Hi, Henry from tech advisor and today we have a comparison of two pretty flagship
phones for 2019 the Samsung Galaxy S 10 plus and the shiny s10 5g why is this
one not plus why has it got 5g, why is it bigger? all of that is answered right now
so you're here and you already know that there are more than two s10 phones but
we're going to compare these two because they are the most similar and the most
expensive and the inclusion of a 5g phone in the mix might be a little bit
worrying should I buy this one should I buy this one what's the price difference
here's the answers start with the first one with galaxy s 10 plus is a 4G only
phone and it is the most expensive when compared to the galaxy s 10 II and the
galaxy s 10 it starts at 899 pounds in the UK and
999 dollars in the u.s. it is a premium phone in that case and it's going to go
toe-to-toe on operator shelves with iPhone 10s it's got the distinctive
camera cutout which you can see here rather than a pop up camera or a notch
which you might well prefer I quite like it now it means there gets to show off
Samsung's pretty great AMOLED displays in comparison the Galaxy S 10 5g is for
some reason not called the s 10 plus 5 G it's just the S 10 5g but it's bigger
than the plus got it great this starts at 1099 pounds in the UK so it's 300
quid more than the S 10 plus and in the US it's even more is $12.99 in the US so
you're gonna pay a premium for this larger shinier better connected phone so
before we look at the specs let's look at the if any design differences and the
main one that you have aside from the size of the thing is actually the sides
sides not size so here you can see that the positioning of buttons is different
if I hold them in line like that the power button is a bit higher on the s 10
plus and this one on the right the S 10 5g the button is lowered down and also
you hopefully will be able to see here that we have a flat smooth construction
on the S 10 plus and then the design here
it comes out around the button and back hopefully you can catch that now
there's not an obvious reason why that might be perhaps it's because the back
of the s10 at 5g is Gorilla Glass six not Gorilla Glass five like on this one
the front of both screens are number five though it could well be because in
order to achieve this design Samsung has had to move around a lot of internal
parts so if you actually rip them both open which I don't recommend you would
find a different layout of components on each phone and that's because 5g phones
like this one need a different layout of antennae in order to receive 5g so it
could be that it could be to make sure that people notice that you've gone out
and bought the expensive one but to be honest they're gonna know that you've
got the expensive one because look at that finish it's great we have the
prison black version of the s10 plus here take a look at that what Samsung
calls crown silver version and okay maybe they've taken a pager of Huawei's
book with the gradient colors but this is a really nice finish shuts up a few
fingerprints but it's sort of a half gloss half matte finish which I quite
like so aside from that what are the
differences the s10 plus is a six point four inch AMOLED screen on the front the
s10 5g a six point seven inch screen so look at that you do get an even bigger
phone and weirdly despite thinking myself that the s10 plus is quite big
the s10 5g is even bigger but because there's hardly any bezels on these
phones even with my tiny hands you're gonna find that they're actually weirdly
manageable the companies such as Samsung have found a few clever ways for people
like me with small hands to get round holding these phones they're this big
with one hand one of them is one handed mode rather conveniently cooled so there
you go tiny little screen there and you won't want to use it all the time but at
least you can operate some things and can I can just at the top of the screen
there but even in full mode you can do things like swipe down to get you
notifications from anywhere on the screen so it's relatively easy to handle
Samsung Oh heads on their own phones are certainly my favorite calibrated OLED
and despite the naught point three inch difference on these phones you get the
same resolution which is 3040 by 1440 and they look great
so that's the outside of both phones what about the internal as well it's
region dependent but that's where there are fewer similarities with the s10 plus
and the s10 5g Samsung's done a thing that they've done for a while we're in
Europe and Middle East Africa and even Latin America you have the Samsung
Exynos 98 20 that's their most recent one and that's just cuz Samsung wants to
make their own chips and they want to power their own phones in territories
where possible but in the US and some parts of China with these phones you're
gonna have a snapdragon 855 I'm in London I've got the Exynos ones the
chips do perform about the same but at least in my tests with the S 10 plus
just as a side note the battery life has been better on that the american
