Samsung Galaxy S20 (FULL REVIEW OF GALAXY S20 REGULAR) By Mike O'Brien

Welcome back to the channel. What you're looking at here is the Samsung Galaxy S 20. That's it just the S 20, not the s.20 plus, not the S 20 ultra, the S 20 regular, which is the cheapest of the three phones, were released in the s20 lineup, but it's definitely not to be taken lightly. So I can only assume Samsung forgot to make a cheaper model, because this one is still $1,000 in packs. Some very impressive specs, actually the same specs, essentially as the S 20 plus, and the s 20 ultra in some regards, so I'm talking the same processor, the same storage, the same memory and honestly, almost the same camera Bank as we saw in the s 20 plus, so I've, seen a lot of reviews out there talking about the s 20 ultra, and I've, seen a lot of slideshows talking about. You know, pictures from this camera and the cameras on the iPhones and the cameras on the ultra and I.

Don't want to do any of that in this. Video I want this video to be a full review of this phone right here. To show you everything you need to know about it and I want to break it down in four major categories. So first I want to talk about just a physical tour of this phone. I'll show you everything you need to know about it and I'll just give you an idea of what it's like to hold this phone and use this phone then.

Secondly, I do want to go through a camera test to see how well it actually works with video with the microphone quality and with the photo quality in a few different environments. After that, I want to talk about Samsung's big claims if you look on their website or anywhere on their media they're talking about this phone with four or five of big things in mind, so I want to test these out and see if they're, mostly hype or, if there's actually really any truth to that, and then lastly, I want to talk about some pros and some cons, because while this is a very impressive phone, it's not without drawbacks, so I will be talking about that. But let's start off this video, like I, said with a physical tour of this phone you'll, see that it is on the front, a 6.2-inch screen, which is 3200 by 1440 pixels, so very, very high quality screen really bright, really great colors. If there's one thing, Samsung is good at by now it's definitely making a high quality screen, and this is really no exception. At the top you'll see that we do have our hole, punch, camera.

It is our 10 megapixel, selfie camera capable of shooting 4k, and we'll test that out later on in the video, but I like what they did with this. It's small, it's not intrusive, and it does a perfect job. And if you look above that, you actually have a really tiny speaker, which is very, very you know it's very loud, but it's you can almost not even see it, and so that's a common theme with this phone. All the way around the bezels are very, very small. Now the fingerprint sensor is actually underneath the screen here.

It's an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor, I'll test it out later on in video talk about the security of that there's. Definitely a lot to talk about there, and I'll test out the speed as well, and that's pretty much everything from the front as we flip the phone over you'll see. This right here is the gray version. There are several colors I'll show you the screen. I'll show you the colors on the screen right now, but depending on where you look, you might find different colors when it's released so like I know, Best Buy might have like an or a blue, and some other countries might have different colors than what I see right here.

But this is what I saw on the Samsung website now on the back. We do have wireless charging 2.0, and we can also have reverse wireless charging, so you can charge your earbuds or your watch if you're in a pinch very easily from the back of your phone now, the camera block is actually not I mean it's big, but it's not nearly as big as we saw on the s20 ultra for really even the s.20 plus for that matter- and we have three cameras on here- we have a 64, megapixel, telephoto lens 64 megapixels, that's a lot, then we have a 12 megapixel, wide-angle lens and a 12 megapixel ultra wide-angle lens. Then we have a flash, and we have the microphone there, and I'll test. All of that out later on in the video on the top, we have our sim tray right there, which also accepts expandable storage. So we can have up to a terabyte which storage really should not be a problem with this phone at all, of course, with expandable storage, but also the base model is 128 gigabytes.

So you have a lot of storage on this phone. Then we have our microphone. Next to that. Looking on the left side, you can really see the nice metal trim around the entire phone, but they have no buttons over there. All the buttons are on the right side.

So we have our volume rocker up and down right there, of course, and we have our side key, which is a multi-function key, so pressing and holding it can either power your phone on and off or it can summon Bixby. Of course, you could just say: hi Beck's beat and that works as well. You can double tap it to open the camera or any app you want, or you can, of course, single tap it to turn the screen on and off and then triple tapping. If you enable this is an SOS feature which sends a text with an image and a map and a little soundbite of wherever you are, so you can send that to a specific SOS contact. Be careful with that, though, because I've been in like Yosemite Valley, where you don't have a good phone service, I was trying to take a picture, and you can triple tap that accidentally, and then you're, like racing, scrambling to send it follow-up text or fine service and tell whoever your contact is that you're not actually dying.

Now on the bottom, we have a speaker, and I'll test it out, but I will say it gets really loud, and it sounds pretty good. Actually, we have a microphone there, and then we have our USB type-c charging port and data connection port and, unfortunately audio port. So this does not have a headphone jack. It's sad I know they finally got rid of it, but regardless they do actually in the Box, come with the USB type-c earbuds right here by AKG or sound by AKG, and they sound perfect I like these earbuds, they get pretty loud. They have excellent bass response, and they do come with three different little ear tips you can swap out.

