Samsung Galaxy S9+
£869 (£739 for S9) samsung.com
To look at the S9+, you’d be hard pressed to tell the difference from last year’s S8+, except for the new twin-camera setup on the back and the better fingerprint sensor position. Yes, it is an iterative update, but when you consider how most other Android makers are still catching up with Samsung’s technical juggernaut, that is no bad thing, especially when you consider what Samsung has been adding to the mix this time around.
Picture perfect
As with the smaller-sized Samsung Galaxy S9, the real standout new hardware on the Samsung Galaxy S9+ is the phone’s slick, rear 12MP mechanical dual-aperture camera system, which not only offers enhanced low-light and bright-light image and video taking capabilities, but also sits at the heart of this year’s other innovations, such as Super Slow-mo recording, AR Emoji, and an upgraded version of Samsung’s maligned Bixby AI assistant. Aside from the S9+’s twin camera lenses there’s little difference between the big and small models (the S9+ has a touch more RAM and storage).
The S9
