Slashdot Mirror
Samsung Will Unveil the Galaxy S9 Next Month At Mobile World Congress (theverge.com)
Samsung will unveil its next flagship handset, the Galaxy S9, next month at Mobile World Congress (MWC). DJ Koh, the company's smartphone chief, confirmed the launch to ZDNet at CES yesterday without offering a specific date. The Verge reports: The S9 (and, presumably, an S9 Plus) will be the successors to the S8 and S8 Plus, which launched at a Samsung event in New York last March before going on sale in April. The S8 and its bigger brother were a hit with critics, who praised the phones' gorgeous design and brilliant cameras. The phones were even good enough to make consumers forget about the disaster of the Galaxy Note 7 and its exploding batteries. Not much is known about the Galaxy S9 at this point, though we're not expecting any radical departures from the S8. A handful of leaked renders suggest it will look near-identical to its predecessor, with a slight tweak moving the rear fingerprint sensor to below the camera (rather than its current, awkward position of off to one side).
Who elected them? Is there an app for that?
Samsung might build some fast chips and nifty sensors into its devices, but I have not bought one since they got...
- too big, I want a phone, not a tablet
- too brittle, the phone has to survice falling down, and I sure don't need a "frameless" display made for breaking
- no more user replaceable battery - I refuse to buy any such device, and still run happily a many years old phone that now has its 3rd generation of battieries in use
Wake me up when phone makers build something better, again.
X gon' give it to ya
The upgrade hamster wheel is insane!
So buy a Galaxy Rugby or something.
I mean, or don't, its not like you "should" by Samsung vs a MotoG a whatever else. But its not like they don't make a phone that meets your stated requirements.
Trump supporting nazis get in free, there's shilling to be done!
Talking about the Galaxy S7s...
The phones were even good enough to make consumers forget about the disaster of the Galaxy Note 7 and its exploding batteries.
Slashdot...really! You folks still had to make sure you rub it in. We moved on long ago. Why even raise this point at this time?
Jeeez...!!
Thanks for this information, never heard about he "Galaxy Rugby" before. Actually looks not bad, apart from the ancient Android (does it run Lineage?). But: It does not seem to be sold anywhere in Europe. If someone knows a reseller in the EU, please tell me.
Great another fragile, thin phablet for the fashion followers.
But why will no manufacturer bring us the USEFUL, ROBUST, LONGLIFE, SMALL, FAT phone, that can sit safely in our back pockets ?
4" screen, 0.5" thick, with a good processor and big battery.
WHY IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK ?
Captcha: "fitting" in my back jeans pocket without snapping.
I replaced by S5 with a LG V20. It's actually a great phone.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Or a Galaxy Xcover 4. Removable battery, Android 7, LTE, IP68, MIL-STD-810G compliant
Instead of whining and complaining about lack of choice when a new flagship phone is announced, perhaps you could look at the entire range. Makes you look like a retard.
ok... looks like the rugby's available are old stock, that would explain the difficulty getting it and the old android version. Guess its been a few years since I looked at them.
Samsung's successor looks to be something like the S8 Active, which hits a lot of your specs... although the battery may not be replaceable. It is pretty waterproof though.
I watched a video on the replacement process..
http://www.topmobilereviews.or...
Its not bad, and I've done harder repairs. Plus where I live the little cellphone shops will replace the battery in most phones while you wait for an extra few bucks. So for me, a replaceable battery isn't as crucial.
Plus the new batteries and phones are simply much better. My S3 to S5 was like night and day as the S3 barely got through a day, and then my S5 to S7 was another big step, where the S5 comfortably got a day, the S7 usually gets me close to 2 days. So my need for replaceable batteries and battery replacements has dropped off a cliff. But that's me...
That said, if replacing the battery is your #1 feature, there are other phones from other makers that would be better.
Samsung do one with a 5" screen but it's only 0.38" thick
https://www.gsmarena.com/samsu...
You didn't even have to ask, they already made it.
If you don't mind the bigger screen Samsung have also done a S5 Active, S6 Active, S7 Active and an S8 Active. All supposed to be rugged phones.
They're the same phone inside as their plain Galaxy Sx's except a little bigger, with a bigger battery too and shock proof.
Why would you ever, _ever_ put a phone (or anything really) of any size in a back pocket?
It will be exactly the same as all the last models. More powerful, bigger screen, less battery, less thickness for absolutely no reason, more pointless gimmicks-du-jour that nobody needs or wants, and more restrictions, data snorkeling privacy robbery, and dumbing down to uselessness.
I'll get a brick. It will literally be better.
(I already have a chinese smartphone with a replacable battery and enough room and contacts to put in foreign batteries too. So I will likely not need anything else for the next 10-20 (yes, twenty) years.
