Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra Review By MobileTechReview

This is Lisa from mobile tech review and this is the Samsung Galaxy S 20 altar 5g we're in the United States. So we have the snapdragon with the 5g modem inside. Yes, there been other reviews, and they've been earlier. We got in a couple of days later than some reviewer friends out there, and also I was waiting a bit longer because there was where the Samsung had a camera. Software update that had been out in Korea I thought. Maybe we would get it here, no such love.

So it's time to review this absolute beam of a phone, we're gonna, look at it now. This phone is going to have a hard time, obviously because of its price tag, it's $13.99, that's $1400 for the base model in the United States. So for that much money, you're expecting a lot. It doesn't flip and Bend like the Samsung Galaxy Z flip, which is actually 20 cheaper, but it is Samsung's new phone that goes even above there already flagship s, 20s, 20, plus line to try to throw in every possible high-end feature you can think of, and I will give them credit for that. Of course, you still get the same processor and in the same technology for RAM and storage.

If you go with the S 20 or the S 20 plus you get that snapdragon e8 65 with the X 55 5g modem inside, but what you get here is five thousand William battery, so that's the biggest among all of them. Yet for battery capacity, you get the fanciest cameras and believe me, we will talk about the cameras. Some it's got. The biggest display 6.9 inches versus six point, seven inches for the s 20 plus now 0.2 inches, which is five millimeters, isn't a huge difference. Yet this phone is a lot bigger.

I! Don't talk about that in a minute. ? you've got a K video recording, which you do get on the other phones as well. So here's our already thing. Some problem is that the less expensive phones had some of the same features now granted the S 20 plus, is still $11991200 your base s 20 is $1000. Blame part on that of that on the Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU and modem, which adds about $200 to the price tag and Qualcomm is charging manufacturers considerably more than they did with the outgoing processor.

So if this was a 1200, our phone may be a little more forgiving. You get the idea there when it comes to the size, even though it's only 0.2 inches, bigger and screen size than the s 20, plus it's considerably thicker about a millimeter thicker than the s 20 plus, and it weighs 220 2 grams. This is a half pound phone, the thickness and the weight will have worn on me. If you watched my Smackdown between the S, 20 plus and the ultra, you know this, or even my S 20 review, watch that too. If you're interested in that phone, it's fine when you play with it and the store.

Do you think oh I can handle this not much of a difference? You live with it for a week or two weeks, and it's a consideration and then, when you consider the case, you're going to have to put on there, which is gonna, have to be thicker than normal to cover that very large camera hump on the back, it's a bit of a physical Beast, and it come to your choice of black, which is perfectly fine and a lot of people like a black phone, and your other option is gray. I, know gray right I mean we talked about it's a great day: battleship gray, not the greatest of connotations and surprising for a flagship e of flagship e phones usually get the most awesome. Color options there to try to upsell you to that gorgeous color, but know if you go with the other s.20-Miles you'll actually get a more broad color selection, with some very pretty color. Alright I am picking on the phone. What's good about the phone.

Is its fast? It's solid! It's stable! Furthermore, it's very competent that snapdragon 865 is a performer. You get 12 gigs of ram on the basement, which is more than enough for even power. Users. Believe me and you get 128 gigs of storage, which is slightly depressing for the price, but there is a micro SD card slot. You can go up to 16 gigs of ram, which you really don't need and 512 gigs of storage, which is up to you if you do need, but then you're looking at a $1600 phone, so in terms of 1ui, 2.0 and android 10 on this, the phone is fast. Its fluid and the days of Samsung in Touch ID are long over I.

Don't expect this phone to slow down I haven't encountered any weird thuggish other than the challenge with autofocus on the camera, but that's a separate kind of issue. It's a good phone, and it has the top of the line of everything. So that's what stands in its favor and for those who can really like big honking phones in your hand, even this might be the phone for you and if you like, big honking phones well at least it is less expensive than the Samsung Galaxy phone right. So let's talk about that Jews space zoom for a minute, I know some of you are just making jokes about it's, the perv camera, or something like that. No, obviously it's marketing! Yes, it can go out to 100x, and you can take moonshots with it, which is fun for some people it's there.

So you can do that and say. Look at my picture of the moment beyond that. Obviously, the sweet spot is gonna, be at lesser zooms and that's where it really can be useful. Who is this for also? This phone is for those who would like to shoot. Birds Wildlife Zoo like I like to do without having to bring along something insane when I go to the zoo.

