Samsung Galaxy S20 Review: All the Right Moves! By Marques Brownlee

Hey, what's up guys I'm Kip END here, and this is Samsung's new flagship with the Galaxy S 20 I, actually kind of like that they're catching up the name to the year, so 2020 Galaxy, S, 20, now I, don't know that they'd say this ever publicly. But if you went to Samsung and just asked hey, what's the most important phone that you guys make every year, what's the most influential phone in your lineup will be this, it will be the new galaxy s flagship. This is the phone that the average person sees as the Android iPhone competitor, as the big nemesis, and when you have such a big reputation to protect, you tend to not take as many risks you want to make the right safe moves in the right places and then take the risks with other phones. So I have my buddy gender here, whose YouTube channel is your average consumer to help me out with this one, so you should definitely check out his channel link below so without any further ado. Let's get into galaxy s xx. So Samsung made some moves with this phone, and they're all around pretty great.

It's a new high refresh rate display a bigger battery, a new camera system and 5g, pretty simple, safe, but all good moves, so I'll start with the display, because it's the best upgrade, so you might remember, I was harping all of last year on how much I love high refresh rate displays and there were naysayers, but now we're all slowly, I guess realizing how good it is now Samsung's on board, with the galaxy s 20, and we've got a super fluid 120 Hertz display. It's also point 1, inches bigger and flattened out a bit on the edges. So this is the biggest best change for the galaxy s: 20 I'm a gamer. So when I'm gaming and if the phone support I have the game supports 120 Hertz, it's an it's a whole other level guys it feels so different from regular games that you just fall in love immediately. There are certain types of games also that take that look better at 120, Hertz, like I, was just playing a golf game, and you know it's.

You know the ball flies through the air, and it's smooth and everything, but a racing game where you're really trying to react quickly and stuff is coming at you, real, quick flying across the screen, there's less tearing that's where 120 Hertz looks amazing, yeah and, like I said, if a month it's a month, so, needless to say, I'm, a huge fan of the high refresh rate I've been saying it, but also something you notice in pretty much every phone. That's moving up to the high refresh rate is a bigger battery to keep up with it and so galaxy s.20 also does that moving from thirty-four hundred to a four thousand William hour battery on paper, that's pretty good! That's a substantial gain! It's almost twenty percent bigger, and you also still have the wireless charging, and you have up to 25 watt fast charging, but at the end of the day you just want battery life to hold up alright, so battery life how's your battery been I, don't want to spoil your video, and I'm sure you'll go into detail on it, but generally on s 20. What's that been like I mean I can pretty confidently hit five hours, uh, maybe even slightly under that, but we're talking about 4,000 William hours and 120 Hertz always-on right, so I'm, not gonna, say I'm I'm, pretty happy with it. I mean that's like that's a whole day like getting to the end of the day. No problem, oh yeah, yeah.

For me, it's been about the same as a five-hour screen on time day is pretty good. There are some days when I might need more, and so I can kill this phone in a day. Mm-Hmm I, don't think. I could say that about like that: 5,000 6,000, William hour phones, but yeah, I'm comfortable with the battery at 120, Hertz, yeah, I mean you'll, see a difference between this and like the ultra yeah for sure I. Think so.

I didn't give him the fact that here you are using it at 120, Hertz yeah, it's worth the trade-off 120 hours. Is that good to me, it feels like an even trade between high refresh rate and battery life, meaning this phone got up to 4000 William hours and didn't really gain a ton or lose a ton of battery life. The ultra still has better battery life with that even bigger battery, but overall I'd give this phone a solid b-plus and then, of course, if you really want to save battery pro tip, you can, it's like. It comes out of box of 60. Here, it's put pro-tip, you can switch it back down to 60 Hertz and you will gain tests say around 30 percent battery life by switching down.

So if you're about to have a super long day- and you know you won't- have access to a charger, you can switch down to 60 Hertz fine, longer battery life, but the rest of the internal specs as a reminder are bumped up to 2020 flagship numbers which are just crazy, big numbers across the board, so snapdragon 865, 12 gigs of ram across everyone, 128 gigs of UFS, 3.0, storage to start and all great performers, and as I expected, this phone performs great. Actually, it performs every bit as great as the s20 ultra. That's something we don't talk about as much is the ceiling for performance in these high-end phones is pretty consistent and in a brand-new phone you know going from 12 to 16. Gigs of ram doesn't make that much of a difference right now, so the s20 doesn't stutter or a lag or have any problem multitasking or holding apps on the RAM any worse than the ultra. In case, you were wondering alright I got an average consumer question for you, okay, because, I'm, apparently out of touch okay.

Does the average consumer miss this headphone? This is the first headphone jack being gone from a Samsung flagship. It was gone from the note 10, but like this is the default Android phone, the headphone jack is gone. No, is that is this a big moment for that? It's its a big moment. I'd, say because I think it's just the willingness people are to accept that it's gone. Yeah, Samsung! has been one of the last companies to really hold on to it.

