Review of the smartphone Samsung Galaxy Note10 Lite

The Korean brand Samsung is a perfect example of how blood and sweat earned reputation makes people all over the world cost a lot of money for a high-quality and stylish device in their hands.

For the most part, this statement applies to the Galaxy Note line, which is famous for being real giants among flagships with features that are twisted to the maximum. The price of such a pleasant device is far from budgetary. It is not uncommon for users to shell out up to $1,000 for the latest Apple products. However, for the winter holidays, Samsung decided to amuse loyal fans with a modern smartphone Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Lite, distinguished by a particularly low price for unparalleled quality.

Let's find out together what the new product hides for its shortcomings and is the vaunted line worth the money?

Samsung factory tour

Having expressed a desire to buy a smartphone, we follow without hesitation to the nearest hardware store. Often this happens so spontaneously that many do not even look at the approximate characteristics of a future purchase. What can we say about the production itself, to which attention is not paid at all.

That is why, before moving on to a full review of the Galaxy Note 10 Lite, let's plunge into the world of ordinary Samsung factory workers for a moment and try to understand what it is like to stand at the origins of creating world-class devices.

The life of Chinese and Korean workers, however, is not easy. They spend almost the whole day on their feet, without the opportunity to sit down (those are the rules). In the huge building, they work in one of over 20 sections, where they manually inspect the cameras, speaker, screen, and more. And this is not counting the long process of planning, creating a design (although we do not see much difference), as well as selecting materials so that the cherished novelty can find buyers of various categories.

The most fortunate employees of the department for checking phones for durability. Gadgets are thrown against the wall, beaten with a hammer and overloaded to failure, if only a fighter ready for all the vicissitudes of fate falls into our hands.

According to estimates for 2019, more than 10 thousand employees of only one (!) Plant and about the same number of PR managers, engineers and designers were involved in production. At the same time, Samsung holds the lead in sponsoring new technologies, deducting millions of dollars annually, so that the best filling gets into its devices in the first place.

Appearance

As we said earlier, design plays a paramount role in assessing the popularity of a smartphone.Despite the fact that the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Lite is not much different from its Chinese counterparts, even the screen size or the presence of a “notch” significantly affect sales around the world.

Designers, through long debates and research, at the end of December 2019 came to the conclusion that the flagship with an unrealistic 6.7-inch screen, almost like the Note + version, will receive a non-standard form. The fashion for pointed corners and a pronounced rectangle shape left us back in 2015, but, as you know, it tends to return.

The dimensions of the phone are impressive - 163.7 x 76.1 x 8.7 mm, with a weight of 200 grams. Recall that also the recently released armored smartphone manufactured by Samsung Xcover Pro weighed 20 grams less. We hope that the advantage was created by high-quality microcircuits, and not by useless metal.

It's impossible not to fall in love with the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Lite at first sight. Its appearance meets all the criteria of the premium segment, but only until you see for yourself that the manufacturer has allowed himself to cheat. The back panel consists of glossy plastic (or as they like to call it - "glastic"), which is carefully disguised as tempered glass. First of all, this indicates increased soiling and instability to damage.

It will not be difficult to drop such a two-hundred-gram brick, so we strongly advise you to take care of purchasing a case.

The design, meanwhile, is not overloaded with anything, Everything is in the best traditions of Samsung: a small logo at the bottom and a square block of four cameras in the upper left corner. It is worth noting that opinions about the camera are divided. Some consider the decision successful, while others consider it a real ugliness, but which side are you on?

The king also distinguished himself from the world of technology by his comprehension.In recent years, it has become very popular to try on the title of “frameless screen” for every second smartphone, even if it is decorated with a massive “bangs” and “chin” with touch buttons. However, this trend did not affect the guest of our review. The flagship, from the small front camera, which sits comfortably in the center of the display, to the speaker connector at the very bottom, consists of a sensitive screen for 86% of the total area.

It is distinguished from the main version not only by the prefix "Lite", but also by a number of modifications. For example, in the regular release the sound is played directly from the screen, in this version the expensive technology is replaced by the good old connector. There is no protection against moisture, and we will get acquainted with controlling a smartphone in the air with a pen in another section of our review.

Equipment

The complete set of smartphones is almost always the same, except that a silicone case has been added to the standard certificates, coupons, a charger with an adapter and cords.
The model is presented in three colors at once: white, black and red. Each one looks different though.

