The company’s mobile business president DJ Koh revealed the news to ZDnet. It doesn’t give much info on the device, although the navigation buttons at the bottom are quite suggestive to confirm that it’s a Samsung handset. Both the smartphone could launch in 4GB/6GB RAM with 64GB/128GB storage variants. We shall keep you updated with the latest information available about the Galaxy S9 duo.
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We knew that Samsung was saving the reveal of its next flagship smartphone for the Mobile World Congress conference in Spain, which officially runs from February 26th to March 1st. No specifics are known at this point.
If Samsung will follow their usual launch pattern in India, it will take a month or so after the official unveiling, so an India launch event should take place in March and sales should start by early to mid-April. According to the rumors, the company will unveil the Mi 6X at the event. The CES is scheduled from January 9 to January 12 next year.
This would track with previous rumours that the Galaxy S9 will be more of a evolution of the Galaxy S8, with the phone set to have an upgraded chipset in the form of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845. That leak also included mention of Phase Detection auto focus, which Samsung details in its Isocell Fast image sensors page. It is the internal components that will be mainly different in the upcoming smartphones.
Samsung Galaxy S9 is said to feature a 5.77-inch screen whereas the Galaxy S9 will arrive with a larger 6.22-inch screen. Tetracell tech improve lights sensitivity “noticeably”, Samsung says in its page, while a Smart WDR feature works like HDR photography, combining multiple exposures into a single image. The possibility of Samsung ditching the traditional headphone port is bleak. As expected, those cameras will be arranged vertically and a physical fingerprint sensor will sit beneath them, making it easier to reach and reducing the chances of smudging the lens.
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Except for the screen size, both the devices will have nearly same design language seen in the S8 series but will have one key change.
