Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Samsung Galaxy Note 10: But Why Tho?”.
Hey what is up guys mkbhd here – and this is the samsung galaxy note. 10. you’re. Probably thinking wait marquez. I just saw this.
Your last video was about the galaxy note. 10. No, that was about the galaxy note, 10, plus the bigger flagship phone, with a lot of the bells and whistles that sort of fits perfectly. In the note brand, this is the galaxy note.
10.. It’S a bit smaller! It’S missing a bunch of what the note 10 plus has, and it’s still 950 bucks, and i still kind of like it. Let’S talk about it, so if i’m being perfectly real samsung could have maybe should have called this. The note 10e, this phone is a sort of a trimmed down version in a lot of ways, kind of the same way.
The s10e was a trimmed down version of the s10, but for a bit less money, so i think best way to review this phone is basically to show exactly what’s different about this note, 10 versus the note 10, plus that i just dropped a 15 minute video On so i’ll link that full review right below the like button, if you haven’t seen that one yet this is the note 10.. So, first of all, it’s 150 bucks cheaper, like i said, which posted at 9 49 to start and it’s kind of a little brother, and i say that because the most obvious difference is it’s physically smaller now, usually i’d always go for the biggest possible version of Any phone, but so many phones have all gotten so huge these days that it’s actually kind of refreshing having a smaller flagship phone. So the note 10 is smaller than the iphone 10s max smaller than the oneplus 7 pro i’ve been using before i can reach all four corners fairly easily. It’S actually really nice not having to stretch to reach the top on these giant phones.
Just to get to notifications, i don’t have any one-handed assist features turned on anymore on this phone, it’s kind of nice. You know it’s been a while, since i’ve used a phone, that’s actually this small, which is plenty to say about a galaxy note. It’S a 6.3 inch display, uh bezel’s, still tiny. You know still the boxy overall shape and another spec difference that a lot of people focus on is it’s now a 1080p display, instead of the 1440p, that the big brother had now.
This spec is a perfect example of something that matters to many people, a lot more on paper than in real life like if you haven’t seen the galaxy note 10. If you haven’t actually used this phone, you might see on the spec sheet that it’s such an expensive phone, but it only has a 1080p display and that sticks out like a sore thumb, but in reality this display is pretty much great. With that resolution you’d be concerned about sharpness, but it’s still pretty sharp at over 400 ppi. So you never really see any pixels still gets extremely bright or extremely dim.
Colors still look pretty good, it’s just mainly smaller the hole, punch cutout, even though it’s the same size appears just a tiny bit bigger, since the phone is smaller, but overall, it’s still not a huge distraction at all. I think if it was a notch, like the iphone i’d, find it a bit more intrusive on this smaller screen, but even you know full screen, videos or gaming, and things like that are still fine. Here i still do miss not having 90 hertz or any sort of high refresh rate, but aside from that, this screen has been pretty excellent. I just think still because it’s 950 – you just sort of want it – to have everything you want it to have a 1440p display at this price.
So that’s one of the only ways it really feels disappointing everything else. Aesthetically is pretty much identical to the big brother. Just shrunken down, which makes things more reachable more pocketable and more holdable, so the cameras are exactly the same. The speakers are exactly the same.
The fingerprint reader is the same, and the buttons are the same, but they’re even more reachable, so they’re a little bit lower. I didn’t have a problem reaching them on the note 10 plus, but if you did, these are a little closer. The software is also all still the same, but for some reason – and they did this on the galaxy s10e – also on the smaller phone – they don’t give. You the option to change your screen resolution on a phone with a 1440p display. They let you pick if you want to jump down to 1080 or back up on a phone with the 1080p display, they hide it. Maybe it’s because they think it’s fine to just leave it at 1080 max res all the time i don’t know, but i would have at least like to have seen the option here. Since this is the galaxy note. Uh, the s pen is exactly the same too.
