The Galaxy S9+ is undoubtedly an excellent phone and improves on the S8+ with its blazing-fast internals and variable aperture camera. However, as it's £100 more expensive than its predecessor, potential buyers might find themselves opting for last year's model instead.

Average battery life; 'Intelligent Scan' is glitchy; duplicate apps; Bixby still needs work

When we reviewed Samsung's large-screened new Galaxy smartphone last year, the Galaxy S8+ , we described it as "futuristic" for its huge display and edge-to-edge design. But the future arrived quickly afterward as most major smartphone makers, Apple included, adopted some version of a large,...

The latest flagship from Samsung has not only to offer large display but a new dual-camera and a powerful octa-core chip that proves it's better than the predecessor. What's new to the phone is the addition of the super slow motion recording (960 fps), AR stickers, Intelligent Scan and more, find...

Stylish & Sturdy | Curved Design | Thin-bezel Display; Excellent AMOLED Display | Very High Brightness; Great Cameras – Live Focus; Selfie Focus; 960fps slow-motion; AR Emojis; 4K video @60fps; Blazing Fast Octa-Core SoC; RAM; & Storage; USB 3.1; LTE Cat.18; Bluetooth 5.0; Wireless Charging; MicroSD...

Poor Battery Life

Overall the Samsung Galaxy S9+ is a good upgrade to the Galaxy S8+. Even though it has the same display, it has slightly smaller bottom bezels, packs a faster processor with 6GB RAM, comes with a better dual-aperture and telephoto rear cameras, which is a huge improvement compared to the S8+, stereo...

Brilliant display; Good primary Dual Aperture and secondary Telephoto cameras; Good performance

Same old front camera; Bixby still needs improvement

Samsung has launched the first set of main-stream flagships for 2018 – the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+. The two phones bring forward several improvements and refinements, the most notable being the ‘reimagined camera'.

Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ at the Galaxy Unpacked 2018 event in Barcelona on Sunday, grabbing headlines a day before the Mobile World Congress (MWC) kicks off. While the smartphones look virtually identical to their predecessors, they do pack in some significant upgrades in the...

As always, the Samsung Galaxy S9+ isn't the perfect smartphone, but then what really is? Manufacturers on the Android system have found their niches and specialities; while OnePlus might be known for its performance and speed, Google Pixel phones are reputed for camera and software.

I'm happy to report that upon initial setup with the Galaxy S9+ the user is given a choice to download Samsung's default apps - or not! Having an out-of-box experience using many stock Google apps creates an experience close enough to a Pixel to make this a nice alternative to Google hardware for...

While the Galaxy S9+ may not look that much different than the Galaxy S8+, much of the improvements were made under the hood. Don't fix something that ain't broken, right It's got a slightly more compact in an almost identical design, a more practical placement of the fingerprint scanner and an...

Impressive performance; Very nice display; Great dual camera setup; Loud; stereo speakers; Fast wireless charging; Water resistance

Super expensive

When Apple took the top end smartphone over the $1K barrier they became a serious investment consideration now we are seeing a pitched battle between the Apple