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Samsung'south flagship Galaxy Note and Galaxy S series phones get most of the attention, but in many parts of the world, it's the A-series phones that people choose to buy. These phones toll a petty less but still offer many of the same features every bit the high-cease versions. In this case, the new Galaxy A9 is a little ahead of the bend. As everyone seems expressionless-set on increasing the number of cameras sensors on phones, Samsung has leapfrogged the contest by putting four cameras on the dorsum of the A9.

Looking at the spec canvas, this phone takes a step down compared with the electric current Galaxy Due south phones, but information technology's not using the bargain-basement entry-level hardware, either. The A9 runs on a Snapdragon 660, which is an octa-core ARM chip with 4 high-operation cores and four efficiency cores. The CPUs are a generation older and clocked slower than the Snapdragon 845'southward CPUs. Y'all also get a slower GPU and retentivity. Speaking of memory, this phone does still sport 6GB of it, and in that location'south 128GB of storage.

The A9 too has a Samsung OLED console measuring half-dozen.3-inches. That's only a tenth of an inch smaller than the Annotation 9, but the resolution isn't as high at 2220 10 1080. It'due south an 18.5:9 panel, and then it takes upwardly almost all the available infinite on the front end of the phone. At that place's a unmarried selfie camera on the front of the telephone, too.

What yous really want to hear about is that quad-photographic camera array. Well, three of them provide specific usage modes in the photographic camera, and the fourth is an ancillary sensor. There's a 24MP standard camera, an 8MP broad-angle photographic camera, and a 10MP telephoto photographic camera with 2x zoom. Yous tin switch between all three of those in the camera app. The concluding one is a 5MP depth-sensing photographic camera that helps use bokeh effects to portrait manner photos (Samsung calls it Live Focus).

All the photos are arrayed along the left border of the rear panel — honestly, it looks weird. If Samsung hadn't actually announced the telephone, I would have assumed this was a bad Photoshop. Information technology's the aforementioned location Apple and Huawei apply for their cameras, and the multicolor finish in Samsung's press renders looks similar to Huawei's P-serial phones.

Samsung volition offset selling this telephone in select markets in the coming weeks. The launch price is £549, which works out to $726. The Galaxy S phones sell for £150-250 more in Europe correct now.

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