From the smartphone shipment data released by major data companies, Samsung's mobile phone shipments still rank first in the world, but its performance in China has declined year after year. According to the data of Strategy Analytics, a market research organization, Samsung only sold 800000 smartphones in the Chinese market in the second quarter of this year, accounting for only 0.8% of the total market share. The release of Samsung's S9 series mobile phones did not have the effect of boosting the Chinese market. For Samsung, the Note 9 series is its last lifeline in the Chinese market this year.
In July, Samsung officially announced the release time of the last flagship Note 9 of this year. Samsung will release this new flagship product in New York, the United States, at 11:00 p.m. (Beijing time) on August 9, when there will be synchronized live video streams on Samsung's official website in the United States. As Samsung's flagship new product twice a year, the S series tends to have major updates in terms of hardware parameters. The latest SoC, the latest camera sensor, etc. will take the lead in the S series, while the Note series is a supplementary and enhanced version of the S series. The hardware is basically the same as the S series, but it will be shown in the system, photo function, S Pen And other details were improved.
appearance
The appearance of Samsung Note 9 has not only been exposed by various netizens for several times, but also by overseas e-commerce and offline pre-sale stores for many times. Samsung's Note 9 promotional film has also been leaked. It can be said that its appearance is basically free of suspense. The overall appearance design of Samsung Note 9 is consistent with that of Note 8. The front and back of Samsung Note 9 are still hyperboloid 3D glass+metal middle frame. The front panel of the phone still retains the forehead and chin. From the perspective of the proportion of the body, the proportion of the forehead and chin is not much different from that of Note 8.
The back of Samsung Note 9 is still a hyperboloid 3D glass cover plate. The biggest difference from the previous generation is that the arrangement of the camera module on the back of Note 9 has changed. At the same time, the fingerprint identification module, which is criticized by many users, has been moved to the lower part of the camera module.
In terms of color, three initial configurations can be determined: black, brown and blue. The blue Note 9 will be equipped with a yellow S Pen.
Parameter configuration
In terms of parameter configuration, Samsung Note 9 uses a 6.4 inch Super AMOLED screen with a resolution of 2960 * 1440, and the outer glass is the fifth generation Corning glass; SoC is still dual version: Exynos 9810/Snapdragon 845; Memory has two versions of 6GB/8GB; The rear dual camera is 12 million pixels, supporting lossless zoom, the main camera is F1.5/2.4 variable aperture, supporting 960P slow motion shooting, the sub camera aperture is F/2.4, and the front camera is 8 million pixels; There is no fingerprint under the screen, and the post fingerprint identification module is used; Equipped with iris recognition module; Support wireless charging; The battery capacity is 4000 mAh; The fast charging specification is still 9V/1.67A; Support IP68 dustproof and waterproof; Equipped with dual stereo speakers; Equipped with a new S Pen;
From the information we have learned so far, the hardware configuration of Samsung Note 9 is not very different from that of S9+. The only difference is that the battery is a little bigger and the screen is a little bigger. But from the publicity content leaked by Samsung, the focus of Note 9 this time is on the S Pen.
S Pen
According to the leaked information, Samsung's S Pen has undergone a major redesign. It has always supported Bluetooth 5.0. The official slogan is "The Super Powerful S Pen". According to the XDA forum, they found new features of the new S Pen in the new firmware of Samsung Galaxy Tab S4. It can connect the phone through Bluetooth and control some functions of the phone. Users can use the small button on the S Pen to achieve functions such as taking photos, pausing songs, unlocking mobile phones, etc.
price
In terms of price, the promotional poster of Indonesia Note 9 leaked earlier said that the 128GB Note 9 sold for 13500000 IDR, about 6300 yuan, and a 32 inch Samsung TV would also be given as a gift; The 512GB top configuration is priced at IDR 17500000, about 8200 yuan, and a 40 inch Samsung TV is also presented as a gift. Of course, the discount of buying mobile phones and sending TV sets like Indonesia is very rare, just like the previous British e-commerce offer of buying Xperia XZ2 and sending PS4.
In terms of Twitter leakage, some netizens said that in the Note 9 sales training of Samsung in Poland, the training materials showed that the Polish market price of its 6+128GB version was about 990 euros, about 7860 yuan. According to the current information, the foreign media Phone Arena estimates that the US version of Note 9 6+128GB will start at $929, about 6300 yuan. According to the market pricing of Samsung mobile phones in the past, the price in the US market is the lowest, the price in the European market will be higher, and the domestic price is somewhere between the two. In fact, due to the recent devaluation of RMB, even in the cheapest American market, Note 9 is nearly 6300 yuan. Based on this estimate, the starting price of the Note 9 6+128GB version of the Bank of China is about 6999 yuan.
