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Saturday 25 auguSt 2018

Samsung's $1,000 Note 9 is great - but so is the cheaper S9

By ANICK JESDANUN supposed to offer pop-up
AP Technology Writer previews just by pointing
NEW YORK (AP) — For to an email and calendar
$1,000, the premium Gal- entry, but it mostly worked
axy Note 9 is a superb only with Samsung's home-
phone that showcases the grown apps.
best Samsung has to offer. More recently, there's Bix-
It's also the phone most of by, Samsung's own digital
you won't need. That's be- assistant. While Samsung
cause you can get many has worked directly with
of the same features in some services, including
Samsung's Galaxy S9 for a Uber and Spotify, on inte-
few hundred dollars less. grations, developers have
The Note 9, available Fri- largely prioritized Amazon's
day, is the Android smart- Alexa and the Google As-
phone for those who want sistant. It comes down to
the latest and the great- a chicken-or-egg prob-
est. There's a larger battery, lem: People need to see
with a 21 percent boost compelling capabilities to
over last year's Note 8 mod- use a feature; developers
el. The Note 9 gets 128 gi- need to see a strong base
gabytes of storage, double of users to spend the time
what's in the S9 and Apple's In this Aug. 7, 2018, file photo the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 and stylus are shown in New York. The developing compelling ca-
iPhones. And of course, a stylus now acts as a remote control for triggering the camera shutter or pausing and forwarding pabilities.
large screen. songs. The stylus remains the Note's
But there's not much "wow" Associated Press signature feature, with or
beyond that. Smartphone without extensive remote
innovation has slowed gimmicky, but super-fun, ter than what the S9 pro- trol. Selfies won't look as capabilities. No doubt the
down in recent years. It's ability to take video with duced, even though both awkward when you don't new edition will appeal to
more noticeable with Sam- super-slow motion. share the second aperture have to reach for the on- die-hard Samsung fans,
sung because the compa- And the S9 starts at just designed to let in more light screen button; just press the hard-core gamers and on-
ny spreads out those inno- $720 through T-Mobile, and when needed. pen to snap the shutter. the-go executives who are
vations between two major about $800 through Veri- Of course, you're likely to Unfortunately, there isn't a on their phones constantly
smartphones each year. zon, AT&T and Sprint. A Plus see this feature in the S10 in lot the remote feature can and need the battery and
One phone inevitably plays version that's closer in size about six months. do yet. It's a promising fea- storage boost. Though the
catch up with the other ev- to the Note 9 costs $840 to That brings us to one of the ture — but could remain Note 9 uses the same pro-
ery six months. $930. Note's remaining distinctive mostly a promise if app de- cessor as the S9, it has a
So now we find that the True, the Note 9 offers a features, its stylus. It's useful velopers don't take advan- new cooling system de-
Note 9 is getting the zip- little more wowness. Its for handwriting notes and tage of it. signed to let you use those
py processor and cellular camera uses artificial intel- signing documents on the Many past Samsung fea- faster speeds longer.
speeds the S9 phones first ligence to optimize colors screen. Now, it can con- tures failed to gain traction But if you're not someone
offered earlier this year. It's and lighting for what you're trol digital slideshows and because app developers who needs all that power,
also getting the S9's dual- trying to shoot, be it food, a music playback, too. The couldn't be bothered to you ought to take a sec-
aperture camera for better sunset or flowers. Many low- new stylus gets Bluetooth make the tweaks needed. ond look at the cheaper,
low-light shots as well as its light shots were even bet- to double as a remote con- For instance, Air View was six-month-old S9.q

Australia bans Huawei from 5G

network over security concerns

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) People's Liberation Army works.
— Chinese-owned tele- major in 1987 suffered a The decision also affects
communications giant setback in the U.S. market ZTE Corp, a Chinese maker
Huawei has been blocked in 2012 when a congres- of mobile devices.
from rolling out Australia's sional report said it was a Shenzhen-based Huawei,
5G network due to security security risk and warned the world's largest telecom-
concerns. phone companies not to munications equipment
The government said Thurs- buy its equipment. supplier, had been banned
day that the involvement Huawei has said it would from bidding for contracts
of a company "likely to be never hand over Australian for Australia's broadband In this Wednesday, July 4, 2018, photo, the Huawei logo is seen
subject to extrajudicial di- customer data to Chinese network in 2011. at a Huawei store at a shopping mall in Beijing.
rections from a foreign gov- spy agencies, but the gov- 5G networks will start com- Associated Press
ernment" presented too ernment's statement said mercial services in Australia
much risk. no combination of security next year. world's leading 5G suppli- about the decision and
Several governments have controls sufficiently mitigat- Huawei Australia tweeted ers could impact Australia's accused the Australian
been scrutinizing Huawei ed the risk. that the decision was "ex- economic growth and pro- government of "making up
over its links to the Chinese Acting Home Affairs Minis- tremely disappointing." ductivity for generations. excuses to create hurdles
government. ter Scott Morrison said the Huawei Australia Chairman In Beijing, Foreign Ministry deliberately and taking dis-
The private Chinese com- government was commit- John Lord had said in June spokesman Lu Kang ex- criminative measures in this
pany started by a former ted to protecting 5G net- that rejecting one of the pressed "serious concerns" regard.