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Samsung Galaxy S10 5G Single-SIM 256 GB 6.7-Inch Android Smartphone UK Version Silver (Renewed)

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As far as I could tell, the 3D depth-sensing unit doesn’t seem to add much. Its implementations are few and far between at the moment – you can use the AR feature to help measure certain items in the real world, but that’s about it. Portrait pictures between both phones looked pretty much identical, too. Samsung hasn’t showed favoritism here either: any Qi charging phone worked in our tests, including the iPhone XS Max. We used this feature more than we thought we might during our time at MWC 2019 – and we became quite popular. The Galaxy S10+ has a 6.4-inch, 3,040-by-1,440-pixel Dynamic AMOLED screen that's been rated as the best smartphone display available by Ray Soneira at DisplayMate Labs. According to Soneira's comprehensive tests, the screen is amazingly bright, colorful, and power-efficient, delivering the best handheld experience possible. Testing the display with a Klein K-80 colorimeter and SpectraCal's CalMAN and MobileForge software, we got slightly different results than DisplayMate Labs. In average, indoor light, with an image across 100 percent of the screen and the phone set to manual maximum brightness, we got a median brightness of 315 cd/m 2, the same as the Galaxy Note 9 and considerably lower than the Google Pixel 3 (400) or the Apple iPhone XR (556). But Galaxy phones' brightness go much higher in Adaptive mode than in manual mode, with the right stimulus: With Adaptive mode turned on and the phone moved close to a light, we got 435 cd/m 2, higher than the 403 cd/m 2 in Natural display mode that DisplayMate showed. EE has 12 5G smartphones for you to choose from at the moment. The cheapest option is the Samsung Galaxy A90 5G, while the priciest - by quite a distance - is the foldable Samsung Galaxy Fold 5G.

Start enabling some of the additional features on the Galaxy S10 Plus and the battery will of course take a hit, namely the always-on display and changing Full HD+ to QHD+.

The best 5G phone around, but still a hard sell

Despite these newer handsets, the S10 Plus is best Samsung phone, if you can handle the price and size. Video options and quality are all excellent, better than Apple's iPhones. The rear camera can record 4K video at 60 frames per second; the front camera can do it at 30. You can record in hyperlapse, regular speed, slow-mo, or up to 960fps super-slow-mo (that last one for 0.4 seconds). You can get your video stabilized or super-stabilized. And all that comes through in HDR10+. Of course, you can also choose between three lenses to frame your scenes. It's the widest variety of options I've seen on a video-recording phone in the US. The main draw for us is the 93.1% screen-to-body ratio that fits more pixels across a tighter body. Samsung's new Infinity-O display avoids using a notch by opting for a laser-cut hole in the top-right corner for the front camera. The result is...just about as good as the Galaxy S9+. And that's good —the Galaxy S9 has an excellent camera. In good light, it's pretty much impeccable; in good light, all of the flagship phone cameras are pretty much impeccable nowadays. I took several comparative photos between the GS9+ and GS10+, and I really struggled to find any difference between the images in good, natural light.

Three's 5G collection includes the OnePlus 8, OnePlus 8 Pro, Huawei Mate Xs, Huawei P40 Pro, Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus, Samsung Galaxy S10 5G, Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra, Samsung Galaxy S20 Plus, Samsung Galaxy S20, Samsung Galaxy A90 5G and the Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 5G. The phone’s all-display front, which includes a dual-camera hole punch notch located at the top right of the screen, is also lovely. Our technical display tests recorded identical results to the regular S10 and S10 Plus – colour accuracy is almost as good as can be, with only slight oversaturation in some red tones, and the panel manages to cover 96.3% of the sRGB colour gamut.However, EE's 5G coverage does not reach all areas of every city. We've tested it out in London, and found that it's not consistent. In areas where 5G is available though, we're consistently getting speeds of around 200Mbps (versus around 15-20Mbps on 4G devices). There's a single model of the Galaxy S10+ for all four US carriers, so it can easily be moved between them. The Qualcomm X24 modem inside supports all of the 4G bands used in the US, and many foreign ones. It has voice-over-LTE, voice-over-Wi-Fi, and the best possible voice codec for excellent call quality. Earpiece and speaker quality are impeccable. But that's all true about the S9 as well. The X24's advantage over last year's X20 modem is in going from 5x to 7x carrier aggregation, but no US wireless carrier does 7x carrier aggregation.

There's a fingerprint scanner located just about the home button. (Image Credit: TechRadar) In-screen fingerprint sensor

With the Galaxy S10+, you're definitely getting an object that feels expensive. It's big and made from gorgeous, premium-feeling material. Everything's tight; nothing's cheap (so get a case and protect it). At 6.20 by 2.92 by 0.31 inches (HWD), it's almost exactly the same size as the S9+ (and noticeably narrower than the iPhone XS Max). Yet it has a bigger, taller screen: 6.4 inches at a 19:9 ratio. Looked at in terms of pure area, that's 15.58 square inches, compared with 15.12 on the S9+, 16.08 on the XS Max, and 16.11 on the Galaxy Note 9.

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