The OnePlus 6 ability be bigger than the Note 9 in added galaxies, but not this one

Here is why the Note 9 is bigger than the OnePlus 6 (and best added phones).

Huge phone launches are a active time of year for tech bloggers usually. We accept reviews, comparisons, affection focuses, and all kinds of added agreeable to address about. However, the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 barrage acquainted like a burial procession. It aloof didn’t accept the aforementioned animation as antecedent flagship phone launches.

Whether it’s industry burnout, laziness, or accouterment to a specific audience, I can abandoned speculate. It was an abnormally acclimatized acknowledgment for acceptable one of the top two or three best phones of the year. A hasty cardinal of comparisons accept popped up amid the powerhouse, power-user affable Note 9 and the affordable, basic, but abundantly able OnePlus 6. We don’t apperceive why anybody seems to be acrimonious the OnePlus 6, but it is what it is.

Let’s booty a afterpiece attending at these two devices. In reality, there is no absolute allegory here.

Nobody can absolutely win or lose a cost-vs-worth argument, because what affairs changes from actuality to person. Anyone can bung the altercation of amount about and be appropriate bisected of the time after alike trying. It’s a bargain affectionate of article. It’s everywhere, accessible to swallow, and bad for your bloom if you absorb it consistently — It’s the McDonald’s of hot takes.

A ton of bodies accede the OnePlus 6 a abundant amount and aloof as abounding accept the Note 9 is a abundant value. Neither demographic is amiss because amount is in the eye of the beholder. It’s like watching a video area addition says their admired blush is blooming and, because of that, it’s bigger than all of the added colors. That’s not how a allegory works.

Worth is acquired by belief the admeasurement of your wallet adjoin your preferences and needs. Obviously, your needs alter from mine. Our needs (yours and mine) alter from the added bodies annual this. Thus, in an actual, cold allegory amid two devices, discussing amount is counter-productive. It’s acclimated to akin what is contrarily an asperous arena acreage amid two accessories that contrarily are not comparable.

If you appetite to apperceive which phone is the best amid any two devices, discussing amount gets in the way added than it adds clarity.

Sometimes the bigger things are artlessly added big-ticket and that’s the way it is. Whether or not it’s annual it to you is your assessment and your assessment is altered to you alone. What you can allow doesn’t affect what I buy and what I can allow doesn’t affect what you buy. Annual isn’t a metric you can active admeasurement and that makes it absurd to allocution about aback comparing two things so altered from one another.

From this point forward, annihilation about this allegory is activity to accord with cost. Let’s begin!

Basically the abandoned similarities in these accessories are the specs, which you’ve acceptable apparent ad nauseum already. We won’t bore you with a cool abundant assay of accessory differences, so here’s a quick annual of the things these phones both do actual well:

There are some things the OnePlus 6 does bigger than the Note 9. The annual isn’t actual long.

That’s a almost ample list. We’re not aggravating to marginalize one accessory in favor of addition here. The OnePlus 6 is a acceptable device. No one’s debating that.

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The Note 9 does basically aggregate not ahead listed better. A lot of bodies don’t apperceive aggregate the Note 9 alike does, so let’s get this annual going!

That is a abundant best annual and it doesn’t alike accommodate agglomeration of abate appearance like the Secure Folder, the adeptness to carbon some apps for assorted accounts, a Acquisition My Phone action with your Samsung account, Knox security, Samsung Pay’s MST technology, and all that added actuality specific to Samsung phones (though not absolute to the Note 9).

Comparisons like this aren’t fair at all. These accessories are not congenital for the aforementioned blazon of consumer. The OnePlus 6 is a basal accessory with aerial end specs. It’s mostly for scrolling Facebook, demography the casual photo, arena the casual adaptable game, and authoritative the casual phone call. It’s not a ability user phone and it’s not declared to be. Despite what you ability be told, phones are not as all-encompassing as they may seem. They are congenital for altered types of people. The Note 9 is annihilation like the OnePlus 6 abreast from some accepted specs beneath the hood.

The OnePlus 6 competes actual able-bodied with accessories like the LG G7 ($749.99), the Samsung Galaxy S9 ($719.99), and the Google Pixel 2 ($649). If you appetite to see the OnePlus 6 on a pedestal, ask bodies to analyze it with those phones. Those accessories were all built, priced, and marketed to the boilerplate consumer. You don’t see a stylus in the anatomy of those accessories because boilerplate consumers don’t usually allegation actuality like that. There is a acumen the OnePlus 6 awash one actor units this year so far. It’s not because it’s demography a allotment of the Note 9’s cake. It’s because it’s demography pieces of the Galaxy S9’s cake. The OnePlus 6 does what the S9 was advised to do bigger and at a cheaper price.

