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

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If you want that latest screen, processor, Wi-Fi 6, and a nifty, better-located fingerprint scanner, meanwhile, there's the S10e. With a trade-in, the S10e is even cheaper than the S9 right now. The Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus battery hits a new high for the S series with a 4,100mAh capacity. Last year’s S9 Plus was above average for Android flagships, delivering all-day battery life from its 3,500mAh unit, but the S10 Plus performed better for us in our tests. Despite these newer handsets, the S10 Plus is best Samsung phone, if you can handle the price and size.

The S10 5G’s only real downside is overall stamina. Despite the larger battery, the S10 5G didn’t do quite so well as the S10 Plus in our in-house battery rundown test, managing 20hrs and 40mins on a single charge. All things considered, that’s still a very good result, it’s just that the added Exynos 5100 modem clearly has a negative effect on overall battery life even when not in use. Samsung Galaxy S10 5G review: Verdict 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. 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.

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

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. In real-life use at MWC19 in Barcelona, it seemed like I never needed to recharge it. The Galaxy S10+ would regularly go two days and still have a decent charge. Can you chalk that up to the superior regenerative powers of Spanish mobile networks? Maybe. Samsung says it comes down to software: More intelligent management of what processes are running, combined with what DisplayMate says is a more power-efficient screen, makes for an ideal battery situation. The battery fast-charges with both wired and wireless connections, although to fast-charge wirelessly it needs an appropriate fast-charging wireless pad. O2's 5G network is live in Aberdeen, Ashford, Banstead, Basildon, Belfast, Birmingham, Blaydon, Bradford, Bridge of Don, Brighton, Bristol, Cardiff, Chatham, Chesterfield, Coventry, Dartford, Derby, Dewsbury, Dundee, Dyce, Eastbourne, Edinburgh, Esher, Gateshead, Gillingham, Glasgow, Grays, Hemel Hempstead, Huddersfield, Hull, Jarrow, Leeds, Leicester, Lincoln, Lisburn, Liverpool, London, Lowestoft, Luton, Manchester, Mansfield, Middlesbrough, Morley, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newtownabbey, North Shields, Northampton, Norwich, Nottingham, Orpington, Oxford, Peterborough, Plymouth, Rainham, Redhill, Rotherham, Sheffield, Slough, Staines, South Shields, Stoke-on-Trent, Sunbury, Sunderland, Thundersley, Tynemouth, Warrington, Washington, Weybridge, Windsor, Worthing and York. Let's start by comparing it with the Galaxy S9+, which is about the same size as the S10+. Yes, the S10+ offers incremental improvements in the screen, battery life, modem, processor, and Wi-Fi performance. But I think you'll be just as happy with the S9+, because other than battery life, I wasn't able to find big differences in lived experiences, as opposed to lab testing. Fingerprint (under display, ultrasonic), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer, heart rate, SpO2

So the fingerprint sensor isn't a deal breaker, but it also isn't necessarily a usability advance. Processor, Software, and Performance There are a few notable locations missing from the map, like Edinburgh or Norwich, but it's likely Three will continue to roll out its 5G coverage over the course of 2020 and beyond. Three also claims it aims to provide 5G coverage to 80% of its network traffic in three years.Along with the X24, the entire S10 line represents some of the first phones to feature Wi-Fi 6, thanks to a new Wi-Fi chip from Broadcom. This can be a big deal: Wi-Fi 6, when paired with a Wi-Fi 6-compatible router, will be able to blow through some of the congestion on the popular 2.4GHz Wi-Fi band, offering much clearer connections and better speed in crowded areas. That said, we don't yet have a Wi-Fi 6 router to test this; they'll become more popular as the year goes on.