Samsung Note 20 Ultra Review with Pros & Cons Indian Unit By Geekyranjit

Hi guys this is transit and in this video we'll do the full review for the Samsung Galaxy note, 20, ultra and uh. Let me quickly divide it between the pros and cons and I won't get into every physical aspect of this device watch my unboxing video for that. But here is a quick refresh for the specs, as you can see, it's having a massive 6.9-inch screen and in India we get it with the Enos 990 soc, and it comes with 256gb of storage and 12 gigabytes of ram. Other specs are on the screen for your reference uh. So let's have a look at this, and I'll divide it between the pros and cons. What do I like and what are the things that I did not like with this specific variant that is sold in India, uh and the first thing again has its note device, and this is the biggest screen that Samsung has now put it's a 6.9-inch screen? So definitely guys. This is a 200 device, because simply you cannot reach all parts of the screen with a single hand, but the screen what they have put.

It's a dynamic AMOLED. What they have put is certainly one of the best screens out there, and actually I'm keeping it very low brightness, but it can go very, very bright. Even outdoors uh, uh sun, it can go very bright at about 1500 nits. So it's one of the best. What do you say screens that you can get on a smartphone period, and also it has this curved edges? I'm not a big fan of it, but yeah.

We have that and uh. The new thing is that now this actually supports 120 hertz refresher rate uh, which was not there earlier. For example, if you go to display, and it's on adaptive, and it's 120 hertz and standard, you can go to 60 hertz uh, it's having a quad HD screen, but I would say if you keep it on chord HD, that simply that 120 hertz simply does not work and Samsung actually claims that these 120 hertz is not 120 all the time, but it changes the refresh rate and that should improve the battery life. But I'll talk about the battery life, specifically on the Indian variant in the later part of the video, so the screen quality is the thing that you will notice on this device and now coming to the looks also, I feel at least in this mystic brown. They call it.

This looks very, very cool and yes, as you can see, the camera is the highlight of this one, and it juts out and the camera is good. Well I'll show you some samples later on, but in terms of looks, I would say uh. Certainly I would say it looks very cool and the build quality is excellent. I would say it really feels actually premium uh and I don't know about you, but I like this color, and I also like the fact that, though it's having that new gorilla glass gorilla, glass 7 as you can see, it does not have any fingerprints over here. So I like the fact generally what I've noticed with many phones with the glass back.

You get a lot of fingerprints, but on this one, as you can see, we hardly see that, so they have done a good job here now coming to one more thing is that Samsung has been putting this ultrasonic fingerprint scanner from about last year and I always complained about it, but on this one, as you can see, you have to always on screen the ultrasonic. Fingerprint scanner has definitely improved. I would say, even if I compare it with the s20 plus or the s20 ultra, this is far more responsive, and I would say this is how the ultrasonic fingerprint scanner should have been in earlier device. Also, here, it's been perfect and never had a problem, so I feel, finally, they have nailed the ultrasonic fingerprint scanner on the ultra uh now moving to another thing, uh, that is the stereo speakers are good. We have one speaker over here and the earpiece also acts as a speaker.

Let me try to give you a demo. Let me just try to play one of my own videos, I'm just going to play this hope it plays oops. My Wi-Fi connection is having some issues. Hi guys this is transit and in this video we'll be doing the review, for this mean notebook horizon and guys. If you recall, I had unboxed this and posted.

So I like the actually stereo speaker on this one, it's actually loud, and I never had to mostly keep it on 100 uh loudness, mostly, I was keeping around 70 to 80, and I also like the fact that uh, the stereo separation is there, and also we do have a little of bass in the speaker, so I feel uh the stereo speaker. Implementation has been done well on this smartphone now coming to another. Small uh thing is regarding the haptic feedback, and here I would say, Samsung has nailed the haptic feedback on this one, for example, when you're taking the photo when you hit the shutter, it feels like you're, physically uh, hitting the shutter that welder. What do you say? Uh haptic feedback has been calibrated also in some toggles when you toggle it on and off. You feel that you're doing it with a physical button.

