all right it is galaxy note day we got
the latest devices these things just got
announced so as you can tell no retail
boxes yet these are the sample devices
in a couple of different colors of
course the exciting color is over here
on the right hand side this is a aura
glow and I don't know if you can pick
this up jack but I mean that thing is
totally glowing course this one with the
glass back wireless charging wireless
power share and so forth so the the
different part here compared to other
note launches like the note 9 for
example with the note 10 we're gonna
have two different versions to choose
from you've got the note 10 sort of
standard which is the smaller form
factor and then you have a note 10 plus
which scales up the note series even
further and also adds a couple of
hardware upgrades the black version it's
also called aura or a black as you can
guess is sort of a more standard taste I
think is there also going to be a white
one we'll just for sort of special
retail situations or certain markets or
whites okay so we don't have that one
represented but there's gonna be another
one as well if you look closely you can
tell there's a slight difference between
the standard note and the bigger note
that is this little extra camera lens
here in the center I believe that's a
time-of-flight sensor so that adds to
the triple camera array that you see on
the left hand side this is gonna give
you an ultra wide a standard and assume
for the actual camera specification 16
megapixel f-22 ultra wide you have 12
megapixel f15 and 2 for with optical
image stabilization and you have a 12
megapixel F 2.1 for the telephoto also
I'm noticing that the camera hump
doesn't stick out too far it's sort of
in line with what you'd expect with this
degree of cameras installed now of
course it's a note series so you got the
you got the pen included on all these
devices apparently it's a new design
will was telling me it's a unibody
construction so I guess it's a little
more sturdy this one is in its cool kind
of chrome --is-- bluish purplish color
going on it's got the button on the top
as you could tell okay and it does I
mean it feels
sturdy this is what I was curious about
when rumors first started circulating
that there was gonna be two different
form factors I was like that's kind of
strange because the note series is sort
of made its name up being the biggest
device I mean back in the day when the
first note series launched people were
like that's crazy who would ever carry
that they had to come up with crazy
words like phablet you don't hear that
anymore obviously but now we have to so
it kind of it's a bit confusing from
that standpoint unlike well what what
does the note really represent but of
course they did the same thing that that
pretty much every other lineup is doing
in adding this plus model to just
provide greater variation so I think the
power users are gonna go for for the
plus model and then maybe the more
budget-conscious or people who really
value single-handed portability
functionality they might go for the
standard version as well but we should
talk about some of those Hardware
differences between the two the battery
on the little guy comes in at 3,500
milliamp hours whereas the big one is
4300 mill amp hours so these are kind of
the numbers you would expect for a
flagship device along these lines on
this big guy it's gonna be thirty eight
forty so wqhd plus on the little guy
it's fht plus so as you know with these
types of devices a lot of the battery
life is consumed by the display and the
pixels that are being pushed that said
you can go into the OS on on these
Galaxy devices previous Galaxy devices
and pick your resolution for for the
various attributes you may want to
select for you want better battery life
you could toggle back the effective
resolution and so on this is where
you're gonna notice the other sort of
distinctive characteristic of this
device which is what they're calling the
infinity Oh display that's this whole
punch at top here so the whole the whole
punch thing started with the previous s
series devices but they put it up to the
side it was in the top right corner
which I didn't mind I thought okay this
is an area where you've got some screen
real estate to work with this kind of
underutilized to begin with in the top
right corner so I was like that makes
sense to put it up there I made the
argument for it at that time that said
from a design perspective it wasn't
symmetrical in this case the whole punch
has gotten smaller of course it's a
single-camera cut out as opposed to the
Plus model of the S series which was a
dual from facing camera cut out it's a
pretty aggressive
to body ratio there's a tiny little chin
here tiny little forehead and bezel
around the edges you have the typical
screen glass screen curvature happening
on the sides but one thing I'm liking
straight away is the fact that the bezel
is near-identical on the sides and top
and only ever so slightly thicker on the
bottom so you don't have this effect
where you're like noticing the fact that
there's a chin on the device so the
devices are now both set up and this is
your first glimpse into the display I
mean it's kind of what you expect these
are maxed out on brightness right now
and actually quite comparable this one
on the left is 6.8 inches and this is
6.3 now having handled them to set them
up I do have to say the little one is
super comfy so it's a bit unfortunate
that you have to take a step down from a
specification perspective that said you
step up to the big guy and there's some
advantages here as well if you're a
power user and so forth you know you get
your YouTube open I don't know which one
more people are gonna opt for obviously
there's also the cost component they're
both gonna be expensive
not that we expected anything different
so 950 to start on the little guy and
1,100 to start on the big one now to be
honest when I first started talking
about these devices the rumors and leaks
started to come out I was like this one
made me break some price barriers so
somehow even with an $1,100 starting
price on a big one I actually I kind of
think I expected it to be a little bit
more which is strange because we're just
living in this $1,000 plus smartphone
universe right now
now you can spec this one out presumably
the 5g version is going to be even more
than that
but nonetheless 1,100 bucks 900 bucks
you didn't expect otherwise obviously
and I should also mention considering
we're here in Canada that's where the
studio is based I do have Canadian
prices as well for these devices you
have 1459 for the big guy in 1259 for
the little guy now both of these support
25 watt fast charging but with the
bigger one you can actually charge up to
45 watts so it is 45 watt capable but
you will need to buy a separate charger
in order to take advantage of that they
