Samsung Galaxy S10: Review

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If you’re not already foaming at the mouth at the starting price, you might be interested to discover that the Galaxy S10 represents the next era of Samsung smartphones. This is the first Samsung phone with an in-screen fingerprint reader, the first with a triple camera arrangement and the first with an HDR 10+ screen.

The Galaxy S10 is a dramatic departure from the phone that came before it. Internally, Samsung’s own Exynos 9820 mobile chipset makes its very first appearance, promising vastly improved processing speeds and greater power efficiency. This is backed up by a healthy dose of RAM and internal storage space, which can be expanded.

The Galaxy S10’s revamped design is perhaps its most noticeable change. You won’t struggle to tell this phone apart from its predecessor this time around: the Galaxy S10’s chassis is now surrounded by an iPhone Xs-like silver-tinted trim. It looks just as swish, in fact, and even the chin and forehead bezels have been completely removed.

In doing so, Samsung has sidestepped the notch trend, opting instead for a pinhole selfie camera, 10-megapixel in resolution, located in the top right of the screen. At first, I thought this might be quite distracting, but it actually blends in rather nicely and has necessitated an increase in the phone’s screen-to-body ratio, which is now up to a massive 93.1%.

Samsung has also introduced an extra 30 scenes to the phone’s “Intelligent Camera” neural processing unit (NPU). Essentially, this feature enables the camera to identify the object in the frame, be it a dog, cat or plant, and adjusts the camera settings accordingly for the best image possible.

You might be disappointed that it doesn’t bend, but Samsung’s Galaxy S10 still represents the very pinnacle of smartphone technology. It moves things on in design, drawing level with Apple in terms of pure aesthetics, while simultaneously introducing a wealth of welcome new additions.

Without question, the S10 is a formidable Android phone. The question that remains, however, is whether or not pundits think all of these improvements are worth the increased cost. This is a heck of a lot of money to pay for any smartphone, no matter how impressive it may be, but it’s absolutely worth the upgrade. This is Samsung’s biggest leap forward in years.