Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra review! By 9to5Google

So here we are gazing upon the Galaxy Note 20 ultra a series that Samsung continues to improve upon year-on-year and craft truly excellent smartphones. It's just in the market, though, at completely the wrong time, but let's first dive in thanks for watching 95 google on YouTube, remember to thumbs up, hit subscribe and enable notifications with the bell icon to be among the first to watch our upcoming videos when it comes to the physical shape and dimensions of the Galaxy Note series Samsung has always gone for a more boxy industrial design. In recent years, that's meant keeping curved edges on the display having sharpish corners on all four sides and pulling some basic design ideas from the galaxy s lineup that debuts earlier in the year. The Galaxy Note 20 ultra does exactly that again. It takes an unapologetically big size of the galaxy s20 ultra and its huge camera bump and squares off the corners and rounds off the display on paper. It sounds weird, but in practice it actually looks pretty gorgeous in person.

Furthermore, it's also helped by that new mystic bronze color, which is simple, refined and unique. All at the very same time, it also has a slick, matte coating that properly hides fingerprint smudges and the constant buildup on the back of glossy glass phones, although if you opt for a black or white option, you're stuck with a glossy fingerprints finish really the note 20 ultras hardware is just a matter of. If you love it, you really love it. If you hate curved displays we're sorry, but you can't actually deny this is a really striking design, especially thanks to that display the front of the note, 20 ultra houses, a massive 6.9 inch, dynamic, AMOLED, HD plus display it's sharp, it's vibrant, and it has super slim bezels that make you feel like you're, basically holding only at a screen. Put simply.

This is perhaps the best smartphone display on any phone to date. Samsung is absurdly good at making smartphone panels at this point and the note 20 ultra just reinforces that point. It also has a 120hz refresh rate, which makes every interaction feel effortlessly. Smooth Samsung is also debuting, an adaptive refresh rate display on this phone that changes the refresh rate, depending on what you're doing to help save battery life. In practice, we've never really been able to actually notice the change in day-to-day use compared to the s20 plus.

It really does feel as though there is a noticeable impact on battery life for the positive here curved displays are a cruel mistress after all, as they look good but do obstruct overall usability. Unfortunately, the s20s flat display is a distant memory here and while it looks nice, it is annoying to say the least. On top of that, the note 20 is also using the same ultrasonic fingerprint sensor, which was nestled under the AMOLED display that it had since the s10 in 2019. It's still not as fast as a capacitive sensor or a speedy optical in display one, but it seems to work far better, possibly thanks to optimizations and software enhancements in terms of software Samsung's, one UI on the note 20 ultra is bumped up to version 2.5, which runs genuinely like a dream. One UI has become a clean, reasonably refined, android skin.

That has tons and tons of under the hood features that many people will love and, of course, some people will detest, but we're light years away from touch wiz frustration here. A couple of notable improvements in one UI 2.5 include the Samsung notes, apps, which now include the ability to export your handwritten notes to PDF for OneNote word and even other file types as well as converting them to plain text for sharing whatever you want. Samsung can also straighten out your notes to make it easier to read it's legitimately impressive stuff that makes the s pen a very valuable tool for getting things done for a subsection of users out there. On top of that, Samsung is also supercharging decks on the note 20 ultra by making it go wireless, presumably coming to other phones, eventually DEX on note, 20 works completely wirelessly. All you have to do is just tap the icon and the note will search for nearby smart TVs that are compatible.

That even includes just about every smart TV from the past few years, including those Uber popular TCL, Roku, TVs and Baku set-top boxes too. This works shockingly well, though. The performance depends on your connection and hardware. On top of that, I wouldn't expect to use it for games, except maybe with a controller, but it'll do the trick well for sharing pictures or slideshows from an app on your phone Samsung software also delivers a ton of other features that are just hard to not find useful. Day-To-Day scrolling screenshots built-in screen recorders, a pop-out, app resize and more features that I don't even get on my own Pixel 4 XL and are really sometimes kind of useful on this large canvas.

It's not all roses, though, as there are some bad points with one UI as Samsung is starting to get ridiculous with advertisements. There are some push notifications that arrive, trying to get you to buy other Samsung gear or devices even after you've spent thirteen hundred dollars on a smartphone. It's not all too frequent, but it is annoying nonetheless, minor software. Grabs aside, this is easily one of the fastest smartphones we've used this year. That killer performance is thanks to the snapdragon, 865 plus and 12 gigabytes of ram.

