We're here ready to take a look at Samsung's latest device, the Samsung Galaxy S9 and tell you everything that it brings to the table considering this is the ninth generation of an already high powered line of Smartphone's. The phone basically looks exactly like the Galaxy S8 from last year except for one major difference. We've been complaining about the placement of the fingerprint scanner of the Galaxy S8 since it came out. So for the Galaxy S9, Samsung fixed it.
They moved it from next to the camera, to below the camera which is way easier to reach even on the larger model. Now otherwise they are very similar design. You've got a 5.8-inch display on the S9, 6.2-inch display on the S9 plus. They are still super AMOLED screen, have the same high-resolution displays, curved sides that Samsung calls this infinite display that spills over the edge. You still have the power button and the volume rocker on the side and then, of course, there's the Bixby button that hasn't gone anywhere. On the bottom, there's still the headphone jack, which you get on both models. It's got stereo speakers now, so the earpiece speaker works in conjunction with the bottom speakers to produce stereo sound. The camera has been new and improved. It's powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor inside of it. There is 4GB of RAM in the small model and 6 GB of RAM in the bigger model. 3000mAh battery in the smaller one and 3500 mAh battery in the bigger one. Both of them have fast wireless charging, IP68 water, and dust resistance. The storage for both the phones are the same, 64 gigabytes and also have microSD card slots.
But the big difference that Samsung is touting this year is the camera. On S9 it has a single camera and on the S9 plus it now has a dual camera, which is very similar to the Note 8's Dual camera. So it's got a wide angle lens, a telephoto lens, which lets you get closer to your subject, or do different types of blurring what Samsung calls live focus effects. On both models, you do have a new variable aperture lens, which means that the aperture on the camera goes from F1.5 which is brighter than last year's phone, and one of the brightest lenses on the market. You can close it down to F2.4 if you're in a very bright environment, outdoors, sunlight, you can shut down the aperture for better quality photos. You can do that automatically through the Samsung's camera app, or if you go into the pro mode you can actually switch between the two which is pretty neat. This the first phone we've seen with a mechanical, physically changing aperture, which is very interesting. In terms of the camera quality, it's still 12-megapixel sensor, but Samsung says it now has next-generation dual-pixel autofocus. It does more processing on chips, so you get better noise reduction than the prior generation.
The other thing that is new in the camera is Samsung's new ARmoji, which is basically it takes on the iPhones' Animoji feature. It creates a 3D animated image when you look at the camera and it then turns that into animated GIF's that you can share through the camera app and various messaging apps. You can also customize the appearance of it, you can change your hair color, add glasses, change the outfit, and do these other things that you can't quite do with Animoji.
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