Hi Note 9 lovers, this is my first post and I have some questions that I would really appreciate your feedback on.
But first, a bit of background so you can appreciate where I'm coming from. Sorry in advance for the long post
I too am a Note 9 lover, except I don't own a Note 9, I use an iPhone 6 Plus. Yep, 6 Plus, as in the year 2014 6 Plus.
You see, nothing Apple released in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 has compelled me enough to want to upgrade to a newer iphone.
For a brief period in 2013, I jumped from the iphone 4S to the Note 3. I was impressed with the tips and tricks videos and reviews about the N3 on youtube so much that I got the N3 through a 2 year contract with my carrier Optus (Australia). Luckily I kept the 4S as a back up because I quickly regretted the decision. As a forever iphone user, watching videos about the N3 and then using it as a daily was like night and day. I had it for 6 weeks. Many things about the N3 spooked me. The plastic backing, I honestly felt like I was going to break the little plastic lip when I took it off to replace the battery. It just felt cheap and nasty. I would get notifications telling me that certain apps were trying to dowload things, can't remember what ecactly but it gave me the creeps. The N3 came pre-installed with the Facebook app yet when setting the device up, which took a while, I got a suggestion notification that I should download the android app for Facebook for a better user experience. So I did and then had 2 Facebook apps on my device, WTF. I was miserable about the cheap and nasty apps found on the Google playstore (though I did like the refund policy if you wanted to return a paid app within 15 minutes). I was confused as all hell with all the different stores/markets you could get apps from. Sometimes too much choice can be overwhelming. I was annoyed with the Optus bloatware I could not get rid of. I was concerned about malware and inadvertently downloading viruses. And being an ios user, the interface was confusing to use. And of course the messages app was no where near as good as imessage. I was like a boy from the city being released into the jungle alone and having to fend for myself. It was a terrible experience. As a result, I put my sim back in the ip4S and sold the N3 to a friend. About a year later I bought the iphone 6 Plus and have had it ever since.
Yes the i6P bores me, and yes I'm frustrated due to having the same phone for 4 years, but at least I have not had to endure buyer's remorse like I did with the N3 and in turn I have saved a bit of coin in the process. But I want to upgrade. I so want to upgrade. But as I said above, nothing has compelled me in the last 4 years to want to upgrade. Apple's feature adding is as regular as the olympic games and I'm still burnt by my N3 experience.
Notwithstanding the N3 experience, I have always said, the only phone I would ever leave the iphone for is the Note. Not interested in the Galaxy, not interested in the Pixle or other devices, it's either iphone or Note.
It took me about 3 years to get interested in the Note line again. In 2016 I started looking at reviews of the N7 and got curious. I was impressed with the premium look (no more cheap platic backing) but unfortunately the battery problem arose. In 2017 I went to a Samsung store here in Melbourne (Australia) and played around with the N8 for about 3 hours. And wow, what a device. Honestly I nearly bought it outright there and then. The Only reasons I didn't were because:
1. 64 gig local storage would not be enough for me. I know you can increase storage with an SD card but expandable storage cannot store apps, I was told.
2. I was not thrilled with the position of tne FPS.
3. I still hadn't completely gotten over the N3 experience.
4. I wanted to see what the iphone X, being the 10 year anniversary iphone, would bring. I got caught up with the hype and how it was going to be exponentially better than any prior iteration. And as I watched the keynote, it quickly dawned on me that it was just another boring iphone as they spent most of the X discussion during the keynote talking about Face ID. In other words, the new killer feature was one biometrich replacing another biometrich. No customisation, no split screen multitasking, no ability to put widgets on the home screen, just the same UI with the same boring grid of apps with no home button. So I thought, next year.
And here I am now, 13-14 months later, writing this message.
I went to the same Samsung store a few weeks ago and played with the N9 and loved it more than the N8. But I'm still holding back. Think standing by a swimming pool on a hot day, wanting to get in, but you don't want to get in because the water is cold. That's how I am at this point.
I have a few questions and would appreciate any feedback.
Q1. Do you expect the N10 to live up to some rumours that it will be significantly better than the N9? I have already heard a rumour the headphone jack may not be in the N10. In other words, if you haven't upgraded at this point, would it be worth waiting for the N10? I've waited 4 years, so what's another 10 months?
Q2. If I was to get the N9, would I experience similar weird issues that I had with the N3, such as being advised by the phone to download Facebook for android when the phone comes pre-installed with Facebook, being notified that apps are trying to download stuff, carrier bloatware if I get the phone through a carrier plan, etc?
Q3. This is specifically for former long time iphone users who made the switch to a Note phone. How did you find the switch? Is android all that bad? Do you miss imessages? Is it easy to navigate around the Note?
Q4 How real is the threat of catching viruses on the Note or any android for that matter? Tim Cook mentions it from time to time. Does the Note come with pre-installed anti virus features or are you on your own and have to make a decision about what security app to get? Even though I'm frustraded and bored with my pre-historic iphone 6 Plus, I do feel safe using it. I can download any app, open any attachment via email or through imessages, I could even go to the dodgiest porn site there is, and I would feel perfectly safe. Do you feel a similar sense of safety on the Note 9 or do you have to treat with a degree of caution?
My heart is saying get the Note but my head is saying don't. I'm really torn and undecided.