snapdragon versions that's not to say it's got bad battery life it's got 4,100
milliamp hours and then the slightly bigger s 10 5g yep we go up by 400 to
4500 milliamp hours so both phones are all day phones by the S 10 5g does have
better battery life speaking of battery life both these
phones have this crazy thing which you've probably seen called wireless
power share whereby your phone can charge other phones it's fine
I wouldn't want to do it it's gonna make your phone run out of power while you
charge the other one but it's handy particularly if you have your own
accessories and you only want to carry one cable and they're both wireless
power you can charge something else off the back of our phone which is cool
before I get on to talk about the actual 5g and 4G differences between these
phones what about the other internals so on the s10 plus that base price will get
you 128 gigs of storage or you can bump that up for 512 but the good thing about
the s10 plus is it has expandable storage so it's got a microSD slot
unless you want to run dual SIM in which case that's going to cover up the slot
but it's nice to have the option and you can expand that up to a terabyte if you
want to there's also a ceramic version of the s10 Plus which costs more and you
get more memory but it cost loads more it's a bit different on the s10 5g as
far as we can tell and definitely on the one that we have here is a single sim
phone I've read that they're dual SIM ones below yet to see them and this also
means that you do not have expandable storage on the s10 5g which might work
some of you Android fanatics out there now the
I have here as a two five six gigabyte version which is quite a lot of gig you
might not want to expand that and you have the option to go up to 512 if you
want as well but then you talking stratospheric prices for that 5g phone
so in terms of storage options the s10 plus is probably your better pick so as
well as those storage options is pretty simple when it comes to RAM both the s10
plus and the s10 5g have 8 gig of ram as standard no matter which storage option
you buy the one thing to bear in mind is that the s10 plus ceramic version which
we don't have here is more expensive because there's more storage and 12 gigs
of ram which is nuts but also means that you're gonna future-proof your phone a
little bit as well but for most of us a gig is more than enough terms of
security and biometrics both these phones have in display fingerprint
sensors which are all the rage in 2019 and I find the one on the sm + nes m5g
better than the optical sensors you might find on some other competitors
although finding the right way of the screen can be a challenge but so I've
missed it there because you have to press in a certain place of the screen
once your thumb is registered it opens pretty quickly and there you have it
pretty quick let's just see that again on the s10 5g here once you've learned
where it is on the screen it's very very quick to open and it's good for
biometrics banking that sort of thing but both phones also come as you can see
with a in screen camera to use face unlock as well it's just not secure one
thing of vs 10 + and the S n 5g which they cannot argue about is the software
that is on board because it's exactly the same Android 9 PI as you'd expect
from a modern Samsung phone as we record at least and you also have Samsung's 1u
I skin over the top and I'm pleased to say it's much improved from their old
versions so you get over both phones all the advantages that you would have on
any s10 phone including my particular favorite which is night mode which these
phones do not have on at the moment but turn it on and it puts the entire system
black and that's particularly good when you have an OLED screen because with
fewer pixels lit up it should improve your battery life ok so let's talk about
the networks for a minute do you need 5g well at the time of recording I would
say no 4G across the world particularly in the US and the UK and other
parts of the world as well like you guys in India we have got great 4G signal and
this phone the s10 plus is going to be available and pretty much every single
4G operator in the world if you're buying the s10 5g direct from an
operator in America you're paying $12.99 for a phoneless lakhs to either Verizon
t-mobile or Sprint there we go at the moment it's unclear about 80 but in the
UK you have to go for either Vodafone or EE
so you are slightly locked down to certain operators and also the advantage
is not currently clear either because coverage of 5g in all these countries is
just minimal at the moment I'm in central London right now and I have to
walk about a mile up the road to even get a smidge of 5g on this 5g phone so
at the moment you might not want to do it and you might want to bear in mind
about where you live because you might not even get it a year down the line
side note there's a big key button both phones have that assistant button on the
