Is the Samsung Galaxy S10 Worth It? #Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin there is a lot

that can be said about the brand new

Galaxy S 10 it can be summed up pretty

quickly this is the phone to beat for

2019 after 10 years of Galaxy devices we

have one seriously nice piece of

hardware with the s10 put it

side-by-side with an earlier model it is

absolutely crazy at how far Samsung has

come now you can't talk about this phone

without acknowledging its most unique

feature the hole punch display yeah it's

definitely they all right now I recently

did a video talking all about the hole

punch display versus the notch which you

guys can go check out but there's no

getting around the fact that while this

is a pretty much full screen display it

is kind of distracting to look at that

hole punch all the time now because of

this there is one key disadvantage to

the s10 plus versus the standard s10 in

the s10 II both of those phones have a

single camera up front which means the

hole punch display is much much smaller

than the double camera on the s10 plus

sure it looks a little bit more

distinctive but you're losing basically

double the real estate like that now

I've kind of gotten used to at this

point to be totally honest but it is a

little bit of true Civ still and I think

this is one of those things where time

will definitely tell whether this is a

good idea or whether will look back on

the hole punch is something that's even

worse than the knotch the screen itself

is typical Samsung bright vibrant and

pretty much as good as it gets as far as

smartphones go today what's new this

year is that the fingerprint sensor is

moved from the back of the phone to the

front now it's underneath the display

and generally speaking it works pretty

well so it's very similar in fact to d1

plus 60 not only an accuracy but as well

as speed now you can't just put your

fingerprint anywhere on the display

there is a fairly small sensor in the

middle but once you get used to it you

can pretty easily unlock the phone

without having to tap the screen or do

anything you just set your fingerprint

it will wake up and you're good to go

the only galaxy has ten that misses out

of this feature is the s10 II which

instead has a fingerprint sensor on the

side of the phone now personally I

actually don't think this is a huge loss

even though it is a cool feature to have

it underneath the display it still feels

a little bit more like a gimmick that I

must have feature the rest of the

hardware is absolutely top-notch after

all these years it's weird that Samsung

is still the only ones really pull off

the curved front and back glass and I

like does it look nice but importantly

it gives a very nice feel in the hand

amazingly if you look on the bottom of

the phone you'll find that there is

still a headphone jack now I don't know

how much long

this is going to stick around at this

point it feels like the s10 is one of

the very few flagships that still has it

but huge props to Samsung on this one

and to top it all off

Samsung now allows you to remap the

Bigsby button this is an incredible

brave new world we live in if that's not

enough we also still have stereo

speakers onboard even though we don't

have really kind of any sort of top

bezel there's a tiny little driver up

top which sounds pretty good there is

not a lot to complain about with this

hardware I'll be totally honest with you

Samsung absolutely nailed it this year

speaking of hardware something that

returns this year is decks so Samsung is

one of the few companies that really

fully takes advantage of the USBC port a

lot of other phones just use it for

charging with this you can kind of turn

it into a full desktop all you do is

take a single USBC cable and while you

could use a deck stock what I personally

prefer is running it to a USBC monitor

not only do you get a full display but

you also get stuff like mouse and

keyboard support and honestly Android

apps have come a long way as far as

being able to be used in a Windows sort

of fashion and no Dex is not the fastest

thing in the world it does feel a little

bit stuttery compared to running the

apps natively on the phone but this is

absolutely the dream right you take your

phone you use it all day you drop it

into a dock or you plug something in and

it turns into essentially a full desktop

computer

if only was just a little bit faster

don't let that fool you though this is

an absolute performance beast when

you're using it as a phone here in the

US all models of the Galaxy S 10 use the

same snapdragon 855 the main difference

is just in the amount of RAM as well as

the amount of storage there are a ton of

different SKUs but pretty much all of

them have eight gigs of RAM with the

exception of the base model of the s10

II which has six gigs as well as the

high-end version of the s10 Plus which

has 12 regardless though you shouldn't

see any major difference between the

different phones it's very nice to see

that you're not getting sort of a skimp

down version when you go to the lower

end models performance should be very

similar across the board speaking of

that 855 it is a big step up over the

845 of last year now it's still an 8

core processor but they've done

something a little bit different so you

have four cores which are a little bit

more on the power efficient side and you

have three big cores for heavier tasks

but there's also a single core which is

a higher clock speed which is especially

helpful for single thread performance

which let's be real is a lot of what you

do on your phone every day

that plus the new seven animeid process

really pays off put it side by side with

not only last year's models but as well

as the brand new iPhones and you'll see

