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what's going on Brian Tong here and Google Isha's is back that's right we're back after a long hiatus and you know we didn't forget you for everything Google you could think of now this week we're going heavy on the Samsung Galaxy S nine details because it's what everyone is talking about now ventra beats evan blast dropped the bomb a few days ago with an official image of the five point eight inch s9 and the six point two inch s9 + that design-wise are nearly identical to the s8 an SI + but you know what the changes will really be with the components inside both phones will bring Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 chip in the US and China or Samsung's Exynos 9810 to the rest of the world but the difference between the s9 phones codenamed star and star to the standard s9 will get four gigs of RAM and 64 gigs of storage while the s9 plus will start with six kids of RAM and 128 gigs of storage now the official Samsung invite they sent out for its February 25th announcement made it pretty clear it's going to be all about the cameras hardware and software for the s9 with the captions the camera reimagined now both phones are believed to feature a new 12 megapixel sensor with variable aperture that will be mechanical and can switch between an F 2 4 and f15 aperture now you can see how it might work like this with Samsung's W 2018 flip phone and it shows it off but let's not overlook this it's f15 aperture besting the LGV 30s f-16 of last year and allowing more light to come in for better images that's the best aperture on any smartphone camera in the industry Evan blast leaked out the camera components with a single lens for the s9 and a dual lens for the s9 plus with the biggest change being the alignment of the fingerprint sensor below the camera lens which is what we asked for last year so you won't get that smudgy smudgy now another feature that was leaked on the alleged retail packaging says super slow-mo where's being reported rapid movement will trigger a 480 frames per second video recording at 720p now there will also be new features come in the s9 Sam Central's tear down of the settings apk for the latest Android Oreo beta for the note 8 has revealed one beam old intelligence scan it will combine face and iris scanning to improve the accuracy of security even in low or very bright light now this video explainer was even buried in the apk it's not using the same technology but clearly it's their answer to compete with Apple's face ID intelligent scan won't replace facial recognition or iris scanning but will disable the other two if it's in use this feature may also replace the fingerprint authentication completely for verifying your identity with apps or even signing into websites now other features like 3d stickers will let you add stickers similar to think of the pixels AR stickers that features Star Wars on its launch and another discovered feature called tag shot will allow you to take pictures and tag them with the current location and weather information there's also signs that smart stay will return where your screen stays on when it can tell you're looking at it and smart rotation something that goes as far back as the galaxy s3 might be making a comeback as well with the S 9 and in case you're an either Bieber or you just want a cool new wallpaper you can get the latest galaxy s 9 wallpaper that looks like all this purple geometric glory by going to this link on screen to download it yes you're welcome so the official galaxy s 9 announcement will be going down on February the 25th just before the start of Mobile World Congress 2018 all right that's gonna do it for this week if you felt like we should have just called this week's episode samsung alicia's you might have a point but you know what i'll just make sure you don't complain that there was nothing on this show about Google at all so check this out if you go to Google's web page and type in speed test in the search bar then click on run speed test and in real time you should be able to see your ping download and upload speeds and this might not be available in all regions but check it out okay that's your standalone Google story for the week we're back and we'll keep bringing you the good stuff email us at Google Isha's at cnet.com or tweet me at brian tom thanks so much for watching we'll catch you all next time for some more of that Google