The best response to the OnePlus hegemony- Tech Reviews, Firstpost

February is usually the time when Samsung releases its S-series flagship units at its flagship Galaxy Unpacked occasion. This yr although, Samsung determined to combine issues up a bit. In mid-January, it introduced two ‘Lite’ units known as the Galaxy S10 Lite and the Notice10 Lite. The timing was definitely a shock, on condition that the S20 launch was simply across the nook.

I believe it’s protected to say that that is Samsung responding to the tectonic shifts within the smartphone market area the place its choices are undercut by OnePlus on the greater finish of the section and Xiaomi (Redmi) and Realme on the decrease finish. In 2019, which noticed a 29 p.c soar in premium smartphone gross sales over final yr (a file), and it wasn’t Samsung’s S-series or Notice-series that graced the highest of the charts. The chief on this section in India was OnePlus.

Samsung S10 Lite pricing begins at Rs 39,999 for the eight GB RAM and 128 GB storage variant.

Earlier than the brand new Lite fashions, Samsung solely provided the A sequence telephones, which had been, clearly, not able to dethroning OnePlus. Samsung did launch the Galaxy S10e alongside the S10 and S10+ final yr, however it clearly wasn’t sufficient.

Enter the Galaxy S10 Lite, which begins at Rs 39,999 for the eight GB RAM and 128 GB storage variant.

Let’s see if Samsung’s guess will repay with this close-to-flagship providing at a not-so-flagship worth, at the very least by Samsung requirements.

Construct and Design

The Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite is available in three colors: Prism Black, Prism Blue and Prism White (Thanks Samsung, for these easy names) I’m reviewing the Prism Blue variant, which does look attractive. Because of a thickness of simply eight.1 mm, the telephone manages to look fairly modern and it weighs simply 187 g, which offers simply the correct quantity of heft to the gadget.

Whereas the entrance face sports activities a 6.7-inch FHD+ Tremendous AMOLED Infinity O show, the again is a cloth that Samsung calls ‘Glastic’ and comes with a 2.5D curve. It’s an amalgamation of glass and plastic and whereas it’s in essence polycarbonate, it might simply be handed off as glass.

The rear glastic is a smudge magnet for positive, and due to that barely raised rectangular digital camera module, some quantity of mud does have a tendency to gather round its edges.

There isn’t a readability on whether or not the telephone employs Gorilla Glass (GG) in any respect within the building and a fast on-line examine reveals that it’s an older model of GG on the show. The rear glastic is a smudge magnet for positive, and due to that barely raised rectangular digital camera module, some quantity of mud does have a tendency to gather round its edges, which is troublesome to get rid off simply.

Because it’s plastic, it’s weak to scratches when you carry keys in the identical pocket as your telephone, so get a clear case for positive.

Frankly, there doesn’t appear to be a motive to have such an enormous rectangular digital camera module, because the three cameras might have simply simply been embedded in a vertical strip module with the flash unit positioned exterior it. It does make the S10 Lite stand out, however doesn’t seem to serve another goal. Fortunately, an aluminium body is employed, which properly merges with the entrance and the rear of the telephone. The antenna lower traces are clearly seen.

There isn’t a three.5 mm audio jack on the S10 Lite, however it sports activities a USB Sort-C charging port, a single downward firing speaker, and it’s water-proof. When it comes to grip, the curvature of the rear panel helps, and it’s much less slippery than among the glossier units I’ve used. One handed use is feasible to an extent because of the One UI 2 software program operating atop Android 10 on the S10 Lite, however you’ll almost certainly require two arms to make use of it comfortably.

Options

Show: 6.7-inch Tremendous AMOLED show

Decision: 1,zero80 x 2,400 pixels at 395 PPI

Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 (1x Kryo 485 @2.84 GHz, 3x Kryo 485 @2.42 GHz and 4x Kryo 485 @1.78 GHz)

GPU: Adreno 640

RAM: eight GB

Storage: 128 GB expandable as much as 256 GB

Cameras: 48 MP major (f/2.zero) with Tremendous Regular OIS + 12 MP ultrawide (f/2.2) + 5 MP Macro (f/2.Four)

Entrance digital camera: 32 MP f/2.2

Audio Jack: None

Battery: Four,500 mAh

Show

With the Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite, we get the biggest show on an S10 branded gadget. The flagship S10+ was 6.Four-inches, the Lite is 6.7.

Whereas the 1,zero80 x 2,400 pixels decision on such a big show might not be that pixel packed, it will get the work finished. The Tremendous AMOLED show ensures that distinction is nice, brightness is nice, and there’s no color shift while you see the show from an angle. Daylight legibility is prime notch as effectively. The auto-brightness ensures that the show brightness adjusts seamlessly with altering ambient lighting.

Galaxy S10 Lite sports activities a 6.7-inch FHD+ Tremendous AMOLED Infinity O show.

