all right so it's no secret i've been
using the galaxy s10 made a video
recently kind of recapping my
experiences
people are they're hitting me up i'm
getting all kinds of questions
suggestions and so on
it's just a hot phone people seem to
like it so far
one of the things that showed up in my
inbox the app that can do something very
special
with the hole punch it's a unique aspect
of this particular device the s10 s10
plus
so you saw all these wallpapers come out
specific to take advantage
of the hole punch but there's something
more useful than any of those wallpapers
that people have been hitting me up
about
in my inbox and it's an app it's an app
that takes that hole punch and turns it
into
a battery indicator energy ring battery
indicator for galaxy s10
s10e so this will not work with the plus
it's specific
to the circular cut out which i
personally think is the better looking
cutout so far so good i mean they got
some reviews on the app
let's just install it let's check it out
real quick so you do have to enable it
in here
that's fine allow permission and i don't
know if you guys can pick that up it's
not super thick right now you can see
if i slide this all the way over it gets
a lot bigger but as you can tell it's
representative of the percentage of
battery life
remaining and it's very visual like you
can
spot it quickly and easily let's give
kirk a quick look at it
you know you're in the sort of
three-quarter territory
with a quick glance as opposed to your
typical battery indicator which
you kind of got to squint that a little
bit anyhow i would probably use it
somewhere around
15 for the thickness i think that is a
slightly better look
in my opinion you can change the ring
direction as well
clockwise bi-directional anti-clockwise
you can auto hide on full screen apps
the charging animation oh my goodness
linear no animation acceleration
deceleration
oh cool look at that you see it uh
spinning around so you're on like the
home page or whatever it's spinning
around
let me just go back real quick because
there are some other animations
available linear
acceleration oh
you see that one there okay slightly
deceleration
slow boom slow
boom okay anticipation go
don't go go speed breaker
i hate almost all of them i just want
linear but it's still nice to have
linear you just
to know to have the confidence oh okay
i'm charging sweet
it's a nice little functionality does
not interrupt
your camera functionality at all you
know you're charging you pull it out
it's static it's back to whatever
percentage you have you plug it in
you know right away you're charging
wonderful okay nice little functionality
there
then to take it a step further there's a
color configuration so you
think you're just glancing at the amount
of charge based on how much of the
circle is filled
but there's also color coding from 100
to 76
is going to be green 75 to 51 blue 50 to
26 yellow and 25 to one will be in red
again this idea of just being able to
glance at it
and quickly understand which battery
territory you're in
first step you're just going to
recognize the color and then the second
is how much of the ring is filled up in
total this is a cool little thing i
think it's a good idea i'm starting to
understand why so many people sent it to
me
this hole punch has been for some reason
it's inspired all kinds of people
in the smartphone space whether it's a
wallpaper or an entire app
i guess the aesthetic of it was just
appealing to people they wanted to do
things with it this is by far the most
useful functionality i've seen so far
there is that
led that's in there typically only shows
up during
face unlock or i guess when you maybe
when you're using the front-facing
camera
now you can put it to use on the daily
in a way that can actually impact the
way you use your device
and let you know sooner than later that
you're getting low on battery or also
let you know
that you're charging in case for
whatever you're plugging into a faulty
setup and you're not getting a charge
you would know now it looks like the app
itself is ad supported so it's free i
mean you just get it and you got to look
at like an amazon ad every so often it's
really not terrible
thank you for the tip for those of you
that sent it in and i think it's a nice
little improvement
on a design element within this
particular device
i think it's pretty cool