do have wireless charging as well
and wireless power sharing so you can
tap them together and charge one another
oh I almost forgot the other difference
this is an important one if you are that
power user that I referenced earlier 12
gigs of ram versus 8 gigs of ram okay
there let's do what we usually do let's
get a quick reference here on the
speaker quality I always test the
speakers it's important to me oh wow
alright so that's uh I'm happy with it's
got some low engine it which is
typically what I'm looking for it's
firing from multiple locations so up
around the earpiece and and also from
the bottom unit most of the sound
especially the bass component out of the
bottom one really this is what your
black bars look like but if I go ahead
and zoom in if i zoom in this should
give you an idea of how you like what it
looks like when you fill the frame I
mean it's a small hole punch it's
definitely an improvement on a knotch
in my opinion but you can get a sense
for it right there well fine you have a
small hole punch here but like when it
was up in the corner was kind of a bit
more out of the way and that's true
that's a bit of a trade-off there
particularly when you're watching fully
zoomed in video you mean you can see
against a white background you got this
little black dot right here where this
really has its benefits is when you're
in the phone as a phone and not
necessarily within a video where the
symmetry just sort of makes sense to
your brain to your head like as you can
see your Wi-Fi battery life and so forth
they're almost the exact same height as
this particular hole punch and so that I
don't know there is something pleasing
about the layout at least the idea this
one being in a more typical location in
the center gives you sort of the perfect
framing for a selfie I'll go ahead
actually now would be a good time to
showcase that okay so it does have a
wide setting but it's the same camera so
it's but it's just a crop by the looks
of it HDR is on but otherwise I think
it's in its original status let's do
what we do there's a little glimmer in
the eye none of the the highlights are
not blown out it goes beyond the actual
beard hairs on that test I mean you
could pick up the poor guy look
in a detail now I'll go ahead and turn
off the HDR though it's on by default
use it it's gonna save you from that
highlight blow out that happens
frequently you know you're in the
sunlight and whatnot so HDR is now off
it did not struggle either maybe on the
tip of my nose that is unless slightly
more of a highlight but I mean that's it
that's a nice that's just that's just a
nice-looking front-facing count I mean I
didn't expect it to not be able to
perform in this department but that's a
satisfying performance right I'm happy
with that okay now what about the rear
camera we should also get a sense right
now for the different focal ranges that
are available so the very first of
course this is the standard mode boom
this is your wide 0.5 and this is your
telephoto frame it up boom alright so
telephoto giving you this field of view
wide giving you tremendous field of view
as expected and then the standard the
standard one looks great woo the wide is
very sharp so to put this like in
comparison I think the last smartphone I
shot I noticed that the wide was
substantially less sharp particularly in
the center of the frame when compared to
the standard focal range or the default
camera on the device that's one area
where I've noticed some discrepancy with
these multi camera smartphones contrast
saturation white balance across the
different cameras when you switch
between them but as you can tell here
these are all pretty interchangeable
like you can they're performing in a
similar fashion in those various
departments of course you have the Pearl
mode if you want to get crazy change ISO
change your white balance auto focus and
and whatnot if you want to do that
independently you could dive in there
there's also a night mode baked in
alright lights going out real quick we
are effectively pitch-black but the
phone is definitely not I'm telling you
it's pitch-black in here I mean not to
you you can see that the shadows somehow
look at the detail it's incredible in
video stabilization here called super
steady let's do just I don't know let's
just do a quick clip I'm gonna move it
around try to
it up a little bit we lost that little
fingers put this lens ring Wow
he's like a Steadicam I mean pretty
steady to me super steady they are right
that is incredibly super steady I mean
you would probably want to test this
running about jogging about out in
public but here in the studio it looks
pretty promising of course it's also got
the ultrasonic fingerprint pulled from
the S series the S lineup and I mean it
works the same way
three two it's fast I like the fact that
they didn't go overboard with the
animation and that's another area I
should say like Samsung's come a long
way in a skin department from the days
of TouchWiz to the one UI for example
you see how you you do the double drag
there and all of a sudden you get this
advanced sort of one-handed
functionality hence the one UI there you
have it I mean it's I think it's an
exciting new phone I think it's for a
particular client obviously we know that
these represent some of the most premium
devices on the market most importantly
from a price perspective and that's
really the whole conversation in a
smartphone game these days I mean we
find myself talking about price so much
because you're able to go out there and
select I mean even from Samsung
themselves you could go pick in a series
now and say look that's enough that's
good enough for me
and these at the top end are
increasingly becoming luxury devices so
you need to decide like is that extra
money am i getting the value out of it
do some of those added features maybe a
slightly bigger battery maybe 12 gigs of
ram do I need 12 gigs and what am i
doing my gaming on the device so on and
so forth the pen I mean what can we say
about the pen I never got fully I was
never a huge pen guy but that said every
time I daily drove the the note series I
would I would take it out from time to
time you know especially for those
extended sessions on the phone
descending about the precision of the
pen which can be addictive and maybe it
could work into your flow somehow
speaker sounded good really fast
charging it is what you think it is it's
a very
device with a premium price tag from
Samsung I think I think a lot of you
guys are gonna be impressed with it I
would like to stick my sim card in it
unfortunately I can't just yet because
these are sort of pre-release models
I'll probably have a retail version
coming very shortly there you have it it
is the note 10 and note 10 plus for the
first time two options in the note
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