Living with a Samsung Galaxy Note 10
It’s no surprise that Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10 is the most advanced Android phone currently on the market. I’ve been using one as my primary phone for the past few weeks and been impressed by the feel of the phone, the camera, and some of the new features that the S Pen stylus provides. But space babe coque samsung s10 antens102026433 as smartphones in general have become so powerful and so polished, it becomes the little things that stand out on the positive and negative sides.
In many ways, the Note 10 family takes the concept of the Galaxy Note 9 from last year, including the S Pen stylus that has been part of the Note line since the beginning, and updates it to the feature set of the Galaxy S10 family from this spring. For the first coque animaux iphone 7 plus time, the Note 10 comes not as a single device, but as part of a family, with the Note 10+ I tested, which has a 6.8 inch display, bracketed by a smaller but still red currant jam coque samsung s10 antens102020762 large Note 10 with a 6.3 inch screen and the Note 10+ 5G, which as the name implies, adds 5G features. (The Verizon version is now available; versions for other carriers will follow.)
The first thing you notice about the Note 10+ is the size. I thought a 6.4 inch display on the Note 9 was plenty big, but the Note 10+ packs an tumi coque iphone 6 verizon coque7iphone15763 even bigger 6.8 inch display thanks coque apple iphone 6 kenzo to an almost bezel free look. At 6.38 by 3.03 by 0.31 inches (HWD) and weighing 6.91 ounces, it’s about the same size as last year’s Note 9, actually just a tiny bit thinner and a little lighter. The corners of the device are a bit more rectangular than on the S10+ or the Note 9. It’s still a very large phone that some people might find too big it fit in the front pocket of my pants, and worked well coque iphone 6 chill for me.
And that display looks great. It is an AMOLED display, similar to the one used on the S10+, but according to DisplayMate it has better color accuracy, the best ever tested. It’s very bright to 1200 nits so seeing it in bright sunlight isn’t a problem. The screen has a native resolution of 3,040 by 1,440 pixels, but defaults to 2,280 by 1,080 (FHD+) to save battery power. In practice, it’s hard to tell the difference. There is a small round cutout in the center of the screen for the front facing camera, in coque iphone 6 1000 dollars coqueiphone143795 what Samsung calls its Infinity O Display. This is coque iphone 6 qui fait peur lastage33924 less intrusive than the dual camera oval hole in the Galaxy S10+, and even smaller than the single hole on the S10e. rose coque samsung s10 sushicube2776 and is probably the best way of handling the front facing camera I’ve seen. can you buy and coque iphone 6 for an iphone 6s coqueiphone138127 I’d prefer lumee coque iphone 6 ebay coque7iphone14057 no visible camera hole at all, but that seems a way off.
The Note 10+ comes in various colors. The one I tested is called Aura Glow, which means that the back looks like a polished mirror with a gold cast. It’s certainly striking, but picked up fingerprints coque iphone 7 plus disney mickey very easily. Other colors are called Aura Black and Aura White.
It is based on a 2.8 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 octa core processor with 12 GB of RAM, which may be overkill, but was very fast. While the North American versions use the Qualcomm processor, note the many overseas models come with Samsung’s Exynos 9825 processor instead; that seems to be the first major processor made on Samsung’s 7nm process using EUV. PCMag’s review showed very good benchmark numbers for the Note 10+ with the Snapdragon 855; I’ve seen a few benchmarks saying the Qualcomm processor has notably better graphics than the 9825, but haven’t tried that. The 855 supports up to 7CA, LTE Cat. 20, the best LTE modem we’ve seen yet.
It is available with 256 or 512GB of internal storage; my device had 256GB, which seemed more than enough. Samsung removed the expansion microSD slot from the regular Note 10 in order to increase the battery size, but the Note 10+ still has one. You can add a 512GB card to get a full terabyte of storage. (Actually, the slot could theoretically support a 2TB card, but the largest currently on the market are 512GB.) My guess would be that this would be most useful for people who capture a lot of video; that 12GB of RAM is most helpful for editing said video.
The Note 10+ comes with Android 9 Pie with the Samsung One UI. Samsung’s Android skin has become lighter over the years, but it still comes with the company’s own Internet browser, Galaxy store, and a variety of Samsung specific applications, including Samsung’s own voice assistant called Bixby.
S Pen and Bixby
Of course, what makes the Note 10+ and the Note family as a whole unique is the included S Pen, the stylus the pops out of the bottom. As before you can use the S Pen to draw or write on the screen as with any stylus, including the ability to write quick notes on the screen even when locked.
