the Samsung Galaxy a nine is the brand exercising its engineering might this is
the world's first smartphone with quad cameras on the rear this phone comes at
a time when the world was just warming up to triple camera setups so is this
four camera toting Samsung Galaxy a nine any good you know what I'm not gonna
waste any more time and get right down to the review of the phone that I have
been using since the day of launch hi myself Ershad from Mr. Phone let's get down to
my review of the newly launched Samsung Galaxy a nine
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in the description below okay before I move on to the other aspects of the
smartphone I have to say this mad respect to Samsung for actually sticking
to their guns and not going down the knotch route in this day in age of
smartphones with edge to edge screen and a notch
display Samsung has managed to stay courageous and buck the trend every
single time the Samsung Galaxy a 9 as you can see doesn't have a notch either
we here at mr. Ford have been saying hashtag say no to the knotch and I think
Samsung is our ally in this matter the first thing that is striking about the
Galaxy a9 is the new gradient color scheme on a laminate blue color unit
although the variant that really caught my fancy was the bubblegum pink color I
also like the fact that Samsung bundles a neat transparent TPU case inside the
box to show off the color that said if you want something more understated
Samsung has a uniquely named caviar black color option for you as well as
for the construction you get glass in the rear and the front with a metal
railing it is a clean design and inspires confidence in its sturdiness in
fact I inadvertently dropped the phone once and not so much as a scratch
registered on the body the slightly tapered off rear makes the phone sit in
the palm easily but there is no mistaking that it is a massive phone so
one-handed usage is going to be tough also the rear is a fingerprint magnet so
you might have to keep a cloth handy at all times I also like how the cameras
are all stacked up vertically on the rear the square-shaped fingerprint
scanner is also at the right position I found the fingerprint scanner to be
slightly slow compared to the blazing-fast fingerprint scanners or
some other competing smartphones there's also a face unlock option and I found it
to be a hit and miss to the power button and volume rocker are placed on the rear
and in typical Samson fashion are incredibly tactile Samsung has also
added the Bigsby button on the left good measure but there is still no
option to reconfigure to a function of your choice that's a little limiting in
my opinion still the big sleep button is there in case you want to give big speak
a try which in all honesty is pretty decent
for system level commands like switch on Bluetooth and such neither Apple Siri
nor Google's assistant can achieve this level of system-wide integration of
their voice assistance but I have to say this Google assistant is leagues ahead
of any other voice assistant at the moment and bigsby has a lot of catching
up to do there are a couple of things I like more about the Galaxy Alliance
design the clean symmetry at the bottom with the ports and the speaker align
neatly and the fact that the SIM card tray accepts two nano SIM cards and a
separate micro SD card a my two favorite design choices overall the Samsung
Galaxy a nines design is the well thought out premium affair that we've
generally come to expect from Samsung phones the Samsung Galaxy a nine has a
six point three inch full HD Super AMOLED panel that looks great from the
get-go yes the note 9 and the S lines curved screens look slightly better but
the difference is mostly not going to be discernible by the naked eye in fact
this is one of the best smartphone displays in this price range from
watching Netflix to playing games I enjoyed the uninterrupted experience
because there is no not that said I think Samsung could have shaped slightly
more from the bezels to make it even more tempting but this is fine - I'm
just nitpicking here the viewing angles are great
there is very little color shift or no color bleeding either and you can change
the color gamut according to your preference from the settings as well for
the model phone can also get really bright the only feature missing from
this display is the support for HDR considering the oneplus 60 and the LED
seven-plus think you come with it oh and before I forget
Samsung has one of the best always-on this place in the industry and the
galaxy 9 is no different in although I really like the panel on the galaxy a 9
I have no complaints as such the Samsung Galaxy II 9 runs on Samsung experience
9.0 on top of Android 8.0 I would have ideally like to see Android
nine PI but this is what you get let me break down what I like and what I don't
like about the software on the Galaxy a 9 let's start off with the stuff I like
the fact that the UI has been streamed to work seamlessly and smoothly is
create agreed this is not long term usage but I am a heavy user
generally and I haven't managed to tax the phone yet Samsung is also now taking
your consent before installing first party apps like Samsung health and such
this is such a great step forward I like the fact that you can color code your
folders I also think that Smart Switch is one of the better switcher apps out
