It’s been a weird year for Samsung. While the South Korean giant managed to hold onto the top spot for global smartphone sales, many of its Chinese rivals started closing the gap with Huawei CEO Richard Yu going so far as to say that Huawei could steal the number one spot by as early as 2019.

But the bigger issue is that as good as Samsung’s phones were in 2018, so many of its products were overshadowed by things that won’t be available until halfway through next year, assuming you can even afford them.

Sending pictures to others is one of the most basic functions of a smartphone, but when your phone's texting app starts randomly pushing out photos without your knowledge, you have a problem.

With the Galaxy S9 just over a week away, Samsung have vaulted to the top of New Phone pile and asking consumers to again decide who gets their bucks in the smartphone future. The S9 is a step up from the S8, but how does it stack up with Apple's iPhone X?

It's Apple vs Samsung, flagship vs flagship, who comes out on top?

Last year, one of the best Samsung Galaxy S8 pre-order deals came from an unlikely source: Woolworths Mobile. The company best known for cheap groceries and $2 milk managed to beat every Australian telco on price and data. Now it's looking to do it again with the Galaxy S9.

We're on the ground on Barcelona for Mobile World Congress, where Samsung just released the full details of its next flagship smartphones - the Galaxy S9, and Galaxy S9+. We'll be covering the phones in more depth, but for now here are the basics, folks. How much it will cost you, and what it is made of.