Samsung Galaxy S10: What’s New and Improved
The Galaxy S line has officially reached a new milestone as it celebrates its 10th Anniversary. By unveiling the Galaxy S10 series of phones, Samsung truly aims to make this something special. Though the newly unwrapped devices may not be imbued with mind-blowing or revolutionary tech, it is refinement otherwise of the iconic flagship phones.
Across the three S10 family lineup, there is an all new display technology that Samsung implemented for the regular Galaxy S10, the souped-up Galaxy S10+ and the less pricey Galaxy S10e. First off, Samsung S10 is all about the beauty of edge to edge display without the obtrusive notch. This is done by a tiny laser cut-out known as punch-hole display aka Infinity-O as Samsung would like to call it. It houses the camera/s and located on upper right side of the screen.
Another first is the introduction of HDR10+ compatible screen that utilize “dynamic tone mapping” to bring out more detail even in darker portion and adds more contrast for more dynamic picture.
Having a built in on-screen is not something new but the Galaxy S10 and S10+ built upon the technology to make it better and reliable. Instead of using optical sensor, there is an embedded “ultrasonic fingerprint reader”. It can recognize the fingerprint in 3D even without turning the display on — unlike those 2D optical on-screen reader that needs to illuminate the screen in order to work.
As for the camera both the 6.1-inch Galaxy S10 and the 6.4-inch Galaxy S10+ has a triple camera system. It consists of 12 MP, f/1.5-2.4 wide lens, 12 MP, f/2.4, telephoto lens and a 16 MP, f/2.2 ultrawide lens. The 5.8-inch Samsung Galaxy S10e meanwhile has a dual camera set up with 12 MP, f/1.5-2.4 wide lens and 16 MP, f/2.2 ultrawide lens. We wont go into further details about the shooting capabilities of the phones. But it looks like Samsung has did a bang-up job in terms of photography as it manage to garner a 109 DXOMark Mobile rating an on par with the best out there. The S10+ actually comes on top when it comes to selfie with 96 score and currently the highest among tested phones.
Wireless charging is also present since Galaxy S6 but Power Share is a feature of the S10 family that allows to reverse charge compatible devices wirelessly.
What I find the most interesting aspect however is the pricing. The ‘cheapest’ of the bunch is the Galaxy S10e which starts at $749 and a direct competition to the iPhone XR. Most of the features of the more expensive S10s are still intact such as the latest Snapdragon 855 and slightly downgraded 1080p, Dynamic AMOLED and all its HDR 10+ goodness (save for the on-screen fingerprint scanner in which the S10e has a side mounted scanner instead).
Meanwhile, the regular Galaxy S10 starts at $899 while the bigger S10+ has a whopping $999. These devices will be available on March 8. For comparison of specs and features, check it here.
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