whole family over. It took much longer than expected I was in the store for almost 3 hours to switch over 5 lines. and then over the course of the next few weeks, we have speed issues. they said they were going to send us a magic box to fix it. oh, wait not available in my area. And now I am back to work after the holiday and start traveling and big surprise I cannot use date and be on a phone call at the same time. I called support 3 times to confirm and yes everyone told me the same thing sometime in late 2019 they will turn that on for note 9. WOW. (I had other not happy language but best buy won't let me post that). I was not happy (other language not allowed to use per best buy) all I got was a broken sorry. as my call to support dropped. WOW!!!!! I finally got an answer just this week by someone on social media that said there is a setting on the iPhone XR my family uses if you turn on it will work but that is off by default. WOW. It did work but it is slow to use. Bottom line is you get what you pay for, Cheaper service is cheaper. the network is slower. Ohh and the best part. Sorry no take back you only have 3 days to change your mind and go back even at the holidays. NO BUDGING NO MATTER WHAT YOU WERE TOLD. sorry, it a long review to read but I am upset (as I must say I can't use stronger language or won't post review)(#freedom of speech)

The note series is one of the flagship model of Samsung phones. The quality and design have always been top notch. Although Note 8 and Note 9's design have been similar, the inside of the phone is what makes Note 9 matters. Note series is geared more toward business user where the stylus may become more handy for a power user. The stylus is top notch, really useful when you want to sign a document accurately and jot down notes in handwriting. As a Samsung flagship's phone, you can expect great design and performance. Samsung's user interface is not overly done, which is good and simple enough to navigate. Note 9 is a significant improvement over Note 8. The phone feels faster to do things you require. Retinal scan to unlock the phone is significantly faster. Bluetooth feature of the stylus may come in handy especially when you use the phone to tether presentation. Screen quality is excellent. The OLED screen will do justice to the picture the phone takes. Picture quality is gorgeous. Battery life feels improved from Note 8. The only thing about Note 9 that Samsung could have improved is the screen design, which has the same design as Note 8. We may see a full screen phone in the coming months with the latest Samsung S-series but you won't really missing much because Note 9's screen is already large and beautiful enough. So should you get this or the new iPhone XS? Well, if you're so tied in the iOS ecosystem then you might want to stick with Apple products. But if you switch to Android and go with Note 9, you may realize that you have been missing one thing or two all these years before taking the leap and jump into the android bandwagon. Note 9 will give you more flexibility in managing and transferring files from your device. You can even expand your memory storage easily by getting a micro SD card, which now comes in 512GB capacity.

This review is for the Samsung Galaxy Note9 128GB, locked with Sprint. I upgraded from the Samsung S8 Plus, so the size is slightly larger with the Note9, so you will need a new case. The battery does last a little longer on the Note, and seems faster. Now, being that the price was 699.99 with the 300.00 Best Buy discount around Thanksgiving, I am not sure it was worth that much for the upgrade since there was nothing wrong with my S8+. I had to pay about $200 to “own” the S8+ on the Sprint plan, so I could pass it to my wife to replace her old cracked Samsung S5. This made it worth it for me because I would have had to pay a lot more than 200.00 to replace her S5, so I had to upgrade to the Note9 for her own good, so she could have a better phone. :-) More memory, faster, better camera, and the stylus was the combination that I could not resist. I had never had a Note product before, but I think I will like this and make it last a long time before having to upgrade again (at least 2 years, LOL). I was filling out a form that required my signature through a web portal, and I didn't have to do anything special for the signature box to come up and let me sign the form with the stylus. Disappointments: Data coverage is not as good as I had hoped, but this is probably more of an issue with Sprint, as there is only spotty data coverage in the building where I work, so I have to get up and walk down the hall to use my email or anything data related, but to be fair, my S8+ had the same problem, so it must be Sprint. I had just hoped that the Note9 would have better reception than my old phone.

