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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