The Samsung Galaxy S10 is really cool about thisis that it supports reverse wireless charging. Turn on Power Share, and all you need to do is take another phone or another accessory, and the S10 will begin to charge it via Qi Wireless Charging. This is a dope feature. And especially considering that you have such a big battery on the S10+, it's a legitimately super, super useful thing to do. Especially if you're a nice friend who wants to top off after the end of the day. Be like, oh, I got 40% left, here you go.

When it comes to the cameras, the 10 megapixel front-facing camera on the Galaxy S10 is all new this year. Now on the Plus model, you do get a secondary depth sensor, which is nice for portraits, but also means that the little hole punch thing is, well, not so little. So if we take a normal shot, it looks pretty decent. But we also do have the improved portrait mode. Now, the blur effect actually looks pretty decent. It still does have an issue with my glasses, like every other front-facing camera ever, but not bad. So there are some very interesting effects with the portrait. You can do a sort of weird zoom, which actually doesn't look that bad. I mean, some of this stuff is really fun. If you have the right kind of shot, you can get a really cool effect. You also have the color pop mode, which makes the background not only blurred but also black and white, which is very sad.

Yo, you know what? Some of this stuff is actually really cool. Like, I know a lot of times the portrait mode stuff is gimmicky, but the different options here are totally unique and actually do work pretty well. Of course, though, that's not the entire story. On the back of the Galaxy S10+, we have a full three cameras. So the main wide angle camera is essentially unchanged from last year. You still have optical image stabilization as well as that cool dual pixel autofocus and the dual apertures, if that's not enough duals for you. And on top of that, the telephoto camera is also very similar. It does have OIS, but you're really not seeing any kind of major differences on the actual hardware side of things.

What's new is a brand-new wide angle camera, which is standard on the S10E, the S10 and the S10+. The only thing that the E really drops is that telephoto camera. So for an example, this is what the telephoto looks like. This is the standard shot. And this is the wide angle. You can see that there's a pretty wide range here. Now, I personally find that the wide angle is probably the most useful. Obviously you're gonna be using the main camera 90% of the time. I always just find the telephoto is usually not that much higher quality than just digitally zooming in.

But that wide angle camera actually does work really well. Video is also pretty impressive on the S10. So this is what the wide-angle camera looks like, but if we punch into the standard, you can see that we're still getting a lot of range. And if we go all the way into the telephoto as it kind of stutters for a second, you can see you get some very different focal lengths. But the camera goes a lot farther than just that, especially when it comes to video. You're also getting double the record time on the super slow motion. And I gotta say, even though it's not something I would use every day, when you pull it off, it is a very, very cool effect.

Now, sure, will the S10 match something like the Pixel 3 as far as raw image quality? Not really. But because you have all of these different modes, the video is so solid, and especially considering that you have that super wide angle lens, I don't think anyone's gonna be particularly disappointed with the camera of the Galaxy S10 this year.

There is no getting around that the Galaxy S10 is an expensive phone. Now while the S10E is kind of reasonable at $750 bucks, if you wanna get the S10+ like this model, it's going to start at $1,000. And if you go for the full maxed out one terabyte ceramic model, it is $1,600. Realistically though, this is just kind of the world we live in at this point. The $1,000 flagship is here to stay.

