Samsung Galaxy S10e Review

Details are distinguished, there’s loads of dynamic vary, and colors are saturated. Now, colors aren’t as saturated as they’ve been on previous Galaxy telephones, so most shots look much more pure than they used to. OneUI is constructed atop Android 9 Pie, although aesthetically it shares nothing with Google’s design course. I wish I may say the identical in regards to the S10e’s portraits, however it appears Samsung nonetheless hasn’t addressed the general cloudiness of the pictures its Live Focus feature produces.

New this year for Samsung is the opening-punch, Infinity-O display, and it seems completely fine, even on the smaller display of the S10e. Around the entrance we have skinny bezels and thoroughly moulded glass, and across the back there’s a shiny however grippable casing that looks great too (the fashionable number of colors assist right here). The finest sub-6-inch smartphone you should purchase right now, with prime-stage elements, an attractive-looking AMOLED display, and a trendy design. You miss out on some of the bigger storage choices and a 3rd digital camera lens across the back, however we predict the sacrifice is value making if you wish to avoid wasting cash (and a few room in your pocket).

With that mentioned, the baby blue-ish tint on the prism white model does give it a little bit of a “kids’ telephone” vibe, as does the twin camera protrusion with its silver end. If you’re after a compact cellphone this 12 months, this could nicely be your best option. As with the other S10 models that Samsung has pushed out this yr, the three.5mm headphone jack will get retained, which implies you’ll be able to keep on utilizing your current wired headphones if you want to. In our traditional and quite tough battery take a look at, the place we play an hour of Netflix at most brightness and 50 percent volume, the Samsung S10e battery stage went down from one hundred pc to 89 p.c. That was higher than the S10’s 87 %, and means you could get around ten hours of Netflix bingeing in before the battery died fully.

On the downside, nonetheless, Samsung appears to be lagging behind the likes of Oppo and Huawei in terms of charging shortly. The S10e has 15W quick-charging – which isn’t something near the fast charging that either of the big Chinese companies offer. The attention-grabbing thing about this display is that it is smaller, at 5.eight-inches, compared to the 6.1- and 6.4-inch displays of the bigger S10 and S10+. The glass very subtly curves in direction of the steel edges, creating an almost seamless feel and appear, while the polished steel offers it an actual high-end look.

One latest addition that’s really been useful is Bixby Routines, which is sort of like Samsung’s take on IFTTT. It lets you set off issues during sure situations, like should you’re driving or operating low on battery. Overall, primary digital camera performance is a slight step up from the Galaxy S9’s digicam performance. Unfortunately although, it’s not in the same ballpark because the Pixel three or iPhone XS. In good-to-average lighting situations, the two rear cameras can pull off some great photographs.

Like the S10, the S10e has a single gap punch in the upper right nook for its front-facing digital camera. It mostly lives within the status bar, and I find it less bothersome than the additional-long double punch on the S10+. If you’re watching full-display screen videos on YouTube, it will take a piece out of your video, but I think it’s less noticeable than a notch, especially because it’s up within the nook and not at the midpoint of your view. On the underside of the telephone, you discover the principle speaker, USB-C port, and a normal headphone jack. Some producers have been trying for years now to kill the headphone jack, however each Samsung and LG are preserving the religion.