Samsung Unveils New Flagship Galaxy Note 10 and Galaxy Note 10+ [Update: Hands-On Added]

[realtuner]

Plus the modern Apple ecosystem is just needlessly tying products together to make failures more costly. iPhone breaks and it also takes out your Apple Watch and Apple Card.

Straight up lies. I use my Apple Watch all the time without my iPhone. Continuity allows me to work on multiple devices without missing anything (like messages). Apple Card works on its own just like any other credit card. Seriously, where do you come up with this BS?

Samsung/Microsoft are just scrambling now to try and cobble together an “ecosystem” that can match Apple and failing miserably.



As to the Note 10? Meh.

It looks good, that’s it. A bunch of features nobody will use, still running garbage Android with Fisher Price Apps, nothing to use the power of the processor (which is still way behind Apple’s A Series) and developers STILL won’t bother with adapting Apps to specific hardware (like the DepthVision camera).

 

[heov]

i wish there was a dislike button. It made samsung look like hypocrites
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still has a chin, disgusting

Samsung is a multinational company.

They were always going to copy Apple several years down the track. After-all.... Samsung...

^this person gets it.

 

[Khedron]

Come on man. Surely you have more to do than needlessly bash anything Apple on an Apple enthusiast website?? What you’ve described above is patently false on any account. Your watch doesn’t just stop working, particularly if it’s a newer gen.

List of functionality without iPhone: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205547

Summary: full functionality needs an iPhone (not just any phone, or even iPad)
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Straight up lies. I use my Apple Watch all the time without my iPhone. Continuity allows me to work on multiple devices without missing anything (like messages). Apple Card works on its own just like any other credit card. Seriously, where do you come up with this BS?

Samsung/Microsoft are just scrambling now to try and cobble together an “ecosystem” that can match Apple and failing miserably.



As to the Note 10? Meh.

It looks good, that’s it. A bunch of features nobody will use, still running garbage Android with Fisher Price Apps, nothing to use the power of the processor (which is still way behind Apple’s A Series) and developers STILL won’t bother with adapting Apps to specific hardware (like the DepthVision camera).

Apple Card does not work like any other card. Use the physical card and you don't get the full bonuses. iPhone/iPad is required to use your account (no Android app unlike pretty much every other bank).

 

[ilikewhey]

I dont remember apple making commercials mocking another phone for that though? If then did then yes, it would be funny too. Users mocked it, i just dont remember apple doing so

apple mocked windows in their commercial for a really long time,

 

[realtuner]

List of functionality without iPhone: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205547

Summary: full functionality needs an iPhone (not just any phone)
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Apple Card does not work like any other card. Use the physical card and you don't get the full bonuses. iPhone/iPad is required to use your account (no Android app unlike pretty much every other bank).

Your original post is still a lie. Now you’re trying to “qualify” what you meant. Like you always do after one of your factually incorrect Apple rants.

 

[blairh]

What reason is that exactly?

Right or left doesn't matter... can I reach it? That's what matters.

You won't be able to comfortably reach it with your right hand.

 

[ipedro]

Samsung finally caught up and admits that their flagship phones won’t have a headphone jack. So yes, it did take courage for Apple to lead the way and do something controversial that every other phone manufacturer has followed in Apple’s footsteps to do.

Dropping an old standard was necessary to move new standards forward, in this case the wildly popular AirPods that followed and the wireless earphone industry that flourished as a result. Apple did it when they dropped the floppy drive and they did it again when they were the first to adopt USB and drop serial/parallel ports.

To everyone who flames Apple for saying that it took courage to lead the way, Samsung finally giving in after years of criticizing Apple, shows that they were right and taking those punches and your continued criticism only proves the point that they were right.

We told you so.

 

[ilikewhey]

Samsung finally caught up and admits that their flagship phones won’t have a headphone jack. So yes, it did take courage for Apple to lead the way and do something controversial that every other phone manufacturer has followed in Apple’s footsteps to do.

Dropping an old standard was necessary to move new standards forward, in this case the wildly popular AirPods that followed and the wireless earphone industry that flourished as a result. Apple did it when they dropped the floppy drive and they did it again when they were the first to adopt USB and drop serial/parallel ports.

To everyone who flames Apple for saying that it took courage to lead the way, Samsung finally giving in after years of criticizing Apple, shows that they were right and taking those punches and your continued criticism only proves the point that they were right.

We told you so.

is it also courage to go the butterfly keyboard route too? apple is just like other companies, they throw ideas against the wall and see what sticks.

 

[Blaze4G]

A whole month before the much rumored 6+. Like Samsung came out with the Samsung Watch first, after they heard that Apple was coming out with it.

Knew I would have caught an Apple fan with blinders on that defend Apple at all cost. The Galaxy S plus was released in June 2010. Over 4 years before Apple started using the Plus in their iPhone names. I guess Samsung heard about the iPhone 6 Plus 4 years before it was announced and decided to copy right?

Samsung came out with their first smart watch over 1 year before Apple. But yeah Samsung copied Apple lmao what a joke.

 

[alleggerita]

Oh...so now the 6.3” Note 10 is going back to a 1080p display. Is that a silent admission that 1440p is really quite an overkill.

 

[falainber]

Samsung finally caught up and admits that their flagship phones won’t have a headphone jack. So yes, it did take courage for Apple to lead the way and do something controversial that every other phone manufacturer has followed in Apple’s footsteps to do.

