Design and Build Quality
The Galaxy S9 is beautiful, especially the Blue variant we have here. I mean, I have had people iphone 8 cover front come up to me and compliment me on the color of the phone. So yes, it definitely an attention grabber and while the custodia cover samsung j3 design is mostly le cover per iphone 6 e 6s sono uguali S8 ish, there are some really good improvements to the S8 design, like the back isn as much of a fingerprint magnet and the fingerprint scanner is now located at just the right place. I am not a fan of the cover samsung a40 in silicone scanner rectangularish design, but the fingerprint setup and even its detection is really really fast.
There are also new dual stereo speakers here, which are a perfect amount of loudness and clarity. I really like it. These are some really nice improvements, plus the S9 features all the goodness from the S8, like the pressure sensitive home button, the IP68 rating, and the much loved headphone jack. Plus, if you have noticed the dents on our S9 Plus, let me just tell you that we have dropped the phone thrice. So, it pretty sturdy too, at least our unit here, is.
Apart from that, it the usual Samsung with the USB C port and the same buttons, including the Bixby button. So, is the design still great in 2018 Well, it is. I mean, the S8 design is more than a year old now but it so great that I don think anyone has a problem with Samsung using the same design language with the S9. Now we all know that Samsung flagships have had great displays and the S9 too packs in a gorgeous display. I don think there any other smartphone that can match this display here. I mean, Mate recently awarded the Galaxy S9 display with the award of the best smartphone display.
So yes, the S9 Plus boasts of one of the best displays in a smartphone. At least, this is the best smartphone display I have seen. custodia cover iphone x xs Honestly, there are times when I just watch the curves of the S9 display and drool over it. The blacks, the colors, it all cover samsung j5 6 2016 stunning. Samsung has put in a lot of innovation on the camera front and it seems to have paid off. Let talk specs first. The S9 Plus here comes with a 12 MP primary camera that has dual apertures of f/1.5 and f/2.4. There a secondary 12 MP f/2.4 telephoto lens as well. Enough talking, here are some photos from the S9 Plus:
As you can see, the Galaxy S9 Plus takes some really good photos. The photos have decent details, although colors do look a bit saturated but that something subjective, because a lot of people prefer it. It also handles harsh lighting really well. It really impressive but the S9 Plus is most impressive when taking low light shots. Take a look at some low light shots from the S9 Plus:
As you can cover samsung j3 huawei p10 lite hoesje 6 rigida see in the photos, thanks to the wider f/1.5 aperture, the cover con unicorni iphone S9 captures a great amount of light resulting in bright photos with some really good colors. I mean, just look at the photos above. They are great. Plus, if you were wondering cover iphone x fantasia how well the new dual aperture system works. Here are some shots taken with both f/1.5 and f/2.4 apertures:
f/2.4 (left) and f/1.5 (right)
f/2.4 (left) and f/1.5 (right)
Well, it clear that the dual apertures on the S9 Plus indeed cover iphone 4 batman work really well. cover samsung j5 2016 marble The wider f/1.5 aperture makes sure that low light photos are bright and nice, while the tighter f/2.4 aperture makes up for some sharp day time photos.
The S9 Plus custodia cover huawei y5 2018 also has the portrait mode, and well portrait shots are good samsung s6 hoesje with nice edge detection and background blur but the S9 just smoothens out the details in the face. Here are some portrait mode shots we took:
Also, let just compare it to some portrait mode shots from the Pixel 2:
S9 Plus (left) vs Pixel 2 (right)
S9 Plus (left) vs Pixel 2 (right)
On the front, the S9 Plus features an 8 MP f/1.7 camera, which sounds pretty capable. It too has a portrait mode and well, the photos are decent to okay ish. I mean, some photos are good but in some photos, the edge detection is not accurate and like the rear portrait mode, the photos lack the sharpness.
Let move on to video recording now. The S9 Plus shoots 4K videos at 60 FPS but when shooting in 60 FPS, the S9 Plus disables OIS stabalization, so we shot 4K videos at 30 FPS and while the colors in the video, the focusing, is great, the videos are not stable enough. It has dual OIS, so I am not sure what went wrong. Take a look cover iphone 6 starbucks at videos we shot with the S9 Plus in the video below:
Lastly on the camera front is the new super slow mo video capability. The S9 Plus shoots 720p videos at 960FPS. Now that sounds super cool, right Well, it super cool only when it works, other times it just super frustrating. See the thing is, the S9 Plus can capture only 0.2 seconds of super slow mo video, which I have realized isn good enough. There are two modes you can shoot super slow mo videos in: auto and manual. In auto mode, the S9 Plus automatically detects motion and triggers the slow mo. The problem here is, the auto mode sometimes work and sometimes doesn Well, scratch it, it does not work most of the times. While the manual mode is better, it very hard to time the slow mo trigger, since it captures only 0.2 seconds. Honestly, the super slow mo videos look cool but I, honestly, believe it is a gimmick and not something people will use a lot.
Overall, I really like the camera on the S9 Plus. The device captures some great photos, especially in low light. Seriously, low light photos from the S9 Plus are amazing. But is the DxOMark score of 99, which is better than the Pixel 2 score of 98 justified Well, I am not sure. I mean, if you have seen our S9 Plus vs Pixel 2 camera comparison video, I am sure you already know it not the best camera phone out there, at least for me, but it definitely up there with the best.
Overall, I really like the camera on the S9 Plus. The device captures some great photos, especially in low light. The S9 Plus is the first smartphone to come with the Snapdragon 845 but that only in the States. In India, we have the S9 Plus with the equally powerful, if not more, Exynos 9810 Octa. When it comes to the benchmarks, the S9 Plus is right at the top when it comes to Android phones but we all know about Samsung phones and their mediocre performance over time. Well, that seems to be changing, at least cover samsung galaxy grand neo for the flagships.
I mean, the S8 was one of the laggyist, if that even a word, laggyist flagship I have ever used but the Note 8, even after a number of months has remained solid and I like to believe that same is the case with the S9 Plus. In my 10 days of using the device, the S9 Plus feels super smooth. Sure, some of the Experience UI transitions seem a bit too much but other than that, the phone is fast, which makes me believe that even though it looks the same, Samsung has definitely done under the hood improvements for the S9 Plus…