5 Critical Reasons Why the Galaxy Note9 Is The Ultimate Business Phone

If you mean business, and who doesn’t these days in the start-up and gig economy, you already have enough things to worry about without your equipment letting you down. What is paramount for business oriented users is performance, reliability and security in their devices, all aspects which the Galaxy Note9 addresses with deft aplomb. 

Hold your hands up folks if you’ve ever encountered any of the following situations:

• Your smartphone battery running out of juice just before that crucial phone call.
• Your notebook suddenly deciding on a mandatory update that takes hours to finish minutes before your presentation.
• Your presentation clicker decides to go belly up even with a fresh set of batteries.
• That presentation along with a bunch of other downloads that you need is absolutely massive in size and needs hours to download minutes before you board a flight for that big meeting.
• You lost your phone and with it all those crucial files that detail your company plans.

Sounds familiar? Odds are good that all of you lot out there will likely have encountered at least one, if not all of the following potential disaster scenarios in some form or another or, possibly, all at once. Rather than gnash your teeth in despair, you can preempt these unfortunate occurrences as the Galaxy Note9 is your ace in the hole as it tackles all these concerns and more.

On the hardware front, the Galaxy Note9 is loaded for bear with the latest Exynos 9810 processor, up to 8GB of RAM and  its vaunted S Pen stylus but the phone is more than the sum of its parts as it has features aplenty that make it inestimably handy, if not essential for business. Here is why the Galaxy Note9 is currently the ultimate business phone that money can buy.

Upgraded S Pen Stylus with remote control

The S Pen stylus on the Galaxy Note9 has 4,096 levels of sensitivity with access to the phone’s vaunted Screen Off memo mode where you jot notes immediately on the display even when the screen is off, Air Commands and more.

Where it outdoes its predecessors is that it has Bluetooth Low Energy connectivity and a super capacitor crammed into its slim chassis to allow it to be used as a remote control for a number of functions on the phone.

In particular, you can use it to control slides during presentations and, if you’re travelling solo, trigger and even swap between the front and rear cameras at will by a combination of single and double presses of the S Pen. 

The Galaxy Note9’s S Pen can be used to control the audio recorder as well as the image gallery and even slide presentations with just a click of the button

In tandem with DeX mode, you can hook your Galaxy Note9 up for slide presentations and run through them with your S Pen. What you effectively have here is all your presentation hardware fitting inside your pocket, or for the matter, the Galaxy Note9. That, folks takes things to a whole new level of suave panache.

Laptop kaput or too heavy to haul around? Not a problem with the Galaxy Note9’s DeX Mode

While laptops are getting ostensibly lighter and lighter, they aren’t getting any cheaper or any more reliable as they are at this point in time. While there are a host of lightweight laptops, you’ll likely reconsider that definition after you’ve been hauling it around on your shoulder for the better part of a full day. That or your laptop decides on a whim that it needs to download a critical update, usually minutes before that crucial meeting.

Fortunately, the Galaxy Note9 presents a solution in the form of its DeX desktop mode that offers the ability to project a desktop user experience onto a monitor, projector or other display, such as Samsung’s impressive Flip display simply by hooking up the phone via a HDMI to USB Type-C cable. It doesn’t even need to be a branded cable either; any third party cable works. If you’re on the go and have to travel light, this feature is a real lifesaver as you effectively get a PC in a pocket to tackle critical work related tasks.

The Galaxy Note9’s DeX mode offers a PC-like interface by connecting the phone to a display via a HDMI cable

While DeX mode works best with a wireless mouse and keyboard, the Galaxy Note9 doesn’t actually need either one in DeX mode and its 6.4-inch Super AMOLED display can work as both a touchpad and a virtual keyboard in a pinch. Even better, it takes multitasking to a new level as you can do two different tasks on the display and on the phone itself via Dual mode. Currently, DeX mode works with the important stuff – the Microsoft Office suite, Google Docs, Chrome and the like but more compatible apps are constantly being added to the line-up too.

In lieu of a wireless mouse, you can use the display of the Galaxy Note9 as a touchpad in DeX mode

Defence-grade protection with Samsung Knox

It’s the nightmare of every IT manager and business owner out there if company information ends up in the wrong hands, especially if a device gets stolen or misplaced. The Galaxy Note9 has Samsung’s defence-grade Knox security platform that lets you manage and partition work-related files, contacts and more in a separate, highly secure partition while keeping the rest of your personal stuff on another.

Knox is integrated throughout the software layers in the phone and it constantly checks the integrity of the device to make sure there’s no tampering whatsoever. If things go south and the Galaxy Note9 gets misplaced, Knox lets you remotely wipe your business data. It also keeps things secure with robust biometrics in the form of iris scanning and fingerprint recognition so only the right people (ie. the owner) get access to important stuff.

Full day of work? No problem with all-day battery life

The Samsung Galaxy Note9 sports a huge 4,000mAh battery while retaining a relatively svelte 8.8mm thin glass and metal casing so that it won’t look out of place when you plonk it on the boardroom table.

In tandem with its efficient and powerful Exynos 9810 processor, the Galaxy Note9 is able to go the distance and offer enough battery life to last a whole day for maximum productivity. In the unlikely event that you need it to last even longer, you can turn on Power Saving mode to eke out extra endurance to last several days. When you find a plug point to charge up, the Galaxy Note9’s fast wired and wireless charging support gets you juiced up in no time. We’ve even tested it how fast it charged from zero and seeing the size of the Galaxy Note9’s battery, it’s pretty darned fast indeed.

Up to 1TB of storage on the Galaxy Note9

You can never have enough storage space and cleaning it up or backing it up to the cloud or offline storage is a truly onerous chore indeed. Fortunately, the Galaxy Note9 has you covered as it comes in two storage configurations, a 6GB RAM/ 128GB variant for RM3,699 and a top of the line, massive 8GB RAM and a whopping 512GB of onboard storage.

Both storage variants of the Galaxy Note9 also let you expand the memory via microSD cards and the phone supports up to 512GB cards in size, which potentially allows you for up to a humongous 1TB of available storage space at your disposal for all your files, videos, photos, plans, documents and more.

The Samsung Galaxy Note9 is now available nationwide in Malaysia for RM3,699 for the 6GB RAM/128GB variant which comes in Metallic Copper, Midnight Black and Ocean Blue while the high-specced 8GB/512GB variant comes in your choice of Midnight Black or a fetching Ocean Blue for RM,4,599. Both storage variants and their colour permutations are available at all good retailers and stockists as well as online at Samsung’s official site at https://www.samsung.com/my/smartphones/galaxy-note9/buy/