Dropping an old standard was necessary to move new standards forward, in this case the wildly popular AirPods that followed and the wireless earphone industry that flourished as a result. Apple did it when they dropped the floppy drive and they did it again when they were the first to adopt USB and drop serial/parallel ports.

To everyone who flames Apple for saying that it took courage to lead the way, Samsung finally giving in after years of criticizing Apple, shows that they were right and taking those punches and your continued criticism only proves the point that they were right.

We told you so.

As far as 3.5 jack is concerned, there is no right or wrong solution. It's a compromise. It let Samsung to increase battery capacity by 100mAh. Some people will prefer it, many won't. Let's not pretend like Apple innovated here, they just removed a very useful feature.

 

[AppleTO]

The speedy processors are nice but wow... 8GB and 12GB of RAM in a phone. Why do you need so much? On the other hand, if Chrome is an example of how Android memory management works, this makes more sense.

 

[Jedwardoo]

they diss apple for removing the headphones jack and now they did, fools

They did a Google. Which was expected.

 

[falainber]

Oh...so now the 6.3” Note 10 is going back to a 1080p display. Is that a silent admission that 1440p is really quite an overkill.

It is not. Note 10 has smaller display than Note 9. They kept (and even increased) the resolution for Note 10+ (3040×1440). They also offer premium features for premium price so that those who want, say, S-pen but do not need super high resolution can get what they need for less.
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The speedy processors are nice but wow... 8GB and 12GB of RAM in a phone. Why do you need so much? On the other hand, if Chrome is an example of how Android memory management works, this makes more sense.

One reason might be Dex. Note owners can run multiple apps simultaneously using a computer display. It's a desktop-like experience and it requires more RAM.

 

[Jedwardoo]

Wow raise the price for 5G?

Yup, and buying the 5G with some areas lacking the infrastructure. Enjoy early adopters.

 

[P-DogNC]

If Samsung has rushed these devices in the same way they rushed the Note 7 out the door to beat the iPhone 7 in 2016, maybe they will explode spontaneously as well. Ahhh...maybe Samsung only rushed the Note 10 in the same way they rushed the Fold. In that case, these devices will simply fail in the hands of reviewers. In either case, Samsung has the same litany of gimmicky features (like monkeys blindly hurling their poop against the wall to see what “sticks”) that will be hardly remembered in a year or two.

 

[Heineken]

That will be Apples Achilles heal. Who wants to handcuffed to a single point of failure. We all know Apple products aren’t what they used to be, “it just works” is only a distant memory.

You got to be kidding me. My iPhone X is being replaced after falling down the stairs and I have to use a replacement S9 which is as far from my iPhone experience as I am from Olympic medal. Just stop joking.

 

[Jedwardoo]

Did you hold Apple to the same namecalling standard when they finally relented and released "phablet" phones or in the future when they may announce stylus support on the iPhone?

Whatever happens, competition is always welcome and is always great to push these big companies to make their products compelling for us "consumers" to buy.

 

[Jedwardoo]

Really foolish to put the power button on the left side. Most people are right handed.

It's a 2 in 1 button now, if you hold it no matter how long, it brings our favourite Bixby! Lol.

 

[cinnabun814]

Yeah...right. Someone who supposedly owns a Macbook Pro 15, iPhone XS Max 256, Apple Watch, Apple TV4K, Airpods and a 12.9" iPad Pro, and you were thinking of going Android? In the immortal words of Vizzini -- "Inconceivable!"

I kid you not! I was strongly considering going with the Galaxy S10 5G even though 5G will take a long long time to be widespread for the screen size, or the Note 9, or the now announced Note 10 but decided against it because how ingrained I am in apple's ecosystem.

 

[Jedwardoo]

Only place I see ads these days is on my iPad (anyone recommend a good blocker?)

What app do you see ads on your iPad? I never had that on mine. :O

 

[1050792]

Samsung never said the headphone jack was a forever solution. All they said was Apple removed it prematurely and that at the time it was bad for customers. I agree with that considering there were few quality wireless earbuds on the market at that time and the good ones were very expensive. Samsung has now has had two generations of phones that came with free wireless earbuds and quality wireless is not affordable to everyone. 2019/2020 is the right time.

Why is it now the right time? Because Apple was the first making the move in order for all other companies starting to adapt Wireless Headphone technology...

 

[Daum]

Beautiful phone but I wish the front camera was on the upper right instead of centered.

 

[Jedwardoo]

This looks really nice and outclasses Apple pretty much everywhere but OS.

If somehow this could run iOS I’m guessing most would pick this over apples dated hardware. Besides Face ID does Apple do anything better than this?

How is Apple's iPhone hardware dated? They still have not beaten Apples A series chips, the RAM management is way better than the insane amount of RAM on Samsung phones need to run smooth. I'm confused here.
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Sony did it first with the xperia xz2 in 2017.

It's so sad Sony gets to be forgotten. I remember when Sony started pushing water proof xperia series and then other OEM followed suit after 2 years.

 

[1050792]

How is Apple's iPhone hardware dated? They still have not beaten Apples A series chips, the RAM management is way better than the insane amount of RAM on Samsung phones need to run smooth. I'm confused here.
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It's so sad Sony gets to be forgotten. I remember when Sony started pushing water proof xperia series and then other OEM followed suit after 2 years.

The chip makes no difference at all in real world performance. The Note 9 beat the XS Max in Ram management.