Samsung | Galaxy S20 | Review: Unbox Therapy By Samsung Brasil

So I wanted to talk a little about a hot new device, a hot new phone released by Samsung, the s20 ultra, and the reason I want to talk about it is that I've been using it. I switched over to this phone I was using an iPhone for a while I was using a pixel phone before that. Well, you know that's kind of how it goes around here. That's the job! You try a lot of different phones, you figure them out. You figure out the things that you, like. Furthermore, you figure out the things that you don't, so I thought it would be cool at this moment, given some initial exposure to this device to lay it out for you to give you five reasons you might want to get this phone, or at least five observations.

Five things I like about this particular device, they're, not exclusive to the ultra. Some factors would also apply to the other devices, these s, 20 s, 20, plus, not exactly but like wheels using the S 20, the regular s 20. The number one thing that I like about this phone. Having used it now for I, don't know, maybe three days is the display. Now I, don't know if that's surprising to you or not.

You probably imagine that would be the case. Maybe you thought I was gonna, say camera. The display I put it at number one just because of how big it is. I, just I guess I feel like if you were out there as a smartphone buyer in 2020. You got a budget to support this particular phone and believe me.

It is a budget full disclaimer. Everything I say here applies to a very expensive phone, but you already know that, since you clicked on it, if you want the biggest baddest display, this is probably it in 2020 at this scale, it's the biggest display Samsung has put on a device, and that includes the note series which typically had the biggest displays. So it's got a massive display with very little obstruction from any type of cutout. Of course, we have the single front facing camera symmetrically in the middle, with a small hole punch, it has ultra-high brightness and believe me I'm, a bit of a brightness aficionado I'm, always looking for the brightest screens in daylight, outside I pay attention, I'm curious. This one is one of the brightest I've ever used.

You add to that. A hundred and twenty Hertz refresh, and I've explained this to you in the past, with other high refresh rate devices. This has a tremendous impact on how snappy the phone feels when you're interacting with it. How fast it feels, and it won't completely show up to you on camera, but once you get this in hand, it's going to be hard for you to go back to a regular 60, Hertz phone, and since the last phone I was using before this one was an iPhone 11 Pro Max, which is a 60 Hertz device, the gap, the jump was significant, and it's like men look what I was missing. It's not just speed.

It's also sort of a smoothness that comes along with that 120 Hertz. Now keep in mind. It does use battery and that has been one of the criticisms of this particular device. Even though it has, it's a big footprint, it has an enormous battery in it at 120 Hertz. If you're watching a lot of video you're moving around a lot you're playing game, something like this, you can drain it.

It is possible. So just keep that in mind. If you want better battery life, you can toggle back the 120 Hertz, but you know me: it's like max brightness, 120, Hertz I want to experience the ultra in Ultra format. If you care about the display mate stuff, they took a look at this screen and basically ranked it up at the top tier. So you put together the resolution, the size, the 120, Hertz, refresh, Samsung's history and delivery of OLED displays the tiny little hole punch.

You just add it all up the high brightness and I think you probably have the most compelling display if we're strictly talking displays, maybe on any smartphone right now. This all depends on whether whether you're in the market for the biggest baddest display, because it is a huge phone, so I could see some people, maybe with a smaller hand, or you just don't- want to have a beast in your pocket. You just say to yourself: I can't handle it I'm, not gonna, do it, or maybe you don't have the budget for it. So I hear you when it comes to that as well. Well is one of these people.

He decided to go for the s.20 standard edition he's been customizing it. He absolutely loves it. Alright number two. This is a weird one, and it does apply to every single new, s20 or well, the latest Samsung stuff in general, one UI, the new one UI. This is crazy.

I can't imagine myself saying this in fact, because you guys have heard me on here before I've been a huge proponent of the stock Android experience the pixel Android experience the Android experience the way that Google intended it. This is one of those rare circumstances where I feel like Samsung, has actually made an improvement, and that improvement applies specifically to this ultra model because of how big it is. So Samsung thought a lot about one-handed usage and, as you can see, I can drag from this point in the screen and get my drop-down. If I go up to the settings area here, I can grab from anywhere and bring it down into a more reachable location. This is my left hand, so the grip is a bit more abnormal, but this is especially important on a huge phone that there's thought that went into.

How are you going to use this thing with one hand, and are there software improvements we can make that are gonna, make your life a bit easier now. This same thing follows through the Samsung Apps and settings, so the default will be sort of like this, but what, if I, have to reach connections in one hand like check it out right now, I can reach it, but the default would stick it at the top making it further away from me. This matters on a device. That's this massive. The whole thing is pretty clean, there's a dark mode baked in its snappy, it's not a heavy skin, so it's kind of crazy I'm sitting here using one UI instead of an alternate browser in 2020 that should go to show you from a guy who's, been on the vanilla experience and talking about it for so long.

That's meaningful! Now keep in mind. That particular point applies to any of the latest Samsung devices and not just the ultra model, and it's kind of surprising I put it at number two, but I. Just I, don't know I feel like it deserves to be talked about. It's a differentiating factor that Samsung has, if you were cross shopping this against something that was a non Samsung flagship device all right. The next one.

This stood out to me right away. Considering the last Samsung device that I used would have been back in the s10 days. They got rid of the dedicated Bixby button which to me, was an annoyance on the previous models now I know. Eventually, you could map these things, those buttons to do alternate things, but I just hated the idea of having this feature forced upon me when you know I'm, a Google Assistant guy, I, like to use Google Assistant, basically was never a replacement to Google assistant for me. So I didn't want this button, reminding me that Samsung was wishing and hoping that I would be using base, beat I feel like he's back into chasing his tail.

