Samsung fans, we have good news and bad news for you on Thursday morning. The good news is that we’re now less than three weeks away from seeing Samsung finally unveil its hotly anticipated Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ flagship smartphones during a special press conference at the annual Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, Spain. The bad news is that once again, it looks like the versions of Samsung’s new flagship Galaxy phones that will be released in the United States won’t be as powerful as the global models released abroad.
Reputed tipster Evan Blass is, once again, first to the scene. In a tweet on Friday, Blass showed off the rumoured DeX Pad for the upcoming Galaxy flagship duo. One of the renders, however, marks the first instance wherein a headphone jack is seen on the Galaxy S9 - at least from a credible source. The image also show that the Bixby button, seen on the last-gen Galaxy S8, will be a part of the Galaxy S9 as well. the headphone jack, if true, seems to be a "courageous" one considering how Apple and Google have eliminated it from their smartphones. Samsung possibly wants to create a distinction in the premium smartphone range, considering even other manufacturers like Huawei and HTC have ditched the jack in favour of USB Type-C headphones or, better yet, wireless options.
The Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ are all set to be launched at the Galaxy Unpacked event, just ahead of MWC 2018, in Barcelona. The phones are expected to be quite similar to the previous-gen Galaxy S8 series, except from a few differences including a processor upgrade (Snapdragon 845 and Exynos 9810), new vertical placement for the fingerprint sensor, and camera upgrades.
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