What's 'Lite' with the Samsung S10 Lite? Detailed review By Mr MuBot

Ah yes,1 more godly friend who bought a new phone and gave me to review. Samsung S10 lite came out of nowhere and people who were waiting for snapdragon samsung flagship devices in many countries like India and others would be so happy to see this as an option under a more affordable category. But let’s see what is exactly LITE here on the phone and what makes the phone so much cheaper as compared to samsung’s own, more expensive flagships, even when this phone does come with a ex-flagship processor on it. Or if it’s just LITE because it’s LIGHT? Hey everyone, Mukul here with another phone review which people keep buying around me and I keep snatching to review them. The snapdragon 855 is a solid chipset and still outperforms many other chipsets in similar segments. Especially that crappy exynos samsung generally pushes down our throat in countries like India on their flagship devices.

In the box you get the phone, 25W fast charger, usb c to usb c cable, usb c earphones. So overall a nice kit. A usb c to usb cable would have been better as that would have meant just to carry the cable and not the charger everywhere you go. But Samsung had other plans and you CAN'T do anything about it now. Especially after you have bought the phone.

The charger also has this weird font scaling which we mostly see on fake chargers in the market. So this is definitely one of the lite parts of the phone. But I am pretty sure that only 1 out of 1000 apes are going to notice this out there. why would ape buy a phone? The usb-c earphones are pretty basic and for some odd reason the one I got didn’t work on its 1 side. Now I would have to go through the RMA process to get it replaced.

Thanks samsung :| So the dead out of the box earphones is definitely LITE part of the package here. I have no complaints with the overall finish, the samsung s10 lite has. It looks good and feels good in the hand. The phone is pretty slim and lightweight. And the device felt more approachable as compared to the note 9 in my hand.

So don’t hesitate in asking out the s10 lite out. What the f….. You can put the plastic body of the phone in one of its lite features but really, if you are someone who always uses cases on their phones then this isn’t something to even think or bother upon. I mean, half of the phone is glass anyway and the other half doesn’t even matter much till you are actually taking b-rolls of the phone like this. The device comes with android 10 and samsung’s new and improved one ui 2.0 out of the box. Trying out the phone’s most crucial feature, which is calling, the call quality was strong but because of the punch hole design the earpiece speaker was shifted right on the edge on the top.

So for me it took some getting used to,as I had to readjust the ear accordingly, as I am used to placing it right on the grill way below that on the note 9. But this is just nitpicking. This screen doesn't curve on the edges and thank goodness for that. This just means you won’t be accidently touching anything on the edges of the phone. Curve edges on touch screen phones was one of the most innovative unwanted features on a handheld device.

But you need something to market on the ever monotonous phone market right? The centre notch won’t bother you much if you are not viewing the videos with the screen full aspect ratio. But even if you do - the notch wouldn’t be much of a distraction. The screen is beautiful and bright. I have no issues with recommending the screen of this phone. And that doesn't mean you go out and just buy the screen of the phone.

The massive 4500 mah battery was another surprise of the phone and certainly not part of the Lite package here. I was pretty happy with the performance of the battery too as it easily lasted a day and there was still ample juice left to stretch it to some part of the next day too. The speakers are on the bottom of the phone and are decently loud. I won’t say they are gonna blow your mind. Compared to my note 9 they are at least 30-35% less than note 9’s peak volume.

So the one sided firing speakers can be considered a lite feature here but not a huge loss considering the price. Fingerprint sensor behaves like any other samsung phone. I didn’t remove the top protective layer as the phone wasn’t mine but I am pretty sure the extra layer of security on samsung phones make them the slowest fingerprint unlocking phone in the market. The face unlock was blazing fast. It kept surprising me with how good and fast it was.

So I would recommend activating both the fingerprint and face unlock feature on the phone. Best part is you get a last gen flagship snapdragon in this phone rather than samsung’s own exynos which isn’t at par to a snapdragon in recent years. But I am calling it a last gen processor because the snapdragon 865 phones are out now. Otherwise I would still say that a snapdragon 855 device has nothing wrong going for it. The performance and everything was extremely snappy and I just loved how smooth the phone behaved with most of its tasks.

Ah its raining outside. Playing call of duty, which I suck at and wont prefer playing on the phone….. was also smooth. And just for these few seconds of shot I had to download and install and login to the game. So yeah.

See some more of this. The charging speed was pretty good. The phone took somewhere around 30 mins to charge from 60 to 100%. From 90-100 it took most of its time. The phone also supports wifi calling and if you are not sure of what is that, check my video on it in the description.

Another lite part of the device is that the samsung removed the extra bixby button and by default set the power button on the right as bixby and that is quite the, what the fish here. So by default, to switch off the phone you have to hold the volume down + power button which is a process which sucks heavily and will remind you of the good old rooting days. Or use the icon on the notification panel. But you can also, thankfully change the setting of that button to make it act as your default power button. pheeew.

The phone also offers a totally new array of cameras on it. There are 3 cameras on the back as primary, ultra wide and macro cameras. And a camera on the front. Overall I was very impressed with the phone camera capabilities. It definitely showed signs of being a little light but gotta say they perform really good in this price segment.

There were shortcomings such as the 4k video doesn’t support any sort of video stabilization. But you could record 4k from the front camera too. I actually had a lot of fun playing with the live focus video mode. It actually worked good and things like having a night mode in even on the ultra wide lens AND the front camera is a huge BONUS and trust me just because of these little mods to the cameras, many of your pictures are going to look so much better. This video won’t do much justice to the camera review.

So a dedicated video on camera will be up next soon on the channel. So do sub for that update. One ui has been really transformative for samsung. Most of the things we do with samsung phones now are smooth and lag free. The focus - work mode is totally customizable and for the weak people like me who are poor with their focus.

There’s also a thing like game launcher to boost game performance but I think a true mobile gamer would be able to explain it better than me. The ability to easily customize themes, and the dark mode is true love. The battery stats ui is new so i still kinda prefer the gsam battery app to monitor my battery usage on the phone. Always on display is there on this phone too like many other samsung phones and they are quite customizable too. Device care has a new ui and animation too which looks sleek and sexy and is quite easy to use if you are someone with an OCD of optimizing your phone again and again like some users.

Digital wellbeing takes notes of all the time you have been spending on different kinds of apps on the phone so that if you spend some time on assessing this too and this feature totally forgetting to include itself in the stats haha. I had fun translating my voice to text with the inbuilt translator and it was pretty accurate in my testing. And it worked with punctuation. With bixby comes bixby routines which has been one of the most innovative features of bixby on samsung phones. Just customize a particular any of these different commands, say it and a set of actions will be performed.

A certain set of cool motion and gestures are also there on the device. Pretty self explanatory and makes any samsung device really strong when it comes to these many customizations. Kids are now playing in the rain. So despite ALL the LITE feature discussed so far, for the price of under 40,000 indian rupees or round about 500 us dollars makes the phone a direct competitor to other oneplus devices. Except for having more Hz on the screen, the phone actually ticks almost all other boxes.

Samsung planned this well. You are actually not losing anything on performance, and you are getting most of what samsung offers in a more affordable range. Plus its security which a lot of people dig. I am under the impression that many people are not considering the device maybe because it has the word LITE associated with it and generally a lot of users except a LITE device to have a lite performance but that clearly isn’t the case here. Will I recommend the device? For the price hell yeah.

And after some discounted offers we indian buyers are right now getting, the device is a real steal. Hope the video helped you and make sure to leave like and sub for more relevant content. That’s all for this video. MuBot out. And now I am gonna go outside and bath in the rain!.

Source : Mr MuBot