New Galaxy S9 leaks: no headphone jack?

So, with 2017 nearing its end and all the major smartphone announcements behind us, it's a good time to look ahead into early 2018, as that's when the annual Mobile World Congress will take place. At it, as always, we expect to see the big dogs — Samsung and LG — as well as others.

The Galaxy S9 is slowly becoming a hot topic as of late. There are a lot of lingering questions — "Will Samsung change the design or will it pull an Apple "s"?", "Will it move the fingerprint scanner from that odd, side-of-the-camera position?", "And will it continue to put headphone jacks on its phones?".

Well, a new leak, which claims to reveal some Galaxy S9 specifics, tries to answer those.

Coming "from China", and posted on tech site TechDroider, we have a couple of sketches for the Galaxy S9 and the Galaxy S9+. By now, we are pretty much expecting Samsung to always introduce a flagship duo — one with a smaller screen and one phablet — so there's no reason to doubt this.

Then, we have some specific details. Apparently, Samsung is working on a "More secure facial recognition", which would include 3D sensing tech. This is no doubt in response to Apple's Face ID — Sammy just needs to add a depth-sensing face scanner to its already stellar iris scanner and it will probably be up to par. Of course, we are yet to find out how good Face ID is in the first place.

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