Display

Not a lot has inverse compared to the Galaxy S8 and S8+ on the display front which is a pretty good affair. The Galaxy S9+ retains the 6.2-inch 2960 ten 1440 Super AMOLED with curved edges and rounded corners, and it appears that the technology that's been used for this display is largely the same every bit what went in to the Galaxy S8 displays.

The Galaxy S8+ ships with the display set to a non-native 2280 x 1080 resolution, so one of the beginning things nosotros did is increase that to its total 2960 ten 1440 for all testing. The full resolution does provide a slight increase in clarity and overall display quality, and there'southward not much point having such a high resolution display on a high-stop phone if you lot're not going to use its native resolution. Nosotros set every phone we examination to the native display resolution where possible for an apples-to-apples comparison, too.

In terms of effulgence, the Galaxy S9+ is capable of the same 574 nits at 100% white as the Galaxy S8+, with first-class viewing angles. This remains the highest 100% white brightness I've seen from an AMOLED brandish, thanks to Samsung'south brightness boost characteristic in strong sunlight. I also measured up to 864 nits at ten% white, which makes the Galaxy S9+ very suitable for HDR content and information technology's no surprise HDR is supported on this handset.

As expected, the Galaxy S9+'south blackness point is 0, so you achieve effectively infinite contrast. The console also has excellent uniformity, which really should exist expected on a small loftier-end display, with a maximum deltaE difference of just 1.5 relative to the center. That'southward essentially dead accurate across the display. My only slight concern are some distortions along the curved edges, and I'grand notwithstanding not sure why Samsung needs to curve the edges as they don't really serve any purpose except distorting the epitome and making the phone more frail.

In terms of accuracy, it won't surprise you that the Galaxy S9+'s display is non accurate under the default settings. Samsung goes difficult with oversaturation and expanding the colour gamut above sRGB, which does look good in some situations, but larger gamuts are not properly supported by the vast majority of Android apps.

The Milky way S9+ is slightly more accurate by default compared to the Galaxy S8+, though when we're talking about deltaE's above 5.0, information technology doesn't make much difference. For most people, the default mode will wait fine as you'll get that vibrant expect, only if you want accuracy, you'll demand to switch to the 'basic' mode in the device settings. The AMOLED Photo and AMOLED Cinema modes withal employ gamuts larger than sRGB and are therefore useless in most situations.

With the basic style enabled, color performance is improved and once again, the Milky way S9+ is slightly more than accurate than the Galaxy S8+. Here the S9+ hovers effectually a deltaE of two.0, which is decent, though not as accurate as the best Pixel 2 modes. The basic fashion on my review unit was also tinted slightly also xanthous with an average deltaE of 6346K.