hi Henry at tech advisor here and we are here to talk about the Galaxy S 10
phones we have all three the Galaxy S 10e the Galaxy S 10 and the galaxy s 10
plus now some of the videos you may have already seen in and around YouTube
including from us were from the launch event for the s 10 phones we are doing
this video about a month after that I personally have reviewed all three of
these phones for tech advisor check out the written reviews in the description
and I'm now going to take you through the differences between all of them what
I think of each one of them and which one is best for you to buy this is the
galaxy s 10 versus okay so let's start with what we all know we have the galaxy
s 10 e is smaller it's a bit like the iPhone 10 or of the lineup like you have
the iPhone 10 are 10s and 10's max Samsung has somewhat mirrored that by
having a cheaper version and then you have the S 10 in the middle the
Goldilocks galaxy as I called it in my review because we think it's just about
right but if you want the all the bells and whistles then you can go for the
galaxy s 10 plus so let's start with the design very sleek new colors we have
prism White's as they call it there than a white prism prison green as well on
the over here it comes in several different colors a few more colors if
you're over in America actually edge to edge display with a cutout camera rather
than a notch so let's have a look you have single cameras on the s10 II and
the s10 you have a double one on the s10 plus so as you can see here Samsung
tries to hide them with the wallpapers but I've put a different wallpaper on
the s10 plus so you can see well the cutout is like there you have the double
cameras on the s10 plus so a way of looking at it because there are also
only two cameras on the back of the s10 II compared to the three on the back of
the other two phones on the s10 II you have three overall cameras s 10 for
overall cameras and yet you guessed it s 10 plus T of five the best way to break
it down is to think about which sensors they have to get technical for one
moment you have a 10 megapixel front-facing camera
all three phones and then an 8-megapixel additional one on the s10 plus and then
on the back you have a 12 and a 16 megapixel camera on every single phone
and then the s10 and s10 plus with those triple cameras have an extra 12
megapixel which is a telephoto lens so they all have which is nice to see on
the s10 II wide-angle cameras so you can fit in more of your shot should you want
to let's have a little look at the s10 event shall we so this is a smaller
device kind of good for 100 years but it still got an enormous screen 5.8 inches
now this is a flat panel compared to the curved edges of the other s10 phone so
if you didn't like that you're gonna like this and it doesn't compromise on
much either you actually have the Exynos 98 20 in European markets across all
three phones and you have a snapdragon 855 everywhere else in the world across
all three phones all three phones have OLED displays admittedly only a 1080p
panel on the e compared to the 1440 panels which are slightly higher
resolution obviously on the other two but the e really isn't as much of a
compromise as you might think the design is just as premium metal rim glass on
the back it is Gorilla Glass 5 on the front rather than 6 you get on the other
two so your money gets you subtler improvements on the s tens the s10 is
still very much premium phone performance is really good and you also
get a physical fingerprint sensor on the e you might like that it's on the side
so your thumb rests like that and something you can't do with the in
display fingerprint sensors on these other two is swipe down to get your
notifications which is a small nerdy thing but we like it
let's take a look at the ultrasonic fingerprint sensor then ultrasonic means
it is difference to the camera liked versions that you had on say B why we
made 20 Pro or the one plus 60 uses a slightly different technology so you can
see where my thumb is needed I push down on it unlocks the phone it is quite good
it is still not as good in my opinion as a physical fingerprint sensor are you
going to have to put up with it if you want it on the s10 and s all
three phones also have face on look which is much better I just looked at it
and it's open it is potentially you could describe as a downgrade from the
s9 series however because there's no bezel on these phones which is awesome
but it also means that Samsung hasn't put in its infrared sensors to do its
iris recognition so the face unlock isn't secure enough for biometrics and
for payments where is all three fingerprint sensors so we've had a look
at the e let's have a look at the screen sizes of the s10 and the s10 plus so you
have a 6.1 inch display on the s10 6.4 over on the biggest s10 plus here and
yeah I have small hands and the s10 plus is slightly too big for my hands and
there's no way I'm reaching the top of that screen and with a bit of hand
gymnastics maybe we can but the s10 is more comfortable to me than the s10 plus
the advantage is you're guessing here on the s10 plus or a bigger battery a
bigger screen and those double front-facing cameras as well storage
wise as well these are pretty premium phones you have six gigabytes of RAM and
128 gig of storage on the S Tony down there but on these two you have a
whopping 8 gigabytes of RAM and 128 gigabytes of storage as standard bump
the price up a little bit and it's 512 yes half a terabyte and some mobile
phones for you started of course on the galaxy note 9
there's also actually a special edition which we do not have here ceramic
conversion of the s10 plus which has a whole terabyte and it cost something
ridiculous like $1600 so unless you're really into your storage in your special
editions you're only gonna need the regular one let's have a little chat
about battery them because while it's good that all three of these phones have
the Exynos chip in Europe and we indeed have the Exynos version here is the one
we reviewed I've talked to a few of my friends who work for American
publications and they've had the Snapdragon 855 version and if you keen
on the scene then you will have seen that eight-hour screen on time is no
unusual for the particular the s10 plus on the Snapdragon 855 now it just is not
true of the Exynos versions they do not have as good battery life at all and for
the s10 II unfortunately it's a bit of a red mark because
it's such a good phone otherwise but in my testing it really doesn't hold up I'm
seeing about two and a half hours screen on time from pretty mediocre medium
style use and what hammering the thing in our battery test it just did not last
very long at all and it's real shame because of all three of them it really
is the one I worried about running out of power on I won't say that I didn't
actually ever run out of power on it I'll give it that but the battery life
is poor and if you even skip the middle one and go straight to the s10 plus I
was taking this thing out admittedly I was roaming over in Spain with it but
the battery was not lasting at all I was getting down to 20% by about 4 p.m.
