Not that long ago, Samsung’s Galaxy Note phones were practically a circus act. Step right up, folks, and feast your eyes on the most ginormous, the most humongous phone known to man! Now, when I pick up the 6.4-inch Galaxy Note 9, the latest model in the series, it feels almost normal. Somehow we got used to phones approximately the size of a slice of bread.
In other ways, though, the Note 9 still sticks out from the sea of glassy rectangles. No phone on the U.S. market has more features or power. It has an integrated stylus...