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this is the Samsung Galaxy S 9 plus I've been using it pretty much every day since it launched in March so that's about three months and this is my three month for view or three now one of the top things I love about this phone is still the design it's just beautiful when you hold it in your hand it's got a really large screen but I just love that elegant curves on the side and I absolutely love love love this purple color on the back yes it does attract finger prints and it gets all smeary and that's gross but I can mostly ignore it I get complimented on it all the time I noticed that people will stop and look at it even if they don't mention anything to me I was at a cafe and I had it face down on the table and I noticed out of the corner of my eye another patron at the cafe who was kind of trying to like slyly hold up their phone you know in a way where you're pretending that you're looking at what's on the screen but you're really taking a picture they weren't taking picture of me they were taking a picture of the phone so it's definitely an eye-catcher unfortunately it will break because it's glass and I don't trust myself to hold on to it I know that if it's in my hand sooner or later it's gonna fall and crack so I scoured the internet and this is the best case that I can find it's a speaking case it's purple and I thought that would kind of like honor the purple color I've tried using clear cases but they kind of dull the effect you know when you hold it in light at different angles you really get this great depth of color and I don't have it with this case so that's unfortunate but it was the best I can do split-screen is one of those features that a lot of Samsung phones have and I always liked it and I would always use it for testing but I never naturally used it until I started using this phone every single day and now there are so many times during the week where I will open up split screen and say I have the calendar or a map or an email open in one screen and I might have you know any one of those other apps open in the other screen it's really great if I'm trying to you know look at a schedule or a timetable and find out what time and trains getting in or something like that and then send the information along in a message without going back and forth between multiple screens so that is definitely a feature that I didn't know I was going to use and like as much as I do I also really like using the edge display this is sort of a bar on the side of your phone you can put the tab anywhere you want and you can fill it with shortcuts for apps for people it's very easy to get out of control and add way too much information which just winds up taking time because the point is that from any screen that you're on on this phone you can open this up and get to a person or an app that you use there are about a million different ways that you can customize the Samsung phone and while it can be incredibly overwhelming when you're picking through every settings submenu it's actually something that I really appreciate I know it's there and I spent a lot of time actually at choosing the custom color of the clock widget on my always-on display and on my lockscreen and that's something that really is just for me but when the phone is laying on the table I look over and I know that it's mine it's just like a little identifying characteristic like yeah that's my phone I made it that color the last thing that I absolutely have to mention it has to do with unlocking so this phone will let you unlock with your iris or with your fingerprint and one thing that I love about this that the iPhone 10 just doesn't have is that if for some reason you're trying to unlock using your face your iris in this case and the read doesn't go through the first time the phone will offer you an option to press a little button and redo it and the iPhone 10 just doesn't give you that option I also like that there's this combination of iris scanning with fingerprint unlock because between the two of them I'm gonna get the phone unlocked pretty quickly with the least amount of frustration possible even though I love how this phone looks I do have one little complaint with the way that the phone curves sometimes when I'm in a note or an email or writing a text message and I want to put my cursor at the beginning of the sentence for some reason the touch just doesn't register it's like my finger just falls off the side of the water fall alright can we talk about the bixby button for a second it's here on the side and I never use it on purpose but I launched it all the time because I carry my phone either in my back pocket or in my purse and when I'm reaching into my purse and I'm grabbing the phone by the top that is the perfect place for me to accidentally open up Bixby it's just it just hits the bottom of my thumb right there so I wind up giving it a squeeze and instead of seeing my home screen or the lock screen which is what I expect I always see this and I don't know how it's possible that I'm still at level 2 for all the times that I open VIX me it's got to happen minimum once a day the camera on this is really good it's got this dual aperture lens the galaxy s 9 has that too and then it's got the portrait lens and although I really love that this phone gives me the option to take portrait photos I find that I don't really use it a lot and then when I do use it I don't know it just sort of blows up the subject more than I want it to so you know I look through the viewfinder and I see this nice scene and I just want to blur the edges exactly as it is and I put on portrait mode and all of a sudden like their face is this like giant moon and my viewfinder I know that's how it is with portrait mode but I I don't know I love that you can blur the edges that there's a sliding scale on the galaxy s phones but it's just not something that I use as much as I thought and that's really one of the main purposes to have the Plus version that and the larger screen size the last thing that I should leave you with is a comment on the apps the Samsung native apps just aren't very good I've replaced every single one of them nearly every single one of them from the browser to my messaging app with apps from Google instead or some other kind of third-party app and I just wind up using those a lot more so while the phone is really beautiful and while I like a lot of the customizations that Samsung has put on top of Android I think that they should just stick to those and move away from apps entirely I mean even the keyboard it's just it's awful I had to replace it I could not survive another he using the native keyboard so I've learned a lot about this phone from the time that I first reviewed it until now and I've got to say I would still recommend it it's still a really beautiful device perfect for a day-to-day me it's there just those little perks and caveats that aren't exclusive to this phone really they applied to any device that you buy so there you have it that's been my three-month review if you like what you see subscribe to see nut and I'll be back with more