Samsung Galaxy Note10+ Review By MobileTechReview

This is Lisa from mobile tech review, and it's that time of year this is the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1, plus two different sizes. I know some of you said that you just don't understand the point of that. Well, the point is not just that. The note 10 is a little more affordable, starting at nine hundred and forty-nine dollars. If you could ever call that affordable. You can't really write but anyway, and the note 10 plus starts at ten ninety-nine calling $1,100 well a lot of people like the note they're intrigued by it.

They thought they might want the s-pen, but the size of this is always what said set them running away. So now, with the note, 10 you've actually got something that's about the size of the regular Samsung Galaxy S 10, which, by today's dinner, is considering a very manageable, not so huge phone which is cool. But if you go for the note, 10 plus you've got to phone this about the same size as the Samsung Galaxy Note 9, or the Galaxy S 10 plus, but with the biggest screen yet six point. Eight inches I mean one thing: I have to say about Samsung is if it is amazing how they managed if it is truly bigger and bigger screens into devices while making their devices themselves smaller. Also, the display on this again, you know, Samsung makes the OLED displays for a lot of perfect phones, including the iPhone the OnePlus 7 pro of Samsung's own phones.

But just what do you think you can't get any better, and this one is the most beautiful screen yet that they have made and display made says it's indistinguishable from perfect in terms of color accuracy as well, so no more garish colors and all that sort of thing you can set it to dynamic and to be a little zingy. But it's realistic, yet beautiful and saturated we're gonna, look at it now by the way, there is also a five gene variant supposedly for both sizes of note, 10 phones right now in the United States, just the note 10 plus is available with 5g and that's on Verizon I, really don't recommend doing 5g. At this point number one coverage is really not very good. Being able to take advantage of it and not so much, the bands are not even all settled for coverage, so what you buy this year might not be the ideal for next year and the plans cost more to so call it. The regular 4G LTE you'll also get better battery life and less heat as well.

The phone is available, as always on all major carriers, and it's also available as an unlocked phone that does both GSM and CDMA. So you know that means Verizon and AT&T. For example, two kinds of networks are supported on, thanks. I have the unlocked version here now, I, like unlock phones, for obvious reasons. You can use it on any carrier with any sim that you want, but some people do prefer the carrier versions to get the carrier version of visual voicemail about usually that's downloadable, other customizations and also because for some reason the carrier versions tend to get OS updates a little quicker now and Samsung is pretty good about your monthly security updates, but for the OS updates, and they're, not so superfast, and it usually happens on the carrier.

First, in the box, you get a set of 8?kg wired headphones with a USB connector, because this is the first flagship Samsung Galaxy phone to give up on the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack. So if you're, just going to walk out of the room right now and close your browser and well I hear you I've been using Bluetooth audio for a while now. So it doesn't affect me that much but at least you do get those wired buds in the box and probably will see more and more USB-C earbuds and headphones on the market as time progresses, but that is kind of a step backwards for the note line which is known as the Maneuver phone. That could do it all, but it follows the trends to you. Remember when the note was the last one to have a removable battery, for example, sooner or later these things just go now, one thing to know and if you're looking at that, no pun intended you're.

Looking at the note versus the note, 10 plus the notes in plus has a micros card slot and the note 10 does not I think they were just physically. Wasn't room for an inside there, so if expandable storage is important to keep that in mind, crying I'm, the state's version we have, the Snapdragon 855 processor you'll get a Samsung Enos in other countries. Now it's not the Snapdragon 855 plus. We see that coming on the Seuss rogue phone too, very soon the performance difference doesn't look like it's going to be that big, so yeah, the gone are the days when the note was always a bit ahead of the Samsung Galaxy S line. Now they kind of just struggled to keep parity with each other.

More than anything else in terms of RAM, you get eight gigs around with a no ten. You get twelve Ram with the note 10 plus. That is a lot of RAM, and it helps if you want to use Samsung decks, which we'll talk about a little later. You get 256 gigs of storage, with a note 10, or your choice of 256 or 512 gigs of storage. With a note, 10 plus the phone looks and feels very premium compared to the note 9.

