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when the si+ was released last year it's at unparalleled in design for most of the year 12 months though can bring out the best in the competition and the s9 enters a competitive flagship world filled with high-end specs and just notches everywhere can the STI and the s9 plus keep Samsung on top most importantly is it worth the premium price I'm John retina from TechnoBuffalo and this is our review of the galaxy s 9 for full disclosure most this review is going to focus on the s9 Plus which I use for almost two and a half weeks before filming it was super important for me to get to know the phone before rushing out a review I really liked the s8 but there were two major problems with it no stereo speakers and the mattingly place fingerprint reader Samsung clearly listened to consumers and fix both of these making the earpiece work double duty as a speaker and moving the fingerprint reader where it should have been all along below the camera or cameras depending on whether that you've got the s9 at the s9 plus speakers here are 1.4 times louder but what matters is that they actually sound decent and now I can actually find and use the fingerprint reader it's starting to be less a matter of opinion and more matter of fact that Samsung makes the best screens in the business and for the most part the 5.8 inch and 6.2 inch quad HD Super AMOLED panels are unchanged from last year the resolution is the same at 29 60 by 1440 but now they get 15% brighter making the screens way easy to see outdoors and I get it might not sound like much but in the real world testing it makes a gigantic difference though the brightness improvements aside the screen still look like there's a sticker on there not real screens colors a Samsung likes to do or oversaturated a bit but they look incredible in black levels as you'd expect our killer it's a pleasure to watch videos on but gaming can kind of be a bit squirrely do the super thin bezels but I am happy to make that trade for the slim design which is also slightly trimmed down from the s8 it was a curious decision for Samsung to essentially fork the s9 line with the s9 plus getting the second camera and 6 gigabytes of RAM versus 4 gigabytes on the s9 I loved that was essentially the same phone safer screen size on the seyton ESA plus I don't agree with it but no the phones are not the same both phones are the first ones on the block to get the qualcomm snapdragon 845 chips javis you're gonna benchmark well but synthetic scores don't really matter in real-world usage they forty-fives other claim to fame aside from performance and battery improvements it's supposed to be what Qualcomm is calling ultra HD premium which supports a wider color gamut such as REC 2020 that's gonna give you more colors considerably more shades of existing colors in ten bit HDR which is a mouthful those improvements though Wortley noticeable either but maybe it's more to do with the content I was watching what this boils down to those aren't that many improvements right now at a 45 which is kind of supporting but I would imagine start to see these changes in the coming months as software carts take advantage of what I think is the awesome hardware in here and speaking of software its Android eight point out of the box not eight point one which is kind of a bummer Samsung has been a bit better at pushing the point one updates in the art pushing the full new Android versions but if you decided to pick one of these up resign yourself to only getting Oreo and be pleasantly surprised if and when Android P ever comes but you are gonna get though with the s9 s9 + is the latest version of Samsung experience it's quick and that's far I have had no slowdowns at all I get that's a preference thing but at least be open-minded going in I don't think gonna be disappointed so well good it's not perfect though there's no duplicate apps but Google offers which is kind of annoying I'm looking at you internet browser nobody uses I also don't like having a separate galaxy app store I've covered Samsung's UI at length so I won't go too much into it here Bixby is also here same with its nan a reprogrammable button that is some new tricks like calorie counting some AR makeup stuff the ability to translate words which you look in the corner it's just gonna say it's using Google Translate it is free solid over-performing like phone tasks but as an assistant and slow to respond and doesn't always answer the questions right all the time so Samsung is getting into the live emoji game with a are emojis think of them like HD versions of the Nintendo me and it's super easy to just view the uses an emoji knockoffs but a lot of ways they do more is a few seconds they're gonna create one of your face and the facial tracking is pretty impressive even the ability to track my face that's my individual dancing eyebrows I like get a create to Jeff's automatically for different situations it can be used in any messaging app it's a pretty cool implementation that feels more custom than emoji but in all honesty I forgot they were there after just a few days anyway the biggest change of the s9 and s9 plus is with the camera Samsung is touting dual aperture as a flagship feature which both the SI and s9 plus you have it's a big Hardware change but it doesn't really have significant impact in the real world like a pareo ts8 you'll notice a slightly sharper background outdoors but that's probably also due to 2.4 aperture indoor sharpness and background look very similar the dual camera set up on the s9 plus just adds the optical zoom and looks and feels identical to the note 8 it works well and it's my preference to have the extra flexibility the biggest changes over from the s8 is an image processing photos look way less processed less artificially sharp less saturated and just more natural noise reduction is also way better in low light which I can't overstate enough this is an incredible camera in low-light slow-mo video on these phones is pretty awesome in theory 960 frames per second at 720p capture some crazy cool moments full records 0.2 seconds so be sure to time it exactly right it's a cool novelty but it does come out a bit grainy despite the resolution as a party trick or a look at my phone can do type feature it's it's pretty sweet a crazy cool thing to mention with the cameras this time around is they actually have their own RAM to help with capturing all these images sure if you give it a few years we'll be complaining that my cameras only got 6 gigs of RAM but Ram is in the camera module it's kind of cool so the bottom line on the camera it's not surprisingly the best camera system Samsung has ever used but it's definitely not world's better than the s8 or even the note 8 so Samsung has improved the iris recognition and the facial scanning system and this time it gives you the option to combine the two so what it's calling intelligent scan it gives you the ease of facial unlock security of iris and it works pretty close to flawlessly with light behind me in dark rooms and pretty much every other scenario I threw at it it just worked what's always the fastest but it was damn close to working 100% of the time battery sizes are unchanged from lashing at 3000 3500 milliamp hours respectively a my actual usage was slightly better than the si+ after full day for me I had about 35 to 40% issue left it looks like the a45 is about five ten percent more efficient on battery or maybe app just got better optimized throughout the year so I gives him some credit they really check almost every flagship box ip68 expandable storage Snapdragon 840 five six digs a ram dual cameras 64 gigs of internal storage Samsung pay a freaking headphone jack any beautiful design without a notch we also finally have some good colors making their way to the US in the form of coral blue and lilac purple so along with the now staple midnight black I wish the gray was coming to the US but hey colors so the final verdict on the s9 the s9 plus they are not surprisingly awesome phones and the best Samsung has ever made swimming you don't need a stylus if you have an SI turn si+ hold off I don't think even Samsung believes you'll need to upgrade but for coming from s7 or older just coming from nother manufacturer it's a huge leap forward and gives you what I think is the best of Android my experience was so positive with the SI and the s9 plus I actually bought a coral blue s9 plus for myself which is a biggest stamp of approval I can give a device putting my own money behind it