The Galaxy S10's Incredible Display! By Marques Brownlee

What's up guys I'm Kip END here, so this is the galaxy s 10, and this phone is really hot right now, obviously, and one of the main reasons for that is the display some people love it. Some people hate it, but there's no, really arguing that there's not really a lot like it out there. So this is a closer look at what makes the Galaxy S10 so special, that's green, so I've said in videos before this is the best display on any phone. There are really three main characteristics that make this such a unique display: number one: the hole, punch, camera, cutout, number, two, the ultrasonic fingerprint reader and number three, just the quality of the panel itself. So to start with the hole, punch, cutout, it's pretty straightforward on our way to bezel as displays we got notches, we got smaller notches and then eventually we got things like the fingerprint reader is moving behind the display glass. So the only thing left is the front-facing camera.

So in galaxy s 10, it's a laser cut hole in Samsung's, AMOLED panel, a process, that's not unique, and we saw the cutout in the honor of u-20, but that was an LCD. This is, of course, an OLED, so this being the first in an OLED and Samsung is really proud of that and how precise it is, and I can vouch. The hole punch is definitely a little tighter around the actual camera than honors. Also, something interesting. So the galaxy s 10 has that single cutout, while the galaxy s 10 plus, has a dual cutout on the top corner.

I was told that that second spot is for a depth sensor and that this is not a second camera. But when you open the camera app on the S 10 plus you get these two buttons which looks like a normal and a wide, a normal one for one person, and you click it and the wide angle for multiple people. It seems to be two different camera angles turns out. This is literally just cropping in on one wide-angle sensor. So if you cover the right-hand side of the cutout and swap between the cameras, they both work and if you cover the left-hand side, its blocking both angles.

So this button is literally just cropping in and out of one camera, fun fact the right hand, side cutout really is just for a depth sensor for portrait mode anyway. I'll have more thoughts on how it looks with videos and full-screen games and just generally getting used to it and things like that in the full review, but so far it's actually really not that bad at all, I mean, despite it being basically a notch I, find it a little less obtrusive than an actual notch. Also, for those wondering this is how screenshots look on the s10 plus when it's drawing that animation around the camera, cutout alright. So the second distinguishing feature here is the ultrasonic fingerprint reader underneath the display. So you remember, maybe, if you're here, the first durability test I did with one of the earliest under glass, fingerprint sensors.

That was an optical sensor. Now, I'm not gonna, go that far again with the sand paper and everything, because this is my only galaxy s 10, but there are still some unique questions now about the ultrasonic fingerprint sensor versus optical, so number one just around the same page about what ultrasonic is. That means it's using really high frequency, sound waves, firing off of your finger to map the depth of the ridges of your fingerprint in 3d. So when you hear it like that, that is way more advanced than having the optical sensor, which is literally a tiny camera, taking a little 2d snapshot of your finger when it lights it up on your fingers on the glass. So this is more secure and more difficult to duplicate.

Is it faster, sometimes a little kinda? So for my experience, if you just hold your finger down like normal, it won't seem that much faster, mostly because this is just how we've gotten used to these fingerprint sensors. But what you'll really notice is, if you don't hold your finger down as long or don't press it nearly as firmly, you can basically just touch the screen for a split. Second and it unlocks this would trigger an optical sensor to ask you to hold it down for longer, but with the ultrasonic. It really is much faster if you just touch your finger just lightly. That is really impressive and, of course, the fact that you don't have to light up the display to read your finger.

That is a real advantage and I love that, and it's supposed to be better at reading your finger through dirt and water. So if your finger is wet or something it'll work better, so, let's find out all right, so I have here some water I think in a typical situation where you might need to unlock your fingerprint, but it has something on it is maybe you're working out or something, and you're sweating, so I'm going to use galaxy s, 10 +, 1, + 60, as 2 examples of fingerprint readers that need to be unlocked. So let start with 1 + 60 under the glass works perfectly. So that's good. Get some water on my hand, unlock it or try to unlock it, I'm getting a good of, not recognized, and it's asking for that.

Swipe doesn't recognize me just with a little of water, on my thumb, so I guess, let's go to the Galaxy S 10 straight off the bat. If I dry, my hand, dry hand works perfectly, so I'll get some water on my hand, and it still worked that works pretty flawlessly as good add another girl, no problem, no problem at all. Alright another thing that was asked a lot in the community forums when I asked you guys what you wanted to know about galaxy s.10 was screen protectors. Does the screen protector work with the Galaxy S, tens old, sonic, fingerprint sensor? More importantly, what types of screen protectors work, so I have a regular screen protector and I. Have a glass screen protector? Okay, so the first will try us.

This is a regular screen protector? It was made for a galaxy s 10, and you can already buy this in stores, but for right now, while the screen protector is not on it works, it doesn't even have to be a perfect installation for this demo. So this may be the messiest screen protector install of all time, but as long as I get the bubbles out around the screen protector fingerprint reader which I have then it should work, so I'm going to go ahead and yep. You can use a fingerprint reader with a screen protector on galaxy s.10 you can try the glass one so a hint that this might not work is you can go into an AT&T store or any carrier store right. Now, that's carrying this phone, and you can buy a Galaxy S 10. You can buy a regular screen protector for the Galaxy S ten, but they won't sell you.

A glass screen protector, the Galaxy S ten because they don't make them, so this is a glass screen protector for the iPhone there are different types, but they're, essentially all the same thing they're supposed to be shadow resistant. You put this tempered glass over your display to give you that extra durability, but the ultrasonic fingerprint reader, I'm, gonna, guess right now probably won't be able to read through this class. So right now no screen protector on unlocks just fine so step. One peel this layer of adhesive off, and I'm, just going to put it straight across the bottom right there and now there's a glass screen protector over the bottom of the phone. Have you ever seen an installation? That's bad? Hopefully not so, let's see if this will work through the glass.

It knows, there's a finger there, and it's asking me to cover the whole thing: a print sensor, but it's not detecting if I take this off. So that's a no-go on glass screen protector for Galaxy S 10, yes to a regular one, but unless you want to get one of those weird screen protectors with a circular cutout around the fingerprint reader I would say no to glass all right. So the last big bullet point for this display and just the panel itself, is how good it is period. So resolution 3040 by 1440 3k, the brightness is 1200 nits at its peak brightness, which is brighter than most TVs. It's 6.4 inches from corner to corner on the s10 plus it has the curved edges like we talked about the super thin top and bottom bezels physically, it's top-notch well I! Guess you can't say it's: it's not actually top-notch, because that notch is nothing. You know what I mean.

So there are two display modes out the box. It's on this natural mode which actually to my eye for the first time ever in a Samsung phone, actually looks a bit muted out the box and then there's vivid mode, which is very saturated. The vivid is a great word for it. There's still that adjustable color temperature and all that. But that's the Samsung look that you're used to also out the box.

It's going to be at its 20 to 80 by 1080 resolution instead of max, which is to preserve battery life. But if you want that extra bit of crispness, especially when watching video, you can go ahead and bump that up in the display settings and enjoy all the pixels in their 3k glory. But as of right now, that's pretty much everything you need to know about the galaxy s, tennis display it's one of the reasons. People like this phone, so much and many other Samsung displays, as I've said in the past. That's why their phones are popular.

But let me know if you guys think, of course this is not the full review that videos in the pipeline as well so feel free to subscribe to see that when it comes out and of course you can share this one with those who are interested in the Galaxy S 10 thanks for watching catching I was the next one. Peace.

Source : Marques Brownlee