We were definitely impressed with the stereo speakers on the Galaxy S10. No smartphone is going to be able to compete with a Sonos speaker or Apple HomePod for filling a room with high-fidelity audio, but the S10 is perfectly fine for the odd tune, regular podcast listening, and movie dialog – even at high volumes. May 2019: Apparently, the Samsung Galaxy S10 (and the Galaxy S10 Plus) will become available in a 'Cardinal Red' finish. Sammobile has discovered renders of the new handset but notes that it is unclear when this new colour will go on sale and in which markets it will be available. If this new colour finish does become available, it will bring the number of colours up to 10. That's a decent-sized battery, but the S10 has a bright, big, high-resolution screen, which takes its toll on battery life. In our standard battery test – an hour of Netflix on maximum brightness and 50 percent volume – the S10 dropped from 100 percent to 87 percent.

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From tourist shots of ancient architecture and towering skyscrapers, the 0.5x zoom means you won't have to keep retreating away from the subject to get the ideal shot, and the 2x optical zoom is likely to be popular with those who take photos at concerts and want to give the impression they were in the front row, whilst simultaneously avoiding the squeeze. In both cases, photo quality seems to be retained very well. It's actually a breeze to set up and worked well in our tests, though it's not quite as responsive as the fingerprint sensors we're all used to – that goes for speed as well as reliability. As with its predecessors, the Galaxy S10 is capable of taking some really nice smartphone shots, rich in colour and contrast, and well balanced in terms of darker and lighter areas. A scene needs to get seriously underlit before the rear camera on the S10 starts to struggle, and even then you can often come away with something usable. Embedded within the screen is an ultrasonic fingerprint scanner, which enables a clean design on the rear of the Galaxy S10 5G – slight camera bump aside. Ultrasonic scanners, as introduced on the Honor 10, work when wet, and we’re pleased to report we found the S10 5Gs works a treat, wet or dry.

For the 10th anniversary of its iconic Galaxy S smartphone range, Samsung has added some genuinely useful improvements and refined just about everything on its flagship phone. It's easily the best smartphone that Samsung has ever built, and is going to take some beating in 2019. This is smaller and cheaper than the Galaxy S10 Plus, and larger and more expensive than the Galaxy S10e– so does that mean it hits the perfect sweet spot of power and price? Or does it fall awkwardly between the other two options in the range?

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Bear in mind that we were testing a brand new phone, so battery life is likely to degrade over time. The bottom line is that despite the increase in battery capacity over the Galaxy S9, you're not going to be able to change your charging habits with this. It's not quite the best take on Android we've ever seen ( hello OnePlus), and it won't necessarily get updates as fast as other handsets ( hello Pixels), but it's an improvement over Samsung's previous attempts to build on top of Google's source code.We loaded up as many different apps as we could and played a few laps of Asphalt 8, and the Samsung Galaxy S10 coped without breaking a sweat (or a hint of extra heat). Android phones can have a problem with lag, but we wouldn't expect the Galaxy S10 to be one of them, even after a few years of use.