The Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus: Everything We Know So Far

Samsung has finally announced its latest flagship smartphone series, the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus. While the designs may look similar to last year's models, there are some significant upgrades that make this phone a powerhouse. One of the biggest selling points for the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus is their improved audio system. The company has partnered with AKG to provide a stereo speaker for the first time in a galaxy smartphone. This will definitely be one of the biggest differentiators between the Galaxy series and its competitors, such as Apple's iPhone.

The new speaker design promises to bring a significant improvement over the previous speakers in the Galaxy series. One of the biggest complaints about the previous models was their quiet and tinny sound quality. The speakers on the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus are designed to be louder and more efficient, making them comparable to the best smartphones on the market. This is especially notable when compared to the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus, which were loud but not quite as good as the latest iPhones.

In addition to the improved audio system, the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus will also feature a new processor. The Exynos 9810 processor will be used in international markets, while an unlocked version of the phone will be available in America with the same processor. The Exynos 9810 is a 10nm octa-core processor that features two high-efficiency cores running at 1.9 GHz and four high-performance cores running at 2.9 GHz. While it's not quite as fast as Apple's A11 Bionic processor in the iPhone 10, which runs at 20 GHz, it's still significantly faster than the Exynos 7885 processor used in last year's Galaxy S8.

The performance of the Exynos 9810 has been put to the test through a leaked Geekbench score, which shows that it's slightly behind the A11 Bionic but still one of the fastest Android processors available. The multi-core score is significantly lower than the iPhone 10 at 9000, while the single-core score is just a few hundred points lower at 2773. This will be a significant difference in performance compared to last year's Galaxy S8.

The RAM specs for the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus are also notable. The standard model will come with 4GB of RAM, while the larger S9 Plus model will feature 6GB of RAM. This is a significant increase over last year's models, which had only 3GB or 4GB of RAM depending on the region. Samsung has also taken a page out of Apple's book and differentiated between its higher-end and lower-end models through RAM. The S9 Plus model will have an additional gigabyte of RAM than the standard model.

The storage options for both models are also the same, with 64GB of internal storage that can be expanded up to 400GB using a microSD card slot. This is in line with last year's Galaxy S8 models, but it's still a significant increase over some other smartphones on the market. The phone will also support dual SIM functionality, similar to the previous model.

The battery sizes for both models are identical to those of the Galaxy S8, at 3000mAh and 3500mAh respectively. However, thanks to the more efficient Exynos processor, the S9 Plus is likely to have slightly better battery life than its predecessor. The price of the phone has also increased by $100 or roughly 120 Euros, making it comparable to the iPhone 10 in terms of pricing.

Finally, Samsung has confirmed that pre-orders for the Galaxy S9 will begin on February 25th, with a release date of March 8th. This is a relatively tight timeline, but it's clear that Samsung wants to get its flagship smartphones out there as quickly as possible. The exact details of the phone's software and design are still unknown, but with the Exynos processor and improved audio system, the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus are shaping up to be some of the best smartphones on the market.

