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hey what is up guys I'm cabby HD here and the leaks are finally over the hype is done the speculation is complete welcome to your first look at the samsung galaxy s 9 and the galaxy s 9 plus so in general as soon as you look at it it's pretty clear it's a refinement of what we've already seen with the galaxy s 8 but there are a couple a couple of new interesting things worth noting so what's new with these new phones first of all the all new colors there's the black like usual which is stealthy then there's also this coral blue and this lilac purple and then internationally there's gonna be a silver titanium one again I mean yeah Samsung tends to be using the super cool color scheme for these phones I'm not the biggest fan I'll probably still end up using the black one but the mirror finish stays it's still super shiny and reflective like the past couple years this is probably a phone you'll end up putting a deep brand skin on to keep it from looking like a mess 6 seconds after you take it out the box but yeah they're keeping this look for now aesthetically though the shape and the bezels and the placement of everything the power button the volume rocker the Bigsby button everything is the same the one thing they've moved is the fingerprint reader now to underneath the camera instead of next to it which I of course actually like a lot there's no English fingerprint reader nothing crazy like that but this is definitely more reachable and in a better place than it was before especially on the smaller phone like I said though most of this phone is gonna be pretty familiar still the 5.8 inch and 6 point 2 inch infinity displays respectively still ip68 certified it still has wireless charging still has USB type-c still has a headphone jack the speaker got a slight improvement but it's still in the same place right at the bottom of the phone but they added stereo listening with this earpiece up at the top of the phone and from listening to it it's a bit louder but not significantly better in quality or anything the coolest new feature though is it got Dolby Atmos surround sound suddenly of course that is new though is the specs you got to bump the specs up to be a top-tier 2018 flagship so they bumped it up to get snapdragon 845 and four or six gigs of ram so galaxy s nine has four gigs of ram and galaxy s nine plus has six gigs of ram it also has 64 gigs of storage plus micro SD card expansion they've also added a couple small things now like iris scanning from the galaxy note and facial recognition so there's more ways to biometrically authenticate if it's not just a fingerprint reader but obviously by far the biggest change and the biggest new feature that people were looking forward to for galaxy s 9 is the camera all the teasers and all the leaks and all the hype for this phone raw focused no pun intended on that camera so galaxy s 9 has an all new camera system and when I say camera system really I mean the newest most interesting part isn't the sensor it's the glass it's the lens so okay up until now pretty much every smartphone camera is so small it's so miniaturized that they all have a fixed aperture lens you don't change the aperture they fought from an F 2.0 aperture down to F 1.9 down to F 1.8 F 1.7 they're all in this battle to get as much light into the camera as possible because that's a good thing but something to know about wide-angle wide aperture lenses and you know this already if you know anything about photography or video is the wider you go the softer it generally is so a lot of photographers shooting with their lenses will opt to stop down to F two point four or F two point eight because it's sharper there it's way sharper there than it is at F 1.8 wide-open so galaxy s 9 s new camera is the first I've ever seen in any smartphone that can change apertures it's a variable aperture lens so you can shoot at F 1.5 wide open super huge amount of light or you can stop down for more detail 2f 2.4 and you can actually see it physically doing this and switching when you move back and forth between F 1.5 and F 2.4 it's a pretty obvious difference when you get a good look at it this is super cool to me I've never seen such a small camera with a variable aperture before pretty sure GoPros don't do this most tiny cameras smaller than a point-and-shoot don't do this this is really impressive for a smartphone so the goal with the software is to quickly and smartly switch between the wide-open and stop down depending on how much light there is in the scene I was told it defaults to the F 2.4 and then it opens up to the wide under about a hundred looks which is actually a really low light which means it's doing it as more of a low light mode but I'm doing the switching you see here in Pro Mode which has a button for it so you'll be able to switch to F 1.5 whenever you want so I'm definitely gonna keep my eye on this for the full review gonna be testing it pretty hard to see if it really makes a difference and I have a feeling it's gonna be a pretty big deal if you can see the difference between F 1.5 and F 2.4 photos on this phone but until then fingers crossed and then there's a bunch of other new camera features tossed in there as well like it will do slow-motion video it'll do 240 frames per second at 1080p which is pretty awesome and it will do 960 frames per second at 720p so I did get to test this on the pre-production units it's super slow motion obviously but I'm not sure I can vouch for the quality that's why I throw the air quotes in there but even in this well-lit room you can see a lot of grain I'd like to test this outdoors though maybe with something super so like an explosion or something I think a lot of people don't really realize how impressive 960 frames per second video is especially on a smartphone where you're writing all that to the memory as fast as possible but it stretches 0.2 seconds of video to 6 seconds of footage that's like turning this into a movie now number one it doesn't record audio which that's probably fine you don't really hear anything important with super slow motion video anyway so it sort of overlays this music of your choice which is neat I guess but number two is it only records 0.2 seconds of video and we were trying this you have to get really smart about what exact fragment of time you want to record but they have this automatic motion detection feature where basically you tell it to wait for fast motion inside a certain box you hit start and then it waits for something to happen inside the box and records 0.2 seconds of that so you can frame it up and move the box anywhere on the screen it's cool when it works I'll try it out there is also in the camera a better UI for swiping through the different modes now similar to the iPhone there's better multi shot for noise reduction and HDR capabilities there's some Bixby improvements so it'll recognize it'll do object recognition things like what google lens is doing and it'll also live Tran late signs that are in different languages so that's cool and something else interesting was it will overlay makeup on you and then if you like it it'll give you a link to buy that makeup I guess that's pretty neat but there's even something they're calling AR emoji AR emoji are emoji an emoji ripoff it's a feature that uses the use of the front-facing camera to create an animated version of your likeness so you can use that to record and send videos of yourself as this animation talking to people or you can make yourself an animal - no big deal but bottom line all this stuff all this new stuff in the camera is what makes it pretty clearly the biggest new feature of galaxy s 9 so that's what I'm looking forward to testing the most for the full review definitely make sure to get subscribe if you haven't already to be among the first to see that but other than that it is for sure the phone we were expecting it's what we were looking forward to and it's still premium ly priced just barely below the galaxy note I think the one thing that'll be more interesting a note this year is the bigger difference between galaxy s 9 and galaxy s 9 plus they used to be pretty close and I actually think I almost gave an award to galaxy s 8 for being so close to its bigger brother as far as feature set but this year the galaxy s 9 plus not only gets a bigger screen and more battery but it also gets more RAM and more camera so there's a bigger separation there a bigger buying decision but either way it comes out March 16th and the pre-orders start March 2nd so just in a couple days so let me know what you think is this camera all this new camera stuff enough to get you in line to get a Galaxy S 9 or maybe you're gonna keep waiting on some other flagships let me know until the next one until the review thank you for watching talk to you later peace