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The formula is simple: take the same processor, reduce the memory a little and squeeze it into a smaller, less complicated body. Whether any of those are downsides depends on your view of curved screens. With rounded metal sides and glass front and back, it looks fairly simple in design terms. The S10e is easy to hold onto at only Processor: Samsung Exynos or Qualcomm Snapdragon The cheaper phone has only 6GB of memory compared with 8GB, but most will likely not notice, as performance was pretty much the same.
Only on occasion would an app have to reload when brought back from the recently used apps list. Battery life on the S10e was a disappointing 25 hours between charges, the same as the regular S With the always-on display AOD setting off, the phone would last from 7am on day one until 9am on day two, which might be enough to get you into work. That was while browsing and using apps for five hours with plenty of push messages and emails, watching 60 minutes of offline video, shooting about five photos a day and listening to about five hours of Spotify using Bluetooth headphones.
Charging is pretty slow too, taking 95 minutes to fully charge via cable and similar via 15W wireless charging. Wireless powershare works well, but is fairly slow — fine for charging a set of headphones.
Still, everything looks good and works well. The only area where Samsung is clearly behind the curve is the gesture navigation. Its swipe pads work fine but are harder to reach and less fluid than the competition. I ended up sticking to the traditional navigation buttons. Unlike the rest of the S10 line the Galaxy S10e has a traditional capacitive fingerprint scanner built into the power button.
I found that it was placed too high up on the right side to comfortably hit it with my left index finger in a natural position taking several attempts to unlock the phone. One of the areas where the S10e is inferior to its more expensive siblings is in the camera. So how do we come to our review verdicts? And why can you trust them?
We have state-of-the-art testing facilities in London and Bath, where our team of expert reviewers do all our in-house testing. This gives us complete control over the review process, ensuring consistency. We spend time with the phones; we live with them, testing every feature and spec exhaustively, from screens to cameras, sound quality to battery life.
We focus particularly on audio and video performance, so if you spend a lot of time listening to music or watching videos, you should read on before making that all-important buying decision. All products are tested in comparison with rival products in the same category, and all review verdicts are agreed upon by the team as a whole rather than a single reviewer, again helping to ensure consistency and avoid individual subjectivity.
From all of our reviews, we choose the products to feature in our Best Buys, such as this one. Screen: 6.
It's true that the iPhone 11 loses in some areas against the two 11 Pros, including screen technology, resolution, camera quality and battery life, but the iPhone 11 is, in its own right, a feature-rich phone at a markedly more affordable price. The iPhone 11 delivers a great point-and-shoot camera which is an improvement on the XR , runs off the same processor as the premium Pro and Pro Max and delivers solid battery life.
Add the fact it produces a wonderfully rounded picture with sensational sound and the iPhone 11 is a superb all-rounder. Read the full iPhone 11 review. Like the 7 Pro before and here, below it, the 7T is a great value mid-market marvel with a great camera and screen, plus features you wouldn't expect on a handset of this price such as ultra-fast charging and an in-screen fingerprint scanner — and it certainly deserves consideration. Sadly there's no 3. Read our full OnePlus 7T review.
Screen: 5. There is no denying that the iPhone 11 Pro is a brilliant phone — possibly the best, and definitely the most powerful, there has ever been. Read the full iPhone 11 Pro review. The user experience is virtually identical, as is the processing power on offer. It not only stacks up well against its family members, it displays a level of musicality that rivals brands can only dream of. A smart choice for those who want a bite of the Apple for a relatively affordable price.
Read our full Apple iPhone XR review. The 10th anniversary of the Samsung Galaxy range was marked with the launch of not one, but three, new Samsung Galaxy S10 phones.
It comes complete with a 6. Unless, that is, you can afford the just-announced successor to the S10 series, the Samsung S20 phones. Got a bit more cash to splash? Pictures on the OLED screen are impressively detailed, with subtle colours and excellent motion control. With music, the XS Max is just a little clearer, more dynamic and punchier than any rival out there, improving on the iPhone X, which was already a class-leader. All told, the iPhone XS Max is comfortably the best smartphone out there for movie and music lovers. Read our full iPhone XS Max review.
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If you're an Android fan who can't afford to splash out four figures for a smartphone, OnePlus' 7 Pro could be the phone for your pocket. Apart from a few minor issues, such as the absence of the 3. With an appealing screen, detailed, lively sound and a cracking camera, as well as a cool in-screen fingerprint scanner and pop-up selfie camera module, there's plenty to like here.
The 7 Pro has since been usurped by the slightly modified 7T Pro OnePlus has a tendency to launch new phones every six months , but if you're on a tight budget this older phone is very attractively priced right now.
You can use the music player to play audio files you have transferred to your phone. FAQ for Samsung Mobile Device. (Pie), settings and steps available may vary depending on your Galaxy device and software version.
Read the full OnePlus 7 Pro review. A substantially improved camera and small upgrades across the board all add up to a better phone than Google has produced in previous years, albeit it one that won't necessarily cause Pixel 3 owners to rush out and upgrade. Indeed, this is the phone fro Android purists. Just beware that it isn't hugely competitive in the audio or battery departments.
Read our full Google Pixel 4 review. Read our full Google Pixel 4 XL review. This is a low-cost phone with better-than-budget performance.
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