side but you can remap it at the moment mine is to a single press will open VIX
being the questionably useful assistant you can remap that to be a double tap
but I actually found using these phones that I don't open it by accident too
often anyway so it doesn't really matter cameras that's where things get quite
interesting and slightly different on these two versions you can see here
you're gonna need a cloth to wipe these off because the fingerprints do show
camera wise on the back so on the left here we have the S term plus and we got
triple cameras which is great to see from Samsung but you've got a 12
megapixel main a 12 megapixel telephoto and a 16 megapixel ultra wide this is
great to see and also as a side boy you also get those three cameras on the main
s10 on the s10 5g you get exactly the same three 12 12 and 16 and then you
also get a third time of flight 3d camera so what does that mean it
basically helps with depth or anything you need to measure distance for so
samsung claims although you do get portrait mode which it calls live focus
on the s10 plus it says it's going to be better on the s10 5g here because when
you go into life focus mode that extra camera around the back bear is better at
judging how far away the pen port is and people obviously and
whatever you want and it's going to hopefully process that a little better
than the s10 plus in practice you're probably not going to notice and then
there's also an app which at the moment is probably the only other practical
application for the time of flight sensor which is the an app which allows
you to measure things a little bit like Apple did with its iPhone and here we go
so I can measure for how long the edge of that book is oh can i as you can see
this technology is fairly temperamental but that is only possible so that's an
11 centimeter gap there but you can only do it with a time-of-flight sensor on
this Samsung phone so if you really want to have that got to get the 5g the
cameras on these phones are exceptional though and there are great options on on
both models including for you Instagram fans out there one of the first cameras
I've seen on the phone the built-in Instagram mode so if I did want to send
this picture of a pen pot straight from the stock camera app take the picture
and then as long as you're signed in to your Instagram it takes you right there
and you can post straight away without having to go into the app which can be
pretty handy if you want to catch something on the fly so around the front
and those cutouts aren't just to annoy you if they do indeed annoy you they
have dual cameras in and they are slightly different so on the s10 plus
you have a dual 10 and 8 megapixel lenses the 8 is for depth sensing so
again you can do portrait mode of your face or as a group even to blur out the
background on the s10 5g it's even longer and that's because he probably
can't see but in certain lights you can there is another time-of-flight sensor
in there another depth sensor in the middle just to improve those shots and
it really shows that Samsung has gone all out with the s10 5g as probably the
most what not probably it is the most advanced smartphone that they have ever
made from a video point of view these phones are also amazing they have
optical image stabilization on two of the lenses on the back and interestingly
the s10 5g because the extra umph on the inside so Samsung claimed records by
default at 4k so some of the smarts they've got going on in there you can
actually just about notice a slightly better processing of 4k imagery
but the s10 plus is more than capable of doing the same and should you want to
record video with your phone both of these will be great for that and how
could I leave you without mentioning headphones we still love wires you love
wires bluetooth is a bit annoying sometimes and the s10 plus and the s10
5g look at that headphones both you get headphones in the box AKG as you do
normally with Samsung phones but it's great to see that even on a $1300 phone
you are getting a headphone jack whereas some mid-range phones are starting to
cut them out now and that headphone jack if you don't want to use it pairs nicely
with the dual speakers so you get stereo speakers on the top and bottom for a
pretty decent audio experience I've reviewed both phones and at this point
even though I love the finish of the s10 5g and I like that it's a large phone
that even I can handle with my tiny hands I would still with my money by the
s10 plus you don't yet need to fork out for a 5g contract and you probably don't
want to buy a 5g phone so then just put 4G SIM in it anyway this phone is more
than capable the s10 plus it's better size you've got expandable storage and
waterproofing and all the things do you get on the s10 5g just in the cheaper
package and as usual with Samsung phones if you wait a couple of extra months
down the line the price is going to go down anyway and you're going to get
yourself a really good deal or you could wait for the note 10
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