Characteristics

Screen

It wouldn't be a Samsung without a huge screen with a Super Amoled matrix at the base. It's good that the company does not change itself in this and when creating the Galaxy Note 10 Lite.

This technology is characterized by a richer picture than the budget IPS matrix. By the way, she also does not hold brightness. A huge number of tests give us a clear sense of what such a screen is capable of in sunny or cloudy weather. Surprisingly, even the large 6.7-inch display did not create an error.

Image resolution is 1080 x 2400 pixels with a ratio of ~394 ppi. The combination of the latest technologies transparently hints to us that the phone is definitely a luxury segment, despite the "Lite" in the name.

Another nice addition is the Always-on-display feature. Now you do not need to unlock your phone every time to see the time. Perhaps this is due to a significant flaw. The animation freezes significantly due to the optical fingerprint unlock, and it can only take some getting used to. The same applies to the harmful PWM effect, which comes as a bonus to an expensive matrix.

Filling

The smartphone is supported by the operating system - Android 10. The latest modifications, neural networks, a prediction system and aesthetic icon design create an excellent basis for a nimble gaming phone.It comes with the author's One UI 2 shell, which helps to optimize the system from garbage and background processes that waste the battery. This tandem promises us a 25% increase in productivity.
Inside the novelty is the author's production technology - a 10-nanometer Exynos 9810 chip.

To play videos in 4K or 3D games like Call Of Duty/Pubg 9, it is assisted by 8 powerful cores divided into two clusters. In the first clock frequency reaches 2.7 GHz, and in the second 1.7 GHz. Of course, Samsung technology is still far from Qualcomm, but in everyday use with social networks, light applications and other problems do not arise at all. In addition to the fast chip, the Mali-G72 MP18 video processor is attached, thanks to which games are displayed without bugs and crashes at ultra settings.

Geek Bench Single 4 Core:

• Apple A10 - 4009 points
• Exynos 9810 - 3734 points
• Snapdragon 845 - 2718 points

(Only single-core characteristics were taken into account).

Autonomy and additional features

To great joy, the brand has become generous with a capacious 4500 mAh Li-Po battery. With such values, the flagship will be able to work in economy mode without recharging for up to 3 days, but when using mobile Internet, this figure will be reduced to one day. Here, Samsung also found an ingenious way out of the stalemate, supplementing the battery with a fast charging function (the exact values ​​\u200b\u200bare not yet known).

Finally, let's talk about an unusual feature that is unique to the Galaxy Note 10 models, and this is the S-Pen. Experts believe that this technology, in tandem with a large screen, will be extremely popular among designers who, from a sudden rush of inspiration, need to immediately sketch the idea.The same applies to media figures who are forced by their profession to keep a pen and notepad always at hand.

Camera and its features

It's time to appreciate the capabilities of the phone in the art of shooting and photographing.
The main camera consists of three modules. The main one produces a quality of 25 megapixels, with an average aperture of f / 1.7. Its power is unlikely to be enough for a high-quality night photo without noise and flash light, however, on the positive side, there is an optical zoom of 27 mm, useful when creating a truly widescreen photo. This feature will be more than ever useful when traveling to capture especially beautiful views with the help of a panorama!

The second module delivers 12-megapixel quality, with support for f / 2.4 aperture and 52 mm optical zoom. There are similar characteristics in other Samsung models. Probably, the developers added a lens to diversify the choice of tricks.

Yes, smartphone cameras can already be configured as a professional smartphone and Samsung Galaxy Lite is one of them!

The last module also received 12 megapixels, but with an optical zoom of 13 mm. Just right for macro photography.

The front camera received 32 megapixels, bypassing the rest of the lenses in quality. Photos are bright, especially in sunny weather. As for the Russian autumn, you will have to work on the post-editing of the image. Meanwhile, colors are rendered realistically. See for yourself!

Advantages and disadvantages

• Big screen;
• Luxury Matrix;
• Productive processor;
• Quality cameras;
• Beautiful design;
• The presence of a stylus;
• Large amount of memory (6 or 8 GB of RAM);
• Truly frameless screen;
• Passing Android 10 OS.

• Disguised plastic;
• Crashes when unlocking;
• Heats up during gameplay;
• High price;
• PWM effect.

Where and for what price to buy

The announcement of the novelty will take place at the end of January/beginning of February 2020. The estimated price for the model was $700 or 43,000 rubles. According to manufacturers, Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Lite will definitely reach the CIS market.