A new update is rolling out to the Galaxy Note8 that brings two interesting features from this year’s flagships to the 2017 flagship. The new update also brings September’s security patch.

The two new features are super slow-motion recording and AR Emojis. The former lets you record videos at 960fps in 720p for 0.2s if you own the Galaxy S9 or 960fps in 720p for 0.4s for the Galaxy Note9. We can’t confirm if the Galaxy Note8 has that of the S9 or the Note9.

AR Emoji lets you create emojis based on an avatar of yourself created by the phone. This is Samsung‘s take on Apple‘s Animoji that launched with the iPhone X last year. The update is a little over 700MB is rolling out gradually. It has started arriving on devices in France but may take a few days before other regions receive it.

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It is nice to see manufacturers roll-out some of the features from the current flagships to older ones. Huawei has done the same by rolling-out to the Mate 10 Pro features like slow-motion recording at 960fps and long-exposure photography mode which originally launched with the P20 series.

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Samsung has penned down an official blog post that explains how it achieved the Super Slow-mo feature of the Galaxy S9 (S9 Plus). The new Super Slo-mo mode lets users record at 960fps for just 0.2 seconds which translates into 6 seconds of playback. But how exactly does it work?

Samsung sensors are CMOS (complimentary metal-oxide semiconductor) sensors. Even with the improvement in autofocus, when you take a picture of a fast moving object, the images are distorted. So Samsung set to work on a new CMOS sensor that would be fast enough to significantly reduce distortion and camera shake, and also provide new features.

So what new features should the camera have? Samsung agreed on slow-motion recording. To achieve that, they had to make a sensor  fast enough to record at super high speeds which can then be slowed down for the super slow-mo effect.

Making the sensor fast enough wasn’t easy as it needed to be four times faster than previous generation. It also had to have a better pixel and be able to handle the bandwidth for the high frame rates required for the image sensor output and video processing of the application processor.

The solution was to add a dedicated DRAM memory chip to the CMOS sensor and new circuit, instead of waiting till they are sent to the DRAM on the phone itself. So you get a three-layer sensor instead of two in older models.

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The new sensor allows users record at 960fps for 0.2 seconds (almost 6 seconds when played back). The recorded video can be saved as a Gif file that is between 3 to 15MB in size. Samsung says the process is automatic so no need for fumbling with settings. However, you can choose between recording a single take or multiple takes with up to 20 Slow-mo segments.

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