Galaxy Note 9: All the rumors on specs, price release date and color

Now that we all know the Galaxy Note 9 has an official Aug. 9 launch date: Aug. 9, we are able to actually dig into the rumors of how Samsung’s subsequent large telephone may wow us …or disappoint. Let the true hypothesis can start. The Galaxy Observe, which is designated by its trademark digital stylus, represents the fruits of Samsung’s expertise for the yr. 

The Observe is often the telephone that Samsung saves its finest expertise for, with a view to battle the
iPhone
and
Pixels
, and thrust in entrance of consumers when the vacations roll round. Observe 9 rumors are lastly untangling from the jumble — we can’t maintain our breath for an underscreen fingerprint reader this time — however what is definite is that the Galaxy Observe 9 might want to progress past the already glorious
Galaxy S9
and S9 Plus if it may seize consideration. 

The juiciest rumor by far factors straight on the Observe’s signature element, the factor that makes it completely different and extra highly effective than any Galaxy S telephone: the S Pen stylus. One leaker claims that the Observe 9’s S Pen goes to lastly study some abilities that transcend writing, drawing and navigation. Preserve studying for my ideas, plus the very best rumors which can be constructing forward of the official Observe 9 launch. Examine again typically! This listing updates as high quality new rumors emerge.

Learn: Six things the Galaxy Note 9 should have

Editor’s be aware: This text was initially revealed June 13 and updates continuously.

Is that this the Galaxy Observe 9 with a yellow S-Pen stylus?

Earlier this week, the all the time prolific, principally correct leaker, Evan Blass tweeted a pic of what’s supposedly the Samsung Galaxy Observe 9. Back and front! 

Past the anticipated twin digital camera array and rear-mounted fingerprint reader, of be aware (heh) is the S-Pen stylus. It is yellow, which really contrasts properly with the blue physique of the telephone within the pic. And is sensible given the invite pic used for Samsung’s upcoming Aug. 9 Unpacked event.

Confirmed: Samsung’s announcement is about for Aug. 9 

The rumors had been spot on. Samsung’s “Unpacked” launch event will take place on Aug. 9 in Brooklyn. I might say there is a 99.99 p.c likelihood that the gadget in query would be the Observe 9 that launches Aug. 9. Good symmetry, eh? 

9/9 at 9 a.m. would have been even higher, however with the iPhone launch sometimes across the identical date in September, taking part in rooster with 
Apple
 is dangerous enterprise. Samsung would not dare put itself ready to lose that recognition contest. Sometimes, Samsung likes its Observe telephones to go on preorder effectively earlier than Apple even publicizes its subsequent spherical of iPhones.

Aug. 9 is early for a Observe launch, which often occurs on the finish of the month slightly than the start. Final yr’s Observe eight was introduced Aug. 23. However, there’s some precedent for an early unveiling. The Observe 7 unveiling came about Aug. 2, 2016. Critics pointed fingers on the rush job as one purpose that Note 7 units literally burst into flames.

We’ll strive not to attract too many parallels in regards to the early Observe 9 launch.

Sadly, the invitation would not present a heck of a number of clues about what we’ll see contained in the telephone. It focuses on a button, rendered in a yellowy gold shade. This may very well be a button on the facet of the telephone, or it may present a close-up of the S Pen stylus itself. Mysterious, certainly…

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It’ll nearly absolutely be referred to as the Galaxy Observe 9

That the Observe 9 will likely be referred to as the Observe 9 is not essentially a given.

Simply because the final telephone on this collection was the Observe eight and the one earlier than was the Galaxy Note 7 doesn’t suggest Samsung would not skip a quantity to rename its telephone. Samsung did skip 2016’s Galaxy Observe 6 in favor of the Observe 7 title; some suspected it was to match up numerically to the
iPhone 7
.

However one indication that Samsung’s sticking with the basic development comes from frequent gadget leaker Evan Blass, who tweeted that the Observe 9’s mannequin quantity is SM-N960U and its inner title is Crown.

Is that this the Galaxy Observe 9 with a yellow S-Pen stylus?

Properly, this is a shock. A minimum of one model of the Observe 9 may need a yellow S Pen stylus. The tweet comes from frequent Twitter tipster Evan Blass, and exhibits a blue Observe 9 with a contrasting yellow stylus. This is sensible given the yellow button we noticed on Samsung’s invitation for its upcoming Aug. 9 Unpacked event.

Blass got here again with two extra anticipated shade choices, too. An much more latest tweet exhibits the blue-and-yellow combo, in addition to a pinky brown Observe 9 with an identical stylus and a black Observe 9 with a fundamental black S Pen.

Observe 9’s S Pen may allow you to take images and management music 

The Galaxy Observe’s built-in stylus attracts and writes with four,zero96 ranges of stress sensitivity. It additionally helps preserve your display clear by navigating you round. The S Pen is already a wise pen that is rumored to get smarter with the Observe 9, however not simply because it is a pen.

