We’re setting our foot into an era where smartphones are getting more and more capable in terms of photography. While a dual camera setup is what we get to see on most smartphones these days, companies like Huawei and Samsung have been stretching their wings out further and have launched smartphones with triple cameras.
Samsung Galaxy A9 Specifications
Here’s a look at the specifications that the new Galaxy smartphone features:
Samsung Galaxy A9 First Impressions
Design and Display
From the front, the Galaxy A9 looks like any other Samsung smartphone with a boxy design that appears to be a hybrid between the Galaxy S9+ and the Note 9. For once, we get striking bright colors instead of just black or grey.
On the front is a 6.3-inch Full HD+ “Infinity” Super AMOLED display. As expected from any display panel from Samsung, this is well-lit, bright, and highly saturated. The display has a wide range in terms of brightness and text is usually crisp.
The cameras on the Samsung Galaxy A9 are undoubtedly the highlight. Breaking it down for you, the quad camera setup consists of – from top to bottom – an 8-megapixel wide-angle lens, a 10-megapixel telephoto lens with 2X zoom, the 24-megapixel primary sensor, and lastly a 5-megapixel depth sensor.
Here’s a telephoto shot with standard and 2X optical zoom.
The Galaxy A9 also does fairly well when clicking selfies but I would not call it as impressive as the rear camera. The 24-megapixel front camera is also capable of wide-angle selfies but instead of using a dedicated sensor, the A9 lets you take panoramas using the selfie camera.
Here are a handful of selfies that we took:
Hardware
In terms of the internal components, the Galaxy A9 does not seem spectacular or surprising in any sense. For a price at which Snapdragon 845 is a possibility, Samsung has gone with the less-powerful Snapdragon 660.
Software
In terms of software, the Samsung Galaxy A9 gets Android Oreo 8.0 with Samsung Experience 9.0. This interface is what we see on every other Samsung smartphone and seems to be a midway between stock Android and a heavy custom ROM such as MIUI or EMUI.
While the four cameras on the back obviously generate a lot of curiosity, we’re not sure if the mid-segment processor and the ordinary design adds to that appeal.
