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Multiple leaks have come out about the up and coming Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Lite the past few days. This includes the rumoured specification, renders and most recently live shots.
The phone is expected to go official any day now, so how does it compare to the existing Samsung Note 10 devices?
Dimensions & Design
The Galaxy Note 10 Lite is large at 6.7 inches with a 1080 x 2400 display making it site between the two main Note10 devices.
The normal Samsung Note 10 is just 6.3 inches with a 1080 x 2280 display, while the Note 10+ is 6.8 inches with 1440 x 3040 pixels.
The Note 9 is 6.4 inches with a 1440 x 2960 pixel display.
All the Note 10 phones have punch-hole displays with under-display fingerprint sensors while the Note9 has a more old fashion strip for the cameras and speaker with the fingerprint sensor on the rear.
Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Lite Photos
Chipset – Exynos 9810 vs Exynos 9825
The difference in the chipset is perhaps the most significant difference between the phones. The Note10 series introduced the new Exynos 9825 which was a mid-year upgrade to the 9820 shrinking the fabrication process down to 7nm from 8nm and applying a small clock boost.
This chipset consisted of two Mongoose 4 cores at 2.4Ghz and two Cortex-A75 cores and 4 Cortex-A55 cores running at 1.9 GHz combined with a Mali-G76 MP12 GPU.
The new Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Lite takes a step back and goes for the 2018 flagship chipset the Exynos 9810. This uses a 2nd generation 10nm fabrication process consisting of four Mongoose 3 cores operating at 2.9 GHz and four Cortex-A55 cores operating at 1.9 GHz. This is then combined with a Mali-G72 MP18 GPU. The performance of this chipset is similar to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 from 2018.
The older Note 9 shares the same Exynos 9810 of the Note 10 Lite.
Exynos 9810 vs Exynos 9825 Benchmarks
As far as performance goes there is quite a bit of difference as you would expect:
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Camera
The camera specification between the phones are not massively different, the Lite model drops things a little, but for many scenarios, you could expect similar performance.
All three phones have a 12 MP primary lens but the Lite is fixed at f/1.7 whereas the others are variable with f/1.5-2.4.
All three phones have a 12 MP telephoto lens but the Lite is f/2.4 while the others are f/2.1
The Lite model drops the ultrawide specification down to 12 MP f/2.4.
The Note 9 shared the main lens and telephoto lens of the main Note 10 devices but lacks an ultra-wide-angle lens.
The Lite has the best-specced selfie camera with 32 MP, f/2.0 vs 10 MP f/2.2 of the Note 10 models and 8 MP f/1.7 of the Note 9.
Battery
The Samsung Note 10 Lite has the biggest battery of them all with an impressive 4500 mAh battery and 25W fast charging.
The Note 10 has a relatively small 3500 mAh battery with 25W charging, while the Note 10+ has a 4300 mAh battery with 45W charging.
The Note 9 has a 4000 mAh battery with 15W fast charging.
Specification Comparison Table
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