Having owned a Note 9, I can confidently say that I loved that phone. It was powerful, and even with all the new phones out now, mine had no hiccups or other performance issues. The battery gave me 6-7 hours of SoT (half being YouTube for my commute), with the other half being Gmail and we browsing. It also had a great camera, especially with the Arnova GCAM apk. The s-pen doesn't do the magic wand gimmick stuff, but it worked as a Bluetooth shutter button, which was awesome. Finally, expandable storage, headphone jack and fingerprint scanner...along with secure IR face detection. It was literally the last great have everything phone.