In line with Twitter leaker Ice Universe, the Observe 9’s S Pen will likely be a Bluetooth-connected gadget that may have the ability to function a distant management for different features that don’t have anything to do with writing. For instance, perhaps you’d have the ability to click on the pen to take a photograph when your telephone’s on a tripod, or advance your musical monitor. 

I might be completely satisfied if Samsung made the highest of the S Pen pressure-sensitive sufficient to erase errors, such as you would with an analog pencil. (Cue the “again in my day” diatribe.)

No matter Samsung does with the S Pen, will probably be crucial that the motion is not simple to by accident set off. As a result of that actually could be annoying.

The Observe 9 may flip its twin cameras on their facet

Twin cameras on the Observe 9 are just about a certain wager. The Observe eight was Samsung’s first telephone so as to add portrait mode, and the Galaxy S9 Plus has the setup, too. Samsung’s shifting ahead right here, not backwards.

A picture from OnLeaks and @91Mobiles exhibits a Galaxy Observe 9 with side-by-side cameras as an alternative of a vertical stack as we see on the S9 Plus. (For extra on cameras, scroll to the want listing beneath.)

Will the Observe 9 have a notch? Doubt it

Google has embraced the trend of Android notches, however that does not imply Samsung will. The cut-out display design offers you a “bigger” display to work with by extending the perimeters of the display up across the cut-out the place the digital camera lens, speaker and different sensors reside.

However there’s a particularly excessive likelihood that Samsung will preserve the Observe 9 notch-free and as an alternative use the Observe as a strategy to mock the iPhone X and different notched Android telephones.

In spite of everything, the notch was an essential a part of a recent Samsung ad that slammed iPhone speed, and Apple’s flock typically.

That mentioned, a patent utility does exist for a Samsung phone with a notch design. Then once more, so does a notch-less one, with holes cut into the display as an alternative of a display cut-out.

It’s going to in all probability have a headphone jack

The Galaxy Observe and Galaxy S telephones have been secure thus far, and Samsung execs have publicly acknowledged that they are pleased with the headphone jack. Samsung additionally sometimes ships its AKG wired earbuds together with the Galaxy telephones contained in the field.

It may are available in these 5 colours

One rumor from German website All About Samsung means that the Galaxy Observe 9 may are available in black, gray, lavender (just like the Galaxy S9’s “lilac purple”), vibrant blue and brown. A few of these shades may have iridescent qualities just like the Galaxy S9 telephones and different Samsung fashions. 

Primarily based on previous Galaxy telephones, I believe it is a fairly good guess that the Observe 9 will keep the shiny end Samsung appears to savor, one that may alter the telephone’s shade whenever you flip it within the mild.

The Observe 9’s rumored in-screen fingerprint reader is not wanting good

Many rumors (like this one from Korea’s The Investor and this one from leak tweeter Ice Universe) recommend that the Galaxy Observe 9 would have a fingerprint reader baked into the show, very like the Vivo X20 Plus UD (worst telephone title ever) and the Porsche Design Huawei Mate RS (wait, I take that again).

I actually, really need this to occur.

Nonetheless, the present phrase is that Samsung’s pulled the function for now, and can save the in-screen fingerprint reader (now reportedly an ultrasonic fingerprint reader for the Galaxy S10. That might be a disgrace, because the Observe collection sometimes leads the best way with Samsung’s new options.

On the flipside, Samsung cannot afford the embarrassment of a mistake if the in-display sensor is not safe sufficient for dependable sufficient for each day use. Finally, having this function work effectively is healthier than being among the many first.

As a substitute, a fingerprint reader on the again

Rumors again up the bodily fingerprint sensor residing beneath the digital camera. The prolific Ice Universe tweeted that the Observe 9 and Observe eight will look almost indistinguishable, and in addition posted a leaked case that’ll allegedly fit the Galaxy Note 9 that includes a cut-out for an oblong fingerprint reader, Samsung’s most well-liked form. Remember that a case maker may simply create renders based mostly on rumors and hypothesis; this is not essentially the true deal.

Nonetheless, centralizing the fingerprint reader could be a very good resolution, and one that will overwrite the Observe eight’s most annoying and unnecessary design flaw.

Will the Observe 9 have a foldable show? Not bloody seemingly

The opposite function assured to place the Observe 9 up in lights can also be the least seemingly by far.

We all know that Samsung’s engaged on a foldable telephone, and has gone far sufficient to use for a patent on a number of design situations. I might be surprised speechless if that had been to really occur (for the document, rumors recommend we can’t see a foldable telephone from Samsung till 2019).

In a nutshell, it is not Samsung’s model to take such an enormous threat on its Observe telephone. The tech big is way extra prone to launch a separate foldable telephone to check the waters and collect suggestions for understanding kinks.