This is what I take away. It gets worse when they zoom it out. This is how long it gets. Okay, this is a 300 millimeter lens. This thing weighs several pounds.

This is not fun to carry anybody who travels with me to the zoo is always like. Can you spend less time playing with your giant camera and all that sort of thing so anything of it? It's a miracle. Yes, it's $1400 fun, but still it can sort of stand in for this you're not gonna, get the same clarity on zoom, but if you're zooming at 5x, it looks perfect if you're going to 10x, it's still pretty usable, not I, wouldn't put them on Flickr at 10x, mind you, but for using something like Instagram and your social media shares and all that stuff. It's actually pretty good, and it doesn't weigh 5 pounds like this whole thing does, which is a Sony a7 3 by the way in case you're wondering the display on this is lovely I, wouldn't say that the S 20 plus, or the S 20, or any less lovely they're, just smaller and smaller, depending on which one you pick same resolution. So the PPI, the pixel density, is slightly lower actually on this one, because you're stretching out to a bigger screen, but it's still 511 PPI, which is so beyond what even the most eagle-eyed of us can see that hey, it's great 120 Hertz display, which is available across all the s20 models.

Is here, and I really like that it means less blurry motion blur. It makes your phone feel faster, it's a little easier on the eyes. You can only use right now that hundred twenty Hertz at the default resolution that Samsung always ships, these phones at which is the full HD plus resolution. So it's like 24 hundred by 1080 resolution. It's still super sharp at that, so I've been rolling with that they say there are gonna, have an update that lets.

You run it at the max resolution, which is insanely high. You can see the specs on screen, I'm sure that will tank your battery life. News is here with specially with this five thousand William battery running in at 120, Hertz, maybe shorter, by about half an hour for run times versus running into default, Full HD, plus 60 Hertz. So it's totally worth it. In fact, I find that running it.

The full HD+ resolution is actually going to kill the battery faster than 120 Hertz does so cool. The display, just like the other models, is less curvy on the sides, which is one of my favorite things. So less accidental edge presses and a little hand friendlier. It just feels a little better ergonomically I'm thrilled with that, and, yes, it has a fingerprint scanner under the display. They have changed location a little to make it easier to actually hit it, but it's the same technology as the s10 family, which means it's sometimes a little bulky.

Better software I would say: I get fewer fails, but I still get some, which is a little infuriating. There's 2d facial recognition, which isn't the most secure. You couldn't very fool it with a big picture of you, for example, but it's there for those quick unlocks when you're at home, and you're not hopefully worried about your family, unlocking it on you or something like that. You've got Samsung pay, as you would expect the usual knocks for security and fast wireless charging, and also bi-directional charging. So you can charge Samsung, Galaxy Buds or your Samsung Galaxy watch active -.

You get the idea, and it supports fast or superfast as they call it now, wired charging and a twenty-five watt charger in the box. It also supports 45 watts. A twenty-five watts is a lot faster than your standard charger. Going up to forty-five doesn't make that much of a difference bomb because they have to keep heat in check while charging it. It has a 40 megapixel selfie camera, which can also shoot a 10 megapixel doing pixel binning, which is the same resolution as the lesser as 20 models, and it's fine.

If you turn off all the features they can possibly do like you know, Expedia and filters, and all that sort of thing you can get some detail and clarity, but to me, it still looks a little more smooth and soften than say the S, 20 + or competing cameras. The main cameras are obviously the big selling point, because Samsung has pushed them aside. It's not the first time we've seen 100 plus megapixel sensors on cameras, but so far the ones I review them in moderate fails in terms of the image processing not being there compared to other phones with this megapixel count, which is 108 Samsung, is doing really well here. It's not perfect. Well, I have to give them credit for having the on average the nicest most crispy, most color balance that I've seen so far.

That's not to say it's perfect, as you know, by now, probably there are autofocus issues: it's using phase detection autofocus, which is not as good as the usual dual pixel autofocus that we see on the regular s20 models and other camera phones. It's a little slower how fast they can ever make it I, don't know, but there supposed to be a fix out there to improve it and to stop it from hunting. The hunting is most noticeable when you're shooting video, because that's continuous, and you can see it focusing in now, sometimes as it has a little fail, but I've gotten plenty of nice shots on it, but occasionally I've gotten somewhere. I. Do wonder exactly what it was focusing on: it's just not as sharp as it should be.

