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Samsung Unveils Galaxy S9 Series Smartphones With Dual Lens Variable Aperture Camera and AR Emoji
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Yet another person who owns an iPhone X desperately rationalizing and settling a bad design. How about we put a notch on your TV screen or computer monitor. I'm sure you'll get used to it, but that doesn't change the fact it's just wrong.
In my opinion Apple will always be the most criticised company no matter what they do. If the competition will do something similar they'll get a statue.... I got used to this unfair treatment.
No one liked touchscreen phones before 2007. Using your logic, no one should have bought the original iPhone, and we should all still be using phones with physical buttons.
My point is, I don't believe I've seen anyone on this forum who owns an iPhone X and considers the notch to be a problem, or even noticeable, after a small amount of time using the device. Surely, if it were truly such a large a problem, owners of the device would be complaining about it. But the only people who complain are people who don't own the device.
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That's the most ridiculous argument I've ever heard. Those hypotheticals have nothing to do with the the argument at hand, and you make no point either way. It's like saying "How about we put pedals on a car and see how effective it is? You'd get used to it, but it's not effective." as an argument against bicycles.
You want to argue against the notch? Great, make an argument against the notch instead of implying the notch is bad design because of situations that don't even exist.
Also, I own a busted iPhone 6S. I'm just the type of person who is willing to see logic in things rather than living my life according to knee-jerk reactions. Again, nice try though.
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It's all about style over substance. I swear these smartphone manufactures could make even more money by recycling the internals of present smartphones into a new shiny package. Most end users would have no clue and, if the did, wouldn't care. As long as it looks different.
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Why?
Who really cares about emojis? Sadly I already know the answer to this question. I can't believe one of the major selling points of a modern smartphone is emojis.
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Apple sells the iPhone X at the price point they do because they can. I see nothing wrong with that (other than buyers are willing to pay for what is essentially an iPhone 8 in a different form factor)
Since Steve Jobs passed, Samsung can’t innovate anymore.
Those who speak about shamesungs design you have probably never hold a GS8 on your hands.....if you had you would know how plastically and low quality it feels. Practically it feels like a plastic toy when compared to an iPhone. In other news it will launch 1 month earlier than S8......
Yawn. This conversation again?
Yet another day when Samsung releases a new copycat product and all the Samsung fans go onto MacRumors to tell Apple fans they're dumb. Out of insecurity maybe?
There must be a better place for you guys to discuss burn in and exploding batteries...
Yet another day when Samsung releases a new copycat product and all the Samsung fans go onto MacRumors to tell Apple fans they're dumb. Out of insecurity maybe?
There must be a better place for you guys to discuss burn in and exploding batteries...
People like the design over much of the competition so not many people really care. Samsung does improve the device however, I recall people saying the S8 felt much better in the hand than the S7.
Because those situations don't exist. If you want to argue against something, argue against it. If your only argument is based around a hypothetical situation that doesn't exist, your argument isn't valid.
"The notch is bad because if I put a notch in your monitor or TV it would be bad" isn't an argument.
"The notch is bad because it prevents people from doing XXX" is an argument.
I'm waiting to hear what XXX is.
Is it just me or does the voice over sound like a human trying to sound like an AI bot? In some spots, she has the same barely perceptible pauses and elongated vowel sounds that you hear when an AI agent is talking to you.
Hmmm, I didn't know Samsung fans had the ability to publish articles to MR.
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It doesn't exist because people wouldn't accept it!
No notch. Looks good.
> Also, there's a headphone jack
Every day, Apple’s courage looks more and more retarded.
> Also, there's a headphone jack
Every day, Apple’s courage looks more and more retarded.
Ah yes when I authorise payments using Samsung .. ups no. you can’t do that because it is dumb technology which has nothing to do with faceid
Sigh... the next revision of the DSM-5 is going to have a new criteria for diagnosing OCD.
I’m so happy with iPhone X that this was the first year I even didn’t watch Galaxy S keynote, I couldn’t care less.
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Samsung on Sunday unveiled its latest Galaxy S9 and S9+ flagship smartphones at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, showcasing the handset's new dual-lens camera, stereo speakers, and AR-powered emoji. The new smartphones take the same general design as the Galaxy S8 devices, with slightly slimmer bezels on the top and bottom.
