Samsung Galaxy S9 Is Here But Don 039;t Throw Out That Note 8 Just Yet
Emmanuelle Riker
In the side-by-side above, I hope you can appreciate that Samsung is leveraging an AI model to put craters and other details on places which were just a blurry mess. And I have to stress this: there's a difference between additional processing a la super-resolution, when multiple frames are combined to recover detail which would otherwise be lost, and this, where you have a specific AI model trained on a set of moon images, in order to recognize the moon and slap on the moon texture on it (when there is no detail to recover in the first place, as in this experiment). This is not the same kind of processing that is done when you're zooming into something else, when those multiple exposures and different data from each frame account to something. This is specific to the moon.
The moon pictures from Samsung are fake. Samsung's marketing is deceptive. It is adding detail where there is none (in this experiment, it was intentionally removed). In this article, they mention multi-frames, multi-exposures, but the reality is, it's AI doing most of the work, not the optics, the optics aren't capable of resolving the detail that you see. Since the moon is tidally locked to the Earth, it's very easy to train your model on other moon images and just slap that texture when a moon-like thing is detected.
Samsung Galaxy S9 is here but don 039;t throw out that Note 8 just yet
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I also grew up with electronics that used vacuum tubes but that is not helpful at all when you are dealing with micro transistors. The primary problem with these phones and several other galaxy phones is that the on-board memory chip is not well soldered into its socket. After some wear and tear with the phone heating up and cooling down, you start getting intermittent problems caused by the chip having a poor connection to the circuit board. That's why putting it in the freezer works sometimes. Adding a small shim inside the case occasionally resolves the issue for a while, because it puts pressure on the chip to press it into the socket. You end up doing things like this and reinstalling the firmware with Odin which helps for a while. Eventually, though, the phone just fails. It's a manufacturing issue. We know it. Samsung knows it. The thing is; Samsung can't keep selling you phones if they don't die.
(I just had a long head-scratching moment trying to figure out why I was getting that error somewhere other than my main thread. This was why; this thread helped; and hopefully this comment will help someone else.)
With 12GB of RAM and Exynos 990, the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra just zips along with any app that I throw at it. Multitasking is a breeze, where I constantly keep switching between apps like Microsoft Teams, Twitter, Feedly and WhatsApp through most of the day. The adaptive 120Hz screen refresh rate makes the experience even silky smooth. But it is not just about the hardware, the new One UI 2.5 skin on top of Android 10 and software refinements play a big role in delivering this snappy experience.
The gaming experience has also been good. You do not get any special gaming mode, but Samsung has included Game Launcher where all your installed games are in one place. It shows you the list of games, the total playtime, and for how long you played it daily. There are some web instant games too that you can play, just that you need the internet to play them. Samsung has also included a game booster and Discord integration. My only problem here is that it would have been better if there was a gaming mode to block notifications and calls while gaming, and other features like 4D vibrations, which would have made the experience even better.
Samsung has even updated the Notes app which is much more functional now. Until now, you could just jot down notes, and convert handwriting to text. With the new update, you can now annotate it with audio. For instance, you are in a meeting and jotting down notes. You can now record the audio too as you write. You can then look at your notes and play the audio to listen if you missed out on something. These are minor things that together make the Galaxy Note a powerful note-taking tool.
I could go on and on about the minute details about the cameras, but I'll spare you. There's just one last thing I want to mention. Samsung has stuffed in so many camera features that its camera app is turning into a bloated, confusing mess.
And if you want to take RAW photos with some of Samsung's image processing thrown in there, you need to use a completely different Expert RAW app from the Galaxy Store. Contrast that with Apple's approach, where you can toggle on ProRaw mode in the settings and use it in the same camera app. (Did I mention that in the main Samsung camera app, there are separate modes for Pro, Pro Video, and Director's View?)
I say preventable, because the Note 7 fiasco wasn't just an unfortunate manufacturing screwup, it was also a design flaw. Until the Galaxy Note 4, every version of the phone had a user-removable battery. With the Note 5 (there was no Note 6), in the interest of making a marginally slimmer phone with room for an industry-leading battery, Samsung used glue to secure the battery inside the phone's case, making it incredibly difficult to remove for both repair and recycling purposes. Samsung has confirmed to CNET and others that the battery itself is the problem, and a battery recall or replacement program would be many orders of magnitude less difficult and less environmentally disastrous to implement if the batteries were user-replaceable.
