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1 SAMSUNG GALAXY S9
• From £739, samsung.com
Sometimes the smallest changes have the biggest impact, a notion Samsung is seemingly throwing its weight behind with the Galaxy S9. At first glance, it’s easy to assume that Samsung’s new flagship smartphone is little more than a refined version of last year’s S8, with an almost identical hardware suite packed into a lush slab of metal and glass. Look closer, however, and you’ll notice some pleasing tweaks and innovations.
Although the S9 has the same screen as the S8 – a 5.8-inch (6.2-inch on the S9+) QHD+ Super AMOLED display with 18.5:9 aspect ratio – Samsung has chosen to tweak the landscape mode so that the entire user interface now rotates to fit the widescreen format.
The big news with the S9 is the innovative camera system. The 12MP rear camera features dual-aperture tech for improved low-light photography, where a fixed-size aperture – which is what basically all phones use – is ditched for one that expands and contracts just like the iris of your eye; the S9’s camera lets more light into its sensor when the surrounding environment is too dark, or less when the environment is too
