Samsung Galaxy A9 (2018) hands-on review

13 October 2018
The world's first quad camera smartphone. Kind of has a ring to it, doesn’t it? Depending on how you tally up the snappers, that statement is true and unquestionably so, if you only consider the rear camera setup. Frankly, we can't exactly say we are too surprised. It was more or less a matter of time. But, if we had to place some predictions, our money would have definitely been on a more obscure manufacturer finally polling out the quad camera card, rather than Samsung.

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Gun, 15 Oct 2018Not interesting at all, the 4 cameras do nothing to increas... moreCheck out the Huawei Mate 20 Pro, that seems to have a camera like you want.

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    Anonymous, 15 Oct 2018There is no such thing as a Lumia 1080.my bad, it's the 1020 (:

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      • 15 Oct 2018

      Only 4 cameras? Come on Sammy you could do better. It's a long way till 16.
      Another overpriced low to medium junk.

        Anonymous, 14 Oct 2018I thought snapdragon 660 did Quickcharge 3 and even 4 ? ... moreIt's because their Adaptive Fast Charging is mostly based on Quick Charge 2.0, and I'm quite sad that they haven't been bothered trying to improve that for all these years (it debuted with the S5, and it hasn't been touched since then).

        Anyway, Quick Charge is quite dangerous since it focuses on increasing voltage, which leads to more heat being produced.

          O S, 15 Oct 2018SD660 uses Spectra 160 ISP (Up to 24 MP camera / 16 MP dual... moreOh okay, thanks for the clarification.

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            • 15 Oct 2018

            JMTM, 14 Oct 2018Samsung is gonna put 5 rear cameras on the new S10 next yea... moreYes, the problem and i already saw that is the Snapdragon 660 has no capabilities for so many cameras, probably and almost certain that the S10 with Snapdragon 8150 and the Exynos 9820 has these capabilities but with quality cameras. They even can put 5 rear cameras without problems in the future S10.

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              • 15 Oct 2018

              Anonymous, 15 Oct 2018What a fugly phone. Samsung is still trying to be relevant. Samsung is always relevant and will be for many years.

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                • 15 Oct 2018

                Gun, 15 Oct 2018Not interesting at all, the 4 cameras do nothing to increas... moreThere is no such thing as a Lumia 1080.

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                  • 15 Oct 2018

                  Its really interesting

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                    • 15 Oct 2018

                    Not interesting at all, the 4 cameras do nothing to increase the picture quality. What I need is one big camera on the back like the lumia 1080 but with improved technology.

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                      • 15 Oct 2018

                      What a fugly phone. Samsung is still trying to be relevant.

                        Last but not least, you use too much last but not least. Last but not least, tee hee hee.

                          It's a shame they removed the Ip68 water proofing which previous A series phones had.

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                            Shanti Dope, 14 Oct 2018What impresses me is how the SD660 could handle not only 3,... moreSD660 uses Spectra 160 ISP (Up to 24 MP camera / 16 MP dual); that is the ISP can support two concurrent data stream up to 16 MP camera.
                            The A9 can only use two at a time out of the four cameras, nothing more.

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                              • 14 Oct 2018

                              tbh this phone can kill any of its same range device,
                              but as you know Samsung
                              you are not also paying for the device itself,
                              you also need to pay their brands name
                              just sayin
                              I don't hate Samsung I love their mid to high end flagship
                              I just cant take the fact that I can buy closed if not more than specs
                              from the other brand with the range device from Samsung due to its gap of price

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                                • 14 Oct 2018

                                Sorry but the back of this is awful looks hideous

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                                  • 14 Oct 2018

                                  I thought snapdragon 660 did Quickcharge 3 and even 4 ?

                                  Then how come they only support Quickgarge 2 ? Is that because they wil put some exynoss chips in these phones from time to time ? (Not always the snapdragon 660)

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                                    • 14 Oct 2018


                                    I like the dedicated simslot + dual sim. Interesting phone with lots of features.
                                    Got some questions though :

                                    -Does this phone have a bright notification LED that can do multiple colors on the front side ?
                                    -Have they fixed bluetooth rSAP to work with their dual SIM phones ?

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                                      Shanti Dope, 14 Oct 2018What impresses me is how the SD660 could handle not only 3,... moreThose cameras were not working like Huawei implementation, those were created for decorations only because the SoC is not capable of such thing. In other words a marketing gimmick.

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                                        • 14 Oct 2018

                                        Shanti Dope, 14 Oct 2018What impresses me is how the SD660 could handle not only 3,... morePoint is simple. in this case also only two camera works either normal+depth effect or single telephoto or single wide angle