OCTOBER 2019 PCWorld 41made them way more useful in the Note 10+.
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 skeptical, but the OCR
engine was remarkably accurate at turning my
admittedly terrible handwriting into the right
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 Note 10+ has a
recycled camera array. Granted, it’s a four-
camera array and one of the best ones
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: DepthVision
The 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 as well as AR applications.
The bundled Measure app works as well, but
so do the ones on the Pixel and iPhone,
without a 3D camera. The S Pen-powered AR
Doodle is way more unique and fun, using the
camera to track drawings you make on faces,
but I don’t know how often people will use it.
There’s also a 3D scanner built in that I had no
luck with, but with patience, people have been
able to generate usable images (go.pcworld.
com/gnim).
The 3D camera will mostly be used for
portraits, and it’s there where the S10+If you zoom in on these portraits, you’ll see that the Note 10+ (left) did a better job with the edges and the
bokeh, but it’s extremely similar to the S10+ (center) and note 9 (right).