I have had BlackBerry's, Palm, Motorola, Apple and Samsung phones since nearly the beginning of cell phones. My last 3 phones have been Samsung Note models. I suffered a traumatic brain injury and have fairly significant memory issues as a result. The ability to write myself notes so easily that are saved in one convenient location is priceless with my situation. But when you add battery life that is still in the 60-70% range at bedtime, a display that rivals my 4k 65" Samsung and cameras that are really good you almost forget the ridiculous price. Almost. I would give the phone 5 stars save one issue that hopefully isn't serious but worries me none the less: I use wireless qi charging and the screen is on WAY too much. I am very concerned about burn in. As soon as it reaches 100% the screen comes on and stays on until I manually hit the power button on the side. So on the rare occasion that I sleep through the night the screen could be on for 5 plus hours with the same image sitting there potentially burning in. Something really needs to be done about this bug, and then I would amend my review to 5 stars. Oh, and I forgot with the ability to add storage I just put over 4000 songs on this baby the other day and barely made a blip on the total storage. Fantastic compared to my Note 5 with less than 30GB available. Hope this helps you make your decision.

Tons have been said about this phone already, so I'll make mine short and sweet. The screen is awesome and is the selling point of the phone. The stylus is great as well and actually find myself using it regularly. The camera is fantastic, too. Surprisingly enough, the feature I find myself using the most is Samsung Pay. It's just that convenient. Now for the negative. I see some people saying this phone has a true "all day battery" and all I can figure is they never take their phone out of their pocket. By the time I get to work, my phone is already down to about 80% and by lunchtime it's floating around 50%. If I weren't to plug it in at any point during the day, it would be down to 30% by 5, which would mean if I had plans after work, I'd be out of luck and dealing with a dead or dying phone at some point. This is without playing games and having my screen brightness set to a moderate level. The other negative is that Samsung really takes their time updating their OS. I just recently got the latest version of Android...which my previous phone already had when I upgraded to this phone. Kinda ridiculous, to be honest. At the end of the day, there's not much not to like about the phone, I just wish I could get rid of the Samsung look and get straight Android for faster OS updates. I also wish that battery tech would finally catch up to phone tech so we could get a true all day phone.

Before my iPhone 7 Plus, I had a Samsung Galaxy 7. It stopped responding one day and basically the battery got fried. Silly me, thought I could remove the back part to remove the battery and put it back in. Wrong. The glass back broke. Anyways, I like this phone so far. It has 0 issues and it's best to get a film screen. Reason why? Well, do you need a glass screen for *protection* on a phone made of glass? Don't stress it. As for the camera, the quality may differ to like a friend who has an iPhone but the photos come out extremely nicer! Do I recommend it? Absolutely, I like messing with the pen to write on the memo. I suggest the GeekSquad protection plan along with your phone if you were like me. It was $169 with taxes and all that junk although, it's worth being protected for 2 years in case of anything. Don't do monthly pay for protection, you end up paying about $215 or more. ;) A cool thing I like about this phone which I'm unsure if the other phones have, it's the device maintenance. You clean your phone and it saves you a lot of space. This phone gives 128 GB and its worth it. I can save all the glorious hentai now onto my phone. And you can change optimization mode when it comes to playing games but, if you wanna see more, search on YouTube.

In my line of phones, I have always had the Galaxy Series and seeing the specs of this phone, I could not pass up the offer. Last Christmas, I got my mom the Note 8 and I had to play with it to show her how to use it and from there I always wanted a Note. Last year was a hectic year for me with traveling with my parents to doctor offices and the need to do homework was done by my phone. With my s8+, it handled the work load very well, but this year it started to lag and glitch out with more work that I made it go through. With this phone, it has not lagged yet and with the pen being an option to sign documents on the go has been a needed feature of mine. Taking pictures has been amazing and I can not tell you how happy I am with battery life. To spend over a grand on a phone is crazy to some individuals, but if you use all the technology that comes with the phone and use it towards your advantage, the money factor would not be an issue. Love this phone and the blue color!!!!