The Samsung Galaxy S10 is almost here and we’re amassing all of the rumors on one page.
Update:The Galaxy S10 might be able to wirelessly charge other devices. Plus, images of the Galaxy S10 E in yellow and white have leaked, and the S10 could be capable of shooting 4K footage with its front camera and have improved anti-shake on the rear.
We’re closing in on the Samsung Galaxy S10 release date, with the official Unpacked launch event happening this month in San Francisco, where we’ll be reporting on it live.
You don’t have to wait until the Samsung Galaxy S10 launch date of February 20, however. New Galaxy S10 leaks are spilling out almost daily now, and have potentially given us an early look at what we suspect Samsung’s smartphone for 2019 might look like.
The Samsung Galaxy S10 is shaping up to be a more significant upgrade compared to last year’s relatively incremental spec bump from the Galaxy S8 to the Galaxy S9. It’s enough of a tempt all of those holdouts who are waiting for the next big thing in order to upgrade their Samsung phone.
It’s rumored to have a fresh-looking all-screen display with less bezel at the top. Not only that, it may have ‘hole punch’ front-facing camera embedded in the screen’s top right corner.
We may also see Samsung adopt an in-screen fingerprint sensor and be the first to launch a phone with the Snapdragon 855 chipset (in the US variant, at least).
Of course, you may have a few more choices this time around. The Samsung Galaxy S10 is likely to be joined by the Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus and maybe even the Galaxy S10 Lite or S10 E, a ‘lite’ version of the new smartphone meant to take on the iPhone XR.
Seems like a lot all at once? We’re a month out there will be even more leaks to pour over. After all, the Galaxy S10 is Samsung’s 10th anniversary Android phone. It has been teasing a few surprises for us in February. Here’s what we know to date.
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The Samsung Galaxy S10 launch date is confirmed as Wednesday, February 20, meaning we’ll see the smartphone days before MWC 2019, which takes place from February 25-28.
Samsung itself has revealed the date, along with the time and location: the Galaxy S10 will be unveiled at 11am PT (2pm ET, 7pm GMT) at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco.
We’ve heard that date rumored before, so it doesn’t come as a complete surprise, though some other rumors put forward different dates.
Of course, that’s just when the S10 will be announced – it might not go on sale for another week or two. The main rumor there points to a March 8 sale date in South Korea. We’ve also now heard that it could land in Italy that day, while another source also talks of a March 8 street date, so this sounds like a global launch date.
That’s for the three main models (the S10, S10 Lite and S10 Plus). However the source adds that the 5G S10 – which might be called the Galaxy S10 X – will land in stores on March 29.
Whenever the S10 range lands, it’s likely to be sold by EE in the UK, as the network already lets you register for updates on it. That said, we’d expect just about all networks to offer one or more models of the S10.
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When the Samsung Galaxy S10 does go on sale it’s sure to cost a lot.
One price rumor puts the budget Galaxy S10 Lite model at $650-$750 (roughly £500-£585 / AU$900-AU$1,040), while another rumor has the Samsung Galaxy S10 price rise to £799, which will likely be around $779 (around AU$1,400) for the 128GB variant and £999 for 512GB of storage.
Another source points to a price of €929 (around $1,055 / £820 / AU$1,475) for a standard S10 with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, rising to €1,179 (around $1,340 / £1,040 / AU$1,875) for a version with 8GB of RAM and 512GB of storage.
More recently, an extensive price leak for all three rumored S10 handsets has the standard Samsung S10 starting at €899 for the 6GB/128GB configuration and rising to €1,149 for the 8GB/512GB model.
Elsewhere, we’ve heard that the cheapest model (aka the Galaxy S10 Lite or Galaxy S10e) will cost between around 800,000 won (roughly $710, £550, AU$990) and 900,000 won (around $800, £620, AU$1,110).
The same source claims that the top-end 5G model will cost between 1.6 million won (around $1,430, £1,110, AU$1,980) and 1.8 million won (roughly $1,600, £1,250, AU$2,230), making it around twice as expensive.
In short though, the Samsung Galaxy S10 price is all but guaranteed to rise over the asking price of the Galaxy S9 – so you might want to start saving.
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The Samsung Galaxy S10 is unlikely to arrive alone, with a trio of handsets tipped to launch at the firm’s next Unpacked event.
While we’ve become used to seeing a pair of Samsung flagships launch together each year as far back as the Galaxy S6 in 2015, this time around all the Galaxy S10 leaks are pointing towards three or more phones.
There’s the standard Samsung Galaxy S10 that’s detailed here, along with the Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus and a new entry in the Galaxy S10 Lite – a smaller, low resolution and likely lesser powered handsets at a hopefully more affordable price point.
A recent rumor suggests that the S10 Lite could actually land as the Galaxy S10 E, though not everyone agrees. We’ve also heard that the Lite model might simply be called the Galaxy S10, as might the model above it, but that would seem confusing.
Several leaks and rumors suggest the Galaxy S10 E could have a dual-lens rear camera, with 6GB RAM and 128GB memory and a 3100mAh battery, which would put it behind the S10 and S10 Plus in several ways.