That way, I would say, the haptic feedback calibration has been done. Very well and we have settings to actually increase it to medium, strong or whatever, I'm not using it on strong, but I have to say this is one thing that I noticed. This is a small thing, but it does make quite a bit of difference, and they have really improved the haptic feedback on the smartphone. Now coming to another thing is that the bottle that is being sold in India comes with that 12 gigabytes of ram, and I would say it handles everything without any issues, as you can see, I'm running multiple apps and I never had an issue of ram management on this smartphone. So I would say that is actually a good thing, so ram management has been done very well on the smartphone.

You don't have to worry about that. I'll talk about the processor in the later part of the video and now coming to another thing. I tested this one here in Hyderabad with ATL as well as Jio, and I did not have any problem. In fact, even with Wi-Fi calling uh, this smartphone worked very well both on intel and Jio and in terms of network reception. I would say, network reception was exceptionally well done on this one.

Even in some of the areas I was traveling where we had low network reception uh. I did not have any issues in terms of call quality over the cellular network, so I feel uh. That is something that they have nailed very well on this I tested here in Hyderabad with the ate as well as Jio and coming to the earpiece. Also, the earpiece is very loud and clear. So again, no problems, if you are a business user, take do a lot of calls.

Take a lot of calls. You'll be happy with it. Even I took some calls with the speakerphone and the quality was very good again. No physical LED notification light, but you do have this always on you can enable it. You get a battery hit of about five percent if you enable it, but I'm using it like this one uh now moving to another thing, as it's a note device, you do have the s pen and now the s pen has been moved generally.

It used to be on the right, right now, it's on the left over here and guys, I'm not a big user of s pen, because I keep changing the phones a lot, but I feel the latency has speed, reduce and Samsung says that now it's 9, ms, so actually feels like you're writing on a paper with this. One also makes this sound while you're writing. So I feel if you are a person who uses this pen a lot you'll be happy with this one. They have also added some gestures and stuff with the s pen. So that is something that I have noticed.

One thing I'm not liking is that I am getting some notifications here. This is an ad that sort of ad I got in the notification. This is still being pushed by Samsung. So I don't like that on a premium. What do you say smartphone? Why are you doing this? This is not a cheap smartphone cost about one and a half la one, lakh, five thousand so again, coming back to the point, the s pen is there, and you have all the functionality that you would expect with the s pen.

So you don't have to worry about that, and it works very well. I would say the s pen functionality is there, and you also have some new gestures. Also, you can do like this. It just goes back and like this, so they have added some new gesture. So if you always like this pen, this is, I would say, improved version of this pen.

Frankly speaking, I did not use the s pen a lot, but you do have the s pen functionality now coming to one thing that really blew my mind on this one. Is this, and I think so, Samsung intentionally did this. As you can see the camera juts out, and I would say this is the best implementation of a camera smartphone by Samsung. Yes, it has the specs. The main camera is 108 megapixels.

Then we have a 12 megapixel, that's ultra-wide and again now one more 12 megapixels, that's actually a periscope zoom. It has a 5x zoom and can go digital zoom up to 50x and, as you can see here are some of the samples that I took with this smartphone and, as you can see, they actually came out perfect, and even if you shoot in the regular, auto mode out of 10 photographs, it will come out really, really good. The camera is so good, so you don't have to worry. If your no voice also just put it on auto mode and take the pictures you get it. The zoom also works very well.

I would say much better than the s20 ultra and uh. Yes, the up to 5x, it's actually optical. So then 1020 is digital and can go up to 50. I would say: don't go up to 50x here. As you can see, this was 50x it smears up, but up to about 20 x zoom, you can get some detail and I would say: 10x is very, very usable.

So, yes, you do have that zoom. Apart from that, if you don't even use the zoom, I feel the regular camera is good and even the ultra-wide performance was actually perfect, and the camera is one of the form cards of this smartphone. I would say one of the best that I've seen on a Samsung smartphone. In fact, I would say the camera has been calibrated uh much better than even the s20 ultra going to the front facing camera. I was surprised that it's a punch, hole uh, it's a just 10 megapixel camera, so I did not have very high expectations, but, as you can see, uh the front facing camera performance was also very good.

