Samsung Galaxy Note10 Lite smartphone review

The Korean brand Samsung is an excellent example of how a reputation that has been built up with blood and sweat makes people around the world spend a lot of money for a high-quality and stylish device in their hands.

To a large extent, this statement applies to the Galaxy Note line, famous for real giants among flagships with characteristics twisted to the maximum. The price of such a pleasant device is far from budget. It is not uncommon for users to shell out up to $ 1000 as for the latest Apple products. However, for the winter holidays, Samsung decided to amuse loyal fans with the modern Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Lite smartphone, which was distinguished by an especially low price for its unmatched quality.

Let's find out together what flaws the novelty conceals in itself and is the vaunted line worth its money?

Tour of Samsung factories

Having expressed a desire to buy a smartphone, we do not hesitate to go 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 us, at least for a moment, plunge into the world of ordinary workers at the Samsung factory and try to understand what it is like to be at the origin of world-class devices.

The life of the Chinese and Korean workers, however, is not easy. They spend most of the day on their feet, without the opportunity to sit down (these are the rules). In a huge building, they work in one of more than 20 sections, where they manually inspect the cameras, speaker, screen and more. And that's not counting the lengthy planning process, the design creation (although we don't see much of a difference), as well as the selection of materials so that the cherished novelty could find buyers of various categories.

The most fortunate were the employees of the phone durability testing department. Gadgets are thrown against the wall, beaten with a hammer and overloaded to overload, 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 championship in sponsoring new technologies, annually donating millions of dollars so that the best filling gets into its devices first of all.

Appearance

As we said earlier, design is paramount in judging 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 "bangs" significantly affect sales worldwide.

Designers, through long disputes and research, at the end of December 2019 came to the conclusion that the flagship with an unreal 6.7-inch screen, almost like the Note + version, will receive a not quite 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, and weighs 200 grams. Recall that the recently released Samsung Xcover Pro armored smartphone weighed 20 grams less. We hope that the advantage was created by high-quality microcircuits, and not useless metal.

It is 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 personally make sure that the manufacturer has allowed himself to cheat. The back panel consists of glossy plastic (or as they like to call it - "plastic"), which is carefully disguised under tempered glass. First of all, this speaks of 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 cover.

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's worth noting that opinions were divided about the camera. Some consider the decision to be successful, while others consider it a real ugliness, but which side are you on?

The king from the world of technology also distinguished himself by his intelligence. In recent years, it has become very popular to try on the title of "frameless screen" 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 in any way. The flagship, from a small front-facing camera nestled freely in the center of the display, to the speaker connector at the very bottom, consists of a sensitive screen covering 86% of the total area.

It differs from the basic version not only by the "Lite" prefix, but also by a number of modifications. For example, in an ordinary release, the sound is reproduced directly from the screen, in this version the expensive technology is replaced with a 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 bundle 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 was presented in three colors at once: white, black and red. Moreover, each one looks special.

Specifications

Screen

It would no longer be Samsung without a huge screen with a Super Amoled matrix at its core. 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 a budget IPS matrix. By the way, she also does not take up 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.

The 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 function. Now you don't 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 you can only get used to it. The same goes for the harmful PWM effect, which comes as a bonus to an expensive matrix.

Filling

The smartphone works with the support of the operating system - Android 10. The latest modifications, neural networks, 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 a 25% increase in productivity.
Inside the novelty, the author's production technology is a 10-nanometer Exynos 9810 chip.

Play videos in 4K or 3D games like Call Of Duty / Pubg 9, it is helped by 8 powerful cores divided into two clusters. In the first, the clock speed reaches 2.7 GHz, and in the second 1.7 GHz. Of course, Samsung's technologies are still far from Qualcomm, but with everyday use with social networks, light applications and other problems, there are no problems 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 failures 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 functions

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

Finally, let's talk about an unusual feature 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 surging of inspiration, need to immediately sketch an idea. The same applies to media figures, whom the profession forces to keep a pen and a notebook always at hand.

Camera and its capabilities

It's time to evaluate the capabilities of the phone in the art of shooting and photography.
The main camera consists of three modules. The main one gives out 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 flares, however, from the positive qualities, there is an optical zoom of 27 mm, which is useful when creating a truly wide-angle photo. This feature will be more useful than ever when traveling, to capture especially beautiful views with the help of a panorama!

The second module produces 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, even now, smartphone cameras can 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 for macro photography.

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

Advantages and disadvantages

• Large screen;
• Luxury matrix;
• Powerful processor;
• Quality cameras;
• Beautiful design;
• The presence of a stylus;
• Large amount of memory (6 or 8 GB of RAM);
• A truly bezel-less screen;
• Transferring OS Android 10.

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

Where and for what price to buy

The announcement of new items will have to be at the end of January / beginning of February 2024. The estimated price for the model was $ 700 or 43,000 rubles. According to the assurance of the manufacturers, the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Lite will definitely reach the CIS market.