Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Galaxy Note 10 Plus review: Not the Note you know”.
So when I review phone, I tried to pull out a narrative. Why was this phone made? Who is this phone for and with the Galaxy Note nine that narrative was in praise of incrementalism effectively? The note nine was just better than any note before it had a bigger screen, a bigger battery, more storage than pretty much any phone at the time and the note 10 plus isn’t all that different. It still got a bigger screen, a bigger battery, faster storage. I was inclined to call this in praise of incrementalism part two.
You know the more I thought about it. The more I felt like these improvements were driven by design first, not necessarily by sheer improvement. Let me explain what I mean when you look at the note.
N, plus, I do think it’s one of the prettiest phones Samsung has ever made. You’Ve obviously got that beautiful or aglow color on the back. It’S thinner than pretty much any phone Samsung’s ever made.
You’Ve got this rat glass around the side, but all of these things were designed forward thinking, not necessarily that power user gamer type phone that we’ve seen in previous years. So this phone is thinner than the Galaxy Note 9, and I can’t really fault them for that. Of course, they’re going to try to make their phone thinner and more beautiful, and it’s got a forty-three hundred million power battery versus the 4000 million power battery that we saw in the galaxy note 9.
But I think a lot of us were expecting or something that was going to be totally shocking to the audience people get marketing for last year’s Galaxy. Note 9: you had big posters that said four thousand milliamp hours and one terabyte they’re all shock value things that really showed that the Galaxy Note 9 was the power user device. Samsung was still able to iterate on the specs.
They just didn’t iterate as much as I think, a lot of us expected them to because they were trying to make the phone more beautiful and make it for more people. Here’S another design, centric thing they remove some ports and buttons. So, on the Galaxy Note 9 you had the power button on the right and the bixby button on the left.
Well, they’ve, pretty much removed the bixby button and they’ve moved the power button to the left. So now you’ve got a phone with a right side that has Oh buttons at all, and I thought that it would be weird to turn the phone on with my index finger on the left side of the phone. What actually feels really natural – and I don’t find myself missing – that power button that was on the right side of the phone and in their effort to make that single slab of glass. They also got rid of the headphone jack and I’m probably going to rail on them for a very long time about this, because the headphone jack is part of what made the Samsung Note a samsung note, but again Samsung’s trying to go after the mass-market. For this phone, so they’re trying to have the least amount of buttons possible to make it as beautiful as possible, they’re trying to have the least amount of ports as possible for better or for worse. Now I did do a pull on my Twitter about whether or not people cared that they were dropping.
The headphone jack and 55 % of people said that they didn’t really care, and these are all hardcore Android users, who would probably care more about the headphone jack than the average consumer. This is just further evidence that Samsung is trying to go for more of a mass-market appeal with this phone and again this is kind of a weird review for me to do, because by saying that, Samsung is going to design forward and try to appeal to more People, it kind of sounds like I’m railing on them, but I still really like this phone and you can’t fault Samsung, for trying to make their phone more beautiful. If you move to the back of the phone, you’ve got that single slab of glass with a beautiful or a glow, color or other colors that are definitely going to appeal to a wider market. You’Ve got the triple camera array that looks really.
Nice they’ve moved the array into a better position to be more appealing and the cameras are still really good. They’Re pretty much the exact same camera set that they were on the Galaxy as 10 plus. Now, if you look at the screen, the design first decision-making is pretty apparent. There too, you’ve got a smaller aperture in the front-facing camera, which is going to be a little bit less light because they wanted to make the whole small enough to fit that bigger display, and it does look gorgeous it’s a gorgeous display. It is one of the best displays they’ve ever made, but that is a trade-off that you have to make if you’re going to make a full screen display like that, and the screen is undeniably pretty massive.
It’S 6.8 inches, which is like one of the biggest phone screens that I’ve used, but it doesn’t feel too big weirdly enough. It does have the same footprint as the Galaxy Note 9, so it feels like you’re holding in note 9 with just a lot more screen. Real estate, which is really nice on an ever day basis, and that’s not to say that the front-facing camera is bad. I actually think it’s better than it was on the galaxy note: 9: it’s got better color and it seems like it does a little bit less skin smoothing and the cameras on the back are the same as they were on the galaxy s, 10 plus they’re. Still very versatile: you’ve got the ultra wide lens, the Rayleigh lens and a telephoto lens.
I still feel like they do a little bit too much skin, smoothing and way too much noise reduction. So I’m not in love with these cameras, but they definitely seem to have made the color a little bit better and yes, performance is perfectly great. It’S still got 12 gigs of RAM, really fast storage and in snapdragon 855. Now, if they were really going after the power user demographic, they probably would have put the 855 plus in here, and I personally think that would have been a really good way to draw in those power users to really differentiate the note line from the galaxy s Line but again I think Samsung is making these phones for everybody, not necessarily they power users anymore.
I guess the last thing we got to talk about is the S Pen and yeah. They technically made the S Pen a little bit better. This year they added a gyroscope which allows you to swipe through your photos.
It allows you to zoom in on images, but I don’t really find it that useful. There are some cool features like hey our doodle, which allows you to doodle in a heart and add drawings on to things in real life, which is pretty cool, it’s relatively gimmicky, but I enjoyed it with this year’s s-pen. You can do things like convert notes to text and send them straight to Microsoft Word and for someone once that’s a digital artist or someone that takes notes all the time. This is a really invaluable feature, and now I finally get down to price and the Galaxy Note, n plus starts at $ 1,100, and I kind of think Samsung was a little bit between a rock and a hard place with this phone, because the galaxy s 10, Plus started at $ 1000 and they couldn’t really make this phone cheaper than the galaxy s 10 Plus now, yes, that phone did launched six months ago, but its MSRP is still a thousand bucks. So it’s kind of difficult for Samsung to charge the same or less when this phone has significantly more features. And it’s a note: it’s supposed to be the more expensive phone now, if you’re a power user that once at all, there are other phones that will probably satisfy you pretty well like the asus rog phone.
That thing does have any 55-plus. It also has a ton of store an eight-ton of RAM, and it will probably do you just fine, but I feel like Samson’s going after all the users who want the power, not the power users who want it all, and that’s especially evident in the regular Galaxy Note 10. That thing has a 1080p screen, it’s got a smaller battery and it doesn’t have micro, SD card expansion, but you know what I don’t think: regular people are really going to notice or care about those things. They just want a beautiful phone. That does everything really well and if it has a pen, that’s good enough for them all right guys, that’s been about it for this review. If you have any questions, make sure you leave them in the comment section below also go over to Android authority comm. I’Ve got like a four thousand five thousand word review over there, so you can read the thing in its entirety. We’Ve also got a ton of photos and other stuff over there, as well, so until the next article I’ll catch you later, you .