{"id":1215,"date":"2018-03-07T19:01:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T19:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tech24insider.com\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2018-03-07T19:01:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T19:01:46","slug":"hands-look-new-samsung-galaxy-s9-s9-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tech24insider.com\/?p=1215","title":{"rendered":"Hands-On Look at the New Samsung Galaxy S9 &#038; S9 Plus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hands-On Look at the New Samsung Galaxy S9 &amp; S9 Plus &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Following news of its impending release earlier this year, Samsung has officially debuted the newest version of its flagship smartphone: the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>CNET offers up a brief hands-on look at the upcoming phone, detailing the new features and upgrades from the previous S8.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest improvement over last year&#8217;s model and the highlight is the bold new camera. The standard S9 features a single lens on the rear of the phone: a 12MP rear sensor with optical image stabilization, and a number of improvements packed in to &#8220;reimagine&#8221; the phone camera. The S9 Plus sports a dual lens setup, with an added telephoto lens, like the Note 8.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus: Hands-on\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SCiufBJFV_w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The other big chance is the movement of the fingerprint reader from the side of the rear camera to the center of the phone&#8217;s back &#8212; something heavily criticized last year. We approve too!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also powered by the new Snapdragon 845 processor, allowing for better speed, battery life, and security upgrades; external storage support being upped to 400GB, and it&#8217;s powered by Android 8.0 Oreo.<\/p>\n<p>The Samsung Galaxy S9 will also come in new colorways: Lilac Purple and Coral Blue.<\/p>\n<p>Preorders for the new smartphone begin March 2, with the phones going on sale March 16. It&#8217;s available in various storage points, but the S9 goes for between $720 and $800 and with the S9 Plus around $840 and $930.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hands-On Look at the New Samsung Galaxy S9 &amp; S9 Plus &#8211;\u00a0Following news of its impending release earlier this year, Samsung has officially debuted the newest version of its flagship smartphone: the Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1162,1163,2824,2838,2982],"class_list":["post-1215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-tech-news","tag-galaxy-s9","tag-galaxy-samsung","tag-samsung","tag-samsung-phones","tag-smartphones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech24insider.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech24insider.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech24insider.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech24insider.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech24insider.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tech24insider.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech24insider.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech24insider.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech24insider.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech24insider.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}