Gadgetory

all right very exciting day in the tech world it is a big release day or launch day announcement day everybody's talking about the new Samsung device the Galaxy S 10 in front of me right now I have the s10 plus with the hole punch the double hole punch people talked about it it was leaked the rumors showcased it and now it's real it's in front of us and this is our first look at it so here it is a gigantic display of course this is the Plus version and the first thing the first thing you notice is how that hole punch kind of vanishes into the background of the default wallpaper now I was like hey but people want to see the scale of the hole punch so I was like let me go into the wallpaper settings here they blacked it out in every single wallpaper but anyway this gives us a better idea of the hole punch setup when we're just inside of the UI and you know I don't know it kind of fits into the to the top notification bar it's the exact same height which I don't mind then of course not having it in the center kind of moves it to a more a less utilized area of your screen real estate so this is kind of gonna be up to the individual in terms of how you compare this to a knotch kind of scenario but I guess at first glance aesthetically speaking you're used to having some noise up in the top corner cuz this is typically where this stuff lives you know your signal battery life and so on so it does blend a little bit better than the center knotch form factor wise it's similar in scale to the current Plus series the s9 plus though the back camera also received some upgrades as you can see right here we've got three camera units that means this device has five cameras the s10 plus is a five camera smartphone is pretty wild so that's a six point four inch AMOLED display now I've said in past I'm generally a fan of the you know the Samsung displays on smartphones they make so many of them and they've got these vibrant colors lots of contrast very pleasing to a wide audience this is no exception at first glance this looks really nice I don't know if it's much brighter than the previous version I've got it maxed out here for the purpose of this video but it looks good I think you're gonna be satisfied with it so let's go ahead and launch these cameras okay so this is the front-facing unit and it also has a wide-angle now it's not the widest maybe Kirk can pick this up real quick so this is the wide and that's the close nowhere near the field of view that the pixel gives you for example this one on the other hand it gives you a quick bounce out slightly you know you have the ability to probably fit two people in the frame one there one there but then on the typical focal range that's what you're looking at all right let's do the selfie test real quick what do we have shall we just do a max Beauty just for the all right max Beauty here we go we got lips what do we do to the nose we shrink it or we make it bigger oh okay this is on the big set are you seeing this Kirk in real time okay that's big we're shrinking it eyes will you make those bigger okay the chin what what would people want to do shrink that the jawline oh we're sucking in the jawline folks and the skin tone okay here we go this is max max beauty I'm gonna try to look as pretty as possible here this is not me ladies and gentleman that's not that's pretty that's pretty me and you know they've done a compelling version of it here doesn't look cartoony it just it looks like plastic surgery like that's what it's starting to look like actual plastic surgery that you don't have to do for the price of a new smartphone you get the old tuck the old stitch and tuck what would it I'm gonna get rid of that I don't know it's not the best selfie I've ever seen if I'm being honest now when it comes to some of the post-processing stuff that can change a little bit keep in mind this is like a first this is an initial hands-on scenario so maybe we can pick up a bit more detail maybe some more contrast in the way that the image is processed but right now I've seen selfies I like better I just noticed a cool animation watch the the top camera unit when I click back did you see that there's like a little light effect around the whole punch boom fancy I do have to say the the feel I mean I hate it when people say that it feels good in hand it does though this one actually it doesn't feel like a huge phone it's rather narrow it's obviously slim and I kind of like holding it to be quite honest I should take you around the device real quick because I just noticed we still have a headphone jack that's gonna be a bonus for a lot of people I'm glad they did that I mean you have a big device you have the room for it now you got some extra versatility you need to plug a standard set of headphones in the jack is there I really don't need to tell you of course type-c connector as well quick charge capable on the rear it's looking like we have the three lens three zoom situation so the default in the center shows two trees that's representative of the focal range course we can zoom in further that's a nice looking image and then wider this is 0.5 zoom so that's pretty wide I'm into that okay so that's the wide lens standard one times focal range