Samsung Galaxy S9: Best & Worst Features

Antonio Villas-Boas: I've been using the Samsung Galaxy S9 for about a week now and here's what I think.

[The Samsung Galaxy S9: The Best And Worst Features]

I'm gonna start off with one of the best things that Samsung does and that's the screen on the Galaxy S9. Really nice, big, bright screen with really good contrast. And the lights and the darks are really just inky blacks. Colors really pop. Brighter parts really pop out against the black backgrounds. But the screens on the Galaxy S phones just tend to be really, really good all the time.

So another thing I love about this phone is just how good the camera is in low light situations. That largely has to do with Samsung's decision to go with this F 1.5 aperture. So that's a really, really wide aperture that lets in a lot of light so that it lets a lot of light hit the sensor. And basically, the more light hits the sensor the better picture it is.

The fingerprint sensor has been redesigned so that it's underneath the camera, not next to it like on the S8. This makes a lot more sense to have the fingerprint sensor underneath the camera. So really, big improvement there on how to unlock the phone.

Another difference between the Galaxy S8 and the Galaxy S9 is stereo speakers. It's not like, it won't replace your bluetooth speakers or other speakers, for music especially. But I'd say this is probably the best sounding smartphone there is right now.

Samsung did a good little trick here where they combined facial recognition with the iris recognition into something they call intelligent scan and when you pull up the phone and you press the little unlock button, the setup decides which system to use best, and maybe both at the same time and it works pretty quickly. I turn it on and it just snaps open and the phone unlocks and it's pretty quick. But it's still, the fingerprint sensor, is still like the fastest way to unlock this phone. But either way, whatever you choose, you'll be fine.

Don't forget, the Galaxy S