OCTOBER 2019 PCWorld 43Samsung Galaxy Note 10+
PROS- Amazing screen that’s big, bold, beautiful, and
bright. - Super fast and long lasting with tons of storage.
- An in-display fingerprint sensor that works!
CONS - No headphone jack.
- Screen size will be too big for some hands.
- Camera doesn’t really bring anything new to the
table.
BOTTOM LINE
It might be a bit too big for some, but if you can
handle (and afford) it, you won’t find a better phone
than the Galaxy Note 10+.
$1,099
We’ll miss you, headphone jack.difficult to tell the pictures apart.
Colors still lean a bit toward
over-saturated in most lights, but
most people won’t mind.
New to the Note 10+ is the
Night mode that arrived late to
the S10, and it definitely helps
with low-light shooting. Like
Google’s method, you need to
hold your phone steady while it
processes the available light,
but the results aren’t quite as
spectacular. Night photos
looked less realistic on the Note 10+, and the
processing engine tended to get confused by
the dominant color and had trouble focusing,
where Google’s Pixel Visual Core handled the
scene much better. But it’s definitely a step in
the right direction.
BOTTOM LINE
There probably isn’t anything I wrote in this
review that’s going to sway you to buy or not
buy a Galaxy Note 10+. With a $1,100 price
tag and top-of-the-line everything, it’s geared
toward the Android user who wants the best,
and boy, does it deliver.
And really, there’s no reason to wait. The
Note 11+ (assuming there is one) will have a
better camera and maybe a few display and
design tweaks, but there isn’t too much
Samsung can do to make it all that much better
than the Note 10+. Until folding phones
become a viable product or in-display cameras
arrive, the Note 10+ is pretty much the
epitome of Samsung’s smartphone evolution.
In a world of the Pixel 3a, Galaxy A50, and
iPhone XR, there’s no real reason to pay $1,100
for a phone. But if you must, you won’t feel an
ounce of buyer’s remorse with the Note 10+.