Samsung Galaxy S10

Samsung has introduced the S10 with premium designs and display. The phone flaunts a classy aluminium body sandwiched between Gorilla Glass 5 at the back and Corning Gorilla Glass 6. It makes the phone crack and scratch-resistant from minor drops. Along with the Corning Gorilla Glass 6, S10 comes with a pre-applied screen protector on display.

The back of the S10 is a fingerprint magnet, which means you will need to constantly wipe your phone or cover it with a transparent plastic case that is available in the box. The phone's top has the SIM tray with a microphone, and the bottom comprises a USB Type-C port, a loudspeaker, a primary microphone and a 3.5mm headphone jack. The phone's right side has a Bixby button, which you can use to trigger Samsung's voice assistant.

Source: Samsung Galaxy S10

S10 has a 6.1-inch Super AMOLED display with QHD+ resolution, which is also HDR10+ certified. So, you can enjoy HDR quality on your hand device. S10 has a single front camera, but at the back, it houses a triple camera setup. The Galaxy S10 features a hole-punch design, which you may like or not like, but you will quickly get habitual to this design.

The phone comes with a 15W fast charger, Type-A adapter, a USB-Type C cable, a clear case, and in-ear headphones in the box. With so many goodies in the box, the Samsung Galaxy S10 price in India is just 71,000.

Like Galaxy S10E and the Galaxy S10+, this middle phone is also powered by Exynos 9820 SoC, paired with 8GB RAM with 128GB storage. This powerful SoC makes the phone load most of the apps and games available on the Play Store or My Galaxy app very smoothly. A few of the basic apps are preinstalled on the device.

While S10 is accessible with 512GB storage also, but if you don't wish to pay for this higher-priced variant, you can choose to use a microSD card to get 512GB space. Thus, the Galaxy S10 is a superior choice to do both day-to-day home tasks and some primary official work. You can even multitask with this device.

Coming to connectivity, the S10 supports VoLTE, dual 4G, Bluetooth 5, Wi-Fi 6, NFC, ANT+, Bluetooth 5, and the USB Type-C port. What is more? This middle-phone also gets four satellite systems and can get charged without using a wire and reverse-charge the other paired devices.

The S10 has got really premium quality on the software front. The phone includes the One UI based on Android 9 Pie, which is very convenient to use. This middle model also has a Smart Stay that keeps the screen up as long as you look at it. Handy motion, gesture shortcuts, and Apps Edge are a few of this much-loved device's other remarkable features.

S10's 6.1-inch display with Infinity-O screen delivers a crisp output, making it extra-enjoyable to watch the content or play games. You can tweak the colours and manage the effective resolution as per your interests. Also, I don't find the hole-punch to be off-putting at all.

Samsung uses the bottom-firing speaker, which is just ideal for simulating a stereo effect. The phone supports Dolby Atmos for both loudspeaker and the headphones. Its speaker is so powerful that you can easily hear the incoming call even in a crowded place or enjoy your music at a noisy party.

The powerful Exynos 9820 SoC performs so well that you will hardly notice any stuttering, lagging or hanging while using the phone for hours. I also play PUBG, Asphalt 9: Legends and other heavy games on this device but never face any issues with its performance. However, after playing these games for a while, the phone gets a little warm, and the battery drains quickly. For example, with a 40-minutes of constant PUBG play, the battery drains by 14%.This smart-buy device supports Widevine L1 DRM, which means you can enjoy the highest resolution content while streaming Netflix, Amazon Prime and other OTT platforms. Also, you can enjoy the HDR videos on the S10.

The Galaxy S10 features a triple-lens camera setup on the back with a12-megapixel wide-angle lens, 12-megapixel telephoto lens, and 16-megapixel ultra-wide lens. You can easily switch between these three cameras using the icons.

The wide-angle lens is good to capture landscape shots, whereas to capture portraits, you can use Live Focus mode that can easily distinguish between the subject and the background and apply the blur effect accordingly. It also helps you adjust the blur intensity before or after clicking the shot.

Both front and back cameras are easy to use and take excellent photos and shoot steady videos, even in low light. Photos taken at night have a good amount of details and look quite bright.

Coming to the video mode, the Galaxy S10 keeps the noise under control. Video recording tops out at 4K at 30fps for the front angle and 4K at 60fps for the back angle. With the Super Slow-mo and a super steady mode, you can shoot more stabilized footage.

Along with the default mode, the S10 camera has different modes such as Live Focus, Night mode, Super Slow-mo, super steady mode, etc. The phone has a scene optimizer that can automatically recognize what the camera points out and sets the phone up accordingly.