Samsung Galaxy Note10+

It’s the phone that does everything. It just might do even more than you actually need…

This is the first time that Samsung has released two Note phones at the same time. Given that size (and a stylus) has always been the Note range’s raison d’être, we wanted to dig into the plus version, with its whopping 6.8-inch screen.

In terms of ergonomics, it turns out be a rather unwieldy slab of glass and metal. Purely for feel, the smaller Note10 (6.3 inches) fits much better in the hand, feeling smaller than its size suggests, thanks to a compact body.

Of course, there are huge benefits to a bigger screen – from watching films and box sets on your morning commute, to reading ebooks on a flight, to getting immersed in a game. It also makes for a much larger canvas for handwritten notes using the S Pen, helping you see and annotate more of a PDF or webpage without constantly having to scroll, and means the phone functions as a bigger trackpad when using DeX, Samsung’s desktop experience.

The expansive 6.8-inch AMOLED display on the Note10+ will handle all of that brilliantly, but after some extensive usage, carrying around this smartphone every single day definitely leads to storage and transportation compromises – pocket-friendly it ain’t.

As you’d expect from Samsung’s technical leader, the Note10+ has a very formidable specs sheet that reads more like a laptop’s than a phone’s. Powering the device is a new Exynos 9825 chip (that delivers faster speeds) and greater power management than the impressive Exynos 9820 inside the Galaxy S10 series.

That state-of-the-art silicon is coupled with 12GB of RAM and a choice of either 256GB or 512GB of built-in storage. Unlike the smaller Note10, the Note10+ does include a microSD slot, which can be used to add up to 1TB of additional storage.