Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite preview: Flagship-like specs, mid-range pricing

When Samsung unveiled the Milky way S10 Calorie-free, eyebrows were raised. There nosotros were, simply a couple of months away from the Milky way S20's arrival, and Samsung decided the Milky way S10e wasn't plenty and that it needed yet another smartphone that can bring some Milky way S10 features to a lower price point.

Only don't let the proper name fool you. Information technology may exist using the Galaxy S10 moniker, but it doesn't really share besides many specs with the other Galaxy S10 handsets. Its vi.seven-inch screen is apartment and is larger than what you find on the Galaxy S10+. It looks completely different from the back. Its camera setup has bigger numbers on newspaper, but it's mostly a mid-range camera setup, with a lower-resolution ultra-broad camera and a macro camera instead of a regular zoom camera. It has a single loudspeaker, and it doesn't have a headphone jack.

In fact, the Galaxy S10 Lite is similar to the Galaxy A90 5G in overall specs, so Samsung is simply banking on the popularity of the Galaxy S10 series to draw more than attention to this phone. Merely that'south not a bad affair. The Milky way S10 Lite is, at the finish of the day, quite the ability-packed smartphone. The principal attractions are the Snapdragon 855 chipset, four,500 mAh battery with 25W super fast charging, and the latest version of Android out of the box.

And yous're getting all of that for a pretty impressive toll. At 649 euros in Europe, the S10 Low-cal is priced exactly the aforementioned as the Galaxy A80 was at launch. In India, the pricing is even more impressive. The S10 Lite costs Rs 39,999 in Bharat, which translates to around 510 euros. That gives the S10 Light the highest power-to-cost ratio of any smartphone Samsung has launched in the country and makes information technology the first Galaxy smartphone that can truly compete with the latest OnePlus flagships.

As usual, we'll be able tell you how skilful the overall bundle is in our full review. For now, I have a few thoughts to share on the handset after a short time of using it as my primary phone.

Milky way S10 Lite hands-on

The Galaxy S10 Lite is a pretty big phone considering of that 6.7-inch screen, but like all contempo Galaxy smartphones, the S10 Lite has a pretty small footprint thanks to the small bezels. And it looks striking from the back, at least on the blue variant sent to me by Samsung India. I am glad that in that location's no gradient trickery at work here. The standard dark blue paint chore makes for a very swish expect. The back isn't made of glass, past the way, but the phone all the same feels first-class in the mitt.

The Milky way S10 Lite doesn't take a headphone jack, which will make information technology an instant no-no for many folks. You go USB-C earphones in the box, but these are of the mid-range variety as you detect on A series phones like the Galaxy A70. As mentioned earlier, the S10 Lite also has only a single loudspeaker. But the half-dozen.7-inch Super AMOLED display is of high quality, and some volition similar the fact that it'southward not a curved screen. The optical in-brandish fingerprint sensor also seems to piece of work great; it'south actually working better than the ultrasonic fingerprint scanner on the Note ten+ for me.

The S10 Lite's functioning is equally expert as you would expect from a phone with the Snapdragon 855 and 8GB RAM under the hood. It didn't stutter or lag much fifty-fifty when I was setting it upwardly and installing apps and restoring data in the background. In fact, the Galaxy S10 Calorie-free is the offset Samsung telephone I've used with a flagship Snapdragon chipset in the last few years, and that will be true for many — if non most — who pick up the device.

And I'm very eager to see how the iv,500 mAh battery holds up. Snapdragon-powered Galaxy phones oft show longer endurance than their Exynos counterparts, and even if that weren't the case, a 4,500 mAh battery should last pretty long, though I will only exist able to offer proper figures in our full review. Battery charging should be quick also thanks to support for 25W super fast charging; a 25W charger is provided in the box.

The rear cameras on the Galaxy S10 Light are quite similar to the Galaxy A51's. But Samsung says the 'Super Steady OIS' tech sets the S10 Lite autonomously from the rest. The camera module tilts like a gimbal for improved video stabilization, although I will have to exercise thorough testing to say just how better it is than regular super steady video recording available on other Galaxy phones, which crops the output from the ultra-wide camera to get in seem like the video is smoother and more stable.

Unfortunately, the S10 Lite has a macro photographic camera instead of a telephoto camera. Every bit nosotros said in our Galaxy A51 review, the macro camera is great if you honey taking photos of food and closeup shots of things like flowers and insects. Only it is severely limited by the need for yous to move extremely shut to the discipline. The macro camera is no doubt ane of the main reasons why Samsung has been able to bring down the price of the S10 Low-cal, but over again, information technology has limited employ cases.

On the software forepart, the Galaxy S10 Lite runs Android 10 with One UI ii.0 out of the box. Features like Bixby Routines, Edge screen, and Screen recorder are included, but, for some reason, there'south no Samsung DeX for PC support. The Galaxy A90 5G has it, and I hope Samsung will bring the functionality to the S10 Lite with a software update, as information technology'southward perfectly capable of running DeX. Hopefully, security updates will come out regularly as well; Samsung is yet to say if the S10 Low-cal will get monthly or quarterly security updates.

Source: https://www.sammobile.com/samsung/galaxy-s10-lite/hands-on

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