Samsung Galaxy Note 9 announced: Price, release date, specs, features

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• Samsung announced the Galaxy Note 9 smartphone on
  Thursday during an event in Brooklyn, New York.
• The phone comes with high-end specs and design, as well
  as the Note line’s signature S Pen stylus.
• Samsung added new features to the S Pen stylus, like
  remote camera control.
• The base model of the phone will cost $1,000, similar
  to the iPhone X’s price tag. 

Samsung announced its Galaxy Note 9 smartphone on Thursday during
its Unpacked event in Brooklyn, New York.

The Galaxy Note 9 is Samsung’s largest smartphone model to date,
with a 6.4-inch screen, and it comes with an S Pen stylus that
brings a bunch of unique functionality to the phone.

The Galaxy Note 9 runs on high-end specs, including the Qualcomm
Snapdragon 845 processor that turns the wheels inside most
high-end smartphones in 2018. It also has a minimum of 6 GB of
RAM — with an option to go up to 8 GB — which should make for
smooth performance.

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Noteworthy is the Galaxy Note 9’s large 4,000-mAh battery that’s
large for any smartphone and should give it superior battery
life. We’ll have to see for ourselves how much longer the Galaxy
Note 9 will last on a single charge.

As for the S Pen stylus, used for note-taking and general
navigation around the phone, Samsung has added a few features.
You can now use the S Pen to control the phone’s camera remotely.
By pressing the S Pen’s button, you can turn on the camera,
switch between the rear and selfie cameras, and take a photo.

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App developers will also have the ability to integrate the S
Pen’s functionality into their apps.

The Galaxy Note 9’s dual-camera system is also getting Samsung’s
new “intelligent camera” feature that recognizes what kind of
object you’re photographing and adjusts the settings
automatically to take the best shot. This is something we’ll have
to test further when we try the phone.

Both cameras in the dual-lens system have 12 megapixels. One is
for regular photos and can adjust its aperture for low-light
shots, while the other is a “telephoto” lens for 2x optical
zooming, which is better than digital zooming on phones without a
telephoto lens.

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Samsung also announced that the popular “Fortnite” battle-royale
game would be exclusively available on Galaxy devices, starting
with the Galaxy S7 and up, for “a few days” before a wider
rollout. Galaxy Note 9 users will have exclusive access to a
specific character skin.

Oddly, the Galaxy Note 9 will come running Android 8.1, despite
Android 9’s release on Monday. It’s not the worst thing in the
world, but it’s not the best either. Android phones running on
older versions of the Android operating systems cause Android’s
signature problem:
fragmentation.

The Galaxy Note 9 will be available to preorder on Friday.
Carriers will start selling the $1,000 128 GB model of the Galaxy
Note 9 with 6 GB of RAM on August 24. The 512 GB Galaxy Note 9
with 8 GB of RAM will cost $1,300.