But overall you can take some beautiful pictures with this, and it does have a little better dynamic range. It has a bigger overall sensor to work with, which helps there's a lot of clarity. You can shoot in 108, megapixel mode, but I do recommend the default pixel bending mode, where it combines the data and gives you a sharp shot. There's even some natural both happening be given the size of the aperture, which is F 1.8 and the size of the sensor together. So you don't always have to rely on portrait mode, but there is a time of flight sensor.

Our depth sensor on this phone, so just like the s 20 plus, so I can do both mode or portrait mode nicely, and it has very good edge detection. This one place where it does beam at the iPhone. You don't get as much of a haircut, for example, when using portrait mode and somebody with little flyaway hair like mine, the wide-angle camera is 12 megapixels. It's perfectly competent is the same Sony sensor that we see on the other s, 20, phones and I, like it quite well. You do have night mode on that, which is something that the iPhone still doesn't offer on the wide-angle lens.

The tell lens is 48 megapixels, which is actually less than the s20 pluses when I had 64. But this one actually is a true telephoto. The s20 pluses is not watch my s.20 review s 20-plus review to learn more about that, but it is the telephoto does a pretty good job. The challenge is going to be keeping the camera stable when you're, shooting it longer. Zoom ranges just like with that big honking camera I showed you anything with that kind of lens magnifies movements.

So, overall, with the telephoto lens, the default when you choose a telephoto lens, is to go to 5 X 4 X is actually its optical zoom maximum range, but 5 X takes very nice shots. It's not going to compete with that Sony a7, 3/4 telephoto shots, though sometimes for standard range shots it can, but the telephoto is, are pretty good you'll see a little of artifacts here in there a little of interpolation, but mostly really quite nice. You might even share some of them on Flickr 10 X can be usable, but I would keep it to smaller presentation modes. Again, not big, monitor showing off your kind of pictures but nice. Anything beyond that gets a little iffy.

It's pretty cool, and you can zoom to the crane on the top of the building and use 30x zoom, which is about the maximum for it's a mess. And yes, there's a came. Video recording only 24 frames per second, and you don't get any stabilization on it. So it's good if you want to crop in maybe for video but other than that again they're doing it better than any phone I've. Seen with a came, video recording, we've reviewed just a handful of those that even tried to do that, and it really is remarkable how good it looks.

But there are some limitations so other things to keep in mind when considering this phone is 5g. So it covers all the 5g bands that are low men and millimeter wave high band. There's not a lot of coverage right now, except for T-Mobile, has a pretty decent rollout of low band 5g, and I've been running it actually with the T-Mobile SIM most of the time and yeah. What is interesting, though, is the speed differences. The notice in 4G LTE coverage zones on both AT&T and T-Mobile.

It's actually faster at download upload speeds on those versus the s10 plus, and even the Galaxy Z flip running on the snapdragon 855 and 855 plus and their modems respectively. So you know, get faster data speeds even on regular 4G networks. That's nice! For those who are buying to unlock model direct from Samsung or wherever in the United States. It is compatible with all major carriers. CDMA GSM I get Wi-Fi calling on T-Mobile I'm, getting voice over LTE on even AT&T they're.

Finally, supporting that for unlock phones and, of course, on T-Mobile and on Verizon, so you can buy to unlock model. It's totally safe. Oh one, last thing: if you shake your phone I, don't know how people even notice it and do this, but to shake the phone, and you hold it close to your head. You hear a slight bitter Radley. That's the oh is the optical image stabilization.

What it is basically a gyroscope that the sensor mounts to keep it from level, so it can move around and stay level. So there's nothing wrong with your phone. If you hear that that's just the IS assembly, in fact, once you engage the camera, you probably won't hear it, because it's locking in the stabilization at that point. So there you have it. The Samsung, Galaxy S, 20, altar Samsung has yet another notch up above the s20 line for 2020.

Is it a good, fast, stable phone with a really pleasing display and promising cameras that might not deliver everything we hoped for $1400 and all the promises well yeah? But for those who really want a big phone and have it used for that zoom range? It's here for you, I'm Lisa from mobile tech review be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel for more cool tech, videos and thumbs up. If you like this vid.

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