Galaxy S9 - The Truth! #Helpful Post

o after a couple days with this phone

the biggest thing that I get out of the

way is the fact that the s9 lineup as a

whole is by no means a major overhaul

compared to the s8 but more so a

refinement I will say that as far as

what comes inside the box it's a little

bit of a golfclap to Samsung because

there is a ton of stuff packed inside

outside of the QuickStart guide which

I'm not sure how many thoughts are still

used you get a fast charge power brick a

USB CD USB a cable a USB a two USBC

adapter a pair of AKG headphones and a

SIM card tool now the akechi headphones

they sound good they're not amazing but

the bigger statement here from Samsung

is that they've held their ground and in

a year where headphone jacks are few and

far between that is here on the Galaxy S

nine and I know that is a huge deal to a

lot of people out there the biggest

cosmetic difference you'll probably

notice with the s9 and s 9 plus is the

fingerprint reader which is now right

smack under the camera no longer

awkwardly to the right where you have to

move your finger around and guess this

here of course is midnight black or is

it black camo from D brand and I'm not

gonna tell you some silly reason that

you need this because your phone is

slippery you're gonna want it because it

looks awesome link below now the one

thing that I think is gonna get

overlooked with the s9 and s9 plus has

got to be the display still features

that same super tall 18 and 1/2 on an

infinity display but after using the

pixel to excel in the iPhone 10 coming

back to this you forget how freaking

good it is in this case with the galaxy

s 9 plus it is a 6.2 inch display with a

29 60 by 1440 resolution the galaxy s 9

is gonna be slightly smaller at five

point eight inches but it's gonna retain

the same resolution the s 9 plus in a

way is almost gonna give you Note 8 like

features without the s-pen if that makes

sense you have dual cameras a main

wide-angle lens it's gonna feature the

dual aperture that is shared across the

regular Galaxy S 9 and then the

secondary lens it's gonna give you two

times zoom honestly one of the biggest

things you've probably heard surrounding

the galaxy s 9 it's going to be that

variable aperture camera that's where

it'll adapt and lower lighting

conditions and switch from have 2.4 down

to F 1.5 a lot of people out there love

but at the same time some people say

it's a little bit of a gimmick which

isn't entirely crazy yes it is super fun

to look at especially when you're in

promo when you can switch back and forth

in fact here is a super close-up slow-mo

shot at 200 FPS strangely satisfying

right what does that actually translate

to so to give an example of how much

extra light is being light and what I

did was lock everything off in Pro Mode

this shot here is at F 1.5 and with the

exact same settings - changed into F 2.4

you can see how much darker the image is

conversely what I did was change shutter

speed automatic that way it would

compensate and keep the exposure around

the same with the F 1.5 compared to 2.4

you can see there's a little bit more of

that blurred out shallow depth-of-field

it's not a ton but it is definitely

there from there in a more extreme

low-light situation to paint the picture

here it's about 6:15 p.m.

well after sunset you can see pretty

much the only thing lighting my face is

the phone itself to kind of replicate

the same idea I locked everything off

took one shot at F 2.4 where you can see

that kind of matches how everything

looked outside but then bumping that up

to F 1.5 you can see there's a huge

difference in light the one downside it

will say though especially as we look

closer at this picture is the entire

image as a whole is a little bit soft

compared to F 2.4 so it's kind of

trade-off you get more light but at the

same time the image isn't as sharp so

this is a mind-blowing game-changing

revolutionary feature I would say

definitely know but at the same time it

doesn't mean we should take away from

the overall performance of the s-plane

camera which is really good low-light

performance is fantastic and of course

when you're shooting during the day

you're gonna get some amazing photos you

have greater dynamic range it's super

sharp the colors are beautiful and I

will say as a whole the camera app is

much more intuitive and easier to use

with previous Galaxy camera UI is a

little clunky a little hard to navigate

but with this you simply swipe over from

set into setting which is way easier to

use so the camera is fantastic but that

other feature you most likely heard

about as well it's got to be that 960

fps slow-motion video that I sent that

one guy out there a comment yes I

realized this feature is not brand new

or exclusive to the galaxy s 9 and it

was on Sony phones last year but at the

same time it doesn't make it any less

awesome that it's here there are

actually two ways to operate this you

can manually trigger it which is gonna

give you a very short burst of recording

or you can set it to automatic where

it's gonna look for that action and then

record that and then automatically put

that in slow motion I will say though

with slow motion as a whole especially

when you're dealing with the sensor size

on a camera you need a ton of light to

really make it look good in this case me

and which were outside

getting closer to sunset so we didn't

have the most light in the world and you

can see the results with the footage are

a little bit grainy but still pretty

damn cool nonetheless

 

from now the other thing if the camera

subsequently leads to is going to be a

are emoji which I have a ton of mixed

feelings on it essentially scans your

face and turns you into this 3d

trackable bitmoji looking creation this

kind of looks like me which is a little

bit creepy I'm not sure how many people

will actually dig that I think more so

what people will end up use and it's

going to be the gif feature where it

turns you into a moving gif which is

actually kind of cool I will say though

Samsung's choice of animals are a little

bit weird we have this rabbit looking

thing we have this blue creature which

I'm kind of thinking is maybe a dog so

they are emoji now from there these are

nubs of difference with the s 9 + s 9 +

are going to be stereo speakers and as

far as what that translates to over the

s 8 here is a comparison of the s 9 +

with stereo speakers and the single

speaker on the S 8 I will say it's not

mind-blowing or again a reason why you

need to go sell your Galaxy s8 to

upgrade just for this feature alone but

there's definitely different I'd say the

biggest thing I notice is probably gonna

be the fullness especially when you're

consuming media you have sound firing

both ways and that kind of translates

into a fuller more immersive audio

experience as opposed to a noticeable

louder experience if that makes sense

either way though if you've never used

stereo speakers on a smartphone it is

awesome so there's my impressions on the

galaxy s 9 plus after a couple days

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