Last Thursday, Samsung unveiled its latest and most powerful device, the Note 9. As usual, I watched the conference and noticed from its inception that Samsung is focusing on using terms suggesting that its phone has become the strongest, but when you go into the details, you are surprised that Samsung plans to compete with the iPhone with statements only. It even seems to be giving up on other Android phones.
6 months ago Samsung launched its S9 - see us Our article- At that time, we published an analytical article in which we explained that although it is the most powerful Android phone at this time, it really cannot compete with the iPhone - see Our article-. As usual, we were attacked and insulted by Samsung lovers and that we are not professionals and biased to Apple ... Then the days passed and what we mentioned was proven where the S9 only failed to compete with the iPhone, but even in competition with the S8 or S7 or S5 even in sales. And in our article about Apple's $ XNUMX trillion hit -this linkWe talked about the details of the numbers and how there is little competition for the iPhone in sales. Guess what did Samsung decide to offer after 6 months?
Samsung copied its S9 +, changed its name and renamed it Note 9. Go to GSMArena and compare the two phones and you will see that there is little difference. Of course, there are various details such as the presence of the developed pen and the provision of an exceptional copy with a capacity of 512 GB and 8 GB RAM, but the rest of the details are copied in a way that makes me think for a long time about what Samsung may have done in the past 6 months. View an image from a portion of the comparison and note that it is the duplicate that appears faded.

Note that all of the above and I am comparing the Samsung S9 + and also the Samsung Note 9. We are comparing Samsung and Samsung.
What happens when you compare with others?
◉ the speedThe Samsung Note 9 failed to deliver high performance. Here we are not talking about high performance compared to the iPhone, this area is decisive, but even compared to Android. Despite Samsung's use of the same processor as its competitors, it failed to manage it well, and the result is that it got a result of only 8876 points, while a phone like OnePlus 6 got 9088 points.

◉ Camera: The Note 9 camera is a copy of the S9 + camera, and this camera, according to DXOMark, scored 99 points, while HTC U12 +, for example, scored 103 points. Samsung clarified that the camera did not have a technical change, but artificial intelligence was supported in it, which is a feature that improves images according to their content. However, Samsung's failure to mention their new device's camera rating, and this may suggest that it will not make an impressive difference (unless Samsung wants us to be surprised when it is released). We do not say definitively that the Note 9 camera is not good but rather better than the X camera, but it is illogical that Samsung launches a phone with a camera less than its competitors from HTC and Huawei after their phones have actually been released in the market, but Huawei hints at the arrival of the Mate 20. Of course, we mention that there is an iPhone coming After a month, by 99%, its camera will surpass Samsung, which will not be able to respond to the market after 6 months with the S10. Is this logical? Wasn't it supposed to increase the difference in preparation for competitors?

◉ Graphics: Of course, Samsung depends, as we know, on the Snapdragon 845 processor, but it is strange that Samsung has repeated several times that its most advanced phone is, and the leader of the Korean company said that we are hosting the director of the Epic company to tell you the power of the Samsung phone. And here came the shock which it is incomprehensible for Samsung to undertake. Fortnite is one of the very popular games and it is present everywhere except for Android (it has been in iOS for months), so bringing Samsung to this company as if it sheds light on a weakness in Android, which is the delay in their support from companies; Didn't Samsung find a better way to outperform its iOS and iPhone competitors? The shock came in the speech of the President of Epic himself, where he praised the Samsung phone that the best gaming experience that can be obtained on an "Android" phone is from Samsung. Do you know what this means? Ostensibly a praise for the strength of Samsung, but actually specifying the performance as the best in an Android phone and not a general phone means an explicit acknowledgment that the gaming performance on the iPhone is better.
◉ Old shipping: The same as what we mentioned in our article on the Samsung S9 still has a battery panic and decides to increase its size because it is afraid to develop charging technology. Samsung insists on using QC 2.0 at a time when its competitors who use Qualcomm have moved to QC 4.0 or at least QC 2.0. Is it possible that the phone that will be sold until mid-2019 uses charging technology from 2015?
Note on the conference
In Apple conferences, there is harmony between Apple and the audience. The conference is written and presented in a way that encourages the audience to applaud, and this is professionally managed. But at the Samsung conference, I felt something strange where I found an official announcing a feature and then enthusiastic applause. I thought I was wrong until Ji Soo Lee, the head of the artificial intelligence sector at Samsung, got up and frankly stopped talking at a point and said to the audience, "Clap," and sometimes clap himself to imitate him. Watch the conference and focus on what we have mentioned. If you like Apple's "Show" and applause, copy the method, not tell the audience, "Clap us".
Watch the conference
A summary and a final word
Samsung made a great phone; But to have a fierce competitor from Huawei and Xiaomi and then decide to present another version of a phone you have 6 months ago in the market and suffer from poor sales is an incomprehensible step. Think about this point and leave Apple away or even think about it; Do you only intend for your point of excellence to be "Do you have 512 capacity?" Do you have memory cards? Your screen has a bump? Our phone includes a pen. “Are these things enough to buy a Note 9? Will the competition be in the field of advertising only and not on the ground?
What do you think about the Samsung Note 9? Do you expect it to be able to compete with the next iPhone and other top Android phones?
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