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Samsung is the meridian Android device maker by a comfortable margin, which makes it a natural rival to Apple tree. The companies are constantly trying to one-up each other with their latest flagship designs, and the most recent blow was struck by Apple with the iPhone 10. Despite that high starting price, the iPhone 10 is doing well. Samsung may be looking to wearisome Apple's momentum with an before-than-expected unveiling of the Milky way S9. Sources study Samsung is looking to evidence off the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus in February 2018.

With the Milky way S8, Samsung introduced large design changes, completely dropping the flat OLED console as an option for its flagship phones. Both the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus have curved displays, and the screen ratio increased in tiptop to improve apply the device'southward space. As a result, the iconic navigation buttons were tossed in favor of on-screen navigation. The fingerprint sensor moved to the back of the phone next to the camera module.

By all accounts, the Galaxy S9 volition be less of a radical departure. The brandish aspect ratio is non expected to modify, but it will probably be a newer-generation OLED with college brightness and faster refresh. It'southward besides possible Samsung will relocate the fingerprint sensor lower on the dorsum of the phone, which we saw in the recently unveiled 2018 Milky way A8. The addition of a 2nd photographic camera on the back seems like a foregone conclusion as well. The Note 8 added a second camera with 2x telephoto zoom to the 12MP master camera. This has the added benefit of making "portrait mode" photos more than reliable.

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The early release could exist an effort to slow Apple's momentum with the iPhone 10.

Samsung will most certainly be first out of the gate with a Snapdragon 845 ARM scrap in the GS9, which Qualcomm just recently appear. Last yr, the Galaxy S8 gobbled up Qualcomm'southward unabridged supply of 835 chips for several months, forcing LG to launch the G6 with the previous-generation 821 SoC. The Snapdragon 845 comes with 8 updated CPU cores in high-speed and loftier-efficiency clusters of 4 cores. Information technology includes an updated GPU, DSP, and modem as well.

The February announcement is a month ahead of the Milky way S8'southward announcement last year. Samsung will reportedly begin shipping the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus a month later, which again is a month alee of final year'due south GS8 schedule. This could all happen but several weeks ahead of IFA 2018, a mobile trade show where plenty of new devices are expected to pop up.

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