Samsung Galaxy S9 is the Android you want
The Samsung Galaxy S9 is an excellent device. It’s the apex of Android expression with a gorgeous, polished design, fantastic performance and a few cutting-edge features that edge it into the extraordinary.
In the tick-tock cadence of smartphone designs and releases, the 5.8-inch S9 (and the 6.2-inch S9+, which I did not test) is clearly a tock. Instead of a redesign, Samsung delivered a polish of the laudable Samsung Galaxy S8, while fixing their most egregious error: the placement of the fingerprint sensor.
In what is quickly becoming Samsung’s signature design, the Galaxy S9 ($719.99 unlocked) looks like it’s poured, not built. There’s edge-to-edge Gorilla Glass wrapping both the front and back of the 147.7 mm x 68.7 mm x 8.5 mm device. It feels like it’s all glass because the Infinity display and the back curve gently toward each other, leaving just a thin spine of black metal separating them.
Like Apple’s iPhone X, the phone I most closely compared the S9 to, there are few physical buttons on the smartphone and they’re all on the edge. The face is button free, with the perfect glass expanse broken only for an earphone speaker slot near the top. The…
