Want to read Slashdot from your mobile device? Point it at m.slashdot.org and keep reading!

 


Forgot your password?
Close
typodupeerror
×
Cellphones Technology

Samsung's Galaxy S10 Lite Will Launch In the US On April 17th For $650 (theverge.com) 35

Posted by BeauHD from the slightly-more-economical dept.
Samsung is launching a more budget-friendly version of the Galaxy S10, called the Galaxy S10 Lite. According to The Verge, it'll be available in the U.S. starting tomorrow for $650. The Verge reports: The Galaxy S10 Lite is a budget version of the Galaxy S10 flagship, and it has a 6.7-inch Super AMOLED Infinity-O display at 2400 x 1080 resolution, a Snapdragon 855 processor, and a triple-lens rear camera setup with a 5-megapixel f/2.4 macro lens; a 48-megapixel F2.0 wide-angle lens with "Super Steady OIS;" and a 12-megapixel f/2.2 ultra-wide with a 123-degree angle lens. The company also announced the Galaxy Tab S6 Lite that'll be available in Q2 2020 with a starting price of $349. "The Galaxy Tab S6 Lite has a 10.4-inch screen, an S Pen that can snap to the tablet's body via magnets, an 8-megapixel rear camera lens, a 5-megapixel front camera lens, and a headphone jack," reports The Verge. "You'll also be able to buy an LTE version of the tablet."
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.

Samsung's Galaxy S10 Lite Will Launch In the US On April 17th For $650 More

Samsung's Galaxy S10 Lite Will Launch In the US On April 17th For $650

Comments Filter:

  • Why is this ad on /.?

    • Why is this ad on /.?

      Even though I don't generally buy Android devices, I do find it interesting to keep track of what is being released... I think of it as valid News for Nerds.

      They are somewhat infrequent so it's not like it really crowds out everything.

      Besides, if you got rid of new Android phone releases where would the justification be about news articles posted here for every Apple device? :-)

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by waspleg ( 316038 )

        I have an S4 still. No easily replaceable battery? Pass. Can't add a 128 gb sd card? Pass.

        Guessing this is another gimped Apple rip off like everything after the S7. Shameful.

        • I like my s10+, no removable battery, but that's mostly expected lately... Can still put a microsd in it and has a headphone jack.

          • They've also been really surprising on updates lately. I had the april android security update by the 6th this month.

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by nagora ( 177841 )

          I have an S4 still. No easily replaceable battery? Pass. Can't add a 128 gb sd card? Pass.

          Guessing this is another gimped Apple rip off like everything after the S7. Shameful.

          I'm hanging onto my S5. I don't understand why I can't just buy a new S5 with more memory and a working accelerometer. I've had an S6, it was shit so I gave it back. Work has given me an S10. It's shit too so I only use it when I'm on out-of-hours call.

          How is it that a company can make a good phone and then two years later completely forget?

          • Have you considered that since most people seem to disagree with this position, maybe it's not Samsung that's failed to understand what a good phone is?

            • Re: (Score:2)

              by nagora ( 177841 )

              Have you considered that since most people seem to disagree with this position, maybe it's not Samsung that's failed to understand what a good phone is?

              Yeah. But after checking, it turns out I'm right.

        • I have an S4 still. No easily replaceable battery? Pass. Can't add a 128 gb sd card? Pass.

          Guessing this is another gimped Apple rip off like everything after the S7. Shameful.

          You mean everything since the Galaxy S, right?

          https://money.cnn.com/2015/09/... [cnn.com]

    • No fair, since I obviously have an axe to grind against Samsung... How to make it fair?

      Okay, how's this: If you have owned smartphones from more than one maker (including Samsung), how many of you want to buy another Samsung?

      And to answer my own question... Let me see... I think I've had six brands over the years (including a phone with a Microsoft OS that should not count as smart), and I can definitely say that I do NOT want to buy another Samsung.