Yeah I, agree, I, know headphone jack, not a big deal. For me, it's been like three years now of me not using a phone with the headphone jack I have my wireless headphones, but yeah I've complained about it for a long time, yeah and then, after a while I noticed a lot of people in my comment. Section would just be like dude get over it like Oh. Am I'm trying to defend you guys house, if you're with it, but okay, if I stop kind of knocking companies for taking it away, yeah you're still gotta have the headphone jack there's a couple options left, but this is no longer one of them? So the new camera system, the last big change in these phones, is kind of funny. It's a 12 megapixel main camera with.

Oh, is a 12 megapixel ultra-wide camera and a 64 megapixel 3x telephoto camera. So of course the specs are a bit worse on paper, but the camera experience of the s20 in a couple of ways is actually better than the s20 ultra. That's mainly because the s20 ultra had a couple issues that the s20 doesn't have, plus a couple of things that the s20 ultra does specifically better than most like zoom, aren't necessarily enjoy or applicable to everyone. So a typical photo from the galaxy s.20 camera is sharp. First, some may find the look over sharpened actually at times, but you can't ever really complain that it's soft and Samsung has continued to tone down and Dow back what used to be this crazy, saturated and vivid color complex to now a more neutral look that I like, and I still think it works.

It definitely still likes bright exposures though, and it will air on the side of overexposure, sometimes, but generally it takes nice photos plus I've had none of the s20 ultras autofocus issues thanks to dual pixel autofocus being back here and the sensor being smaller, also technically means the fringing at the edges that I talked about with the s20 ultra is less of a problem, I'm, actually seeing less involuntary both and less close focus, smearing and then zoom will get you to a maximum of 30 X. Instead of a hundred x, but I still find that's plenty, that's enough for me, like I, mentioned before I, usually just zoom with my feet, but in the few instances where I can't, you will get crisp or faraway shots with just this telephoto I mean videos are pretty solid, especially if you're using like the super, steady. That's really it looks so good. Yeah, I can shoot b roll with this and probably get away with it really I think so. I think for the average person.

Oh yeah yeah, that's true, but for us, maybe not but I- think regular people using this for video they're, not gonna, have any complaints like things are a bit sharp you know, but for the most part, yeah pretty solid. So the 4k video on this phone looks good, 8k video, while it's available and that's amazing, it's still kind of compromised again. It's still 24 fps still has some rolling shutter and has no tracking autofocus, but really the main thing is. It doesn't even come from the main camera. This time it comes from the higher resolution.64 megapixel telephoto camera, which means it crops in a lot and is just generally harder to use, so I'd stick with the 4k video for the most part for safety, so they hit the big three with the right moves with camera battery and display they're all better. But then they have to be smart about preserving keeping the familiar good stuff, which they also did a lot of with s20, so they kept the ultrasonic fingerprint reader, and it fine.

You know they kept the speaker at the bottom of the phone, that's fine! They still have one UI, of course, and all their 25 million features still ip68, water-resistant, still expandable storage. It's actually better button placement, meaning they got rid of the Bixby button. Now they still have the hole, punch camera up at the front. It's moved to the middle now, but it's still a small cutout, and really they just kept the same general design, aesthetic and materials from galaxy s.10 I mean it's a glass sandwich in the spirit of figuring out the average consumer I did a little poll on Twitter to try to figure out how many of you guys use a case on your phone and if I was guessing I would have said something like 60 65 percent, but it was closer to 80 percent of you. So if you're looking for a case for the galaxy s, 20 might as well check out the grip case from channel sponsor D brand I.

Don't have it here, but I think Andrew does over there. On the other side of the studio, you got the one with the teardown skin on it. Let me get that one over here, so yeah the grip seems to work pretty well, it's pretty protective, so yeah like I, said a lot of the right moves. These phones also now have 5g across the board s 20 tests 20 ultra, but the regular s 20 only supports low to mid-band 5g, while the s 20, plus and ultra AD millimeter wave. So you all know how I feel about 5g.

I already have said you probably shouldn't buy these phones just for 5g, but it's worth noting. This will never have millimeter wave 5g, but now that we've seen what Samsung has improved, and we've actually used it, this definitely still looks and feels like the default Android phone, which, if you're going to compete. This is the thousand-dollar phone you got to measure up to and if you want to charge more than that, you have to beat it at something and I feel like that's exactly what Samsung wanted, and they're still happy to have that spot. So big, thank you and shout out again to gender for the collab. You should check out his day in the life video I'll link it below the like button, where he goes over all the little nuances and things you find using a phone like this on a daily basis, but that's the galaxy s 20.

Is it the best phone? No, it's not even Samsung's best phone in their lineup. That would be the ultra, but this is a better Buy. So this is the new default who's. Going to beat it. That's been it thanks for watching catch.

You guys in the next one peace.

Source : Marques Brownlee