Galaxy S10 and S10 Plus leak. In-display fingerprint sensor. OLED. Headphone jack. USB Type-C. Pinhole front camera.

this_guy · Feb 21, 2019

The US Samsung pre-order page shows the S10e priced at $849 - Verizon is the only carrier selling their version for $749. Looks like I might as well spend the extra $50 to get the regular S10 for $899.
That $749 price would have only been $200 with my S9 trade in.

Deleted member 24907 · Feb 21, 2019

SMD said:
Off topic but how long have you had it and how do you find it? I've been wary of Samsung watches because of Tizen but I don't really want to get an Apple Watch cos of how crap Android support is. And Fenix 5, that price...

I actually like it a lot for what it is. Good battery life and general design, but the app support is pretty skimpy so don't expect to find a bunch of apps through which to really expand the watch's functionality or anything. The watch has received a pretty good amount of updates, my watch is nearly 2 years old now and it's received all the Tizen updates, major and minor. The only thing I have any real issue with is the form factor: it's a very thick watch. This new Active watch seems like it's very lean and light according to this video. There's no rotating bezel though which is oddly enough a nifty little thing about the S3 that I've grown to like.

I don't regret having mine at all. Been wearing it every day for the last 2 years.

Rodney McKay · Feb 21, 2019

Really excited to hear reviews for the Galaxy Buds.

I have the Icon X and still like them a lot, but if it managed to have a faster/stronger Bluetooth connection I can see myself upgrading. Only $130 for them is great too. Just like 2 years ago I was paying $250 for Bose's wireless earbuds.

The case not charging the Buds as much is a bummer (preview said just 7 extra hours which is about one full charge), but the Buds themselves lasting a full 6 hours is pretty great for fully wireless earbuds, and way more than I'd ever need.

woman · Feb 21, 2019

not feeling her

the bottom lip and the back strip of cameras are hiddy

SMD · Feb 21, 2019

Eatin' Olives said:
I actually like it a lot for what it is. Good battery life and general design, but the app support is pretty skimpy so don't expect to find a bunch of apps through which to really expand the watch's functionality or anything. The watch has received a pretty good amount of updates, my watch is nearly 2 years old now and it's received all the Tizen updates, major and minor. The only thing I have any real issue with is the form factor: it's a very thick watch. This new Active watch seems like it's very lean and light according to this video. There's no rotating bezel though which is oddly enough a nifty little thing about the S3 that I've grown to like.

I don't regret having mine at all. Been wearing it every day for the last 2 years.

I don't think it's the Active version, I'll pass by after work and check it out. Are the base apps decent? I'm mostly thinking the fitness stuff but also Spotify when I go back to the UK (guessing no VPN support on the watch)

Deleted member 24907 · Feb 21, 2019

The carrier activation page takes me to a blank page, anyone else get this?

DBT85 · Feb 21, 2019

Rodney McKay said:
The case not charging the Buds as much is a bummer (preview said just 7 extra hours which is about one full charge), but the Buds themselves lasting a full 6 hours is pretty great for fully wireless earbuds, and way more than I'd ever need.

I'm not sure what you mean?

Does the case have a battery or does the case just act as a charger for them?

CosmicGP · Feb 21, 2019

Ooh watched a video, so it seems because the inscreen fingerprint sensor doesn't rely on light, you're able to unlock without needing to wake the screen first. Clever. That makes it much closer to the prior near-instant rear fingerprint sensor unlocks.

chicken_pasta · Feb 21, 2019

Can't trade in my S8+ because of a broken screen :( (only the glass, mind you)

signal · Feb 21, 2019

this_guy said:
The US Samsung pre-order page shows the S10e priced at $849 - Verizon is the only carrier selling their version for $749. Looks like I might as well spend the extra $50 to get the regular S10 for $899.
That $749 price would have only been $200 with my S9 trade in.

It's not like the 10e is some insanely gimped device or whatever but it's funny to see the "cheap" device still be that expensive lol.

MattDoza · Feb 21, 2019

Prism Green isn't coming to the US?! WHY?!

