Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra Reviewed | The Gadget Show By The Gadget Show

Samsung have made some very bold claims about their new s20 range, and I was up bright and early and full of excitement ready to take delivery of the s20 ultra model, it's packed with top-notch specs and features, but all that comes at a price just under 1200 pounds to find out if the phone is any good and worth all that hard-earned cash I'm going to spend a day with it, taking it out for a test around from mm-hmm. Quite a weighty foam, 220 grams 6.9-inch screen big camera bulge at the back, a very promising assortment of lenses fashionably the screen extends right to the edge of the bodies of phone, very good to look at on first impressions anyway, whoa anyway, that shouldn't be a problem. It is ip68 water-resistant and dust resistant. That's 1.5 meters of debt for up to 30 minutes. That's fresh water, though not old gray, so the ultra is off to a decent start, but before I delve further into it's state of the art, delights, I'd better make sure it's got a full tank. There is a super-fast charger in the box as 12 minutes until fall.

It says now the feature that Samsung have worked on hardest with the s20 ultra is its camera, and obviously I'm desperate to try it out Samsung's, calling the s20 ultra the phone that will change photography, which is a pretty bold claim. So what's so special well, the headlines are that you can take stills in up to 108 megapixels of resolution, and then it has an up to 100 times, zoom first up I'm using the telephoto lens. This has a 48 megapixel sensor and periscope like folding optics, which are combined with more and more digital processing. As you zoom further in over 10 times, it starts to use a lot more digital processing, which you can certainly tell, but the image stabilization is doing a very tolerable job of me. Helping finds the target, and you get a kind of picture-in-picture effect.

So you can see on a wide view where you're pointing the camera which helpful framing. But when you get to a hundred times OOM, it can be tricky identifying distant objects, I think quite a few bottles lined up. What are they? Oh, it's beer rather than wine. I can tell that fuzzy. That's a very, very fuzzy.

Next up the main wide-angle lens. This has a massive 108 megapixel sensor. To put it in context, that's 9 times more pixels than life. Only leavens, let's have a look back. Those 108 megapixels do give you extra sharpness.

The photography fun doesn't stop there. It also has a 40 megapixel selfie camera, a 12 megapixel ultra-wide and a depth, sensing camera which helps you add creative touches like blurred out backgrounds and if you can't decide which one to use there's something called single take mode which allows you to shoot for up to 10 seconds in a variety of formats, both Stills and video I'm, not quite convinced by the photos chosen as the best, though right, I, think even by my standards. That's enough photography for one day time for a cup of tea and to check my mentions the earth.20 Ultra is running the latest version of Android 10, and it's overlaid with Samsung's 1 UI 2.1 interface, which is making my essential journalistic research. My smooth experience, the interface aims to keep your interactions at the bottom of the phone screen, leaving the top as a viewing area. It's got face, ID and fingerprint security.

The fingerprint reader is hidden beneath the screen, I mean it doesn't feel ungainly or large. The keyboards, nice and easy to use seems to be fast and responsive definitely is a premium phone experience. I think I'd be definitely buying a case because I keep touching the sides of the screen inadvertently achieving unwanted effects. It's all very well having an edge to edge screen, but can sometimes be rather inconvenient and evenly. Please so far, then the 1200 pound price tag seems to be worth it, but if you're shelling out that much money for a phone, you really want it to be a gadget that can do everything now, I'm, not one to engage in epic fortnight death matches on a daily basis, but mobile gaming is a huge force that just over a grand you'd want your s20 ultra to do it extremely well.

The s20 isn't built as a gaming phone, but it does have an impressive set of specs, but Oh that'll. Give you a satisfying gaming experience on the go. It's one of the few phones to have a screen which has a 120 Hertz, refresh rate, as opposed to the normal 60. That means it'll support games that play at 120 frames per second, like this one I'll tell Odyssey should make for a super smooth experience, although I must admit the screen isn't quite as tactile as I'd like and also not very bright out here in broad daylight. Another thing we all use our phones for is streaming movies and TV shows instead of popping on the goggle-box.

I'm using you guessed it the s20 ultra now the 6.9-inch AMOLED screen might not be that bright in broad daylight, but it should be perfect for a box set marathon here at home, excellent and war. What a glorious screen, certainly big enough to get involved sound quality, okay rather than exceptional now, and he does a stand to put it off after a day with this new flagship phone, I'm, certainly impressed by its abilities, but my enthusiastic use has taken its toll on the five thousand William hour battery we're down to 26%. Nobody else gets the end of this episode without going down to a low-power mode or plugging in starting and finishing the day with charging. That's one thing that doesn't change about phones, so John a very thorough, rigorous examination and expect nothing less, but you didn't discuss the video function. I want you to leave something to talk about in the studio, I didn't for those awkward silences.

You know that wasn't awkward at all. Tell us about the video function. Well, it's improved. They've got better image. Stabilization I tried out earlier actually on the staircase outside left hand, side, no stabilization, right-hand, side, image stabilization, which now features AI to help it along I think it does a pretty good job mmm-hmm.

It can also now shoot in 8k video, which I will demonstrate by taking some nice shots of Georgie here. If you do your very best, nice smiley face, isn't it, and then I can stop? Recording and I can go back, and I can extract a 8k still from that. Video I can then share it onto the screen thanks for that, can you zoom into their faces? Yes, what I'm going to treasure that forever? Yes, okay! So in summary, what you think of the phone? Well, if you're after the best camera in a phone, it's a choice between this s20 ultra and the Hawaii, a p40 pro at the moment and Hawaii doesn't come with Google services, so this has a lot of going for it. On the other hand, there are new phones coming out all the time that might actually be potentially a bit better, particularly Apple's iPhone 12, which is coming up in the autumn. If you're not, that worried about the camera, it's probably worth getting something a little cheaper I mean even Samsung's, Galaxy, S, 20, plus still a very good all-round phone, not quite the price tag.

Well, thanks for that John you.

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