5 reasons not to buy the Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra By Phandroid

Hey, what's going on guys, I'm nick ray from android- and this here is the all new Samsung Galaxy note 20 ultra now the name is definitely a mouthful, but that's for good reason. This is probably one of the most feature packed smartphones. That's ever been released. There's this massive camera bump on the back. A pen on the inside definitely a lot to go over here, but our full review isn't coming until sometime next week, but before we get to that, I wanted to highlight some of the biggest issues with the Samsung Galaxy note and a couple of reasons why you may not want to buy this phone, but this isn't a complete bash on the Samsung Galaxy note, 20 ultra. It's simply to give you some insight into the device before spending your hard-earned cash on a thirteen hundred dollar smartphone.

That's right! Thirteen hundred dollars when compared to the new Pixel 4a, a 350 dollar smartphone, it's hard to imagine why someone would really want to buy a device that costs 950 dollars more. But before we get into that, let's just go over some of the main features you get a 6.9 inch, quad, HD plus display on this device. That's absolutely gorgeous! It's honestly, one of the best displays that I've ever used on a phone, but we're going to touch on that just a little later, and then you get a 4 500 William hour battery on the inside and then there's this massive camera setup on the back. That includes a 108 megapixel main sensor: 12 megapixel, ultra-wide camera with a 120 degree field of view and then a 12 megapixel sensor paired with a periscope 5x telephoto lens, which can get in super close to your subject. As for the front facing camera, you get a pretty standard.10 megapixel sensor up front 4k video from the front facing camera at 60fps and 8k video at 24fps, from the main cameras on the back, but you're, probably going to want to be shooting at 4k 60 for the most part or even 4k 30. If you want to get better light for low light situations, as far as the other specifications you get 12 gigabytes of ram, 128, gigabytes of storage and then the new snapdragon 865 plus, which is just a little faster than the 865 that we saw in the Samsung Galaxy s20 ultra and the s20 lineup earlier this year.

Unfortunately, there is no headphone jack, but you do get a massive hole at the bottom. As mentioned, you get the pen with yes pen, stereo speakers, one at the bottom one on the front, and then this amazing bronze color with this really nice squared off industrial finish, which I really love so much so that you can technically stand it up. If my desk is fully flat, do it for me, stand it up on its own I've done it a couple of times already. It's really fun to do! Don't recommend it if you want to make sure that the glass on the front and the back of the phone don't crack, so don't do that, but yeah it's overall a feature-packed phone. But again, as I mentioned, there are a couple issues which I'm going to get into right now for a smartphone that comes with a 108 megapixel sensor and a 5x periscope telephoto lens.

You wouldn't think that the camera wouldn't be my number one complaint with the Galaxy Note 20 ultra, while the specifications of these two things sound, really impressive. The real world results aren't really that great honestly I've been taking it out and comparing with it with the 350 dollar Pixel 4a, which only has a 12.2 megapixel single sensor on the back of this phone and honestly in a lot of situations, the Pixel 4a can take better images when compared to the Galaxy Note 20 ultra with its 108 megapixel sensor. The reason for this is that the pixels in that sensor are so small and especially in low light conditions. Having a smaller pixel means that you're not capturing as much light. So 108 megapixels sound good on paper.

Isn't really that good in real world scenarios now the same can be said for the 5x periscope telephoto lens? That's with that second 12 megapixel sensor on the back of the phone. You can see it's a little different shape at the very bottom. Now, while you can get in really close to your subject at 5x. The trade-offs here really aren't that great having 5x versus 3x that you get on the standard galaxy s20 devices is honestly not that much more impressive. Yes, you can get in a little closer if you're trying to get really close to a subject, but the end results from those images really aren't that much sharper or allow you to see that much more detail in the images themselves and then again 8k video capture.

This is definitely just trying to future-proof the devices, because you can always already purchase 8k TVs as of right now, but it's going to be awhile until anyone can really appreciate that I mean dropping a file, a 8k video file onto a regular PC or even the laptop that you have most likely. You can barely watch it back at 24 frames per second, so it's going to be awhile until our computing systems are powerful enough to even watch those back. The second complaint that I have with the Galaxy Note 20 ultra again. That name is super long is the overall size of this phone. I mean this thing is a beast for comparison.

