Samsung Galaxy S10 5G Single-SIM 256 GB 6.7-Inch Android Smartphone UK Version Silver (Renewed)

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If we're being picky then some areas are very good rather than best-in-class – battery life and low-light camera performance among them – but it's difficult to think of another smartphone that gets so much right in such a brilliant all-round package. Every year we see a whole host of new Android flagships hit the market – phones from everyone from Huawei to Google to OnePlus – but for many the Samsung Galaxy phones are the ones to beat, and this year it's the Galaxy S10 leading the charge. If you're more of a lightweight phone user, you probably don't need all of the power the Galaxy S10 offers up. We never got to the evening worrying about battery life dying before bedtime, but it's possible that with particularly heavy usage you might need a top-up. Reversible wireless charging is supported as well, so you can juice up other devices on the back of the S10 (provided you have 30 percent or more charge left on your phone at the time).

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We'd say even with a single lens, the Pixel 3 phones have the edge, especially in low light shots, for the time being. That's coupled with an ample 8GB of RAM, and in use the Galaxy S10 feels slick and lightning-fast, no matter what the task.For those who don't want to jump to the bigger, even more feature-packed, more expensive S10 Plus, the Galaxy S10 represents the pinnacle of smartphone manufacturing in 2019.

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Battery life is a crucial consideration for every smartphone purchase, with just about a day's use possible from a full charge on most modern-day smartphones. If you want the very best performance a smartphone can offer in 2019, and you're prepared to spend money to get it, then the Samsung Galaxy S10 definitely fits the bill.

Other new features are more forgettable, like the Live Focus that can adds an artificial bokeh-style blur, a partial greyscale filter, or a swirling blur to the background behind your chosen subject. Its huge display is great for videos and gaming, it’s a sleek phone despite its size, and Samsung’s UI is smooth. The supplied camera app comes packing some optimisations and processing features that we weren't particularly impressed with: it did take us several goes to work out how to take portrait and night shots properly, but perhaps that's more our fault than Samsung's. Just how good it is will come down to where you are, but if you want to futureproof your smartphone, you won’t find a 5G phone with more bells or whistles than the S10 5G. It's the same story with the S10, which offers a noticeable but not huge improvement over what we saw with the S9.

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Granted, we've seen many of these features before – the Infinity-O design (debuting on the Galaxy A8s), the fingerprint scanner (the OnePlus 6T), the reversible charging (Huawei Mate 20 Pro), but everything feels a little more polished and less gimmicky here. Both modes are really easy to access with a single tap on a small pop-up that appears in the default camera mode – these new additions feel genuinely useful. The bottom line is that despite the increase in battery capacity over the Galaxy S9, you're not going to be able to change your charging habits with this.If we were being picky we'd say that the layout and the bulge of the triple-lens camera on the back of the unit isn't the most elegant of solutions, but we really are struggling to come up with anything bad to say about the design and the build quality of the Samsung Galaxy S10. With a fantastic resolution, stunning vibrancy, and rich contrast, it's undoubtedly one of the best screens we've ever seen on a smartphone. Firing up vivid mode boosts the AMOLED’s hues, and in doing so, you can also tailor the color temperature to suit your eyes.

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As with its predecessors, the Galaxy S10 is capable of taking some really nice smartphone shots, rich in colour and contrast, and well balanced in terms of darker and lighter areas. The RAM and processor packed in here are certainly more than capable of coping with everything a phone needs to do in 2019. Having watched a few television show episodes on the Galaxy S10, we came away very satisfied with the audio performance. The screen, design, and performance are all truly top notch, and with One UI Samsung has an operating system it can be a lot more proud of (though you might still be waiting a while for future updates to roll out). While the Galaxy S10 5G was announced alongside the Samsung Galaxy S10, Galaxy S10 Plus and Galaxy S10e, it was only launched officially in the US and UK in June, to coincide with the launch of 5G networks.A scene needs to get seriously underlit before the rear camera on the S10 starts to struggle, and even then you can often come away with something usable.