Samsung Galaxy S10 5G Single-SIM 256 GB 6.7-Inch Android Smartphone UK Version Silver (Renewed)

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The Galaxy S10+ is the first US phone with an under-display, ultrasonic fingerprint sensor. It's more accurate than the OnePlus 6T's optical sensor. With a dry finger, if you hit the screen at the right spot, I found it to be 100 percent accurate in testing. But that's the thing —you have to hit the screen at the exact right spot. Hitting it off-center results in rejected touches. There's no visual guideline to do so when the screen is off, and no physical guide (like the ridge of a physical sensor) at all. The sensor is less accurate with a wet finger, and not usable at all with a dirty or goopy finger. For more on this, see my separate story on testing the fingerprint sensor. There's a single model of the Galaxy S10+ for all four US carriers, so it can easily be moved between them. The Qualcomm X24 modem inside supports all of the 4G bands used in the US, and many foreign ones. It has voice-over-LTE, voice-over-Wi-Fi, and the best possible voice codec for excellent call quality. Earpiece and speaker quality are impeccable. But that's all true about the S9 as well. The X24's advantage over last year's X20 modem is in going from 5x to 7x carrier aggregation, but no US wireless carrier does 7x carrier aggregation.

Fingerprint (under display, ultrasonic), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer, heart rate, SpO2 As it uses O2, its coverage should be the same, meaning the following 75 places now: Aberdeen, Ashford, Banstead, Basildon, Belfast, Birmingham, Blaydon, Bradford, Bridge of Don, Brighton, Bristol, Cardiff, Chatham, Chesterfield, Coventry, Dartford, Derby, Dewsbury, Dundee, Dyce, Eastbourne, Edinburgh, Esher, Gateshead, Gillingham, Glasgow, Grays, Hemel Hempstead, Huddersfield, Hull, Jarrow, Leeds, Leicester, Lincoln, Lisburn, Liverpool, London, Lowestoft, Luton, Manchester, Mansfield, Middlesbrough, Morley, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newtownabbey, North Shields, Northampton, Norwich, Nottingham, Orpington, Oxford, Peterborough, Plymouth, Rainham, Redhill, Rotherham, Sheffield, Slough, Staines, South Shields, Stoke-on-Trent, Sunbury, Sunderland, Thundersley, Tynemouth, Warrington, Washington, Weybridge, Windsor, Worthing and York. The default resolution is Full HD+, but you can crank it to QHD+ and it's pin sharp, with HDR10+ for superior contrast and color. That's an important perk if you’re a movie-watcher on your phone – an idea which isn’t so crazy its size.The dual front and multiple rear cameras all allow for hardware bokeh, which is better than the software bokeh that you get on single-camera phones. It's better at identifying the edges of objects, like flyaway hairs, that can otherwise mar the portrait effect. Of the new Galaxies, only the S10+ has the secondary front camera for hardware bokeh. Let's start by comparing it with the Galaxy S9+, which is about the same size as the S10+. Yes, the S10+ offers incremental improvements in the screen, battery life, modem, processor, and Wi-Fi performance. But I think you'll be just as happy with the S9+, because other than battery life, I wasn't able to find big differences in lived experiences, as opposed to lab testing. So the fingerprint sensor isn't a deal breaker, but it also isn't necessarily a usability advance. Processor, Software, and Performance We got our hands on the OnePlus 7 Pro 5G on launch day and have been testing out the speed of EE's shiny new network.

There are a few notable locations missing from the map, like Edinburgh or Norwich, but it's likely Three will continue to roll out its 5G coverage over the course of 2020 and beyond. Three also claims it aims to provide 5G coverage to 80% of its network traffic in three years.The phone’s all-display front, which includes a dual-camera hole punch notch located at the top right of the screen, is also lovely. Our technical display tests recorded identical results to the regular S10 and S10 Plus – colour accuracy is almost as good as can be, with only slight oversaturation in some red tones, and the panel manages to cover 96.3% of the sRGB colour gamut. The main draw for us is the 93.1% screen-to-body ratio that fits more pixels across a tighter body. Samsung's new Infinity-O display avoids using a notch by opting for a laser-cut hole in the top-right corner for the front camera. The one major improvement for stills is the wide-angle camera, which at 123 degrees is noticeably wider than LG's current 107-degree wide-angle units. Wide-angle photography is terrific: It helps you capture scenes and groups of people that otherwise wouldn't fit. My wife has an LG G7, and she uses wide angle a ton. Samsung doesn't have LG's mode that takes the same shot with all three lenses and lets you choose the best framing afterwards, though. For more, head over to our wide-angle camera comparison. Testing the display with a Klein K-80 colorimeter and SpectraCal's CalMAN and MobileForge software, we got slightly different results than DisplayMate Labs. In average, indoor light, with an image across 100 percent of the screen and the phone set to manual maximum brightness, we got a median brightness of 315 cd/m 2, the same as the Galaxy Note 9 and considerably lower than the Google Pixel 3 (400) or the Apple iPhone XR (556). But Galaxy phones' brightness go much higher in Adaptive mode than in manual mode, with the right stimulus: With Adaptive mode turned on and the phone moved close to a light, we got 435 cd/m 2, higher than the 403 cd/m 2 in Natural display mode that DisplayMate showed.