I loved watching HDR10 content material on Netflix and YouTube on the S10 Lite. The picture high quality was excellent and regardless of the shiny show, the visibility of darker scenes didn’t flip the show right into a mirror. The Infinity O show doesn’t intervene with viewing video content material as such.

You’ll be able to set the show to look pure or when you like punchy colors, set it to vivid. Pure mode was what I caught with. There’s an At all times-on show choice as effectively, and you’ll set the scale of the app grid on the house display screen (between 4×4, 4×5, 5×5 and so forth).

Contemplating the variety of telephones that launched final yr with a 90-Hz, and extra lately, 120-Hz show, the 60 Hz one on the Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite feels prefer it’s just a little behind the occasions. Not that there’s something improper with that, however Samsung’s ceding floor to its rival, particularly OnePlus 7T. To be truthful, the slower refresh price received’t hassle you when you’ve by no means used a 120 Hz display screen, however when you’ve got, as I did very lately, the distinction is important, particularly in sure apps.

Efficiency and Software program

With a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 chipset powering the telephone and eight GB of RAM below the hood, there isn’t something that slows the telephone down. A few of you might carry up the Snapdragon 855+ on the OnePlus 7T, however the true life distinction is barely noticeable. Sure, there’s a slight drop in Geekbench 5, AnTuTu, 3D Mark and different benchmark scores. However as we’ve all the time stated at tech2, benchmark numbers ought to simply be taken for reference functions. For a tool that has ‘Lite’ in its nomenclature, the efficiency is something however lite.

Animations are easy, app switching is fast and the gadget simply feels quick total. Name high quality is prime notch and even the mono speaker is lots loud if you’re in a room. The one factor that’s noticeably on the slower aspect is unlocking the gadget particularly when utilizing face unlock and the optical fingerprint scanner. It’s legal to have a delay when unlocking the telephone with such specs, particularly seeing that lock icon unlock! It’s downright gradual. An replace to repair this must be launched pronto.

In terms of gaming, PUBG Cellular, Mortal Kombat 11 and Asphalt 9 performed fabulously. There weren’t any noticeable body drops. However the telephone’s rear aspect does heat up, and the steel edges, particularly across the energy button, do warmth up, however not uncomfortably so. At no level did any app crash mid-way due to heating up. Temperature management is nice if you’re not gaming.

There isn’t a three.5 mm audio jack on the S10 Lite, however it sports activities a USB Sort-C charging port.

The telephone runs on Android 10 with a One UI 2 pores and skin atop it. One UI clearly has introduced in quite a lot of enhancements over the previous Samsung Expertise and TouchWiz UI. It actually helps rather a lot with one-handed operations because the menus are a lot simpler to achieve within the decrease half of the show. It’s definitely a way more refined model of the interface and the response is nice. Barring telephone unlocking utilizing biometric that’s.

Nandini had finished an in depth assessment of One UI, so I received’t delve an excessive amount of into it. However among the main new updates that One UI 2 brings to the desk embrace: – A brand new interface for the display screen recorder which additionally enables you to annotate and embrace your video utilizing the entrance digital camera together with a floating management panel which isn’t included within the closing recorded video. – System-wide darkish mode. – Slight change to the digital camera consumer interface which now has further options below the Extra tab. – App permissions dialog opens up on the backside of the show, so that you just don’t should readjust the way in which you maintain the telephone simply to reply to this pop up. – At all times On show has extra choices for displaying watch faces.

Digicam

The Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite sports activities a triple rear digital camera setup with a 48 MP major digital camera with f/2.zero with SuperSteady OIS; a 12 MP ultra-wide sensor with an f/2.2 aperture with 123 diploma discipline of view, and a 5 MP macro lens with an f/2.Four aperture. On the entrance, there’s a 32 MP digital camera for selfies, which is slotted within the Infinity O show.

Each the first digital camera and selfie digital camera make use of pixel binning. If you would like full 32 MP (on the entrance) and 48 MP (on the again), then you’ll have to choose the choice which says three:Four with H, which suggests the best decision. By default, the Picture mode will shoot eight MP pictures on the entrance and 12 MP pictures on the rear digital camera.

On the video entrance, each the entrance and rear cameras assist 4K 30/60 fps. With the rear digital camera you’re going to get the SuperSteady OIS mode with decision locked to 1080p. It’s also possible to shoot Tremendous Slo Mo at 960 fps at 720p decision.

Daylight pictures come out effectively with nice dynamic vary. When considered on the telephone’s show issues look tack sharp, however in your monitor’s show while you pixel peep, particularly within the non-centre parts, you do have a tendency to note aggressive noise reductions algorithms at work. This reduces the pure texture on on a regular basis objects.

The sharpness drop off within the backside proper hand nook when viewing the picture at full decision was fairly noticeable. Centre-sharpness is nice in most daylight conditions. Turning off the scene optimiser did sharpen issues up a contact. However on the telephone’s show or for sharing on Instagram or Twitter, the daylight picture high quality is nice.

The dynamic vary in daylight pictures is sort of good. The ultra-wide lens exhibits excessive bending across the edges, so when you’re taking a gaggle photograph, please guarantee everyone seems to be within the centre of the body.

