Review on 💻 Renewed Samsung Galaxy S9 in Titanium Gray, 64GB for AT&T by Ada Marciniak ᠌

Name: 💻 Renewed Samsung Galaxy S9 in Titanium Gray, 64GB for AT&T
Item: 💻 Renewed Samsung Galaxy S9 in Titanium Gray, 64GB for AT&T
Rating: 4

November 28, 2022

I am satisfied, the product fully corresponds to the description.

I don’t know if it will be relevant in 2022, when there are more worthy devices and possibly at a lower price, but still. I bought in May 2022 for about $550-600 (there was a promotion in the store, so it cost $700-750). I chose between it, iphone xp, oneplus 7pro, sams s10e and google pixel 3a, but decided to stop at c9 because of the price, design and various features. And now, thinking about whether I regret buying it or not, given how much I paid for it, it’s more likely no than yes. But I confess, I expected more from c9, nevertheless, when a phone is considered a flagship, but at the same time it has such jambs, like any Chinese stub for $ 100-150, then this is not normal, for me personally. And I understand that the same exynos is to blame, but then I have even more claims against Samsung, why do they make such a division, selling better devices in Hong Kong and the USA, and less quality to the rest of the world? But okay.
Do I recommend buying? If you have the opportunity to buy on snap, then take it safely. If not, then it is not worth more than $500.
I hope it’s not in vain that I wrote everything in detail here and at least it will be useful to someone else, because c9 is basically good, even now, but not at the same price as in stores.

: After half a year of use, I can note the following: it's better to upgrade to the current version of android (so maybe you will fix some friezes, etc., and the phone will become "fresh"); It turns out that c9 has a good analogue of faceid - face unlock (yes, this is certainly exaggerated, but it certainly will not be superfluous); but the fingerprint scanner rather disappointed (the finger must be almost “licked” for the scanner to detect it. Sometimes I even had to reconfigure it): the battery is just terrible here, or you will put up with it and be ready to charge it stably once , or even two a day, or don’t put up with it and then it’s better to just walk by.
In general, this is still a relevant and worthy option, but for my money - more than $ 400-450 I do not advise taking.

Pros

- Screen: one of the best on the market. Watching content on it is a pleasure; - System shell: a wide variety of phone settings "for yourself" because of which you can quite say that the same phone for different people will be very different; - Design: I understand the taste and color, but in my opinion the phone is very beautiful, not pretentious, it is clear that the flagship; - A large number of useful "features": the phone has nfs, a good fingerprint scanner, a heart rate sensor, a retinal scanner (I did not use it myself, because a fingerprint scanner is enough) and other functions that I probably still have did not reach; - Always on display: just a very useful feature; - 3.5 mm jack: still relevant, for me personally, because I don't use wireless.

Cons

- Exynos: perhaps the most important drawback for me personally. There are two versions of the smartphone (exynos and snapdragon), unfortunately it was not possible to purchase a smartphone on snap, so I had to be content with this. In fact, all the shortcomings are tied because of the processor. - A large number of microfreezes literally almost from the first day of use; unstable work under active load (surfing in the browser, FB, YouTube and all this together); - heats up with active use; - unstable network (where my old iPhone catches the network perfectly, c9 shows 2-3 "sticks", once it happened that the network disappeared, albeit for a short time. However, this does not affect the operation itself and the quality of the connection); - unstable nfs (controversial minus, because I'm not entirely sure what the problem is, in my bank application or in the phone itself, but the fact remains - sometimes it works well, but sometimes it confirms the purchase once or even twice); - Camera: nothing supernatural, but expected more, especially from the front camera; - Battery: although I knew that it did not shine with autonomy, I did not think that sometimes everything would be so sad. The phone is enough for a day, a little more MB, with average use (social networks, YouTube + music and various programs); - Very easy button press stroke: accidental presses and screenshots are guaranteed; - Bixby: partially follows from the previous one, I will only add that the button is useless and it is impossible to reassign it without a crookedly working program; - and other little things.