Zeusy · Feb 21, 2019

MattDoza said:
Prism Green isn't coming to the US?! WHY?!

I know T_T

Rodney McKay · Feb 21, 2019

DBT85 said:
I'm not sure what you mean?

Does the case have a battery or does the case just act as a charger for them?

The case does have a battery and will charge them for an additional 7 hours. The earbuds themselves apparently last for 6 hours, so you can get about 13 hours total without charging the case.

Technically the case should charge the Buds about as much as the current Icon X's (it charges them about twice, but the earbuds have half the battery length). Would have been nice to get two charges with the new case (or an additional 12 hours), but I'm sure it's a tradeoff to keep the case small which I appreciate.

The Bode headphones had a long lasting battery case, but it was also huge, like twice the size as my Icon X's.

chefbags · Feb 21, 2019

chicken_pasta said:
Can't trade in my S8+ because of a broken screen :( (only the glass, mind you)

Ayye Saaame here lol :(

DBT85 · Feb 21, 2019

chicken_pasta said:
Can't trade in my S8+ because of a broken screen :( (only the glass, mind you)

Do you have insurance on that phone...?

Rodney McKay said:
The case does have a battery and will charge them for an additional 7 hours. The earbuds themselves apparently last for 6 hours, so you can get about 13 hours total without charging the case.

Technically the case should charge the Buds about as much as the current Icon X's (it charges them about twice, but the earbuds have half the battery length).

Ahh, now I get it. That's loads of life for my uses. given that the box can also just sit on a wireless charger or the back of the phone, it should cater to mosts needs.

chicken_pasta · Feb 21, 2019

chefbags said:
Ayye Saaame here lol :(

Even though I've been using a protector since day one, mind you. The fucking infinity screens can't be fully covered :(

DBT85 said:
Do you have insurance on that phone...?

No insurance. Actually, no need to trade it in, really. Maybe around december or so I'll get the S10 or S10e (The Plus models are a bit to big and slippery for my hands), and use the S8+ as a music device at home.

Malcolm9 · Feb 21, 2019

chicken_pasta said:
Can't trade in my S8+ because of a broken screen :( (only the glass, mind you)

Same here, I would get it repaired but it will cost about £230.

Luckily it's a hairline crack mainly, and a tiny piece where the glass has fallen out near the button on the right of the bezel.

Rodney McKay · Feb 21, 2019

DBT85 said:
Ahh, now I get it. That's loads of life for my uses. given that the box can also just sit on a wireless charger or the back of the phone, it should cater to mosts needs.

For sure. Honestly, I've never run out of battery on my Icon X's (unless I forgot to keep the case charged) so having like double the battery life in the Buds themselves is pretty impressive.

chicken_pasta · Feb 21, 2019

Malcolm9 said:
Same here, I would get it repaired but it will cost about £230.

Luckily it's a hairline crack mainly, and a tiny piece where the glass has fallen out near the button on the right of the bezel.

I tried getting it fixed, but the shops all told me it's kinda risky doing it on a Plus model, as the digitizer and panel tend to go along with the glass during the repair procedure. Plus it's very expensive.

chefbags · Feb 21, 2019

Malcolm9 said:
Same here, I would get it repaired but it will cost about £230.

Luckily it's a hairline crack mainly, and a tiny piece where the glass has fallen out near the button on the right of the bezel.

Wow that's like exactly what happened to mine lol. The bottom left glass cracked and there's like a squiggly line running through that's almost unnoticeable.

sabertoothzombie · Feb 21, 2019

is 3400 mAH battery considered good?

wild_fire · Feb 21, 2019

Welp, pre-ordered at a Sam's Club... They're offering the ear buds and a $200 gift card to the store. That's a pretty solid deal in my book.

Rodney McKay · Feb 21, 2019

I just realized that cases are going to have to be a little weird for the S10 E due to its fingerprint power button.

Instead of being covered, they'll have to have to have a cutout so your finger can still touch the button.

sabertoothzombie said:
is 3400 mAH battery considered good?

