Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Samsung Galaxy S9+ Redux: How good is a 2 year old flagship?”.
With the Galaxy S 20 just around the corner, we thought why not look back at one of Samsung Mobile’s, most important devices of recent history, the Galaxy S 9 plus, is that chosen handset today sure it wasn’t a massive change aesthetically that was the SH job. What it was was a leap in camera performance and a very strong optimization for the rest of the device at around three hundred pounds or three hundred US dollars on eBay. It’S a phone that I’ve been recommending for some time now for its tremendous value proposition. So let’s look back at one of the best of the best devices and see what differentiates it from the current crop of flagship smartphones.
This is the Samsung Galaxy S 9, plus redux, what’s immediately apparent just by glancing at the device is that it doesn’t have a punch hole. A staple on recent Samsung flagships were instead welcomed by a chin and forehead I’ll, be a very small pair. Now they do look slightly outdated, but in my opinion this is the better way to have things since you have an uninterrupted display, and I believe this is why Samsung continued to use this design when other brands were using notches.
However, in between the chin and forehead is a very up-to-date display, a big bright, beautiful 6.2 inch, quad HD AMOLED display something that’s not changed in the past couple of years and still feels very modern. It’S still a very sharp and crisp display and, if you’re coming from say a galaxy s 10 or an iPhone 11 Pro you’re not going to be disappointed with this panel. Adding to that, you could still pass this off as a slightly lower around 20/20 device.
It still got a curved glass sandwich layout with aluminium rails. There’S still a multi-camera array on the back. A USB C port is still present and it’s all there and functionally is the same story: ip68, water and dust resistance, USB 3.1 speeds, microSD expansion and what’s different between this and a 20/20 smartphone, I would arguably call good and positive over negatives, for example, there’s still A headphone port for all of you that want one and for those like me that prefer this, you do get a rare physical, capacitive, fingerprint reader, which is shown to be quicker, accurate, more reliable than the under display counterparts, not to mention it being easier to find It in a pinch when you’re not looking at your phone, so far, Samsung’s Galaxy s 9 Plus is aged very well, but – and there is a but the biggest way to tell the difference between different ages and eras of smartphone is by its camera and the s9 Plus is a bit hit-and-miss: it has a multi camera rear layout on the back.
It has Samsung’s adjustable aperture, it has portrait HDR and night modes and it can shoot UHD video at 60fps on paper. The s 9 plus is pretty much all there, but there are two pretty big omissions. One is a pixel binge sensor which granted isn’t on modern Samsung smartphones. Yet, but it’s still a staple of a modern smartphone overall and two is the ultra wide-angle lens, which is something that Samsung’s have had through the 10 series bit the notes and the S and it’s something that shows the age of a smartphone. Quite obviously that means that, whilst you’re still going to get very, very good quality images from the smartphone’s camera, the versatility of it is a little bit crippled by the fact that it doesn’t have those extra focal lengths. What’S more, the time-of-flight sensor found in modern Samsung flagships to aid with live portrait mode in video is missing here as well.
That all being said, this smartphone came out 693 days ago and images look much better now than they even did to start with. Due to the fact that Samsung has been adding more features into the camera app via one UI, what that means is you’re going to get better software processing now than you did when the phone came out, which is pretty cool because it keeps this phone up-to-date, modern And fresh the device just got Android 10 via the 1 UI 2.0 update, and whilst this may take a couple of months to roll out to every single Galaxy S 9 plus across the world, it’s a really good sign that we’re already seeing Android 10 on this Platform, if Samsung’s track record is anything to go by, we won’t see another major Android upgrade for this phone. That being said, a phone supporting three versions of Android is not unheard of and is possible for the future. Aside from that, we should get at least one more year of software updates, including bug fixes security patches things like that and being that were only two years into the s9 plusses life, the spec. She is pretty stout making for a really good value for money. Smartphone.
I’D say the only obvious emissions are the wide-angle camera, a punch, hole and a big battery, and if you can live without those, you got a cracking device right here. The galaxy s 9 plus has truly stood the test of time and by pretty much all accounts is still a fantastic smartphone going into 2020. What are your thoughts? Please do. Let us know down below in the comments and whilst you’re down there.
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