Thanks.
But first, a bit of background so you can appreciate where I'm coming from. Sorry in advance for the long post
I too am a Note 9 lover, except I don't own a Note 9, I use an iPhone 6 Plus. Yep, 6 Plus, as in the year 2014 6 Plus.
You see, nothing Apple released in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 has compelled me enough to want to upgrade to a newer iphone.
For a brief period in 2013, I jumped from the iphone 4S to the Note 3. I was impressed with the tips and tricks videos and reviews about the N3 on youtube so much that I got the N3 through a 2 year contract with my carrier Optus (Australia). Luckily I kept the 4S as a back up because I quickly regretted the decision. As a forever iphone user, watching videos about the N3 and then using it as a daily was like night and day. I had it for 6 weeks. Many things about the N3 spooked me. The plastic backing, I honestly felt like I was going to break the little plastic lip when I took it off to replace the battery. It just felt cheap and nasty. I would get notifications telling me that certain apps were trying to dowload things, can't remember what ecactly but it gave me the creeps. The N3 came pre-installed with the Facebook app yet when setting the device up, which took a while, I got a suggestion notification that I should download the android app for Facebook for a better user experience. So I did and then had 2 Facebook apps on my device, WTF. I was miserable about the cheap and nasty apps found on the Google playstore (though I did like the refund policy if you wanted to return a paid app within 15 minutes). I was confused as all hell with all the different stores/markets you could get apps from. Sometimes too much choice can be overwhelming. I was annoyed with the Optus bloatware I could not get rid of. I was concerned about malware and inadvertently downloading viruses. And being an ios user, the interface was confusing to use. And of course the messages app was no where near as good as imessage. I was like a boy from the city being released into the jungle alone and having to fend for myself. It was a terrible experience. As a result, I put my sim back in the ip4S and sold the N3 to a friend. About a year later I bought the iphone 6 Plus and have had it ever since.
Yes the i6P bores me, and yes I'm frustrated due to having the same phone for 4 years, but at least I have not had to endure buyer's remorse like I did with the N3 and in turn I have saved a bit of coin in the process. But I want to upgrade. I so want to upgrade. But as I said above, nothing has compelled me in the last 4 years to want to upgrade. Apple's feature adding is as regular as the olympic games and I'm still burnt by my N3 experience.
Notwithstanding the N3 experience, I have always said, the only phone I would ever leave the iphone for is the Note. Not interested in the Galaxy, not interested in the Pixle or other devices, it's either iphone or Note.
It took me about 3 years to get interested in the Note line again. In 2016 I started looking at reviews of the N7 and got curious. I was impressed with the premium look (no more cheap platic backing) but unfortunately the battery problem arose. In 2017 I went to a Samsung store here in Melbourne (Australia) and played around with the N8 for about 3 hours. And wow, what a device. Honestly I nearly bought it outright there and then. The Only reasons I didn't were because:
1. 64 gig local storage would not be enough for me. I know you can increase storage with an SD card but expandable storage cannot store apps, I was told.
2. I was not thrilled with the position of tne FPS.
3. I still hadn't completely gotten over the N3 experience.
4. I wanted to see what the iphone X, being the 10 year anniversary iphone, would bring. I got caught up with the hype and how it was going to be exponentially better than any prior iteration. And as I watched the keynote, it quickly dawned on me that it was just another boring iphone as they spent most of the X discussion during the keynote talking about Face ID. In other words, the new killer feature was one biometrich replacing another biometrich. No customisation, no split screen multitasking, no ability to put widgets on the home screen, just the same UI with the same boring grid of apps with no home button. So I thought, next year.
And here I am now, 13-14 months later, writing this message.
I went to the same Samsung store a few weeks ago and played with the N9 and loved it more than the N8. But I'm still holding back. Think standing by a swimming pool on a hot day, wanting to get in, but you don't want to get in because the water is cold. That's how I am at this point.
I have a few questions and would appreciate any feedback.
Q1. Do you expect the N10 to live up to some rumours that it will be significantly better than the N9? I have already heard a rumour the headphone jack may not be in the N10. In other words, if you haven't upgraded at this point, would it be worth waiting for the N10? I've waited 4 years, so what's another 10 months?
Q2. If I was to get the N9, would I experience similar weird issues that I had with the N3, such as being advised by the phone to download Facebook for android when the phone comes pre-installed with Facebook, being notified that apps are trying to download stuff, carrier bloatware if I get the phone through a carrier plan, etc?
Q3. This is specifically for former long time iphone users who made the switch to a Note phone. How did you find the switch? Is android all that bad? Do you miss imessages? Is it easy to navigate around the Note?
Q4 How real is the threat of catching viruses on the Note or any android for that matter? Tim Cook mentions it from time to time. Does the Note come with pre-installed anti virus features or are you on your own and have to make a decision about what security app to get? Even though I'm frustraded and bored with my pre-historic iphone 6 Plus, I do feel safe using it. I can download any app, open any attachment via email or through imessages, I could even go to the dodgiest porn site there is, and I would feel perfectly safe. Do you feel a similar sense of safety on the Note 9 or do you have to treat with a degree of caution?
My heart is saying get the Note but my head is saying don't. I'm really torn and undecided.
Thanks.
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