Speaker 1: Hands on with the Samsung Galaxy S nine smartphone. I'm
Speaker 1: rich Demiro. This is rich On Tech Daily. Well, I've
Speaker 1: had some time with Samsung's brand new Galaxy S nine
Speaker 1: and S nine plus smartphones, and let me tell you,
Speaker 1: these are going to be some of the best phones
Speaker 1: of twenty eighteen. Samsung has done their homework, they've listened
Speaker 1: to customer feedback, and they have fixed some of the
Speaker 1: biggest issues I had with last year's models. So first
Speaker 1: the basics. We've got two models here. You get big
Speaker 1: screen and bigger screen five point eight or six point
Speaker 1: two inch screens. The S nine Plus, which is the
Speaker 1: bigger of the two devices. This has a dual camera,
Speaker 1: the first time we've ever seen this from Samsung on
Speaker 1: a non note device. So that's a big deal. That'll
Speaker 1: help you get better zoomed in pictures and better pictures
Speaker 1: with those cool looking blurry backgrounds. Some other new features.
Speaker 1: There's a fingerprint reader in the right place. This was
Speaker 1: the biggest issue I had with last year's crop of
Speaker 1: Samsung devices. It was next to the camera. Now it
Speaker 1: is underneath the camera, much more natural place, much easier
Speaker 1: to unlock this device. And yes, there is still a
Speaker 1: headphone jack, which is really nice when you just want
Speaker 1: to plug in a pair of headphones. You also get
Speaker 1: stereo speakers for the first time, and Samsung says they
Speaker 1: have improved the camera for low light situations. So they're
Speaker 1: doing something where they're fusing together the information from twelve
Speaker 1: different photos or up to twelve photos. You don't see
Speaker 1: any of this happen. It all happens in the background.
Speaker 1: It's kind of similar to what Google's doing on the
Speaker 1: pixel and basically they're using the information from those pictures
Speaker 1: to make everything look a lot better, especially in low light.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna do more testing on that, but that's
Speaker 1: very promising. Plus, there's a new thing called mechanical aperture,
Speaker 1: so the phone physically adjusts the aperture to let in
Speaker 1: more light when it's dark out and kind of closes
Speaker 1: it up when it's bright outside to get you really
Speaker 1: nice looking pictures in bright light too. You also have
Speaker 1: a new super slow motion video which is up to
Speaker 1: nine hundred and sixty frames per second. You can't just
Speaker 1: turn this on and record in that mode, but it
Speaker 1: does do short little bursts of super slow motion and
Speaker 1: it's kind of fun. You'll have fun with that ar
Speaker 1: emoji is kind of like apples and emojis, but these
Speaker 1: look like you. So you scan your face and it
Speaker 1: creates a bunch of animated emojis. You can send to friends,
Speaker 1: or you can record yourself, you know, talking as these
Speaker 1: animated emojis. I really think this is gonna be one
Speaker 1: of the best phones of twenty eighteen. At this point,
Speaker 1: I cannot find a downside to it. I played with
Speaker 1: it up in San Francisco at a meeting, and now
Speaker 1: I have one here at the station, which I've been
Speaker 1: playing with all morning. It's really really nice. The screen
Speaker 1: is amazing, it fits in your hands very nicely. It's
Speaker 1: got a great camera, so there's really not much not
Speaker 1: to like here that makes sense. I'm still gonna need
Speaker 1: some more time with the camera, but so far the
Speaker 1: pictures that I've taken look really nice on it, especially
Speaker 1: in low light. Definitely improved. I think this is gonna
Speaker 1: be a solid device. Now. I know a lot of
Speaker 1: people have upgraded to their phones in the last year
Speaker 1: or so, so it's gonna be a tough sell to
Speaker 1: get a brand new device. But I think people will
Speaker 1: be happy even if they do this just for the
Speaker 1: fingerprint reader and a camera alone. So pricing pre orders
Speaker 1: start on March second, in stores on March sixteenth. If
Speaker 1: you order it direct from Samsung, they're guaranteeing it to
Speaker 1: you two days early on March fourteenth, and they're really
Speaker 1: offering the best deal. Seven hundred and twenty dollars for
Speaker 1: the S nine, eight hundred and forty dollars for the
Speaker 1: S nine plus. If you order direct from Samsung, you
Speaker 1: get an unlocked phone, which is really cool because it
Speaker 1: works on any carrier, and they're doing a trade in,
Speaker 1: so you can get up to three hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: dollars off the price of the S nine or S
Speaker 1: nine plus if you trade in last year's phone like
Speaker 1: an S eight or an iPhone eight or an iPhone
Speaker 1: ten if you're that crazy, two hundred and fifty dollars
Speaker 1: with a phone from the year before, and one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty dollars credit. If you have a three year
Speaker 1: old phone like the iPhone six, you can trade that in.
Speaker 1: So if you want to see more hands on with
Speaker 1: the Samsung Galaxy S nine and S nine plus, go
Speaker 1: to my website. It's rich on tech dot tv. I've
Speaker 1: also got a blog post with all the carrier deals
Speaker 1: that the carriers are offering, because I know a lot
Speaker 1: how do you buy your phone's finance through the carriers.
Speaker 1: So right now T Mobile and Verizon are out of
Speaker 1: the gate with the best deals there. Hopefully some of
Speaker 1: the other carriers will follow suit. I'm Rich Demurrol. Thanks
Speaker 1: so much for listening. I appreciate you doing that, and
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Speaker 1: those top podcast lists for tech News. Thanks so much.
Speaker 1: I'm Rich Tomurro. See you next time.