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The S Pen is what makes the Galaxy Note 9 unique, but for too long we’ve felt it doesn’t have enough distinguishing features for us to use it on a daily basis.

Samsung Pay, for example, lets you make contactless payments anywhere a credit card is accepted and Samsung Health can track your heart rate and stress levels. The Samsung apps installed are genuinely useful. It’s much improved over Samsung’s old TouchWiz skin, and there’s plenty of customization options and features you can turn on and tweak to your liking. Pie aside, the Android 8.1 Oreo software is the same as the Galaxy S9, with the Samsung Experience skin layered over. Google recently released Android 9.0 Pie, and Samsung had an opportunity to launch its latest smartphone with the brand new version of the mobile operating system. If you still need more space, there’s a MicroSD card slot. The base model comes with 128GB of storage, but there’s also an 8GB RAM variant paired with a massive 512GB of storage. Throw anything at the Note 9 - it can take it. The phone also didn’t become as hot as we’d anticipated, though battery life did take a hit, dropping about 16 percent. We played the Fortnite: Battle Royale beta for more than 30 minutes straight and didn’t encounter a hint of lag. We played Fortnite for more than 30 minutes and didn’t encounter a hint of lag. A cooler processor means you’ll be able to run the app or game longer, and there’s a lower chance of running into performance issues. Intensive tasks like a graphics-heavy game can put a lot of strain on a processor and cause it to heat up, which then throttles performance. There’s water in the phone - you heard that right – though it’s a miniscule amount. Samsung has outfitted a water carbon cooling system to keep the processor cool. While benchmarks don’t necessarily reflect real world performance, we haven’t run into any performance issues on the Note 9, and there’s a good reason why. The AnTuTu score is the highest we’ve ever recorded for a smartphone, landing right above the Galaxy S9 Plus, which scored 263,591.

3DMark Sling Shot Extreme: 3,517 (Vulkan).

Geekbench 4 CPU: 2,390 single-core 8,696 multi-core.

This is among the fastest Android phones we’ve seen to date, and here are a few benchmark results proving it: Like most high-end smartphones this year, the Galaxy Note 9 is powered by a Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845 processor, which is accompanied by 6GB of RAM. We think it’s still too high, but you can forgo it by using Intelligent Scan, which uses your face and iris to unlock the phone, and works well. Samsung received plenty of criticism last year for the placement of the sensor, and thankfully it has listened. Notably, the fingerprint sensor is in a more sensible location below the camera module. The glass rear is where you’ll start noticing design changes over the Note 8. The 6.4-inch Super AMOLED screen is absolute perfection. The buttons around the phone are clicky and easy to access (we’ll get to the special Bixby button later), and there’s also no notch on the display to disrupt the edge-to-edge screen experience.

The edges of the screen curve toward the rear, making the phone comfortable to hold, and the flat edges on the sides help with maintaining a tight grip. The Note 9 has a slightly larger 6.4-inch screen, but it’s a tad shorter, wider, and thicker than the Note 8. Like the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus, it’s all about refining the design. It’s tough to tell the difference between last year’s Galaxy Note 8 and the Note 9 from the front. But it’s the little refinements in the Note 9 that make it exceptional, and worth its high price of admission. Bixby is still a little rough around the edges, there’s no Android 9.0 Pie, and did we mention it costs $1,000? The cheaper Galaxy S9 Plus has similar features, and for most people, it’s all the phone you need. Price, availability, and warranty information.