that while yes it's not quite as fast as

that iPhone 10s it is much closer than

Qualcomm and Snapdragon have been in

years graphics are also an improvement

we're looking at a solid uplift versus

last year's model and again it is not

quite there with the iPhone 812 but it

is a lot closer than it used to be now

small note about cooling well the s10

the s10 you have fairly standard cooling

the s10 plus actually has a vapor

chamber now I don't have those other two

phones into test but with this guy it

actually does a very good job of staying

fairly cool even you're under extended

gaming loads

I saw a top out or around 40 to 41

degrees Celsius the galaxy is 10 line is

also one of the first phones to support

the brand new Wi-Fi 6 now this isn't

going to be dramatically faster than the

previous generation of Wi-Fi it's maybe

20% or so but the big difference is this

should be much more reliable in more

congested areas which of course is

basically everywhere at this point now I

haven't had a ton of time to try with a

Wi-Fi 6 router yet definitely stay tuned

this actually is something that could be

a pretty big deal going forward battery

light is definitely a strong suit with

the S 10 plus and a big part of that is

due to that huge 4100 milliamp hour

battery I've had no problems making it

through a full day of use now as you'd

expect the s10 is water-resistant and it

does support fast wireless charging

what's really cool about this is that it

supports reverse wireless charging turn

on power share and all you need to do is

take another phone or another accessory

and the s10 will begin to charge it via

qi wireless charging this is a joke

feature especially considering that you

have such a big battery on the s10 plus

it's a legitimately super super useful

thing to do especially if you're a nice

friend who wants to top off after the

end of the day we're like ah I got left

here you go when it comes to cameras the

10 megapixel front facing camera on the

galaxy s 10 is all new this year now on

the plus model you do get a secondary

depth sensor which is nice for portraits

but it also means that the little hole

punch thing is well not so little so if

we take a normal shot it looks pretty

decent but we also do have the improved

portrait mode now the blur effect

actually looks pretty decent it still

does have an issue with my glasses like

every other front-facing camera ever but

so there are some very interesting

effects with the portrait so you can do

a sort of like weird zoom which actually

doesn't look that

I mean some of this stuff is really fun

if you have the right kind of shot you

can get a really cool effect Jules will

have the colour-pop mode which makes the

background not only blurred but also

black and white which is very sad yeah

you know what some of this stuff is

actually really cool like I know a lot

of times the portrait mode stuff is

gimmicky but the different options here

are totally unique and actually do work

pretty well and of course though that's

not the entire story on the back of the

galaxy s 10 plus we have a full three

cameras so the main white Ayub camera is

essentially unchanged from last year you

still have optical image stabilization

as well as that cool dual pixel

autofocus and the dual apertures if

that's not enough the tools for you and

on top of that the telephoto camera is

also very similar it does have PO is you

really have seeing any kind of major

differences on the actual hardware side

of things

what's new is a brand new wide-angle

camera which is standard on the s10 II

the S 10 and the S 10 plus the only

thing that the e really drops is that

telephoto camera so for an example this

is what the telephoto looks like this is

the standard shot and this is the

wide-angle you can see that there's a

pretty wide range here now I personally

find that the wide-angle is probably the

most useful obviously are gonna be using

the main camera 90% of the time I would

just find that telephoto is usually not

that much higher quality than just

digitally zooming in

but that wide-angle camera actually does

work really well video is also pretty

impressive on the x10 so this is what

the wide-angle camera looks like if we

punch into the standard you can see that

we're still getting a lot of range and

we go all the way into the telephoto is

it kind of stutters for a second you can

see you get some very different focal

lengths but the camera goes a lot

farther than just that especially when

it comes to video you're also getting

double the record time on the super

slow-motion I gotta say even though it's

not something I would use every day when

you pull it off it is a very very cool

effect no sure well the s10 match

something like that pixel three as far

as raw image quality

not really but because you have all

these different modes the video is so

solid I mean especially considering that

you have that super wide angle lens I

don't think anyone is going to be

particularly disappointed with the

camera of the galaxy s 10 this year

there is no getting around that the

galaxy s 10 is an expensive phone now

well the S 10 a is kind of reasonable at

750 bucks if you want to get the S 10

plus like this model it's going to start

at a thousand if you go for the full

maxed out one terabyte ceramic model it

is 1600 bucks realistically though this

is just kind of the world we live in at

this point the thousand-dollar flagship

is here to stay

and beyond price there's really not a

lot I have to complain about with the

s10 as far as an Android flagship goes

there's really no other recommendation

that I have right now

beyond the s10 and especially this s10

plus it really is that good so of course

the question is is the galaxy s10 worth

it

yeah simple as that yeah