Samsung Galaxy M10 vs UMIDIGI S3 Pro

The Samsung Galaxy M10 was made available to the public on February 5th this year. UMIDIGI also took the wraps off its long-awaited S3 Pro phablet earlier this month.

We’ll be comparing the two smartphones based on various aspects including outward aspect, design, hardware, and efficiency. So without further ado, let’s delve into the details.

Appearance & Design

The Galaxy M10 is housed in a polycarbonate body that houses an extra large 6.22-inches IPS TFT, HD+ display with 1520 x 720 pixels resolution, 19:9 aspect ratio and pixel density of 270 PPI.

The Galaxy M10 has dimensions of 155.6 mm x 75.6 mm x 7.7 mm and weighs in only 163g even with the battery. The phone comes in black and blue color versions.

On the back of the phone, there’s a 13.0MP f/1.9 and 5.0MP f/2.2 cameras with LED Flash and AF. Up front, there’s a 5.0MP front shooter with an aperture of f/2.0 for selfies and video chatting.

The UMiDIGI S3 Pro features a metal body design. It sports a 6.3-inches IPS, FHD+ scratch resistant display having a screen resolution of 1080 x 2340 pixels, a pixel density of 409PPI and an aspect ratio of 19.5:9.

This 2.5D curved glass screen offers an impressive screen-to-body ratio of 83 percent. There’s no secondary display available on the S3 Pro.

On the back of the phablet, you can find a 48MP F1.7+12 MP (telephoto) dual camera setup with dual-LED flash and AF.

For the selfie addicts, the S3 Pro houses a 20.0MP front-mounted camera with face recognition.

The sturdy phablet has a dimension of 74.7 mm x 157.0 mm x 8.5 mm and weighs in at 217g with the battery. The S3 Pro comes in the black color version.

Hardware & Performance

The Galaxy M10 is powered by an Exynos 7870 Octa, 64-bit processor and packs a highly competent Exynos 7870 Octa, 64-bit GPU, under the hood.

The phone ships with 2GB/3GB of RAM. You can choose between two storage options including 16GB and 32GB. Note that the phone supports expandable memory up to 512GB.

In terms of sensors, the Galaxy M10 features a proximity sensor, light, and an accelerometer. Aside from that, there are three card slots including microSD, microSDHC, and microSDXC available on the phone.

The Galaxy M10 is backed by a 3,400mAh Lithium-ion battery. This built-in cell provides up to 330 hours of standby time and about 18 hours of talk time.

The Samsung-branded phone runs Experience 9.5 OS based on Experience 9.5.

The UMIDIGI S3 Pro packs a MediaTek Helio P70, 64-bit processor along with an ARM Mali-G72 MP3, 3 Cores, 900 MHz graphics processing unit.

The device ships with 6GB of LPDDR4x RAM and offers a hearty 128GB of internal storage capacity (expandable up to 256GB).

The phablet features microSD, microSDHC, microSDXC card slots and a slew of useful sensors like the proximity, light, accelerometer, compass, gyroscope and a fingerprint scanner.

The S3 Pro draws its juices from a robust 5150 mAh Lithium-Polymer battery that supports fast charging.

Moreover, this non-removable cell delivers an impressive standby time of about 400 hours and a talk time of up to 18 hours. The phablet runs Android 9.0 Pie OS.

Price

The starting price of the Samsung Galaxy M10 is about $112. You can find a more detailed comparison between the Galaxy M10 and the UMIDIGI S3 Pro smartphone below:

Product Name

Samsung Galaxy M10

UMIDIGI S3 Pro
Product Image
Price
Our Rating

7.8

8.0
Brand

Samsung

UMiDigi
Category

Mobiles

Mobiles

General

Model

Samsung Galaxy M10 UMIDIGI S3 Pro
Released

Jan, 2019 Dec, 2018
Status

Available Available

Design

Type Design Type called form factor refers to a mobile phone's size, shape, and style as well as the layout and position of major components of phone. There are three major form factors seen in mobile phones => bar phones, folding phones and sliding phones.

Bar Bar
Dimensions

75.8 x 155.7 x 8.8 mm Height：157 mm Width：74.65 mm Thickness：8.5 mm
Weight

Grams (With Battery) 216.6 Grams
Waterproof

No No

Display

Display Type Display Technology => A number of display technologies and types used in mobile phones => TFT (Thin Film Transistor), IPS (In-Place Switching), OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode), AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode), Super AMOLED (an even advanced version of AMOLED), Resistive Touchscreen (Resistive touchscreens contain two layer of conductive material with a very small gap between them which acts as a resistance), Capacitive Touchsceen (Capacitive touchscreen technology consists of a layer of glass coated with a transparent conductor)

IPS FHD+ Waterdrop Full Screen
Size

6 in (inches) 6.3 inches
Resolution

1080 x 2280 pixels 2340 x 1080
Display Colors Display Colors is refers to the number of different shades of colors that the screen is capable of displaying => 64K colors, 256K colors and 16 million colors, Obviously 16M is highest available range of colors and better than others.

16M Colors 16M
Pixel Density Pixel Density (PPI) is refers to the concentration of pixels on a particular display, measured in pixels per inch (ppi). Pixel density is calculated by dividing the diagonal pixel resolution of a display by its diagonal size, higher pixel density better display quality.

420 ppi (pixels per inch) 409 ppi (pixels per inch)
Touch Screen

Yes Multi Touch Support Yes
Display Protection Display Protection => Gorilla Glass is a special alkali-aluminosilicate glass shield with exceptional damage resistance that helps protect mobile displays from scratches, drops, and bumps of everyday use, It is always better to go for a smartphone with Gorilla Glass for that added protection and peace of mind.

