Multiple leaks highlight yellow S Pen, 1TB storage capacity in upcoming Samsung Galaxy Not...
Multiple leaks for Samsung's Galaxy Note 9 have recently surfaced, claiming the iPhone competitor will offer up to 1 terabyte of capacity using internal storage and microSD cards, with all of the leaks notably being sourced from Samsung's own marketing channels.
The first leak was an early publication of a preorder announcement on a Samsung website, one that has since been deleted. Spotted by Venture Beat's Evan Blass, the now-removed pre-order announcement was a page produced by Samsung New Zealand,meant to be sent out in an email to newsletter subscribers.
The ad email tells readers to "Say hello to super power," showing the rear side of the smartphone and identifying it as the Galaxy Note 9. Along with a view of the base ports, which includes USB-C, a headphone jack, a speaker, and stylus storage, the accompanying image also highlights a yellow or gold-colored S Pen stylus.
A second leak of a video, also posted by Samsung New Zealand and reported by SamMobile, provides many details about the device. On the back is a dual lens camera with flash, above a fingerprint reader, while the yellow stylus has a button on the side, but it is unclear if this triggers functions on the device or just for the stylus, such as triggering a catch to make the stylus extend.
One major point of the video is a claim to offer up to 1 terabyte of storage "with expandable memory." The small print advises this applies to models equipped with 512 gigabytes of internal storage, combined with a separately-acquired 512-gigabyte microSD card.
Support for memory cards of up to 512 gigabytes in capacity is an upgrade from the Galaxy S9 launched earlier this year, which only allowed cards with capacities up to 400 gigabytes.
Samsung will be unveiling the Note 9 on August 9 during its Unpacked event in New York.
While the Galaxy Note 9 leaks could be accidental, the frequency of leaks for recent devices, as well as the sourcing from Samsung itself, suggests the information may be distributed on purpose to take advantage of reports on technology news websites. Another recent "accidental leak" on the U.S. website revealed a new Galaxy Watch design, while another video "leak" occurred days before the launch of the Galaxy S9 earlier in 2018.
The first leak was an early publication of a preorder announcement on a Samsung website, one that has since been deleted. Spotted by Venture Beat's Evan Blass, the now-removed pre-order announcement was a page produced by Samsung New Zealand,meant to be sent out in an email to newsletter subscribers.
The ad email tells readers to "Say hello to super power," showing the rear side of the smartphone and identifying it as the Galaxy Note 9. Along with a view of the base ports, which includes USB-C, a headphone jack, a speaker, and stylus storage, the accompanying image also highlights a yellow or gold-colored S Pen stylus.
...for when this disappears. pic.twitter.com/kCThU2QXTz
-- Evan Blass (@evleaks)
A second leak of a video, also posted by Samsung New Zealand and reported by SamMobile, provides many details about the device. On the back is a dual lens camera with flash, above a fingerprint reader, while the yellow stylus has a button on the side, but it is unclear if this triggers functions on the device or just for the stylus, such as triggering a catch to make the stylus extend.
One major point of the video is a claim to offer up to 1 terabyte of storage "with expandable memory." The small print advises this applies to models equipped with 512 gigabytes of internal storage, combined with a separately-acquired 512-gigabyte microSD card.
Support for memory cards of up to 512 gigabytes in capacity is an upgrade from the Galaxy S9 launched earlier this year, which only allowed cards with capacities up to 400 gigabytes.
Samsung will be unveiling the Note 9 on August 9 during its Unpacked event in New York.
While the Galaxy Note 9 leaks could be accidental, the frequency of leaks for recent devices, as well as the sourcing from Samsung itself, suggests the information may be distributed on purpose to take advantage of reports on technology news websites. Another recent "accidental leak" on the U.S. website revealed a new Galaxy Watch design, while another video "leak" occurred days before the launch of the Galaxy S9 earlier in 2018.
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Hate those backstabbers.
No innovation this year so they decide to bump the storage. Still using inferior UFS (like everyone else). If they wanted to impress on the storage front they should have used NVMe, like Apple has since the 6S.
Apple will be releasing their second generation FaceID next month which will no doubt see improvements all around with accuracy, speed and reliability. This while everyone else still can't decide between using facial recognition or an in-screen reader.
It'll be just like TouchID was when it launched. Apple comes out with the only fingerprint reader that actually works well while everyone scrambles to match (anyone remember how poorly Samsungs first fingerprint sensor was)? By the time they had their first sensor out Apple had already moved on to their second generation (and even better) version of TouchID.
...if you're a carpenter...
No, he's right. It's just for bragging rights. It's like processors advertising their clock rates and seeing who has the higher numbers.
Complaining about running out of storage on a 16GB phone is a legitimate complaint since a lot of people on these devices do use up their storage. Saying we need 1TB as a solution is asinine. Especially when half of that 1TB is slow-ass SD card storage with restricted functionality.
Faster UFS is still UFS. And you still have limitations within Android as to whether you want to just store photos or music or use it as an extension of your built-in storage. It’s a clusterfu?k however you slice it.