Let’s accompany amount aback into this. The OnePlus 6 goes for beneath $600 and the Note 9 goes for about $1,000. You can ask about whether the added appearance are annual $400 until the beasts appear home and you could get a altered acknowledgment from actually everybody you ask. Again annual and amount are acutely claimed opinions. You can’t admeasurement them or use them as an cold antecedent of advice aback allurement a catechism like what phone is the best phone. There are two answers to that question.

You can get the best phone for you, but that requires belief your options adjoin your needs and preferences. Claimed assessment doesn’t accept abundant to do with award the best phone overall. Phones are tools, and the Note 9 is like a Swiss Army Knife. It artlessly does a lot added stuff, which makes it a bigger tool.

People like car comparisons, so let’s do one of those. The OnePlus 6 is like a Honda Civic. The abject archetypal goes for $19,000, it gets you to and from the office, and it has abundant amplitude for your briefcase, your dry cleaning, and some bags. The Note 9 is like a Dodge Ram. Its abject amount $27,000 and it’ll tow your boat, advice you move a couch, and accommodate a abode to abundance your toolbox on the move. You don’t pit the two adjoin anniversary added and say the Civic is bigger because it drives forward, takes corners better, and is cheaper. Those two cartage were advised to do absolutely altered things.

The Note 9 and the OnePlus 6 are absolutely the aforementioned way. The Note 9 is congenital for added acute smartphone users who appetite to do added things. The OnePlus 6 was congenital for bodies who aloof appetite to do the basal actuality absolutely well. Bringing annual into it aloof pushes the band in the administration of someone’s claimed choices.

At the end of the day, you’re activity to buy what you’re activity to buy — I’m not actuality to advertise you anything.  However, every now and then, it’s fun to sit bottomward and aloof allocution about what phones are bigger from the standpoint of aloof actuality better, instead of consistently aggravating to get cool specific about things like wallet altruism and use cases. The Note 9’s annual of appearance is abuse absorbing and it should be celebrated.

Find a phone with a array that big, 2018 flagship specs, and a stylus that competes agreeably with the best in customer tech after resorting to a cleft or removing a headphone jack. I’ll wait.

What do you think? Sound off in the comments. No agnosticism we’ll get some acceptable discussions activity — I can’t delay to apprehend them!

Read our reviews of these accessories here!

Samsung Galaxy Note 9 review: In acclaim of incrementalism

OnePlus 6 review: the airy almsman to the Nexus

This allegory isn’t about price

Let’s alpha with the similarities

What the OnePlus 6 does better

What the Note 9 does better

No, this allegory isn’t fair

Wrap up

Worth is a action of your budget, needs, and preferences, not addition else's.

Phones are tools, and the Note 9 is like a Swiss Army Knife.

• Both phones run on a Snapdragon 845, 6GB-8GB of RAM, a 128GB accumulator option, with a glass-metal-glass appearance design.
• There is a 0.12-inch aberration in affectation size. They are basically the aforementioned size. They additionally both use AMOLED screens. We’ll get added into the screens in a bit.
• We ran Geekbench 4 ten times on anniversary device. The array were basically alike accustomed the variables for things like software. The array cesspool was additionally about the aforementioned aback array admeasurement was taken into account. In convenance and in testing, achievement on both are excellent. Some letters announce that agnate testing showed the OnePlus 6 had basically the aforementioned performance, but was several degrees warmer than the Note 9. However, none of the numbers were altered abundant to accord the added one an advantage one way or the other. They accomplish tasks at a abutting abundant clip to alarm it even.
• Both phones accept basal borderline functionality like USB Type-C and a headphone jack. It’s acceptable to see both phones accouterment to alcove markets.
• Neither accessory has an IR blaster and that’s lame.
• You can booty admirable photos in acceptable lighting with both phones.
• Both accept dual-SIM functionality.
• Both abutment Project Treble, according to this app.
• The Note 9 and OnePlus 6 should both get somewhat constant security updates. Samsung’s absolute 9-series calendar (S9, S9 Plus, and Note 9) accept the August 2018 security patch. Meanwhile, the OnePlus 6 has the July 2018 security patch, but best of OnePlus’ calendar has the August one. Neither OEM is constant with it, but both are constant abundant to be according to us.
• Both accessories are able of all day array activity best of the time. Obviously, hardcore gamers and music streamers may allegation a bang allegation occasionally.
• Both accessories accept Bluetooth 5 and both of them run a new abundant adaptation of Android to accept all of the commercially accessible Bluetooth codecs (AAC, LDAC, Aptx, Aptx-HD).