Overall, the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus have made significant strides in addressing some of the key weaknesses of previous models. The improved audio system, faster processor, and additional RAM will make a big difference in day-to-day usage. We can't wait to test out these phones for ourselves and see how they compare to their competitors.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys everything Apple Pro here and we are just days away from the unveiling of the CMC galaxy s 9 and s 9 plus and it's really hard to hide my excitement because this thing is going to be big we've learned several things that we didn't know already in one of the biggest leaks Samsung has ever had before everything that Samsung will be talking about in just a few days you can learn from this video to date so I'm gonna warn you spoiler alert sorry about that but win a future a German tech website somehow got their hands on all of the press release images and everything that Samsung is going to be talking about they've confirmed in some features and actual images from the event so let's go ahead and talk about everything we know about the galaxy s night everything is gonna be before the actual release dates so to begin the design so now this website did get all of the actual images so there's nothing left to dispute here this is the official design of the samsung galaxy s 9 and upon first appearance there's really not much has changed since the s8 so if you were hoping for a huge update this is definitely not gonna be it but the fingerprint sensor is getting repositioned to a more comfortable place which is directly below the camera the cameras are now a single and dual lens orientation on the s9 plus series and the flash unit has basically transformed from one area to the other on the back of the phone other than that's you know you'd be really hard-pressed to find any differences to a trained eye even it's hard to tell about the displays this websites saying they will not be changing in any discernable way so expect the very same size as 5.8 inches and 6 point 2 on the galaxy s 9 plus these same resolutions which are qHD and the same aspect ratio the only difference they're saying is that the display positioning has shifted downwards slightly so that's what you're seeing less bezel on the very bottom of the phone basically the display has shifted downwards a little bit but overall the size of the phone is shrinking just a little bit so it'll be a more compact design while retaining the same screen so very great formula there we definitely don't know if there are any under the cover changes to the display maybe a better organic LED display than Apple's who knows it might even be brighter that would be a very welcome change as well of course there are several new colors this one in particular is standing out because it is all-new lilyc purple actually looks fantastic SiC and I would love to see Apple uses although I don't think that they ever would it doesn't make sense on an iPhone on a galaxy it just seems right at home definitely something that's I like would it use but do like alongside little ik purple there will be titanium great coral blue and midnight black depending on which region you live in you're going to get different color choices so to consider that an actual promo images which will surely be shown on the galaxy s 9 website and at the event do detail the new variable aperture camera and that will have apertures of F 1.5 and F 2.4 so it'll be able to switch between those depending on the scenario that you choose if you're shooting in a darker environment or really bright you'll be able to make the best of every situation and I definitely think that this will one-up Apple's iPhone 10 as it definitely can't do that it has a fixed aperture and this does not they can adapt and that is gonna be super important like a DSLR you're gonna be able to take advantage of every situation and I'm super psyched to go test that out in low-light environments because that aperture is something you'd get on a prime lens I mean that's crazy the camera will also support a crazy 960 frames per second slow motion it's unknown which resolution this would be in but if I were to guess it'd be 480p 720p is quite an achievement for that kind of framerate so who knows about that the front-facing camera will still one-up Apple it'll be 8 megapixels with a 1.7 aperture also the dual lens camera on the back will have dual optical image stabilization so much like the note 9 you know video 1 zoomed in it will still be very stable and this definitely will be one of the biggest selling points for the galaxy s and 9 so do expect Samsung to spend a good chunk of their events talking about this and previously we knew that AKG would be tuning the actual speaker on the galaxy s 9 but now from these promo images we know that it is a stereo speaker for the first time a galaxy smartphone will have stereo speakers that's always been my biggest complaint or one of the biggest complaints about the Galaxy series is that their speakers were just awful quiet tinny I mean completely underwhelming compared to the iPhone tens or even the iPhone 7 and 7 plus which were loud and the 8 8 plus and 10 got even louder so I'm glad to see the Samsung is catching up in this department and the website continues into the processor and this is one area where I'm just away Samsung really did a lot of catching up here and it's not quite at the iPhone 10 level but just a hair below it so the Exynos 9810 processor which by the way we will not be getting here in America but you can order an unlocked version and have it here in America will be a 10 nanometer octa-core processor and the actual specs gigahertz so they're saying the for high-efficiency cores will be 1.9 gigahertz and the high-performance ones will be 2.9 gigahertz so that's slightly higher clocked at