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hey destruction for Gaara what's going on everybody and here we're taking a look at the Galaxy S 9 versus the galaxy s 8 now one quick perspective here the Galaxy S seven is still used by a lot of users out there and they're quite happy with it so what we're looking at here is basically the top two in a very high powered line of smartphones much of the outside might seem the same but improvements have been made that make the s 9 a worthy step away from the S 8 colors now have a new edition in the lilac purple edition which is a purple hue that we actually surprisingly enjoyed very much the size of the phones are basically the same whether you go for the plus sizes or for the smaller regular editions and they are all backed by ip68 certifications hardly anything has really changed between these two but those couple of pain points that people had in the previous edition have been addressed here the speaker grille on the bottom is no longer a series of dots which seems like a small detail but then you realize that it is one of two speakers there is a speaker on the front integrated into the call speaker and now you have a stereo setup really this makes the sound experience much louder and much fuller a very market improvement over the original Galaxy s8 the other change is probably going to be a welcome one for a lot of people out there and it's the fingerprint reader on the Galaxy Note 8 and on the galaxy s 8 it was a pain point that Samsung addressed by putting the finger parameter below the camera module so it is lower on the body and easier to reach with your index finger this is a great move on their part even if it is clear that Samsung is moving towards other biometric meters like scanning your face or scanning your iris both of those have been put together into what is now called the intelligent scan and this is where things get really excited while the F 1.7 aperture camera of these Galaxy s8 was already a great performer we now have one that is capable of F 1.5 and F 2.4 that's right you can change the aperture and it is done mechanically an actual iris will close and open to the levels of F 1.5 and F 2.4 meaning that depending on the situation you'll get a lot more light and a lot more depth of field Samsung still manages to find ways of improving on the camera experience whereas in the galaxy s 8 we all pretty much agree that it was a pretty great camera on its own already and that also comes down to their better image processing even the camera app is a little bit different this time around with all of the modes up top there are a couple of modes that we did highlight in a camera future focus video that include the AR emoji which is basically like bitmoji but you can actually cater it to your liking and there's also the super slo-mo that allows for 960 frames per second video at 720p resolution but there is an auto mode that figures out when the motion is happening taking the guesswork out of slow motion really the camera is a lot of the story with the galaxy s 9 as it does improve also Bixby's assistance of course the Bigsby button is on the side still and any improvements that are made to Bigsby on the galaxy s 9 will likely come in software updates for the Galaxy S 8 as well but the camera in Bixby in the s9 does provide things like live translation and also food recognition but aside from all of that excitement much of the experience is still reliable and very speedy you get the bump up in performance you would expect with the snapdragon 845 in the galaxy s 9 and the galaxy s 9 plus brings an extra 2 gigabytes of ram renting it out to 6 gigabytes total which is definitely a bit more of an upgrade compared to the original si plus the screens are AMOLED and come in the same sizes 5 point eight and 6.2 inches and one thing we notice about the screen with the new Galaxy S nines is that it doesn't seem like the display is actually bleeding all the way to the ends anymore and finally in battery sizes Samsung kept things about the same the Galaxy S nine comes with the same 3000 milliamp hour capacity while the Plus model comes with 3500 and so there you have it the changes between the galaxy s 9 and the previous generation there isn't a whole lot differentiating these two phones and if you have the galaxy s 8 you might want to stick with it one good thing is that if you do have a previous galaxy device especially the galaxy s 8 then you have the ability to trade in the old phone for a deep discount on the new one which can be pre-ordered on March 2nd keep it tuned to Andrew authority for more coverage on the galaxy s 9 and the s 9 plus we have plenty to talk about with this and don't forget to check out the camera future focus feature so that you can get a closer look at these camera features that Samsung did add into their newest device keep it tuned here for more from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and to remember to stick around because we are your source for all things Android