It feels easier to hold this one thing: Samsung does manage to improve with every generation where the note 9 felt kind of like a handful. Yet slippery like you were going to drop it. This one actually got lighter and a little slimmer on the edges. It certainly looks premium I mean this phone is sort of like a BMW M car Mercedes-AMG as I go, and it should be for the price. Also, the Oh whole camera up front.

Well now we just have a single 10, megapixel selfie camera, so there's not a double hole: punch like we had for the s10 plus, and now it's centered and very small they've, gotten a smaller camera lens and sensor up there. So it's much less obtrusive than certainly a notch or even the kind of larger and slightly weird or off-center cameras that Samsung is using for the Galaxy as 10 plus, for example, the available colors will depend on the country and region that you're in here in the United States we get black, we get white, we get blue, which is a Best Buy in the United States exclusive, but you can get it from Samsung via as an unlocked phone there. So we have obviously and there's a new aura glow. Well, if you show our glow and video and in photos, it looks like exceptionally colorful. What it really is a pretty monochromatic chrome, shiny back, but it reflects everything in the environment, so it picks up all sorts of colors.

It looks pretty neat. It gets disgusting with fingerprints almost immediately, though no 10 phones run Android, 9.0 Pi. We do not know when you're going to get Android 10 again. This is Samsung, probably not so superfast, if you're really into that get a pixel four phones when it comes out for a faster OS updates, and it's running Samsung's, one UI, which is certainly still a great improvement over Touch ID and the phone is very fast and very fluid. I don't have complaints, and you still have your little side.

Swipeable launcher for your quick launcher for apps. The usual Samsung features that you expect to see plus a lot of S Pen features that we'll talk about. You have stereo speakers, one by the earpiece one bottom firing there EKG branded there: okay, they're, not bad, obviously, good. A little stereo separation, I still think the iPhone Menace max speakers sound better sorry, folks, so back to the gorgeous display again, if you get the smaller node you're going to get a six point, three inches 20 to 80 by 1080, display that it's 401 PPI. If you go at the 6.8 inch, no 10 Plus, then you've got 30 40 by 1440 pixels and 498 PPI. So this resolution is basically mirrored the s 10 and the S 10, plus just with bigger screens peak brightness is 1200 minutes.

Now, that's only going to happen if you're outdoors and your auto brightness enabled or if it needs to enable that for HDR effects make the white super whites in the scene. That sort of thing but very easy to see outdoors there is a factory installed plastic screen protector, and it's so well installed. You really, you won't see it you'll feel it around the edge of the curved glass there a little, and you can remove if it's safe. This is not like the Samsung Galaxy fold, where the display will fall apart and die. If you take it off it outside you'll notice, the screen protector a little adds a little reflectance polarized glasses might be an issue with it.

You can't take it off if you want, but I have to say other than the facts: plastic. It's not gonna. Last forever, and they've done a pretty good job with that they move the power button. Wow, I know it seems like not a big deal, but if you're used to Samsung phones and the note 9 might take a little getting used to they swapped it to the opposite side. So both your power and your volume controls are on the same side now and there is no Bigamy button hallelujah, but Samsung did commandeer the power button instead of the default.

When you press and hold the power button on an Android phone, you get choices of reboot power. It down, maybe take a screenshot here. Long press brings a big speak, but thank goodness, you can go to settings, and you can change that to bring back the original Android functionality if you're not big, speaks fan. Also, if you swipe the home screen there, you're still going to see your big speech screen. Also, when it comes to big speech, and you can set it to respond to voice commands for Google Assistant or for Bixby.