And beyond price, there's really not a lot I have to complain about with the S10. As far as an Android flagship goes, there is really no other recommendation that I have right now beyond the S10, and especially this S10+. It really is that good. So of course, the question is: is the Galaxy S10 worth it? Yeah. Simple as that, yeah.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- Hey guys, this is Austin.There's a lot that can be saidabout the brand new Galaxy S10,but it can be summed up pretty quickly:this is the phone to beat for 2019.After 10 years of Galaxy devices,we have one seriously nicepiece of hardware with the S10.Put it side-by-side with an earlier modeland it is absolutely crazyat how far Samsung has come.Now, you can't talk about this phonewithout acknowledgingits most unique feature,the hole punch display.Yeah, it's definitely there alright.Now I recently did a video talkingall about the hole punchdisplay versus the notch,which you guys can go check out.But there's no getting around the factthat while this is a prettymuch full screen display,it is kind of distracting to look atthat hole punch all the time.Now, because of this, thereis one key disadvantageto the S10+ versus thestandard S10 and the S10E.Both of those phones havea single camera front,which means the hole punch displayis much, much smaller thanthe double camera on the S10+.Sure, it looks a littlebit more distinctive,but you're losing basicallydouble the real estate like that.Now, I've kinda gotten used to itat this point, to be totally honest,but it is a little bit obtrusive still,and I think this is one of those thingswhere time will definitelywhether this is a good ideaor whether we'll lookback on the hole punchas something that's evenworse than the notch.The screen itself is typical Samsung.Bright, vibrant and prettymuch as good as it getsas far as smartphones go today.What's new this year isthat the fingerprint sensoris moved from the back ofthe phone to the front.Now it's underneath the display,and generally speaking,it works pretty well.So it's very similar, infact, to the OnePlus 6T,not only in accuracy but as well as speed.Now, you can't just put yourfingerprint anywhere on the display.There is a fairly smallsensor in the middle.But once you get used to it,you can pretty easily unlock the phonewithout having to tap thescreen or do anything.You just set yourfingerprint, it will wake up,and you're good to go.The only Galaxy S10 that misses outon this feature is the S10E,which instead has a fingerprint sensoron the side of the phone.Now, personally, I actuallydon't think this is a huge loss.Even though it is a cool featureto have it underneath the display,it still feels a little bit more likea gimmick than a must-have feature.The rest of the hardwareis absolutely top notch.After all these yearsit's weird that Samsungis still the only ones to really pull offthe curved front and back glass.Not only does it look nice,but importantly, it gives avery nice feel in the hand.Amazingly, if you look onthe bottom of the phone,you will find that thereis still a headphone jack.Now, I don't know how much longerthis is going to stick around.At this point it feels like the S10is one of the very fewflagships that still has it.But huge props to Samsung on this one.And to top it all off,Samsung now allows you toremap the Bixby button.This is an incredible,brave new world we live in.-Welcome to the new Bixby.♪ I've been feeling kindacooped up, cooped up ♪- If that's not enough,we also still havestereo speakers on board,even though we don't havereally kind of any top bezel.There's a tiny little driver up top,which sounds pretty good.There is not a lot to complainabout with this hardware.I'll be totally honest with you.Samsung absolutely nailed it this year.Speaking of hardware,something that returns this year is DeX.So Samsung is one of the few companiesthat really fully takesadvantage of the USB-C port.A lot of other phonesjust use it for charging.But with this, you can kind ofturn it into a full desktop.All you need to do istake a single USB-C cableand while you could use a DeX dock,what I personally prefer isrunning it to a USB-C monitor.Not only do you get a full display,but you also get stuff likemouse and keyboard support.And honestly, Android appshave come a long way as far asbeing able to be used ina windowed sort of fashion.Now, no, DeX is not thefastest thing in the world.It does feel a little bit stutterycompared to running theapps natively on the phone,but this is absolutely the dream, right?You take your phone, you use it all day,you drop it into a dockor you plug something inand it turns into essentiallya full desktop computer.If only it was just a little bit faster.Don't let that fool you though.This is an absolute performance beastwhen you're using it as a phone.Here in the US, allmodels of the Galaxy S10use the same Snapdragon 855.The main difference isjust in the amount of RAMas well as the amount of storage.There are a ton of different SKUs,but pretty much all ofthem have eight gigs of RAMwith the exception of thebase model of the S10E,which has six gigs, as wellas the high end versionof the S10+, which has 12.Regardless though, you shouldn't see anymajor difference betweenthe different phones.It's very nice to seethat you're not gettingsort of a skimped down versionwhen you go to the lower end models.Performance should be verysimilar across the board.Speaking of that 855,it is a big step up overthe 845 of last year.Now, it's still an eight-core processor,but they've done somethinga little bit different.So you have four cores,which are a little bit moreon the power efficient side,and you have three bigcores for heavier tasks.But there is also a single core,which is a higher clock speed,which is especially helpful forsingle-threaded performance,which, let's be real, is