The Samsung Note 10 and its Plus version have been putting up a great performance with their impressive features and specifications. One of the standout features is the 1080p screen, which is very good, but one might wonder if it's truly superior to the 1440p screens. The reviewer mentions that they can tell the difference between the two resolutions when comparing them side by side, but doesn't think it would be noticeable in everyday usage. They also appreciate the phone's design, particularly the "hole punch" at the top of the screen, which may seem like a drawback initially, but has grown on them. The reviewer does note that the 1080p screen does have its benefits, such as extended battery life, and is overall very satisfactory.

On the other hand, the battery life is a major letdown for the reviewer. They expect more from their phone's battery performance, especially considering it's a relatively compact device with a pen built-in. The reviewer mentions that they're only getting around 4-4.5 hours of screen on time, which is underwhelming, especially when compared to other flagships like the Samsung Galaxy S10 and Note 9. However, this can be attributed to various factors such as early hardware and software, and the reviewer acknowledges that it's a relatively early stage in their review process.

The camera system on the Note 10 Plus is quite impressive, with a triple-camera setup that includes an additional depth sensor. The reviewer finds the photos to be clean and the night shots to be particularly good. This camera system is one of the standout features of the phone, especially when compared to other devices in its class.

One of the most unique and exciting features of the Note 10 series is the S-Pen. Samsung has made significant improvements to this feature, adding gyroscopes that enable more precise control and gestures. The reviewer appreciates the versatility of the pen, but also notes that some features may feel gimmicky or niche, such as gesture controls for navigating around apps. They're unsure if this will become a widespread trend, but acknowledge that the S-Pen is a fantastic feature that sets the phone apart from its competitors.

The smaller Note 10 version has been a major factor in the reviewer's preference for it over the larger Plus model. While the bigger phone may offer more features and better performance, the smaller device feels much more comfortable to hold and use. The reviewer acknowledges that this is largely due to the design of the phone, which allows it to fit snugly in most people's hands.

Finally, there's the matter of price. The Note 10 starts at $950 for the base model, while the Plus version begins at $1100. The presence and availability of other devices like the S10 and Note 9 from last year have a significant impact on how the reviewer views these phones in terms of value. While it's hard to beat the latest and greatest features offered by these newer devices, the smaller Note 10 offers an experience that can't be replicated by its predecessors, making it worth considering for those looking for something unique.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enyou know sometimes you see specs leaked on a phone or you see some photos that are leaked about upcoming phones and you build an idea in your head of what that phone will be like and sometimes that idea is wrong so these are the Galaxy Note templates on the regular Galaxy Note 10 and I liked them a lot more than I thought it would now at the briefing when they first announced these phones I remembered thinking that shirt like the note 10 plus really easy phone to just recognize as being the flagship it's a very powerful phone very expensive phone but the note 10 the regular Note 10 felt but just underwhelming it was it was a smaller phone 1080p screen a lot of features that were missing from the big boy version and it was like the first thing I actually thought it was like why does this exist what purpose does a smaller Note 10 with worst paper specs have when the traditional Galaxy Note line is just a flagship product with the best specs possible but it turns out both of these phones are really solid and I've really grown to like the smaller regular Note 10 now before I get into the meat of this video I want to talk about the lack of the headphone jack on both of these devices both a note 10 and the note 10 plus no longer have headphone jacks and Samsung just straight-up removed them and it sucks I think they're gonna get a lot of backlash from note fans and from Samsung users I really hate that it's gone but it's just how it's played out now I don't think Samsung just copied Apple for the sake of copying I think they did just follow in Apple's footsteps but the reason why they did it the reason why I think they've removed the headphone jack at this point in time specifically is because they're now in the position to actually profit from removing the headphone jack they've done the math right clearly people aren't buying Samsung's phones just because of the existence of the headphone jack right so they've turned to the dark side it's time to dump the jack and to sell you alongside with their phone a pair of wireless headphones and I think at this point in time the only companies left on the market that are still making phones with headphone jacks are companies that just do not have a pair of popular wireless headphones to sell alongside with their phones because everyone else like Apple Google 1 plus and now Samsung will all gladly sell you a pair of wireless headphones to