Public beta tests took a good few months, but Samsung Experience 9.0 is finally making its way to the Galaxy S9 and S9+ smartphones. Official rollout will probably begin before the end of February. Cool, but why should you care? Well, because Experience 9.0 (for those not in the known, Samsung Experience is basically a bunch of enhancements that Samsung adds to the Android - in this case, Android 8.0 Oreo - that works only on Samsung phones) will bring with it a large amount of pretty nifty features. These features are:

- customizable keyboard toolbar,
- high-contrast keyboard,
- simplified keyboard settings (hm, lots of keyboard stuff),
- faster and smarter search,
- Bixby briefing,
- Color Lens,
- shortcut to Samsung Cloud,
- Samsung Connect dashboard,
- automations,
- Dual Messenger, two accounts on one phone,
- Samsung Dex,
- Game Launcher,
- a bunch of new e-mail functions.

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