This is the Samsung Galaxy note 10 from last year, and the reason I purchased the note 10, rather than the note 10 plus, was because of its size. I was really, really loving. The fact that you could get a note smartphone that wasn't massive and going from this size to this size is unbelievable and the difference here is. You can still buy a slightly smaller Galaxy Note 20 this year, but the difference in performance between the two is substantial. As far as the differences in their cameras as well, so you're getting a lesser device.

If you buy the Galaxy Note 20 versus the note 20 ultra, which really wasn't the case last year, when you went with the note, 10 or the 10 plus. I really think this is a step back in terms of usability as well simply holding a phone. This is big, especially something that you're supposed to be holding, because if you put this on a table trying to type or write a note that camera bump just gets in the way you're going to have to put a case on this phone and definitely a case is going to make it much bigger than it already is. Now one of the most obvious complaints for the Galaxy Note, 20 ultra, at least for me- comes down to the price at 1300 for the base model, and if you want to go to 512 gigabytes of storage, the upgrade from the 120. That's in this phone here, that'll cost you another 150 now charging that much for a smartphone may not sound that bad.

Since we've been seeing price increases quite a bit over the last couple of years, but this is the biggest price increase that we've. Seen from the note line for a very long time- but you might say we have the thousand dollar Galaxy Note 20, but when compared to last year's note 10, it's really not that much of an upgrade yeah you get some new s, pen features, but you don't get the high refresh rate that you get in the ultra and also that camera on the back, the bigger battery and so on and so on. So if you're really not looking to spend that much money on a smartphone, the Galaxy Note, ultra is definitely not a device. That's going to be fitting your budget this year- and this brings me to my final two complaints with the Samsung Galaxy note.20 ultra and honestly, these complaints apply to most other Samsung devices as well, and both of these have to do with the software experience now, one UI and the overall user experience that you get on. Samsung phones is a lot better than what we used to have with previous iterations of touch wiz.

It's honestly a breath of fresh air, it's still nowhere close to stock android or with the usability and the experience that you get on a Google Pixel device, but it's still a lot better than what we got from Samsung in the past. My issue, though, is that there are simply too many features built into the software honestly when we put together tips and tricks articles for the Samsung Galaxy devices, we run into 50 to 60 different tips and tricks, and that's not even covering everything. That's buried, deep, deep within the software, and one of the issues with that is Samsung really doesn't have a way to expose or show users how to use any of these features when they set up the device you get to your home screen. It shows you a couple of things when you pull out the s pen and that's basically it, but if you actually dig into it, there are so many features here that 99 of the time never get used, and my second complaint with Samsung software is the fact that they have slowly been adding ads into as many Samsung applications that are installed on this phone as possible. It's not enough that they already pre-installed 10 to 15 applications on the phone and get paid for every single one of those apps that is pre-installed on the phone, but Samsung's gone to adding ads inside Bixby, pushing notifications to you with ads and even putting ads within the dialer, so that when you open up the dialer, and you're looking for information inside there you're getting pushed different promotions as well as mentioned already.

Samsung is charging us a lot of money for the Galaxy Note, 20 ultra 1300 dollars for the base model, making it one of the most expensive smartphones on the market. Now, for that kind of money, I wouldn't want to see ads every time that I open up applications, especially considering you never really get that from competing manufacturers. So let me know what you think of my top complaints about the Samsung Galaxy note 20 ultra and if they are enough to keep you away from buying this smartphone, as I mentioned at the very beginning, my full review of the Galaxy Note, 20 ultra, is coming up within the next couple of days, so make sure you subscribe to the channel and hit that bell icon as well. If you want a notification as soon as it's online, I'm going to be doing smartphone camera comparisons between the note 20 ultra and the Pixel 4a. I've already got the pictures for those, but you'll be able to see those coming up and also the new Sony Xperia 1 mark ii.

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Source : Phandroid