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The Bixby button is still there and Bixby still isnвЂ™t great вЂ“ it technically hasnвЂ™t even launched in the UK yet so we just get the US versionД«oth the phone and S Pen are water resistant to IP68 standards I didnвЂ™t find it overly useful, but I know that the feature has been on the wish lists of Note users for some time. Hold down the button and you can launch an app too. Other than the usual scribbling on screen, you can now press the button to trigger actions on your phone, such as taking a picture in the camera app, pausing music or presenting the next slide in PowerPoint.

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Slide the S Pen back into the body for a full charge in 40 seconds. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The GuardianДЄnother new addition is a Bluetooth-enabled S Pen, which uses a supercapacitor to operate the S Pen away from the phone for up to 30 minutes or so.

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The new S Pen can trigger actions when pressing the button thanks to its Bluetooth connection to the phone. Low light performance was excellent too, as was the 8-megapixel selfie camera. Lacklustre AI elements aside, the camera is brilliant, capturing a rich amount of detail, even with the telephoto lens, and in a range of lighting conditions. The AI is also meant to spot when the image is blurry or your subject has their eyes closed, but I couldnвЂ™t get it to alert me no matter how many shots of friends blinking I took. New for the Note 9 is an AI system for optimising scenes for shots, which worked fine when it recognised objects such as food and plants, but often created oversaturated images that look like theyвЂ™ve been put through an Instagram filters. Two 12-megapixel cameras, one wide angle with dual aperture and the other a 2x telephoto camera. The dual-camera system on the back is the same as that fitted to the Galaxy S9+. The dual camera system with dual aperture on the wide-angle camera is capable of capturing some really great shots, but the AI didnвЂ™t live up to its promises. ItвЂ™s possible that the North American version of the Note 9 with the Qualcomm processor may have longer battery life.

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That was while using the Note 9 as my primary device with the always-on display active, while browsing and using apps for five hours with well over a hundred notifications, reading comics in Marvel Unlimited for 60 minutes, and listening to about five hours of music via Bluetooth headphones.ДЇor comparison, HuaweiвЂ™s 6in Mate 10 Pro can last two full days between charges under similar conditions. With the screen set to its maximum resolution of QHD+ the battery lasted an average of 25 hours between charges or an hour longer with the screen set to FHD+ resolution.

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Chrome viewed on a 1080p monitor handled very large and demanding web apps better than most cheap PCs.Д«attery life was solid, but somewhat disappointing given the large 4,000mAh capacity battery, matching the performance of the Galaxy S9+, which has a 12.5% smaller capacity battery. Its performance as a desktop computer using SamsungвЂ™s DeX system, connecting the phone to a monitor via a standard USB-C to HDMI cable, was surprisingly good.

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The Note 9 is arguably the best performing Android device on the market, and is capable of maintaining that maximum performance for much longer without overheating, which was very noticeable in Shadowgun Legends compared with a Pixel 2XL or OnePlus 6. Performance should be similar between the two versions, although there may be discrepancies at the extremes. The European model has SamsungвЂ™s own Exynos 9810 chip and was the version tested, while the North American model has QualcommвЂ™s Snapdragon 845 processor, which is used in the OnePlus 6 and other top-end phones released in 2018. Like the Galaxy S9, the Note 9 has a different processor, depending on where you buy it. The Note 8 on the left in black and the Note 9 on the right in blue. Samsung should have included a hand strap like the ones that came with phones in the early 2000s. If any phone would benefit from a ring or finger grip on the back, this is it. The massive screen does have its downsides, though, as it makes the Note 9 fairly difficult to handle without two hands. The Note has always been SamsungвЂ™s showcase for its best screen technology. The screen is the best you can get on a smartphone, with bright, bold colours, inky blacks and great viewing angles. ItвЂ™s a tiny change but makes a huge difference for usability. The dual-camera system now sits slightly proud of the glass back and the fingerprint scanner has been moved from alongside the cameras to below them. The bezels are slightly smaller and the aluminium band around the sides slightly more prominent. Place the new phone next to the Note 8 and youвЂ™d be hard pressed to tell the difference, until you look a bit more closely. 2017вЂ™s Note 8 on the left, the new Note 9 on the right.