      Meanwhile, my wife is on her second Samsung, but it's only

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Greyfox ( 87712 )
        I feel like the S3 was the pinnacle of Samsung engineering. After that their phones just got clunky, awkward to use. They are terrible both at being phones and at being the general purpose computing device I dreamed of having in my pocket a couple decades ago. Despite having hardware orders of magnitude faster than my desktop back then, it manages to be in every way a much less useful device. I'm thinking of just building my own phone with a raspberry pi that that just uses asterisk to connect to a VOIP pro

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by shanen ( 462549 )

          Your reply about "general purpose computing device" reminded me of my old PDAs. I owned (at least) two of them, and the Sony was another one of my relatively few highly satisfactory experiences. The sloppy way Sony abandoned the device and the PDA market permanently (at least so far) soured my feelings towards Sony. There was a time when I had extremely high regard for Sony, but now I think it's a has-been company. Barely about technology at all, but mostly just gambling on the movie and game businesses. (W

    • Is that better? Or are you some kind of a 1%er who doesn't think saving $100 makes it more affordable?

      Why is this ad on /.?

      Well due to Coronavirus we actually hit a peak number of political stories causing the BeauHD posting AI to reset and accidentally post something gadget and tech related. We'll return to your political programming shortly.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Kjella ( 173770 )

        Is that better? Or are you some kind of a 1%er who doesn't think saving $100 makes it more affordable?

        Probably the other way around. I've noticed that nearly no matter what there's always someone with hardly any disposable cash who finds that the "affordable" is still ridiculously expensive and a frivolous expense in the first place. And that's fair, I'm sure that to many people spending $500+ on a phone is unthinkable. And that's fine, at the same time we should be able to talk about a poor man's Ferrari without baselining it to minimum wage workers. This phone is more affordable than the flagship phones.

  • They're just copycatting Apple from literally just a few days earlier. Galaxy Tab S6 Lite is named and priced similarly to the newly announced iPhone SE.

  • Slashvertisement much? Seriously, $650 is now "budget"? That's approaching Apple levels of hubris...
    I was getting mostly Samsung stuff until I needed to use their customer support (on a smart TV) and they really tried to screw me, although I had stopped getting their phones with the Galaxy S3, after the $600 phone kept getting worse with every update. After trying a few brands I have stuck with Xiaomi, which seems to have a similar build quality, better quality software updates (from personal experience of

    • Approaching? The iPhone SE has a high end CPU and costs $399. Samsung is out-appleing Apple.

      • Re: (Score:3)

        by Ecuador ( 740021 )

        To be fair, due to Android being dog slow compared to iOS , Apple has been getting away with much lower end specs than "equivalent" android phones. The iPhone SE has half the RAM, 3/4 of the CPU cores and the rest of the characteristics (750p IPS display, 12MP camera etc) are quite low-end in the Android world. But you do have a point, I don't think the Samsung "Lite" versions where ever more expensive than any brand new Apple releases...

    • Slashvertisement much? Seriously, $650 is now "budget"? That's approaching Apple levels of hubris...

      Why is it hubris? "Budget" is another word for "inexpensive" and at $100 less than the S10, and $200 less than the S10 plus, how are you justifiably going to claim that it is not an inexpensive "budget" variant of the model?

      The word "budget" implies no limit of affordability but is a comparative adjective against something else.

      after the $600 phone kept getting worse with every update.

      The S3 only ever got one update. Not that you're wrong, pretty much every phone back in that error got worse with each update thanks mainly to the massive under the hood changes that

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Misagon ( 1135 )

        Because by convention in the smartphone press, "mid-range" usually refers to around the $400 mark and "budget" below that.

        Anyway, you could get this phone for $500+tax, but that is not the point.

  • "Budget" (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward
    How the fuck is $650 "budget"? Who considers that a reasonable amount to spend on a phone? This is a game of gaslighting people into thinking that $650-$1000 for a phone (spending that every couple of years, even) is somehow reasonable. It's a stupid game and I refuse to play. Two months ago I bought a nice 5" Nokia Android phone for $130, brand new. 2GB of RAM and a cheaper processor cause a little bit of lag opening some programs, but it runs fine and hasn't caused me any real problems. There are other op
    • Yeah for some people, the lowest priced $399 iPhone SE isn’t a “budget” phone as $200 or under is what they can afford.
  • Had my S10 Lite for a few months now here in the UK. Loving it and it was a big upgrade from my S7 Edge.

  • But it will probably still have the damn "Bixby Button" - sorry, I've completely soured on Samsung phones.

    • I still have a Note 8.. the Bixby button is the only bad thing about it.

      Moving to newer phones with no headphone jack, notches, holepunches.. I don't really have a Samsung I would consider an upgrade to what I have.

  • The Apple new SE phone is a last year hardware in a small body for only 399$.
    Why all the cheap android phone are so bad ?

Slashdot Top Deals

The hardest part of climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.

Close