Samsung Galaxy S10 5G Single-SIM 256 GB 6.7-Inch Android Smartphone UK Version Silver (Renewed)

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And, of course, we have 5G coming around the corner. The upcoming Galaxy S10 5G will be an early adopter phone with limited network support. But next year's Galaxy S11 will likely be based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 865, a 5G integrated chipset with support for both high-speed and broad-coverage 5G networks. That's the kind of shift that happens once every decade, not every year. Despite these newer handsets, the S10 Plus is best Samsung phone, if you can handle the price and size. However, EE's 5G coverage does not reach all areas of every city. We've tested it out in London, and found that it's not consistent. In areas where 5G is available though, we're consistently getting speeds of around 200Mbps (versus around 15-20Mbps on 4G devices). Fingerprint (under display, ultrasonic), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer, heart rate, SpO2

As far as I could tell, the 3D depth-sensing unit doesn’t seem to add much. Its implementations are few and far between at the moment – you can use the AR feature to help measure certain items in the real world, but that’s about it. Portrait pictures between both phones looked pretty much identical, too. The result is...just about as good as the Galaxy S9+. And that's good —the Galaxy S9 has an excellent camera. In good light, it's pretty much impeccable; in good light, all of the flagship phone cameras are pretty much impeccable nowadays. I took several comparative photos between the GS9+ and GS10+, and I really struggled to find any difference between the images in good, natural light. The Galaxy S10+ is the first US phone with an under-display, ultrasonic fingerprint sensor. It's more accurate than the OnePlus 6T's optical sensor. With a dry finger, if you hit the screen at the right spot, I found it to be 100 percent accurate in testing. But that's the thing —you have to hit the screen at the exact right spot. Hitting it off-center results in rejected touches. There's no visual guideline to do so when the screen is off, and no physical guide (like the ridge of a physical sensor) at all. The sensor is less accurate with a wet finger, and not usable at all with a dirty or goopy finger. For more on this, see my separate story on testing the fingerprint sensor. Samsung's One UI over Android 9 defaults to giant, bubble-like icons on a four-by-five grid, which looks like it's been left in "easy mode." There are a lot of good options here for folks who like their icons or fonts large: You can use big icons, increase the font sizes, or zoom everything. But Android experts who want a grid tighter than five-by-six, especially on a screen this large, will have to go to an alternative launcher.

The best 5G phone around, but still a hard sell

Predictably, the results are fantastic. Colour rendition is practically perfect and the cameras manage to strike the right balance of noise suppression and detail capture. Video is also top-notch with buttery-smooth 4K resolution capture at 60fps.

Its octacore chips are paired with 8GB of RAM (12GB in the Ultimate Performance Edition) to provide plenty of grunt. In fact, with a Geekbench multi-score of 11,002, it's the fastest Android phone we've ever tested, though the Exynos chip scored a slightly lower 10,385 and the camera app seems a tad slower. It's roughly the dimensions of the S9 Plus and feels better in-hand than the physically bigger Note 9, which has a 83.4% screen-to-body ratio.It's surprisingly easy to hold in the hand for a ‘Plus’-sized handset, though those with smaller palms will find the glass-and-metal finish offers little in the way of grip. We found ourselves using two hands, especially to type, and suggest a case before walking out of the store with this one. We got our hands on the OnePlus 7 Pro 5G on launch day and have been testing out the speed of EE's shiny new network. Sold? To complicate your buying decision, the Galaxy S10 5G is an even bigger and better S10 phone, the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus is even more premium as a Samsung smartphone, and if you've got all the money in the world, the foldable Samsung Galaxy Fold is also available to buy – to say nothing of the S20 line and its incremental imrpovements. My real struggle here is between our labs-based testing and actually judging whether you should spend this much money on this device. Test-wise, everything works here. The Galaxy S10+ offers a top-of-the line, top-spec experience. I'm just torn on whether or not those specs matter enough to justify the price.Testing the display with a Klein K-80 colorimeter and SpectraCal's CalMAN and MobileForge software, we got slightly different results than DisplayMate Labs. In average, indoor light, with an image across 100 percent of the screen and the phone set to manual maximum brightness, we got a median brightness of 315 cd/m 2, the same as the Galaxy Note 9 and considerably lower than the Google Pixel 3 (400) or the Apple iPhone XR (556). But Galaxy phones' brightness go much higher in Adaptive mode than in manual mode, with the right stimulus: With Adaptive mode turned on and the phone moved close to a light, we got 435 cd/m 2, higher than the 403 cd/m 2 in Natural display mode that DisplayMate showed. The Galaxy S10+ has a 6.4-inch, 3,040-by-1,440-pixel Dynamic AMOLED screen that's been rated as the best smartphone display available by Ray Soneira at DisplayMate Labs. According to Soneira's comprehensive tests, the screen is amazingly bright, colorful, and power-efficient, delivering the best handheld experience possible. EE's 5G cities so far are: London, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Birmingham, Belfast, Manchester, Cardiff, Bath, Bristol, Chelmsford, Coventry, Leicester, Liverpool, Oxford, Plymouth, Glasgow, Hull, Leeds, Lichfield, Lisburn, Newcastle, Nottingham, Salford, Sheffield, Stirling Sunderland, Wakefield and Wolverhampton.