That'll be a major turn-off and looking at the amount of sensors there... It's gonna be a huge notch.

Edit: re-looked the patent photo. Looks more like a midrange phone than flagship.

This post has been edited by sniper on the roof: Apr 17 2018, 09:28 AM

No work... U see the back..aluminum with antenna line.

I'm have the UAG Plasma and Spigen Rugged Armor.

The UAG feels a lot more protective with ample clearance plus lip height fglass and yet not too wide to hamper one handed operation. It's thicker though.

Spigen Rugged Armor works better if there's no tempered glass. I've used 5 of these to date with other phones. They're quite protective and don't add too much bulk but may lift tempered glass and the matte finish wears off quite fast making it ugly over time.

Battery life for exynos version meh

Warranty is more important over inconsequential differences. Besides.. as someone posted earlier... we've got fast chargers, car chargers, wireless chargers and fast charging powerbanks everywhere.

The whole issue is just about feeling tak syiok over snapdragon version being comparatively better this time round I suppose.


Come to think of it... if I really wanna get by the day without charging based on my usage pattern... I'll probably be needing a 7000mah battery built in.

This post has been edited by sniper on the roof: Apr 17 2018, 04:53 PM

Of course its not gonna happen in a phone anytime soon. It's a point that a friend made when we're talking about S9+ only having 3500mah batt and P20 having 4000mah.

In my case that 500mah didn't matter as its just minutes of extra batt life. To really make a difference, I'll need at least double... so its back to powerbanks.

It's not bad per say.... it's just expectations vs reality

Most of those youtube drain test still has the exynos S9+ in the uppermost positions among flagships.

That's odd. I tried the same after reading ur post. Power saving off, AOD on, WiFi and data on.... Basically as per usual use. Dropped 3% from 12am-7.20am.

Single.

That's only a con for those already running the s8. Personally I think refinement and ironing out the kinks is a good thing.

You have AOD off too right? By right it shouldn't drain anything at all or you have some funky stuff running in the background.

Turn off auto-brightness. It's too aggressive imo.

Why need long standby?

Run it for a week or so...then the battery drain like slower water.

And Samsung did improved their processing by quite abit

Share some test shots around the neighborhood.



This post has been edited by sniper on the roof: Apr 19 2018, 10:27 PM

Yeah auto.. some cropping but otherwise untouched.

It's improved for portraits but I'll still be bringing my cameras for those especially for low light.

Food shots though is pretty good.



This post has been edited by sniper on the roof: Apr 20 2018, 11:29 AM

Yeah... but its improved over the OMFG plastic skin + oversharpened to hell combo of old.

S9 camera meters hot... about 1/3 to 1/2 EV which is an easy fix by just pulling down brightness or in post. The bright side to this is that we get more headroom for processing.

Ah well.. just spam some pictars



This post has been edited by sniper on the roof: Apr 22 2018, 01:19 AM

Lived here more than 10 years di.

Quite loud for me wor. My ring and notification use only less than 1/4 volume