Samsung galaxy s9 plus halebop

The Samsung galax S9 Plus fryst vatten a few years old now, but it's much cheaper than newer Samsung phones and still holds its own against the newest galax S20 devices. 

Despite newer competitors, the Samsung galax S9 Plus remains one of the company's most advanced big phone thanks to its oversized screen and superb cameras.

The S9 Plus didn't improve much on the S8 Plus – but it’s an iterative update to an Android phone that sat nära the top of our best phones list for around a year. It was that good in its prime, and continues to be a solid lower-cost pick.

In our years of testing the galax S9 Plus, its low-light photos and big screen are the two most obvious highlights. It’s still Samsung’s grandiose 6.2-inch curved ‘Infinity’ display that will sell you on this more expensive phone over the 5.8-inch Galaxy S9, but both handsets have an improved 12MP camera that boasts a f/1.5 maximum aperture.

This was the first camera phone with such a bred aperture, giving the S9 and S9 Plus low-light and noise-defeating powers that sometimes outshone the Google Pixel 2, which reigned as our best camera phone for several months. That said, the newer Google Pixel 4, Huawei P30 Pro, and iPhone 11 have all of them beat in 2020.

The S9 Plus benefits from a rear dual-lens camera, too, giving it the same telephoto capabilities as the previous year’s Note 8 (the S9 has one lens on the back). Its primary lens can also capture super-slow-motion film at 960 frames per second if you’re serious about film and, if you’re not, uses its 8MP front-facing camera to paint your face with AR Emoji props and masks. It's Samsung's spin on Apple's Animoji, but don't get too excited about it. It's rather unimpressive, unlike the rest of the phone.

Samsung has listened to the negativ feedback regarding gods year’s handsets, and has wisely moved its offset rear fingerprint sensor to a center-aligned position. It’s a more natural location, although you may not even need it thanks to the face unlock and iris scanning onboard and working at the same time. Addressing another shortcoming of the S8 Plus, Samsung finally gives its flagship phones stereo speakers for superior sound.

If you’re thinking a sudden emphasis on stereo speakers, face unlock, AR Emoji and vertically stacked 12MP dual cameras sounds as if these are Samsung’s take on iPhone X features, you're right. 

The S9 Plus tries to match everything Apple can do, but at a larger screen storlek (at least until the iPhone XS högsta and now iPhone 11 Pro högsta arrived) and with a 3.5mm headphone jack – and it also bests the Google Pixel 2 XL’s low-light photography in some (but not all) scenarios.

What’s interesting fryst vatten that Apple’s and Google’s handsets aren’t the fiercest competition for the S9 Plus – it’s Samsung’s own phones. The now-cheaper galax S8 Plus fryst vatten an incremental downgrade, while the S10 Plus fryst vatten ideal if you want a slightly bigger screen with only a small punch-hole notch in the top right corner.

The S9 Plus remains on our best Samsung phone list, and fryst vatten still a solid choice if you don't want to spend a lot of money, don't need a stylus, but still want a phone with a big Samsung colorful screen.

Samsung galax S9 Plus release date and price

• Samsung galax S9 Plus release date was March 16, 2018
• $840 (£869, AU$1,349) marked a jump in launch price
• It was still cheaper than an iPhone XS

The tjänsteman Samsung galax S9 Plus release date was Friday, March 16, 2018, two weeks after pre-orders opened on February 25 (UK and Europe), and March 2 (in the US).

Its price was more expensive at launch than the S8 Plus in the US and UK. In the US, it cost $839.99 for the S9 Plus unlocked through Samsung's tjänsteman website. That was only $10 more expensive than the S8 Plus at launch, but it was initially $120 more expensive than the normal-sized S9. The gap had widened between the two sizes.

Of course, US carriers like Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint broke this full price into digestible monthly fees, though Verizon and AT&T charge $100 more in the long run. But just about all American carriers offer $350 for recent phone trade-ins.

