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Samsung's Galaxy S9 Will Appear At CES In January, Says Report (venturebeat.com)
According to VentureBeat, Samsung is planning to show off its next-generation Galaxy S9 and S9+ smartphones at January's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Some of the information about the devices will be shared at CES, but Samsung is still apparently holding an official launch event in March, as it did this past year for the Galaxy S8 and S8+. From the report: Codenamed Star 1 and Star 2 -- and going by model numbers SM-G960 and SM-G965 -- the S9 and S9+ will feature the same 5.8-inch and 6.2-inch curved-edge Super AMOLED "Infinity" displays, respectively, as their predecessors. While no specific processor was mentioned, it is said to employ 10-nanometer fabrication techniques, which is highly suggestive of the upcoming Snapdragon 845 from Qualcomm (and likely a similar Exynos model for some regions). Besides a bigger screen, the S9+ will reportedly offer more RAM (6GB versus 4GB) and a second rear camera, similar to the Note8. Both models pack 64GB of internal storage, supplemented by a microSD slot, and both leave the 3.5-millimeter headphone jack intact. Regardless of rear camera configuration, both phones orient the elements on the back of the device vertically -- with the fingerprint sensor on the bottom, in acknowledgement of one of the most frequent complaints about all three of Samsung's 2017 flagship handsets. Another change that's sure to be well-received is the addition of AKG stereo speakers. Finally, Samsung plans to introduce a backward-compatible DeX docking station that situates the phones flat and utilizes the screens as either a touchpad or a virtual keyboard.
and both leave the 3.5-millimeter headphone jack intact
I really hope Samsung holds onto the headphone jack long past the S9. One might consider it a small detail, but my non-fanboy Apple and Pixel users remain frustrated as heck about the removal of this feature from those platforms (fanboys of course defend the decision).
I have two friends this month who moved from Apple to Samsung strictly because of the absence of the jack.
It'll burst onto the scene, torch the competition, spark interest, fire up the imagination, get sizzling reviews, melt hearts, and generate heated discussions.
Table-ized A.I.
I'm going to buy this fucker as soon as they will take my money. I don't give a shit about anyting like features or warranties or chip size. I'm fucking buying it like right now and it's going to be riding in my pocket on the El and that's that. Problem? Deal.
... Actual people, I mean. Not passive-thinking swarm entities. They will want what they are told to want, of course.
Chinese firms really upped their game in the last years. Now you can get phones for <$200, that have a higher build quality, more power and all the features you want (like a bigger and removable battery, no obsession with thinness, a headphone jack, stock Android, unbrickable easily rooted bootloader, etc).
A true "to each their own".
It makes no sense to buy a Samsung or Apple phone, unless you absolutely need that specific set (or rather lack) of features, and are willing to pay anything to get it.
And I don't hate them. I'm just thinking they need to up their game... massively... or they'll drown in the mass of generics.
A featureless flat slab of screen just doesn't cut it anymore.
my almost 4 year old Note 3 with a new Note 8 just last month. It was worth the wait (I had planned on a Note 7 but whatever).
Looking forward to a new Note 12 in a few years time. Nice to have quality devices you don't want/need to replace every year or two.
Yeah, not going anyway --they let fire reign down on people in the NYNY a few years before what happened on Oct 1 and that area's pseudo-Communist government let the local operators let it happen again!
They moved because they lacked courage...
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
Sold if I wasn't already happy as a clam with my S8+. By the time the S10+ (or whatever it's called) comes out, I'll be in position for for the S9+. Good timing on this article. I just got back from meeting with a bunch of friends, a bunch of them I had not seen in awhile. Four of them had sprung for the new iPhone. As we got to comparing, their envy ensued. Why? This is a comment, not a review. Although they were all life long iPhone owners. Two of which claimed they had never really seen an Android before.
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If they also remove the Bixby button, I might go back to Samsung. I went with an LG V30 (which I'm very happy with) primarily to avoid the extra button that only does something that I don't want (and I liked the wide-angle second camera).
It sounds like the S9 really doesn't bring anything new to the party compared to the S8.
What is up with huge screen sizes anymore? Before you had the galaxy S with a good size screen and left the bigger screens for the Note and Mega series. Now even the Galaxy S line is a monster to hold in hand, I guess my last Galaxy will be the S7 since its still had a sane and manageable display size.
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Yeh, and Apple should add the standard media of professional cameras.... an SD card reader to their laptops. Removing ports that are in common use is just fooking dumb. The audio port is ubiquitous. And a media editing laptop needs to support the common media input devices.
That aside aside, pretty please Samsung:
1) can we have Dex in 4K??? It doesn't need to run games in that mode, and sure PCs commonly have crappy FHD displays, but it would be so so so so useful if Dex could support higher resolutions.
2) can you fix that ass stupid Google Android thing of killing the Activity as soon as it goes to the back. I am sick of opening a major app, switching to something minor, switching back to app #1 only to see that its been unloaded. I wait while it restores its GUI because Google thought it was a good thing to kill every app as early as it possibly can. I've waited for apps to restore, seen apps restore to some safe state so I have to start again, I've seen apps that need restarting because they lost a server connection after you killed them, FFS, just keep the fooking app in memory till you're sure the user has finished with it.
3) can you also Fork Android, because I see Google are doing yet another half assed OS (after the Chrome as Android wrapper flop, they're doing a full OS simply to implement iOS 11's grouped panes) without fixing Android and it needs work. Give the user a proper 'exit' so the OS knows when it can close an app and isn't closing apps too early or too late. Fix the permissions: no more " can I have GPS access"... sends location, "can I have storage access"... sends files, " can I have account access"... sends user contacts...." until the user decides no to permission. Because then its too late, they already grabbed the earlier data.
Tablets are big, the orientation is the orientation the USER chooses, not the apps. Keep the orientation the user chooses and fit the apps to it! Apps don't need to resize, there's no reason an app should work well on a portrait phone and be able to present some magic landscape version that uses up the whole of the space you have available for them. If they don't need the whole screen, its free for other apps.
Fix the launcher, its a main screen, an apps draw, a MRU list.... three ways to launch apps, and the MRU is a confused mix of running and recently used apps.
When the phone is in the docking station/holder in my car, a finger print sensor on the back side is pretty much useless.
So I'll stick with the 7 until Samsung figures out a way.
TODO: create/find/steal funny sig.
Very Apple move, Samsung. Guess you continue to not want my business.
At least the headphone jack remains.
Just follow the fire brigade.
All these minor increments of a little faster CPU/GPU, a wee bit more storage, and yet another screen that cracks by passing dust motes is pure stagnation. Samsung have had a folding screen for over 2 years; bringing this to mobile phone devices will be the biggest jump and trigger a massive wave of upgrades. It will be the biggest form-factor change since Sony's R&D came up with using icons on a screen instead of tactile buttons (which became the iPhone).
The reason they don't:
It doesn't work as well as they promise.
Same for all the battery promises, etc. The tech "exists" but it's entirely impractical.
Chinese phones are subsidized by embedded spyware.