Depends on the efficiency of the phone to be honest. I think 4000+ is typically considered really good, but stuff like the One Plus 6t which is considered to have solid battery life has like 3700 I think.

But it can depend widely on the phone itself. My older Moto Z Play has incredible battery life and it has 3500. iPhones are pretty efficient too, my XS Max has super long battery life, but it's only about 3100 mAH.

MattDoza · Feb 21, 2019

sabertoothzombie said:
is 3400 mAH battery considered good?

It's on the lower end than I expected. It has the same capacity as my OG Pixel XL.

wild_fire said:
Welp, pre-ordered at a Sam's Club... They're offering the earbuds and a $200 gift card to the store. That's a pretty solid deal in my book.

When you guys are mentioning earbuds, is that the new wireless buds they're releasing or just some wired pack-in quality buds?

jokkir · Feb 21, 2019

How do you call down the notification bar if there's no fingerprint gesture now? I use that gesture quite a lot.

samthebreadman · Feb 21, 2019

wild_fire said:
Welp, pre-ordered at a Sam's Club... They're offering the ear buds and a $200 gift card to the store. That's a pretty solid deal in my book.

Not bad at all.

Crooked Rain · Feb 21, 2019

MattDoza said:
It's on the lower end than I expected. I have the same capacity as my OG Pixel XL.

When you guys are mentioning earbuds, is that the new wireless buds they're releasing or just some wired pack-in quality buds?

You get the new $130 Galaxy Buds for free by preordering.

Deleted member 24907 · Feb 21, 2019

SMD said:
I don't think it's the Active version, I'll pass by after work and check it out. Are the base apps decent? I'm mostly thinking the fitness stuff but also Spotify when I go back to the UK (guessing no VPN support on the watch)

Spotify's app is there but I wish it had better functionality. For instance, you can't browse and pick an individual song off a playlist, you can just pick a playlist and it always plays the first in order, so you have to manually hit Next until you get to the song you want. Kind of unwieldy with large-ish playlists. Thankfully there's a built-in sound app that universally works with all music and podcasts apps so you can at least have the standard pause/play/next/previous functions and just use the phone for finer-grained control (change playlist, pick specific song, etc). Yeah it should be better but at least it's functional.

I don't think there's VPN support on the watch, haven't had to use that.

Rodney McKay · Feb 21, 2019

jokkir said:
How do you call down the notification bar if there's no fingerprint gesture now? I use that gesture quite a lot.

Knowing Samsung I'm sure they'll be some gesture setting somewhere to do what you're looking for.

On my Android phones Ive owned, Ive used Nova Launcher's gestures to swipe down from the middle of the phone to fully extend the notification bar

jokkir · Feb 21, 2019

I can check the gesture tomorrow. I'm going to some Samsung event to try out the phones. I tried out the S10 today at the Samsung Store but was too occupied looking at what's new.

There's Digital Well Being n the settings now unlike the S9 Pie upgrade

Laserdisk · Feb 21, 2019

So I understand o2 not offering the 5g model in the UK, but the ceramic models??
I am so frustrated with this network.

wild_fire · Feb 21, 2019

MattDoza said:
It's on the lower end than I expected. It has the same capacity as my OG Pixel XL.

When you guys are mentioning earbuds, is that the new wireless buds they're releasing or just some wired pack-in quality buds?

It's the new wireless earbuds they showed off in the press event.

faceless · Feb 21, 2019

if the Galaxy Buds reviews are good, i'm definitely getting some!

i held of on the IconX 2018 because i felt this gen would take it over the hill.

VeePs · Feb 21, 2019

this_guy said:
The US Samsung pre-order page shows the S10e priced at $849 - Verizon is the only carrier selling their version for $749. Looks like I might as well spend the extra $50 to get the regular S10 for $899.
That $749 price would have only been $200 with my S9 trade in.

Best Buy has it for 699 USD unlocked if your interested.

Halbrand · Feb 21, 2019

Call me an Apple fanboy but I prefer even the full size iPhone notch to the camera cutout when I see them side by side, the cut out just seems harder to ignore.

