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CHRIS VELAZCO: For the
first time since 2014,

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Samsung has officially revealed
two new Galaxy Notes-- the Note

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10 and the Note 10-plus.

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But before we go any
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need to talk about these names.

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They make it sound like
we're getting a Galaxy

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Note and a bigger Galaxy Note.

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But that doesn't actually
feel right to me.

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The way I see it, we're
getting a Galaxy Note and

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another smaller Galaxy Note.

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And for Samsung, going small
here is kind of a big deal.

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All right, I realize I'm
being a bit dramatic.

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So here's what
I'm talking about.

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The bigger of these two phones,
the $1,100 Galaxy Note 10-plus

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is your typical
Samsung powerhouse.

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There is a Snapdragon
855 chipset inside

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with either 8 or 12 gigs of RAM,
a whopper of a 4,300 million

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amp-hour battery and up
to 512 gigs of storage.

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You can expand further
with a micro SD card,

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all of which sits
behind a gorgeous

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6.8-inch dynamic AMOLED screen.

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Samsung considers its Note
fans to be power users.

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So it's really not a
surprise that the Note

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10 is as specced out as it is.

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And I know what some of
you are thinking already.

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A 6.8-inch screen
sounds massive.

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But because Samsung all
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around the display, it's
actually easier to hold

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than last year's Note 9.

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And despite being very slightly
taller and very slightly wider,

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the Note 10-plus is actually
lighter than the Note 9

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as well.

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If you're looking for a
properly big SQL to last year's

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S Pen powerhouse, this is it.

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The standard Note 10
is a different story.

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Apparently, Samsung
was tired of people

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walking into phone stores
and falling in love with what

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the Galaxy Note could do
but buying a different phone

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because the Note
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That's why the Note 10 exists.

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Like the Galaxy S10 before
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as good as its big brother.

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But its design is so much
more compact so more people

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can benefit from
the Note experience.

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That means we are working with a
smaller 6.3-inch AMOLED screen,

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a 3,500 million amp-hour
battery, and specs that have

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also been slightly dialed down.

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Unless you live in Korea, and
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you're working with 8 gigs of
RAM and 256 gigs of storage

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with no expandable
memory at all.

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I should also point out that
for the first time since 2014,

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Samsung is shipping a
version of the Galaxy Note

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without a quad HD or
equivalent screen.

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The Note 10 only
runs at full HD.

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And all of this taken together
is not an insignificant number

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of compromises,
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consider the Note 10 is not
that much cheaper than the plus.

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Its starting price is $950.

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So are these
trade-offs worth it?

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Well, I'll put it this way.

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They'd be more worth it if
the phone cost $100 less.

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But this smaller
design feels so good

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that I wouldn't be surprised
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outsells the big one.

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Then again, I'm the kind
of person who really

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liked the tiny Galaxy S10.

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But even if I put
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the small Note 10
design feels honestly

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really kind of special.

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Well done, Samsung.

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No matter which version of the
Note appeals to you, though,

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you're largely getting
the same experience.

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Both have been designed
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This time with a
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You can see that in the sort
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in the screen for that
front-facing camera.

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Speaking of cutting, Samsung
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in the Note 10 series.

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Do you remember
the Bixby button--

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that one that you
probably mashed

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all the time by accident?

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It is gone.

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If you really for some
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but you can either use
voice commands or set

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the phone up so that a
double-click of the power

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button launches it.

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For better or worse, the
headphone jack is also gone.

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Also, Samsung could make
these phones thinner

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and fit some big
batteries inside.

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Whether or not
that's a bad thing

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is kind of personal preference.

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So I'll just let you all debate
about that in the comments.

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Of course, a Galaxy Note
wouldn't be a Galaxy

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Note without the S Pen.

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Last year, Samsung turned the
Stylus into a Bluetooth remote.

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This year, it's kind of
a Bluetooth magic wand.

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All those leaks were spot on.

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If you hold the S Pens but
in the air and wave the thing

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around, you can perform
specific actions,

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like, switching between
the front and rear cameras

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and even zooming
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We tried a few of these.

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And some of them were
much better than others.

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Flicking up and down to
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worked pretty well.

