Galaxy S10 Lite Review: Better than you'd expect By Android Police

This is the Samsung Galaxy S 10 light now before I, hopefully get my hands on Samsung's new s, 20 line, I thought I'd share with you my thoughts on this rather interesting release. So during this past, CES Samsung unveiled these two phones, the note 10 light and the S 10 light with a name light. It should be pretty self-explanatory when it comes to what these phones are all about, right, basically, watered-down versions of what they're named after, and it's the fact that they're named after Samsung's flagship that I think Samsung is looking to get more eyes on what they're capable of doing with a mid-range smartphone like there a series of phones. So I guess you could look at this like a Galaxy, S, 10 plus stripped of most of its luxuries, only to be left with some essentials in a package that costs half as much as top-tier flash chips, those essentials being good battery life, good cameras, good performance and a good display. Now, of course, what's considered essential, may differentiate from person. But to me these essentials are things that phones, especially nowadays, cannot do without so, if you're, someone who needs their phone to have an IP rating wireless charging, a high refresh rate, quad, HD, display and stereo speakers.

This isn't the phone for you, because, yes, the s10 light is missing. All of those things. It's kind of the whole point of this phone, so I have been using the s10 light as my main phone for a good amount of time and I got to tell you I actually really liked it. The hardware is nice. It's got a simple and clean design, it's kind of boring, but it's still clean.

It's pretty premium. Looking with those shiny metal edges, it doesn't feel cheap, even though the back is Samsung's mix of glass and plastic known as glass dick, because glass, dick there's no dedicated Bigamy key and the power button is positioned correctly and an easier to reach spot. Also, this is a huge phone. It's a bit larger than the s10 plus, and it rivals the size of the note 10 plus and the 1 plus 7 Pro he's got a very good big bright punchy display it's nice to look at, even though it is 1080p at 394 pixels per inch with a 60 Hertz refresh rate. But honestly, it's not the biggest deal and I think the thing I like about the display.

The most is that it's completely flat, and it still has minimal bezels the screen curves make for attractive eye. Candy phones and I still love curved displays but beginning to appreciate flat panels even more now, because they're, more practical, and it's nice to use a flat panel galaxy phone for the first time in a while. So the screen gets a thumbs up from me for sure next I really enjoy the battery life, and this is probably the thing that stood out to me. The most when using this phone screen on time is right up there, with the best that I've used recently we're talking seven to eight hours of screen on time. But what really stood out is the standby time when the phone is idle, at least in my experience.

The battery basically sits still, even with all the notifications that is pulling in very rarely do. I use a phone that can last a little over 24 hours on a single charge with moderate use. I was very easily able to make it through a full day of heavy use, with max brightness LTE, only lots of Bluetooth usage playing music while using Google, Maps answering messages and emails. Everything definitely one of the best performers when it comes to battery that I've used I never have to worry about the battery draining on me. I could leave the house for a Saturday night out with 20% left, having every confidence that I'd make it back home with a little gas left in the tank, and although wireless charging isn't here being able to juice, this phone up super quickly is great thumbs up for that as well speaking of performance with last year's Snapdragon, 855 and 6 gigs of ram performance in general is as it should be.

It's very good just because it's using last year's processor doesn't mean it can't handle today's tasks. It just works. There's no lag, no slowdowns, it's quick! It's powerful it'll handle all the games that you want to play. All the multitasking every day and power user usage is no sweat. That's it thumbs up next up the cameras now I'm, not the biggest picture taker, but what this phone delivers is nothing short of high-end competitive is what I'll say: Samsung made sure to not skimp on these cameras and I think they did a perfect job of these they're, not perfect, but what smartphone camera setup is, and they're not the best, but the results sit right up there with what we get out of some of the best smartphone cameras available.

It's going to be tough, finding a better camera experience in a mid-range phone. As for biometrics, I used the combo of face unlock and the optical fingerprint scanner. So, yes, it's not the ultrasonic one that we get with the main galaxy phones, so it may not be as secure, but it is just a tad faster and in my experience it's been pretty solid, and it recognizes my finger. I'd say eight to nine out of ten times face unlock is quick —, it's basically the same as what you'd get on the other Galaxy phones, it's quite accurate and thanks to the software, you can tweak it to your liking, which is nice, alright. So getting to some disappointments of this phone now I know the whole point of this phone was to leave off a few things for pricing purposes, but some of these things, I feel, could have been dealt with differently.

The first letdown is a big one for me and no it's not the lack of a headphone jack I'm used to that by now. It's the lack of stereo speakers. The s10 light has that single bottom firing, speaker setup from a few years ago, now gets the job done and all but I know you guys remember this really annoying speaker placement. Not only is it so. Incredibly easy to cover up in any orientation, but it also doesn't sound all that great.

It gets about as loud as you need it to and, thank goodness, it doesn't necessarily sound like a phone speaker from 2016, but the overall experience is behind not only what we have today, but it's also behind what I know for a fact: Samsung could have implemented. I mean even the pixel 3 a has stereo speakers well, like I said it gets the job done. The haptics are underwhelming as well. This is another area. I felt Samsung could have easily made better than what they did, and I know.

This may be considered nitpicking, and not everyone really cares for good haptics, but to me good haptics really bring the whole user experience together and bad haptics make the phone feel kind of cheap. Now, don't worry these haptics aren't garbage I'm just spoiled and again, I find the need to bring up the 3a, because that phone has good haptics. So that's pretty much it for the s10 light. Yes, really it's a very simple phone that I think nails what it was made to do other than a couple gripes that I have with it, and perhaps some question marks surrounding its long-term support from Samsung. There really isn't anything that would hold me back from recommending it to buyers looking for something that has the more important aspects of a flagship phone without the flagship price.

Just don't expect to see much of this phone anywhere unless you're in India the UK. Among other countries not named the US, but don't worry, you can pick one up online if you want with phones like t1, +, 17, pixel, 3a and more mid-range beasts coming out this year at around 500 us I can't say that this is the absolute best in its class, but it's right up there for sure, and I think it's one of the better values you'll find in a smartphone if you're interested and if I were you I would wait for a price drop. All in all, the s10 light gets a thumbs up from me and, if you're able to get your hands on one I think it's worth a look, so that'll do it for this video I hope you guys enjoyed it. If you did feel free to hit that like button and subscribe to the android police channel if you're new, let us know what you think of the Galaxy S10 light down below in the comments, and we'll talk about it. It's been Zach I'll talk to you guys later, and thank you so much for watching.

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