Samsung Galaxy S9 review, advantages, disadvantages and specifications

Samsung Galaxy S9 has a superb primary camera of 12 MP (f/1.5-2.4, 26mm, 1/2.5″, 1.4 µm, Dual Pixel PDAF), phase detection autofocus, OIS, LED flash, It offers features such as geo-tagging, simultaneous 4K video & 9MP image recording, touch focus, face/smile detection, Auto HDR, panorama and it takes amazing photos with high quality.

Samsung Galaxy S9 advantages

Samsung Galaxy S9 supports 4K video recording, It has video of 2160p@60fps, 1080p@60fps, 720p@960fps, HDR, dual-video rec., It presents a superb secondary camera of 8 MP, f/1.7, autofocus, 1440p, dual video call, and Auto HDR, It offers superb selfies and it has a flash that enables you to take wonderful photos in low light conditions.

Samsung Galaxy S9 supports Samsung Pay (Visa, MasterCard certified), It offers IP68 certified, It offers dust/waterproof over 1.5 meters & 30 minutes, It comes with a Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors, It has a size of 5.8 inches, 84.8 cm2 (~83.6% screen-to-body ratio) that is very suitable in playing games, watching videos & browsing the internet.

Samsung Galaxy S9 presents a resolution of 1440 x 2960 pixels, 18.5:9 ratio (~570 ppi density), It has a multitouch feature, It has Corning Gorilla Glass 5 for screen protection, It supports 3D Touch (home button only), It supports Always-on display, It gives you a high pixel density, It contains a high resolution that makes the display very clear & bright.

Samsung Galaxy S9 offers the latest operating system of Android 8.0 (Oreo), It supports Exynos 9810 Octa – EMEA, It offers Qualcomm MSM8998 Snapdragon 845 – USA & China, It offers a fast CPU, It presents Octa-core (4×2.8 GHz Mongoose M3 & 4×1.7 GHz Cortex-A55) – EMEA, It has Octa-core (4×2.7 GHz Kryo 385 Gold & 4×1.7 GHz Kryo 385 Silver) – USA & China, It has Mali-G72 MP18 – EMEA and it support Adreno 630 – USA & China.

Samsung Galaxy S9 has a high expandable memory via Card slot, microSD, up to 256 GB (uses SIM 2 slot) – dual SIM model only, It offers a high internal memory of 64/128/256 GB, It supports 4 GB RAM that is very useful in multitasking performance and it offers a superb performance without any lags.

Samsung Galaxy S9 has 2G bands GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 – SIM 1 & SIM 2 (dual-SIM model only), It includes 3G bands HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700(AWS) / 1900 / 2100, It offers 4G bands LTE, Speed is HSPA 42.2/5.76 Mbps, LTE-A (6CA) Cat18 1200/200 Mbps, It has GPRS and it brings EDGE.

Samsung Galaxy S9 was announced in February 2018, It was released in March 2018, The body dimensions are 147.7 x 68.7 x 8.5 mm (5.81 x 2.70 x 0.33 in), The weight is 163 g (5.75 oz), It offers Front/back glass (Gorilla Glass 5), aluminum frame, It comes with Single SIM (Nano-SIM) or Hybrid Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by).

Samsung Galaxy S9 includes Sound Alert types such as Vibration, MP3, and WAV ringtones, It includes a loudspeaker, with stereo speakers, It supports a 3.5 mm jack, It has 32-bit/384kHz audio, It supports superb active noise cancellation with a dedicated mic and it comes with high building quality.

Samsung Galaxy S9 has Comms WLAN such as Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, and hotspot, It supports Bluetooth 5.0, A2DP, LE, and aptX, It includes GPS, with A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS, GALILEO, It supports NFC feature and it supports FM radio (USA & Canada only).

Samsung Galaxy S9 includes USB 3.1, Type-C 1.0 reversible connector, It offers a rich number of superb sensors such as Iris scanner, fingerprint (rear-mounted), ambient light sensor, accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer, heart rate & SpO2, It comes with a premium & impressive design.

Samsung Galaxy S9 has SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail & IM, It includes Browser HTML5, It supports Samsung DeX (desktop experience support), It offers fast battery charging (Quick Charge 2.0), It supports Qi wireless charging and it has ANT+ support.

Samsung Galaxy S9 has Bixby natural language commands and dictation, It gives you an MP4/DivX/XviD/H.265 player, It offers MP3/WAV/eAAC+/FLAC player, It presents a photo/video editor, It provides you with a document editor.

Samsung Galaxy S9 contains a non-removable Li-Ion 3000 mAh battery (11.55 Wh) that lasts for a long time, It includes misc such as colours such as Midnight Black, Coral Blue, Titanium Gray, and Lilac Purple, It comes with a great camera, It offers lots of RAM & a large memory, It includes connectivity options like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, USB, 3G, 4G, and NFC.

Samsung Galaxy S9 disadvantages

Samsung Galaxy S9 is a bit heavyweight, It offers a non-removable battery, It does not have Infrared and it does not have a Temperature sensor.