Galaxy S9+ 64GB, Lilac Purple

After doing about a month of research for what I want a phone to do and how much battery life and other features inside a phone it beats all the other phones I've had out of the water. Granted I've only have phones 2013 or older this is like a night and day difference for my experience with phones. Pros - Sound quality out of the speakers is phenomal with highs not being too tiny and the bass not being too overbearing. - Picture quality set to the max QWHD+ is a glorious thing - Camera us stronger than a Canon G7X that i recently purchased only downside being the zoom function makes it rather quick to get blurry. - Beautiful slo-mo option for video capture - Selfie camera is amazing as well with the filter options to clear up a face and also has a wide selfie option for large groups of people - Video recording is phenomenal with tracking and motion capturing - Lightning fast loads on apps and web pages when my connection is strong. - Fingerprint open on the back of phone conveniently placed - Iris Scanning - Plenty of battery life for a full days use of gps tracking and music playing - Samsung Pay option for paying for items without needing to pull out a card Cons - Camera zoom function isn't doing much good for picture quality but I understand it is in a small handheld device - Price tag as always with flagship phones are rather high but paying it out right for me and flipping the phone for newer flag ships in the future doesn't make it all that expensive of a purchase when I go with a resale value in a couple years. All in all I do enjoy this phone and for me I found it this phone to be completely worth it as just through the experience I've had with the pictures and battery life alone. It has yet to have any hiccups while using the phone and always does what I need it to do. Only con that I have against it would be the price otherwise the phone is a complete stellar buy.

Note that this review is of how the product arrived and first day thoughts, it's not in-depth of the phone long-term. Contrary to what a few other customers seemed to have experienced in some reviews, my phone came completely brand new and not tampered with at all. Everything worked fine from launch and all I had to do was transfer my SIM and SD cards over (I use Verizon, the SIM works just fine, no need to contact them.) There's nothing I can see regarding damage or issues with the phone related to how it was sent or what could have happened beforehand. I bought this phone unlocked and new in order to avoid the Verizon bloatware I never used but couldn't manage to get rid of. It was also nice to avoid the hidden fees attached to new phones bought through providers. My initial thoughts are: it's fantastic. The picture quality is stunning, especially coming from a Droid Turbo II (which was a nice phone for what it was, but the screen is so lackluster in comparison.) The camera is beautiful and I could easily say justifies the pricepoint for those looking at the market for photography in comparison to other phones I've seen and I haven't even touched many of the features. The speakers are surprisingly clear and sound great. I've noticed a trend with many smartphones from day one to just have... awful speakers for some reason. Maybe manufacturers assume you're using peripherals and Bluetooth at all times. Regardless, this phone covers that base better than most others. The slim and tall design feels much better in my hand than I was expecting it to, coming from a smaller phone. I love the shortcuts on this Android version and just how the entire Galaxy line operates in general. Samsung has always made stellar leaps in convenience mixed with modernization and the S9+ is no different. As far as Bixby goes: I don't use voice commands on phones, whether it be Bixby, Google Assistant, etc., period. I just avoid the Bixby button (my one caveat with this phone is part of the hardware being designed exclusively for Bixby) so it doesn't apply. I will update this later regarding other things like battery life, communication features, and anything else I can think of after using it for an extended period of time.

