Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Samsung Galaxy S10 Review – 3 Weeks Later”.
It’S been a little while Kirk tells me it’s actually been three weeks now that I’ve been using this device right here. That is, of course, the Galaxy S. Ten, I mean I’ve just been living with this phone. This has been. My phone has the SIM card in it.
I took photos, I lived live, I sent tweets, whatsapp slack email, whatever other app. This was my smart phone of choice for the last three weeks. I have some feelings about it that I think you need to know about. There’S some things I like there’s some things. I don’t like any smartphone out there. I chose to use the standard Galaxy S 10, not the S 10 plus.
I just feel like this is a nice form factor I kind of like the circular cutout as opposed to the larger one. I mean look, it’s your choice. You want a bigger display, you go for the plus, otherwise they’re, basically the same first things. First, what are you looking at what greets you when you unlock this phone? It’S a display. I mean that’s gon na satisfy anyone in a smartphone universe. Anyone in the segment any fan.
That’S out there you, your nephew, your aunt, your uncle. If you want maybe the best display in the smartphone game, then you go with this phone. I mean that’s pretty standard stuff. You already knew it. I have a case on this phone, so it kind of diminishes. The edge a little bit after all samsung has been curving these edges for a while. Now some people love it some people less. So actually I really like this case.
I forget the name of it. Got enough Amazon, genuine leather yeehaw. Ladies and gentlemen, that’s rawhide. Will he do another big change for this particular model year? We now have more cameras than ever.
That’S correct. That’S three lenses on the back, of course, you’re getting a wider angle view with these. I used it. I used that feature.
I love that feature. In fact, the front-facing camera on this device is wider than I expected as well. So it’s versatile, you can get a lot of shots.
Of course, the camera itself incredible in a number of different circumstances, with or without the wide it’s one of the best performers out there that I’ve used. Recently, I want to put white at pixel level, just the software, the the isolation, the portrait effect and so on. Not that I use that very much I mean for me this camera, it’s an easy pick kind of like the display again, not much of a surprise here in Samsung’s flagship device.
You recall that this one features wireless charging, also wireless charge, sharing, I’m a big fan of that. That’S a cool feature to have now normally I’d say: that’s just a novelty you’re, not gon na use it very often, but in conjunction with the galaxy buds. This could be a feature that you use on a frequent basis if you choose those ear buds to go with this phone while we’re on the outside surroundings of the device. Here, I should also talk about this button over here. That’S the big speed button, not a fan of big speed myself, I’m never gon na use it. It has recently become remappable, so you can switch it to something else other than a Bixby launcher. That said, it will still launch Bixby on a long press. You can’t you just can’t completely get rid of Bixby, there’s, always some sort of hook. Some sort of compromise, so Bixby is still there, but the button is a little easier to live with, considering the fact that you can at least remap the single press for whatever app launch you want to have happen, the headphone jack, that’s right. The s10 maintains the headphone jack talks about it in the unboxing video.
This thing is useful and it’s tiny, it’s a tiny, little piece to add to the motherboard of the device, and so do it. If you have a big phone anyway, I like it, I like having it there. Okay, now, what about the speaker on par sort of with many of the other flagships that are out there I’ll give you a quick demo here we boost this up yeah I mean what can I say like I don’t know if it’s the best that I’ve tested There have been some loud ones come through here, but this is clear: you’re gon na be satisfied with it. As far as I’m concerned now.
Another thing a lot of questions about this that the the circular cutout the pinhole hole punch a lot of people asking me Lee. How much is that affecting you? Are you fan of it? How does it compare to the knotch? I prefer it to be honest. If you’re gon na give me this or a notch I’ll take this now grant it. I do feel the need to say like when it comes to face unlock, for example, there’s way less tech in here than in the iPhone notch. On the iPhone 10 10 s. You can’t really compare them one to one. This is less secure for face unlock, but again I’m not using face unlock anymore. So you decide how big of a deal that is to you, but this is just taking up so much less space than the average not and then on top of that, by pushing it over in the corner.
