Galaxy s10 plus gsmarena review

Step by step and year by year, we're now at 10 - the Samsung Galaxy S-series have matured over the past decade with big and incremental upgrades alike bringing us closer to that elusive 'perfect smartphone'.

Let's go ahead and start with the ultra wide angle camera - we've never had one on a Galaxy S flagship, after all. For one, designing a lens so wide with no distortion is nigh impossible for full-size cameras and it's not any easier for a smartphone, so this camera does produce images with pronounced barrel distortion. In principle, the ultra wide lens works great for capturing interiors, exaggerating perspective while emphasizing a nearby subject and clouds, also clouds. Here's precisely one of each. Ultra wide camera samples.

Galaxy s10 plus gsmarena review

The latest iteration is called One UI and we're somewhat familiar with it from the Pie update to the S9 and Note9, but the S10s are the first phones to ship with it. It's characterized by its rounded menus and buttons, focus on single-handed use, and a colorful iconography. There's an always on display, of course, and with One UI it can also be not-so-always-on - now you can have it displayed only when you double tap on the screen, in addition to being able to setup a daily schedule as before. You can, of course, you know, keep it always on. The clock faces are mostly the same as the ones we found on the S9. Always on display settings. The locksreen has the usual camera and dialer shortcuts, which you can reassign to any app. Interestingly enough, the notification cards that were introduced with Nougat and can be found on most droids since, are gone on One UI, in its default state. Instead, you're getting just the icons, clumped together next to a clock. Double tapping them pulls down the notification shade where the familiar cards are. However, if you go into settings, you can revert to the classic view. You're also seeing the fingerprint reader icon on the lockscreen, indicating where to press to unlock, if you've setup fingerprint unlock. If you've got face unlock running, the outline of the camera will light up, indicating it's looking for your mug. Iris recognition is gone - there's no room for an IR emitter and an extra camera.

You swipe up from the center to go home, swipe up on the right to go back and swipe up on the left to open the task switcher. Design, degree spin. Bixby Home.

Samsung Android Long-term. It's a welcome refresh of Samsung's UI design language, and it brings a much improved user experience. In terms of looks, it's way cleaner and less cartoonish, and some ideas it incorporates are genuinely helpful in a world now dominated by smartphones with huge displays - such as using only the bottom half of the UI to show actionable items. This significantly cuts down on the finger gymnastics you need to perform while operating the phone with one hand, at least when you are in Settings or the built-in Samsung apps. This design philosophy is unfortunately pretty far removed from what Google is doing with its apps, not to mention third-party developers. So, as usual, you buy a Samsung flagship and you have to get used to the lack of continuity, design and UX-wise, between its own apps and those from Google or other companies. This situation is unlikely to ever change, because Samsung is unlikely to ever fully incorporate Google's design language into its devices, as that would make it lose a big differentiating point in the heavily competitive smartphone market.

But most importantly, these panels are much better now. Pixel density works out to a plentiful ppi. Oh, we almost forgot - it's an Infinity-O display, the 'O' denoting the cutout for the selfie camera. Letting the Auto take over, the phone is capable of cranking that up to more than twice that - nits in our test. Now, regarding the measurement of max brightness, it must be noted that our results differ from the numbers Samsung quotes up to nits. Due to the nature of the technology, an AMOLED screen would be able to push its brightness progressively higher as the area that needs to be lit up in white gets smaller.

Galaxy s10 plus gsmarena review

Picking just the right high-end phone among all high-end phones is never easy, but the good thing is you can't really go wrong. Take the Huawei Mate 20 Pro, for example. On the flipside, the Mate takes dismal selfies, while we're really loving the ones out of the Galaxy. The iPhone XS Max doesn't charge faster than anything, but that's hardly a dealbreaker. Another awesome screen, comparable battery life, great camera performance - the iPhone is a top-seller for a reason. The Galaxy, however, has an extra ultra wide camera on the back and a depth sensor on the front - can't beat those with any iOS optimizations. The Xperia 1 quickly comes to mind with a unique sorta-4K display, similar triple-cam setup to the Galaxy's and vanilla Android experience.

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Next Page » 5. It's not on by default, so you can still go with the bar if you like it. Selfie samples 10MP, wide mode Speaking of portraits, here they come. It's We can see this being handy for filling up two devices overnight when travelling light and carrying a single adaptor and cable. Dim light selfies. Samsung helpfully has some predetermined routines you can enable or customize to your heart's content, so here's a quick and easy one: if you leave a certain location say, home , then Wi-Fi will turn off. Initially we were sad to find that Samsung's system doesn't include a quick way to jump to the previous app, but the company has actually thought of a workaround - when the multitasking menu shows up, the app that's in front of you in it will be the last one you used. They're just not there yet. Pull again and the upper third of the screen shows just a clock while the toggles are brought down much lower, making them easier to reach.

Let's go ahead and start with the ultra wide angle camera - we've never had one on a Galaxy S flagship, after all. For one, designing a lens so wide with no distortion is nigh impossible for full-size cameras and it's not any easier for a smartphone, so this camera does produce images with pronounced barrel distortion. In principle, the ultra wide lens works great for capturing interiors, exaggerating perspective while emphasizing a nearby subject and clouds, also clouds.

HDR10 content comes with static metadata that specifies how to allocate that available dynamic range from the moment you start the playback. The S10's got a smaller display than the Plus at 6. And this same triple-module configuration is also to be found on the smaller S10 unlike the S9 generation - the vanilla model there got a downgraded single-cam like it was Next Page » 8. Samsung's extensive sound enhancements do come as standard, and they include the SoundAlive equalizer and our favorite - Adapt Sound that tunes the EQ to your hearing and your particular pair of ears and headphones by playing multiple frequencies and asking how well you hear them. They're fine for the most part, but swiping from the bottom right area to go back fails around one in twenty times the accompanying vibration is there but the action simply isn't performed , and when you swipe from the bottom left to bring up the multitasking view the animation is incredibly janky every single time. In principle, the ultra wide lens works great for capturing interiors, exaggerating perspective while emphasizing a nearby subject and clouds, also clouds. Instead, you're getting just the icons, clumped together next to a clock. Main camera, low-light samples, Photo mode. GSMArena team , 29 July