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The phone feels like it could take a beating and come out looking just fine. The front of the phone makes use of a waterdrop-style notch and has fairly minimal bezels to boot. The Galaxy M10 feels comfortable to hold and looks premium while at it. Galaxy M10 seems to be going for overall robustness than a flashy design.
You do get the option to expand storage by up to GB using a microSD card. Then Tap on Battery saver optionThen select the percentage at which you want to trigger the battery saver in your phone and you are Done. Selfie Camera. The Galaxy M10 is a good looking phone that handles the basics very well. Information about cookies and how you can object to the use of cookies at any time or end their use can be found in our privacy policy. About Store Feedback on store Store's other listings. Payment options.
Continuing on to the ergonomics, the volume rocker and power buttons placed on the right side of the phone are easy to reach out to. The buttons have great feedback and do not have any unnecessary rattle, something many budget phones are guilty of. Along the button of the device is a Micro-USB port for charging. We understand the need to retain familiarity of components at this price point, but a UBS-C port would have definitely helped the phone stand out compared to competitors.
Next to the charging port is a headphone jack. The speaker grille on the other hand is at the back of the phone, so sound gets muffled if you are playing music with the phone kept down on a table. The back of the phone is where the design gets a bit more pedestrian. Read: Galaxy M10 and Galaxy M20 specs. The Galaxy M10 has a 6.
Clocking in at x pixels, the screen is definitely not the sharpest around and everything from images, videos to text looks just a bit too soft. That said, the display is very vibrant and generally looks quite pleasing.
Unfortunately, there is no granular control over color temperature and saturation levels. While the screen is perfectly visible indoors, you might want to turn off automatic brightness control when outdoors to crank up the display brightness to maximum. It is still not ideal, but pushing up the brightness manually goes a long way in getting over the highly reflective display. I also found myself reaching for the font settings under the display options.
By default, Samsung has opted for a really large font that reduces the amount of visible text in system apps. While it's vibrant, the screen is definitely not the sharpest around and everything from images, videos to text looks just a bit too soft. The biggest change is the teardrop notch on top. There is no software setting to hide the notch.
However, you get used to it very quickly and over the course of the review period, the notch was never an impediment in usage. The phone is powered by an Exynos Octa system-on-a-chip which is pretty ancient as far as chipsets go. The Exynos has eight Cortex A53 cores clocked at 1. The chipset was announced back in and as such is getting really long in the tooth.
On our 32GB variant , t here was about 22GB of storage free at first launch, but onboard storage can be expanded further. For the target demographic, this is definitely desirable, as many competitors have switched over to hybrid slots. With just 3GB of RAM, we had low expectations from the memory management, but the phone does decently well here. Switching between a game like PUBG, the browser, and the camera app was sluggish but manageable, and the phone held the game in memory while we went around taking photos and answering a call.
At the bottom, there is a 3. The Samsung Galaxy M10 sports a 6. It has an The display looks bright with good colour reproduction, text looks sharp and offers good viewing angle too. Having said that, the sunlight legibility becomes an issue and it is not up to the mark. Just like few Samsung phones, we came across quite a few mistouch in the Galaxy M10 especially while holding it. Having said that, it would be great if Samsung identifies different situations in which this can happen and tackle it.
Just like other notch phones, the Galaxy M10 has the option to hide the notch, and an option to select apps you want to use in full screen. In addition to it, there is a Blue light filter that is said to reduce eye strain by limiting the amount of blue light emitted by the screen, but the option to schedule Blue light filter is not available. Coming to the image quality, daylight images are good, macro shots are fine, but it is hard to focus and the HDR shots were better. Live focus is not the best in detecting the edges and same goes with Low-light outputs as well.
Images with flash are good even in close-ups and are not overpowering. The 5MP selfie camera is above average when compared to other devices at this price range, but not good enough in general and for social media shares. Coming to the software, the phone runs on Android 8. Samsung has not announced when the phone will get Android Pie update. On the top of Oreo, it has Samsung Experience version 9.
Other than the familiar features that we had seen in the Samsung Experience UX, this has new lock screen stories powered by glace which shows news along with an image before you unlock the phone. You can choose from 19 categories, with daily digest being the default.
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