DJ Koh, president and CEO of Samsung Electronics, introduces the new Samsung Galaxy Note 9 smartphone at the Barclays Center, August 9, 2018 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Samsung is hosting an event in San Francisco where it is expected to unveil its new Galaxy S10 phone. We're expecting it to announce that phone and possibly a couple of other devices. Samsung will use the event to show how it plans to take on Apple's latest batch of iPhones, including on price. Apple announced a more affordable iPhone XR this year, for example, which starts at $749. And both Samsung and Apple have struggled to keep consumers interested in their phones, as low-cost device makers including Huawei and Xiaomi continue to grow their market share. Samsung will need to wow consumers if it wants to retake that ground. Rumors have suggested Samsung may also introduce a foldable phone called the Galaxy Fold. If it's anything like a prototype Samsung showed off in November, it'll act as a tablet that you can fold down into a device the size of a phone. You can watch Samsung's livestream to follow along with all of the announcements. The event begins at 2 p.m. Eastern.<doc-sep>Get email updates with the day's biggest stories Invalid Email Something went wrong, please try again later. Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice After months of anticipation, Samsung will finally unveil its Galaxy S10 smartphone today. The firm is hosting an event on Wednesday, where it’s expected to launch as many of four new smartphones - the Galaxy S10, S10+, S10e and a foldable smartphone called Galaxy X. While the launch is taking place in San Fransisco this year, thankfully there’s an easy way for fans around the world to get invovled. Here’s everything you need to know about the Galaxy Unpacked event, including how and when to watch it. When is Galaxy Unpacked? Galaxy Unpacked will take place in San Francisco at 11:00 PT today. (Image: OnLeaks/91Mobiles) For those of you in the UK, that means the event will begin at 19:00 GMT. Where is Galaxy Unpacked? While Samsung was originally expected to launch the Galaxy S10 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the firm has shaken things up this year. Instead, the launch is taking place in San Francisco the week before Mobile World Congress. (Image: All About Samsung) What will Samsung announce? While the star of the show is expected to be the Galaxy S10 smartphone, rumours suggest that Samsung could have several other products up its sleeve. We expect Samsung to launch as many as four new smartphones - the Galaxy S10, S10+, S10e an a foldable smartphone called the Galaxy X. (Image: Mobile Fun) Aside from smartphones, Samsung is also expected to reveal a new smartwatch called the Galaxy Watch Active, and wireless headphones, called Galaxy Buds. How can you watch Galaxy Unpacked? Samsung will be live-streaming the event on its YouTube channel. To make sure you don’t miss out, head to Samsung’s Twitter page and like this tweet so Samsung will send you reminders about the event. As ever, Mirror Online will also be bringing you the biggest announcements as they’re made. Make sure you check back in on Wednesday!<doc-sep>Samuel Axon Samuel Axon Samuel Axon Samuel Axon Samuel Axon Samuel Axon Samuel Axon Today is Samsung's big launch event, and the company has made the thoroughly leaked Galaxy S10 official. The company announced the S10 and S10 Plus smartphones onstage today at Samsung Unpacked 2019 after it unveiled the impressive and incredibly expensive Galaxy Fold foldable handset. The Galaxy S line never joined the notch trend of 2018, and this year, Samsung is going with a new scheme to maximize display space while still having a front camera: the hole-punch display. Samsung is pushing the display boundaries all the way out to the edges of the phone. A camera is located under the display panel, so you get a display with a round camera hole in it (cut out by a laser) and pixels all around the camera lens. The slimmer bezels means screen sizes are getting even bigger. The S10 has a 6.1-inch 3040×1440 AMOLED display—up from 5.8-inches in the S9—while the S10 Plus is getting a 6.4-inch 3040×1440 AMOLED panel—up from 6.2-inches on the S9 Plus and now the same size as the Galaxy Note 9. Both phones are a few millimeters wider than last year, so they will feel a bit bigger when you're holding them. These displays are what Samsung calls "Infinity-O" Dynamic AMOLED panels, meaning they'll hit 1,200 nits of brightness at their peak. They also produce 42 percent less harmful blue light, and users will be able to adjust color temperature to what's most comfortable for them. Another huge perk of these displays is something you can't actually see. The old fingerprint sensor on the handset's back is gone, and instead you'll get Qualcomm's new ultrasonic in-display fingerprint reader. This fingerprint sensor will work even in "challenging conditions," like when it's very sunny or when the display is wet. Also, your biometric data is encrypted, and Samsung employed machine-learning algorithms to keep your data protected. Notably, the iris scanner that existed on the Note7/S8/Note8/S9/Note9 is also gone. Advertisement Cameras On the back, you'll get three cameras for the S10 and S10 Plus: a 12MP dual aperture camera, a 12MP telephoto camera, and an ultra-wide 16MP, 123-degree camera. The front-facing cameras on the models differ, though: the S10 has a 10MP f/1.9 dual pixel camera, while the S10 Plus has that same camera along with an additional 8MP f/2.2 depth sensor. Samsung added a bunch of new software features to elevate the S10 cameras. "Live Focus" lets you blur the background of your portrait shots, while a new neural-processing unit can recognize scenes and suggest how to frame your shots before you take them. There are a bunch of new photo filters as well, and they can be overlaid on photos in real time before you actually take the shot. Stabilization comes from Samsung's "Super Steady Camera" technology, which the company claims is "on par" with the stabilization tech in most action cameras. The Galaxy S10 is the first smartphone that can record