[Samsung Galaxy S10 Real Life Review] doggydog2:
Rooting was like 5 hours. setting was many more hours via titaniumbackup (SD card seems slower than 1+/Mi USB drive).

. Type-C is boasting USB3 unlike 1+/Mi fake Type-C (USB2) however the speeds here are even worse (surprised)

. Fingerprint is poor, slowest from the trio of flagships xiaomi/oneplus/samsung and specifically 2x slower on thumb finger(!)

. wireless charging from xiaomi 20w charger goes only 10w - almost 3hours to charge battery (so poor).. now i checked all 15w products on market and many reviews -> this is a

10W device

, charging time 2.5hr is the best. Mi9 : fastastic 1.5hr (less than samsung wire charging). No contest.

. phone holds on magnetic holder without assistance (heh), but Qi wire won't be centered properly on my holder, interesting.. if this is true than there must be a centered charger for S10

. got 10 covers coming, so far im using S7 cover.. gorilla is very scratchy as i found on mi9, thanksgod they include screen foil

. camera: nice app.. no night mode but it will make very good night pics automatically. i love having back the feature of voice control.

. bloat: endless... tons of apps. immediate fetching data by facebook, onedrive and other scum. this will require a lot of patience. privacy abusion is coming close to xiaomi, even simple Gallery's function of showing location requires 3rd party with unacceptable privacy policy. Samsung account is a no go, of course and most of related bs functions like Safe Wifi, backup etc are not needed.

Fingerprint is a big problem, how to improve:

Delete your fingerprint. Register again but you need to make sure you make touches as comfortably as you want it to be in future. Ignore "press harder" messages. Never press harder or you wil have to do it in future! Also press only for short time on each attempt. Thumbs are twice as hard to recognize, so you need to lick your finger first. Yeah, it's not a joke. Register up to 100%. After registration, dry your finger and it will still work fast. -> im still not happy, small fingers authorize ultra fast, thumbs are very slow

However there's a catch, a software issue, that fp reader waits too long to visually confirm the process. You can test that if you touch fp shortly (500ms), it works. (There's a testing function in the fp menu btw). If you hold the finger longer (cca 2000ms or until confirmation), the stupid software will let you wait like 2 seconds. I can do 10 quick presses (500ms) and 10 long presses (2000ms) and all will pass. Where's fix for this?

So the impression so far

- slow UI

- slow charging

- slow USB

- slow fingerprint

- no LED and no indication of anything, partial with AOD (wwwhy they dont do more about it like add circle around camera for battery low etc notifs?)

+ strong and complete UI, some features are the best (camera+auto night mode+voice control, accessibility, smart stay, notif reminder, popup windows, the Edge, the productivity tools similar to Note9...)

+ light and compact phone (unique as there's no other flagship this light..if Mi9SE was with Qi and latest CPU, that's be a different story)

+ sd card, jack, waterproof

+ it seems i like cutout more than notch, didn't find myself complaining

? didn't test battery at all.. hope it's not as terrible as historically

not so flagshippy as i expected! no way this deserves full price, got a new one as expensive as 6T so that price is deserved.