72 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 46
PREVIEW
Storage and RAM
You get 64GB of storage as standard with the Galaxy
S8, along with microSD support. That’s already quite
generous, so we’re not expecting to see any changes
here. Something we might see in the S9, though, is
for Samsung to finally push up the RAM allocation
from 4GB to 6GB, as it has done for the Note 8.
This is by no means out of the question, with some
phones that are now a year old offering this amount
of memory. It would also help it in its quest for ever-
increasing performance.Battery
Although the size of the phone is not expected to
change, we could see battery capacity get a boost
with the Samsung Galaxy S9. ET News reports that
Samsung will facilitate this using a new type of
motherboard that uses substrate-like PCB technology
to squeeze in more layers of components – or extra
room for the battery pack.
Fast charging – both wired and wireless – will likely
feature, though we suspect Samsung will continue to
use its own Adaptive Fast Charging tech rather than
the Quick Charge built into Snapdragon processors.Camera
Samsung traditionally leads the pack when it comes to
new smartphone features, so we’re somewhat puzzled
by the fact it has yet to introduce a dual-camera on its
S series. Nevertheless, one does feature in the Note 8,
so expect it to feature in the Galaxy S9 too, but likely
only in the Plus variant.