Gadgetory

I've just come back from Samsung's booth at Mobile World Congress here in Barcelona and I bought one of the new Galaxy S 9 phones with me don't worry they know I have it and we are going to unbox this together we're actually going to unpack packet also because this is how I brought it over here so come on over we'll take a look I actually wrapped it up in my scarf to protect the edges from getting dinged in my backpack and because it's a long way from the convention center here to my hotel so here we go we've got the galaxy s 9 plus this is the 64 gigabyte version and this is actually a UK edition I'll be getting the US version later the box is black it looks really similar in design so far two previous galaxy models you can see that the writing is this sort of metallic blue that says s9 + does that mean the phone is blue now unfortunately it is midnight black but I begged and pleaded for the purple version or at least the coral blue color or at least silver and we applied so it will be a little bit hard to see some of those details but we'll do the best that we can here's the rest of the box you've got your basic specs on the back not a whole lot to see here anyway we're gonna take the sleeve off just slides right off here pop it down and you've got again similar very similar box design it kind of slides out through a tab on the side and then it will unwrap let's unwrap this and on the table it goes okay so now we've got the little tab if information looks like there's a SIM card holder in here as well so there's our sim tool this is what we would use to put the sim card in sorry Quick Start Guide this is all the usual basic stuff I'm not really excited about that do not accept if the seal is broken okay well we'll just keep going alright tipping out the phone I'm getting ahead of myself here the phone is wrapped in plastic this is always really satisfying seriously one of my favorite parts it's taking off all the plastic because I just cannot stand it there so Oh interesting it's not covering the edge see the sticker on the back oh good oh good no residue there very minimal that's kind of nice and then I always check along the edges it could take forever so the sticker on the bottom it's kind of going around the port's you can see there's still a headset jack on this phone that's a major selling feature for some in fact Samsung took a Miss no opportunity to make fun of Apple especially and other phone makers that had skipped that jack okay so now we've got the phone it's unwrapped you can see it's the s9 plus because of the dual cameras on the back the fingerprint sensor that's underneath the display and then we of course have the heartrate monitor over here there's a new special feature not just takes your heart rate but it can also kind of check your blood pressure so that's new there the exterior we have the big speed button here on the side and no unfortunately that cannot be mapped to open any other apps Samsung wants that for big speed only volume button a SIM card holder for that SIM card tool that will come out there power button along the side and then the ports we talked about so we've got a microphone down here we've got the headset jack and we've got the USBC port let's turn it on startup screen pretty basic no fireworks yet it's pretty usual graphic for Sam's I wonder how much battery of this device has right now getting started well while we let that do its thing let's see what what else is in the box so we've got the little separator I mentioned okay I guess this is a European charger here we go so that's an adaptive fast charging so this will be fast charging for the phone it is of course wires wirelessly chargeable as well but you'll have to buy that charging pad after the fact here we've got a USB connector so USBA on one side two USB see these actually come in handy more often than you would think alright further destroying the box nothing there want the good stuff I want the headset this is an AKG wired headset to go with that wired headset jack Samsung acquired the company and which is why these better than average way better than average headsets come with the phone otherwise they retail for about $100 there are little stickers on the ends of these two and since I really don't like stickers I'm just gonna pull those off as well because why not on the sound front one of the things the s9 + and s9 come with and it's dolby software on there that will make the phone sound a lot better when you use not a headset but the speaker at the top and then a microphone at the bottom but if you do want to plug in there you go comes right in the box we also have a couple two other ear tip sizes we just had a little mini crash there but we have to x-ray at your tip sizes in case the ones that come on the end are too big or too small and finally there is a USB a 2 C cable so this is what you are going to plug it in to your charging brick and then plug that in the wall and of course I like it when they're not attached because you can use this for any number of things take out the cable you know stick it into your computer charger phone that way or just connect it to transfer files so that is pretty much it for the unboxing I've made a mess of things I'm going to go and set up this phone and then we will be back with more comparisons live between the galaxy s 9 plus and the galaxy s 8 tune in for more