For a renewed/refurbished phone, I am VERY pleased with it. This is the first time I decided to get a brand name expensive phone. I personally find phone prices to be OUTRAGEOUS at $1200 for a brand new model. So this is also the first time I bought renewed, which I was a bit leery over. I was very careful about choosing a seller that has a lot of high ratings for the phone I chose, because I know some sellers aren't very ethical. I'm happy with my first renewed purchase! I'll definitely consider it again so that I can get higher-quality electronics at cheaper prices. I loved my cheaper Samsung models from my carrier before, so I decided to stick with Samsung and just get an unlocked higher-end model since my previous phones weren't charging after a year of use. This phone has plenty of storage, the screen is a great size, it's much faster than my previous phone, it works with AT&T as advertised, and I'm in love with it, partly because it's purple! I definitely love my Samsungs! For a renewed product, this phone is in EXCELLENT shape. The camera is really good. The fingerprint scanner works great. The sound quality is great. There is only a slight smudge of the case on the back of the phone and no other marks. No scratches on the screen. Everything works perfectly! It arrived on time and very quickly despite the global pandemic, which I'm SUPER happy about since my previous phone wasn't wanting to hold the charger in the port anymore so I needed a new phone ASAP. While this one isn't a 5G model, which I might have chosen if they weren't so expensive renewed, I am beyond happy with my purchase. Plus it's purple! I recommend this model of phone, which is MUCH better than my previous phone, AND I recommend the seller as well!

I bought this phone brand new from amazon... it was very clearly used. The phone had been set to spanish (us) and already had a folder labeled "Applicacions de Microsoft" on it and the message app spelling dictionary only had the option for spanish (us). Cant trust anyone these days. On the bright side they included a phone case for free lol! Thanks who ever sent me this phone I appreciate that. It is a SM-G9650 (Snapdragon 845) cpu but because of that its region is set for china ... not the USA. So mine didn't come with the ability to do some stuff (wifi calling for example) that you would expect from a new phone. The phone itself is awesome. I have large hands and its just a little too big to use with one hand for me which is its only drawback. Most normal people would use it with 2 hands but I have to be different. The picture quality is great even when capturing action shots (tried to sneak a pic of my girlfriend but she moved and I made an ugly face for half a second... the picture is so clear its like we planned for her to do that face for the picture). It works with the Samsung Qi Certified Fast Charge Wireless Charging Convertible Stand/Pad and does fast charge on it. Coming from an iPhone 4 this thing is night and day difference but I bet you could say that about any new phone. When I open apps they open immediately. Browsing the web and watching youtube videos is smooth and uninterrupted... On my old iPhone the youtube app would lock up after an hour or so of use. Plus I can download apps again LOL! My old phone was so old it wouldnt get ios updates and its level of ios isnt supported by ANYTHING so I couldnt even get my email with it anymore! I did discover one thing that I don't like about it over the iPhone.... You cant turn off apps from being able to use mobile data in the foreground (you can turn off background usage). So if you are on data and you open up youtube or 9gag and start using it its using your data. On an iPhone if you go into your cellular data section of your settings and turn an app off it will not be allowed to ever use any mobile data unless you go back in and turn that back on. REALLY saves you from using data when you have a wifi connection available but not connected for whatever reason and you start browsing the web.

I always had Samsung phones over the years then about a year or so ago I thought why not try a different manufacturer. It worked great at first then in time, it would freeze up and I couldn't do anything with it. Then it ran extremely slow, again nothing worked to fix it. I even did a search online and found out the manufacturer admitted these problems and gave step by step directions to "hopefully" fix it. But...it only worked for a day or so that was it. Then about a month or two ago, it started just shutting off. no matter what I did, it would not turn back on, it even had a full battery. Sometimes it would take four or more hours before I would just try it again and it would turn on. Once this started being a regular problem it left me no choice but to get another phone. With my cell phone history, the smartest thing to do was to go back to the one manufacturer that NEVER gave me a problem, Samsung!! It's not the latest model but it has more bells and whistles any of my phones ever had!! I always had to download apps for different things like night vision camera, this phone has it as well as a number of other special lens type filters. The camera on this phone take the most beautiful photos I've ever seen from a cell phone before. The photos are vibrant and bold. There are at least 12 different settings to try. The display, has a blue light filter for eye strain, a night mode also.It also has edge panels which I love. It keeps your screen clear of apps you use! The sound on this phone is awesome!! It also has different settings, concert hall is one of them!! It just comes with so many different options, like face recognition, register your irises, fingerprints, voice assistant...I could go on and on!!.Oh and it comes with one of the BEST headsets I've ever seen to date!!!! If you record music, you will love it!! It also has a wonderful large screen!! The only advice I will offer is to get at least 64MG of memory, it makes a difference with any phone...If you're looking for a great phone this is definitely one to consider!! I'm very happy with Samsung!! :-)

