Samsung could be working on dedicated night mode for the Galaxy S10

Samsung is reportedly prepping its own take on Google’s Night Sight and Huawei’s Night Mode in time for the Galaxy S10 global reveal. Samsung’s take, said to be called Bright Night, has been unearthed by folks at XDA-Developers from within the company’s stock camera APK included in the Galaxy Note 9’s Android Pie-based One UI beta build. The findings also divulge key functionality of the said feature. 

A dedicated night mode feature isn’t uncommon to flagship phones any more. More and more high-end phones now pack the feature, to help ensure users can click good-looking shots with their primary snappers even in extremely low-light scenarios. Google’s Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL phones can click amazing photos even in pitch black darkness thanks to their Night Sight feature for instance. Honor and Xiaomi also have their own version in the form of Super Bright mode and Night Scene respectively. OnePlus similarly has the Nightscape feature to its name.  

In all the above cases, the primary camera takes multiple photos and then combines them together into a single brighter and more detailed photo than a typical-low light photo shot in the absence of the feature. As such, it would require the user to hold the phone/camera as steady as possible while it is doing the whole thing.  

Samsung’s Bright Night will work on similar lines, as per the XDA report, but it isn’t clear if the company will be keeping it exclusive to the soon-to-launch Galaxy S10 line-up. It should, but eventually the feature should also trickle down to more and more Samsung phones with the Android 9 Pie-based One UI update like the Galaxy Note 9. 

Samsung is expected to globally reveal its next batch of high-end Galaxy S phones, aka the Galaxy S10 lineup, around MWC 2019 in February. The Galaxy S9 was launched at MWC 2018 so we have reason to believe Samsung may do something similar with the Galaxy S10 series as well. But then, Samsung will be celebrating 10 years of the Galaxy S in 2019 which calls for even more celebrations, and quite possibly a separate global launch event as well. Samsung is reportedly working on as many as three Galaxy S10 phones, the Galaxy S10 Lite, the standard Galaxy S10 and a larger Galaxy S10+. There are rumors of a fourth device as well, a beefed-up Galaxy S10 with support for 5G connectivity.

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