Meet the Galaxy S9. This one's been leaked for a while so
this shouldn't be a giant surprise if you follow the tech rumors but let me
tell you everything there is to know about these phones. Let's start with some
of the differences, the S9 is now not just a smaller version of the S9+
the Plus version is going to get two extra gigs of rams, it's going to have
six, that's going to have double the cameras. So that's gonna bring it up to
two. The main sensors are the same 12 megapixels, they now have dual apertures
so it's mechanical you can actually see it open and closed. They showed us some
examples of how that's going to reduce noise. We tested it did seem to do that
although real-world usage will determine it. When we get this in their offices will of
course test it. They're also capable of taking an insane 960 frames per second
slow-mo video at a pretty awesome 720p. We tested it and they look absolutely
incredible and at fun fact about these phones they actually now have RAM built
into the camera system so it could handle all those crazy frames that are
coming in. The Plus version though gets a second camera of course for the zoom
stuff that you'd like. Other than that things are pretty similar from last gen.
The screen size are still a 5.8 and 6.2, the bezels have been
slimmed down just a little bit. The screens were already really good with
the S8 but now they're better this time around.
They are 15% brighter and we tested this, the screens did look really bright. That
should be nice and bright sunlight when you're outdoors it's going to gonna be
able to see the screen. If there could be two knocks on the Galaxy S8 that I was
pretty vocal about, it was the silly finger print reader location that's now
been fixed and no dual speakers, that has also now been fixed. The earpiece is a
speaker, it gets pretty loud. In fact it's about 1.4 to 1.5 times louder than the
S8 so they're really proud of it for music and if I use it for speakerphone
it's just louder now. One of the things that I liked about the Note 8 was it
kind of flattened out the edges so the phone felt more substantial in her hand
Didn't feel kind of as thin as the S8 was and it that same thing here at the
Galaxy S9 did it the note it's got kind of a flatter side to it so it does feel
better in the hand. If you like the way the Note felt you're gonna love the way
the Galaxy S9 is gonna feel. Samsung loves to be first with stuff
this is the first phone out of the gate shipping with a Snapdragon 845 so it's
gonna be incredibly fast for processing, for gaming, for a lot of VR and AR, and
should be better on the battery as well and those sizes are the same as last-gen at
3,000 and 3,500 but again the Plus has the 6 gigs of ram versus the regular that has
the 4 so so bear that in mind. I know you're gonna ask,
I I asked Samsung, Bixby button is still there.
It still does Bixby things but it's a little bit better now, you get some sort
of AR makeup see what looks like a different makeup on, it's now gonna do
real-time translation if you hold it up to words that are in different language,
and also if you hold it up to food it'll tell you what an estimated
calorie count is. One thing that is definitely new here with the S9 and the
S9+ are animated emojis. If you ever made it like a Nintendo Mii but you
wish it was more high-def and could map your face, that's what we've got right
here is kind of cool. It's actually gonna take a picture of your face and it's
going to make it, you can customize some - stuff your skin tone hair and clothes
but it does work actually really well. I did a test with each eyebrow going up
and down is able to see those things, smiling was able to see those things, turn
your head see those things. It's able to map your face really well of course if
you want to just put yourself into other sort of emojis like like bunny rabbits
and other things we might be used to those are here as well and they'll work
on third-party apps. It actually will just save it as a picture if you want. On
the software side the UI is going to look similar to last-gen and actually I
really like what Samsung has done on the software side but it is Android Oreo
based, in fact it's based off of 8.0 and I think all the things that make Samsung
phones stand out are also here you can run through the list of flagship specs
as check them off one by one. Expandable storage is here, quick
charging here, wireless charging is here, Samsung pay is here, ip68 of course it's
here as well. All that stuff that makes you generally
Samsung phones awesome or of course packed into the Galaxy S9 and S9+.
The u.s. is getting some good launch colors finally. It's gonna be midnight
black, coral blue, lilac purple, there's an awesome looking gray one that's only
going international. So that's it that's the S9 and the S9+. It doesn't at
least appear to be a giant upgrade. What I
think was already peak smartphone with the S8, coming from an S7 is a
giant step forward, coming from a Note 8 you might want to give it a second
thought before we decided whether or not to upgrade but it looks awesome. We're
gonna get one in the office of course the test put it through its paces. I'm
excited I like to last gens. This one looks like a really nice
improvement on that but we'll we'll be the judge. Anything you guys want us to see
particular about the s9 the s9+ leave it in the comments down below and let us know.
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coming your way until next time Jon Rettinger from TechnoBuffalo.