The beefed up processor, though, is only slightly more powerful than the 865 delivers in the s20 earlier this year, but the note 20 feels even faster than that should allow for Samsung have, must have done some serious optimization in the background, because this feels like the company's fastest smartphone to date by a complete, long shot. The unfortunate asterisk on that performance, though, is that Samsung is only using Qualcomm chips in some regions. You'll get the snapdragon 865 plus in the US, but overseas in Europe, and some other global regions were stuck with the Enos 990. That's still a fine capable chip, but the differences in performance and battery life are real. Considering this phone even costs more in regions with that less impressive chip.

A lot of note users are feeling justifiably short-changed with this device. We can't talk about, know and forget about the s-pen, though the stylus that gives the Galaxy Note line its name and frankly is following with the Galaxy Note.20 ultra Samsung's s pen is making its biggest leap in years, and it's something that will tempt most note owners to get this device that upgrade comes in the form of latency, which has been reduced to 9 milliseconds. That's the same latency as the Apple Pencil, which has been seen as the gold standard for a little while now in practice. This is simply a treat with latency that low made in part by the 120hz display. The human eye can genuinely can't see that gap between the pen and the on-screen line.

It happens to draw it's impressive, to say the least, and really helps sell the illusion that you're, actually using a real pen on your display. As for cameras, Samsung has managed to address most complaints, leveled at the s20 series cameras and created what might just be the best overall smartphone camera on the market. To recap, though, you get a 108 megapixel primary shooter, 12 megapixels, ultra-wide camera and 12 megapixel periscope zoom lens. That primary sensor was a disaster on the s20 ultra, but some optimization and the arrival of a new laser autofocus system on the note, has helped deliver a primary camera that can better compete with the likes of google and apple shots from this sensor. Outdoors are simply stunning, at least in most scenarios the shots are detailed and have vivid colors that aren't overdone like Samsung often has a tendency to do.

The new autofocus system helps Samsung fix the dreadful issues that plagued the same sensor on the s20 ultra 2. That just shows Samsung is actually listening to complaints from its users and these reviews, beyond the primary camera, the zoom and ultra-wide sensors help round off a killer, shooting experience ultra-wide shots are still of solid quality, and the 5x optical zoom can produce some perfect shots that simply software alone can't head past that point with caution, though, as things quickly fall apart afterwards, especially when hitting that 50x limit Samsung also deserves credit for video quality. Here too, stabilization is great, and clarity is perfect for android. This is perhaps the best video quality we've seen. Samsung has also extended the extensive pro mode that allows users to adjust settings they might like with a proper video camera.

The most exciting part, however, is the ability to use a pair of Bluetooth headphones as a microphone remotely for a generation obsessed with tick-tock on YouTube. That's a genuinely useful feature that might come in handy in the future. As for battery longevity, the 4500mah battery in this phone is pretty much fine. It easily lasts a day with around three to four hours of screen on time and by bedtime we usually have around 40 to 50 remaining with those figures for low or middling users. This could easily be a two-day device, but we'd bet that most people out there will find the note to be a one-day device for them, it'll, probably last till the end of the day, but if you're an especially heavy user, it may not even last that long, especially as we've been hearing, the Enos version lasts considerably shorter, which is something important to note here.

On the bright side, though, fast charging is still around the 45 watt spec from the note 10 is gone, but 25 watt charging over USB-C on board with a fast charger in the box, and wireless charging also joins the package. There's also reverse wireless charging for giving some power to your accessories, but given the not so stellar power pack, this isn't going to be used by everyone out there. So in essence, the Samsung Galaxy note 20 ultra, is genuinely a great phone. Arguably Samsung's best fun today, with a 1300 price tag. It's not a totally insane ask either.

Given the package, though, let's be real, a few phones are actually worth over one thousand dollars. However, we think the biggest problem is that this just isn't the right time for a phone, this expensive to be hit in the market, and the proof is everywhere, including the terrible 60 sales dip from the s10 to the s20. When you can grab affordable devices for a fraction of the cost, but with more than a fraction of the experience, then the note 20 ultra is a hard sell, all be an exceptional smartphone. That said, if you do choose to pick the note, 20 ultra up you're getting what could very well be the best android phone out there, and you definitely won't be disappointed. But at this point I think I've rambled on too much.

What do you think? Will you pick up this Samsung super phone or go for something cheaper entirely? Let us know down in the comment section below, but as always, this is Damien with 95 google saying thanks for watching, and I will speak to you later. You.

Source : 9to5Google