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5 reasons you should stick with your Galaxy S10 instead of buying the new Galaxy S20

The Galaxy S10 phones are still strong performers with great specs.

5 reasons you should stick with your Galaxy S10 instead of buying the new Galaxy S20

And it still looks like a modern, sleek smartphone.

And it still looks like a modern, sleek smartphone.

The Galaxy S10 is still among the prettiest smartphones, even after the Galaxy S20 was announced. They're classy and clad in premium materials like metal and glass.

The Galaxy S10 has the same variety of camera lenses, including a regular, ultra-wide, and zoomed lens.

The Galaxy S10 has the same variety of camera lenses, including a regular, ultra-wide, and zoomed lens.

The base Galaxy S20 doesn't offer much more in the camera front compared with the Galaxy S10. Yes, Samsung added new sensors with more megapixels and zoom than ever before, but that's unlikely to fix one of the biggest issues with Galaxy smartphone cameras, which typically try too hard to make your photos look good. It often results in photos that look badly photoshopped. Plus, the Galaxy S20's ultra-wide cameras clock in at 120-degree field-of-view, which is actually slightly narrower than the 123 degrees offered by the S10's ultra-wide lens.

It's hard to justify spending $1,000 on the biggest upgrade in the Galaxy S20 that you don't get with the Galaxy S10: 5G.

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5G is one of the biggest upgrades you get with the Galaxy S20. After all, 5G is the next generation of wireless networks that promises better performance than today's 4G LTE. It's a pretty big deal.

With that said, 5G networks are still quite sparse. There's no guarantee that you'll be connected to a 5G network if you get the Galaxy S20. T-Mobile users will have the best chance, as T-Mobile's 5G network has the most coverage so far. Just note that T-Mobile's 5G network is the long-range version, which also means it's the slower version of 5G. You can expect somewhat faster speeds than 4G LTE, but it's not the super fast 5G you may have heard about.

AT&T and Verizon have the super fast 5G networks so far, but the coverage is extremely limited at the moment. Verizon and AT&T customers may get a glimpse of 5G connectivity if they happen to live in a city where these carriers have deployed it, but their 5G networks are unlikely to be the primary networks you'll be connecting to on a daily basis.

There's also the Galaxy S20's buttery-smooth 120Hz screen, but I wouldn't ditch a year-old-phone just for that feature.

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No doubt about it. The Galaxy S20's 120Hz screen makes for a buttery-smooth look and feel while you're swiping around. It gives off the impression that the phone is more powerful and advanced than previous phones with standard 60Hz screens, like your Galaxy S10!

Still, I wouldn't ditch a year-old phone just to get that smooth screen experience. It's a feature that's likely to stick around for a while, and it'll surely be on Samsung's next big smartphone in 2021, and the year after that, and after that, and so on. There's no rush, basically.

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