Episode Summary

00:00 | Intro

01:54 | Pricing

• Pricing
  • 3 variants
    • S10e - $750
    • S10 - $899
    • S10+ - $999
  • Colors
    • Black, white, flamingo, and ???
  • Base models come with 8gb ram and 128gb storage
  • Vs Note 9; the pricing is even further out of control; it’s the inevitable ASP price creep syndrome now
  • My pricing:
    • Pre-order via BestBuy
    • Turned in my purchased-last-february S9+ for $550 credit
    • Paid a hefty... not really; $508

06:38 | Display, Fingerprint Sensor, Cameras, Storage

• Display
  • Size 6.4’’ display
  • Special features
    • Integrated fingerprint sensor; more on this later
    • Up to 1200 nits of brightness
• Physicals
  • Look and feel, build quality
    • When I first held it, it was adorably light; I was used to holding this glass brick in the Note 9 so this was a difference
    • The side metal is aluminium this time - not sure what it was before, but previously the metal band around feld “stronger”
    • The Note 9 was very Square; very hard edges - this is much more rounded on the top/bottom left/right sides
  • Ports
    • Usual ports; type c + headphone jack
  • Speakers
    • Same speaker configuration; stereo in top front and side bottom
    • The top speaker is tucked between the glass and the top bezel; it’s okay
  • Buttons
    • Bixby button is still here but with partial remap maybe not totally useless
    • The power button is said to be too high up on the S10+ model
  • Fingerprint sensor; under the screen
    • I registered 4 unique fingers; previously on the Note 9 I had only the index-fingers registered, I’d never use my Thumb
    • I could unlock the phone smoothly while it was coming out of pocket without looking; with this new scanner since it’s in the screen, I can have to guess more which means accuracy is down
    • You can unlock from AOD but you have no visual indicator where the sensor is; it’s not in an obvious place, where the android home button is
      • On the AOD, they need to put some kind of reference point down there; allegedly scared of burn in though; even it’s not the finger print visual, even an empty circle, anything
• Camera
  • 3 cameras on the back
    • 2x, 1x and “1/2x”
    • The
  • 2 cameras on the front
  • How is it
  • Special modes
  • Notable features
• Specs
  • CPU
    • Snapdragon 855
  • RAM
    • 8gb
  • Storage
    • 128gb base model + I added a 128gb SD card; what is storage and why do I need it?

21:28 | Android

• Wow, Android, what happened to you? Now running with Pie and One UI, the “Samsung Experience” that made from the S8 line to now so successful software wise is gone; replaced with this strange interface
• List items are often smushed cards or elongated pills
• Everything is so bright, AMOLED chuckles in the distance
• The utilities that Samsung Experience is well known for is for the most part still here

26:10 | New Launcher, Software

• Updated side-by-side app switcher; always defaults to the previous app which is useful but also annoying since I was trained by previous versions to swipe anyway
• Raise to wake
  • Possibly the most annoying new feature, every time I touch the phone, no matter if I’m just repositioning it to still see the time on the AOD better; it thinks I want to play and it wakes up
• Double tap to wake; not used yet but we’ll see
• AOD
  • Still present, still configurable
  • Icons hangout in color now; this might be done to help keep the AOD pixels from burning out just their “white” pixels, but it makes things harder to see
• All of the sounds changed again! Oh no, I was so used to the regular and common and consistent Samsung Experience sounds!
• Other notable features; obviously none from the Note 9 more than the Pen
• Everyone is freaking out how poorly the Face Unlock feature secures the phone; the Iris scanner is gone and while I didn’t use it previously, I do like Face Unlock, for those times my hands are in gloves or any number of convenient times; I turn this off when I travel - it’s not secure, of course

33:38 | Battery

• 4100 mah
• Charging
• Usual charging modes; cable and wireless
• Plus a useless gimmick feature, “reverse charging” that every reviewer has tentpoled; that stops here

36:17 | Signal Strength

39:09 | Conclusions

40:25 | Ending

Attributions

• Free Music Archive: Beat Doctor - Organic (electric edit)

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