Samsung S20 Review - Some Downgrades From S9? Camera, Battery, Speaker Comparisons By JSyntax

So is it worth upgrading from the Samsung s9 to the s20? That's two generations: between each phone. That's the minimum amount of generations. You probably want to wait before upgrading to a new phone. If you have the last year's model, such as the s10 or the note, 10 I think you should stop this video because it's probably not worth it. You don't really need to upgrade because there isn't any major changes. However, if you have an S 9 or an S 8, this is the video for you, we're going to dive in and see if the cameras, the performance and natural device has improved over to generations.

This is not your typical review where I just tell you the specs and I say: oh, the display is amazing. You should upgrade I'm gonna, give you my thoughts and opinions for my day to day actual usage of the s20. The first thing I want to talk about is the display and of course, Samsung is known for their amazing OLED displays. So this section is going to be a no-brainer. Of course the display is good to be amazing.

However, you do have to acknowledge that you're moving up from a 5.8 to a 6.2 inch display this is significantly taller in the vertical spectrum, but you're not gonna, get any more horizontal space from a practical day-to-day perspective. The extra vertical screen space is not that game-changing, if anything, you'll just get larger banner ads, and it might be more difficult with one hand to reach the notification panel by default. The screen resolution is set to F HD Plus, which is just about 1080p and I, find the pixel density at 1080p, pretty damn good, it's very hard for me to discern the difference between HD and Q HD, so I definitely recommend just keeping it at 1080p and save your battery life. So not only is HD+ overrated I believe that the hunting 20 Hertz display, which is one of the most defining characteristics of this display, is also overrated if you do set it to 120 Hertz refresh rate. Of course, your animations moving through menus is going to look very slick, and it's going to make the parents of the phone gear a lot faster.

However, your battery life will be decimated by this high refresh rate personally. For me, I much rather have a longer battery life than a high refresh rate. If you set the screen to 120 Hertz and navigate through the menus, and then you switch back to 60 Hertz, it will look like night and day. However, if you just set it to 60 Hertz and use it for a couple of hours, you pretty much forget the difference and your brain will come naturally adapt to the 60 Hertz display and everything will appear just as smooth as it was before. To me, I think this feature is a gimmick and definitely not a reason to upgrade I wish.

Samsung would allow us to use maybe 90 Hertz or a variable refresh rate so that it isn't excessively wasting battery for no reason when you're, just looking at text in their marketing Samsung claims that their new displays in less blue light than their predecessors, so I compared the two displays side-by-side, and it does appear that the noose s20 has less blue light than the previous models. I'm not sure if this is a placebo, but let me know in the comments what you guys think, but this is a bonus in my opinion, because any blue light reduction is helpful. Do not disturb your day-to-day sleep. My last comment about the display is that it sometimes does scratch pretty easily if you're wiping it down so be careful if you're wiping it down with abrasive materials. In light of the recent events of the outbreak I'm concerned about how I can keep my phone clean without scratching the surface, yes, I comply a screen protector, that's probably going to mess up with my fingerprint sensor, I'm, not even sure, if it's safe to use Lysol wipes on your screen display, even though the s20 has an IP rating of 68 Samsung states that water damage is not covered by their warranty so running.

My phone underwater with soap is out of the question. If you have any suggestions on this topic, please let me know in the comments the next thing I want to talk about is the look and feel of this device using the s20 day-to-day. It feels perfect in their hands and I, really like the design of the device. I do miss the smallest form factor of the s9 or the s10 II. What's crazy is that the display is the same size as a s9 or is Plus, which is crazy, but maybe justifies the higher price of the regular basis.

S20 I also enjoy the new button arrangements where all the buttons are just on one side. This makes it infinitely easier to adjust the volume. If you happen to be watching videos in landscape mode, you no longer accidentally toggle the pixie button or the power button, if you're in landscape mode, reaching the power button with your index finger is very natural and ergonomic since it's lower towards the center of the device. The edges on the screen are still curved, although they're less curved than the previous generations. The only advantage of having curved edges is when you do a lot of swiping from the edge.

This is something you might do a lot if you use the one-hand operation, Plus app a lot in order to execute gesture shortcuts from the side. For me personally, I find curved edges to be a little annoying because they distort the screen and bend light to make the screen extra glossy on the sides. The only change I do not like, and I think is. A major downside to this phone is the lack of a capacitive rear, fingerprint sensor. They opted to use an ultrasonic and display fingerprint sensor, which has its advantages, but, as I discussed many times on this channel, it is not very accurate.

It's low to a cup device, especially if the display is off. This, is something that I really missed my s9 the ability to use a case such that it provided a groove on the fingerprint sensor so that when you pulled the phone of your pocket, your index finger, it was naturally on that fingerprint sensor, and it would unlock the device instantly in the future. I really hope that Samsung makes the ultrasonic in-display fingerprint sensor area a lot larger from day to day use I constantly miss the fingerprint sensor. Yes, in a perfect environment where you're like filming. Of course, you can get the fingerprint sensor to work almost 9 out of 10 times, but when you're actually using it on the field, let's say you're in a grocery store.

