Why you can trust TechRadarWe spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best.Find out more about how we test. New speakers You can’t really see it, but the Galaxy S9 Plus, along with the Galaxy S9, has stereo speakers, a first for a Samsung flagship and, frankly, a long-overdue addition for the world’s smartphone leader. Samsung-owned AKG Acoustics has finely tuned the brand-new top earpiece speaker and the returning bottom-firing speaker so that they’re 40% louder than the single speaker on the S8 Plus....

Why you can trust TechRadarWe spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best.Find out more about how we test. AR Emoji Like it or not, Samsung’s answer to Apple’s Animoji is here on the Galaxy S9 Plus with the debut of AR Emoji. This uses the front 8MP camera to analyze a 2D image of you and then maps more than 100 different facial features to a 3D avatar....

Why you can trust TechRadarWe spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best.Find out more about how we test. Camera Samsung is ready for all of your nightmarish low-light photo scenarios with the Galaxy S9 Plus camera and its new f/1.5 aperture – a world’s first for a smartphone camera. Its magic is Dual-Aperture technology, which switches between an f/1.5 aperture (pulls in more light for darker scenes) to an f/2....

Why you can trust TechRadarWe spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best.Find out more about how we test. Final verdict The Galaxy S9 Plus is the best of what Samsung has to offer at a really big size. Its 6.2-inch curved screen is spacious and elegant-looking, even if it appears as if nothing has changed about it. The S9 Plus features that have been tweaked are important....

South Korea is still the world 5G leader Research ranks 5G nations based on coverage, adoption and ecosystem When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. South Korea is the most developed5Gnation in the world but the UK is a strong sixth, according to research from OMIDA. Analysts ranked countries according to progress on key 5G metrics. These included the availability of spectrum, the number of network launches, coverage, adoption and ecosystem....

TCL’s bargain QLED TVs are now available for preorder – but should you buy one? TCL undercuts Samsung by a large margin When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. TCL’s pair of budgetQLEDTVs are now rolling out to the UK, with models now available to preorder ahead of their official release in the coming days. The TCL C71 and C81 QLEDs start at £499 and £649 respectively, both coming in55-inchand65-inchsizes, with a more compact 50-inch size for the C71 as well....

These countries are the most vulnerable to cybercrime Cyber risk increases with every extra hour spent online When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. New research fromNordVPNhas revealed that residents of developed countries are more likely to become victims of cybercrime. To compile its newCyber Risk Index, theVPNprovider partnered with the business data provider Statista. Statista was responsible for collecting the socioeconomic, digital, cyber and crime data from the 50 countries that make up the index while NordVPN analyzed the data’s positive and negative impact on cyber risk....