This is the Galaxy Note 10+.
It's a beautiful phone and it's supposed to be super powerful, especially
for video editing.
So I've asked one of our video producers, Dain, to help shoot the review
and edit part of the video directly from the phone itself.
Hopefully.
We're going to put the video aspects to the test.
But first, here's what I think about it.
That looks really good.
First of all, the screen is beautiful, which is no surprise for Samsung.
Samsung's history with displays is pretty stellar.
This one features a Dynamic AMOLED screen that is super bright and
colorful. And it has a Quad HD resolution, though that's going to drain
your battery pretty quickly.
And the battery is pretty good, too.
There's a 4300 mAh battery and the Galaxy Note 10+ and a 3500 mAh battery
and the Galaxy Note 10, and it comes with a 25 watt charger which should
juice it up in just over an hour, but it can go even faster if you buy the
optional 45 watt charger.
Okay now, are you sitting.
There's no headphone jack, seriously, Samsung got rid of the headphone
jack. The Galaxy Note family has always been known for packing everything,
including the headphone jack.
And in fact, Samsung used to have a whole set of commercials that made fun
of all the things on Apple's iPhones, including its lack of a headphone
jack.
Can I still use these headphones with the X?
Yeah, but you'll need an adapter or as most people like to call it, a
dongle.
But here we are, and Samsung officially removed it.
AR Doodle was sort of a gimmick, but it's cute.
You can draw things on yourself or your friends and it sticks to them
while you move around or you can just draw on the space around you.
I don't know what I'd use this for, but it's there.
Another sort of gimmicky feature is the S Pen gestures.
You can use S Pen to zoom in and out or change settings while you're
taking a photo from far away.
Or you can adjust the volume while you're watching a movie.
But I don't think I'll be using this very much for pictures.
However, Samsung says it's opening it up to developers so we could start
to see this being used in mobile games or other apps, which could be cool.
Okay, now let's try out the camera.
We're walking past LG, don't tell anybody.
Not sure where to go from here.
I think we go around.
Just have me crawling through the tube.
All right, here we are.
It also comes with a state-of-the-art camera that lets you shoot like a
pro.
We have four cameras on this phone, including one front-facing selfie
camera, and three on the back, including the wide, the ultra wide and
telephoto. Now, telephoto lenses are pretty run of the mill these days,
but it's the ultra wide angle lens that's a lot of fun to play with.
Samsung added a new feature called Live Focus that lets you blur the
background of your video sort of like Portrait Mode.
Unfortunately, it's not as good as Apple's Portrait Mode, although Apple
doesn't support video and everything kind of tends to blur around,
especially on the edges of hair.
Samsung has a new feature called Zoom-In Mic, which is supposed to focus in
on your voice even if you're really far away as you zoom in on the
camera.
[inaudible]
Yes, that didn't work, so I'm gonna get a little closer.
I mean, we tried, right?
Yeah. Okay, so that didn't work, but I was also really far away.
So now we're going to try to pan the camera and see if it picks up my
audio while it passes by.
But, in general, one of the things we're interested in... [inaudible]
But you're also facing me, so it's, like, kind of natural.
Yeah.
Not a fan.
There's a new super steady mode, too, that predicts motion and reduces
vibration while you're moving.
So I'm going to run to the camera.
Let's see.
That looks at really good.
Got to keep doing that.
Yep. A few more times, Todd.
Now we're shooting on the iPhone XS Max.
This one does a weird thing were, like, every time I bounce, it goes a
little darker.
Oh, yeah.
I wonder if that's something to do with the optical stabilization?
And now the Pixel 3 XL.
Wow, that was a dark...
Yeah.
That seemed a little bouncier.
Working up a sweat.
This one was the bounciest I would say.
I would say this is the bounciest.
So I say, like, the Samsung is the best, Apple second best and then Pixel,
which is sad.
The Pixel has a great camera.
Yeah.
So the camera's pretty great.
Is that the best one on the market?
Really, that's like splitting hairs these days and it comes down to
personal preference.
Samsung's tend to be a little contrasting and oversaturated.
But the iPhone XS Max and the Google Pixel 3 XL also take really good
pictures. Okay, Samsung says this is really good at video editing, too, so
let's check that out.
This is where Dain typically edits his videos.
It's a powerful computer with 32 gigs of RAM, but he's going to try to
edit as much of the review as he can on the Galaxy Note Ten+, which has
eight gigs of RAM and Samsung's promising and even showing in its event
that you can edit video directly from the phone.
You can edit your videos with the precision of a professional movie editor.
You can even use Samsung's DeX software to edit video right on your
computer, complete with a full keyboard and mouse.
Okay, just going to interrupt for one second.
It was a little harder to edit on this phone than I originally thought it
was going to be, but I can imagine it's still easier to edit on this phone
than a lot of other phones.
The S Pen in particular helped in that process, but Samsung's editing
software is not robust.
It's good for simple edits like if you're stringing together a few clips,
but it won't replace a computer when it comes to more complex edits.
That being said, it actually was not bad editing on DeX using Adobe
Premiere Rush.
That's an app that you can download that resembles a professional editing
software. It was nice being able to utilize my mouse and keyboard with a
larger screen while still having all of the files on the Note 10. But
it was pretty slow.
My computer handles 4K footage all right, but I couldn't expect our Note
10+'s his 8 gigabytes of RAM to handle the 4K footage that we shot on it.
So if you're looking to do some deep editing on this phone, I would
suggest that you download Adobe Premiere Rush, that you get up to a
computer with a keyboard and mouse and that you invest in the Note 10+
with 12 gigabytes of RAM.
Okay, back to the review.
So the Galaxy Note 10+ is a really solid phone, has great battery
life, it's really powerful and has an amazing display.
Galaxy Note fans will find it well worth the $1,100 cost, but for everyone
else it might be a little too much.
Get it to me by Wednesday.
8 gigs of RAM?