Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus
The Galaxy S9 ( $719.99 at Amazon.com ) is great, but the Galaxy S9 Plus is objectively the better phone, and the one power users should get if they can't choose between the two. In previous years, the Plus model was the same as the Galaxy S, but bigger, with a larger battery, too.
The Galaxy S9 Plus one-ups the excellent Galaxy S9 with a second rear camera for taking portrait photos
Battery life fell short of last year's model in our early tests, and the Galaxy S9 Plus suffers from the same underbaked extras as the smaller Galaxy S9; The dual-aperture camera tends to overexpose low-light photos in auto mode