samsung galaxy s10e review

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This is the Samsung Galaxy S 10 e with a lowercase E. So I don't know what the E stands for officially. And the Galaxy S 10 e I might not be a better phone on paper than the S 10 and s 10 plus but I can definitely say now that I've used it that it is a better deal. It's kind of a direct answer to the iPhone 10 are not hiding that in any way like it's the same price but hardware wise it's kind of a step up in every direction that isn't battery so it kind of got me thinking why not just get the s tiny. So the best way to explain the s Tenney is to tell you what's different versus the regular  S 10. I think the S 10 review right here or below the Like button for those who haven't seen it already. But it's a very similar phone. This is everything that's different. So the big three are the cameras. The thing per reader the new display and the price it's seven hundred fifty bucks now by the way. I feel like we need a new name for this like this seven hundred fifty dollar price because it's not budget but it's above mid-range still too. But it's also below flagships like the flagships are like nine hundred thousand dollars so it's above mid. So it's like a.

Premium midrange like a mid-range premium. Okay. So the camera's S10 E has the exact same primary camera and the exact same ultralight camera as the s 10 it's just missing the extra telephoto camera. Honestly, that's been totally fine. I don't really miss it at all zoomed in photos will now be digital zoom. Instead of switching to the telephoto camera and that's all right with me and keeping the ultralight cameras suite that's the new camera for the Samsung phones this year. And like I said in the review it's by far the most fun. It is still a bit softer and a bit more over the process in those photos than the main camera. Definitely not as crispy but this is something software updates will continue to improve. So that's that with the camera. Oh, then that same really good camera as we've had in the s 10. So then the fingerprint reader instead of an ultrasonic fingerprint reader unwrapped the glass. This s 10 E has a good old classic capacitive fingerprint reader on the power button on the right side of the phone. And coming back from the S tend to use this again man it's really easy to forget how good we got at this type of fingerprint reader it kind of became the gold standard before we started moving on from them. And we wanted all the screen space so start put them on the back of the phone in the side. But these fingerprint readers are really fast. This one here on the S Tenney is just about one of the fastest fingerprint readers I've ever used.

And there are others that are this fast but it just feels so much faster coming from the S tens ultrasonic reader. It is way faster than that. Now for placement, it is in the power button on the top right-hand side. But the power button is still also kind of high up on the side of this phone. Now since the phone is smaller it's not as big of a deal and with bigger hands, it's even less of a big deal. But just a little bit lower of a button that would have been perfect. So the reader is basically in a natural resting position for righties or for people who hold the phone in the right hand and then on top of that there's even a gesture in the settings that you can turn on where you can now swipe down to pull down the notification shade so that the thing for a reader becomes a sort of a gesture pad. And it's super responsive maybe even too sensitive you can sort of do it by accident a bunch if you're not careful.

 But once you get used to it it's super useful to not have to reach up to the top of the phone every single time. So basically you pick up the phone and you just sort of hold it in a natural resting position. It instantly unlocks and then you have access to the notifications just like that. I mean it's not as technologically cool as the under glass ultrasonic fingerprint reader but you could argue it's actually better than what you get on the S. Ten and some already have. So that brings us to the last but not least important difference the display. So the SNP has the smallest display in the new lineup it's a five point eight-inch screen. Still weird to call a five-point eight inch display small but it's true and it's still dynamic Amel Ed still a sharp high resolution 20 to 80 by 10 80 still has a hole punch cut out in the top corner that makes for amazing wallpapers of course and still super bright and color accurate as you'd expect from a Samsung panel.

The differences are it's flat. So it's a flat screen noun that have bleeding over the edges. So that you end up with slightly thicker more noticeable side puzzles but like barely. And it's all relative still. Look at it next to an iPhone tennis. Remember Apple had all that talk about curving the old display to get the chin thinner and to get the edges all really close as 10 E has the same size side vessels and the chin maybe two or three millimeters taller. So that's the aesthetic difference. Also, one thing I noticed is the SNP doesn't let you choose your displays screen resolution like the biggers 10 does. And I'm not actually sure why I would guess it has something to do with the penthouse display matrix they're using but either way, it's kind of set and forget out the box anyway and it looks great.

So assuming you don't hate the whole punch this is still a fantastic display other little things six gigs of ram in the base model and eight. Not really a huge deal. I think it was if it was for you know thanks to my concerns of the pixel. I would probably be also concerned about this but six gigs of ram still seem like enough and you get eight on the upgraded model so it's pretty close. The battery is slightly smaller it's thirty-one hundred million hours instead of the larger ones on the larger phones but it's also a smaller display and as you know that's the biggest power draw.

 So this is still a pretty great battery life phone and then the color. So as long are drawn parallels to the iPhone 10 hour you might have noticed the Destiny has a bit more color than the 10. So there's the glass on the back. This is flamingo pink. So if you're the type to rock your phone naked you can enjoy having an extremely bright phone even. Honestly even the Red Monster sensor and all my coloring ability through your screen probably won't do it justice. It's really pink but not only that the aluminum rails are colorized a little bit so you have matching sides it's more toned down than the back but you can see it from the sides of the phone and then even in the camera module unlike the s 10 they colored that metal in there as well. So it's a small touch black on the S 10 color on the S 10 e but that that's basically it for this phone. Those are the differences for seven hundred fifty bucks. So again on paper is that a better phone. No, but it is a better deal. Matter fact feature for the feature as far as hardware what you get and with a much better display and a headphone jack and all these other things. Ultra-wide camera.

I think it's a better deal than the iPhone 10 is now for a lot of people that won't even matter because they just want another iPhone. But if you're not too tied into the ecosystem yet or if you're looking to get out of it then why not that's. Okay. Here. You should buy the bigger higher end phone if you need the ultrasonic fingerprint reader or the Infiniti display. Or the 2 x telephoto camera or if you just have a bigger two hundred dollar hole burning in your pocket. Oh then that Galaxy S 10 e is probably the one most people should get.