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GSMArena team, 03 January 2019

Samsung Galaxy A9 (2018) review Comments

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  • Nick Tagataka
  • gRx
  • 04 Jan 2019

I miss the old days where Samsung's A lineup was actually decent, cheaper alternative of S series. Does anyone remember the original Galaxy A8? It was such an amazing midrange smartphone, in some countries it had the same chipset as Note 4! Now in 2019 they're trying to sell us underpowered crap for flagship price..

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    • AnonGuy
    • Dkp
    • 04 Jan 2019

    I just used my friend's A9, saw none of that purplish tinge. True, the photos were not up to the mark anyway, but atleast colours were normal. Maybe GSMA got a faulty version?

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      • Curtisjr1
      • NwI
      • 04 Jan 2019

      Let huawei teach dem

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        • Anonymous
        • 0BG
        • 04 Jan 2019

        Anonymous, 04 Jan 2019Pros -Excellent display all around. (Super AMOLED) -Very good battery life. -Powerful chips... moreLOL WTF are you smoking? The battery is extremely mediocre and dual sim can be found in anything other than iPhones. All the "Pros" are meaningless compared to the competition in this price range, INCLUDING older Samsung models.

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          • Nick Tagataka
          • gRx
          • 04 Jan 2019

          Anonymous, 04 Jan 2019Pros -Excellent display all around. (Super AMOLED) -Very good battery life. -Powerful chips... moreThose pros don't really matter anyway if high end phones from Samsung/other companies are priced similarly to and do everything better than this. A9 is simply way too overpriced for what it's capable of, end of discussion.

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            • Anonymous
            • PGq
            • 04 Jan 2019

            Pros
            -Excellent display all around. (Super AMOLED)
            -Very good battery life.
            -Powerful chipset, a ton of RAM, boatloads of storage and a dedicated microSD slot - it's hard to beat the A9 when it comes to the essentials. Looking at you, Galaxy A8s WITHOUT the 3.5mm jack as STANDARD!!
            -3.5mm jack as STANDARD
            -DualSIM
            -FM Radio
            -DEDICATED microsSD slot as STANDARD
            -Rear mounted FPS

            Okay, done :D

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              • Shahzaib
              • KIw
              • 04 Jan 2019

              Why not Huawei Honor Play is in the competitors in the reviewby GSMArena?

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                • AnonD-731363
                • SH3
                • 04 Jan 2019

                Compared to Huawei its sports 4 very weal cameras with really bad performance and a very high price and low battery.
                Well from company like Samsung we cant expect anything better.

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                  • cruizer
                  • M7Y
                  • 04 Jan 2019

                  wow that's disappointingly awful output (purplish!) for a phone with four camera lenses. I wonder if it's a defect of the review unit you have? did you try getting it replaced by Samsung with another unit?

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                    • jamesschwarz987
                    • Kxc
                    • 04 Jan 2019

                    Guess what, they uses a small 1/2.8" sensor on its primary camera.
                    Take a look
                    https://www.samsung.com/global/galaxy/galaxy-a9/specs/

                    Well, other than the past Samsung Pixon series, i never knew Samsung for its camera quality, their camera (even on their flagship) are always bland, unimpressive with tiny sensor size, like iPhone.

                    I need that 1/1.22" Pixon M8800 comeback.

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                      • jamesschwarz987
                      • Kxc
                      • 04 Jan 2019

                      That purple tint-ish color kinda reminds me of Google Camera with HDR+, except that this is the hypertinted version of it.

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                        • jamesschwarz987
                        • Kxc
                        • 04 Jan 2019

                        DroidBoye, 04 Jan 2019Finally, Samsung has caught up with the midrange SoC (SD660) but what's with the price though?... moreWell, it's Samsung, you know?
                        Other than their flagship, their mid until low end are always overpriced and bad specced (for that price range).

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                          • DroidBoye
                          • vaQ
                          • 04 Jan 2019

                          Finally, Samsung has caught up with the midrange SoC (SD660) but what's with the price though? What year is it again? Lol.

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                            • Shui8
                            • KZ8
                            • 04 Jan 2019

                            Anonymous, 04 Jan 2019WOW, another overpriced POS which is basically mediocre at everything. Battery, audio, even ca... moreEven at 300 eur, Poco F1 & Honor Play dominating that price segment lol...

                            Poco F1 = 300 eur
                            Honor Play = 265 eur

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                              • Anonymous
                              • 0BG
                              • 04 Jan 2019

                              WOW, another overpriced POS which is basically mediocre at everything. Battery, audio, even camera. Good for 300 euro at most.

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                                • Hello
                                • N1F
                                • 04 Jan 2019

                                MsZero, 03 Jan 2019I'd never thought I would see such horrible quality photos from a camera phone in 2018, specia... moreGo for samsung galaxy A9 camera test on youtube i will see the truth

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                                  • Shui8
                                  • KZ8
                                  • 04 Jan 2019

                                  For that price u can buy vanilla Mate 20, a huge gap in everything that this A9 can offer.

                                  What a disaster mid range phone from Samsung.

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                                    • Plotter
                                    • PuL
                                    • 04 Jan 2019

                                    I guessed correctly. I wanted to read this review and read the same as I thought. This phone is overpriced even in the Samsung line-up. And the number 9, in the name of this phone, doesn’t affect positively in features, because this one lost one, important at this price point, and is WATERPROOFING. The A8’s ( the normal ones, 2018) actually have IP68, like it supposed to have. I mean, one of the important things that separates the Samsung midrange between the others, was the IP rating. I didn’t expect it to be in the A7, 7

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                                      • Jason Melling
                                      • RLq
                                      • 03 Jan 2019

                                      More of the same from Same-song.

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                                        • TC
                                        • pM5
                                        • 03 Jan 2019

                                        my 30€ Blackwiev made comparable fotos in daylight

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