 Hey guys, what's going on? Welcome to our trending reviews. So I have here today the S9 Plus Now I'm going to be going through some of the features around the camera But just to give you a quick update on the S9 Plus. It's not exactly a redesign from the Samsung S8 It's more of a refinement Now a couple of things to note around the design changes The fingerprint scanner is now at the back in the middle It used to be right next to the lenses on the top left hand corner I think around the size, I've noticed that it's a little bit more of a matte finish Rather than a metallic finish. If you compare the S8 to the S9, it's probably going to be around Almost identical. In terms of the specs the RAM is increased a little bit. There's not a huge amount of changes in this S9 Plus However Samsung did come out with a various set of colors that this phone can come in One of them is coral blue. One of them is a lilac purple and it'll also be selling a metallic silver But I went ahead and went just got the black one because I think the black looks a little bit nicer But one thing to note, they still have that glass finish at the back Now one thing to note is that once you get the phone straight out of the box It immediately gets fingerprints all over it. So it's not something that You'd continue using without any case or a D brand skin or so on. Now it still has a headphone jack For me personally, I think that's quite useful I don't like to carry around the dongle that you get with most phones as an adapter I've always had wired headphones. I do have some wireless headphones as well But I think it's not a major problem for phone companies to leave headphone jacks in there It allows me to also charge my phone and to listen to music at the same time when I'm at work Maybe the phone is on the desk or so. One other thing worth mentioning is that the phone now has Dolby Now I know Samsung audio has generally been quite good But having the Dolby surround sound inbuilt into the speakers I think is a really good step for Samsung when you're listening to the audio You could even feel the vibrations when watching the shows or movies on your phone Which I think is pretty awesome so that you can get that cinematic feeling towards Watching stuff on your phone, which a lot of people sometimes though tend to do They're probably watching their laptops and so on now today I'm going to be focusing more on the S9 plus camera now Samsung have gone all out They've got this dual camera on S9 plus which can automatically adjust the wide lens aperture to get a really focus And they've developed a camera lens that can automatically adjust the wide lens aperture to a really focused in aperture within an instant Now if you know anything about photography, you know, that's pretty revolutionary Especially on a smartphone the camera once you put it into pro mode You can switch between f 1.5 and f 2.4 with the lens at the back Visibly switching between those two different modes now What that means in layman terms is is that f 1.5 it will let in a lot more light So that allows you to take better pictures in in low lighting or even in dark as well And at f 2.4 it narrows in and focuses on objects allowing you to capture sharper details at close range So let's go ahead and take a look at that now Okay, so the good thing I like about the camera now is that it has more of a swipe feature to go through all of the Different modes within the camera So all you have to do is just swipe left and right and you'll see the different options come up there at the top So this is a live focus mode. It allows you to blur the background and take depth effects photos whilst looking at it exactly how it will look like before you take the photo You can even adjust the background blur And see how that looks before you take the picture If you go into pro mode This is where you can see the different options for changing the aperture the light in the wide angles and so on So there's an option here. So you press the aperture button. It brings up the f 1.5 there You select that it changes it to 2.4. You keep tapping it. It will change backwards and forwards now If you look at the back My switch in between f 1.5 and f 2.4 you can see the lens actually closing in and opening up Depending on which aperture you've selected now This is the first time this has ever been done on a smartphone and I think Samson have done a really good job here Now let's talk about the super slow mo recording here So this is the first time ever to video record at a huge 960 frames per second But just note that this is only done at 720p and in most lighting situations You'll find that it's a little bit grainy Sometimes if you do it in low lighting situations, it'll be so grainy that it's sometimes hard to watch But it continues to do 240 frames per second at 1080p as well So let's go ahead and give an example of this slow mo recording So there's two options here. You can record either in manual or auto modes In manual you'll have to set record at the exact same time that you see The action happening and it has to happen within that square box that it's giving you Now you can move the square box around depending on where you're going to record the slow motion Or you can set it to auto mode here on the bottom left so that it automatically picks up Fast motion that happens within that square box and it will set the recording to happen automatically Now just note that the recording is about 0.2 seconds So it has to be really fast and it plays it over about six seconds as well So let's go ahead and see what that looks like So just playing back footage, you can actually see it's not too bad It is a little blurry, but it also depends on the lighting as well So if I did this outdoors, I reckon it would be a little more sharper If I had the lighting indoors on me, it would probably be a little more sharper as well But a really good job and I think that a 960 frames per second is a real one for Samsung And then you have the AR emoji feature So you swipe down to AR emoji So this is Samsung's answer to Apple's an emoji This does seem a little bit like a gimmick at the moment But for those people who have a bit emoji on Snapchat, for example They may play around with this a little more than those that don't But nonetheless, it seems like it's something cool that you'll probably just end up playing for around Maybe the first week or so and then probably never go back to it But nonetheless, let's have a look you can create your own emoji It brings up a selfie camera. So if you just take a picture You select ma'am It starts to generate The emoji Let's see how close it is This Probably looks nothing like me, but Probably done Not too far off job It saves the stickers in your gallery as well if you want it to So what this allows you to do is if you want to send a message You go into messages You have the option to select your AR emoji There's various different options here Let's go and select that one And it just does a little animation for you there Now finally, Samsung got rid of the selective focus mode and replaced it with this live focus mode There's also a selfie focus mode for those who want to get a portrait picture from the front-facing camera Which I think is still far behind the portrait modes that you find on iPhone X and Google Pixel 2 So Samsung really have to update game in the portrait photography market, which to me is a little bit disappointing But let's go ahead and look at the live focus mode and see what it looks like You have to move a little bit further away from the subject like it mentions this So let me go ahead and move this a little bit further back So now it will tell you that it's ready with the yellow button there So you can go ahead And blow as much as you want less as you want So let's go ahead and take that picture Let's go less blur Now just taking a look at the pictures now You're able to choose between wide angle and close up as well It basically saves both options when you take a live focus picture so that you can choose between Both of them, whichever came out better So I think if you look closely, it's done a pretty good job blurring the background here On the little baby brute. I still think the Google Pixel 2 XL Portrait mode is a little bit better a little bit sharper It's able to capture the background a little bit nicer than this one But it's a nice attempt from Samsung I think I will continue to use this and explore this a little bit more So make sure to subscribe I'm going to do a photography test with my Google Pixel 2 against the camera on the S9 Plus And give you comparisons with portrait modes and other variants modes as well So just keep an eye out for that Overall, I think the camera is definitely a step in the right direction So far it seems to be the best camera on the market today There's probably a little bit of a debate between the camera on the S9 Plus and the Google Pixel XL Am I convinced enough to switch from my Google Pixel 2 XL back to the Samsung S9 Plus? Probably not just yet But I'll be keeping an eye out on the Samsung software updates to see if they do improve the camera Especially to utilize the S9 Plus lenses, which I'm kind of looking forward to So definitely watch this space All right guys, thanks for watching the video I hope you like the camera review on the S9 Plus If you have any questions, let me know what you think in the comments below As usual, make sure you subscribe I've got a lot more features and reviews coming up for the S9 And I'll catch you guys next time Take care