Where I’ve seen people really does the iphone 7 fit the coque iphone 6 coqueiphone131783 take advantage of the Note is when they use the S Pen for actual drawing on the screen, or for editing things like architectural drawings. monstera melt in green coque samsung s10 antens102027110 I’m not enough of an artist to do this often, but do find it useful for making quick notes and the occasional comment in a document.
The S pen has added a 6 axis sensor, and now allows a variety of “air actions” using the coque iphone 6 drake pen alone to control the device. This is perhaps most useful in the camera app, where a press of the pen can take a photo. Other actions let you change camera modes. When you are playing back media, you can use coque iphone 7 lesbian the pen to stop and start the video or adjust the volume. While I can’t say I used this a lot, I can see where it can be quite useful as a remote control.
New this year is a feature that converts your handwriting to text within the Samsung Notes app. You can even save the results to a Word file, as well as to a PDF or image file. It’s an interesting idea, can you use a coque iphone 6 for a iphone 6s coqueiphone132452 but didn’t do a great job with my awful handwriting (then again, no product I’ve ever tested has been particularly good with my handwriting.)
Samsung continues to push its Bixby smart assistant, but it’s less intrusive on the Note 10+ than on other models. Instead of a dedicated Bixby key, Bixby is integrated into the Side Button below the volume control on the side of the device. By default, this will launch Bixby if you double press or press and hold the button, but you can customize this, so that double clicking will launch the camera or a specific app, and that pressing and holding will bring up a power off menu. (Otherwise, you press and hold the side key and power down or press a new power button on the top of the Notifications menu).
As an assistant, Bixby itself just doesn’t work as well as you would want. For instance, I asked it what time the presidential debate was scheduled for, and it told me the time of sunrise. It seemed to do a good job with voice recognition, though many times it just typed the question into Google and showed me the results. There’s a new Bixby marketplace that adds more skills, but in general, I’m not sure why you wouldn’t just use the Google Assistant, which you still can get to at the bottom of the screen or by asking, “OK Google.” performance has become one of the big differentiators in phone performance, and the Note 10+ is at the top of the class.
On the back, you’ll find three traditional cameras, similar to what is on the S10+. The main rear facing camera is a dual aperture 12 megapixel camera that can take shots with f/1.5 or f/2.4 aperture with a 77 degree field of view, which uses somewhat larger pixels. It also has a 12 megapixel “telephoto” (2X) lens with a 45 degree field of view (f.2/1). New to the Note family is a 16 megapixel ultrawide camera (f/2.2) with a 123 degree field of view.
Overall, as with the S10+, I was impressed by how the three cameras give you the ability to take a very wide range of photos:
This is a photo of Grand Central Terminal with the zoom lens (without any digital zoom).
Here’s one with the Wide (default) lens. It’s pretty crisp.
Here’s one with the “ultrawide lens.” Notice just how much of the scene this captured really gives you a better sense of the overall environment. I noticed a bit less pincushioning near the corners than I saw on the S10+.
I find this a much easier alternative to taking a panorama coque iphone 6 poulet (which stitches together multiple shots), though you still have an option to do that if you want an even wider picture.
In general, these seem very similar to the cameras on the S10+, but there are some important software differences.
Most notable is a new Night mode option on the main camera screen that takes a longer exposure in very low light situations if you can hold the camera very still. This doesn’t come up that often for me, but it can be quite useful. The Google Pixel line pioneered this concept, and it seems like Samsung is catching up. (Note this wasn’t on the S10+ originally, but Samsung says it has now been pushed to that device as well.) I found that in very dark situations it really makes a huge difference.
The rear of the camera also has a flash and the Note 10+ adds a VGA depth sensor (also known as a time of flight sensor). This system, which Samsung calls DepthVision, takes up two smaller holes on the back of the device.
This enables some new features. One is a separate app known as Quick Measure that you download from the Galaxy Store and enables you to use your camera to measure the distance between different points of an object to measure it. It takes a little getting used to, but I can see where this might come in handy.
Another is a 3D scanner app that lets you capture an object in 3D, save it as a GIF, and then add it to other photos or coque iphone 7 a 3 videos. This is designed to work with items that are 20 to 80 cm tall, and I found it worked best if I put the object on a tall table that I could circle around easily, and even then I wouldn’t say my results were all that good, though they probably would improve with practice. The results I got were less than stellar, but it is a different feature. You can also create AR Emjoi.
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