Is The Galaxy S10e The Best Galaxy S10?

Do you need an introduction again

I mean... No. They saw you before. It doesn't matter. Can you just say your name to the camera, please

My name is David. Whoa! Is that gonna work? Whoa! Is that gonna work? David

Well, what's your name on YouTube? Dave Lee. Oh. That's my actual name

My channel name is different. Which is? Dave2D. There it is. He came to help us break down all the happenings

in the realm of Samsung, specifically the Galaxy S10. So much is happening

This is by far the best phone we've seen from Samsung for quite a few years

Wow, so you work for Samsung then. That's why I'm here, right

That's right. Samsung phones for like three generations, three full years, we've been like

yeah, they're pretty good. Right. And we've never seen something that felt genuinely fresh

The whole punch. it gives you the impression of an all new product

It says to you, I'm not an old Galaxy, I'm a new one

I'm a new one. I've been using this for like a day now. Every time I pick up my old phone, the iPhone

it feels so old, like just the bezel, the notch. It's substantial

I didn't think it would be that big of a difference. You said it, you're saying the XS, it feels old now

It feels old. You're saying it's absolutely garbage. Switching from a notch to this phone doesn feel like a huge difference at first but coming back to a notch it feels like wow there was a lot of bezel I was looking at a lot of black stuff around the screen A lot of notch That attached to novelty in general The new thing

it just feels refreshing. You know, has your life improved with the whole punch versus the notch

I would say no. Realistically, like this is, like you're saying, it's an aesthetic that looks nice

You can't deny, man, a good look. No, that's how you get your foot in the door

It's got a sort of aura around it. It feels like a new smartphone. It feels like a new development

They did it with a hole punch, kind of a weird approach, but they achieved it nonetheless

Of course, the spec list, we know about it. It's premium all the way through. It's going to have a price tag to match

So that brings me to what I want to talk about next. Okay. Samsung, for the first time, they have like a budget 10E, S10E

I think this might be the winner, man, of the three. All the good stuff with a significantly cheaper price tag

This is $750. They followed in the footsteps of the iPhone XR

But unlike the iPhone XR, this unit is going to keep the AMOLED display

instead of shifting to LCD like Apple did. I think that's important

It's huge. Who's buying a XR over this? I agree with you

Okay. This phone, great value. Okay. This phone, all the good bits

Battery does get smaller though. That is one thing that has kind of changed or is different from Apple approach Their best battery performer is their budget model which is bizarre I like the idea that Samsung Apple and others are thinking of moving down market

because there's so much action. They have to. There's so much action happening. That's where, that's the place to be

It's the place to be. I feel like they haven't gone far enough. It should be cheaper

Not this exact phone. You go here for 150 more. We have some major players at the $500, $600 price point

In this particular case, they give you an amazing package. So I'm not saying that you got to get this package for $5,600

But I would be interested to see what you could get in a Galaxy package at that price point

especially considering these are already so close. Honestly, if somebody comes up to you and asks you, they say

I need to get a new smartphone. I'm going to keep it for two years. Okay. Maybe I'm going to keep it for three years

I'm a regular human right now. Okay. Right? Are you going to..

You're telling them to save $100 for this? Yeah, they're going to say, they're going to say, that's $150 over the three years I'm going to own it

Should I really save a few bucks and get that one? Or should I get the triple camera setup and the bigger battery associated with the full-fledged S10

It's a tough conversation. If you have access to a particular budget, you're locked in at that budget

You can't stretch it, like $100, $150 is substantial when it comes to, right

So I feel like that's the market they're hitting. And the thing is, they're smart. The feature set on this thing is they done it just right Like you want a little bit more but it like this is gonna work If I was to make a choice I get the S10 over the S10 Plus for a myriad of reasons

But if I had to choose between the two, like the S10 and this, and say they were the same price

and they were actually the same price, there's a part of me that would actually go for this

It looks cool, that thinness, that like tapering and whatever, but when you just, if you had to hold an object in your hand

this just feels better in your hand. I hear you, man. Maybe this is gonna be a big seller

I'm not really sure. I don't think a lot of people are gonna miss the lack of the telephoto, but I think there will be a subset of people

that just wanna have the higher end device, the premium device. I could see this being slightly more offensive

strictly from an aesthetic perspective when compared to the circle. So that may sway some people

to the smaller sized unit as well. Still not representing, in my opinion

the best value in the smartphone marketplace. No, of course not. But if you wanna play in the premium territory

You can now get there for less than you have in the past, or at least you currently are

At $750, USD, S10e. You're saying it's a go. You're saying you're buying this

You're saying you're using this. Yep, I'd recommend this. You're saying this is your next device

You're saying your SIM card is going into that smartphone. This one or the 10

Haven't decided yet. But it's going to be one of the two. Okay. Very interesting

Interesting times to be alive in the smartphone universe that we currently occupy

S10. We'll be back