50 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 67
REVIEW
where you prop up your S Pen to take a group photo
and use the S Pen as a shutter, but it’s certainly not a
feature you’re going to use every day.
Far more useful is the optical character recognition
built into Samsung Notes. As always, the prime benefit
of the S Pen is for quickly jotting down notes, but
Samsung has made them a lot more useful in the
Note10+. After you save a note, you’ll have the option
to convert your writing into text using a new button
at the bottom of the screen. Even after a live demo,
I was sceptical, but the OCR engine was remarkably
accurate at turning my admittedly terrible handwriting
into the correct words. And if you leave your notes as
scribbles, they’ll still be categorized as text and fully
searchable, which is pretty great.Extra cameras yield similar results
After the Note 8 brought a dual camera and the Note
9 debuted Dual Aperture, its somewhat surprising that
the Note10+ has a recycled camera array. Granted, it’s
a four-camera array and one of the best one Samsung
has ever made, but it would have been nice to see
something new:Camera 1: 16Mp Ultra Wide, f/2.2
Camera 2: 12Mp Wide, f/1.5-f/2.4
Camera 3: 12Mp Telephoto, f/2.1
Camera 4: DepthVisionThe fourth camera is the same time-of-flight lens
Samsung introduced on the Galaxy S10+ 5G, and it’s
responsible for sharper live focus images and videos