Samsung Galaxy S9

samsung galaxy s9 and funny enough the last couple of days i've been spending a lot of time actually talking about this device because it is in a very interesting spot it's not necessarily the first device i would recommend this year if you still own this phone then i think it's probably still worth it to some of you but i really don't think his is a phone that people should be going out and currently buying and the main reason for this is mostly because

the samsung galaxy s10 which is the successor of this phone is such a crazy good value in so many different ways it's still supported with software way better screen way better build quality it pretty much has everything going for it that it only makes sense for me to recommend that phone over this one i still don't think this phone is a bad phone i think it has a lot of capability

but do keep in mind that's pretty much my main synopsis of how i would sum this up now first of all on the body now if you want to buy those phones links are down in the description you can get them from there and help support the channel at the same time now the body of this phone and the way it looks is still top tier it still looks very good it still

performs pretty decently and the best thing about it the display of this thing 5.8 inch super amoled display and it is

a very good looking panel it's 1440p and there's a little bit of bezel on the top and bottom but it's not really that much and it still looks pretty good you know i've had very few complaints about it you have you know a little bit of a

notch not a notch but you have like bezel up top totally okay you have the

front facing camera up there no inbuilt

fingerprint sensor in the display or anything but you still have that usb

type c port at the bottom you still have

that headphone jack and you still have that micro sd card slot as well which is

crazy having this type of you know i o on this type of device is pretty insane

to me you know this was a phone that came out in 2018 and i still love having

this type of you know feature set it's turning four years old probably next

month and it doesn't feel like a

four-year-old phone you know there are some aspects of it like the fingerprint

sensor on the back and stuff but having

that microsd card slot and that combo of

your usb type c port and headphone jack

is one of my favorite things for sure

now on the back we have the standard

glass back which still looks good curved

glass on the front and the back so it

makes this phone feel much thinner than

it really is and this is still a very

good feeling phone as i mentioned before

when you have a device like this it's

still pretty much set for the future and

that's one of my favorite things about

this phone unfortunately software is the

one thing that kind of throws me off but

the hardware of this phone it still

looks good you still have ip

certification you still have wireless

charging and all that stuff so it's

still a pretty decent phone for so many

people out there now in terms of the

camera this thing has that single 12

megapixel wide angle lens on the back

and on the front you kind of have a dual

camera setup there's an 8 megapixel wide

angle lens then you do have a 2

megapixel iris scanner which is not used

for videos i don't think but here's the

thing you can do 1440p videos on the

front and you can do 4k at 60 videos on

the back now in 2018 some other phones

that came out this year were the iphone

10s 10 or 10s max and those phones could

do 4k at 60 on the back just like this

one but it could do 1080p at 60 on the

front so a little bit of an advantage on

those phones but the s9 wasn't too far

behind and having a higher resolution

you can film it on the front is also

really good now the one thing about the

galaxy s9 camera is that the quality is

still pretty good this is not a bad

quality lens and i think that's a really

cool thing when you're getting a phone

like this you know it's not going to be

a horrible performing camera the only

issue i have with this specific ligno

lens is the lack of lenses you don't

have an ultrawide sensor and you don't

have a telephoto lens either and that is

kind of a disadvantage when you get a

phone you may want it to be a little bit

stronger in some areas and in this

specific situation that is pretty much

what i was getting you're not getting

the best camera of all time and when you

have something like you know the samsung

galaxy s10 that came out the year after

this i mean that is definitely giving

you a much better experience than this

device i don't think this is a bad

performing phone or anything like that

but that is a massive thing to keep in

mind i still think you know the camera

can still shoot photos and videos that

look pretty good you still have a lot of

features built into the specific lens as

well which is really you know nice but

do keep in mind that when it comes down

to it you're not really getting the

craziest quality lens compared to

something like the samsung galaxy s10 so

in terms of that that pretty much covers

it up in the camera standpoint now in

terms of the longevity of things this is

the thing that i've kind of hit on

before the problem with the samsung

galaxy s9 is that when it comes down to

the software it's pretty much outdated

it stopped at 1 ui 2 and that's the

problem with this phone you know i would

have loved to see this thing go a little

bit longer in terms of software support

because the galaxy s 10 to get the next

version of software but the bigger thing

to keep in mind with this phone is that

it's really not going to be getting any

more software updates getting software