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Samsung Galaxy S10 Review: Features | Specifications | Pricing

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Samsung Galaxy S10
3.5
★★★★★
Finder score
  • Battery Score 2
  • Camera Score 4
  • Design Score 3.5
  • Performance Score 4

Summary

The Galaxy S10 has a great camera and good application performance, but its overall battery life has dipped since the previous Galaxy S generation.

  • Easy to hold
  • Camera is great
  • Headphone jack
  • One UI customises Android well
  • Exynos 9820 is powerful
  • Supports expandable storage.
  • Battery life is somehow worse than the last generation
  • Slippery glass back
  • Who really wants the Bixby button?

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Details

Pricing & Availability

RRP $1,349
Launch date 2019-03-08
Samsung Galaxy S10

Australians love Samsung's flagship phones with a fervour that we only really see for one other brand – and rather obviously, that's not a maker of Android handsets. The Galaxy S10 is the South Korean manufacturer's latest handset, and while it's the slightly smaller, slightly lower cost counterpart to the Galaxy S10+, it shares much the same design and feature ideas, as well as many of the same drawbacks.

The end result is still a very good handset, and one that's an easy recommendation if you're a fan of Samsung's phones, but it's not hard to see this, like the Galaxy S10+, as a case of Samsung mostly resting on what it knows how to do, rather than pushing the boundaries of what a flagship phone could do.


Design

  • Range of colour choices
  • "Infinity O" punch hole camera
  • Dynamic AMOLED display
  • In-glass fingerprint sensor
  • Still has a headphone jack
  • Bixby button stands out, but not in a good way

Camera

  • Triple-array 16MP/12MP/12MP camera
  • Good overall performance
  • AR emoji are still a silly inclusion

Performance

  • Exynos 9820 in the Australian S10 is powerful
  • One UI is way less annoying than TouchWiz was
  • Fingerprint sensor works, but it's not fast
  • Expandable storage gives it a premium edge

Battery life

  • 3,400mah battery gives disappointing performance
  • Wireless charging and fast charging supported
  • Powershare reverse charging is too slow

Verdict

  • A nicely built phone, but Samsung needs to put more work into a "premium" phone

Pricing and availability


Specifications

Display

Display Size
6.1 inches
Resolution
1440 x 3040px
Pixels per inch (PPI)
550 ppi

Camera

Rear camera megapixels
12MP + 12MP + 16MP
Rear camera aperture size
f/1.5-2.4 + f/2.4 + f/2.2
Video recording
4K
Front camera megapixels
10MP
Front camera aperture size
f/1.9

Physical Dimensions

Dimensions
149.9mm x 70.4mm x 7.8mm
Weight
157g

Connectivity

NFC
Yes
Wi-Fi
802.11 a/b/g/n/ac
Network category speed
Category 20

Power, storage and battery

Processor
Exynos 9820
RAM
8GB
Operating system
Android 9
Internal storage
128GB, 512GB
External storage support
Up to 512GB
Battery capacity
3,400mAh

Device features

Headphone jack
No
Fingerprint sensor
Yes
Water resistance rating
IP68
Wireless charging
Qi
PMA

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