Samsung Galaxy S9 unveiled. 960FPS/720p, f/1.5 <-> f/2.4, SD845/E9810 and more

[D13H4RD]

So, it's here.

The Galaxy S9 and S9+ are here.

 

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Samsung just announced the latest Galaxy phone and we spent some time with it. It’s very similar to the S8, which, to me, is just fine. The Samsung Galaxy S8 is a lovely phone besides of course the aforementioned fingerprint sensor location.

The S8’s fingerprint sensor is to the right of the camera lens instead centered on the phone. It’s a crazy location and I’ve yet to get used to it. My finger hits the camera lens every time.

It took me sometime to get used to a back-mounted fingerprint sensor and most of the time I still appreciate TouchID’s location on my iPhone. There are some upsides to having it on the back. It’s much easier to pull the phone from a pocket and unlock it in one smooth motion. But only if the button is in the right place and it’s not on the S8.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/25/with-the-galaxy-s9-samsung-put-the-fingerprint-sensor-where-it-belongs/

Haha, I had to do that. But that's not the only improvement.

 

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Going a step further, that new sensor sits behind quite a technical marvel: a lens with a physically adjusting aperture. Yes, in a smartphone. Unlike nearly every other smartphone that has a fixed aperture or some sort of software-simulated changing aperture, this one actually physically changes in size from f/1.5 to f/2.4. Now it doesn't offer you a full range of apertures between, just those two, but it's still impressive regardless.

 

Shooting by default at f/2.4 gives the Galaxy S9 and S9+ less opportunity for distortion and a more fundamentally sound setup — at least when shooting in good lighting. When things get a bit dimmer (under 100 lux, like a dim room), the camera automatically changes to f/1.5 (brighter than the GS8's f/1.7) to let in nearly 30% more light with just the lens alone, saving the camera from having to crank up the ISO or slow the shutter speed. If you hop over to the "Pro" mode you can choose your aperture manually, along with every other adjustment imaginable, to get exactly the shot you want with the depth of field you desire. Add this new wider aperture to the new sensor's ability to combine multiple images for reduced noise, and we could be looking at another great low-light camera from Samsung.

https://www.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-s9-preview

 

Along with a variable aperture, it also has a stacked DRAM on the sensor itself, so it is capable of 960FPS/720p like the XZ Premium.

It also has the predicted upgraded specs. The SoC is a Snapdragon 845 or an Exynos 9810 depending on the market, has 4GB of memory on the S9 and 6GB on the S9+ and both have 64GB of base storage with a microSD card slot and will be available on March 16th and preorders start on the 2nd.

 

Thoughts? Personally, it's what I expected, and I'm not upgrading.

[Rune]

I have a moto x pure, so this could be worth an upgrade.

[PCGuy_5960]

Am I the only one who thinks that phones are getting more boring every year?

[lewdicrous]

Looks scrumptious, unfortunate we still don't have the technology for regenerative phones

[Murasaki]

Just now, PCGuy_5960 said:

Am I the only one who thinks that phones are getting more boring every year?

Bring the flip phones back!!!

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

The clock and the stock wallpaper looks nice. That's about all I have to say about it. Hope it makes its way to the A5 in the 8.0 update. 

[MetEishYa]

It also has dual front facing speakers tuned by AKG. And an amazing little port on the bottom of the device which you can plug your headphones into.

 

[D13H4RD]

2 minutes ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

Am I the only one who thinks that phones are getting more boring every year?

Nope. Phones have basically plateaued.

 

I could care less about foldable phones. It will be a fad.

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

9 minutes ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

Am I the only one who thinks that phones are getting more boring every year?

No. No, you're not.

[Guest]

8 minutes ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

Am I the only one who thinks that phones are getting more boring every year?

What are you talking about?

This is clearly the phone, REIMAGINED.