an Apple's iPhone 10 which is at 20.39 somewhere around there and it's higher clocked but not only that a leaked Geekbench has shown that it's just a fraction lower than the iPhone tents but the single core score you can expect three thousand seven hundred seventy three which is literally just a few hundred points under Apple's iPhone 10 and that's a score that matters so on the galaxy men this is gonna be a huge difference in comparison to the s8 compared to iphone 10 still unknown we'll have to see but the multi-core score is just a thousand points lower than Apple's iPhone 10 at 9000 basically so I cannot wait to test the Exynos version and it even outperforms the leaked Geekbench from the snapdragon 845 which is the one we'll be getting here in America so quite a distinct difference between those the Exynos and snapdragon definitely we'll have to test that out on this channel later and for now this will be the fastest Android phone to date or so far in 2018 anyways also the RAM specs will be four gigabyte for the standard s9 and 6 for the s9 plus much like Apple differentiates between eight and eight plus with an additional gigabyte of RAM Samsung will have a two gigabyte distinction both will have 64 gigabytes of storage and will be upgradable up to 400 gigabytes using the SD card slot dual SIM will be an option much like the s8 you will be able to buy a special edition version that handles two sims and the battery sizes will be identical to the galaxy s 8 3,000 milliamps and 3500 on the galaxy s 9 plus but this plus the more efficient internals will probably equal the same or slightly better battery life than the SI the website does detail that the price will be increasing 100 euros or an America roughly 120 hundred twenty-five dollars over the s8 so definitely getting into the iPhone 10 territory but not quite and the website is telling some slightly different release information from what we knew before you might actually be able to pre-order the Galaxy S nine on the date of the event which will be February 25th with a release on March 8th so that is a pretty tight release schedule Samsung wants to get these out there as fast as possible so that's the galaxy s 9 and everything about it before the actual event dates I'm so excited I really really want to see the Exynos version in comparison with the iPhone 10 because it seems so close maybe Samsung will do something with their actual skin on the galaxy s 9 to make it's faster at launching apps maybe reduce the animations it could potentially be faster than an iPhone 10 in day-to-day usage and with the additional RAM on the plus version it might do better with reloading applications any background or keeping them loaded unlike the iPhone 10 which tends to reload them every once in a while so very very excited guys with a great certainty I can say that in this video almost everything I said will happen this Monday coming Monday so stay tuned for that guys I'm super excited let me know what you guys think about the s9 yeah I know it's super similar to the s8 but still it is going to be one powerful creature so thanks for watching guys stay tuned for that peacewhat's up guys everything Apple Pro here and we are just days away from the unveiling of the CMC galaxy s 9 and s 9 plus and it's really hard to hide my excitement because this thing is going to be big we've learned several things that we didn't know already in one of the biggest leaks Samsung has ever had before everything that Samsung will be talking about in just a few days you can learn from this video to date so I'm gonna warn you spoiler alert sorry about that but win a future a German tech website somehow got their hands on all of the press release images and everything that Samsung is going to be talking about they've confirmed in some features and actual images from the event so let's go ahead and talk about everything we know about the galaxy s night everything is gonna be before the actual release dates so to begin the design so now this website did get all of the actual images so there's nothing left to dispute here this is the official design of the samsung galaxy s 9 and upon first appearance there's really not much has changed since the s8 so if you were hoping for a huge update this is definitely not gonna be it but the fingerprint sensor is getting repositioned to a more comfortable place which is directly below the camera the cameras are now a single and dual lens orientation on the s9 plus series and the flash unit has basically transformed from one area to the other on the back of the phone other than that's you know you'd be really hard-pressed to find any differences to a trained eye even it's hard to tell about the displays this websites saying they will not be changing in any discernable way so expect the very same size as 5.8 inches and 6 point 2 on the galaxy s 9 plus these same resolutions which are qHD and the same aspect ratio the only difference they're saying is that the display positioning has shifted downwards slightly so that's what you're seeing less bezel on the very bottom of the phone basically the display has shifted downwards a little bit but overall the size of the phone is shrinking just a little bit so it'll be a more compact design while retaining the same screen so very great formula there we definitely don't know if there are any under the cover changes to the display maybe a better organic LED display than Apple's who knows it might even be brighter that would be a very welcome change as well of course there are several new colors this one in particular is standing out because it is all-new lilyc purple actually looks fantastic SiC and I would love to see Apple uses although I don't think that they ever would it doesn't make sense on an iPhone on a galaxy it just seems right at home definitely something that's I like would it use but do like alongside little ik purple