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