The headline feature of the S9 and S9+ is a 12-megapixel dual lens camera, boasting the first variable aperture system built into a smartphone, which promises better results in low light conditions and hardware-based shallow depth of field effects. Samsung's new photography computation also shoots 12 photos in three groups of four and then combines them at the pixel level to eliminate noise and boost detail.
The S9 features variable dual lens 12-megapixel cameras with dual optical image stabilization, while the S9+ features a variable aperture lens paired with a second 12-megapixel lens with a fixed aperture. The S9 Plus also includes a new slow-motion mode that can shoot at 960 frames per second, which can turn a 2-millisecond recording into six seconds of video. For comparison's sake, Apple's iPhone X shoots at a maximum of 240 frames per second.
In U.S. models, the S9 is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 845 processor, but in other regions, including Europe, the smartphone is powered by Samsung's own Exynos chip. Samsung has combined the face and iris recognition features into a new system called Intelligent Scan, which uses the best biometric sensor for the given situation. The fingerprint scanner on the back now sits below the camera module rather than alongside it. Like the S8 devices, the displays on the 5.8-inch and 6.2-inch models are Quad HD+ and Super AMOLED, respectively. Also, there's a headphone jack.
The inevitable comparison of Samsung's new AR-based emoji will be Animoji on iPhone X, which map users' facial expressions onto cartoon facades using Apple's TrueDepth camera technology. However the Galaxy S9 diverges here by creating 3D personalized characters more akin to Bitmoji or Nintendo Mii avatars, which can then be shared as GIFs.
The S9 comes with 4GB of RAM while the S9+ has 6GB of memory. Both versions come with a base 64GB storage (user expandable up to 400GB via the Micro SD slot). In the U.S., the S9 starts at $720, with the S9+ costing $840. Pre-orders for both models begin on March 2 and the phones start shipping on March 16.
Article Link: Samsung Unveils Galaxy S9 Series Smartphones With Dual Lens Variable Aperture Camera and AR Emoji
Samsung on Sunday unveiled its latest Galaxy S9 and S9+ flagship smartphones at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, showcasing the handset's new dual-lens camera, stereo speakers, and AR-powered emoji. The new smartphones take the same general design as the Galaxy S8 devices, with slightly slimmer bezels on the top and bottom.
The headline feature of the S9 and S9+ is a 12-megapixel dual lens camera, boasting the first variable aperture system built into a smartphone, which promises better results in low light conditions and hardware-based shallow depth of field effects. Samsung's new photography computation also shoots 12 photos in three groups of four and then combines them at the pixel level to eliminate noise and boost detail.
The S9 features variable dual lens 12-megapixel cameras with dual optical image stabilization, while the S9+ features a variable aperture lens paired with a second 12-megapixel lens with a fixed aperture. The S9 Plus also includes a new slow-motion mode that can shoot at 960 frames per second, which can turn a 2-millisecond recording into six seconds of video. For comparison's sake, Apple's iPhone X shoots at a maximum of 240 frames per second.
In U.S. models, the S9 is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 845 processor, but in other regions, including Europe, the smartphone is powered by Samsung's own Exynos chip. Samsung has combined the face and iris recognition features into a new system called Intelligent Scan, which uses the best biometric sensor for the given situation. The fingerprint scanner on the back now sits below the camera module rather than alongside it. Like the S8 devices, the displays on the 5.8-inch and 6.2-inch models are Quad HD+ and Super AMOLED, respectively. Also, there's a headphone jack.
The inevitable comparison of Samsung's new AR-based emoji will be Animoji on iPhone X, which map users' facial expressions onto cartoon facades using Apple's TrueDepth camera technology. However the Galaxy S9 diverges here by creating 3D personalized characters more akin to Bitmoji or Nintendo Mii avatars, which can then be shared as GIFs.
The S9 comes with 4GB of RAM while the S9+ has 6GB of memory. Both versions come with a base 64GB storage (user expandable up to 400GB via the Micro SD slot). In the U.S., the S9 starts at $720, with the S9+ costing $840. Pre-orders for both models begin on March 2 and the phones start shipping on March 16.
Article Link: Samsung Unveils Galaxy S9 Series Smartphones With Dual Lens Variable Aperture Camera and AR Emoji
Oh look. They kept the ugly bezels.
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No, it still has ugly bezels for 2012. Nothing edgelss about this.
AFAIK, they are the first to ever to create a smartphone with a dual aperture camera. They are pushing photography to an even higher level.
Headphone jack? You must still be complaining when they got rid of VHS tapes as well. How about floppy disks?