Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus Review

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Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus Review

( A big phone for Samsung's big February 25 launch event)

Update: The Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus will likely have a 3,500mAh battery, just like the S8 Plus, but its iris scanner is likely to be improved.
New Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus release date details have leaked and we can now confirm the official launch date: Sunday, February 25, according to Samsung.
February 25 is when the Samsung Unpacked 2018 launch event takes place in Barcelona at MWC 2018. We'll see the standard Samsung Galaxy S9 there, too.
How will the Galaxy S9 Plus be better than the normal S9? It'll have a bigger screen, more battery life and may include a new dual-lens camera, if you are to believe the newest leaks.
With a better-positioned fingerprint sensor and several new camera tricks in the pipeline, there's reason to get excited about the Galaxy S9 Plus launch. Let's go over the biggest rumors ahead of the launch event.

Hottest leaks:

• February 25 is the confirmed launch event
• The Galaxy S9 is also set to launch on this date

Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus launch date is February 25, according to an official invite sent to us by the company. That means Samsung Unpacked 2018 is happening one day ahead of MWC 2018.
The invite doesn't shy away from the fact that this is where we'll see the next-generation version of Samsung's flagship phone. There's a giant '9' on the front and it touts the camera as the big feature update.
The timing isn't a big surprise if you've been following along. Samsung's president of mobile DJ Koh previously confirmed the Galaxy S9 launch for a tradeshow in February. There's no bigger stage for phones than MWC.
But what about the Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus price? Expect it to be on the plus side, too. Last year's phone launched at $850/£780/AU$1,350. We’d expect the Galaxy S9 Plus will have a similar or higher price given its refinements.
TechRadar's take: The S9 launch is set for February 25, and we expect the Galaxy S9 Plus to be there, too. But we don't know about the price yet outside of last year's $850/£780/AU$1,350 price.

Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus screen

Hottest leaks:

• A fingerprint and water resistant coating
• An in-screen fingerprint scanner

We have no doubt that the Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus will have a big, curved Super AMOLED screen. We don’t know exactly what size yet, but it’s likely to stay around the same size as the 6.2-inch Samsung Galaxy S 8 plus
It may well stick with the same 1,440 x 2,960 resolution too, and will probably have the same 18.5:9 aspect ratio, given Samsung needs time for that new screen shape to bed into the apps market. We've also heard that exact ratio Rumored
And although we haven't seen any shots of the screen on the S9 Plus yet, we have seen renders (below) apparently showing the standard Galaxy S9, which will likely have a similar but smaller display.

Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus design

Hottest leaks:

• Smaller bezels than on the S8 Plus
• A notch at the bottom housing the fingerprint scanner

The closest look we've had at the Galaxy S9 Plus is perhaps a render showing it alongside the standard Galaxy S9.
You can only see the front, but it looks a lot like the Galaxy S8 Plus, complete with the same button layout, but perhaps with slightly smaller bezels.

 

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