• The OnePlus 6 accuse faster than the Note 9, mostly due to its Dash Charging capabilities and its abate battery. The Note 9’s earlier Qualcomm Quick Allegation agreement artlessly isn’t as fast.
• OnePlus 6 software is lighter than the Note 9. Whether or not that’s bigger comes bottomward to claimed preference. Some adore a basal software footprint, alike if it agency beneath features. Lighter OEM customizations usually beggarly faster updates to newer versions of Android. We would bet money that the OnePlus 6 gets Android 9.0 Pie afore the Galaxy Note 9.
• You get seamless adjustment updates with the OnePlus 6, but not the Note 9. Additionally, the OnePlus 6 is alone an apart device, so carriers can’t get in the way of updates like with best Samsung devices.
• No carriers should beggarly beneath aerial aback it comes to updates. There is additionally no carrier-specific bloatware.
• The OnePlus 6 has an iPhone-style slider for silencing the phone. It’s like the abandoned allotment of accouterments on this phone the Note 9 doesn’t additionally have, alike if its use is bound and basic.

• The 4,000mAh array is beyond than the 3,300mAh in the OnePlus 6. Both can aftermost all day, but with the appropriate use cases, the Note 9 can go best than one day.
• Stereo speakers. They’re not advanced facing, but two speakers in a stereo adjustment will consistently be bigger than a single, mono, bottom-firing apostle like on the OnePlus 6. Plus, the Note 9 has Dolby Atmos affability options in the software for added customization.
• Wireless charging and fast wireless charging are accessible on the Note 9, but not the OnePlus 6.
• The Note 9 supports HDMI-out while OnePlus 6 does not. This is all-important for its Dex feature, addition affair the Note 9 does that the OnePlus 6 does not do.
• The Note 9 has IP68 baptize and dust resistance. The OnePlus 6 allegedly has some baptize resistance, but it’s not certified with an IP rating.
• Samsung has a accomplished affair abundance with wallpapers, themes, and icons. Admittedly, the icons are affectionate of abhorrent because they abandoned assignment on the banal Samsung icons, but the capacity and wallpapers are appealing awesome. The OnePlus has a aphotic approach and an emphasis blush changer. In agreement of authentic volume, the Note 9 has added options here.
• There is a built-in, system-wide blaster in the settings for active headphones. It alike works with some Bluetooth headsets. You usually allegation basis for that array of feature.
• The Note 9 has abundant storage. It additionally has a college best accumulator advantage with 512GB. The OnePlus 6 has no SD agenda aperture and maxes out at 256GB.
• The OnePlus 6 and the Note 9 booty assuredly agnate aurora photos. However, based on our analysis samples, the Note 9 takes bigger low ablaze photos. Check out our Note 9 analysis and our OnePlus 6 analysis to see for yourself.
• The OnePlus 6 has a hardly bigger (0.03 percent) screen-to-body ratio, but Samsung achieves its numbers with a front-facing apostle and no notch.
• The Note 9 is added blush accurate, and has a college resolution, with several affectation settings to change color, presets, and more. You can additionally about-face the resolution bottomward to 1080p or 720p in the settings card to save array activity on the Note 9. It has awfully added options than the OnePlus 6 and its 1080p display.
• You can buy the Note 9 basically anywhere and on all above carriers (in North America) and networks worldwide. The OnePlus 6 is a little harder to find. Additionally, it does not assignment on Sprint or Verizon networks alike admitting it has the hardware. Those on Verizon or Sprint cannot use a OnePlus 6. This doesn’t amount in best of the world, but Verizon is North America’s bigger carrier. That’s absolutely a ample block of bodies that can’t use a OnePlus 6.
• The S-Pen doesn’t get abundant credit. It has a capacitor array (new in the Note 9) that gets 30 annual of allegation in ten abnormal and Bluetooth alien capabilities. It additionally has 4,096 burden levels, on par with the awful publicized Surface Pen (Apple doesn’t annual the specs of its Apple Pencil for comparison). All of that fits aural the anatomy of the accessory and costs $50 to alter (the Surface Pen and Apple Pencil amount $99.99). To put that in perspective, this $1,700 Wacom book has a stylus with 2,048 burden levels. The OnePlus 6 does not accept a stylus.
• Samsung does all this after removing appearance or introducing compromises. While it may be arbitrary to apprehend OEMs with beneath assets to challenge that accomplishment of engineering, it’s still a accomplishment of engineering Samsung deserves acclaim for.