The Samsung Galaxy S9 is Here #Helpful Post

hey guys Boston I recently got the

chance to head out to San Francisco to

get a sneak peek at the brand new

Samsung Galaxy S 9 and s 9 plus design

wise is definitely an evolution over the

Galaxy S 8 so just like when you went

from the s6 to the s7 it wasn't huge

difference on the surface the s9 looks

very similar I'm definitely not going to

complain the s8 already had one of the

nicest looking designs on the market and

here we're keeping that same infinity to

display but it's going to be about 15

percent brighter as well as with some

slightly smaller bezels evolution not

revolution amazingly enough something

else that carries over is the headphone

jack yes my friend you heard correctly

this is a flagship for 2018 which has a

headphone jack for real though props the

Samsung for keeping it around while

pretty much everyone has abandoned it a

lot of people still really do appreciate

having a headphone jack and with the s9

it's can become the only high-end

options with one in fact the audio side

of things to seen upgrade across the

board as Samsung took a page out of the

iPhone playbook and switched over to

stereo speakers what they're doing is

combined the standard bottom firing

speaker from the s8 with the speaker

grille that's going to give you a decent

sounding stereo setup now it's not going

to be quite as nice sounding as the

iPhone 10 or pixel but it is a huge

improvement over the previous generation

in my brief time with the s9 it sounds

pretty good and on top of that you're

going to be getting Dolby Atmos support

so this works not only with the speakers

as well as the headphone jack and while

for normal stuff it's not going to sound

amazing

it is cool to have that codec built in

something helps improve this time around

is the fingerprint sensor after

basically every tech reviewer on the

planet complained about the galaxy s 8

as well as the node 8 is now been moved

below the camera in addition to moving

it is also now a little bit raised so

especially when you're just trying to

reach the fingerprint sensor from the

back without looking at it it's much

easier to find this 9 is going to be

available in three colors here in the US

black blue and pink personally I really

like to look at the blue especially when

the light hits that I think it looks

really really nice but in a lot of

international markets you're also going

to get a gray option the rest of the

design should look very similar you're

still getting USBC fast wireless

charging as well as ip68 water

resistance look it is definitely not

some huge overhaul but Samsung took the

print everything that was good about the

galaxy s 8 and just cranked it up to 11

with the s 9 - big thumbs up for me

inside you're getting the brand new

qualcomm snapdragon a 45 processor with

four gigs of RAM on the

in six gigs on the s9 plus not only is

this going to be the first phone

launching with it but you're also going

to be getting a twenty five to thirty

five percent performance improvements

I'll have to take a closer look when I

get the s9 in for review but based on

first impressions is blisteringly fast

although that shouldn't exactly be a

surprise because that's basically every

flagship from the last few years now the

software is still very much an evolution

of Samsung skin on Android it's fine

it's usable it's not something that's

going to be a deal-breaker but it is

going to be nowhere near as clean as

what you're going to find on the pixel

bixby is also back and improved with the

same wonderful BIC speed button so

there's a few improvements so you can

now use Google Translate to translate

text light as opposed to taking a photo

but for the most part I think everyone

is just going to ignore it and use

Google assistant or at least that's what

I'm gonna do one thing that hasn't

really been improved is battery life so

the sizes are going to be the exact same

3000 milliamp hours on the s9 and 3500

on the s9 + new unless they've gotten

some crazy efficiency boosts it's going

to be fairly similar to last year which

is to say decent but not spectacular

especially in a world where the iPhone

10 and pixel 2 XL can easily last all

day and then some the screen under the

hand is still phenomenal so it's very

similar to last year's phones which is

to say about as good as it gets on a

phone today

so it's going to be a little bit

brighter about 15% or so on the max

brightness but for the most part it's

going to be right up there with the very

best that you can buy one of the most

exciting updates is with the camera so

well the s8 had basically the same

camera from the s7 the new Galaxy S 9 is

going to have an all new camera sensor

as well as it's going to be getting a

telephoto option if you jump up to the

galaxy s 9 plus the coolest party trick

is an adjustable aperture so this is

typically found on higher in cameras

what's going to allow you to do is

actually adjust the amount of light

coming into the shot so you have two

options here F 1.5 or F 2.4 now unlike a

normal camera you don't have any options

in between but it is really nice to be

able to have at least some flexibility

when you take a shot so for example when

you open it all the way up well it's

going to be a little bit softer your

lighting a lot more light in a low light

situation whereas we are out here in a

nice bright day you might want to close

down a little bit to get that extra bit

of sharpness speaking up low-light there

are also some other improvements

including taking up to 8 shots and

combining them into one to be able to

get better noise processing as well as

they had a little demo set up where you

could actually see some of the low-light

photos in action and it was very very

dark so it looked pretty

but of course this is something I'm

going to have to try when I get in for a

full review now with the promo now I do

have the normal options to be able to

adjust things like shutter speed and ISO

you also can adjust the aperture here

but on top of that there's also a new

mode super slow motion which will record

it up to 960 frames per second the way

it works is that will start recording

standard 720p video at a normal frame

rate and then either when you manually

trigger it or you can set up a zone that

will automatically trigger when it

detects motion it will court a quick

burst of 960 frames per second video

it's not going to be the sharpest thing

in the world you can do some really cool

things with this and it's all made

possible by the fact that this new

sensor has memory stack actually on top

of it very similar to some of the Sony

stuff and for example the rx100 mark 5

now this does mean that you can't

exactly set it to 960 frames per second

and let it do super slow motion all day

long but when you get those short little

bursts with standard video around it

even though it's not the sharpest thing

in the world you get some really cool

effects video on the hole is actually

pretty impressive so in addition to your

standard 1080p and 4k modes which is the

4k actually now goes up to 60 frames per

second but you're also going to be

getting two options to record either to

h.264 or the new one more efficient H

EVC codec as far as the telephoto camera

on the galaxy s 9 plus it's fine it's

not exactly going to be great and some

of the portrait mode shots I took

actually aren't that impressive looking

but for the most part the standard

camera on the s9 and the s9 plus is

going to look phenomenal Samsung is also

introducing a brand new revolutionary

feature called AR emoji so totally

unlike an emoji on the iPhone 10 this

uses the front-facing camera

to paste a very very scary version of

your face on an emoji which then will be

hilariously shared out not only as a

photo or video if you want to record

that but as a series of stickers that go

to your camera roll the Samsung Galaxy S

9 will be available for pre-order

starting on March 2nd and will be going

on sale on the 16th now yes it is not

going to be a huge update over the

galaxy s 8 but there's a lot of nice

little improvements here that does

actually add up to a pretty nice-looking

package so what do you guys think about

the galaxy s 9 let me know in the

comments below and I will catch you on

the next one