video in HDR10+, which will please mobile videographers. The front-facing cameras support 4K video recording, too, so you'll get great-quality videos from both the front and rear cameras. Samsung partnered with Adobe Premiere Rush CC to optimize the handsets for video editing, so users can edit videos and upload them to social media directly from the handset if they use that Adobe program. Samsung also partnered with Instagram to bring a special "Instagram" mode to the camera. This basically blurs the background of selfie shots automatically, letting users quickly take suitable photos that they can share instantly over the Facebook-owned, photo-focused social media platform. Specs Every Galaxy S10 variant comes with either Qualcomm's brand-new Snapdragon 855 SoC (the US variant) or Samsung's Exynos 9820 SoC. There's a baseline 8GB of RAM, with an option for 12GB of RAM—a new high-mark for smartphones. Storage starts at 128GB and goes up to 512GB and 1TB tiers, another high score on the spec sheet. If this somehow still isn't enough storage for you, you can also add a MicroSD card. Both devices are equipped with an "all-day battery life," and they both support wireless charging as well as the standard USB-C port for wired charging. The S10 has a 3,400mAh battery, while the S10 Plus has a 4,100mAh pack. You can even turn the phone itself into a wireless charging pad by flipping it over and placing another device on top of the handset's back. The S10 and S10 Plus are also the first handsets to support Wi-Fi 6, so they will have about 20 percent faster Wi-Fi than the Galaxy S9 from last year. Advertisement Update: 8GB of RAM There is a lot of conflicting information from Samsung for the amount of RAM in the Galaxy S10 and S10+. Numerous Samsung spec pages list 6GB of RAM as the baseline, some early orders of the S10 and S10+ have been shipped with "6GB RAM" in the spec sheet, and demo S10 and S10+ units at the unveiling were spotted running 6GB of RAM. Despite all this, Samsung tells Android Police that all consumer S10 and S10+ units have 8GB of RAM as the baseline. The only S10 with 6GB of RAM should be the cheaper S10e. The S10e has a baseline 6GB of RAM, but for the S10 and S10 Plus, Samsung has been a bit confusing on the messaging. At the event there are models with 6GB of RAM, some early orders of S10 and S10+ The Galaxy S10e If you're looking for something smaller and cheaper, try the Galaxy S10e. It's the third and most affordable option in the new Galaxy S line. You'll still get the baseline S10 specs with the new Snapdragon or Exynos SoC, 6GB of RAM, and 128GB of storage, as well as an IP68 water-resistant design just like the other handsets. But Samsung did cut a few corners to keep the S10e the cheapest option of the bunch. The display drops to a 5.8-inch AMOLED with a resolution of 2280×1080. It's still a hole-punch display, but you're getting thicker bezels than you'd find on the more premium S10 and S10 Plus. There's a smaller (3,100mAh) battery, only (only!) two cameras on the back, and a side-mounted fingerprint sensor instead of the fancy in-screen option. 5G Lastly, Samsung will offer a 5G version of the Galaxy S10. The 5G model looks nearly identical to the regular S10 in terms of its overall design. The biggest differences are in the display and the battery: it will have a whopping 6.7-inch Dynamic AMOLED display and a massive 4,500mAh battery inside. There's also a fourth depth-sensing camera on the handset's back, which will give it an extra photography edge over the other S10 handsets. Samsung is promising a "realistic AR experience" with the 5G model, but we're not sure how that will look in practice, considering there aren't many great AR apps available yet. The Galaxy S10, S10 Plus, and the S10e will be available starting March 8. The S10 starts at $899, the S10 Plus starts at $999, and the S10e starts at $749. The S10 5G doesn't have a starting price or a release date yet. Listing image by Samuel Axon<doc-sep>
After months of anticipation, Samsung will finally launch its Galaxy S10 smartphone today. The tech giant is expected to reveal as many as four smartphones at the Unpacked event - the Galaxy S10, Galaxy S10+, Galaxy S10e, and a foldable smartphone that could be called Galaxy X. In the run-up to the event, several rumours have been circulating about the smartphones, so we have a pretty good idea of what to expect. Here’s a round-up of all the biggest rumours, and what you can expect from the event today. What to expect from the Samsung Galaxy S10 Samsung’s flagship smartphone for 2019 is expected to be called the Galaxy S10. (Image: All About Samsung) Rumours suggest that the smartphone will feature a 6.1 inch display, with much narrower bezels than its predecessor, the Galaxy S9. Instead of having a dreaded ‘notch’ to house the front-facing camera and sensors, rumours indicate that the Galaxy S10 will have a ‘punch-hole’ camera sitting in the top right corner of the screen. The back of the smartphone is expected to feature a triple-lens camera, arranged horizontally, unlike the Galaxy S9 which saw it’s lenses configured vertically. (Image: @EVLeaks via Twitter) One of the most innovative features that the smartphone is expected to have is an in-screen fingerprint sensor, allowing users to unlock their device by simply placing their finger on the glass. In terms of colour, rumours suggest that the smartphone could come in a range of fun hues, including yellow and blue, as well as the standard black and white. As previously mentioned, alongside the S10 itself, Samsung is expected to unveil two other variants - the S10+ and S10e. (Image: OnLeaks/91Mobiles) The S10+ is predicted to be slightly larger than the S10, with a 6.4-inch display that houses a slightly larger punch-hole camera with dual-lenses. Meanwhile the S10e is predicted to be slightly smaller with a 5.8-inch display. Thankfully there’s not long to wait to see if these rumours are true. Samsung will launch its 2019 smartphones at its Unpacked event in San Francisco today. The event begins at 19:00 GMT, and as ever, Mirror Online will be keeping you updated with all the big announcements as they happen.