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No SD card slot on the Note 10?
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yeah i took the note 10 for a spin in best buy and did not like the smaller screen. i actually hated the feel of it in my hand. it felt like an s series phone vs the note series. they should have just stuck with the note 10+ and be done with it.
Jupit3r
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they know that the Note 10 Plus is priced way too high, even for Note fans. So they just try to convince those with a tighter budget to go with the not-so-good note10. But the problem is that people who are willing to buy a note want the best smartphone in the world, why would they spend $1000 for a mediocre handset?
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I was looking at a OnePlus 7 Pro, a friend has one. Not keen on the motorised pop-up selfie camera at all. That could be something that's just waiting to go wrong. Vivo V15 has the same thing, and is likely closely related to OnePlus 7 Pro.
I'm still perfectly happy with the Mate 10. Does everything I want, and is still fast and smooth.
I love the motorized selfie camera: as I have no use for a front camera it wouldn't go wrong, and wouldn't matter if it did, but it means no notch or even more annoying punch hole 
But the 7 Pro is too big to interest me, so for me the smaller Note 10 would work better. But its membership of the Note family is really only justified by the s-pen, in some respects it's lower spec than the S series.
But the 7 Pro is too big to interest me, so for me the smaller Note 10 would work better. But its membership of the Note family is really only justified by the s-pen, in some respects it's lower spec than the S series.
Jupit3r
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I don't mind the pop-up selfie camera as I almost never use it.
I love the motorized selfie camera: as I have no use for a front camera it wouldn't go wrong, and wouldn't matter if it did, but it means no notch or even more annoying punch hole
But the 7 Pro is too big to interest me, so for me the smaller Note 10 would work better. But its membership of the Note family is really only justified by the s-pen, in some respects it's lower spec than the S series.
An interesting perspective, lol.
I don't mind the pop-up selfie camera as I almost never use it.
I do use the selfie camera maybe 2-3 times a day, not for taking selfies, but for video chats, and sometimes online lessons. My thoughts are reliability of the mechanism, and on my mates OP7 Plus, it seemed quite vulnerable to damage sticking out the top like that, like if it takes a knock. It could be quite expensive to repair.
Oppo(same company as OnePlus) produced a phone a while back with a motorised rotating camera, the N1, and it did have reported problems with getting stuck and not returning fully to its home position.
I love the motorized selfie camera: as I have no use for a front camera it wouldn't go wrong, and wouldn't matter if it did, but it means no notch or even more annoying punch hole
But the 7 Pro is too big to interest me, so for me the smaller Note 10 would work better. But its membership of the Note family is really only justified by the s-pen, in some respects it's lower spec than the S series.
Not only size, the OP7 Pro seemed quite heavy to me, too heavy for a phone IMO. My Mate 10 is a large heavy phone, but the 7 Pro seemed noticeably heavier.
EDIT: I just checked on GSM Arena
OnePlus 7 Pro 205g
Huawei Mate 10 186g
In fact I remember saying to my friend "This is heavy!" when he was showing me it a couple of weeks ago, when I first picked it up,
Well if I buy an S10e I get a higher dpi display, headphone jack and SD slot, and can get it for about half the price. The S10 is marginally smaller than the Note 10 with a higher resolution display, and the S10+ offers a larger display, and both of those can be bought with large internal storage if you want. And in North America they have the same SoC (there's an evolved version of the Exynos chip elsewhere). So I think it's not unfair to say that if you don't need the S-pen the 6 month old Galaxy S10 series out-specs the new Note 10 in some important respects.
With regards to the punch hole for the camera, there's already a rumor that the Note 11 will have its camera BEHIND the screen, with no visible punch hole.
https://www.phonearena.com/news/Samsung-Galaxy-Note-11-price-release-design-specs_id118097
https://www.phonearena.com/news/Samsung-Galaxy-Note-11-price-release-design-specs_id118097
Now that will be interesting to see