You want to quickly unlock your phone. It's very difficult to do this because the actual fingerprint sensors size is so small, since the ultrasonic and display fingerprint sensor is hit or miss during day-to-day use, I've opted to use facial recognition in order to unlock my phone. It must be noted that this form of biometrics is not as secure as a fingerprint scan. I think it's an utter shame that Samsung has pushed their users to use a less secure form of unlocking their phone just to get the convenience they had in the previous s9 series. I also missed the swipe down gesture on the rear, fingerprint sensor.

You were able to pull down the notification shade to access your brightness, quick settings and notifications within any app, not just the home screen, but within any app. Fortunately, I discovered the one-hand operation plus app, which allows you to use any type of gesture from within any app to pull down the notification panel and perform different types of actions like open custom apps in times when screen are becoming so vertically tall, one hunt is almost impossible. That's why I think that the one-hand operation, Plus app officially released by Samsung, is essential for your day-to-day use. I love using my phone with one hand being able to turn off the display access, quick settings, change volumes, open certain apps and, of course, pulling the notification panel with just one hand, is an underrated feature and I wish more people knew about this app and yes, I'm, fully aware that only on the home screen you can swipe down to pull down the notification panel, which is an obvious setting that I would enable right away now on the topic of performance. I have to say compared.

The s9 performance is almost like night and day. Everything just feels a lot. Snappier and I really do appreciate the nice upgrade from the snapdragon 865. This may be one of the main reasons why you want to upgrade in order to be more productive on your phone being able to open the camera app faster to capture that crucial moment is essential for my day-to-day use. However, one thing I am worried about is the limited two years of software updates directly from Samsung and the inevitable lag it's funny that after two years, Samsung phones seem to like a little more, and I'm, not sure if that's a placebo or something that I'm just imagining one thing I do want to mention was that the s9 was not slow at all from a practical standpoint, not compared to the s20.

The s9 was more than useful, and it was definitely a fast phone even for being two years old. Another minor improvement, Samsung made in its s20 line of devices, was haptic feedback. I have to port, yes, haptic feedback does feel really nice and satisfying. Strangely enough to say, however, I usually disable haptic feedback, because I find it annoying now in terms of the battery life, as I mentioned before. If you enable the 120 Hertz display, your battery life will be destroyed.

I do think that, for this reason, 120 Hertz display is not worth it. However, if you set it to 1080 resolution at 60 Hertz, the battery life is okay, it's pretty mediocre, I still get better anxiety, and I'm, not confident that will. Last me the whole day based on heavy usage I, feel that battery life performance is very subjective. You might be a light user, or you might be a hardcore gamer on your device, so it really depends on whom the user actually is. My typical day-to-day usage includes watching videos on YouTube, responding to messages or maybe taking a couple videos or pictures and I find that, if I charge, maybe once throughout the day, I can easily last the whole day.

So, to summarize, I find that the battery life is more than acceptable. Strangely enough, the stand alone time does deplete pretty fast. For example, my battery was 100% at 5:35 a. m. and then about 6 hours later at 11 a.

m. it was down to 84, so I had a 15% reduction in 6 hours, I'm, not sure. If that was acceptable, but I find that the standalone performance is not very good, one thing I do want to know what about charging the device is that there's fast charging and then there's superfast charging I'm a little scared of using superfast charging, because it might heat up the battery a lot which will destroy the long term. Life of your battery I also find that fast wireless charging, unless you have the one with the official fan which will turn on if the wireless charging gets too hot I find that those types of charging devices may be harmful to your battery in the long term. Due to the heat exposure, one topic that is often overlooked by reviewers is the speaker performance.

Unfortunately, coming from the s9 I find that the s20 speakers are a little of a downgrade. This is probably due to the fact that there's only a tiny hole to let sound come from the top. It definitely sounds more tinny and less basically than my s9. However, I want to stress that the sound quality is still pretty damn good, especially if you prop this into a case and put it in landscape or put light flat on the table that amplifies the sound from the rear. Mounted speaker.

Don't worry like I said. The sound quality is not bad, and it's still pretty loud, but I wish Samsung would make an improvement to the sound quality instead of sidestepping and a lot of enemies is called Sam. Taskmaster is because I'm taskmaster. He controls the Red Room there manipulate another source of frustration is the lack of a headphone jack. Yes, it's very likely that you already have a Bluetooth headset.

However, on the airplane, they don't accept Bluetooth headsets. You still have to use a wired connection after having spent over a thousand dollars. I really wish they would include a high fidelity, USB c2 headphone adapter, because the one I purchased on Amazon has a hissing background. Noise I compared that cheap headphone adapter to the one that was provided in my pixel three and the pixel three adapters has no issues. Okay, so we covered everything.

I wanted to talk about, except for the cameras I saved the best for last in this section, I will demonstrate the raw capability of the s 20s, triple lens camera setup and, of course, its microphone with uncut, video and audio. Let's get right into it. If you have a phone, that's more than two years old likely, you don't have a telephoto or ultra-wide focal length, and this may be the factor that pushes you to upgrade the ultra-wide and telephoto lens capture, great images, but only in scenes where there's lots of light in low-light situations. They really struggle a bit due to their smaller aperture. Here's an example where the telephoto lens does not do as well as the wide-angle lens.

