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Samsung's flagship Galaxy Note and Galaxy S series phones get most of the attending, simply in many parts of the world, it'southward the A-serial phones that people choose to purchase. These phones cost a little less only still offer many of the same features as the high-end versions. In this case, the new Galaxy A9 is a petty alee of the curve. As anybody seems expressionless-set on increasing the number of cameras sensors on phones, Samsung has leapfrogged the competition past putting four cameras on the dorsum of the A9.

Looking at the spec sheet, this phone takes a step down compared with the electric current Galaxy Southward phones, simply it's non using the bargain-basement entry-level hardware, either. The A9 runs on a Snapdragon 660, which is an octa-core ARM chip with four high-performance cores and iv efficiency cores. The CPUs are a generation older and clocked slower than the Snapdragon 845's CPUs. You besides get a slower GPU and retention. Speaking of memory, this telephone does nevertheless sport 6GB of information technology, and there's 128GB of storage.

The A9 also has a Samsung OLED panel measuring 6.3-inches. That's only a 10th of an inch smaller than the Note ix, but the resolution isn't as high at 2220 x 1080. It's an eighteen.five:nine panel, so it takes up almost all the bachelor space on the front of the telephone. There's a single selfie camera on the front of the phone, too.

What you actually want to hear near is that quad-camera array. Well, three of them provide specific usage modes in the photographic camera, and the fourth is an ancillary sensor. At that place's a 24MP standard camera, an 8MP wide-bending camera, and a 10MP telephoto photographic camera with 2x zoom. You can switch between all three of those in the photographic camera app. The last ane is a 5MP depth-sensing camera that helps apply bokeh furnishings to portrait style 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 appear the telephone, I would accept causeless this was a bad Photoshop. Information technology'due south the aforementioned location Apple and Huawei employ for their cameras, and the multicolor finish in Samsung's press renders looks like to Huawei's P-series phones.

Samsung volition start selling this phone in select markets in the coming weeks. The launch price is £549, which works out to $726. The Galaxy Southward phones sell for £150-250 more than in Europe correct at present.

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