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Samsung isn't celebrating its tenth anniversary of the Galaxy S with just one phone it's actually giving us four including the galaxy s 10 plus sir the galaxy s 10 II the regular Galaxy S 10 and their very first 5g phone with the s 10 phones Samsung has taken the very best of the galaxy s 9 and refined it giving you extensive screen space in a much smaller package than you'd expect there are those curved edges we love an extremely thin bezels that really pull you into an all screen experience thankfully there's no eyebrows shaped notch on these phones that will interrupt your view of the screen instead Samsung has amped up this expansive screen by cutting out a tiny hole for the front facing camera to fit into the display or in the case of the s10 plus an oval that fits in to lenses here's another big feature an in screen fingerprint reader that unlocks the phone when you press your finger to the target this is a huge improvement over blindly searching for the s nines fingerprint reader on the back the galaxy s 10 phones are the first to have qualcomm ultrasonic fingerprint technology which uses sound waves to unlock the phone other phones with fingerprint readers use optical sensors which are critiqued for being easy to fool I didn't get a chance to set up my own fingerprint this time but I will be all over that in my final review these phones feel thin light and easy to hold they have a headphone jack water resistance and wireless charging support there's even a mode you can turn on to wirelessly share power that lets you charge another Qi enabled device using the Galaxy S tens battery reserves don't worry the phone stops sharing when you're down to 30% so you won't completely run out of juice by now you've probably noticed that the S 10 phones come in flashy colors like flamingo pink prism blue prism green and canary yellow in addition to glossy white and black the larger Galaxy S 10 plus also comes in white and black variants made with ceramic backs samsung says these are more durable than the regular glass packings unfortunately you can't get every color in every country but she should have at least one snazzy shade to choose from Samsung cameras have always been a selling point and this year at the galaxy s 10 plus and II have a 16 megapixel ultra wide lens and a 12 megapixel wide-angle lens so you can take portrait moon shots the s10 and SN plus now add a third camera to the back a 12 megapixel telephoto lens with 2x zoom you can toggle among the lenses from the camera app I'll pre have a 10 megapixel selfie camera on the front but only the plus model adds a second 8 megapixel camera for your portraits selfies the 5 G version we'll see later this year will have a 3d depth sensing camera on both the front and back but it's for better portrait shots and a are not for unlocking the phone like the iPhones face ID if you like a little help lighting up shots and optimizing settings the s10 camera will let you turn on shot suggestions this is brand new and it gives you guidelines for getting the best pic AI software onboard will also recognize the scene that you're looking at and apply lighting settings automatically to help make it look good you can turn it off with the tap if it's dark enough the bright night setting will automatically kick in to enhance a low-light scene these as 10 phones support HDR in UHD video recording and there's a super steady video mode as well still with me good because there's more our old friend Bixby is back this time with some routines that you can program to automatically change her phone settings as you go about your day so for example it can turn on Spotify and turn off Wi-Fi when it senses that you're in your car these phones are the first to come pre-installed with Samsung's new when UI software which runs over android 9 you care about this because it's samsung's attempt to overhaul a previously cluttered galaxy skin when you eye is supposed to help make navigation more one-handed but I did notice that you still have to reach up to the top of the screen to engage the notifications shade still too early to say how when UI helps or hinders but I will say that larger buttons do seem like easier targets for your fingers to hit okay so how do you tell these new Galaxy S 10 phones apart well the Galaxy S 10 5 G which we weren't allowed to turn on is the largest of the bunch with a 6 point 7 inch screen of 4500 milliamp battery 2 cameras on the front and 4 cameras on the back including that 3d depth sensing camera we talked about it will have 256 gigabytes of storage a gigabytes of RAM and no external storage next comes the s10 plus with a 6.1 inch screen and those two cameras on the front there's a 4100 milliamp battery and you can buy it in 128 512 and even one terabyte storage options with expandable storage up to 512 gigabytes the regular s10 has a 6.1 inch screen and one main selfie cam the s10 a screen drops down to a 5.8 inch display all the galaxy s turns run on the snapdragon an 855 processor finally we get to the money question how much do they all cost and when can you buy them you'll fork out a thousand dollars for the Galaxy S ten plus 900 for the s10 and $750 for the s10 II those three musketeers will go on pre-order February 21st and you'll get a free pair of new Galaxy buds as a gift they all sell in stores on March 8 but if it's the 5g Galaxy S ten year after you're gonna have to wait a little while longer in the US it will come exclusively to Verizon in the second quarter before coming to other carriers pricing is still unknown this was just a very brief taste of all four new Galaxy S ten devices but we're gonna dig in with a full review coming up soon