For whatever reason it just feels less abrasive to your day-to-day functionality. Like I mean you see it there, it’s it’s big, but your eyes are kind of used to seeing stuff up in this corner, anyways with the battery indicator and the Wi-Fi connection, and so on, and whatever other notification indicators you have up there. So you’re kind of pre-programmed to expect to stuff up in the corner, and maybe that has something to do with why this is less offensive, not just for me, but a lot of other people have said the same thing. I’M taking this over the knotch any day of the week.
I guess I’m a hole-punch fan didn’t expect it, but I guess so. You saw my video previously on the face unlock being really easy to crack. I’M fully on the fingerprint train. Now everybody has an opinion about this fingerprint. You see all the comic people you’re holding it too long. Look. We shouldn’t have to have a conversation about how to use a fingerprint people gon na pick it up and go to put their finger on it. That’S regular human beings behavior going on depending on conditions it just.
It doesn’t work a hundred percent of the time, still not as rock-solid as a phone with a rear, capacitive fingerprint scanner. This is the future. This is what we’re living with it’s a screen.
Unlocked. I mean it’s cool, it’s magical that said, was the fingerprint scanner in the back really that offensive. You know if there was something sitting right over here. I don’t know you tell me. Okay, battery life on this device has been amazing.
There’S never been a day where I had to recharge before the evening and be really impressed by that performance is the same thing. It’S super snappy. As expected, everything is moving beautifully. It means the latest flagship specs.
I turned off bixby from the left swipe. So now I guess I got nothing going on I’m a 1-page kind of guy, at least with this current set up right here I got the dark mode turned on. I adapted quite nicely to the 1u i Samsung’s latest skin, which is like not even offensive anymore. So I’m a fan of that.
Of course, I had to change the buttons, the nav buttons on the bottom to be the right way, Samsung give it out of the box. Please it’s about time, all right, let’s get it together there. It is, I mean solid. It’S a good time: it charges Wireless or charges quick over USB type-c, one of the best displays in the game, one of the best cameras in the game with the versatility of the wide-angle. It’S kind of exactly what you expect it to be. It’S as good as you expect it to be, so, of course, at this point, the conversation just comes down to cause. The idea of the flagship price tag is just not that I’m not excited about, not that I won’t use it but, like I just feel the need, I feel the responsibility to let you know that when you’re going premium right now, it’s not like an equivalent exchange Of value like you’re, not paying two or three hundred more and necessarily getting two or three hundred back in terms of value. I just came off the oneplus 60, for example, and didn’t really change my daily life, with the exception, probably of wireless charging and maybe being bothered a bit less by the location of the cutout.
If you feel like you want this phone just understand why you’re buying it you’re kind of in the same territory as an iPhone buyer, just on the Android side, that’s really what this is. It’S like an iPhone for Android users, because if I’m in the oneplus department, I can get two of those almost for the price of this and get a new one for two years or every year and a half or something like that. Instead of having this product right here, budget is a big factor in whether or not this is a good decision for you.
If you’ve got a lot of budget, I say: go for it. You will love this phone, I’m enjoying using this phone. Now there is a question about whether or not this s10 is vs tend to get. Some people have made the case that the s10 II is actually the value point he might be right. I mean it definitely gets closer to some of those competitive products. At the five $ 600 price point: it’s in a weird space: it’s not a really premium! It’S not really budget, it’s not really mid-range, maybe I’ll switch to that one.
Next from this, I think this experience straight into the s10 II experience will give me a nice one-two punch of like did I notice the difference? Was I impacted in a big way? Do I feel like I’m missing something? Maybe that’s the next phone for me. Nonetheless, you will be happy with this. If you can pay the price, if you can foot the bill, that’s the galaxy s 10.
It’S been like three weeks and I don’t think you’ll be disappointed if you buy it, but your wallet definitely will this episode is brought to you by artless. We’Ve been subscribed to the service for the past three years and we think it’s the best music licensing service out there. Music comes from real indie artists and the tracks are all bangers, come check it out this tracks, my favorite.
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