Galaxy Note 10 vs. iPhone 11— From the Android Expert By Vector

Sponsored by curiosity stream get over 2400 documentaries for free for 31 days. Link in the description. Welcome. Thank you so much for joining me. I'm Renee Richey- and this is vector. It's Samsung's, big Galaxy Note 10 day today, so I've got Daniel Baker managing editor of Android central on the line to tell all of us all about it.

This year has been about just expanding Samsung's product line. The early. You know the Galaxy S 10 introduced a third model and then not as well known, but certainly appreciated in the developing market. Samsung overhauled its budget line with the series, and it introduced like seven, eight twelve I, don't even know how many models and rent ran the gamut from $100 all the way up to the fascinating Galaxy, an 80 which you know is basically a flagship. So the note 10 sits on obviously at the top, as it always does, but there are two models: there's the smaller note, 10 and the larger note, 10 plus and while most people will pay attention to the larger note, 10 plus, because it is just a behemoth.

The smaller no 10 is really taking on the iPhone 10s and the and sort of the small phone market, the small flagship, if you will, and I think it does quite a good job at that, but like with the middle child's Galaxy S 10, which really didn't get a lot of attention. I worried that the smaller note 10 will fall to the same fate and people will just not really give it much mind. Considering the note 10 plus, is just that much more interesting, and also I think the note, if nothing else, it's known for its, like the s-pen, of course, but it's known for its size, it's known for excess I, think Samsung always introduces new technologies and experiments with new features on the note line, at least they used to, and this year they haven't really done that. The note 10 plus, while certainly bigger and very powerful, has a new. It has a re-designed s-pen, and you know just showcases everything that Samsung is capable of does not introduce that many new features on the device itself.

What it's doing, interestingly, is it's tethering itself to the PC? It's giving us a ton of new features that allow you to interact with your phone from a laptop and wirelessly transferred information text messages, photos documents from your note to a computer and that's a dynamic that I think Samsung is leaning into after three years with decks, which, while not a huge feature and a huge moneymaker for Samsung, he is definitely still a differentiator, and the other thing I, think that Samsung in general has been known for is a sort of nerd friendliness like after a lot of other manufacturers, stopped doing it. They still had removable batteries, they still had SD card slots, they still had headphone jacks and that all sounds like it's changing now, ?, it's definitely the end of an era for the headphone jack Samsung will likely like it did with the note 10 get rid of it for the s 10 or the S 11, which is the big flagship of the company. But this is the first time a Samsung flagship hasn't had a headphone jack and the smaller Note 10 does not have an SD card slot, which is fascinating again. The first in a Samsung phone not to have it the larger s, 10 plus or no 10 plus does, but you can also see the writing's on the wall for that feature. Granted the base storage is 256 gigabytes, so you're not going to be necessarily wanting for space, but this is a company that is known for appeasing its pro users and there are going to be a lot of them out there that are not going to be happy with this decision.

Camera technology we are a post the other day about what Huawei is doing with cameras compared to what everybody else is doing with cameras and I. Think the comparison was this giant Huawei sensor. Next to this relatively small Samsung Center, a sensor awareness is Samsung with the cameras on the Galaxy, Note n-b-a think there's going to be a ton of competitive on that this error they're nowhere near where they should be I've, been in out through I've, been very outspoken about my disappointment with Samsung's camera tech in the last couple of years. The array, while you know new, for the s10 line with three cameras, the actual core main sensor, is basically unchanged since the Galaxy S7. It's a one over two point: six inch sensor: it's got.

You know that variable aperture that we saw introduced with the note with the s9, but that has not had the kind of practical impact that I think we were expecting or hoping. In the end. The phone takes fine photos. It takes good photos in Lola in daylight and decent photos in low light, especially with the newly introduced night mode that you can now explicitly enter with a recent update to the s10 line. But what we're seeing is that they're being surpassed they're being surpassed by pixel on the AI side, on the post-processing side, and they're being surpassed by Huawei on the sheer physics side, where they're introducing massive sensors and doing a lot more with them? Samsung has a long way to go to catch up, and this is not that this is not them catching up.

The course that the core tech on the Galaxy Note tend to that of the s10. With some minor changes to the telephoto and the introduction of a time-of-flight sensor, but the results that you're going to see on the note 10 are going to be basically what we've seen from every other Samsung phone on the form the last couple of years, and that's that's pretty disappointing to me, who is the Galaxy Note 10 for at this point like whom? Would you recommend it to me? Don't know I. You know this is a thousand-dollar phone. It's the note.9 was famously $1,000 and in the Android world at the time. That was basically unheard of now we're moving up to $1,100 MSRP for the note 10 Plus.

This is not a cheap phone, it's very, very close in terms of features and technology to s10 line which can be obtained for hundreds of dollars. Less I really don't know anymore. How many people are you know these diehards pen stands that will you know they will? They will die on the vine trying to support it? I, just think that the S Pen is no longer an essential tool for the vast majority of smartphone users and for those who do need it. I would honestly recommend earlier versions of the note I mean I've been using in order to prepare for this launch. Furthermore, I loaded up my note 8 from 2017, and it's working great.

You got the 1 UI update a few days ago. It runs really well, and it has the S Pen that has been basically unchanged for years. The S Pen in this year's note, 10 lineups, is a little different because you can use air gestures to change, songs or take a photo things like that. But the core fundamentals of the S Pen are unchanged, and if you would like the Galaxy experience without needing that that stylus go with a s10, you won't be disappointed, and we've seen go. Glen is leaking their own pixel for this year, which I want to get into with you at some point, but not now, but based on what you've seen so far about the pixel for wear.

