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samsung's newest phones the galaxy s 9 and s 9 plus have new qualcomm snapdragon 845 processors better stereo speakers slimmer bezels and gigabit LTE but it's the cameras that are the biggest reason to upgrade or so Samsung promises so here are the details both s9 phones have 12 megapixel rear cameras with adjustable apertures which is a unique feature for phones it physically moves from an F 2.4 to an F 1.5 and can lead in what samsung says is 28% more light it's supposed to take brighter shots in low light or higher quality shots in brighter light like an SLR does or your eyes the s9 plus also adds a second 12 megapixel rear camera for 2 X optical zoom kind of like the note 8 the s9 still only has one but both phones take advantage of better processing in a faster ISP to deliver a promise 30% less noise and photos taking 12 pictures to generate the best photo overall technically deer am on the new sensor makes the processor work up to four times faster so samsung says samsung's so-called SuperSpeed dual pixel tech promises to be as big an upgrade as the galaxy s7 camera was to the s6 the 8 megapixel selfie cam is largely the same but also gets better with an improved camera sensor and processor one new processor driven trick is super slow-mo forget 240 frames per second this does 960 but in 720p and over a very short period of time point 2 seconds it's activated by a motion trigger like an exploding party favor afterwards it defaults back to 30 frames per second and there's a are 2 AR selfies are an answer to apples and emoji or Google's AR stickers I'm just gonna test this out see how it works I the camera captures your face and converts it to an equivalent emoji kind of like bitmoji does and then it suggests animated gifs that you can send to friends AR emoji can be created with the front or rear camera and you can animate them too using your face and putting on various human or extremely non-human characters but the level of face control isn't as good as Apple's true depth camera cameras are used more as well with Samsung's Bixby vision a visual part of Samsung's a I added modes can live translate languages add virtual make up scan food and to quit calorie counts and also do quick scan shopping at Sam's Club and Nordstrom's while better cameras make the S 9 the best we'll know more when we review it