Gadgets With John Davidson

Meet Samsung’s soaring new Smart Monitor M9

Samsung’s Smart Monitor M9 works not only as a TV and a regular computer screen, but in sky-high portrait mode.

John DavidsonColumnist

Aug 24, 2025 – 1.28pm

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I’m not quite sure why we’ve been using Samsung’s new OLED TV-slash-computer screen, the Smart Monitor M9, rotated sideways for most of this review.

It might just be the novelty of having a giant, 70-centimetre-tall computer monitor looming over the desk, like three 18-inch screens stacked one on top of the other. (And I mean, exactly like. I measured it. The M9’s 32-inch screen, rotated 90 degrees into “portrait mode” is precisely the size of three 18-inch “landscape mode” screens joined vertically.)

John Davidson is an award-winning columnist, reviewer, and senior writer based in Sydney and in the Digital Life Laboratories, from where he writes about personal technology.