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Samsung Galaxy S9 & S9+ Features, Review

you're probably wondering if it's worth your money for an upgrade. you may also just be wondering if it's good phone or not. I think the best way to describe this phone is it's a nearly perfect samsung phone. so last year the Galaxy S8 had the infinite display this year  again Galaxy S9 has one of the absolute best displays in any smartphone sandwiched between even slightly thinner top and bottom bezels and last time they've even done a slightly better job hiding the sensors and things in that top bezel so the black looks more seemless. you also had USB-C and wireless charging, fast charging, headphone jack, water resistant and then the biggest change on the outside has to be obviously the fingerprint reader placement it's now in the middle instead of up at the top next to the camera and that makes huge difference.

Last year's Galaxy S8 also had top notch specs when it came out S9 here keeps that up and bumps it up to again for 2018 snapdragon 845 and 4 or 6 gigs of ram and this does definitely feel like the smoothest phone yet. It still has a ton of advanced  features it added iris scanning from the note which is a little slower but more secure than regular face recognition using front facing camera and there's also a new intelligent scan which combines face scanning and iris scanning basically using which one works better depending on light conditions and it still has Bixby button. Battery life i think is the biggest weakness of these new phones with the S9 and S9 Plus it's not terrible but among all the other great things about these phones the battery life is definitely not great. On the S9 Plus which has a bigger screen nut also bigger battery 3500mah and it would be dead by the end of the day and most of heavy use with a lot of navigation, a lot of music playing, a lot of screen on time watching videos and social media that would be enough to kill this phone in a single day.

The upside of that as it always is with Samsung is fast charging and wireless charging it charges really fast and the biggest new change in these phones that would be the camera so there's a 12 megapixel camera on the back and if you get the S9 Plus it gets the second telephoto camera as well and it's the first modern smartphone with a variable aperature camera it can physically switch between F1.5 and F2.4 depending on your lighting so it defaults to F2.4 which is roughly average for a smartphone camera actually and that's for your sharp normal daylight photos most of the time when you do get to low light under under 100 lux that's when its's gonna switch to wide open F1.5 technically speaking the mechanism to do this is really impressive. In the more RAM department Galaxy S9 Plus has six gigs of RAM while the regular S9 has four gigs of RAM both are plenty hardly ever gonna notice the difference in regular everyday use. It could be nice for future proofing noThe S9 Plus obvious has the second telephoto camera for live focus and for optical zoom sometimes may or may not every use that. If you do obviously go with S9 Plus. So that's just if you're picking between Samsung phones this is just about the optimal samsung phone that you can get right now with all the pros and cons that come with. The awesome displays the A+ build quality the checking of pretty much every box stereo speakers, headphone jack, expandable storage and a pretty damn good camera but you also get all the cons of the samsung experince to your double apps, the slower android updates, Bixby. And that's it this thing is really great and it's perfect for samsung lover.

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