go with your headphone those phones it's gone I hate that it's gone but that's just what we have okay back to the actual phone so the design of this phone I like the way that these things look way more in real life than they did in photos a note on the colors the aura glow like the kind of shimmery silver color that they have it looks really extra in videos and stuff like that it's got this rainbow sheen to it it looks crazy like that if you shine a lot of light on it but I don't think it's as obnoxious or as loud as it may seem in videos if you like that look but you're hesitant because you thought it might be too bright or too colorful I think for regular use it's relatively muted it's just outdoors it really blasts like you saw the thumbnail in this video that was shot with just lights hitting this thing at the right angle and it just glows but oftentimes it's just a more of muted silver color now another thing I really like about these phones is the frame so these use a stainless steel frame kind of like heavy iPhone 10 and 10s have used that same kind of stainless steel frame around the phone every other phone that I've used recently has had an aluminum frame and the vast majority of premium kind of flagship phones use an aluminum frame now this is the one plus 7 pro and I've dropped this a bunch of times since I've switched over to it and this material is soft it scratches dents it's even cracked the glass in one of the corners but stainless steel frames are just a lot stronger not that you're going to be dropping your phone every day but it's just a more durable frame material than aluminum other changes to the note 10 this year the button position so they got rid of the kind of traditional spot of the power button or the sleep/wake button and they've repurposed the Bigsby button on the left to have that function and you can customize it so I've set mine so that a single tap will sleep and wake the phone a double tap will launch the camera and then a press and hold will launch the kind of power menu and there's just no more bixby functionality off of that button just by how I've set it up so it's nice that you can do that there's just no more accidental Bixby launches because the button no longer does that okay the screen so I'm coming off of the 1 plus 7 Pro when I'm coming over to this phone and the resolution on the smaller phone is stuck at Tandy P and I'll be honest when I first found out that it was a Tandy P pentile display on a Galaxy Note I was like what these phones are supposed to be via Samsung flagship these are the galaxy notes they're supposed to have the highest resolution screen so you can get on any Samsung phone it turns out though that the 1080p screen is very good like maybe my eyes aren't sharp enough like I can tell the difference between the 1080p screen and the 1440p screen you can tell them apart especially if you have them right beside each other but there's no way that I would ever look at the regular no.10 screen and think this is insufficient like this is lacking in some way or another I really think it's a fantastic screen the shortcoming though I would say is the lack of high refresh like a 90 Hertz screen would have been so nice and coming off the 1 + 7 Pro there is a noticeable difference between the 60 and 90 Hertz refresh rate but that's what we have 60 Hertz screens on Samsung flagships for this year the hole punch at the top I actually don't mind it at all I thought I would coming off the very clean 1 + 7 pro screen but it's just it's there I really don't seem to notice it now one of the benefits of having a 1080p screen is battery life when you run a lower resolution screen you just have extended battery life and this phone does not have a big battery I'm only getting like four four and a half hours of screen on time over the past few days I get it it's a relatively small device that has a pen there's not a lot of room in there for a battery but I was just hopeful that it'd be getting better than four hours of screen on time this is still relatively early on in the whole review process and I'm sure I'm running some kind of like early hardware and early software but yeah that's what we have so far shorter than battery life than I had hoped and even expected okay the camera system this is a triple camera system the note 10 plus has an added fourth sensor like a depth camera the photos are clean from what I can see so far but the night shots in particular look really good now the main feature of the note 10 and the note 10 plus is the s-pen and this year it's been improved they've added some gyros in here so it's got more features and stuff this is the best feature of the phone and it's the most unique feature of the note lineup but whether or not you can fit it into your life or your workflow is entirely dependent on you and you have like your regular note-taking stuff you have the remote shutter stuff for the camera they also have gesture controls which honestly feel a little gimmicky to me I don't ever see myself using the gestures to navigate around instead of swiping or tapping on the screen they also have an SDK which I honestly think is just super ambitious for Samsung to think that some developer is going to make a niche app have niche controls for those like few people that have this particular S Pen to navigate in their apps like I don't know I don't think that's kind of happen anytime soon but the pen is fantastic now if you're someone who's been interested in the idea of a pen based phone like the notes in the past but you've