it's truly amazing to me how unnecessary
your standard phone review has become these days here's a post from user var
core over on xda developers from two weeks before samsung unveiled their
latest and greatest s series smartphones the galaxy s10e s10 and s10 plus the
pros over the s9 are much faster processing speeds bigger battery and
display in-display fingerprint reader 5g
in the second release a bevy of specialized cameras larger internal and
external storage and on the high-end model 12 gigabytes of RAM it would seem
to have no real competition but there are two glaring cons as well the camera
cutouts marring the display and its price yep okay
sounds about right so i should probably just hire that guy or gal and save
myself some time but i didn't instead i
spent the last few weeks trying really hard to love the s10 plus and its little
brother over here so here are my thoughts
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it is no big secret that i
am not a fan of odd-shaped displays i
mean ignoring the admittedly quite hilarious purpose-made wallpapers there
is quite literally zero content that is designed to have a
bite taken out of it why well i'll tell you why because it's
a silly backwards step in our otherwise fairly consistent journey towards
displays that occupy our field of vision as naturally and fully as possible and
it's obviously one that isn't going to last so why be like the tv shows that
failed to embrace widescreen and have all your content look stupid in a year
or two or like today for that matter
and yeah i think that's actually the worst part of all of this samsung stayed
away for this long only to finally belly flop face
first into this unfortunate industry trend right when their chinese
competitors like oppo vivo and nubia have already declared it dead all three
of those have already shipping phones
with no notch and nearly full coverage
displays thanks to innovations like motorized and sliding selfie cams or in
what is imo the most futuristic and cool
move the elimination of the selfie cam all together in favor of using the rear
camera for everything something that probably would have been a good move for
samsung this time around i was pretty pleased overall with the rear camera the
app needs to go back to allowing both still and video capture from the same
screen but for video the only glaring issue that needs to be resolved is the
frame skipping when you capture a still during video recording and as for stills
regardless of dxomark scores and what have you i would still take an iphone
10s or a pixel 3 over the galaxy s10 but
it is a clear step up from my note 9 when it comes to delivering sharp photos
of my wonderful but always moving children and it managed adequate low
light performance for my purposes now the issue with the camera is the
front-facing camera or cameras are you
seriously telling me that this was the
best you could do both the wide angle and regular lens
deliver at best no improvement over the note 9 and at worst some of the most
inexplicably poor results that i've seen in a few generations what the heck is
this there's just no excuse now honor's
latest phone that has a pinhole display this on the s10 plus this is an exit
wound and you went and put that in my screen for these results
these photos you're looking at here were taken under identical conditions on full
auto okay so i got that out of my system in all seriousness though i did mostly
stop noticing the pinhole after a while
so how about we talk about day-to-day use because there's actually a lot to
love here starting with battery life a seven nanometer processor with 4 100
milliamp hours in this form factor yes please
wicked fast wireless and wired charging yeah i'll take some of that too now some
exynos users have been complaining of higher than normal idle battery drain
but it's yet to be determined if that's a widespread issue or just
samsung phones doing samsung things and many other users particularly of the
snapdragon variety are reporting screen on time in the range of six to even
eight hours or more and that honestly is more in line with my experience this
thing has been great so far on the subject of the screen we're ignoring the
shrapnel wound it's actually been a while since i've been this
wowed by a phone display i mean it's so vibrant and it manages to feel just like
extra responsive in spite of the fact that it still runs at a mere 60 hertz
also samsung has really managed to tone down the distortion and the dimness of
the curved glass along the edges even compared to the note 9 from less than a
year ago if only they had watched my review of that phone because they
actually managed to undo some of the progress that they made last summer when
they widened the side bezels so like the note 9 the s10 plus is a
gigantic device that makes one-handed operation a little bit challenging and
samsung obviously knows this because they've made some helpful optimizations
to their Android skin to minimize how often it is that you'll actually need to
reach all the way up to the top see this there's your brightness slider it's not
bad right it's just that as cool as one-handed mode is i don't buy a big
phone to use it at fifty percent size and by slimming down the side bezels
again they've dramatically increased the frequency with which i accidentally
trigger apps or keyboard presses or the
back button while i'm reaching across the display it's a non-issue in my
opinion on the s10 but it bothered me on the plus and i hope they don't do the
same thing on the note 10. another thing that i'm hoping surely in vain not to
encounter on the note 10 is the ultrasonic fingerprint sensor now
i got the software update that did improve the sub 20 success rate that i
was having with this thing see i got it there but it's still not a hundred
percent and this is especially true it seems when my hands are really dry
making matters worse even when it's working properly it's just straight up
not as fast as the optical sensor that's employed by oneplus in the 6t like not
even close now it's better than picking
up my phone and touching the back of it but it does hurt the otherwise great
overall responsiveness of this device
like it really does feel great in the hand too i can't actually speak for the
ceramic version both samsung and dbrand actually sent over the
glass-backed ones but it's thin and well-balanced with pretty much all the
things i've come to expect from a samsung flagship device except better
the speaker standout is achieving much better stereo separation on supported
content like this is a really loud amplified earpiece speaker in spite of
its diminutive size and on the bottom oh a headphone jack that's a welcome sight
oh so it turns out you can get ip68 resistance with it it's just more work
how about that the one step backward here is the ergonomics of the lock
button again this isn't a big issue on the smaller s10 but on the plus it kind
of seems like what they've done is moved it up uncomfortably far on the phone in
order to fix a problem that doesn't exist anymore now that they're finally
allowing users to remap the bixby button so you're not constantly mashing bixby
when you try to lock your phone on that note i don't actually hate bixby i just
don't want her showing up uninvited so i just changed it to a double click that's
also a nice new little option they've gotten there and i haven't had any
frustrating issues since then so how did this take you numpty's two years to fix
when you had all the user feedback it's such an obvious solution
yay on that subject here's a few more things for you to ignore for the next 24
months then spend an hour fixing when someone in senior management finally
watches a review or two bring back the extra granularity and volume control
with the slider please i listen to reruns or music while i sleep and i
can't get it quiet enough anymore also
what is this locate and app nonsense when i search in the app drawer
just let me drag it to the home screen please and finally
samsung do away with the stupid carrier
lock crap when you first install a sim
if i bought an unlocked phone that's because that's what i wanted i know the
carriers want you to do this but grow a pair
anyway i really don't want the things samsung
has done wrong to distract from what they've done right here i still hate the
island notch it's ugly distracting and most importantly completely unnecessary
but the bottom line is that the s10 and s10 plus are lightning fast with what is
in my opinion the best samsung software experience yet and a great feel in the
hand they have problems but i do tend to find
them easier to forgive when i can sit down and write this entire review while
listening to music on my bio fa-7 iems yeah they may have icky caveman wires
attached to them but you know what they blow the doors off your airpods and you
can have them from me when you pry them from my cold dead fingers
speaking of cold dead fingers dbrand is
gonna kill me when they see this segway dbrand skins are a great way to not just
have your device look better but also to take care of it because they can help
protect from incidental scuffs and scratches one of the coolest things
about dbrand is when you go on their website and select your device you can
preview in real time exactly what it's going to look like so you don't just
have to go okay i want yellow here or i
want you know carbon fiber there or this absolutely sick man i
love this honeycomb finish that they sent over on the s10 and s10 plus you
can mix and match things if you're into that kind of thing and create exactly
the look you want they offer cheap international shipping and you can check
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