Samsung has lengthy cited Galaxy Observe customers as amongst its most loyal, and any difficulty with a foldable Observe may completely alienate consumers who’ve already been burned by the Observe 7 fiasco.

Galaxy Observe 9 may mimic the Observe eight

So what may the Observe 9 appear like? The Observe eight. Hypothesis factors to a Galaxy Observe replace that is received related dimensions and design to final yr’s mannequin, however once more, with a fingerprint reader that sits beneath the twin digital camera array, not off to the facet because it does within the Observe eight.

A potential render of the Galaxy Observe 9 shared by cell tipster Ice Universe means that the Observe eight and Observe 9 are nearly indistinguishable, including that the brand new Observe may very well be 2mm shorter than the Note 8.

Bixby AI software program lives on

Samsung’s Bixby software is now a fixture on the corporate’s excessive finish Galaxy telephones, which suggests its presence is a foregone conclusion even when the pinnacle of Samsung Analysis’s AI Middle hadn’t mentioned we might see an upgraded version on the following flagship telephone, whether or not you wind up disabling Bixby or not.

Bixby may choose up higher natural-language processing, improved noise cancelling and quicker response instances.

Do not forget that Bixby 2.0, the present model, is not only for Samsung telephones. That is Samsung’s imaginative and prescient for its complete ecosystem of units, just like the best way that Google Assistant, Apple’s
Siri
and
Amazon’s
Alexa AI sidekicks push into the house by way of sensible audio system and different units.

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I might count on to see the Bixby button return to the left facet of the Galaxy Observe 9, and I might be overjoyed if Samsung allow you to program this key to do one thing aside from open Bixby, although I critically doubt it will occur.

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What a couple of Samsung model of Apple’s FaceID?

By the point we predict the Observe 9 will launch, it’s going to have been nearly a yr because the iPhone X debuted with FaceID, and nonetheless no direct competitor to problem Apple’s safe stage of face unlock. The Observe 9 could be Samsung’s likelihood to reply.

The
Galaxy S8
telephones and newer offer you a number of choices for unlocking your telephone together with your face, however solely one in every of them, iris scanning, is safe sufficient for cell funds. That is a fairly good bar as these items go.

Iris scanning harnesses a unique expertise than Apple’s FaceID, which makes use of a 3D front-facing digital camera and 50,00zero infrared dots to map your face and confirm that you’re you. 

The Galaxy Observe 9 represents a chance for Samsung to pop in a 3D digital camera, too, and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor that I count on Samsung to make use of (the Galaxy S9 already does) helps Applelike expertise.

There’s little doubt that Samsung and others will wish to use a 3D digital camera, however after shedding a  lawsuit and being forced to pay Apple $539 million for patent infringements, I can not blame Samsung for desirous to tread rigorously.

Will Samsung repair AR Emoji to tackle Apple’s Memoji for iOS 12?

Gawd, I hope so. Samsung made 3D avatars first, by way of its AR Emoji function within the Galaxy S9 digital camera. However the unsettling photos creeped us out and Apple’s new Memoji avatars in iOS 12 are already higher at some essential issues.

Samsung can work to repair AR Emoji in two methods. The primary is thru software program fixes that add extra customizations. The second is that if that Observe 9 will get a 3D digital camera, which might give Samsung’s emoji-creating engine extra knowledge to seize on to when it scans your face to make your avatar.

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The Observe 9 will not launch with Android P

Sorry, but it surely’s a given. Google’s Android P software replace would not even have  a reputation but — it’s going to turn into Android Popsicle or Pudding or one thing by the point it arrives on its first telephone later this yr, most probably in fall across the time that the Google Pixel 3‘s introduced.

However the Galaxy Observe 9, and a heap of different Galaxy telephones, together with the S9 and S9 Plus, are certain to get the ultimate Android P software program within the following months. Sadly, Samsung is not identified for notably well timed Android updates.

Observe 9 digital camera want listing

Samsung’s industry-first dual-aperture lens on the Galaxy S9 will certainly come to the Observe 9 as effectively, however I believe the corporate may take the expertise a step additional by bringing dual-aperture to the front-facing digital camera as effectively.

The aperture helps decide how a lot mild your photograph will get, and usually talking, the extra mild you get in, the higher. A twin aperture front-facing digital camera may assist mechanically make selfies brighter, even with no flash blinding your eyes.

Hopefully Samsung may even repair the Galaxy S9’s digital camera app, which too simply switches between digital camera modes when you do not intend it to.

Samsung plans to improve the Observe 9’s digital camera, according to Bloomberg.

Observe 9 value: How a lot will the following Galaxy value?

Telephones do not get cheaper. In reality, the Galaxy Observe eight value considerably greater than the Galaxy Observe 7 in some markets.

We will count on the Galaxy Observe 9 to hover in the identical ballpark because the Galaxy Observe eight, although costs may creep upwards on account of the dual-aperture digital camera.

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Perla Shaheen contributed to this report.