Now that he's wearing the thing so yeah I was one of those guys. I was trying to disable and remap the Bixby button, and it was okay. That was a decent substitute, but it just felt unnecessary, and it was just hard for me to get it out of my psychology that this button, represented Bixby exclusively and sometimes I, will press it accidentally and then, in the initial way, that you would disable it, you could still launch it by double tapping it, which just I just wanted to be rid of it, and they did that on this device, which is it meaning that Samsung's listening to the customer base and I think. That's always a good thing so and now, instead, if you head over to the power settings into the side, key settings, you're gonna actually do whatever you want, even with the power switch. So if you still want the big speech situation, you just do it from the power button.

It can either be a double press or a press and hold if you happen to be a Bixby user. So that's a better implementation gives you more control. It's within the one UI, so I just think, Samsung I think Samsung made the right move there. This is my fourth and keep in mind I'm, trying to keep it to things that are not obvious. These five characteristics that I think will make you want to pay attention to this particular device.

Obviously it's very powerful. It has all this RAM. It has the latest chip from Qualcomm. Of course, it has all those things going for it, but I was trying to keep it more into things. You might not think about or things that I experienced and noticed having the device in hand.

So this next one actually has to do sort of with the display again and the flatness of it. Samsung has been through a variety of different curvatures to the edge of the display dating back to the device that actually had the name edge in it. That was a very aggressive edge that they had, and they've been playing around toying with different versions of it, leading up to this one I think they have finally nailed the right edge in 2020. If you could say that now I know, other manufacturers are going bananas with the waterfalls and so forth, but from a person, who's used them all up. Until this point there hasn't been the perfect implementation.

You will get these unintentional presses on the side. Sometimes you would lack a place to grip. They look great. They look very science-fiction with the waterfall display, but from a practicality from a usage perspective, there's still no substitute for a confident grip. So this particular curvature still diminishes the appearance of a bezel, but it keeps it flat enough that there's no unintentional presses and if you pair a case with the device like I, have here, it's even less likely that you're going to touch where you don't want to, because now you have this nice substantial section that you can grip onto as you can see right here now.

Of course, this is a thin case, so it doesn't obstruct the original grip too much. It's not a massive impact, but it just gives you a little more to hold onto and gives you less likelihood of interacting with the edge at all I think they have nailed the curvature for now. All right now, I can't talk about the s20 ultra without talking about the camera. It's a very important component here, it's massive its standout, it's the first thing you see with this device. If I pulled it out of my pocket people gonna talk about this camera they're going to know right away what this phone is because of the camera.

Now the camera has been a bit controversial, so it might seem odd to you that I'm saying is one of the top five reasons to consider this phone controversial in the sense that there's been some issues, Samsung saying: oh there's going to be some improvements on the camera. We're going to have some next software there's been some issues with autofocus been some issues with image processing. So these are things you could address with software, but there's also this argument that you shouldn't have to ask for that. It should be out the gate out the box maximum performance, but Samsung gives you access to a full out pro mode on here which can eliminate a lot of that post-processing. The reason I put it at number five is because of camera versatility, which I think is where this particular device shine.

We're out of the box. Samsung gives you more control over how the camera operates compared to other manufacturers, there's just so much that you can modify within the camera app. The same thing applies to the video mode, which goes all the way up to 8k, plus there's still no real, perfect substitute for optical zoom. It performs better than the other zooms, particularly the digital zoom, that the pixel tries to do at least up to around 10x. Certainly at 8 X you're going to get more sharpness less software guesswork.

This is an area where the hardware is still outperforming even the best software in the world, at trying to figure out what a zoomed image should look like the wide-angle camera I've been using it outdoors I've been impressed with it posted a couple pictures from it, so the selfie camera is also very good. So that's why I decided to title it. Camera versatility, it's a mixture of the available settings, the various video formats stuff in there that you may never use, but that you have access to if you want to dive into it in an ultra model phone. As far as the autofocus stuff and the image processing stuff, we're going to have to wait and see how Samsung addresses it. If upcoming software can improve it, it probably can but just keep in mind that it may progress or change over time.

My last one is an honorable mention, and it also applies to all the various Samsung devices and if you caught the most recent video, then you're already aware of it, and that is Samsung decks, which allows you to plug this horsepower into a laptop or desktop style environment with a keyboard and a display and I haven't experimented with it before, and it actually turns out to be a totally usable thing. It's surprisingly powerful and fluid, and I can see a lot of people in the future. Transitioning to a workflow like that, other manufacturers haven't progressed in this space. Very much hallway has their thing. Then you have Samsung with decks and then pretty much.

No one else is there yet, or they're currently working on it. So it's a nice advantage if you're going to invest in a very expensive flagship device to know that you could have the option of plugging this into a dock, getting a keyboard and mouse and monitor experience or a laptop style experience. If you need to do more work, type, a document and so forth and again advantage for Samsung, so that's five points, plus one extra the honorable mention with decks will. Is there anything you want to add you've been using the s20? What is your favorite one favorite thing. One reason why a person should get an S 20 series device, the one 20 be frustrating okay, I, think that makes such a big deal.

The display yeah I mean like it's so smooth yeah. There's no lag whatsoever for this, so yeah I appreciate something like that: you're going to feel like you've, you've kind of progressed into the next era of smartphone displays, maybe even more so than resolution, maybe even more so than the advancement to OLED. The Refresh has just had a really weird impact on how you perceive the snappiness of your phone, the responsiveness because of the touch input. The way we interact with phones that instant following of your finger, it gives the device more life. It feels more responsive to you.

This all sounds very extreme and very personal and intimate, and that's because it is so that's five reasons and an honorable mention for me that you might want to get the Samsung Galaxy S 20 ultra and that's one reason from will to get an S 20 series in general. It's a moment. You're going to have a moment.

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