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But to zoom, you have
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and let go of the S Pen button
once you've zoomed in enough.

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The problem is, getting that
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tricky to the point
where I could see

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some people getting
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and never really
trying this again.

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I should also say that the first
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the Note didn't seem to realize
what I was doing at all.

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So it took a 50
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For now, interactions only
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But Samsung has made a
software development kit

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available to companies
who might want

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to give their apps a little
Wingardium Leviosa flair.

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Honestly, though,
I can't imagine

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too many people will actually
bother with this gimmick.

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And that's perfectly fine by me.

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Speaking of gimmicks,
you can also

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use the S pen to
draw what Samsung

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calls AR doodles, which are
exactly what they sound like.

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If you draw a
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it'll stay there, even
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camera to look around the room.

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And yes, you can use
it to draw weird stuff

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on other people,
which will persist

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even as they move around.

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It's a neat show of Samsung's
AR talent but also kind of dumb.

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But, you know, it's cute
dumb, not like AR emoji,

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which word, horrifying, dumb.

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Thankfully, a few other S Pen
tricks worked a lot better.

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From the moment you start
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Pen, the phone interprets your
words and indexes them so you

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can search for specific things.

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With the help of that handy
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of the 855, you
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your handwritten notes text
with decent and sometimes

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surprisingly good accuracy.

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But I wouldn't
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You can also export them
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Working in these file formats
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you're using a bigger screen.

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So Samsung's updates
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seem helpful to some people.

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Unlike before when you had
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to a monitor, you can
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into a Windows or a Mac
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interface right there.

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It's a pretty cool idea.

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But it's one that doesn't always
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of requires you to have
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right there in
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Why not just work on that?

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At the very least,
it does make dragging

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and dropping files
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to your computer pretty easy.

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And I could see people
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on public computers being
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work on decks, and take it
all with them when they go.

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There are some
things that Samsung

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hardly changed at all,
like, the triple camera

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system around the back.

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It's basically very
similar to what we saw

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in the S10 and the S10-plus.

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There is a wide, ultralight
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In both versions of
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shoot at the same
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The only difference
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was that the 12 megapixel
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wider aperture that
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a little bit in the light.

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But in the few sample
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we didn't really notice
much of a difference.

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Samsung's cameras did
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when it comes to video, though.

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A Live Focus mode
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to shoot a bouquet-filled
video of people

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just kind of dancing
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And a new feature called
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uses multiple mics in
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the audio coming from
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of minimize everything else.

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And for all you
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Samsung cooked up an
improved video editing app

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so you can take all of
that live-focused video

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and zoomed in audio and
with a proper productions

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with the help of the S Pen.

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We have tried a lot of
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And we liked most of them.

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There are some that we haven't
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one that allows you to install
some software on your PC

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and basically
stream any game you

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have installed onto your Note.

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It sounds a little
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But we'll just have to wait
and see what's up there.

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In the US and for
a little while,

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anyway, Samsung will sell
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of the Note 10-plus exclusively
through Verizon, which

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is a great opportunity
for me to re-mention

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that Verizon is
our parent company.

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But we here at Engadget do not
care what carrier you use as

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long as you're happy with it.

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Anyway, the rest of
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start to sell
their own 5G models

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as soon as Verizon's annoying
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But for now, it seems
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to be exclusive to that
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And this is interesting.

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It's not because Samsung thinks
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phone is a bad idea, or
that it might do a number

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on those smaller batteries.

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In certain regions,
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will be available
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The device already exists.

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Samsung just didn't want to
sell it here for now, anyway.

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After spending some time with
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a little torn.

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I can't help but be drawn to the
absurd power and the big screen

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of the Note 10.

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And I know I probably
sound repetitive.

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But the smaller Note 10's
design feels so good.

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Every time I've reviewed
a Note before, I'd say,

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generally the same
thing at some point.

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If you want a
fantastic big phone,

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you probably won't do much
better than a Galaxy Note.

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This year with a smaller model
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quite as powerful
but still very good

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is starting to finally
feel like there's a Galaxy

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Note for everyone or,
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who is OK with spending
$1,000 on a phone.

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