On top of that renders of a Canary Yellow edition of the S10 E show a dazzling design, and suggests the device will launch in a range of interesting colours, with green and blue variants suggested too.
But wait – we could even get a fourth Galaxy S10 handsets, as rumors of a big-screened, 5G variant have also begun to crop up. And, of course, Samsung teasing is almost certainly going to be teasing its foldable phone at the S10 launch event.
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Our best look yet at the likely design of the Galaxy S10 comes from a series of photos showing it alongside the Galaxy S10 Plus.
You can see these below. Details about the standard S10 include a single-lens punch-hole camera on the front, tiny bezels above and below the screen, a triple-lens camera on the back, and a USB-C port, 3.5mm headphone port and speaker on the bottom.
Most recently we’ve seen a picture of the Galaxy S10 shared by renowned tipster Evan Blass, which gives us a full look at the front and the back of the phone. If you want to know what the Galaxy S10 will look like, here you go.
These followed hot on the heels of other images, shared on Twitter, which showed a matching design and also revealed the S10’s built-in cryptocurrency support.
Before all this, the first alleged Samsung Galaxy photo arrived as we rang in 2019, and it once again matches up, showing a more expansive all-screen display, one that displaces the top bezel in favor of a tiny front-facing camera embedded into the top right side of the screen.
This is Samsung’s answer to the notch cut out, and you can expect the company to come up with a clever name for this black hole that disrupts its Infinity Display.
More recent leaks, which you can see below, show off the S10 in a pearly white shade, as well as both the S10 and S10 Plus in black.
The shots of the phone in black are apparently non-functioning dummy units, but the design should be accurate.
Evan Blass also leaked the image you can see below, showing three Galaxy S10 phones – the S10E, the S10 and the S10 Plus – inside clear cases. You can see a dual-lens rear camera on the cheaper S10E, and a triple-lens rear camera on the S10 and S10 Plus phones.
It also looks like the S10 Plus has a dual-lens front-facing camera – note the wider pinhole cut out in the display – and it looks like all three phones will have fingerprint sensors built into the screen.
We’ve also now seen a render from Samsung itself that possibly shows the phone. You can see this below and note the curved screen, tiny bezels and pinhole camera.
This was posted in an article on Samsung Newsroom, then quickly replaced with a more generic picture, suggesting it was an accident.
These leaks match previous case renders which include parts of the phone. You can see them below and will note that there’s a cut-out in the top left corner of the screen for a single-lens camera, while on the back there are three cameras. That back looks to be glass and the frame is likely metal.
You can also see it alongside the Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite (which sports a similar design) and the S10 Plus, which adds extra cameras.
We’ve also had a closer look at the Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus, thanks to some leaked renders which you can see below.
The renders, which come from a fairly reliable source (@OnLeaks) show a handset with an angular Galaxy Note-like design, but more importantly it has a camera cutout in the screen.
This is a new idea for Samsung and it’s a bigger cut-out than you might have expected, as it’s housing two cameras. However, the bezels around the screen are tiny at least.
The back of the Galaxy S10 Plus shown here has a quad-lens camera arranged horizontally and is shown in both black and ‘Ice Blue’. Note that originally renders showing a triple-lens camera and larger bezels were leaked, but these were apparently inaccurate.
Other details in the images include a 3.5mm headphone port and it looks like the phone has a glass back and a metal frame. Dimensions meanwhile are apparently 157.5 x 75.0 x 7.8mm, rising to 9mm at the camera bump.
We may also have now seen photos of the Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus, which you can see below. Two leaked images both show a handset with two rear cameras, but the color of the camera block and possibly the size of the lenses differs.
That might mean only one of these shots is accurate, or we could be looking at the standard Samsung Galaxy S10 in one and the Galaxy S10 Plus in the other.
In any case, cameras aside the back is likely to be similar on both handsets and indeed it looks similar in these shots, with slightly curved edges and a likely glass build.
Another image (also below) shows the possible front of the S10 Plus, complete with a corner notch.
We’d take all of this with a pinch of salt and as this is probably the Plus model it might not be entirely representative of the standard S10, but they’re likely to look similar, and according to Samsung’s own mobile business chief, DJ Koh, the Samsung Galaxy S10 will have some « very significant » design changes and come in some « amazing » colors.
One leak from OnLeakssuggests those colors may be Black, Grey, Blue, Red, Green and Yellow, while in announcing some software Samsung may have hinted that the phone will come in silver, green, black, blue and pink shades and will have a 3.5mm headphone port.
Another source meanwhile says the standard S10 and S10 Plus will come in white, black, green and blue, while the Galaxy S10 Lite will additionally come in yellow, as you can see below (along with an image of it in white). We’ve heard that claim more than once now, along with a suggestion that it might have a glossy finish.
We’ve also heard that the whole S10 range will come in black, white and sea green, but that some models will be offered in additional shades.
An extensive Galaxy S10 leak seems to agree with all the color rumors above, listing everything from black, white, green and blue to canary yellow, prism black, pearl white, ceramic black and ceramic white. It appears, then, you’ll have a fair selection of options come launch.