Due to the low light performance, you can see that the faster aperture of f-18 on the wide-angle lens is outperforming the telephoto lens in this situation, as you can tell, the wide-angle lens take some great photos, and it functions pretty well as a macro lens here, you can see that the 30x zoom is doing a pretty good job, zooming and then taking the photo actually allows the AI algorithms to kick in and actually provide a better clearer image versus taking a picture and then later digitally cropping in here's. A comparison of the telephoto lens on the s20 versus the s9s wide-angle cropped in, as you can tell, the telephoto lens, is killing the s9 in terms of zooming. I have to say having a telephoto lens in your pocket is very handy, especially if you're going to go on a trip and take pictures of wildlife. That generally are pretty far away from you. Having that option, I'm using the ultra wide-angle is very helpful in situations where it's very tight, of course, is low-light performance is not as good as the wide-angle lens.

It's also great for landscape photography and real estate. I did have a lot of focusing issues when using a telephoto lens, but once it locked focus, the picture quality of the telephoto lens looks amazing in bright daylight. One thing I noticed when I was playing with the zoom. Is that there's also Audio zoom, which tries to capture audio from a faraway object? I can't stress how impressed I am with the telephoto lens during daylight. It just looks so sharp, and it captures really cool pictures.

Everything looks more compressed and a wide angle, so you don't get that fish eye, distorted type of view. I think telephoto is going to be great for portraits one really cool feature that you don't get on older generation. Phones is super SET, and it's a direct answer to GoPro hyper spoof stabilization. It works pretty damn well in bright sunlight, but it only works for 10 80 30 frames per second super-slow-mo is pretty cool, but it's only shot at 720p, and it only works in really bright situations. So one big feature Samsung likes to brag about is the aka video recording it only records at 24 frames per second and there's no video stabilization or autofocus tracking.

It is rather limited, but it's pretty cool feature, and it might be useful if you want to crop in, but personally for me my computer can barely handle any K rendering. So it's not very practical to use it. Hyperlapse on the s20 is a lot smoother than the s9 okay, so we're testing the front facing camera at 1080 right now. It's really sunny, so it's gonna, look perfect. Video stabilization is enabled, and you can hear some background.

Noise I'm also really cares to know. What's the difference between the two microphones of the s9 bass versus the s20 bass, the only reason why I do not enable 4k on the s9 is that one it is not supported and if I go at 2.7 K the middle resolution, the video stabilization is not enabled one thing I want to say about all these tests is that I made sure to wipe down the camera. One thing I'm very confused is that the S line has a faster aperture on its front facing camera, which allows it to perform better in low light. They both have the same pixel size. However, you can see that the s20 has nicer more contrast, colors, let's jump into a low light video example.

This is to give you a sense of how the fun facing camera actually works in a low light situation, and I'm really curious to know in a nice calm environment like this, which microphone sounds better I'm, just trying to hold the cameras so that they aren't up so that the mics aren't office gated by my hand, so yeah. What you guys think is the better picture, quality and audio quality. Ok, so right now, I switch it to the rear cameras, and I'm, just comparing like for like the rear camera. So this is just a regular wide-angle not to ultra ride or the telephoto. Obviously, the base Samsung s9 only has one rear camera and that's just a wide angle.

So this is a low-light situation and let me know what you guys think is the better picture quality. How is it handling low-light I think that the given that the Samsung s9 has a wider aperture and F 1.5, and this one is f, 1.8 s 20. However, the s 20 does have a larger sensor size which one will win in terms of the low-light performance. I, have to admit I'm a little disappointed in the performance of the s.20 s wide-angle lens. The colors did look better on the s 20 lens, but there was not much of improvement in sharpness.

Also, I'm shocked at the low-light performance I'm a bit worried that the faster dual aperture lens on the S 9 on the previous generation may be performing slightly better and the S twine is wide-angle lens I'm really curious. Please let me know which wide angle lens performed better. It was it the s 20 or the s 9s dual aperture lens do keep in mind. Even though the s 20 has a slower aperture at F 1.8 versus the s9 s f 1.5, the s 20 is supposed to perform better in low light situations due to its larger sensor size, but I'm not entirely convinced. Let's go into some more video sample you if you were not satisfied with the current set of samples, how many people seen another video which includes more video and image tests, comparing the s9 versus the s20 I admit: I really do enjoy my s20, except for the terrible fingerprint sensor.

However, I would not pay full retail price for this smartphone. It is just too expensive. Luckily, for me, I pre-ordered device and I got some decent discounts if you're curious about how pre-ordered discounts work check. My video, where I talk about three reasons why I could not cancel my pre-order if you have an S 9, and you don't need two ultra-wide or telephoto zoom lenses I definitely recommend waiting for the next generation, because I find that the improvements over the s nine to be rather negligible and in some cases, and they are downgrades anyways. That's it for this video review of the s 20 in comparison to the s 9.

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