Gesture controls: The idea here is to press the S Pen button while flicking your wrist in a variety of directions to control the camera, Spotify and Power Point presentations. The stylus comes in handy when you're sitting comfortably. It's a lot more comfortable to use when you're sitting for awhile, less so when you're on the move. It also feels less substantial, and I'm not sure how I feel about that yet. Its button seems harder to accidentally press, which is a good thing. S Pen stylus: It's shorter and thinner than the Note 9's. The Note 10 Plus' 4,300-mAh battery routinely powered up from empty to fully charged in 65 minutes. In daily use, battery life truly lasts from morning till night, and recharging with the included 25-watt charger is impressively fast.
#Handy note 10 plus#
A new Live Focus filter makes portrait shots look dreamier.īattery life: The Note 10 Plus ran for 21 hours in our first continuous video drain test in airplane mode, which is very strong, but the Galaxy S10 5G ran 30 minutes longer (mobile data was inactivated). The new video editor was easy to use, from trimming to adding in a music track. Zoom-in-audio worked as advertised, but the effect was more subtle than I expected, and image quality suffers when you zoom in too closely. New camera tools: Portrait video worked in one early test, but I wasn't sure I liked the background blur. (Here are seven fun Note 10 wallpapers you can get now.) Some early photos from the Galaxy Note 10 Plus on a rare, clear summer SF day /ztW圎zikwX- Jessica Dolcourt August 15, 2019įront-facing camera placement: The centered 10-megapixel front-facing camera is far less distracting than the Galaxy S10's selfie cam placement off to the right. What I like about Google and Huawei's phones is that they both indicate how long you have to hold still the Note 10 is more of a guessing game. The process takes a few seconds on all phones. For example, street lights that spill out blobs of brightness in an automatic photo are more reined in in night mode.
The purpose is to brighten and sharpen dark scenes so that details stand out. I'm pretty pleased with the dedicated night mode so far, but the comparison to competitors is interesting. Samsung's new Note 10 is all the colors of the rainbow. The camera's dedicated night mode takes clearer, brighter shots that pop, compared to using the automatic mode. Samsung pushed out a standalone night mode after criticism of the S10 Plus, but the Note 10 phones bake them in.
#Handy note 10 pro#
Samsung's Galaxy cameras have historically been very good, but have struggled to keep up with low-light night mode shots compared to rival devices, like the Huawei P30 Pro and Google Pixel 3, and zoom quality like on the Oppo Reno 10x Zoom. Night mode will help the Note 10 phones compete But I'm struggling with the button placement and the missing headphone jack, and I have some questions about a few new features. Its cameras, tools and features are beginning to present as a complete package that's fun and satisfying to use. So far, the Note 10 Plus is shaping up to be beautiful, thanks to its colorful beguiling backing and its more svelte, sophisticated design than the Galaxy Note 9. For example, one aspect of AR Doodle wasn't initially working on my review unit (Samsung says it's now fixed this) and other features, like 3D scanner, are still to come. It takes a solid week to thoroughly run tests and for all the best and worst parts of a phone to crystallize, so not every observation here is final, especially if an issue crops up. I've also been observing performance on the in-screen fingerprint reader and how well the Note 10 camera's night mode compares to the Huawei P30 Pro and Google Pixel 3.
#Handy note 10 windows 10#
This battery test took the Note 10 Plus out of commission for, well, pretty much an entire day, but testing continues! Before it went into its testing cocoon, I tried out the S Pen's new gesture controls and another new feature, Link to Windows, which lets you access and interact with the Note 10's photos, texts, notifications and more from a Windows 10 PC. Twenty-one hours is a strong result, though the Galaxy S10 5G ran for 21.5 hours over the course of two tests.
This test doesn't represent how we use phones all day, but it is a good basis of comparison among phones that can indicate long or short life throughout your day. That's a 21-hour run in a test that loops a long video on airplane mode with the screen forced to stay on, and brightness and audio at the halfway point. At 8:30 this morning, the phone finally shut down. yesterday, the Galaxy Note 10 Plus' first battery drain test began.