So after a couple days with this phone the biggest thing that I get out of the way is the fact that the S9 lineup
As a whole is by no means a major overhaul compared to the S8 but more so a refinement.
I will say that as far as what comes inside the box
It's a little bit of a golfclap to Samsung because there is a ton of stuff packed inside outside of the QuickStart guide
which I'm not sure how many people out there still used, you get a fast charge power brick, a
usb c to usb a cable, a usb a to usb c adapter, a pair of AKG headphones and a SIM card tool.
Now the AKG headphones they sound good
They're not amazing
But the bigger statement here from Samsung is that they've held their ground and in a year where headphone jacks are few and far between
That is here on the Galaxy S9
And I know that is a huge deal to a lot of people out there. The biggest cosmetic difference
you'll probably notice with the S9 and S9+ is the fingerprint reader, which is now right smack under the camera
no longer awkwardly to the right where you have to move your finger around and guess this here of course is midnight black or
is it black camo from dbrand and I'm not gonna tell you some silly reason that you need this because
your phone is slippery you're gonna want it because it looks awesome. (link below) Now the one thing that I think is gonna get
Overlooked with the S9 and S9+ has got to be the display, still features that same super tall 18 and 1/2 on an infinity display.
But after using the Pixel 2 XL and the iPhone 10 coming back to this you forget how freaking good it is.
In this case with the Galaxy S9+
It is a 6.2 inch display with a 2960 by 1440 resolution
The Galaxy S9 is gonna be slightly smaller at 5.8 inches
But it's gonna retain the same resolution
The S9+ in a way is almost gonna
give you Note 8 like features without the S-pen if that makes sense you have dual cameras a main, wide-angle lens
It's gonna feature the dual aperture that is shared across the regular Galaxy S9
and then the secondary lens it's gonna give you two times zoom
Honestly one of the biggest things you've probably heard surrounding the Galaxy S9 it's going to be that variable aperture camera
That's where it'll adapt and lower lighting conditions and switch from F 2.4 down to F 1.5
a lot of people out there love it.
But at the same time some people say it's a little bit of a gimmick which isn't entirely crazy.
Yes, it is super fun to look at especially when you're in promo when you can switch back and forth.
In fact here is a super close-up slow-mo shot at 200 FPS
Strangely satisfying right what does that actually translate to?
So to give an example of how much extra light is being light and what I did was lock everything off in Pro
Mode this shot here is at F, 1.5. And with the exact same settings - changed into F 2.4
You can see how much darker the image is
Conversely what I did was change shutter speed automatic that way
It would compensate and keep the exposure around the same with the F 1.5 compared to 2.4
You can see there's a little bit more of that blurred out shallow depth-of-field
It's not a ton, but it is definitely there from there in a more extreme low-light situation to paint the picture here
It's about 6:15 p.m.. Well after sunset. You can see pretty much
The only thing lighting my face is the phone itself to kind of replicate the same idea
I locked everything off took one shot at F 2.4
Where you can see that kind of matches how everything looked outside, but then bumping that up to F 1.5?
You can see there's a huge difference in light the one downside it will say though
Especially as we look closer at this picture is the entire image as a whole is a little bit soft compared to F 2.4
So it's kind of trade-off you get more light, but at the same time the image isn't as sharp so this is a mind-blowing
game-changing revolutionary feature, I would say definitely know
But at the same time it doesn't mean we should take away from the overall performance of the s-plane camera
Which is really good low-light performance is fantastic and of course when you're shooting during the day you're gonna get some
Amazing photos you have greater dynamic range
It's super sharp the colors are beautiful
And I will say as a whole the camera app is much more intuitive and easier to use
With previous Galaxy camera UI is a little clunky a little hard to navigate
But with this you simply swipe over from set into setting which is way easier to use so the camera is fantastic
But that other feature you most likely heard about as well
It's got to be that 960 fps slow-motion video that I sent that one guy out there a comment yes
I realized this feature is not brand new or exclusive to the galaxy s 9 and it was on Sony phones last year
But at the same time it doesn't make it any less awesome that it's here
There are actually two ways to operate this you can manually trigger it which is gonna
give you a very short burst of recording or
You can set it to automatic where it's gonna look for that action and then record that and then
automatically put that in slow motion
I will say though with slow motion as a whole especially when you're dealing with the sensor size on a camera you need a ton
Of light to really make it look good in this case me and which were outside
getting closer to sunset so we didn't have the most light in the world and you can see the results with the footage are a
little bit grainy, but still pretty damn cool nonetheless
From now the other thing if the camera subsequently leads to is going to be a are
Emoji which I have a ton of mixed feelings on it essentially scans your face and turns you into this 3d
Trackable bitmoji looking creation this kind of looks like me which is a little bit creepy
I'm not sure how many people will actually dig that I think more so
What people will end up use and it's going to be the gif feature where it turns you into?
A moving gif which is actually kind of cool?
I will say though Samsung's choice of animals are a little bit weird we have this rabbit looking thing
We have this blue creature, which I'm kind of thinking is maybe a dog, so they are emoji
now from there
These are nubs of difference with the s 9 + s 9 + are going to be stereo
speakers and as far as what that translates to over the s 8
Here is a comparison of the s 9 + with stereo speakers and the single speaker on the S 8
I will say it's not
mind-blowing or again a reason why you need to go sell your Galaxy s8 to upgrade just for this feature alone
But there's definitely different. I'd say the biggest thing
I notice is probably gonna be the fullness
Especially when you're consuming media you have sound firing both ways and that kind of translates into a fuller more
Immersive audio experience as opposed to a noticeable louder experience
If that makes sense either way though if you've never used stereo speakers on a smartphone it is awesome
So there's my impressions on the galaxy s 9 plus after a couple days
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