On the other hand, that very same competition has moved on to Full-HD screens and Samsung is seriously disadvantaged here. The display may do a fine job but just hasn't got the numbers to back it up. And even though the sub-par screen resolution does the device no justice, the Note is a good looking slate, especially in white.
Most people cannot tell the difference between 1440p and 1080p on a panel like this. But that isn't an excuse to not even allow an option to run it at full resolution and high refresh rate at the same time. OnePlus and OPPO were able to do it on their phones which have similar specs. Keeping that in mind, there is absolutely no reason for Samsung to not allow it at all. This omission doesn't make the display bad, but it does add on to the disappointment. Samsung claims it helps battery life, but I would still prefer an option to choose for myself. Battery life is good on the OPPO Find X2 Pro and OnePlus 8 Pro with smaller batteries, and the S20 Ultra would have done just fine too.
The mass of the Milky Way, dark matter included, equals 1.5 trillion solar masses, according to recent NASA estimates. The galaxy's visible matter is distributed between its 200 billion stars, their planets and the massive clouds of dust and gas that fill the interstellar space. Astronomers aren't quite sure how many planets are in the Milky Way, given we have only found a few thousand all told, but one NASA estimate suggests it's more than 100 billion planets. How many solar systems there are in the Milky Way is also a mystery, as we are still looking for the planets.
More recently, astronomers have been trying to figure out what type of galaxy the Milky Way is. Our best estimates these days suggest that it is a barred spiral, meaning that there is a bar structure across the center. Astronomers can estimate the shape of the Milky Way by looking at its population of stars, as well as their movements across the sky.
We now know that the Milky Way resides within the Local Group of galaxies, made up of over 30 galaxies including Andromeda, Triangulum and Leo I to name but a few. It turns out that it's pretty good to know who your neighbors are, as they may be closer than you think. The Milky Way is currently hurtling towards Andromeda at 250,000mph (400,000 km/h). Though there is no need to worry just yet, this crash of cosmic proportions is not due for another 4 billion years.
There is also evidence that the Milky Way collided with several smaller galaxies during its evolution. In 2018, a team of Dutch astronomers found a group of 30,000 stars moving in sync through the sun's neighborhood in the opposite direction to the rest of the stars in the data set. The motion pattern matched what scientists had previously seen in computer simulations of galactic collisions. These stars also differed in color and brightness, which suggested they came from a different galaxy.
Zaphod Beeblebrox, the three-armed, two-headed, impetuous President of the Imperial Galactic Government, a position that is described in a long footnote as being entirely ceremonial, races across the planet Damogran in a speedboat heading for a ceremony where he will ceremoniously reveal the new, sleek starship the Heart of Gold, named such as it contains a special golden box at its center. Zaphod performs his job well due to his flashy character and ability to attract attention to himself, which is exactly how he approaches the platform filled with cameras and a crowd of people who are waiting for him to reveal the Heart of Gold to the galaxy.
If you're an Evernote user, you might go through a similar adjustment period when switching to another note-taking app. Over the last few years, Evernote users have felt burned by a once high-value, reliable app after the company hiked its prices (2016) and a few years later released new versions of its apps that were painfully buggy and missing features. In my personal experience, I put up with a lot of frustration for too long, turning to legacy versions of the Evernote desk app and largely giving up on the mobile apps. It finally came to a head, and I've permanently switched to a different note-taking app. In my case, I went with Joplin. It's not a perfect alternative, but it meets my needs well enough.
I've been testing and researching alternatives to Evernote since at least 2011, and as far as I've seen, there is no clone. Plenty of other note-taking apps exist, but each one approaches the very idea of what notes are and how you might use them differently. As a result, transferring notes from one system to another doesn't always go smoothly. If you use Evernote's tags, notebook stacks (i.e., nested notebooks), reminders, and internal links to other Evernote notes, these elements won't all transfer perfectly into any other app that's currently available. (I've tried.) Switching from Evernote really is a daunting task.
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