You can, they're all either way. So if you're, like Google Assistant, better bros, your oyster, so of course the S Pen is here, and it's still Wacom EMR, which is the best kind of digitizer and pen experience that you can have 4096 pressure levels. It has tilt, and now the note m+ the screen is so darn large. It really is a lot more fun if you want to use it for doodling and drawing it artwork that sort of thing now it also has Bluetooth and that's for the usual s-pen party tricks, which you may or may not find useful. Furthermore, it has Bluetooth range, so you can do this from like 10 feet away, even if you wanted to you want to use it and Spotify to flick to the next track.

With the gesture you can do that. You get the idea, there are some apps that support this, not all of them, but some people like it and the usual air commands are here that make it really easy to do. Screen captures or a section of a screen do annotations on those screens. Those things I do find really useful. We also have Samsung's notes application here, which has always been very capable in the OCR.

Are your handwriting recognition has gotten even better, and I am pretty crappy handwriting. The feature we had before I love and is still here too, is if the phone is turned off without the s-pen, and you can write a note to self quickly very useful or of somebody else's your coworker or a family member wants to Johnny quick know, and your phone leave left it sitting on the desk for a moment walked away. They can do that dad by milk. Whatever you got the idea so just like with the s10 family, we have an in display of fingerprint scanner and ultrasonic, which is the more secure kind, but still the more finicky kind, one plus seven Pros has a capacitor one. That's a lot quicker.

The good news, though, is that they have improved. It is quicker and more reliable than on the s10 family, where I really love to use it. Here, it's pretty tolerable. You start the press fairly firmly, there's also a facial recognition for even quicker, unlocking and, of course, the many Google options for location-based, unlocking or, if you have a Bluetooth watch or something connected to it, its unlock it as well. The 10 megapixel F, 2.2 front camera is very capable can actually record video up to 4k resolution now and the rear cameras, basically you're getting the Samsung Galaxy S 10 plus camera trio on the back, which yes because with the note 9 I, was starting to feel a little left out. I really wanted that wide-angle camera on the note, because I've enjoyed it quite a lot on the S 10 plus.

So you have that here and the camera specs are the same, and you can see them on screen. Now. If you go with the note, 10 plus versus the note 10 you get a time-of-flight sensor, Samsung has their own marketing name for it, which is depth vision camera. So what does that? Do? It helps with Book effects. Now we already had pretty well-established both effects for still photos, but now they brought it to video, and they have some work to do there.

It's a little hit or miss right now, so you know you can tap and tell it where it is. You wanted to have the depth of field effect or not so the subject of your video, for example, I'm sure they will keep updating. It will get better, but me right now. It's also good for other useful things like measuring objects, augmented reality and that sort of thing which is still in its infancy to be honest, but I suppose as future looking, and it could be fun and there's some Bixby apps. You can download it if you want to play with that sort of thing.

While we're talking about the cameras, it really is the s10 plus all over again but tweaked and improve with firmware and all that stuff. You know the story, they are very capable cameras, they've also improved the low-light shots. They used to be that the Google picks on mostly, but the computational AI really just took down the competition. They were the best, and they still are a little better, but Samsung has gotten good enough, and this is still on the best cameras on the market. Camera phones that I, don't think anybody's going to feel like they're at a loss.

It takes certainly a better video than a pixel three or a three a family phone, but because that's not the strong point of the pixels still, maybe not quite up there with the iPhone 10s family, because that's the king of 4k video recording there, but overall, just perfect. It's really fun. Just for things like video, you can actually switch between the different lenses, while you're recording a video with that time-of-flight sensor trick by the way for video, you can also do microphone zoom, which this does work pretty well, so you want the microphone to try to follow the speaker, who is talking and not the noisy five other things that are going on in the environment at the time we also have autofocus tracking. We have optical image, stabilization for the normal rent lens and the telephoto lens, but not for the wide-angle lens, the usual premium stuff. You would expect you know also, of course, ip68 what a resistance you have wireless charging, and this is wireless charging 2.0. So it's fast and charging its 15 watt wireless charging, yeah that and that's speaking of the one plus seven pro which we're bringing up right now as another really giant screen phone six point: six: seven inches pretty similar resolution, OLED display also the 1 plus 7 Pro, is also a wonderful phone that has no camera cutout at all since, as the motorized selfie camera going on.