—> Click here to see images shot by Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite.

Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite does a great job with low light photos. This has been a trademark of flagship Samsung units and the S10 Lite continues that development. It’s solely while you pixel peep that you just discover that particulars are softened. The noise-reducing algorithms do proceed to be in overdrive mode. There’s a nightscape mode as effectively, which lights up a darkish scene fairly effectively, however guarantee your arms are regular. It nonetheless doesn’t beat the gold customary in low mild images within the sub 50ok worth section — the Pixel 3a/3a XL. The ultra-wide digital camera within the evening mode delivers pictures with noticeable noise and that are barely much less brighter than the first digital camera.

Selfies in daylight come out effectively with a very good stage of element. However there’s a noticeable pores and skin smoothening while you zoom in a bit, which isn’t fascinating. The digital camera does have a tendency to reveal for the face, thereby washing out the background in some eventualities. Low mild selfies are usable however comparatively noisy.

Portrait mode shots do a very good job and also you get many choices to mess around with the background and regulate the way in which it seems to be. Edge detection is a little bit of successful and a miss.

The onboard 5 MP macro digital camera does a good job of shooting detailed images. You simply want to make sure there may be sufficient mild round. I even shot some macros with ambient avenue mild and so they turned out fairly effectively. The decision of 5 MP is a lot better than 2 MP that’s current on most telephones providing a macro lens.

Video high quality is sort of good throughout daylight. You’ll be able to shoot at as much as 4K 60 fps because of the presence of the Snapdragon 855 chipset. Particulars are quite good during daytime and it will get progressively dangerous as mild ranges drop. I didn’t discover a lot distortion when panning throughout daytime. When capturing after sundown, video will get softer, with noise clearly seen. Dwell focus (portrait mode) is current on the S10 Lite, which is an effective factor to have.

Samsung S10 Lite supports SuperSteady OIS which forces the video decision to 1080p when you’re sitting in 4k. Whereas the video is steadier as in comparison with common video capturing modes, I observed a sure stage of softness to the general video high quality even throughout daytime. At night and evening time, the video turns into a loud mess, making it ineffective regardless of with the ability to supply good stabilisation.

Battery Life

The Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite sports activities a whopping Four,500 mAh battery, making it the S-series telephone with the biggest battery. Regardless of the big battery, the telephone doesn’t weigh a tonne. With two e-mail accounts on sync; continually buzzing Slack, Telegram and WhatsApp, a few hours of listening to podcasts, an hour of video streaming, hours of internet browsing, 30 minutes of gaming, and clicking round 30–40 pictures/movies per day, I might simply get round a day and a half of use. On weekends, when my utilization is lighter, I might get round two days simply. The common display screen in time I received was above Four–5 hours.

The Galaxy S10 Lite sports activities a whopping Four,500 mAh battery, making it the S-series telephone with the biggest battery.

The S10 Lite comes bundled with a 25 W charger with energy supply assist. It takes below 75 minutes to cost the S10 Lite. I had a OnePlus quick charger mendacity round, however once I tried charging with it, the charging time confirmed 7–eight hours to go, and different ridiculous figures. With the Google Pixel charger, quick charging is supported.

Phrase of recommendation: don’t misplace the bundled charger.

Verdict and Value in India

The Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite is a superb telephone… that ought to’ve come out a lot earlier.

It could’ve been the very best response to the OnePlus 7/7T sequence when these had launched final yr. At Rs 40ok, the S10 Lite could also be reasonably priced by Samsung’s requirements, however it’s nonetheless Rs 5k over the OnePlus 7T (Assessment) which affords a 90-Hz show, barely quicker processor, glass again, and is an total nice gadget in itself. OnePlus has a stranglehold on this section, which is tough to beat. Not like the Rs 50ok plus section the place Rs 5k right here or there doesn’t matter a lot, the sub 40ok area continues to be what I’d name worth acutely aware.

Contemplating it’s Samsung, give it a couple of months and the Samsung S10 Lite ought to come across the Rs 35ok worth level. For those who weren’t born below the fitting stars and constellations, and don’t have the correct of debit/bank card, it received’t be straightforward shaving a couple of thousand bucks off the worth of the gadget.

The S10 Lite affords a terrific battery, great show, nice digital camera, usable consumer interface, and ticks off just about each packing containers you’d search for. Sure, there was value chopping to some extent within the type of going for a plastic again (Samsung might name it glastic, however it’s nonetheless plastic) however it’s not a deal breaker. If you would like a flagship telephone and may stay with a technology previous chipset (frankly, it doesn’t matter in actual life utilization), the Galaxy S10 Lite comes extremely beneficial.

It’s nice to see Samsung get off its excessive horse and supply a real flagship response to the OnePlus. The Samsung A-series is not any match for this section, which is now additionally seeing some good merchandise from gamers reminiscent of Realme and Redmi, and Samsung is lastly aggressive right here.

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