[suicidalfranco]

Meh,. Double glass. Not interested.... Again

[Eroda]

20 minutes ago, D13H4RD2L1V3 said:

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i am upgrading but mainly because im on a S6 so it should feel like lightning in my pocket

 

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[Exprima]

I'm a manager for Verizon and was introduced to this 2 weeks ago lol. The camera is legit. Personally I'll prolly still wait for the Pixel 3 as I'm not a fan of Samsung's software.

[D13H4RD]

1 minute ago, Eroda said:

i am upgrading but mainly because im on a S6 so it should feel like lightning in my pocket

 

From an S6, this will be a big upgrade.

 

But for people like me who are on a Note8 or S8, it's a meh upgrade, as we expected.

 

I'm sure the camera will be killer, but I've been using HDR+ on my Note8 and 9 times out of 10, it's stunning.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

2 minutes ago, suicidalfranco said:

Meh,. Double glass. Not interested.... Again

I still think that the iPhone 4 is the only phone that pulled off that double glass thing perfectly. 

[WereCat]

14 minutes ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

Am I the only one who thinks that phones are getting more boring every year?

You are not as historicaly the phone sales went down for the first time ever.

[Eroda]

Just now, D13H4RD2L1V3 said:

From an S6, this will be a big upgrade.

 

But for people like me who are on a Note8 or S8, it's a meh upgrade, as we expected.

is there benchies on the Exynos yet?

[cj09beira]

contact me when it has a removable battery, untill then i will stay with my s4, plus i like smaller phones better (5inch = perfect)

[suicidalfranco]

1 minute ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

I still think that the iPhone 4 is the only phone that pulled off that double glass thing perfectly.

Only because replacing it with a "whatever material you want, plastic in my case" was as easy as removing two screws and sliding it down

[MetEishYa]

2 minutes ago, D13H4RD2L1V3 said:

From an S6, this will be a big upgrade.

 

But for people like me who are on a Note8 or S8, it's a meh upgrade, as we expected.

 

I'm sure the camera will be killer, but I've been using HDR+ on my Note8 and 9 times out of 10, it's stunning.

For phones they normally work on a 2 year upgrade cycle (length of a contract), not normally year to year.

[suicidalfranco]

Just now, suicidalfranco said:

Only because replacing it with a "whatever material you want, plastic in my case" was as easy as removing two screws and sliding it down

And scrolling through ebay

[Oshino Shinobu]

I'm really glad that Samsung isn't mindlessly following Apple in removing the headphone jack like everyone else seems to be doing.

 

So many companies removing it but none of them seem to know why.

 

Also, good that they changed the god awful fingerprint scanner location. 

16 minutes ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

Am I the only one who thinks that phones are getting more boring every year?

Well, the yearly release cycle is probably to blame for that. Most of the time it's just a spec upgrade and not much more. This basically looks like an S8 with better specs (I actually think the S8 looks a little nicer though, the back panel on the S9 makes it look cheap to me for some reason). 

 

Someone is going to eventually have to take a risk to try and change things from the black rectangle that all phones are now, but so far all the ones that have tried that have just ended up being gimmicky and not really practical. 

[D13H4RD]

1 minute ago, Eroda said:

is there benchies on the Exynos yet?

No real ones yet, but leaked ones indicate that it will be quite the monster.

 

3700+ single core and 9000+ multi on GB4

[Guest The Viking]

............this is so underwhelming after all the advertisement they made (yes I was floded with it everywhere)... so they just...moved the fingerprint sensor to finally where it belongs, below the camera (took you what, 2 or 3 years, samsung? the chinese did it before you....) and.....

 

4 or 6gb of ram and only 64gb of internal space? Is this a flagship? What, you'll sell this for 900e again? Damn, the Mate 10 Pro is STILL superior to this thing (6gb ram/128gb internal storage/cheaper...)

 

this phone belongs in midrange with those specs. There.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

2 minutes ago, suicidalfranco said:

Only because replacing it with a "whatever material you want, plastic in my case" was as easy as removing two screws and sliding it down

Well I never replaced the back of mine but I just like the strong presence of the aluminum shell and glass. Other manufactures have aluminum in the same way but it's often just a small sliver of it.