been turned off by its size I think the regular note 10 this year is like you just got to take a look at it when I picked this up for the first time I realized why they made the smaller note 10 the big boy Note 10 plus if we've seen this form factor for years like that big phone with the pen it suits a lot of people just fine but I think a lot of people are turned off by its size a lot of people are just intimidated by how big this phone is like it does it fit in your pocket this is like it's big it's even bigger than the 1 + 7 Pro which is already a giant phone this fits in most people's hands just a lot more comfortably and I much prefer the ergonomics on the smaller note 10 than the big one despite its technical shortcomings now the last I want to talk about is price because you cannot talk about the most expensive Samsung flagship without discussion about the price these start at 950 for the small one and 1100 for the plus and the presence and availability of the s10 and the note 9 from last year really affect how I view these in terms of value obviously we just really want the latest and greatest note you're just gonna get one I think the one that's special the one that's most unique is the smaller one that the note 10 even with its lowered specs is something that just did not exist before it just offers an experience that you can't get with any of the older phones you have to spend the big money to get this small phone with the s-pen okay hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs if you liked it subs if you loved it see you guys next timeyou know sometimes you see specs leaked on a phone or you see some photos that are leaked about upcoming phones and you build an idea in your head of what that phone will be like and sometimes that idea is wrong so these are the Galaxy Note templates on the regular Galaxy Note 10 and I liked them a lot more than I thought it would now at the briefing when they first announced these phones I remembered thinking that shirt like the note 10 plus really easy phone to just recognize as being the flagship it's a very powerful phone very expensive phone but the note 10 the regular Note 10 felt but just underwhelming it was it was a smaller phone 1080p screen a lot of features that were missing from the big boy version and it was like the first thing I actually thought it was like why does this exist what purpose does a smaller Note 10 with worst paper specs have when the traditional Galaxy Note line is just a flagship product with the best specs possible but it turns out both of these phones are really solid and I've really grown to like the smaller regular Note 10 now before I get into the meat of this video I want to talk about the lack of the headphone jack on both of these devices both a note 10 and the note 10 plus no longer have headphone jacks and Samsung just straight-up removed them and it sucks I think they're gonna get a lot of backlash from note fans and from Samsung users I really hate that it's gone but it's just how it's played out now I don't think Samsung just copied Apple for the sake of copying I think they did just follow in Apple's footsteps but the reason why they did it the reason why I think they've removed the headphone jack at this point in time specifically is because they're now in the position to actually profit from removing the headphone jack they've done the math right clearly people aren't buying Samsung's phones just because of the existence of the headphone jack right so they've turned to the dark side it's time to dump the jack and to sell you alongside with their phone a pair of wireless headphones and I think at this point in time the only companies left on the market that are still making phones with headphone jacks are companies that just do not have a pair of popular wireless headphones to sell alongside with their phones because everyone else like Apple Google 1 plus and now Samsung will all gladly sell you a pair of wireless headphones to go with your headphone those phones it's gone I hate that it's gone but that's just what we have okay back to the actual phone so the design of this phone I like the way that these things look way more in real life than they did in photos a note on the colors the aura glow like the kind of shimmery silver color that they have it looks really extra in videos and stuff like that it's got this rainbow sheen to it it looks crazy like that if you shine a lot of light on it but I don't think it's as obnoxious or as loud as it may seem in videos if you like that look but you're hesitant because you thought it might be too bright or too colorful I think for regular use it's relatively muted it's just outdoors it really blasts like you saw the thumbnail in this video that was shot with just lights hitting this thing at the right angle and it just glows but oftentimes it's just a more of muted silver color now another thing I really like about these phones is the frame so these use a stainless steel frame kind of like heavy iPhone 10 and 10s have used that same kind of stainless steel frame around the phone every other phone that I've used recently has had an aluminum frame and the vast majority of premium kind of flagship phones use an aluminum frame now this is the one plus 7 pro and I've dropped this a bunch of times since I've switched over to it and this material is soft it scratches dents it's even cracked the glass in one of the corners but stainless steel frames are just a lot stronger not that you're going to be dropping your phone every day but it's just a more