I was actually kind of wondering if the smaller phone would get a smaller stylus but nope exact same stylus on the bigger phone with all the same features and gestures, and then performance is, for all intents and purposes the same, but with some small spec differences. So the note 10 spec will always be eight gigs of ram and 256 gigs of that high speed storage. None of that is expandable here. The note 10 plus, like we talked about before, can bump up to 12 gigs of ram and 512 gigs of internal storage, and it has the expandable storage via microsd, and i think that for 90, something percent of users that eight gigs of ram is plenty and The 256 gigs of storage is enough, but if you need more, you should consider the note plus a couple other small things.
One uh note 10 has a bit of a smaller battery. 3 500 milliamp hours is the official number kind of small for a flagship. Actually in 2019, but after using it for a while, it became apparent that it doesn’t matter as much because it has a 1080p display. If you bump up the resolution on the 10 plus, you will start to get worse battery life. I kind of left it in the middle got my four and a half hours of screen on time. This phone with a smaller battery, but a 1080p display got me those same great numbers for battery about a four hour screen on time, which is pretty good battery life and then note 10 also lacks the support for the super fast 45 watt, ultra fast charger. I don’t know if that’s a space thing or just a cost savings thing, but it will still come in the box with a 25 watt charger, which is pretty good. If you get the expensive extra, one it’ll only work with the 10 plus and then note 10. While i said it does have the same cameras, it doesn’t have the extra depth sensors on the back, as you can see that the 10 plus has so yeah. No ar doodle or anything crazy with depth sensing like that, although it still does portrait mode and live focus, video just fine.
So, overall, you know there’s a good amount of stuff missing, but it’s also still very much a premium phone with a premium build and the high-end specs, and it turns out the things that were sort of the most concerning to me, which were the display and the Battery life sort of worked hand-in-hand with each other to be fine, so it’s still a great phone in a vacuum, but we’re not in a vacuum. This is a world where other phones or other options exist. This is a world where the galaxy s10 plus also exists. Now, why do i bring this up? Here’S the thing: here’s the thing samsung is a smart company. You know plenty of smart people working over there, but back in just march it seems like they’ve made a phone, that’s better in a lot of ways than the note and for less money. Galaxy s10 plus came out just a few months ago, and if you look at how similar they are, they have the same specs.
You know some on the s10 plus are actually better, so they both have the snapdragon 85, but you can go up to 12 gigs of ram. It has a bigger higher resolution display at 6.4 inches and 1440p same ultrasonic, fingerprint sensor, better speakers in my opinion, and it has basically the same triple cameras on the back but sideways instead of vertical, and you get a second sensor on the front for your depth. Sensing that the note doesn’t have – and it’s much more rounded and tapered, of course, but you also get that extra button, so bixby fans, it is remappable and you basically trade the s pen for a headphone jack and a much bigger 4 100 milliamp hour battery. That is that that’s a lot of reasons to get the s10 plus over the note and it’s cheaper. It starts at 800 bucks right now in b, h and you can find it for way less than that, and then the note is 950. So why does this smaller note 10 exist well turns out.
There is a select group of people that have always really liked the galaxy note experience or wanted to have a galaxy note. You know s pen and all, but just wanted it to be smaller and the note’s always been a huge phone. It’S been. Basically, the phone samsung makes that’s their biggest for the past couple years.
This one is smaller, it’s more grippable, more reachable and that’s part of why i love it so much so for those who liked the note but wanted it to be smaller. This phone is for those people, so that puts you in like a really specific venn diagram overlap of people who, like don’t care too much about the specs or the couple missing features. They just really want the s pen and a smaller phone, and they have 950 dollars to spend on a phone. This, i guess that’s this is that phone. Personally, i really like this phone a lot more than i actually thought i would it’s kind of refreshing actually having a flagship phone be smaller, even though it’s still a 6.3 inch display, but all that being said uh i would still go for oneplus 7 pro over This note and over the s10 plus it costs less than both of these phones, and it’s got that higher fresh rate display that i’ve been so raving over lately that i really hope a lot of phones in the future pick up on you’re going to miss out On things like the better cameras here and wireless charging, but uh, that’s where i’d go but hey at least now we can answer the question in the title who this phone is for. It’S that small group of people could be you either way thanks for watching catch, you guys in the next one peace .