Amazon: Samsung Galaxy S10 128GB for $499

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• A review on Amazon says this is not the Snapdragon chip..anyone confirm?

• still using my s6, let's see

• If you buy an unlocked phone from Amazon, there's also a $100 rebate through Tracfone.

  • Does it work for existing customers?

    • Not exactly. It has to be a new account. But all you have to do is buy a $1 tracfone/simple mobile/total wireless sim card at the same time as you buy the unlocked phone and activate the phone by 12/31 using the cheapest one plan you can find for your chosen service (ex: tracfone $20 plan). Then file for the rebate by 1/17, pocket the $100 gift card, and either (a) swap your existing sim into the unlocked phone you bought or (b) sell the unlocked phone for extra profit.

• I'm very happy with my new Galaxy 10+ that I bought from Samsung.com for about $250 after $250 trade-in credit for my S9+ (I bought it used for $250 about a year ago!), cancel trick 10% off, military discount, Rakuten, referral, and Chase Freedom cashbacks. This was during the black friday sale.

  • Cancel trick didn't work for me a month ago. When had you placed your order?

    • what is the cancel trick?

      • You have to pretend you're cancelling the order, and the samsung website used to ask you if you would accept a 10% discount to not cancel it.

• Scamsung products are the worse

  • Samsung's flagship devices are okayish. The S series is quite good

  • How so? They are technically better than apple in almost every objective measure so then it gets down to android vs ios preference which I'd argue is subjective as it's close and design which again is subjective.

    • It's not just iOS and Android differences, it's also a difference in how Samsungs work as an experience.

      My parents made the switch from iPhone to Samsung and they regret it. For example, they keep getting disconnected on wifi calls and video calls. Like that shouldn't be happening because our wifi is super stable, and our internet provider is Verizon FiOS.

      Also, for some dumb reason it keeps telling you in a notification if you're optimized for wifi calling for something dumb like that.

      Also some of the built-in Samsung apps are built in adware. They'll just randomly notify you daily of like new deals in their store or apps to check out.

      • I never have issues with WiFi calls. Like other folks explain above, I also disabled the majority of the Samsung apps except for Samsung Pay.

        I guess, to each its own, but Apple is a 'walled garden' and I hate every aspect, every time I encounter it (like a friend asking me to help her setup her iPhone). Could I live with it, if I had to? I guess I could, but it is a bear. In the past I had to live with Windows for years and hated it. Only ChromeOS for me from now on. Simple and works. No fuss, no muss.

    • Way too much bloatware

      • Coming from a Pixel I noticed exactly what was added by Samsung and I agree there's a lot of bloatware. I used to only buy vanilla Android phones for this very reason but then I was forced to switch to a Galaxy S10 (because of work), it's been almost two years now but I have to admit it hasn't been nearly as bad as I feared it would be.

        I'm not allowed to root it but luckily Android is very customizable so you can still disable most Samsung apps, install Google ones instead and set them as default, disable the remaining notifications you don't care about, etc. It does take some time to do all that when you first set up your phone, but you only have to do that once and you're never bothered again.

        • I went from a Pixel to an s20 and I'm I did exactly what you said within my first few hours of owning the device. Everything is so Googled that I can barely use my girlfriend's s10 because I don't know how to use the Samsung apps. The only one that I like is Samsung pay. MST comes in handy at times.

• There is a error , both the phones are not from S10+ . The first phone is S10 only ,others one is S10+

  • Typo, fixed now, thanks

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• S10 is pretty dated at this point. The S20 FE 5G is competitive.

  • I was going to comment "but 5G isn't in my area yet" but apparently, it very much is.

    • 5G phones also work on 4G networks anyway.

      • Only Non Standalone 5G uses 4G networks.

        • Pretty sure that was not a claim that 5G relies on 4G signaling, but a statement that the new 5G phones connect to earlier networks just fine (so you might as well future-proof your phone purchase).

        • You're right! But I've heard people saying 5G is overhyped, even though they haven't even used Standalone 5G

        • 5G is over-hyped as any new technology that comes out:
          1) At this time is available very seldom
          2) For the vast majority of the use cases makes no difference for the end user experience

          This is the same as your ISP claiming they provide you 'blazing' 100 Mbps, but then you never stream more than 1 movie at a time. What good is that 100 Mbps for you? Now, having 100 Mbps opens up a slew of other use cases, but if they don't matter to you, why would you pay for it? If you do, you are only falling for marketing hype.

          5G will become a differentiator only after there are applications and services that can take advantage of what it offers. Namely, not only very high speeds, but also very low latency (and that last part is not there yet).

          By the time the above apps and problems are fixed 5G will be in every new phone.

          Take a look at AWS Local Zones (and integrations with Verizon, etc). How many applications can really take advantage for that? It sure opens up possibilities and I am sure there will be some amazing accomplishments thanks to 5G (think of hospitals being able to have an MRI technician look at a scan without having to come to the office, etc.)

          Just my 2 cents :)