Samsung announces the Galaxy A10s - 4,000 mAh battery and fingerprint reader

Samsung has just taken the wraps of its latest A-series phone - as the name implies, the Galaxy A10s is a refresh of the original Galaxy A10 with a couple of key improvements. It adopts a larger battery and adds a rear-mounted fingerprint into the mix - something the standard A10 was missing.

The phone features a 6.2-inch IPS Infinity-V screen (so a v-shaped notch) with a resolution of 720 x 1520px. It is powered by an octa-core CPU (4 cores clocked at 2.0GHz and 4 cores running at 1.5GHz). It also packs 2GB of RAM and 32GB of storage expandable via microSD.

The camera setup on the back consists of a 13MP main unit with f/1.8 aperture and a 2MP depth sensor. The notch houses an 8MP camera with f/2.0 aperture supporting face unlock.

The whole thing draws juice from a generous 4,000 mAh battery (600 mAh up from the standard A10) and runs on Android 9.0 Pie with One UI on top.