There’s little danger of
losing the S Pen – it tucks
away into the bottom of the
smartphone when not in use.shooting modes, including Pro mode,
so you can take control of your
shooting experience, and the phone
shoots RAW photos, too.
While low-light photography isn’t
quite as well handled as on the Huawei
P30 Pro or Pixel 3, the Note 10+ still
manages to deliver an excellent, multi-
purpose imaging experience across
lighting conditions. It also shoots
brilliant videos at up to 4K resolution,
60fps, as well as up to 960fps slow
motion at Full HD resolution.FUTURE-PROOF
A considerable amount of power and
storage sit inside the Note 10+’s frame,
making it about as future-proofed as
you can get. Specs include an Exynos
9825 CPU combined with 12GB RAM
and 256GB storage, which can be
boosted up to 1TB thanks to microSD
card expansion. If you opt for the 5G
version, you can pick it up with 512GB
storage, though the maxed-out model
will set you back £1,199. The phone’s
4300mAh battery gets it through a
full day, and with its supplied charger
the Note 10+ powers up from zero to
100 per cent in just over an hour.
If you’re a creative who likes to draw
on the go, the Note-series is the only
real choice when it comes to phones
with excellent pen-input out of the
box. Compared to the standard Note
10, the Note 10+ is significantly bigger,
has a sharper screen, better battery
life, more optional storage and RAM,
as well as a ToF depth camera.
Yet the main selling point of
Samsung’s smartphone is the larger
screen to draw on and its extra
resolution. There’s no getting around
the fact the Note 10+ is costly, but
artists with deep pockets will discover
that this is a brilliant piece of kit.character recognition, the phone can
index notes based on your handwriting,
making them searchable.
Yet what really sets the S Pen apart
is how good it is for artists. Its
precision wipes the floor with that of
its main competitor (the Huawei Mate
20 X and its M Pen), latency is low, and
you can work on much larger files than
ever before without slowdown. We
exported a multi-layered PSD file that
was around 12.8MP and 90MB,
working on it with virtually no lag over
four hours. If you’re happy with
SketchBook for starting off projects
and Samsung Notes for casual
doodles, the Note 10+ is like having a
pin-sharp Wacom Cintiq in your
pocket. As with the Note 9, you can tilt
the S Pen for intuitive shading,
provided you’re working within an app
that supports the feature.CAPTURING IMAGES THAT POP
The Note 10-series carries forward the
12MP dual-aperture main camera
introduced on the Galaxy S9, and
combines it with a 2x zoom 12MP
camera and an 0.5x zoom, ultrawide
16MP camera. The time of flight (ToF)
camera helps with depth sensing to
create better effects when blurring out
the background of portraits, and Live
Focus photos and videos. Results
across lighting conditions are very
good, with detail consistently high and
images looking poppy and saturated
out of the camera. There are plenty ofFeatures
Q6.5-inch AMOLED
panel
Q1,440x3,040
resolution
Q19.9 aspect ratio
Q2,000,000:1
contrast ratio
QS Pen supports
4,096 levels of
pressure sensitivity
Q12MP-16MP rear
camera
QUp to 512GB storage
Q162.3x77.2x7.9mm
Q196g
Rating
+++++The smartphone’s back
panel shimmers in a different
hue, depending on how it
captures the light.The Note10+ is
just 7.9mm thick,
and weighs a
shade under 200g.Art tools Hardware