I read all the reviews and decided to go with the Amazon shipped version of this phone to have the Amazon guarantee. A lot of reviews said this phone would not work on Verizon, and that voicemail and wireless calling was not going to work. Well, all of these comments were obviously from people who didn't investigate it thoroughly. My wireless calling works fine, my voicemail works fine and the phone works on Verizon. Here is what I discovered that you will need to do if you purchase this phone if you putting it on Verizon. Be sure to register an account with Samsung Galaxy store right on the phone and update all of your apps and when you do, it will give you Samsung Essentials and visual voicemail that is just like Verizon's only with a Blue Icon instead of Red. Works the same. If you go into the settings, and turn on wireless calling, it might take a couple of tries, but it does come on, and it does work as I live in a completely shielded home where Verizon's signal does not penetrate my walls or roof and my phone works perfectly over wireless. As far as getting connected to Verizon goes, all you have to do is take your SIM card from your old phone and put it in the new phone. If you have to get a new SIM card from Verizon because of size difference, have Verizon register a new SIM to your old phone, then you put it into the new phone. These phones are approved on Verizon's list of phones, but their system does not recognize the IMEI number and says it is not compatible and won't let the stores customer service reps scan the phone into their system. You have to put your old SIM into the new phone and then it works perfectly. I called 611 while I was in the store and they told me how to get around their system not recognizing the IMEI numbers as valid. The unlocked S9+ is the best phone I have ever had..... totally happy with my purchase.

Aweful system, no privacy, intrusive apps that cannot be deleted, BIXBY button is VERY annoying and cannot be changed interupting every single of your activity with it, even during calls. Above all, if you can, do not get any Samsung Galaxy of this series. It looks good, feels good in hand, but the Operative System is absolutely bad. They have many apps inside that you cannot change( increase privacy) and cannot delete them, being forced to share your data. Many apps are like this. The phone is just a DATA hoarder for samsung and Google, they are very very invasive in this phone. The worst part is the side button "Bixby" It opens the moment you press the side button ( like volume or lock) and regardless of what you are doing on your phone it WILL interrupt you and bring out that screen. The only way to change it, is to create a bixby account give them ALL your possible information ( surprised they do not ask for SSN) then you can change the button from one press to a double press for activation, AND THAT IS IT. You have to stay logged in giving all your date , location, etc. Buy a phone that allows you to use it the way you want it without doing every single attempt to gather your data. With that much data taken from you this phone should be FREE so anything over $20 for this phone ( yes 20 ) is not worth it.