there you also have the option for running dual messenger apps for a dual
SIM phone this is a great feature there is an easy to invoke one handed mode
that is useful in a phone of this size but I have a question for you guys
how many actually use this feature on your phones to let us know in the
comment section below I really like Samsung's secure folder app that lets
you protect your personally different people I mean I know a lot of people who
want this kind of feature now moving on to the stuff that I don't like I can't
for the life of me understand why Samsung pre-installed Facebook on the
phone and doesn't let you uninstall it also secondly there are still a lot of
duplicate apps for example there is a gallery app add a separate photos app as
well and there are two calendar apps I mean that's a bit excessive the big
Street homepage is still a work in progress I like what Samsung is trying
with big speed but it really needs some concentrated work to be better than
Google assistant which is more than a couple of steps ahead of all the
voice-based assistants out there overall I like the fact that Samsung has
actually taken constructive criticism as feedback and toned down the heavy handed
experience of TouchWiz to something like the experienced UI on the Galaxy nn and
you know the other smartphones that have launched in 2018
shall we finally talk about the four cameras on the Samsung Galaxy a nine I'm
not going over the specs you can check it out from the mister phone app a link
to which should be in a card up top but what he need to know is that apart from
the primary camera you get a wide-angle camera a telephoto camera with 2 X
optical zoom capabilities and the final one for that sensing that's not it
the camera app is also loaded with features here are my favorite ones first
the app has three buttons to switch directly between wide telephoto and
regular modes I find that pretty intuitive really there is a special
scene optimizer mode from the more expensive flagship phones that is pretty
useful in optimizing shots for specific scenes for example the camera can
immediately recognize a landscape scenario and change the settings
accordingly my favorite feature of all is the flaw
detection feature it can immediately tell if someone has blinked or not and
you know a couple of other things as well all this comes in handy so many
times if someone moves in the I noticed in my testing that flaw
detection was not very aggressive but it did work many a times and that's pretty
useful there's also the super slow motion video recording option and I'm
not a fan of that feature honestly coming to the performance of the cameras
I have a detailed camera comparison of the galaxy a9 with the oneplus 60 and
the poco f1 coming soon before that let's quickly take a concise look at my
findings firstly the primary camera takes decent pictures in good lighting
conditions which surprisingly natural colors the saturation levels are not too
high unlike Samsung phones I've used in the past but there is a clear artificial
sharpening being employed by the software the low-light performance of
the rear camera is not too bad either but that is a heavy noise reduction at
play that softens the details the dynamic range by default is average at
best however the HDR mode does an acceptable
job of improving it the telephoto camera takes surprisingly good 2 X optical zoom
shots with a good amount of details to the wide-angle camera is a bit of a
letdown with far fewer details and a fixed focus the galaxy in an can shoot
4k video without AIS and 1080p videos with stabilization but the video quality
is OK at best what impressed me was a stupendously good sound recording
something really has an edge with sound recording is what I have noticed
the selfie camera on the front takes good portraits and serviceable selfies
but once again these are not very detailed overall the camera is perfect
for people who want to post pictures to social media or you know check it out on
the phone over all the cameras on the Samsung Galaxy a nine are filled to the
brim with features aplenty if that's what you're craving for then the galaxy
Aaron is the perfect smartphone for you but if you're craving for more details
and a better sense of performance I think phones like the oneplus 60 and the
LG G 7 plus think you might serve your purpose the Samsung Galaxy II 9 comes
with the Snapdragon 660 system-on-chip and at least 6 GB of RAM with another
variant that comes with 8gb of RAM you also get 128 GB of internal storage in
both the variants with the option to extend the storage further using a micro
SD card so storage and RAM voice you are sorted no complaints there however a lot
of you might be thinking the real me 2 pro or the me a 2 which are much cheaper
comes with a Snapdragon c16 so this is a letdown on the galaxy a 9 well you're
not wrong entirely here's the thing though I have to highlight a certain
fact I ran our regular suit of benchmarks on the samsung galaxy a 9 and
the snapdragon 616 inside this phone gave me the best numbers that have
achieved on a snapdragon 60 doting phone yet for example I got an additive score
of you know one like 40,000 odd which is better than the real me to pros number
of one like 31,000 some say that the real me 2 pro has a light version of the
snapdragon 616 but I don't know how much truth is there in that statement when