But that's some of the things that you give up at the 1 plus phone. You give up an actual ip68 water resistance rating, even though they say well, it's kind of water is this that we just didn't, have it tested and there's no wireless charging on a 1 plus phone and obviously there's no s-pen well yeah duh. Speaking of that battery. For the note 10, you get a thirty-five hundred million battery, which is nice with a note.10 plus you get a 4300 William battery Samsung's, finally outgrown their fear of exploding batteries with a previous generation Note, and not only do we have really fast charging here. We have higher capacity batteries.

Both of these should be all day. Phones, I can say, with the note, 10 plus I have found a pretty darn hard to kill. This I'd have to be playing fortnight for hours on end really to manage to kill it in less than a day, which is a good thing. We also have fast charging. We get a 25 watt fast charger in the box.

That's that's a great up there with ? charging for the OnePlus. In fact, it's a little faster, and often I know it's a charge faster than I predicted ?, particularly if the screen was off and is just sitting on my desk I had it down to about 40%, and instead it would be about 65 minutes till it was fully charged, and it actually charged in more like 35 minutes, because the phone was just sitting there and sleeping on the desk. That's superfast, but if you wanted even faster there's a 45 watt charger option just for the note 10 + probably has to do with heat dissipation and the size of the phone and all that sort of thing. So USB, 45, watt charger is the standard for Ultrabooks these days, and you might find your Ultrabook charger works as long as it supports USB power delivery, a late spec standard version of that, for example, Apple's, 13-inch, MacBook, Pro charge. It works just fine and host snap, it's even about twice as fast as a 25 watt charger, which is cool beans.

But if you want Samsung's own they're, going to charge you about 50 dollars for it. Lastly, how could we not talk about Samsung Dex has been around for a while now at first, it required a docking kind of connector or USB to HDMI. Now you can just use the USB, see the USB cable that comes in the box, biz for your charging, cable and plug it into a Windows or Mac PC and download the DEX application and DEX yourself away. It's sort of like having BlueS tacks and more, but for free, and I was surprised we tested with the HP specter, x360 13-inch. It actually worked pretty well and the performance and the speed was nice.

So you have your little virtual desktop. You can see what's going on screen, so you can access your photos pretty quickly. You can play media off of your phone on your PC. All that sort of stuff run Android apps, and if that knocks you well, then hey. It's also a lot of Microsoft integration going on here and the Microsoft phone app is pre-installed on the note.10 I think that was think of this is the more business-oriented power user phone, so yeah most other phones. You actually have to download and install that app, but that way you can use your PC to send and receive SMS messages, get pictures off more easily.

That sort of thing sort of competing with Apple's integration with Macs when it comes to that sort of thing. So you're thinking- oh, that's great Lisa. So what should I do? Should I buy this note? Well, obviously, as the S family and the note family get more and more close together in terms of specs and features, there are two things that set the note apart stuff, it's the S Pen, which is very useful. It gives you granular control over things if you're doing photo editing. Obviously, if you like to take notes and draw all that sort of thing and then there's the screen size, these are the biggest screen sizes ever without having to carry around a bigger phone.

If those are important to you, if you're a note fan another reason. Well then go for the note. Let's face it, the s 10 families are already very expensive, go for it right. Also, Samsung's prices are never quite there prices because they have crazy promotions. The pre-order pricing was the best where you can get like a $600 trade-in for a recent generation phone like say a note, 9 plus get $200 and gifts, and they're still doing a four hundred and fifty dollar trade-in program.

So if you happen to own your phone, and you're, not making carrier monthly rental payment plans, basically the spend might not be that bad plus with the holiday season coming up before we know it, they'll probably be all sorts of deals on, but still it is an expensive phone and for those who don't care about the s-pen, you just want a fast phone with a giant OLED screen. The OnePlus 7 pro really is still a very solid alternative. They say for mobile tech review, be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel for more cool tech, videos and thumbs like this would.

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