Samsung’s midrange Galaxy S10 Lite comes to the US for $650
The Galaxy S10 Lite. [credit: Samsung ]
Samsung has declared that the Galaxy S10 Lite, a midrange phone announced in January, is coming to the United States on Friday for $650. The phone will be sold on Samsung.com, Best Buy, and Amazon.
The company has been reworking its phone lineup this past year, and this "Lite" branding is relatively new. The "S10" branding really makes it seem like this device is a year old-the Galaxy S10 was announced in February 2019, and you would think any flagship-adjacent phones announced this year would be branded "S20." The S10 Lite was only announced in January 2020, though, and in the US, it's launching two months after the S20. The S10 Lite doesn't actually share any design motifs with the Galaxy S10 ether; instead, it takes after the S20, with a centered hole-punch front camera and the same style camera block on the back.
The name is somewhat justifiable when you look at the specs, which start with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855, the same SoC that's in the Galaxy S10. The 6.7-inch OLED display would make the phone as big as the biggest Galaxy S10 phone, the S10 5G, albeit at a reduced 2400i-1080 resolution. The phone has options for 6 or 8GB of RAM, plus 128GB of internal storage, and a 4500mAh battery. You get three cameras on the back: a 48MP main camera, a 12MP ultra-wide, and a 5MP macro camera. The 32MP front camera lives in a hole-punch cutout centered in the top of the display. It ships with Android 10.
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