I am a die hard Apple person. All my desktop computers at home are Apple, my other 4 family members all have iPhones and we have laptops that are all Apple. Not really sure why I decided to try out the Samsung Galaxy S9+ but happy that I did so far. I was using a 4 1/2 year old iPhone 5s so I figured any phone would be a huge upgrade to the modern world. It still takes a little getting used to coming from the IOS system's way of doing things. I do lose the capability of iMessage and FaceTime. Not a huge deal and I can use the DUO app from Google which is the same as FaceTime. The key points with this phone are that the large and beautiful screen looks great. I like the haptic feel of the keys when texting how you feel the keys being pressed (a little buzz/vibration). I think the new iPhone X does this too but again, I'm coming from a 5s. My only two choices for a new phone were this S9+ or keep on with Apple and get an iPhone X. The X would have cost me $1150 plus an AppleCare warranty for $200. I got this Samsung (and got the Ultimate Play Bundle) for $840 plus $100 for the bundle. Took out a Square Trade 2 year warranty for $108 with only a $99 deductible should I need to use it. I have used Square Trade warranties in the past for other products and they have always replaced and stood by their guarantee. Square Trade is owned by Allstate so I have confidence in them. Getting back to the phone, the S9+ seems to work VERY fast when loading apps and pages. I use it for a lot of my wireless products at home (Nest thermostat, wireless cameras, LIFX lights, Liftmaster garage door opener) and all work fast and flawlessly. The audio when playing music sounds great. Plays very loud and clear for a phone. I like the fact that it does still have an earphone jack. I like the Android system as it comes with Google Assistant voice command. Most people hate the Bixby feature on this phone. My only real gripe with it is the large button on the left side of the phone and that when trying to adjust the phone volume I accidentally hit Bixby sometimes. I do like though that i's voice activated. I get in my car in the morning, speak to wake up Bixby and command it to open up whatever app I need (usually Waze). Once open, I speak to Waze to take me to work. All of this without having to look at my phones screen or take my eyes off the road. Also, the Bixby AI camera function is very cool too. There are about 8 or 9 different things it can do with the camera. Like, point the camera lens at a sign in a foreign language and have it live translate the sign to English or any other language on the phone (and there are plenty of them on this phone). Point it at food and it will tell you what it is and average calorie count. Point it at a wine bottle label and it will give you the information on the wine (type, year, etc...). The ONLY thing I think I will never use again and of course I tried it out is the Animoji of myself or any of my friends. It's scary weird. Everyone looks the same on this. I would personally like to see an update to the phone where they fix this to be more of a 3D type and look more realistic. I have been looking online for days at comparisons of the pictures taken on this phone compared to others. Mot notably the iPhone X. In my opinion, the X does do a lot of pix better. The contrast is usually better. The real advantage to this phone is it tends to overexpose a bit. So, dark scenes will look a bit brighter than on the iPhone X. The only thing I had to get used to is the colors on a Samsung phone are very oversaturated. Colors are very bright. There is a setting in display function that gives you 4 options of view. I turned it down to one of them and it now looks a LOT more realistic. I like the fact that this phone, as well as the iPhone X, features ability to record video at 4K 60fps. Looks great. On the Samsung though the optical stabilization doesn't work when shooting 4K 60fps. Keep a steady hand and this isn't an issue. For all other video formats, the stabilization on the Samsung works better than the X. All in all, I am happy I went with the Samsung. In a few months if I regret it, I can always keep it for a few months and sell it to get the new larger iPhone X Plus. UPDATE: 4/7/2018. The voice unlock code is terrible. And, after searching through the options on the phone I came to the conclusion I don't need it. I have the face unlock or the fingerprint reader on the back. I actually go to the back fingerprint scan to unlock more than the other methods as it's just quick and easy to use. Battery life has been good so far after using this phone for 3 weeks now. One thing I find annoying that I didn't know would be a problem is the video and picture quality when someone sends me a large video via texting. Whether I send them a video or they send me one, it becomes such low quality that it's almost hard to see it at all. This is because of the compression the carriers use to send these video's or large picture files so it doesn't take up much space. I was used to having an iPhone and using iMessage. Send any size video to someone else with an iPhone and it was in great quality on both sides of the text. Not so with Android. Now this is not just Samsung but all Android phones. So, for now, I have to send videos via WhatsApp or Viber (or a number of other text apps). They do compress but not horribly. Oh, and one more note. I hope Samsung corp is reading this review. The Samsung customer service reps have to be the stupidest people I have ever dealt with for a tech company. I used to think Comcast was bad until I called a couple of times and had to speak with someone at Samsung. They just repeat my question and tell me they understand how I feel offering absolutely no answers. They put you on hold to find out but come back with no resolve. Just terrible customer service. 180 degrees from dealing with someone at AppleCare when I had a question about my iPhone or iMac computer. 2nd UPDATE: I didn't realize this and this is VERY important to know before purchasing. In fact, I'm on the AT&T network with my phone and the people in the factory store didn't know this. The sales people in Best Buy in the phone department did not know this either. When you buy an unlocked Galaxy S9 or S9+, your phone is $840. If however you want to buy it thru AT&T for their network and not a factory unlocked phone, it has different options on it. Meaning, the unlocked phone WILL NOT have: WIFI calling option, HD Audio option, VVM (video voice messaging) and you will not get video voice calling. The option for these features is not even on my phone. Now, you CAN buy the AT&T phone and pay $915 up front or on a plan (either way it's $75 more than the factory unlocked phone). After you pay $75 ,more and if you are paying the full price up front, you can get the AT&T phone unlocked and then you will have these features. Nowhere at Best Buy or any AT&T store do they tell you this. In my mind, it's a great misrepresentation that is omitted when purchasing. I picked up the bundle package here on Amazon for $100 more and got a lot of cool gadgets so I'm keeping my setup. I just want others to know there is a difference when buying the unlocked version both in price and the feature set you get. I figured the AT&T version just had a bunch of their proprietary apps pre-installed. Hope this helps out someone beforehand that really wants those features. And, I went to the AT&T store figuring there was a way they could flash the options to my phone. There isn't. They cannot update your phone to get these options. 3rd UPDATE: April 15th, 2018 I discovered a great feature today. I wish these Galaxy 9 phones had the rise to wake feature which is what the iPhone X has. You pick up the phone and just look at it to unlock via your face and it's good to go. What I discovered is setting the Google Assistant to open the Galaxy EVEN FROM the locked screen via my voice and the phone unlocks and does what you ask the Google Assistant to do. Love this feature immensely. 4th UPDATE April 23, 2018 As I play around more with this phone, I am learning some cool things it can do. For instance, from the factory it come pre-set so that whether you swipe up or down the phone will go to your app tray. No need for repetition with swiping either up or down. There is a setting so that when you swipe up it opens the app tray (as it come from Samsung pre-set) but change the setting and when you swipe down from any place on the phone and you've got your phones popular settings in front of you. Even better, if you swipe down using two fingers from the top of the screen, it opens the second part of the settings which control other functions (usually this is a two part deal so this makes it one step easier). Also, one thing Samsung addressed with the 9 and 9+ (using the Oreo software) is a problem people using these phones prior used to hate. Now, you can set the up/down volume buttons to control MEDIA volume no matter what you are viewing. And, if you want to control the ringtone or another type of volume, when you push up or down on the volume and the MEDIA volume shows just tap on the down arrow on the top left of the screen and you have all the others ready to adjust exactly as you like them. Apparently from reading online this has been an annoyance of a problem for a long time with the Galaxy phones that is now solved.