So as far as earbuds go they're perfect, and if you preorder, you can actually get some Galaxy Buds as well, depending on where you are so. Wireless earbuds are obviously a great solution to not having a headphone jack. On top of that in the Box, you do get a USB, type-c, superfast charger right here, so 25 Watts should charge your phone up fairly quickly. Hey guys, a quick aside. This phone is actually very similar to the galaxy s.20 plus I have both of them right here, and I will be comparing them side by side in a very soon to come, video. So if you want to see that make sure you go down and click the subscribe button and the Bell icon, so you don't miss it when I make that video.

This phone also has double the touch sensitivity over the previous model, so it should be extremely responsive, and it is actually ip68 water slash dust resistant, so it should be pretty durable in most environments and now for a quick speaker test. You see. The speakers are definitely pretty loud, have excellent base, considering it's a phone so jumping into the next thing. I want to talk about the Samsung claims, the first one. They said a revolutionary camera experience.

That's that's what they say on their website. So if we open up the camera experience here, you'll see that there are actually only three modes on the bottom. Until you go to more, so they have regular photo. They have video, they have single, take mode which is kind of like a way for you to take a like one short video, and then it makes a bunch of different things with filters with slow motion with like kind of a boomerang effect, and you know, I'll show you some of those on the side right here, and it's kind of fun. It's something that I don't particularly use.

I like taking my own, like you, know, single, photo or video and not having to delete them later. But you know it could be fun if you're just messing around or if you see an animal, doing something funny a good way to capture something that could be kind of funny. Later on, we go to more, there is pro mode for photos and pro mode for videos. So this phone does a perfect job of having a whole spectrum of control when it comes to photography and videography. So you can go on like single, take mode which you just let the other phone do all of it.

For you all the deciding on what a good picture looks like and then there's pro mode where you choose every single setting to make the best picture that you want. So this is the selfie camera shooting in 4k 30 right now. So let me know how this sounds and looks, I. Think, overall, the colors look very vibrant in this my face looks probably redder than it might be, but otherwise I think it does a pretty good job. So now this is the rear camera again the shooting in 4k 30.

So let me know how this sounds and looks, but here's an a video in broad daylight I'm, going to zoom in, so it's 4k and then zoom in until 1080, and then also to 720 just to see how detailed the K actually is and if there's any noise, starting with the ultra-wide lens you'll, see that the overall picture looks really nice. There's a little of warping on the edges and the sky is more saturated in the middle. But otherwise it's a good-looking picture. Then, as we get to the wide-angle lens again, you'll see everything still looks perfect. Greens look a little stronger here and then once we get into the 3x zoom everything looks even sharper here.

Yet this is probably my favorite picture out of the group and then 10x zoom is where this phone really kind of shines. That other phones can't necessarily do this. Once you get closer to like 30x zoom, it kind of becomes more of a useless photo and then, when we go to selfies you'll, see that the standard selfie right here it looks. It does a lot of softening on my face kind of brightens, my face up a little and kind of desaturates the background just a little. The rear main camera has much more saturation in the background and the backgrounds naturally blurred, because there's a larger aperture, but I think this is probably a good-looking picture.

Then, when we go to live view right here, it actually really puts a lot of effects. On my face, obviously blurs the background there, and I think out of the three my favorite was definitely the rear camera. Looking at the night photos you'll see that 3 X zoom ignoring the color there, because there's a car driving by it actually doesn't really look that good when you zoom in right here when we go back to the ultra-wide shot, you'll see this one actually has some weird stuff going on with the shadows and things don't really look that good in this photo, but when we go back into the regular wide-angle shot, this actually looks the best out of the three, mostly because it has the largest aperture, and it's really meant for night shots. So the next big claim is 5g and this phone is sort of 5g, but maybe not in the way you're thinking, so there are two types of 5g, there's sub, 6, gigahertz and then there's millimeter wave and don't ask why they named one with frequency and one with wavelength. But regardless the millimeter wave is the one that's like really, really fast and that you might be seeing that you know it's very short-range in New, York City, where the other one is a little more widespread, and it's probably only about 20% faster than the best LTE, which is still good, but that's the only one this is capable of doing so.

This phone does not have the millimeter wave capabilities, which means that you won't be getting like one and a half gigabytes, download, speed or anything ridiculous, like that. The third big claim with this phone is the long battery life with a four thousand William hour battery and only a 6.2-inch screen. This actually lasts a very long time, I'm easily getting more than one and a half days with this. The screen time is somewhere on the order of about 10 hours from my testing. Of course, it depends on like what you're watching and what the brightness is, but I had brightness all the way up volume all the way up playing YouTube videos on Wi-Fi.

It lasted about 10 hours, so I think it was actually very impressive, and so using this on a full day with very heavy use, should not be a problem at all. The next big claim from Samsung is the security of this phone, so they say secured by Knox all over everything, and they do have some biometrics like facial recognition, which is not necessarily the best facial recognition out there, and they also have the ultrasonic fingerprint sensor, which we can test out right now. So as you tap and sign-in, it's definitely not the fastest, but it is supposed to be very secure, and I found that it does a perfect job. It's definitely I've, never seen any other fingerprints I've never heard of other fingerprints working, except for one strange scenario that they ran into last year. I mentioned this before.

