I'm not mad, just disappointed... - Galaxy S10/S10+ Review #Helpful Post

it's truly amazing to me how unnecessary

your standard phone review has become

these days here's a post from user VAR

core over on XDA developers from two

weeks before Samsung unveiled their

latest and greatest s series smartphones

the Galaxy S ten es10 and S 10 plus the

pros over the s9 are much faster

processing speeds bigger battery and

display in display fingerprint reader 5g

in the second release a bevy of

specialized cameras larger internal and

external storage and on the high-end

model twelve gigabytes of RAM it would

seem to have no real competition but

there are two glaring cons as well the

camera cutouts marring the display and

its price yeah okay sounds about right

so I should probably just hire that guy

or gal and save myself some time but I

didn't instead I spent the last few

weeks trying really hard to love the s10

plus and its little brother over here so

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it is no big secret that I am NOT a fan

of odd shaped displays I mean

ignoring the admittedly quite hilarious

purpose made wallpapers there is quite

literally zero content that is designed

to have a bite taken out of it why well

I'll tell you why because it's a silly

backward step in our otherwise fairly

consistent journey towards displays that

occupy our field of vision as naturally

and fully as possible and it's obviously

one that isn't going to last so why be

like the TV shows that failed to embrace

widescreen and have all your content

look stupid in a year or two or like

today for that matter and yeah I think

that's actually the worst part of all of

this Samsung stayed away for this long

only to finally belly flop face-first

into this unfortunate industry trend

right when their Chinese competitors

like Oppo vivo and Nubia have already

declared it dead all three of those have

already shipping phones with no knotch

and nearly full coverage displays thanks

to innovations like motorized and

sliding selfie cams or in what is IMO

the most futuristic and cool move the

elimination of the selfie cam altogether

in favor of using the rear camera for

everything something that probably would

have been a good move for Samsung this

time around I was pretty pleased overall

with the rear camera the app needs to go

back to allowing both still and video

capture from the same screen but for

video the only glaring issue that needs

to be resolved is the frame skipping

when you capture a still during video

recording and as for stills regardless

of DXL mark scores and what-have-you

I would still take an iPhone 10s or a

pixel three over the galaxy s 10 but it

is a clear step up from my note 9 when

it comes to delivering sharp photos of

my wonderful but always moving children

and managed adequate low-light

performance for my purposes no the issue

with the camera is

the front-facing camera or cameras are

you seriously telling me that this was

the best you could do both the

wide-angle and regular lens deliver at

best no improvement over the note nine

and at worst some of the most

inexplicably poor results that I've seen

in a few generations what the heck is

this there's just no excuse now honors

latest phone that has a pinhole display

this on the s10 plus this is an exit

wound and you went and put that in my

screen for these results these photos

you're looking at here were taken under

identical conditions on full auto okay

so I got that out of my system in all

seriousness though I did mostly stop

noticing the pinhole after a while so

how about we talk about day to day use

because there's actually a lot to love

here starting with battery life a seven

nanometer processor with 4100 milliamp

hours in this form factor yes please

wicked fast wireless and wired charging

yeah I'll take some of that too now some

Exynos users have been complaining of

higher than normal idle battery drain

but it's yet to be determined if that's

a widespread issue or just Samsung

phones doing Samsung things and many

other users particularly of the

Snapdragon variety are reporting screen

on time in the range of 6 to even 8

hours or more and that honestly is more

in line with my experience this thing

has been great so far on the subject of

the screen we're ignoring the shrapnel

wound it's actually been a while since

I've been this wowed by a phone display

I mean it's so vibrant and it manages to

feel just like extra responsive in spite

of the fact that it still runs at a mere

60 Hertz also Samsung has really managed

to tone down the distortion and the

dimness of the curved glass along the

edges even compared to the note 9 from

less than a year ago if only they had

watched my review of that phone because

they actually managed to undo some of

the progress that they made last summer

when they widened the side bezels so

like the note 9 the S 10 plus is

gigantic device that makes one-handed

operation a little bit challenging and

Samsung obviously knows this because

they've made some helpful optimizations

to their Android skin to minimize how

often it is that you'll actually need to

reach all the way up to the top this

there's your brightness slider it's not

bad right it's just that as cool as one

handed mode is I don't buy a big phone

to use it at 50% size and by slimming

down the side bezels again they've

dramatically increased the frequency

with which I accidentally trigger apps

or keyboard presses or the back button

while I'm reaching across the display

it's a non-issue in my opinion on the

s10 but it bothered me on the plus and I

hope they don't do the same thing on the

note 10 another thing that I'm hoping

surely in vain not to encounter on the

note 10 is the ultrasonic fingerprint

sensor now I got the software update

that did improve the sub 20% success

rate that I was having with this thing

see I got it there but it's still not a

hundred percent and this is especially

true it seems when my hands are really

dry making matters worse even when it's

working properly it's just straight up

not as fast as the optical sensor that's

employed by one plus in the 60 like not

even close now it's better than picking

up my phone and touching the back of it

but it does hurt

the otherwise great overall

responsiveness of this device like it

really does feel great in the hand too I

can't actually speak for the ceramic

version both Samsung and D brand

actually sent over the glass backed ones

but it's thin and well balanced with

pretty much all the things I've come to

expect from a Samsung flagship device

except better the speaker standout is

achieving much better stereo separation

on supported content like this is a

really loud amplified earpiece speaker

in spite of its diminutive size and on

the bottom Oh a headphone jack that's a

welcome sight

oh so turns out you can get ip68

resistance with it it's just more work

how about that the one step backward

here is the ergonomics of the lock

button again this isn't a big issue on

the smaller s10 but on the plus

seems like what they've done is moved it

up uncomfortably far on the phone in

order to fix a problem that doesn't

exist anymore now that they're finally

allowing users to remap the bixby button

so you're not constantly mashing bixby

when you try to lock your phone on that

note I don't actually hate nixb I just

don't want her showing up uninvited so I

just changed it to a double-click that's

also a nice new little option they've

gotten there and I haven't had any

frustrating issues since then so how did

this take you numpties two years to fix

when you had all the user feedback it's

such an obvious solution yay on that

subject here's a few more things for you

to ignore for the next 24 months then

spend an hour fixing when someone in

senior management finally watches a

review or to bring back the extra

granularity and volume control with the

slider please I listen to reruns or

music while I sleep and I can't get it

quiet enough anymore also what is this

locate an app nonsense when I search in

the app drawer just let me drag it to

the home screen please and finally

Samsung do away with this stupid carrier

lock crap when you first install a sim

if I bought an unlocked phone that's

because that's what I wanted I know the

carrier's want you to do this but grow a

pair anyway I really don't want the

thing Samsung has done wrong to distract

from what they've done right here I

still hate the island not ugly

distracting and most importantly

completely unnecessary but the bottom

line is that the s10 and s10 plus are

lightning fast with what is in my

opinion the best Samsung software

experience yet and a great feel in the

hand they have problems but I do tend to

find them easier to forgive when I can

sit down and write this entire review

while listening to music on my thigh OFA

7 is yeah they may have it key caveman

wires attached to them but you know what

they blow the doors off your air pods

and you can have them from me when you

pry them from my cold dead fingers

speaking of cold dead fingers dbrand

is gonna kill me when they see this

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and skins are a great way to not just

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preview in real time exactly what its

gonna look like so you don't just have

to go okay i want yellow here or i want

you know carbon-fiber there are this

absolutely sick man I love this

honeycomb finish that they sent over on

the s10 and s 2 n plus you can mix and

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