That said Apple definitely needs to reduce the notch this year.

WolfForager · Feb 21, 2019

No idea what colour to get, was convinced on black originally, but the white is looking nicer the more I see it.

Deleted member 10612 · Feb 21, 2019

Drewton said:
Call me an Apple fanboy but I prefer even the full size iPhone notch to the camera cutout when I see them side by side, the cut out just seems harder to ignore.

That said Apple definitely needs to reduce the notch this year.

To me the cutout looks like an artsy tv channel logo, I got conditioned to ignore things like that from young age. A notch is new, different and would need a little more time for me to ignore.

Deleted member 11479 · Feb 21, 2019

Would get an S10e but don't like power button fingerprint readers, and other models are too expensive. Time to finally get that Note 9 I guess.

Sai · Feb 21, 2019

God I want an S10, but I'm way too entrenched in the iOS system. :( I want apple to copy them on this!

SMD · Feb 21, 2019

Sai said:
God I want an S10, but I'm way too entrenched in the iOS system. :( I want apple to copy them on this!

I have a Macbook and an iPad and honestly owning Android phones haven't been much of a headache. I don't regret leaving iPhone behind at all.

Laserdisk · Feb 21, 2019

Sai said:
God I want an S10, but I'm way too entrenched in the iOS system. :( I want apple to copy them on this!

Oh I am sure they can summon the courage to

Pottuvoi · Feb 21, 2019

I did wonder why would they would create a pinhole camera for a phone.
They didn't.

Certainly would have been very interesting toy. :D

Annatar86 · Feb 21, 2019

Reinhard said:
Yeah, the pixel binning is the only benefit of so many megapixels in a phone, otherwise it is just a waste of space for each photo. So it is only beneficial in low light conditions and phones like the Pixel 3 do fantastic low light processing without any pixel binning (uses machine learning) so 48 megapixel binning seems pointless to include (results in a 12 megapixel image) as long as a phone uses smart AI/machine learning to boost low light performance.

Alright thanks! Even more convinced about the S10 now

Ricelord · Feb 21, 2019

looks like verizon b1g1 free is up in the US.

edit: all the carriers but t mobile and us cellular are doing it.

reKon · Feb 21, 2019

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jokkir said:
How do you call down the notification bar if there's no fingerprint gesture now? I use that gesture quite a lot.

By turning on the toggle in your home screen settings to expand notifications on swipe down...?

DBT85 · Feb 21, 2019

Malcolm9 said:
Same here, I would get it repaired but it will cost about £230.

Luckily it's a hairline crack mainly, and a tiny piece where the glass has fallen out near the button on the right of the bezel.

A bank account with phone insurance will run you about £12 a month, comes with other shit too. Mine I think is £30 per repair/replacement for non apple phones and I've used it like half a dozen times in 3 years. Never had any issues with claims, they just bung it right through.

I once got it done and had to contact them literally a week later. Another time it was 6 weeks later. No arguments, just did it.

You can always add a few more cracks if you like.

Deleted member 40102 · Feb 21, 2019

How much trade in would I get for s9+ with little scratches on the side but everything else is good?

Edit: Is there trade in in Australia?

sleepnaught · Feb 21, 2019

wild_fire said:
Welp, pre-ordered at a Sam's Club... They're offering the ear buds and a $200 gift card to the store. That's a pretty solid deal in my book.

Definitely heading to mine tomorrow, then. That's a good deal.

lidmat · Feb 21, 2019

I hope to find good deals on the S10E in September. I wanna find it for $500 max.

Deleted member 29857 · Feb 21, 2019

Sai said:
God I want an S10, but I'm way too entrenched in the iOS system. :( I want apple to copy them on this!

Same here. The S10 is a really nice device, but leaving Keychain behind and switching to 1Password seems like a hassle.

Galaxy S10 and S10 Plus leak. In-display fingerprint sensor. OLED. Headphone jack. USB Type-C. Pinhole front camera.

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