You're in for a world of wonders, my friend!
There are many, MANY small Chinese firms, filling every possible corner of the market and serving every special interest.
You *will* find precisely what you look for. No compromises needed. Probably at a quarter of the cost of a Samsung/Apple.
I found precisely what I needed in a Blackview BV6000 a year ago. Might not be your thing, but is perfectly fits my every wish, full stop.
Seriously ... go and find your perfect fit.
Why would you ever, _ever_ put a phone (or anything really) of any size in a back pocket?
For the same reason you put dicks in your backdoor.
1) I thought from browsing in stores Samsung had something about the size of the iPhone X - that to be is the best compromise, still pretty tall so you get a lot of content, but nit as wide as the widest phones. Ijn fact I though the Note was the really huge one and the S( would be the intermediate size.
2) They don't break as easily as you think, but you can always add a case (I use the iPhone X without a case, it's fine).
3) I don't quite get you here, just because there is no hatch does not mean you cannot replace a battery. mMy wife has been on iPhones that went through at least two battery changes over a number of years...
And you really could replace it yourself, too - there are a lot of kits to do so. Since you only have to do it about every two years I don't mind taking it in though.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I've tried a few smartphones over the years, several android and one iphone. The samsung s7 edge I've got now has been by far the best. I've had it since June 2016, it still feels fast (unlike my other androids did) and it still retains enough battery for 1.5 days of moderate use. I've had no reason to think about flashing a custom rom due to it retaining performance and the interface being fine. Previously I had an LG G3 which had a removable battery and what shit show that thing was.
I hope it is a good phone otherwise I will just have to go get a new battery for my s7. My work supplied phone plan lets me trade for a new model but I like my s7 with its "obsolete" audio jack, so will need to be something good to make me swap.
Now that the Active line has OLED screens they're really good phones.
Kriston
I sincerely hope that Samsung will make this phone where you can get to the battery and remove it. My S7 is a great phone but when it locks up or has some major issue I have to wait until the battery dies on it's own which could be up to 2 days in my case. One day it locked up so bad that I could not power it off and I had just charged it. The phone was locked and I could not do anything it was frozen. I had to wait 2 days until the battery died! Stupid design not to be able to remove the battery. On top of that the battery is not really dead so I have to keep turning it on over and over and over until it really kills the battery. Then I leave it for few hours and try turning it on over an over. Once it is truly dead, I then charge it all the way and the phone works perfectly for a long time. Just rebooting it never fixes it and trying to power it off and on never fixes it because the phone NEVER really powers completely off. Removing the battery is essential.
I don't understand why people like the newer Samsung Galaxy cameras. They take mediocre pictures, then slam a ton of software post processing on them to make them look unnaturally sharp. Try taking a picture of a jar with tiny text, then try to read that text on the photo. With the S4, even though it has fewer megapixels and looks more blurry at first sight you can see the words and read the text. With the S7 and S8, it is impossible to read the text, the letters are just a sharp black mess. Also, fish-eye selfie camera is an asinine idea.
My other account has a 3-digit UID.
Hey BeauHD - Slashdot is supposed to be a news site. There is literally no information about anything in the summary, or the article, other than the basic premise that a company that makes mobile phones may announce a new mobile phone at an event about mobile phones, attended by people in the mobile phone industry.
I'm absolutely overwhelmed.
In your next posting, are you going to tell us that the sun will once again rise tomorrow, and that water is still among the wettest substances on Earth?
Before you had heard of smartphones, I had been keeping my Palm Treo safely in my back jeans pocket for several years.
It never broke.
The massive phones we are forced to buy now are not the only solution.
Don't be so blind.
I wrote: "4" screen, 0.5" thick, with a good processor and big battery."
You replied: "Samsung do one with a 5" screen but it's only 0.38" thick"
Good work.
Captcha: "Contrary"
They don't sell the entire range here. Soonit will be that if you want a Samsung you wwon't be able to easily replace the battery
I will second the Moto G.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
I upgraded to an s8+ while it was all brand new. Still probably the most powerful handset on the market. It cost a cool $850 or so at the time. I was moving up from my Priv. Yet I can honestly say that I use probably less than 1% of it's feature capacity. I send text messages. I use calendar features and set alarms. I use navigation. I use it for dual factor authentication. Sometimes I ask a question. Occasionally as a hotspot. But still its primary function is as my primary but not sole dual factor enabling device.
Perhaps I am getting old, but I dream of a phone that sits between feature phone and not quite smartphone.
