Released on the 7th of August 2019, the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 comes with a touchscreen AMOLED display that is 6.30 inches, an aspect ratio of 19:9, and a Full HD display resolution of 1080 by 2280 pixels with a pixel density of 401 ppi (Pixels Per Inch). While this device is easier to hold than the Samsung Galaxy Note 9, you might still experience some difficulty if you have smaller hands.
This Samsung device is fired up by a 1.9GHz Octacore Samsung Exynos 9825 processor. This processor has 2 cores that are clocked at 2.7GHz, 2 cores that are clocked at 2.4GHz, and 4 cores that are clocked at 1.9GHz
The Galaxy Note 10 has a 3500mAh battery with support for wireless charging, runs on Google’s Android 9 Pie Operating System (OS), has 8GB of RAM, with an internal storage of 256GB.
Speaking of batteries, this device has a feature called ‘Wireless PowerShare’. This allows users of the Samsung Galaxy Note 10, to be able to charge devices like smartwatches, headphones and even other smartphones with their Note 10. As long as they are compatible.
Imagine being able to wirelessly charge another smartphone with yours. Cool right? All you need to do is set up your Note 10 via settings to ‘PowerShare’. Once done, you will be able to place the other device (smartwatch, headphones or smartphone) on top of yours to boost it up with a little amount of battery. The other device howerver, has to support wireless charging.
In the camera department Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10 has a 3 camera setup at the back. This includes a 12 Megapixel main camera with an aperture of f/1.5-2.4, a 16 Megapixel camera with an aperture of f/2.2 and a 3rd camera with 12 Megapixels and an aperture of f/2.1 aperture. The 3 camera setup also has Phase Detection Autofocus.
Its front camera comes with Autofocus on a 10 Megapixel camera with an aperture of f/2.2.
A sizeable amount of this device’s improvements or upgrades camera wise, are in its video recording functionalities. It has a new feature called ‘Live Focus Video’ that allows users to create ‘bokeh’ background blur effects just like the kind seen in portrait mode pictures, only this time for videos too. Its image stabilization technology has also significantly improved.
Although the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 runs on Google’s Android 9 Pie Operating System (OS) as stated earlier, it also had the One User Interface (UI) which is based on Android 9 Pie.
Weighing 168.00 grams with a height of 151.00mm, a width of 71.80mm and a thickness of 7.90mm, the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 has a dual SIM setup (GSM and GSM), that allows users to utilize Nano-SIM and Nano-SIM cards.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 10 which comes in a glass body, was released in four (4) colours; the Aura Red, Aura Black, Aura White and Aura Glow.
In the area of water and dust protection this device comes with a rating of IP68.
Connectivity wise, the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 supports GPS, USB Type-C, Bluetooth v5.00, 2G, 3G, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/ac/Yes, active 4G on both SIM card slots, NFC, and 4G (with support for Band 40 which is preferred and used by a number of LTE networks in India).
The Samsung Galaxy Note 10 comes with the S Pen (this is Samsung’s name for the stylus). The S Pen fits nicely into a slot at the bottom edge of the phone, on the right hand side making it non-intrusive, easy to put away and jam proof. To access the S Pen a user simply needs to gently press the stylus for it to pop out.
The S Pen is easy to use and quite light. Thanks to Samsung’s screen technology users have various pressure levels, that will help them in numerous tasks from making designs, to even just simply taking notes.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 10 supports the face unlock feature via 3D Face recognition and comes with a proximity sensor, a barometer sensor, a accelerometer sensor, a fingerprint sensor, an ambient light sensor, a compass or magnetometer sensor, and a gyroscope sensor.
As at the time this article was compiled on the 6th of November 2020, the price of the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 stood at 75,000 Kenyan Shillings. You can check out this device on Jumia via this link:
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If you are a fan of smartphones with a Stylus, or if you are looking for a smartphone with topnotch features and is not extremely large, then you should definitely consider this device. Especially now that it is slightly more affordable.
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