- Well, they're finally here.
The Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9 plus are officially official.
Now, Samsung was kind enough to give me a
very limited amount of time with these devices before
they were released, so I figured I would try, at least,
to do a complete walkthrough for you guys.
Now, if you aren't familiar with my complete walkthroughs,
they're where I go through as many features as
I possibly can on the device to give you as
much information as humanly possible,
so that if you wanted to go buy said device,
you are armed with a lot more information than normal.
That's the idea.
But yeah, without further adieu, let's get started.
So, they're very similar to the S8 and
the S8 plus except for a few changes.
The bezels are just a hair smaller at the
top and bottom and around back,
we have a fingerprint scanner in the
center directly under the cameras.
Thank god.
It is IP 68 certified as the S8 was and
supports fast charging as well as fast Qi charging.
Back on the front, we have our 5.8 inch quad
HD super MOD screen in 18.5 by 9 aspect ratio on the
S9 and the same type of screen,
but a 6.2 inch on the S9 plus.
Now above that, the sensors have been hidden a
bit better with a new paint job and
the front facing camera is an
eight megapixel F 1.7 aperture lens.
On the left side, we have the
volume rocker and the Bixby button.
On the right, we have our power button.
At the top, our SIM card slot and micro SD card slot combo.
At the bottom, we have our USBC charging port,
the headphone jack, and one of our two stereo speakers that
are tuned by AKG and are Dolby Atmos enabled.
(dramatic music)
Moving to the back, we have our
dual cameras on the S9 plus only.
The main one being a 12 megapixel wider lens with
an adjustable aperture for the
first time from F 1.5 to F 2.4.
Now, this is the same camera that's on the S9,
but the S9 plus also has a 12 megapixel telephoto lens,
similar to how we saw the Note 8 configured that
has a fixed aperture of F 2.4.
So, the camera controls allow you to switch between
1.5 aperture for low light shots and
the F 2.4 for brighter ones manually if you're in
pro mode or if you just leave it in auto,
it will automatically switch between
them based on the lighting conditions and the shot.
Now, diving into the camera, we have our auto mode,
which we're used to, pro mode, which we're also used to,
that allows you to adjust settings manually,
panorama mode for taking panoramic shots,
and live focus from the Note 8 that allows you to
take a shot with a more pronounced blurred background and
then adjust that background after the fact.
Another feature that they've added,
thanks in big part to that
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 that's in here,
that I did a video on not too long ago if you are
interested in more about that,
you can check it out below, but it's super slow-mo.
Now, this allows you to record a 720p and
960 frame per second for a split second.
It can either be used manually,
you can basically just select when you want the
slow-mo to happen or you can select it to
auto detect and it will automatically switch to the
960 frames per second whenever it senses movement within the
square in the center of the screen.
Kinda clever, if we're honest.
Now, Samsung also told me that it will be able to
do 1080p 240 frame per second slow motion continuously,
but that feature actually wasn't on the phones that
we were testing, so to be determined.
Now, in addition to those modes,
we also have selfie focus mode which
allows you to take blurred background shots using the
front camera, a regular selfie mode,
a wide selfie mode that captures more of what's behind you,
and a new feature called AR emoji.
Now, the AR emoji lets you take a photo using the
front camera of your face and it will try and
make an AR emoji based on that which you can then
tweak after the fact to make look more and more like you.
Once set up, you can use this emoji and different gifs that
have 14 predetermined poses at the moment,
but you can also use it as basically an avatar and
send short video clips of it to other people.
Samsung also lets you use other characters with this
as well and said through a partnership with Disney,
that they'll be bringing Disney characters to
this sometime in the future.
On the software side, the units we had were
running Android Oreo with Samsung's proprietary UI on top.
Also, Samsung has added a few apps and features as usual.
Firstly, Bixby has gotten some new tricks like the
ability to control SmartThings devices and
being integrated in those as well,
but also some new camera oriented stuff too.
Makeup mode, for example, lets you try on
different sets of makeup and looks and
then through their partnerships with Sephora and
other makeup companies,
be able to buy those products directly through Bixby.
Then, we have translate which does
real time translations of text,
image recognition mode, a mode called places that
helps you identify and find famous landmarks,
a QR code reader, a wine bottle scanner powered by the
popular Vivino app to scan wine labels and
tell you what they cost, tasting notes and
ultimately allows you to buy them as well.
Now, Samsung also mentioned a couple of Bixby features like
the ability to scan items and then shop for
them in their initial partners of Nordstrom's and
Sam's Club and then also a mode that allows you to
take photos of food and that will actually give you the
nutritional data and put it directly into Samsung Health.
On the builds that we had,
neither of these were actually working at the moment.
Of course, they'll be ready by release,
but we've seen these features before and
with the Snapdragon 845 in there,
I'm sure they're gonna be just fine and pretty snappy.
For other apps, since this wasn't a full release model,
we just have the normal Samsung apps included from
internet to SmartThings, voice recorder,
galaxy apps, Samsung health, Samsung gear,
my files, and their own email client.
For security, the device has the
fingerprint sensor that I mentioned,
but also iris and facial recognition and
an intelligence scanning mode that uses both the
iris and the facial recognition at the same time.
Basically, it tries to use the
iris first since that's more secure and
then it will quickly default to the face if it needs.
Now as mentioned, the device has the
Snapdragon 845 in it and it is paired with
four gigs of RAM in the S9 and
six gigs of RAM in the S9 plus.
It also supports Qualcomm's gigabit LTE with
peek download speeds of up to 1.2 gigabits per second.
Powering the device, we have a
3,000 milliamp battery in the S9 and
3,500 milliamp battery in the S9 plus.
And there you go guys.
The most features I could run through in this
complete walkthrough with the limited time that I had.
Let me know what you guys think of the S9 and
S9 plus and these types of
complete walkthroughs in the comments below.
I would love to hear from you guys.
If Samsung does send me a review unit,
I hope they do, I would love to put it through it's paces.
I would love to check out the camera,
which is the big feature that they keep promoting on
all of their billboards and everything and
from what I got to see, it's pretty nice,
but I wanna give it a full test,
so hopefully they'll do that and
you can stay tuned for that video.
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(upbeat music)