New Galaxy S9 Leak 'Confirms' Samsung's Big News
the latest leak gives us a pretty clear idea of some of the changes, and they are all as expected. The S9 isn’t going to upset the design story of smartphones as 2018 dawns.
DJ Koh, president of mobile communications business at Samsung, holds up the new Samsung Galaxy Note8 (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
The new details show the rumored design of the Galaxy S9, and it is as iterative as expected. That means the curved long edges of the screen are still present, minimising the side bezels impact. The top and bottom bezels are reduced from the Galaxy S8 and Note 8 designs, offering even more frontal space for the screen.
The rear of the device shows not only the camera housing, but a repositioned sensor that is likely the fingerprint scanner. Although Samsung is still hard at work on an under-screen fingerprint reader, the technology is not yet ready for arguably the device that is key to the company’s financial year. So staying with the rear-mounted sensor is the only smart decision for the S9.
Moving it away from the camera lens will stop smearing and reduced image quality, so that’s something.
It also looks like the S9 will be staying with a single lens camera, skipping the dual lens efforts of many (but not all) competing handsets. It may be that the dual lens is reserved for the larger Galaxy S9 Plus.
Samsung President of Mobile Communications Business DJ Koh unveils the Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ (Photo by Brad Barket/Getty Images for Samsung)
The evidence is building up that Samsung is not pushing anything radical in the design of the Galaxy S9. Arguably the big changes will be inside, from the new Exynos chips and a near-monopoly on the launch stock of Qualcomm’s SnapDragon 845, through Samsung’s prowess in imaging sensors, to new memory and storage chips. These are going to all add up to many tiny victories. Will that be enough for the S9 platform to climb to the top of the smartphone pile?
It’s not long until we find out.
Now read more about Samsung’s new screen designs for 2018…
">Samsung will be taking to the CES stage in Las Vegas on January 9 to talk about its mobile plans for 2018. Speculation is rising that this could be the first opportunity to see the Galaxy S9 flagship ahead of a full launch later in February.
But the latest leak gives us a pretty clear idea of some of the changes, and they are all as expected. The S9 isn’t going to upset the design story of smartphones as 2018 dawns.
DJ Koh, president of mobile communications business at Samsung, holds up the new Samsung Galaxy Note8 (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
The new details show the rumored design of the Galaxy S9, and it is as iterative as expected. That means the curved long edges of the screen are still present, minimising the side bezels impact. The top and bottom bezels are reduced from the Galaxy S8 and Note 8 designs, offering even more frontal space for the screen.
The rear of the device shows not only the camera housing, but a repositioned sensor that is likely the fingerprint scanner. Although Samsung is still hard at work on an under-screen fingerprint reader, the technology is not yet ready for arguably the device that is key to the company’s financial year. So staying with the rear-mounted sensor is the only smart decision for the S9.
Moving it away from the camera lens will stop smearing and reduced image quality, so that’s something.
It also looks like the S9 will be staying with a single lens camera, skipping the dual lens efforts of many (but not all) competing handsets. It may be that the dual lens is reserved for the larger Galaxy S9 Plus.
Samsung President of Mobile Communications Business DJ Koh unveils the Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ (Photo by Brad Barket/Getty Images for Samsung)
The evidence is building up that Samsung is not pushing anything radical in the design of the Galaxy S9. Arguably the big changes will be inside, from the new Exynos chips and a near-monopoly on the launch stock of Qualcomm’s SnapDragon 845, through Samsung’s prowess in imaging sensors, to new memory and storage chips. These are going to all add up to many tiny victories. Will that be enough for the S9 platform to climb to the top of the smartphone pile?
It’s not long until we find out.
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