there will be titanium great coral blue and midnight black depending on which region you live in you're going to get different color choices so to consider that an actual promo images which will surely be shown on the galaxy s 9 website and at the event do detail the new variable aperture camera and that will have apertures of F 1.5 and F 2.4 so it'll be able to switch between those depending on the scenario that you choose if you're shooting in a darker environment or really bright you'll be able to make the best of every situation and I definitely think that this will one-up Apple's iPhone 10 as it definitely can't do that it has a fixed aperture and this does not they can adapt and that is gonna be super important like a DSLR you're gonna be able to take advantage of every situation and I'm super psyched to go test that out in low-light environments because that aperture is something you'd get on a prime lens I mean that's crazy the camera will also support a crazy 960 frames per second slow motion it's unknown which resolution this would be in but if I were to guess it'd be 480p 720p is quite an achievement for that kind of framerate so who knows about that the front-facing camera will still one-up Apple it'll be 8 megapixels with a 1.7 aperture also the dual lens camera on the back will have dual optical image stabilization so much like the note 9 you know video 1 zoomed in it will still be very stable and this definitely will be one of the biggest selling points for the galaxy s and 9 so do expect Samsung to spend a good chunk of their events talking about this and previously we knew that AKG would be tuning the actual speaker on the galaxy s 9 but now from these promo images we know that it is a stereo speaker for the first time a galaxy smartphone will have stereo speakers that's always been my biggest complaint or one of the biggest complaints about the Galaxy series is that their speakers were just awful quiet tinny I mean completely underwhelming compared to the iPhone tens or even the iPhone 7 and 7 plus which were loud and the 8 8 plus and 10 got even louder so I'm glad to see the Samsung is catching up in this department and the website continues into the processor and this is one area where I'm just away Samsung really did a lot of catching up here and it's not quite at the iPhone 10 level but just a hair below it so the Exynos 9810 processor which by the way we will not be getting here in America but you can order an unlocked version and have it here in America will be a 10 nanometer octa-core processor and the actual specs gigahertz so they're saying the for high-efficiency cores will be 1.9 gigahertz and the high-performance ones will be 2.9 gigahertz so that's slightly higher clocked at an Apple's iPhone 10 which is at 20.39 somewhere around there and it's higher clocked but not only that a leaked Geekbench has shown that it's just a fraction lower than the iPhone tents but the single core score you can expect three thousand seven hundred seventy three which is literally just a few hundred points under Apple's iPhone 10 and that's a score that matters so on the galaxy men this is gonna be a huge difference in comparison to the s8 compared to iphone 10 still unknown we'll have to see but the multi-core score is just a thousand points lower than Apple's iPhone 10 at 9000 basically so I cannot wait to test the Exynos version and it even outperforms the leaked Geekbench from the snapdragon 845 which is the one we'll be getting here in America so quite a distinct difference between those the Exynos and snapdragon definitely we'll have to test that out on this channel later and for now this will be the fastest Android phone to date or so far in 2018 anyways also the RAM specs will be four gigabyte for the standard s9 and 6 for the s9 plus much like Apple differentiates between eight and eight plus with an additional gigabyte of RAM Samsung will have a two gigabyte distinction both will have 64 gigabytes of storage and will be upgradable up to 400 gigabytes using the SD card slot dual SIM will be an option much like the s8 you will be able to buy a special edition version that handles two sims and the battery sizes will be identical to the galaxy s 8 3,000 milliamps and 3500 on the galaxy s 9 plus but this plus the more efficient internals will probably equal the same or slightly better battery life than the SI the website does detail that the price will be increasing 100 euros or an America roughly 120 hundred twenty-five dollars over the s8 so definitely getting into the iPhone 10 territory but not quite and the website is telling some slightly different release information from what we knew before you might actually be able to pre-order the Galaxy S nine on the date of the event which will be February 25th with a release on March 8th so that is a pretty tight release schedule Samsung wants to get these out there as fast as possible so that's the galaxy s 9 and everything about it before the actual event dates I'm so excited I really really want to see the Exynos version in comparison with the iPhone 10 because it seems so close maybe Samsung will do something with their actual skin on the galaxy s 9 to make it's faster at launching apps maybe reduce the animations it could potentially be faster than an iPhone 10 in day-to-day usage and with the additional RAM on the plus version it might do better with reloading applications any background or keeping them loaded unlike the iPhone 10 which tends to reload them every once in a while so very very excited guys with a great certainty I can say that in this video almost everything I said will happen this Monday coming Monday so stay tuned for that guys I'm super excited let me know what you guys think about the s9 yeah I know it's super similar to the s8 but still it is going to be one powerful creature so thanks for watching guys stay tuned for that peace\n"