and comparatively those 855 snapdragons out there they were doing way better at
least 6 hours so really but it's a bit of a worry for Samsung we kind of
understand why they have to do their own chips in their own phones in certain
regions to keep that business for them viable but it seems on the s10 unless
that can be improved and any future software updates these really are
slightly disappointing on the battery front and it's the main complaint I have
about all three of them a quick look at the specs will show you that you have 30
100 million powers on the e30 400 on the regular s10 and then ago she goes up to
40 100 on the s10 plus but still it's a bit of a worry and something to bear in
mind so that's the negative thing out the way let's think about the positive
thing the best thing I can say about these phones is whichever one you pick
slide from battery life you're going to be delighted
these perform like a dream out the box this is the best experience we've ever
had collectively here a tech advisor with a Samsung phone sometimes things do
tend to slow down over time but we are impressed with the fluidity of this one
one UI which is based on Android 9pi of course is amazingly good actually and we
never thought of the years ago we'd be saying this about Samsung phone given
the weird bloopy water drop nonsense of some of those TouchWiz versions from the
past you call it Samsung experience for a bit but one UI is just a lot cleaner
we have a dark mode running on this one which is nice to see across the UI but
you can also have it normal as well a little things like that are things that
Android fans such as us have been asking for for quite a while and sometimes
listen to the feedback and done it the interface is much cleaner you still get
a lot of things where you I want to get rid of certain
notifications from Samsung and of course our friend here
how you doing Bixby no us neither Bixby's not very good no way and you're
gonna want to use Google er system where possible nixb is not good but to be
honest with you we I personally don't use assistance very much
and at least you have Google assistant on here but that ever-present Bixby
button is on all three phones so you can remap it to either open Bigsby with one
or two presses so you can remap it to do a different thing with one press which
play caters for now another thing all three phones have is ip68 water and dust
resistance samsung here proving that by putting one of these little things yep a
headphone jack in your phones does not mean you can't have every feature Under
the Sun as well as full waterproofing all three of these phones also have
wireless power share now that's something we originally saw with Huawei
but Samsung has done it now so if we have a look here I put that phone down
and turn wireless per share on that my other Qi chargeable phone on the top of
it and it charges away it's quite slow it's not gonna supercharge one of your
phones and the best thing we can say about it is that if you have two devices
two phones maybe some headphones overnight you got that phone plugged in
facedown you put your other phone on top two phones one charger that's great
otherwise it is a bit gimmicky but it's gonna be interesting to see where the
technology goes so this culminates in which one do I think you should buy the
best way for me to answer this is what I would buy with my money I'm fortunate
enough to be able to test these and thank you very much to Samsung mobile
phone and Vodafone for the review units here I would buy the normal Galaxy S 10
the middle one the one I called the Goldilocks galaxy in my review this is
for a number of reasons I do obviously say that the best battery life is in the
s 10 plus but when it's a bit subpar and all of them I personally would go for a
phone with my smaller hands they're smaller in hand but I do like the zoom
lens on the back the triple cameras I actually quite liked the curved screen
I know it's not for everybody you don't get treble cameras and a curved screen
in the s10 II and on this occasion because the s10 II did have markedly bad
battery life it would be the one that I am really most frustrated with it should
be it should be technically the best in the lineup you hardly sacrifice anything
but that battery life it really bugged me and it's a real shame screen quality
and everything that's brilliant performance is just as good a battery
life so then the s10 plus you should go for this one if you want the one with
the longest battery life even if it's not as good as I want it to be double
cameras on the front by the way are not wide-angle cameras it is actually just a
crop thing and also for depth effects and such so you don't gain much by the
gain there's double cameras otherwise it's the largest screen you can get on a
galaxy s phone at the moment until the galaxy s 10 5g comes later down the line
which hasn't even bigger screen than we haven't seen that one yet
pricing wise you're looking at 669 pounds for the e 799 pounds for the s10
and 899 pounds for the s10 plus those a bit more money when you look at
contracts and really it's going to depend on what you can afford a contract
level most lovely dollars wise 7 4 9 for the e 899 for the 10 and then for the
tempest it's a thousand dollars $9.99 and you're gonna pay more if you want
any more storage as well so these are expensive phones but they are in the UK
at least not quite as expensive as the equivalent Apple phones so if you're an
Android fan you're a Samsung fan these are great products I've scored these
nine and nine and eight out of ten on tech advisor battery life is the main
thing here hopefully this has helped you some way into deciding which is the best
s10 for you and I'd love to know what you think as well because while I have
the privilege of the can all of them I want to know if you've had them which
one you're gonna buy which were you think of them and if you've got a
Snapdragon 855 one as well let me know how your battery life's been because
that is really a great interest to us and we look forward to continuing this
conversation in the comments below thanks very much for watching
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