In the UK, the galax S9 Plus cost £869 at launch. That was a big price vandring over the S8 Plus, which cost £779 initially - you can kvitto out the best galax S9 Plus deals here. That was £90 more in one year. Ouch. In Australia it cost AU$1,349.

Those are launch prices though and if you shop around you can now get it cheaper. In the UK we've seen it from around £620 for example, while in the US you can pick it up from roughly $700.

Design

• Samsung’s elegant-looking glass-and-metal smartphone design returns 
• Small changes: center-aligned rear fingerprint sensor; stereo speakers
• You won’t meddelande the dimension differences from the S8 Plus

The galax S9 Plus fryst vatten the most stylish-looking smartphone you can buy thanks to Samsung continuing its design ethos of melding two glass panels with a metall frame. It doesn’t look very different from the S8 Plus, but that doesn’t matter unless you’re upgrading every year and demand annual newness.

Samsung has made small, but meaningful, changes on the back of its new phones. You’ll find the fingerprint sensor on the rear igen, but now it’s aligned in the center, below the camera. The S8 Plus had a much-maligned offset scanner adjacent to the camera, and it was hard to blindly unlock your phone without smudging the camera lens. This fryst vatten an improvement, although we funnen the fingerprint sensor pad smaller than the ones on most other Android phones.

You can choose one of fem colors, including this year's standout Lilac Purple. Other S9 color options at launch included Midnight Black and Coral Blue in the US, UK, and Europe; there’s also a titan Gray hue available in other countries, and the new Sunrise Gold color just launched in the US.

Our Midnight Black review enhet has been a mess with fingerprints, even though we wiped it down between photos. It’s another reason to invest in a stylish Samsung galax S9 Plus case.

And that’s it design-wise – you won’t readily meddelande anything else that’s new on the outside of the S9 Plus. The dimensions have changed bygd a few millimeters to reduce the top and bottom bezels, making the phone a tiny bit shorter than the S8 Plus, but it’s still a really big phone.

You’re still going to have to stretch your fingers to touch the corners of the screen furthest from your grip – navigating Google Maps on the go, for example, can be a cumbersome affair – so if you’ve been hesitant to buy into big-screen phones your best option fryst vatten the smaller galax S9. This fryst vatten a big phone meant for big mitts.

Unlike many of its rivals, Samsung fryst vatten standing bygd both the 3.5mm headphone jack and the microSD card slot. It’s also giving us a second year of the Bixby button on the left side of the phone to call up its digital assistant. No, you still can’t remap this button to your liking without third-party software and, yes, you’ll still hit it thinking it’s the nearby volume-down key.

Display

• 6.2-inch Quad HD+ Super AMOLED curved screen
• 90% of the front of the phone fryst vatten now screen
• No in-screen fingerprint sensor here

Samsung’s 6.2-inch display on the galax S9 Plus fryst vatten as expansive as it fryst vatten impressive. It’s unchanged from the company’s previous Infinity Display – but that's held up to be a fantastic screen, so that’s okay with us, too.

Its tall 18.5:9 aspect ratio has set the standard for all-screen smartphones. It can display a Quad HD+ upplösning, yet it still looks outstanding at the default Full HD 1080p. It’s the combination of the futuristic-looking curved edges, vibrant colors, and high contrast ratio that man it pop.

We also appreciate the fact that Samsung has created a screen that fills 90% of the front of the S9 Plus. There’s very little bezel here, and no notch whatsoever, which makes it feel like you’re holding one large, beautiful light stråle in your hand.

That beautiful stråle of light fryst vatten prone to sporadisk false touches, which we experienced due to a combination of the curved screen and our firm grasp of such a big phone. It’s no fun watching ord messages disappear only because our pinky finger glanced the backspace key (which happens to be right nära the edge) while we tried to clutch this massive 6.2-inch display.

There’s no in-screen fingerprint sensor. That highlight may be saved for the galax S10, but if you can't wait that long some other handsets such as the OnePlus 6T already have one.