How would you position the note if people are thinking about the note 10 versus the pixel thought before? What would you tell them? Well, I think the pixel 4 is going to be a lot more interesting than the leeks and then Google's own leeks have made it appear. The sole chip just introduces a bunch of interesting UX opportunities that and that's the radar. That's the radar chip that was developed in advanced technologies and projects inside Google. It could be one of those things where you know your phones across the room, and you just want to change the volume on a song. You don't want to you, don't want to hey G, you just want to your know twist.

You yeah twist your finger a little and change the volume. That's the very simplest version of that input, but Google I think you know, because they're owning more and more of their own of the stack I think that solely could be fascinating and something that would aside from the camera, really get people talking about the pixel lineup again, and it sounds like the pixel. Four is gonna heavily compete for real estate in nerd brains, with the tech that they're offering I agree, and especially with the reduction in the number of manufacturers competing in North America, especially for Android users attention you know, Samsung is just going to be pushing out yet another great phone, but maybe, and I think the nerds in the room are probably gonna, be waiting until October for Google's announcement of the pixel four, and I know: we've seen additional Huawei phones, we've seen additional OnePlus phones. But how do you? How do you sort of compare the Galaxy Note 10 to people who are now used to getting flagship? Like features even the Google, even the same Samsung's Galaxy S, ten yeah, he was it and the Google Pixel 3a they're, used to getting a lot of the flagship features at half the flagship right. Its interesting is that Samsung introduced.

It's a series phones in the U. S. at a carrier so Verizon now stocks, the 350 dollar galaxy, a 50 which is a tremendous phone. Furthermore, it's got a triple camera setup. Furthermore, it's got an in display fingerprint sensor, and it's its a pretty competitive phone for the price.

So even Samsung understands that, where it's still going to price out many of the of its customers at a thousand eleven hundred dollars, it is giving those loyal, Samsung brand aficionados, something to talk about at the low-end and mid-range. So I, don't know whether Samsung can continue increasing its pricing every year, but it is would, it's probably going to as long as Apple has the cojones to do the same thing and I think that is really what it comes down to alright. So you just mentioned Apple. We have the iPhone 11 on the horizon as well and, as usual, there's been a ton of leaks. There equilateral three camera arrays and a new haptic engine there'll be a max version.

Every year, we're teased with pencil support. We never quite get it. Where do you? Where do you see that positioned against the Galaxy Note? Well, you know the Snapdragon 855 in the Galaxy Note 10 is powerful, and it's an it was the biggest year-over-year leap over previous snapdragons that we've seen I think in four years. So the know the Snapdragon in that phone is powerful, but it's still a same chip that we've seen in basically every other Android flagship. Interestingly, the phone is not going to be powered by the newly announced Snapdragon, a 55 Plus, which is aimed at gaming phones.

You know Apple is increasingly in control of its entire is its entire chips flow, and it basically has shown year after year that it's its a silicon lead is not going away now, with the prospect of it putting its own modems and its phones not this year, but certainly possible in 20, 21 or 22 will see increased competition on the end of the 5g side of things. I, don't know how much people are going to compare the know the iPhone 11 max or whatever it's called, but it's its very interesting. That Samsung is introducing a smaller note product in anticipation of increased competition, because I think that if it's looking for new customers, it's going to find them with iPhone 10s, and you know regular iPhone sized users who are not that enamored with iOS anymore. But again the crossover is, maybe may not be as much this year as it has been in years past. So you mentioned 5g and I.

Think that's a that's a great place for us to end. The Samsung has been an early adopter and early adopter 5g, but we still haven't seen much in the way of 5g. Is there if someone is sitting on a micro CEL are those the people that should look at it? Is there anybody else who should be looking at future-proofing we're just getting on the 5g train as it starts to huff and puff in the station? No, no! It's not this year, even though the Galaxy S or the bouts. You know ten plus five G, which is the mouthful that I never wish I had to say, is gonna, be using Qualcomm's newer and much more efficient, x, 55 modem chips, which supports both millimeter wave and sub six. In the same in the same piece of silicon, I really don't think that there's any reason to jump on 5g in 2019, I think wait until next year, when the actual networks are up and running, and you don't have to worry that if you cross the street or around the corner of your hometown, you're going to go back onto LTE, there's no reason to jump on 5g just yet.

So. To sum things up, it sounds like: if you really love Samsung, you really hate headphone jacks, and you want you some s-pen, then boy do they have a new phone? The phone is beautiful. It's its! It's really. You know. I've been I've been down on some of it, but I have to say that Samsung has done a great job, designing the note 10 it's objectively better-looking than the s10 lineup.

It feels as always extremely solid and just well, rounded, literally and figuratively with that in that that curved OLED display and now with the smaller Note 10, there is at least a note for people who don't want massive phones, but want that s-pen as well. So if that's you're going to love this phone, it's just I think that that audience is shrinking every year you can find Daniel on Twitter at journey Dan, and you should right now head on over to Android central on the web and on YouTube for much more so much more galaxy. Note ending a shiny, new Galaxy, Note 10 to do with it. Splash curiosity stream. Up on that, big beautiful display, trio city stream, is the world's first streaming service to address our lifelong quest to learn to explore to understand it features original content with Stephen Hawking, Sigourney, Weaver, Michel, Baku, David, Attenborough, Sylvia, Earle, Jane Goodall, and many more take Trek nation, for example.

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