Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite

The 48MP triple camera setup is similar to what you find on some Galaxy A series phones, but it works on the Galaxy S10 Lite. The combination of a 48MP f/2.0 Sony IMX586 high-resolution main sensor, a 12MP f/2.2 wide-angle lens and a 5MP macro lens offers a good variety of shooting modes. One of the biggest new features that Samsung is highlighting is the Super Steady OIS, which gives the main camera a gimbal-like stabilisation, allowing for extremely steady videos and practically shake-free stills. Super Steady OIS moves the camera lens up, down, left and right, offering a wider correctional range than typical OIS. It definitely makes videos look smooth and shake-free when shooting handheld and enabling Super Steady mode, but it's no better than the Galaxy S10+ or iPhone XR. You can also record videos up to 4K UHD.Still photography in daylight is excellent. The main camera is able to capture crisp, noise-free photos that look bright, colourful (quite saturated at times) and attractive on the OLED display. The wide-angle lens is handy and sharp enough, but colours tend to look slightly warmer compared to the main camera. Meanwhile, the macro lens, which is hidden away in the 'More' option, can let you capture a subject as close as 3cm. This macro camera should only be used in daylight and we managed to take some really good macros of flowers and small objects.

The Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite is powered by a Snapdragon 855 SoC in India, which is perhaps the biggest fan service by the brand. While recent high-end Exynos processors have been great, Samsung fans in India have wanted to see a Galaxy S series phone with a flagship Snapdragon chipset, and the Galaxy S10 Lite brings that. With a Snapdragon 855 SoC coupled with 8GB RAM and 128GB internal storage, the Galaxy S10 Lite is a powerhouse of a smartphone.No surprises that the Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite breezes through graphically-intensive games like PUBG and CoD Mobile. We played a few sessions of PUBG in extreme graphics with HDR setting and saw no drops in frame rates or any choppiness during gameplay. The phone did get warm in maxed out settings, but that was expected. Battery drain during gameplay was minimal, which is great. Day-to-day usage on the Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite was smooth and lag-free. The phone ships with Android 10 with One UI 2.0 on top, which offers a clean and optimised UI. Apps open quickly and fluidly and the phone comes with little to no bloatware. One UI brings some useful features like one-handed user interface, easy gesture-based navigation and system-wide dark mode, Always On display, Dynamic Lock screen and so on.The in-display fingerprint sensor continues to remain sluggish compared to what you find on the OnePlus 7T or phones from OPPO, Realme and other rival brands. Same goes with face unlock as it doesn't instantly take you to the home screen. The lack of dust and water resistance also makes the phone feel less premium than the Galaxy S10 and Galaxy S10+. The Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite lacks stereo speakers as well, so you only get a single bottom-firing speaker that is loud, but doesn't offer great clarity or depth. As for call quality, we did not experience any major drops during calls or connectivity issues with the smartphone. 

The Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite houses a 4,500mAh battery, which is noticeably bigger than the battery inside the Galaxy S10 and Galaxy S10+. The bigger battery is definitely welcomed here and it helps the Galaxy S10 Lite deliver a pretty solid full day to a day and a half of battery life on a single charge. During my week-long testing, we threw pretty much everything at the Galaxy S10 Lite. From hours of gaming to video streaming and social media browsing on a daily basis, the phone consistently managed to last a full day and then some.Standby battery drain was minimal thanks to a power efficient 7nm processor at its core. In our PCMark battery drain test, the Galaxy S10 Lite lasted roughly 10 hours and 40 minutes. The phone ships with a 25W fast charger that will juice up the phone from zero to 100 percent in about 90 minutes.

Stunning Super AMOLED displayFast and smooth performanceAll-day battery lifeImpressive cameras

Lacks premium feelNo headphone jackNo IP rating