moving on I also played a couple of games of pubsey on the galaxy a 9 and
ran game bench as well unfortunately the default settings are capped at mid level
so I couldn't push the smooth setting to ultra which runs a game at 60fps but I
got a constant frame of 30fps which is the maximum that the snapdragon 616 can
achieve with the phone heating up from 34 degree to 40 degree in a 20-minute
session which is normal well that said the galaxy and ein is not going to be a
powerhouse but it works as a workhorse I had no trouble in daily usage as the
performance was a great for that if you're not a sucker for more power and
are ok with playing just you know casual games and I know a lot of folks who like
that the galaxy era and should work well I was on an idol network and noticed
that the phone was Rocksteady with 4G connection and call quality as well also
the phone supports volte on both the Sims which is awesome and
most requested for feature I actually tried this out with two Gio Sims and it
works absolutely fine the Samsung Galaxy a nine is actually a great smartphone
for watching videos and listening to music on the go I tried my one more
triple drivers with the galaxy a nine and the bundled air force as well
the bundled ants are fine but the galaxy a9 could drive my one mores pretty well
I had a fun listening experience from the phone and all the parameters of
sound quality like bass treble soundstage all of that was really good
in fact with support for aptX out of the box the galaxy a9 was a stupendous job
with sound quality with wireless earphones as well
the single download fighting speaker on the other hand sounds a little harsh at
high volume
but I guess with white wine Elwin support for watching video streaming in
HD quality and a good pair of wireless earphones the galaxy a nice big 6.3 inch
display can be considered to offer a great multimedia experience I quite
enjoyed a couple of episodes of chef's table on the phone moving on to the
battery the Samsung Galaxy a nine has a 3800 mAh battery powering its internals
Samsung claims that the phone supports fast charging but it took me 2 hours and
20 minutes to charge this battery from 0 to 100 using the bundled charger I don't
know if that is fast charging though and of course there is no wireless charging
also I got an average screen on time of anywhere between 4 hours and 5 hours
this is good enough for a day's worth of usage for most people it is not great
but it is not bad either you can get a better battery life by turning off the
always-on display that should help so these are our findings after using the
Samsung Galaxy line for a long period of time my initial expectations of the
Samsung Galaxy and being a great camera smartphone were actually thwarted but if
you look past that marketing spiel the Galaxy a9 is a reliable performer and
has great multimedia performance right out of the box as well you come for one
thing and you get completely another in any case it's a good phone that's it if
you're buying a phone online you will get a phone with better performance and
better optics as well you know what let's just compare a few competitors
with the galaxy a 9 let's start off with the 1k 16 the 1 plus 60 is undoubtedly a
great smartphone under the peace 40,000 that offers flagship great performance
in most scenarios having said that the galaxy a 9 offers some tangible benefits
over the oneplus 16 in the form of a better AMOLED panel and you know what as
a matter of fact when I was testing the bullets Wireless with the galaxy a 9 it
sounded way better than it did with the oneplus 60 so there are a couple of
advantages that the galaxy and ion offers over the 1k 60 as well now coming
to the LG G 7 plus thank you the biggest downfall for that smartphone is the
software and the battery life both of which are actually better on the galaxy
a 9 so that's what you need to make a choice do you want a smartphone with
clean software performance and better battery life then the galaxy a9 is the
pick for you the LG G 7 plus thank you on the other hand offers better
performance and better optics and a good multimedia performance as well
now the poco f1 which obviously a lot of people's choice the
poco f1 is definitely a cost-effective performer and it offers a lot of
performance grant having said that the Pope f1 like a lot of you guys know
doesn't support Widevine l1 which means that it is not gonna play HD streaming
videos on the smartphone that is definitely available on the galaxy 9 the
galaxy n n also offers a far better premium build quality and a far better
display as well so you know these are the calls that you need to make before
you buy the galaxy a9 or the poco f1 you know what when I put it all together and
be pragmatic it's all very simple really the galaxy 18 is going to be a great
option for folks looking for a smart phone under a piece 40,000 in the
offline market couple that with the stellar brand value and superb after
sales service the Samsung phone is actually going to sway a lot of opinions
with people who want that kind of thing from a smartphone for everyone else the
one plus 60 is just a click away so that's it from me a shot for mr. phone
that was my full review off the samsung galaxy a 9 what do you think about it do
let us know in the comment section below until next time this is Ershad signing
off adios
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