PC World (2019-04)

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smoothing filter rather than even trying to suss

out finer details that were clearly visible with

the Pixel 3. I’d love to see a Pixel-style Night

Mode for Samsung phones at some point,

maybe even later this year as part of the Note

9’s feature set.

Around the front, Samsung has

augmented the standard 10MP f/1.9 lens

with a second 8MP RGB depth

camera with a slightly wider 90

FOV. If you take a lot of selfies

you’ll appreciate the edge

detailing and depth-of-field

adjustments, but there’s nothing

here that isn’t also available on

the S10’s single front camera.

I didn’t have a standard S10 to

compare it to, but the S10+

definitely outperformed the S9’s

front camera in basically every

facet, as you can see above.

However, as it stands the second

front camera seems like a missed

opportunity. I would have rather

seen an ultra-wide second camera

like on the Pixel 3 or a 3D camera

for facial recognition.

BOTTOM LINE

There’s no denying that the Galaxy

S10 is the absolute cream of the

premium Android phone crop

right now. It has the fastest

processor, the most RAM, the

S10+ wasn’t fooled into unnatural adjustments.
Nighttime and low light are a different
story. While I was extremely impressed with
the S10+’s ability to focus quickly in extremely
low light, the pictures I snapped had far less
detail than the ones I took with the Pixel 3. In
some instances, it looked as though
Samsung’s post-processing engine applied a

The S10+ (left) handles color exceptionally well, even besting
the Pixel 3 in this rainbow of candy.

If you look at the detail on the ceiling in this shot, the S10+ (left)
is no match for the Pixel 3. Shoot, look at the ground as well!