Galaxy A9 with quad rear camera, 8GB RAM, gradient colors now official

Last updated: October 11th, 2018 at 16:22 UTC+01:00

It's here, folks. Samsung only recently launched its first phone with three rear cameras, and it'due south now taking things up a notch with the Galaxy A9 and its quad-photographic camera setup. The Galaxy A9 (2018) is the first not-flagship Samsung phone with a dedicated telephoto photographic camera lens for 2x optical zoom. It likewise gets an ultra-wide sensor (120-degree field of view, 8MP, F2.4) like the A7, a 5MP depth sensor for Alive Focus bokeh pictures, and a 24-megapixel F1.7 primary camera. All 4 rear cameras are arranged vertically at the dorsum, accompanied by a fingerprint sensor in the heart.

Galaxy A9 features include 4 rear cameras, Snapdragon 660, 8GB of RAM, and more

The Milky way A9 is also packed with enough of other impressive features. It'south the get-go mid-range Milky way telephone to come up in a variant with 8GB of RAM; the base model gets 6GB of RAM (both 8GB and 6GB models have 128GB internal storage). There's an octa-core Snapdragon 660 under the hood, and powering all that hardware is a prissy large 3,800 mAh battery. The front camera on the Galaxy A9 is a 24-megapixel F2.0 sensor, and the rear camera has a dedicated Scene Optimizer manner and Flaw Detection similar the Galaxy Note ix.

The new A9 gets a six.three-inch Super AMOLED Full Hard disk drive+ (2220×1080) display and has the same drinking glass-heavy design every bit Samsung flagships. Samsung has introduced some new colour options, or at least new names for existing colors. The Galaxy A9 color options include Caviar Black, Lemonade Blue and Bubblegum Pink. These colors have a gradient look – for example, the bluish version is more like greenish at the height and a dark blue at the bottom, making for a striking design.

On the software front, the Galaxy A9 comes with Android 8.0 Oreo out of the box and features like App Pair. It'south all the same another mid-range Samsung telephone to come up with Bixby Voice support and a dedicated Bixby button. Samsung Pay back up is present as well, although it looks similar Samsung has once again omitted an MST flake. That ways Samsung Pay volition but work over NFC, making it rather useless in many countries. The A9 isn't water resistant, either.

Galaxy A9 (2018) goes on sale in Nov

The Galaxy A9 will get on auction in November in select markets. Pricing details will vary by country, but the price for the base model in Europe volition be set at €599 (with possibly €50 more than for the 8GB/128GB configuration). More than data on price and release dates will come out in the coming weeks.

What do you think of the new Milky way A9?

Update: The article earlier said that the A9 is powered by the Snapdragon 710, which is not the case. Information technology has a Snapdragon 660, and nosotros have updated the article to reverberate that.