Last year Samsung faced a lot of issue due to its bad battery explosion issues.
Now Samsung note 9 has 4000 mah battery life.
Samsung Note 9 has snapdragon 845 and 6GB of RAM.
Samsung Note 9 has 6.4-inch AMOLED display.
Samsung Note 9 has the S-Pen. Now with a Bluetooth connection.
Samsung Note 9 has a massive 16 MP camera. Which is good enough to compete with Pixel2 in terms of portrait mode.