I miss my BB classic. If I could have any phone I wanted, it would be a BB classic with a modern processor, 4 gigs of ram, a top notch camera... and... that's about it except to point out that BB 10 would still have to be the OS. It is a shame that such a great OS was shelved and is metaphorically collecting dust. In fact, I could still easily get by with a classic to the point where i have to resist the temptation to buy one after market. The deal breaker is the camera. I actually use that for business and need the resolution for both pictures and video. It is a small enough device that I would in fact shell out quite a lot for some kinda case that introduces a bluetooth connected, high quality camera as long as it had its own battery.
Just rambling over morning coffee.
Brought to you by Carl's Junior.
You come out looking like an asshole for defending a corporation from reasonable criticism. If consumers don't criticize flagships, then when one removes the headphone jack the rest will just do the same. Backlash leads to change (sometimes). Removable batteries, phones that are expensive but built to break, that shit is infuriating. "Oh you can get that stuff removed if you buy their less successful generation-behind-technology phone" is not an answer. And even if it was, how long do you think it will remain so? Rolling over and just taking what our corporate overlords deliver is just pathetic.
Capt obvious here: Lengthening the battery life is good but does nothing to help the problem of batteries holding less charge over time. In the end a battery replacement is still necessary if you want to use the same phone for more than 2 years.
I personally keep my phones until they break so having user replaceable batteries is something I value a lot.
Call nitpicker or something, but it would be nice if there was a Samsung S9 whatever that was similar to the regular Sx but had a replaceable battery.
Maybe they think it would hurt the Galaxy S brand or confuse some people.
Removable Battery, MicroSD card, and Waterproofing. If it doesn't have those, I'm not buying it. I don't want an iPhone. I'll gladly sidegrade to a chinese phone that does those at half the price if you won't give those to me.
"Capt obvious here: Lengthening the battery life is good but does nothing to help the problem of batteries holding less charge over time. In the end a battery replacement is still necessary if you want to use the same phone for more than 2 years."
That's just it, no you don't. Because my S3 barely made it through a day when it was brand new, it needed a new battery the 2nd year, before my contract with it was even over, the loss of half an hour meant I wasn't even getting through the work day, let alone having any charge in the evening.
Because the S5 comfortably lasted a day and half or so, even losing a couple hours hasn't been an issue, its over 4 years old now and my wife is using it; on the original battery, and it's still fine because it still easily lasts the full day and beyond. So, by lasting longer its directly address the need for replacement.
And the S7 is even better.
"I personally keep my phones until they break..."
Sure. Me too at least if you count 'hand me downs' within the family. But its at the point now, where I might have to replace one battery one time after 4-5 years to get another 4-5 years, that's easily the device life.
"having user replaceable batteries is something I value a lot."
And that's just it, why? As long as its not a ridiculous project to replace, then it it's an hour of your time the one or two times you replace it, or it costs $10-15 have the guy you bought it from replace it for you while you wait in 15 minutes.
Why should you put a lot of value on being able to swap a battery? If its something you'll do once every 4 years and costs $10-15 bucks... its just not that big of a deal.
Sure if you run through multiple batteries a day, that's one thing. (But there are external power packs and battery-cases that probably would suit you better if that's your need.)
But if you are demanding user replaceable batteries and dramatically limitting your choice of phones, just to save $10 four years from now? That doesn't really make a ton of sense.
You are 100% correct. Cell phone manufacturers have been foisting a degraded product for the last few years as their "flagship" product. A bezel-less all-glass design just means an almost guaranteed cracked screen or back. The lack of swappable batteries means everyone is dragging around extra cables and chargers, and dealing with ever worsening charge capacity. Manufacturers claim it enables the creation of slick, thin phones. Yet most people put them in thick cases, negating the supposed reason for doing it. Of course the real reason is to insure planned obsolescence.
It just shows the power of marketing style over substance.
It's nice that your current phone doesn't need a battery replacement after a couple of years but I'd rather have the option because I don't know if mine will.
Also, the battery being replaceable even by a repair shop it's not a given. Given the direction the industry is taking of making phones harder and harder to take apart I'll not be surprised if there're some in which it's impossible to replace without breaking the thing apart.
Of course I'm not gonna but a horrible phone just because the battery is easy replaceable at some point I might have to cave in. It's just a preference like having a headphone jack or expandable memory
"It's nice that your current phone doesn't need a battery replacement after a couple of years but I'd rather have the option because I don't know if mine will."
At some point though, its like insisting your car should still have a manual crank start because you don't trust the battery + starter motor.
Seen that actually on a car from 1966. Was weird to see this on such a "recent" car, I didn't know the hole for the crank was on any car after WW2.
But anyhow all cars have a replaceable battery.
On a phone though there is at least simplicity : the SIM slots and SD slot are below the battery or next to it. On a sealed phone? Fuck, where are them! You have to find secret doors.