Hola. El equipo llegó un día después, aunque se debe a las fechas navideñas. El equipo ha estado funcionando al 100%, sin problemas. Al inicio me marcaba una alerta de que mi SIM no era Verizon, lo cual pensé que afectaría, pero no fue así. El equipo está desbloqueado y funciona sin fallas

No funciona, no es nuevo, es una estafa, el celular ni siquiera prende.

Excelente producto, diseño impresionante, con las especificaciones esperadas, desbloqueado como expecifica, para telcel y At&t, excelente compra hasta el momento, a demás la atención del vendedor fue siempre excelente de principio hasta despues de la entrega incluso

Gracias Amazon por el servicio. El dispositivo llegó sin el accesorio de miniusb-tipoC. El s9 plus una maravilla, velocidad excelente, Ram excelente, calidad de imagen excelente, en sí varios cualidades de excelencia.

La información señala que es el teléfono viene desbloqueado, si, pero configurado de fábrica de Estados Unidos, por lo que la marcación inicia con +1, lo cual no sirve en México. Lo lleve a samsung y me dijeron que como el teléfono es de EE UU la garantía no aplica en Mexico. No pueden reconfigurarlo. Tampoco lo puede revisar el operador, AT&T en México, por que no le fue comprado a ellos. El teléfono costó más de 1,000.00 dólares y no sirve pues la configuración de la marcación es de Estados Unidos (+1) de tal forma que mis llamadas sale +1+52 por lo cual obviamente no proceden. Esto es un fraude. No hay quien me ayude a resolverlo. Estoy sumamente molesto.