It is something that you know with the s10 series if you peeled off the included screen protector, so it does come with a screen protector. If you peel that off, and you put on a cheap one, that is not really well-made, it has some texture on there and the fingerprint sensor may be reading that texture instead of your fingerprint, which means that pretty much anybody could sign in so as long as you don't do that you really probably should be okay. This also has Samsung pass on here and a secure folder, so you can save photos and files and stuff in a secure folder that has a separate pin or biometric to get into, and then Samsung Pass allows you to save all of your passwords on this phone and sign in to pretty much anything you want with just your fingerprint. Then, of course the last huge claim they had was the smoothness of this screen. So 120 Hertz refresh rate is twice as fast as the average phone out there on the market today, which means that, as you swipe around, it's really, really smooth, and it's something that you don't realize you like until you have it, so you get used to 60 Hertz and then, when you use this, you realize that it's kind of hard to go back so actually both side-by-side with slow motion.

Videos here and you'll see how much smoother it is with 120. Hertz I should also mention that if you're using 120 Hertz refresh rate, you are downgraded to 1080p on a display, so you're not using the full resolution. So next I want to talk about some new features with this phone, so they do have Google duo integration. So if you go to phone, and you just start typing in whatever phone number or a contact you'll see on the bottom left a little Google Duo icon. So you can tap on that and very quickly just hop on a call with whomever you want.

I guess. It's kind of like the Samsung, equivalent or Google equivalent of FaceTime is what they're going for right there. This also has some other cool things like live transcribed. That's just a new Android thing that Google has been showing in their new pixel. Of course, they have messenger conversation categories.

So if you're texting people you can save that in different categories for your family for work or whatever you want, you also have custom edge, lighting, I, think that's kind of fun. It may have been out a little before it's something that I didn't notice until now, though, so, when you get a text, it lights up the edge, and you can have it do different things different colors for different apps. You can have it two different patterns, different brightness, different line thickness. It's just kind of a fun thing to have big speed, does have better integration with Spotify on here and with Netflix. Although Netflix I noticed its kind of strange, if you just say, hi Bixby plays the black list on Netflix.

Instead of opening the Netflix app it opens, it opens the web player, which I think is a weird thing to do. This also has the really nice feature of focus mode which allows you to turn off certain apps for whatever amount of time you want, so you can focus and not be distracted by like Instagram or Facebook or whatever apps you choose. This phone also has excellent connectivity, so you can play music on two sets of earbuds simultaneously, or you can have somebody else play their music on your Bluetooth speaker through your phone, so kind of cool way to do that. It connects to windows very well, and it also connects to other Samsung devices for quick share and things like that. So getting into the pros and cons the pros.

This has incredible specs, even though it's the lowest of the three models, I'll show you the specs right there. It still has an amazing processor, and it has a perfect storage, perfect RAM and an amazing screen and just overall feature set I. Think Samsung really hit the nail on the head with this phone, and it's something that I could really see myself using for quite some time now. The drawbacks there are a few. None of them are really that big of drawbacks.

One of them I mean the first one is not about this phone, but I. Don't know why Samsung didn't make a lower model. That's like seven or eight hundred dollars coming in at the entry-level at $1000 is expensive, but dollar for dollar. This is definitely your best deal out of the three phones that came out. $1000 is pretty reasonable for a flagship phone these days, and this one really is one of the best flagship phones on the market.

So the next drawback is the limitation with the 8k so only able to shoot that on your telephoto lens there, and on top of that, you kind of lose your stability and some of your autofocus tracking features where, like it is great, if you're going to use it for a still shot, I mean 8k is a massive video file so really where I would see myself using. This is like, if I prop it up and like you and your friends are gonna. Take a picture. Don't know jumping up in the air or something like that. It's very easy to take a video go back, find the best frame and capture a really high-quality photo.

The fourth one is the limitation with 120 Hertz I think that the screen refresh rate is an incredible thing to have, but not having that in the full resolution. You know it's just not quite there yet to be able to do that. Maybe the battery technology is what's holding us back. Maybe you would overheat if you did that I'm, not quite sure what the limitation is, but you can choose for yourself if you want full resolution with 60, Hertz or 120 Hertz with 1080, if they give you that option in the settings. The next drawback is the lack of a headphone jack I have to mention that I.

Don't think it's a huge drawback for me, but I could see why some people might be upset by that and then lastly, the fingerprint sensor definitely could be improved. It could be faster. It could be a larger area. I know, there's some newer technology out there, and so this one like I, got good at it after having the S 10 for a year, but if you're new to this, it definitely takes some getting used to where exactly to place your thumb and for how long to press it and how hard to press it so that it actually registers your fingerprint and works consistently. So guys, that's what I have to say about the Galaxy S 20 regular, if we're going to call it that I hope you guys like this video comment down below and let me know what do you think of this phone? Is this something that you will be buying? Do you think it's going to be a popular phone, and do you think it's actually worth $1000 I want to hear it from you guys make sure you comment down below? Thank you all for watching.

I'll see you next time.

Source : Mike O'Brien