Samsung Announces The Galaxy S10: 10th Anniversary Trio

[harlan4096]

It’s hard to believe, but it’s actually been 10 years now since Samsung released the first iteration of the Galaxy line of phones. The Galaxy S started a wave of success for Samsung that continued on in its various iterations over the years.

Today, in a slight change of pace, Samsung is holding the launch event of the new Galaxy S10 out in San Franciso – a few days earlier than the usual Barcelona/MWC unveiling.

The Galaxy S10 represents a new design iteration for Samsung, updating the “characteristic” look that the company tends to maintain for two generations. This year, Samsung does not only change venue as well as its product design, it also mixes up the traditional model line-up with the introduction of a new lower-end Galaxy S10 model.
Today’s announcement covers the new Galaxy S10e, the Galaxy S10 and the Galaxy S10+, representing a trio of devices celebrating the 10 year anniversary of Samsung’s flagship line-up.

As is tradition, the easiest way to talk about what’s announced today is to present the specification sheets of the three models and dive into the differentiation factors between the different models:

At The Heart of a Phone

At the heart of all Galaxy S10 variants, we find brand new generation SoCs, driving the core features of the new phones: The Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 and the new Samsung S.LSI Exynos 9820.

The SoC determines not only the performance of a phone, but also dictates features such as the camera specification (camera count, resolution, and recording quality). Most importantly, power efficiency is the one metric which can be immensely impacted by a SoC. Being such an important component, it’s still very odd to see Samsung Electronics insist its tradition of dual-sourcing this part from multiple vendors.

Users in the Americas, including the US, China, and Japan will be seeing the new Galaxy S10 phones powered by Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 855 SoC. We’ve had the pleasure and opportunity to cover the new chipset in quite a lot of detail, including a full performance preview of the new silicon. The new Qualcomm chip sports new generation CPUs derived from Arm’s Cortex A76 CPUs – one at a maximum frequency of 2.84GHz with three further cores at 2.42GHz. Alongside the performance cores, we again see four Cortex A55 derived cores at 1.8GHz serving as the efficient workhorses of the system.

Full reading: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13960/sam...rsary-trio

[dhruv2193]

I think s10 models will provide a tougher competition to iphone than in the past because of more variants.