Ahead of the official availability, you can still place your preorder for the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 and the Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ smartphones. The pre-booking goes through till August 22, and Samsung says they will start delivering the pre-orders to customers from August 23, which is the same time as the global availability of the Galaxy Note 10 and the Galaxy Note 10+ smartphones. The Galaxy Note 10 is priced at Rs 69,999 while the Galaxy Note 10+ prices start at Rs 79,999. There are a whole bunch of pre-booking offers lined up at select retail outlets as well as the Samsung online store, Amazon, Flipkart, Paytm and Tata CLiQ, which you can take advantage of.

Samsung says that if you pre-book your new Galaxy Note 10 or Galaxy Note 10+ phone by paying with your HDFC credit or debit card on the Samsung website or at the retail outlets, you will be eligible for a cashback of Rs 6,000. If you pay with an ICICI Bank credit or debit card on Flipkart, Amazon, Paytm & Tata CLiQ , you will also get a cashback of Rs 6,000.

That is not all, because anyone pre-booking a Galaxy Note10 and Note 10+ would also have the option to buy a Galaxy Watch Active for Rs 9,999—this smartwatch is otherwise priced at around Rs 19,990 or the Galaxy Buds wireless earbuds at a discounted price of Rs 4,999.

But which variant of the Galaxy Note 10 or Galaxy Note 10+ should you splurge on, and how much will it cost you?

The Galaxy Note 10 is available in the 8GB RAM + 256GB storage configuration at this time. There are three colour options available—Aura Glow, Aura Black and Aura Red. All these colour options are priced at Rs 69,999.

The Galaxy Note 10+ range is a bit more extensive. There is the Aura White option which has 12GB RAM and 256GB storage and is priced at Rs 79,999. Then there is the Aura Black colour which also has the 12GB RAM and 256GB storage configuration priced at Rs 79,999. The same colour option is also available with the 12GB RAM and 512GB storage configuration, which is priced at Rs 89,999. The third colour option, Aura Red also has the two options—12GB + 256GB priced at Rs 79,999 and 12GB + 512GB priced at Rs 89,999.

The headline specs of the Galaxy Note 10 or Galaxy Note 10+ include two display sizes (6.3-inch and 6.8-inch) which is AMOLED and what Samsung calls the Infinity-O display. The phones are just 7.9mm thick. In India, these phones will be powered by the 7 nanometer Exynos 9825 chips. There would be a triple camera setup at the back (12-megapixel + 12-megapixel + 16-megapixel) and Super Fast Charging for the 3,050mAh battery.