Samsung Galaxy S9 revealed in official Unpacked 2018 app

Samsung Galaxy S9 and the Galaxy S9+ are not really the South Korean firm’s best kept secrets. They have showed up in benchmarks, listings and leaked images, revealing everything from design and specs to its price. Of course nothing has been confirmed yet. However, it looks like Samsung has this time showed the smartphone unknowingly through its official Unpacked 2018 app.

Users performing a tear down of the official Unpacked 2018 app, hours after it hit the Google Play Store, was something Samsung might have not expected. The tear down, as reported by XDA Developers, reveals the smartphone itself, showing it from the front and back in four colour variants.
As we have seen in several previous leaks and rumours, the smartphone’s design is essentially the same as the current Galaxy S8 models. The only major change is at the back. The Galaxy S9, as shown in the images unearthed in the app’s teardown, has a single rear camera with the fingerprint sensor placed below it. Rest stays nearly the same.

In one of the images, you can also see a 3.5mm headphone jack, which is surprising as majority of the flagship handsets ditched it last year itself. Also seen is a USB Type-C charging port. A dedicated button to fire the Bixby assistant is also there.

The images were found inside the official Unpacked 2018 app’s dedicated augmented reality mode. The mode lets users scan for Samsung logo or a box of a Samsung product to give teasers about the Galaxy S9. The app itself doesn’t tell you much and asks the name and invitation code for those attending the launch event on February 25 in Barcelona, Spain.

This time around, rumours indicate that the Galaxy S9 and the Galaxy S9+ will differ in terms of RAM, inbuilt storage, battery capacity and rear cameras. The ‘Plus’ variant is supposed to have a dual rear camera setup.