Is it a bird, is it a plane, is it a speaker or an infrared port? Those were the questions we were asking ourselves ever since we saw the mysterious elliptic thingy at the top frame of the Note 10 and 10+.

The first one is marked as “speaker” in the Samsung manual schematics, and is centered at the front, while the elliptical opening next to the SIM slot is also marked as such, but is depicted as off-center, so it’s clear that Samsung considers them as two separate sound-emitters. 

It’s certainly not employed during video playback, as we plugged both the bottom speaker and the top opening and the sound kept coming. When, how and why is this opening emitting sounds, remains to be seen upon first disassembly.