and then the zoom so as you can see there the AI picked up that it's a face that it's a portrait and it made various automatic adjustments okay cool so now we'll just show you all three ooh that's pretty nice okay so that's the zoomed in mode that kind of turned out well that's the medium or standard focal range and then that's the wide the wide is quite wide I'm a fan of that actually then it barely even juts out in this case like that thing look at that that lays pretty flat I mean completely flat really that's impressive for a camera module housing a three camera setup including something that wide I'm kind of happy about that all right staying into camera modes you can see there's also a pro mode which gives you all kinds of access ISO f-stop you can control autofocus white balance I mean everything you would expect in a pro camera is in there that's nice to have I also notice there is a super slo-mo it captures 0.4 seconds okay let's give this a shot super slo-mo is always fun man is it going right now holy that's point eight seconds of actual video Wow okay yeah I mean that's super slow-mo now I do want to take a picture something colorful I just want to see the way this thing deals with colors knows that it's a plant we'll try the close-up you know what man again this is initial interpretation but this rear camera is looking real nice right now look at the detail over here Wow that's looking like that's gonna be a real performer on the rear camera another thing I was curious about specifically with this cutout design when compared to the notch is like what's it gonna do in video mode obviously people watch a lot of YouTube a lot of video on their smartphone so here you can see in the YouTube app what happens during navigation fits into the notification bar but it also looks like the notification bar itself is fatter than it would normally be to accommodate the whole punch set up so you lose a little bit of screen real estate there now so that's zoomed in on the YouTube video player and they should give you an idea of how that whole punch is gonna look when you have a full screen video playing ya can interfere a little bit and then you're like that little area around the outside of it it's not really useful to have that is that even that's not even a millimeter of extra screen real estate like that you're barely using of course it looks cool it seems futuristic but strictly from a utilitarian standpoint is that really that useful I don't know if this is the future of designs it really feels to me like this is a stopgap to the eventual no cutout no not situation I mean we've of course seen slider situations motorized camera pop-ups for front-facing cameras this just happens to be the latest incarnation but I think a lot of it is kind of just the novelty factor in general one thing I will say is that this is gonna make people feel like they really have a new device like that's what that ends up feeling like is that this is a new thing this is this is not something that has existed before you pull this out of your pocket you're like that's not my last phone it doesn't look anything like it but as far as the practicality of this particular implementation versus others I honestly don't think it's a big difference but then again I'm a guy who on notch phones I turn off I just black it out so I kind of find them all a bit offensive at least here they are giving you to front camera options so you're getting two lenses so there's a bit of a payoff a bit of a trade-off you get one wide-angle one standard so you get some extra equipment in exchange for that cut out Oh most of it sound is still traveling out the bottom it's a good sounding smartphone I'm into it it's a good sounding smartphone they thought about it just so we have a comparison let's try that dull beeping again see if we did any enhancing for it oh yeah this track you can your little bit it's in the mid to high range little more a little more detail a little more crisp knit a little more crisp this 50 crunch Rice Krispies Krispy Kreme Honey Creek cocoa print you know what this is a nice little package okay this is not gonna be cheap though holy smokes this is not gonna be a cheap device be prepared to get up to that thousand dollar range if you think you're an s10 plus kind of person battery information oh there we go breaking news 4100 milliamp hour battery at least on the plus version that's a big battery so think people can be happy with that got some quick charge you got the latest Snapdragon it sounds good it looks good it's got a lot more in the camera Department than the previous version it's got a bigger battery and there's a lot going for it I'm gonna play with this device of course I'm gonna use this device of course the SIM card is going to enter this phone and I'm gonna let you know how it compares to some other stuff that's out there and I'm also gonna let you know if there's enough value here to justify the cost because that's the conversation in 2019 and you already know it but there it is it's the s10 plus and of course you can tell it's wrapped in a beautiful D brand if you wanna know more about that look look for the link in the description there it is unbox therapy stay tuned for the next one