The portrait mode also works. Yes, there is sometimes that blurring is not perfect. But overall, I would say the camera performance, even with the front-facing camera, was actually perfect. So I would say uh if you are sort of a business user, and you use a lot of camerae, then I feel the camera is the big improvement and I would say they have intentionally put out this camera out like this. It's that's the highlight of this and Samsung watched that this is a camera centric smartphone, so guys these were the things that I liked about this device.

So now, let's move to the list of cons that I have- and this is specific to the variant that is sold in india. We are getting the Enos 990 soc guys, and this is the same one that we got even with the s20 plus series 20 ultra. So that's not a change. Sadly, we are not getting the snapdragon 865, plus that we are getting in other countries like United States and some other countries, so I feel uh Samsung should have even given us the snapdragon 865 plus here, whereas the pricing of the smartphone is not a low in India, it's about one lakh, five thousand, though we are paying the premium. We are not getting the superior processor uh, I would say uh.

The snapdragon 865 plus would be almost about 20 percent better in performance compared to the Enos 990 soc, and that brings me to the battery life of this smartphone. Frankly, spending uh speaking guys uh. This one has a 4500 William hour battery and I would say I was not impressed with the battery life of this smartphone. Let me actually show you this actual start, so that you have a better idea. If we go towards device care and battery, let me show you the battery stats and, as you can see, let's just go over yesterday and, as you can see, I had a screen on time of just about four or eleven minute, and I was down to this- was roughly about twelve or thirteen 13 and that's the story that I'm having uh.

This was the heaviest day that I could get the best battery life, that is about five hours of sot, and it was down to about seven percent at night, and I had to charge it a little. So in terms of what you say, the battery life is just average on this one considering know what is a business centric smartphone uh, I would say you should expect a battery life of about four to a max of about five hours of sot. If you are having this Enos variant of the processor- and that is slightly disappointing uh, because I was watching some western uh YouTubers review and those guys were getting almost six hours of sot- and I feel that is because of the snapdragon processor that is being used. I feel uh due to this Enos. What do you say soc and that 4500 William hour battery the battery life, if you're a heavy business user, you might have to top it up in the evening at around seven or eight o'clock? That's my frank opinion.

So, regarding the battery life, I'm not that happy. If only we had the snapdragon variant that would have got us almost about 20 battery life, then it would have been okay, but currently I would say, if you're a heavy user, you will struggle at the evenings so make sure you top it up around the evening time frame now. Coming to another thing: is that uh? I have noticed that this smartphone does tend to get a little warm, even with sort of extended regular uses like I was browsing on Twitter, uh replying to people and doing my regular stuff over here and watching one or two YouTube videos. The back does tend to get a little warm and I think so again. This is because of the Enos 990 soc.

It's not like it's getting hot, but definitely it was getting a little warm to touch even with casual music, and that brings me to the point that uh don't get this smartphone for gaming. I did play Call of Duty on this one, and it played fine, but the problem was that, after just about 10 minutes of gaming, the smartphone heated up so much it became very, very hot and the battery was also draining and again I feel that's because of the Enos 990 soc. So, yes, you can game on this, but I will not recommend this smartphone if you're sort of a gamer uh now coming to uh. Another thing is uh: it's priced at about one lakh, five thousand. So it's crossing that one lakh price barrier, and I was checking Flipkart and there it's just said that you get an instant 8, 000 cashback, if you're using a HDFC card.

So I don't get the pricing. Why can't you directly price it uh? What in one lakh, five thousand minus that eight yeah 8k to about 97 or 98? Why have these silly offers like this? So I don't get it, so I don't know at this pricing how many people will go with it? It's not a bad phone. The display is gorgeous the s. Pen works, the stereo speakers are good. Haptic feedback is excellent, but I feel they should have given us the snapdragon, 865 plus variant, considering the price point that we have and again, if you're sort of a heavy user.

I feel the battery life is just mediocre on this one expect, realistically about four to a max of about five hours of sot anyways, guys. That was my review of the Samsung Galaxy. Note, 20 ultra. What do you guys think about this smartphone and guys, if you're still not subscribed to my YouTube channel hit that subscribe button? This is transit and I hope to see you in my next video take care guys.

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