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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.
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.
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.