Samsung Galaxy S10 5G ties with Huawei P30 Pro in DxOMark, first ever smartphone to score 100 in video

Samsung Galaxy S10 5G ties with the Huawei P30 Pro with a total score of 112 in DxOMark's camera reviews!

Samsung Galaxy S10 5G

First ever smartphone to score 100 in DxOMark Video

The Samsung Galaxy S10 5G ties with the Huawei P30 Pro with a total score of "112." It lags behind the P30 Pro in Photo with a score of "117" against the P30 Pro's score of "119" mainly because of the class leading 5x optical telephoto zoom.

The rear quad-camera set-up of the S10 5G is made up of a 12MP dual aperture wide-angle camera with dual pixel autofocus and OIS, the 16MP f/2.2 ultra-wide angle camera, the 12MP f/2.4 telephoto camera, and the dedicated TOF sensor. It can shoot 2160p at 60fps and up to 4K 30fps.

Rear camera scores

The S10 5G makes up for it in video with a score of "100" making it the first ever smartphone to achieve this score.

The largest improvement over the S10/S10+ which scored "97" in video is that Samsung increased the native resolution to 4K that significantly improved detail, textures, artifact and noise performance. It retains the excellent target color and target exposure with good noise to detail trade-off that make it great for hand-held low light video recording.

What is interesting is that the ToF camera is only used for the Live Focus mode in video and not in stills. Samsung however changed the main camera for Live Focus to the telephoto instead of the standard wide-angle camera. (You still have the option to switch to the standard wide-angle camera) This resulted in less distortion and increased resolution which bumped up the score of the S10 5G.

Number 1 for selfies!

Selfie camera test summary

DxOMark released a separate camera review for the S10 5G's selfie camera and has crowned the S10 5G as the best selfie camera on a smartphone ever. The results are mostly the same in stills with the regular S10/S10+ but Samsung has made significant improvements to the S10 5G's video capabilities which bumped up the score.

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Source: DxOMark