a lot ofwhat you do on your phone every day.That plus the new 7 nanometerprocess really pays off.Put it side by side withnot only last year's modelbut as well as the brand new iPhonesand you'll see that, while yes,it's not quite as fast as that iPhone XS,it is much closer than Qualcommand Snapdragon have been in years.Graphics are also an improvement.We're looking at a solid upliftversus last year's model.And again, it is not quitethere with the iPhone A12,but it is a lot closer than it used to be.Now a small note about cooling.While the S10 and the S10Ehave fairly standard cooling,the S10+ actually has a vapor chamber.Now, I don't have thoseother two phones in to test,but with this guy, itactually does a very good jobof staying fairly cool even whenyou're under extended gaming loads.I saw it top out at around40 to 41 degrees Celsius.The Galaxy S10 line is alsoone of the first phonesto support the brand new WiFi 6.Now this isn't going tobe dramatically fasterthan the previous generation of WiFi.It's maybe 20% or so.But the big differenceis that this should bemuch more reliable inmore congested areas,which, of course, is basicallyeverywhere at this point.Now, I haven't had a ton of time to trywith a WiFi 6 router yet,but definitely stay tuned.This is actually something that could bea pretty big deal going forward.Battery life is definitelya strong suit with the S10+.And a big part of that is due tothat huge 4100 milliamp hour battery.I've had no problems makingit through a full day of use.Now, as you'd expect, theS10 is water-resistant,and it does supportfast wireless charging.But what's really cool about thisis that it supportsreverse wireless charging.Turn on Power Share,and all you need to dois take another phoneor another accessory,and the S10 will begin to charge itvia Qi Wireless Charging.This is a dope feature.And especially considering that you havesuch a big battery on the S10+,it's a legitimately super,super useful thing to do.Especially if you're a nice friendwho wants to top offafter the end of the day.Be like, oh, I got 40% left, here you go.When it comes to thecameras, the 10 megapixelfront-facing camera on theGalaxy S10 is all new this year.Now on the Plus model, you doget a secondary depth sensor,which is nice for portraits,but also means that the littlehole punch thing is, well, not so little.So if we take a normal shot,it looks pretty decent.But we also do have theimproved portrait mode.Now, the blur effectactually looks pretty decent.It still does have anissue with my glasses,like every other front-facingcamera ever, but not bad.So there are some very interestingeffects with the portrait.So you can do a sort of weird zoom,which actually doesn't look that bad.I mean, some of this stuff is really fun.If you have the right kind of shot,you can get a really cool effect.You also have the color pop mode,which makes the backgroundnot only blurred,but also black andwhite, which is very sad.Yo, you know what?Some of this stuff isactually really cool.Like, I know a lot of timesthe portrait mode stuff is gimmicky,but the different optionshere are totally uniqueand actually do work pretty well.Of course, though, that'snot the entire story.On the back of the Galaxy S10+,we have a full three cameras.So the main wide angle camera isessentially unchanged from last year.You still have optical image stabilizationas well as that cool dual pixel autofocusand the dual apertures, ifthat's not enough duals for you.And on top of that,the telephoto camera is also very similar.It does have OIS,but you're really not seeing any kind ofmajor differences on theactual hardware side of things.What's new is a brandnew wide angle camera,which is standard on theS10E, the S10 and the S10+.The only thing that the E reallydrops is that telephoto camera.So for an example, this iswhat the telephoto looks like.This is the standard shot.And this is the wide angle.You can see that there'sa pretty wide range here.Now, I personally find that the wide angleis probably the most useful.Obviously you're gonna be usingthe main camera 90% of the time.I always just find thetelephoto is usually notthat much higher quality thanjust digitally zooming in.But that wide angle cameraactually does work really well.Video is also prettyimpressive on the S10.So this is what the wideangle camera looks like,but if we punch into the standard,you can see that we're stillgetting a lot of range.And if we go all theway into the telephotoas it kind of stutters for a second,you can see you get somevery different focal lengths.But the camera goes a lotfarther than just that,especially when it comes to video.You're also getting double the record timeon the super slow motion.And I gotta say, eventhough it's not somethingI would use every day,when you pull it off,it is a very, very cool effect.Now, sure, will the S10 matchsomething like the Pixel 3as far as raw image quality?Not really.But because you have allof these different modes,the video is so solid,and especially considering that you havethat super wide angle lens,I don't think anyone'sgonna be particularlydisappointed with the cameraof the Galaxy S10 this year.There is no getting around thatthe Galaxy S10 is an expensive phone.Now while the S10E is kindof reasonable at $750 bucks,if you wanna get the S10+ like this model,it's going to start at $1,000.And if you go for the full maxed outone terabyte ceramic model, it is $1,600.Realistically though, this is just kind ofthe world we live in at this point.The $1,000 flagship is here to stay.And beyond price, there's really not a lotI have to complain about with the S10.As far as an Android flagship goes,there is really no other recommendationthat I have right now beyond the S10,and especially this S10+.It really is that good.So of course, the question is:is the Galaxy S10 worth it?Yeah.Simple as that, yeah.