Yes
Features

Capacitive
Multi-touch Color temperature adjustment
Reading mode
19.5 : 9 Waterdrop advanced in-cell LTPS Display

Hardware

CPU The main chipset of the device.

ARM Cortex-A53, 1600 MHz, Cores: 8 MTK, Helio P70, 4xCortex-A73, 2.1GHz + 4xCortex-A53, 2.0GHz
GPU GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) is a single-chip processor designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display, This includes things such as lighting effects, object transformations, and 3D motion.

ARM Mali-T830 MP2, Cores: 2 ARM Mali G72 MP3 900MHz
RAM (Memory) RAM (Random Access Memory) is a type of computer memory that can be accessed randomly, any byte of memory can be accessed without touching the preceding bytes that allows information to be stored and accessed quickly from random locations. RAM is the most common type of memory found in computer systems, smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices.

3 GB 6 GB
Internal Storage Internal Storage is a data storage space (flash memory) mostly used in smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices where operating system, apps, music, photos, videos, files and other user data Is stored.

16GB, 32 GB 128 GB
Memory Card Slot Memory Card Slot is a special slot for inserting a memory card. Memory cards allow you to expand the phone's built-in memory, A memory card (sometimes called a flash memory card or a storage card) is a small storage medium used to store data such as text, pictures, audio, and video, for use on small, portable or remote computing devices such as mobile phones, mp3 players, digital cameras.

microSD, microSDHC, microSDXC microSD expansion memory card
Sensors Sensors are electronic components that detects and responds to some type of input from the physical environment. The specific input could be light, heat, motion, moisture, pressure and location, The output is generally a signal that is converted to use in computing systems, a location sensor, such as a GPS receiver is able to detect current location of your electronic device.

Proximity
Light
Accelerometer
Compass
Gyroscope
Fingerprint Sensors
P-Sensor
L-Sensor
Accelerometer
Gyroscope
Geomagnetic Sensor

Software

Operating System OS => Every computer system run on a base software called Operating System (OS). Operating System controls all basic operations of the computer (such as smartphone, PDAs, tablet computers and other handheld devices). The Operating System allows the user to install and run third party applications (apps), apps are used to add new functionality to the device.

Android 8.0 Oreo Stock Android 9 Pie + Luxury Ceramic Design
User Interface UI or user interface of a device is the look and feel of the on-screen menu system. How it works, its color scheme, how it responds to button presses, all of these things are part of the user interface.

Yes with Modified Android Yes

Camera

Rear Camera Camera is able to capture photographs and usually videos, The most important characteristics of a camera are the resolution (measured in megapixels), lens focus type (fixed or automatic), higher megapixel cameras are known to capture higher quality photos, but not always a good measurement of the photos quality.

12.98 MP (megapixels) 48MP
Image

4160 x 3120 pixels IMX586 Sony flagship sensor
Video

1920 x 1080 pixels 1080p, 720p video, 30fps
Flash Flash Light => There is commonly two types of flash lights are used in camera mobile phones, LED Flash (LED flash offers lower power consumption with drive circuitry that takes up very little room, LEDs can be strobed faster than any other light source), Xenon Flash (xenon flash produces an extremely intense full-spectrum white light for a very short duration)

LED Dual LED flash
Front Camera

4.92 MP (megapixels) 20MP

Network

SIM SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) is a small card that contains mobile network subscriber's account information. This allows the phone using the card to attach to a mobile network. The SIM card is most commonly associated with GSM and UMTS mobile networks. Moving a SIM card from one phone to another allows a subscriber to switch mobile phones without having to contact their mobile network carrier. SIM cards can also be used by a phone to store limited amounts of data, such as phone numbers and text messages.

Nano SIM Nano SIM
Dual SIM

Single SIM (Nano-SIM) Yes

Connectivity

Wi-fi Wi-Fi is a popular wireless networking technology using radio waves to provide high-speed network connections that allows devices to communicate without cords or cables, Wi-Fi is increasingly becoming the preferred mode of internet connectivity all over the world.

a, b, g, n, n 5GHz, Dual band, Wi-Fi Hotspot, Wi-Fi Direct IEEE802.11 a/b/g/n/ac + Supports 5G Wi-Fi Signal / Wi-Fi Direct / Supports Wi-Fi Display
USB

2.0, Micro USB Type-C USB
GPS GPS The Global Positioning System is a satellite-based radio navigation system, GPS permits users to determine their position, velocity and the time 24 hours a day, in all weather, anywhere in the world, In order to locate your position, your device or GPS receiver must have a clear view of the sky.

GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou GPS, GLONASS
NFC NFC (Near field communication) is a set of standards for smartphones and similar devices to establish peer-to-peer radio communications with each other by touching them together or bringing them into proximity, usually no more than a few inches.

No Yes
Wireless Charging Wireless Charging (Inductive Charging) uses an electromagnetic field to transfer energy between two objects. This is usually done with a charging station. Energy is sent through an inductive coupling to an electrical device, which can then use that energy to charge batteries or run the device.

No No
Headphone Jack

Yes Yes

Battery

Capacity Battery Capacity

3400 mAh, Li-Ion 5150mAh Powerful Battery + 18W Fast Charging
Placement

Removable

Media

Video Playback

Yes Support 3GP, H.264, MKV, MOV, AVI, xVID, WMV, FLV, MP4, H.263 Yes
Video Out

Yes With Wireless Media Connection Yes
FM Radio

Yes Yes
Ring Tones

MP3, WAV ringtones No
Loudspeaker

Yes Yes
Handsfree

Yes Yes