durable frame material than aluminum other changes to the note 10 this year the button position so they got rid of the kind of traditional spot of the power button or the sleep/wake button and they've repurposed the Bigsby button on the left to have that function and you can customize it so I've set mine so that a single tap will sleep and wake the phone a double tap will launch the camera and then a press and hold will launch the kind of power menu and there's just no more bixby functionality off of that button just by how I've set it up so it's nice that you can do that there's just no more accidental Bixby launches because the button no longer does that okay the screen so I'm coming off of the 1 plus 7 Pro when I'm coming over to this phone and the resolution on the smaller phone is stuck at Tandy P and I'll be honest when I first found out that it was a Tandy P pentile display on a Galaxy Note I was like what these phones are supposed to be via Samsung flagship these are the galaxy notes they're supposed to have the highest resolution screen so you can get on any Samsung phone it turns out though that the 1080p screen is very good like maybe my eyes aren't sharp enough like I can tell the difference between the 1080p screen and the 1440p screen you can tell them apart especially if you have them right beside each other but there's no way that I would ever look at the regular no.10 screen and think this is insufficient like this is lacking in some way or another I really think it's a fantastic screen the shortcoming though I would say is the lack of high refresh like a 90 Hertz screen would have been so nice and coming off the 1 + 7 Pro there is a noticeable difference between the 60 and 90 Hertz refresh rate but that's what we have 60 Hertz screens on Samsung flagships for this year the hole punch at the top I actually don't mind it at all I thought I would coming off the very clean 1 + 7 pro screen but it's just it's there I really don't seem to notice it now one of the benefits of having a 1080p screen is battery life when you run a lower resolution screen you just have extended battery life and this phone does not have a big battery I'm only getting like four four and a half hours of screen on time over the past few days I get it it's a relatively small device that has a pen there's not a lot of room in there for a battery but I was just hopeful that it'd be getting better than four hours of screen on time this is still relatively early on in the whole review process and I'm sure I'm running some kind of like early hardware and early software but yeah that's what we have so far shorter than battery life than I had hoped and even expected okay the camera system this is a triple camera system the note 10 plus has an added fourth sensor like a depth camera the photos are clean from what I can see so far but the night shots in particular look really good now the main feature of the note 10 and the note 10 plus is the s-pen and this year it's been improved they've added some gyros in here so it's got more features and stuff this is the best feature of the phone and it's the most unique feature of the note lineup but whether or not you can fit it into your life or your workflow is entirely dependent on you and you have like your regular note-taking stuff you have the remote shutter stuff for the camera they also have gesture controls which honestly feel a little gimmicky to me I don't ever see myself using the gestures to navigate around instead of swiping or tapping on the screen they also have an SDK which I honestly think is just super ambitious for Samsung to think that some developer is going to make a niche app have niche controls for those like few people that have this particular S Pen to navigate in their apps like I don't know I don't think that's kind of happen anytime soon but the pen is fantastic now if you're someone who's been interested in the idea of a pen based phone like the notes in the past but you've been turned off by its size I think the regular note 10 this year is like you just got to take a look at it when I picked this up for the first time I realized why they made the smaller note 10 the big boy Note 10 plus if we've seen this form factor for years like that big phone with the pen it suits a lot of people just fine but I think a lot of people are turned off by its size a lot of people are just intimidated by how big this phone is like it does it fit in your pocket this is like it's big it's even bigger than the 1 + 7 Pro which is already a giant phone this fits in most people's hands just a lot more comfortably and I much prefer the ergonomics on the smaller note 10 than the big one despite its technical shortcomings now the last I want to talk about is price because you cannot talk about the most expensive Samsung flagship without discussion about the price these start at 950 for the small one and 1100 for the plus and the presence and availability of the s10 and the note 9 from last year really affect how I view these in terms of value obviously we just really want the latest and greatest note you're just gonna get one I think the one that's special the one that's most unique is the smaller one that the note 10 even with its lowered specs is something that just did not exist before it just offers an experience that you can't get with any of the older phones you have to spend the big money to get this small phone with the s-pen okay hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs if you liked it subs if you loved it see you guys next time\n"