The Samsung Galaxy Note 10 needs to pack a punch to get the series back in the limelight. There aren't many Galaxy Note 10 leaks or rumors just yet, but we've put together a list of what we want from Samsung and its next flagship phablet to help propel the handset to the top of the pile.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 9 is packed full of features and tech, yet in a lot of ways it still feels like a small upgrade to the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.
Update: Another Samsung Galaxy Note 10 leak has again pointed to a 6.66-inch screen, which means we're likely to see a screen size increase over the 6.4-inch Note 9.
So as much as we love it, we’re hoping for more from the Samsung Galaxy Note 10. We want big, fundamental changes and upgrades that go further towards justifying its inevitably enormous price tag.
We’ve listed some of our specific hopes below, but before that you’ll find early rumors and educated guesses at the release date, specs and features of the Galaxy Note 10.
Cut to the chase
- What is it? The next stylus-toting flagship from Samsung
- When is it out? Probably August 2019
- What will it cost? More than most other phones
Samsung Galaxy Note 10 release date and price
It’s likely that the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 launch date will be some point in August 2019, as in recent years Samsung has announced new Galaxy Note handsets in August.
However, the exact point in the month does vary. The Galaxy Note 9 for example was announced on August 9 2018, but the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 was announced on August 23 of 2017.
And even once the Galaxy Note 10 is announced it will likely be at least a couple of weeks before you can buy it, so don’t be surprised if it doesn’t hit stores until late August or September 2019.
As for the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 price, the Note 9 starts at $1,000 (£899, AU$1,499) and it gets even more expensive if you want more storage and more RAM.
Given that smartphone prices generally seem to be rising we’d expect the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 will cost at least this much.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 10 is sure to cost a lot
Samsung Galaxy Note 10 news and rumors
So far the only real thing we've heard about the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 is that it will apparently have a 6.66-inch screen. And we've heard that not once, but twice already!
That's up from 6.4 inches on the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 and while we'd take this with a pinch of salt it's believable, given that phone screens keep getting bigger.
In more vague news, the Galaxy Note 10 is apparently codenamed 'Da Vinci'.
Given that Leonardo da Vinci was a famous painter that could hint at upgrades to the S Pen, though exactly what those upgrades would be is unclear. Leonardo da Vinci was also very talented in lots of other ways though, so this could equally be a suggestion that the Note 10 will be a very versatile phone.
Beyond that we can take some educated guesses as to what the Note 10 might offer. For one thing, based on past form it will probably use the same chipset as the Samsung Galaxy S10.
Now, we don’t know exactly what that will use yet either, but it’s almost certainly going to have the latest high-end Snapdragon chipset (probably the Snapdragon 855) in the US and the latest Exynos one elsewhere.
The Galaxy S10 is also rumored to have an in-screen fingerprint scanner and a triple-lens rear camera, so those features might well also come to the Galaxy Note 10.
The Note 10 is also almost certainly going to have a curved Super AMOLED screen. You can probably expect water resistance too, given that all recent Samsung flagships have that.
And of course, the S Pen will make a return, though quite possibly with some new features and refinements.
What we want to see
While there’s no Samsung Galaxy Note 10 news just yet, we have a good idea of what we want from it. You’ll find our seven main suggestions below.
1. A customizable Bixby button
As much as Samsung might want us to use Bixby in favor of Google Assistant the reality is that for the most part it’s just not as good, and Google has so much of a head start that we doubt it ever will be.
That wouldn’t be an issue except that Samsung insists on putting a physical Bixby button on its Note phones, so for the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 we either want this to be removed or to be customizable, so you can set it to launch something other than Bixby.