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okay this is Dan from The Verge and this is the new Galaxy S nine and the galaxy s 9 plus from Samsung now if you're looking at these you probably think they look pretty familiar and that's because they do they basically look exactly like the Galaxy s8 from last year except for one major difference we've been complaining about the placement of the fingerprint scanner on the galaxy s 8 since it came out so for the galaxy s 9 Samsung fixed it and moved it from next to the camera to below the camera which is way easier to reach even on the larger model now otherwise they are very similar designed you've got a 5.8 inch display on the s9 6.2 inch display on the s9 plus there's still Super AMOLED screens there still have the same high-res displays there's still have the curved sides that Samsung calls this infinity display that spills over the edge and simply has actually made the bezels to say that specials are the same size but they're a little bit better masked than last year's model so they don't quite stand out as much you still have the power button on the side you got the volume rocker over here and then of course there's the big speed button that hasn't gone anywhere and on the bottom there's still the headphone jack which you get on both models and a lot of the new things you can't actually see but they are appreciated it's got stereo speakers now so the earpiece speaker works in conjunction with the bottom speaker to produce stereo sound the camera has been new and improved I don't get into that in a minute it's got a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor inside of it there's four gigabytes of RAM in the small model there's six gigabytes of RAM in the bigger model 3000 milliamp hour battery here thirty five hundred million power battery here both of them a fast charging both of them FS wireless charging both of them have ip68 water and dust resistance both of them have 64 gigabytes of storage both of them have microSD card slots and both of them have gigabit LTE so a lot of those things are familiar to s8 owners but the big difference that Samsung is touting this year is the cameras and you can see on the s9 it has a single camera and on the s9 plus it now has a dual camera which is very similar to the notates dual camera so it's got a wide-angle lens and a telephoto lens which lets you get closer to your subject or do different types of blurring what simpson calls live focus affects on both models you do have a new variable aperture lens which means that the aperture on the camera it goes from 1.5 which is brighter than last year's phone and one of the brightest lenses on the market and you can close it down to F 2.4 if you're in a very bright environment if you're outdoors sunlight and you've got too much light you can shut down the aperture for better quality photos there but you can do that automatically through the Samsung's camera app or if you go into the pro mode you can actually switch between the two which is pretty neat this is a first phone we've seen with a mechanical physically changing aperture which is very interesting it is locked at 1.5 or 2.4 it doesn't do any values in between but it still is more than pretty much any other phone offers you in terms of the camera quality itself it's still 12 megapixel sensor but Samsung has says it now has next-generation dual pixel autofocus so it's got faster more reliable autofocus it does more processing on chips so you get better noise reduction than the prior generation up to 30% so in certain situations and then the other features that are new are on the video side it can shoot 240 frames per second slow motion like it could do last year but now I can do up to 960 frames per second at 720p for short bursts for a super slow-motion mode now Samsung says that the s9 is gonna have better low-light performance thanks to improved multi frame noise reduction algorithms where it combines multiple frames together to reduce the amount of noise in the actual image we're going to be testing this out once we have a review in it but so far the early impressions are pretty promising now the camera app has also been redesigned so it's a little bit easier to use you can switch between modes by just swiping which is way easier than Sampson's older user interface and you can quickly switch there there is of course the pro mode which gives you full manual controls over white balance and aperture and shutter speed and such so the other thing that's new the camera is Samsung's new AR emoji which is basically its take on iPhones an emoji feature it creates a 3d animated image based on a hundred points of your face when you look at the camera and it then turns that into animated gifts that you can share through the camera app in various messaging apps you can also customize the appearance um you can change a hair color at glasses change the outfit and do these other things that you can't quite do with an emoji it's not quite the exact same thing but it provides a very similar effect the Samsung is also improved and upgraded its flagship features like Bixby which has a new user interface design it has a couple of new features it can also take a picture of food and estimate its calorie count that you can then link to s elf as well Samsung's also upgraded the Dex feature which lets you use your phone as a full desktop environment with various open apps and things like that it used to be using a docking station with the galaxy s 8 now as a new successor II called the Dex pad which is basically a flat pad and lets you use the phone as a trackpad or keyboard if you don't happen to have an external master keyboard with you now there's a lot more in the galaxy s 9 and s 9 plus we'll be diving into as we spend more time with the devices but initially it's gonna be available for pre-order on March 2nd it'll be shipping on March 16th it's gonna come in three colors in the US black purple and blue and the pricing should be about the same as the galaxy s 8 for 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