The Flagship Killer Smartphone is BACK By Unbox Therapy

You sometimes know a brand they'll put out a device, and they'll kind of claim that you're getting it all for less, and rarely is that actually true, but with the galaxy s20 fan edition it, it kind of feels that way, you're giving up so little and in some cases, actually improving certain specifications except you're saving a bunch of money from the regular flagship device. It's hard to even call it mid-range because it's got a snapdragon 865 in it. It has almost an identical spec list to the regular flagship s20, and it's almost half the cost. When they first announced it, they were saying: okay, it's going to be 6.99. Like a day later, I'm seeing Amazon other places were already dropping another 100 from it right now. You can find this for 5.99, which really the snapdragon 865 and galaxy s20 internals. It seems kind of hard to even buy a regular s20 right now.

My understanding is that the materials are a little different in the construction. Here is the device. Actually you know what, but it has seen it has that plastic. Back now I was a little critical of this matte finish plastic back on the note series devices. However, those were far more expensive.

You weren't catching much of a deal on those phones here, on the other hand, now that we're down to this price point, it's something I think I can accept now I kind of like this color as well. You know you get this parish blueish. It almost reminds me of uh, willy blue, that's willy dew's midnight blue version of the later case. It's a similar tone to it. Now you are going to lose a couple of capabilities in the camera department: you're not going to shoot 8k video you're not going to have any type you're going to have 100 times space zoom, but you are going to have telephoto functionality, and you're going to have the important stuff you would come to expect inside a s20 smartphone just for less money.

We have our volume rocker over here, as well as the power switch camera module in the back. It's not even a huge hump bottom of the device. You have your USB type c port, as well as a speaker top of the device showcases your sim card tray, also capable of expandable storage. So a little versatility up to one terabyte, there's a giant protector on the screen that baby's going to get removed too. You can see you still get the tiny little hole, punch, infinity, o style, front-facing camera.

Yes, it's going to have an OLED display AMOLED like the rest of the lineup, but when compared to the standard s20, it's a slightly lower pixel density, one advantage this even has over the regular s20, which is at a higher price point. This has a bigger battery, so this is a 500 William hour battery compared to a 4 000 William hour, battery kind of no frills on boxing. We do have an adaptive fast charge, power, brick, and we have a type c cable to get it all connected and that's pretty much it looks. It's the fan edition. Oh, there is a little box on the top with a sim card tool, but I think that's it.

I don't think there's a case or anything else. No, that's it! No frills! Now I've been uh really adjusting to the Samsung interface to the one UI for a while. Now I was on the s20 ultra and I switched to an OnePlus device for a while. The most recent note series, the ultra model. My sim card is currently inside the z fold too.

Oh, and also you may have thought they could have skimped on the refresh rate since you're getting a better deal, but this display actually supports 120 hertz. Let's go take a look standard wood put it at 60 hertz for presumably slightly better battery life and high moves you up to the 120 hertz scroll rate, which, if you haven't experienced it before you may have heard me talk about it before this is uh. It really enhances your experience with the device when you pair it with something like a snapdragon 865. It just creates a very fluid experience in the OS moving through menus and so on. Now, they're not created completely equal you're, giving up a little of ram, and that might be the most significant drawback going with the fan edition versus the flagship level s20.

You are dropping down from 12, gigs or 8 gigs of ram, depending on which version you would choose to six gigs of ram in this model right here and, as you can see, I mean that's a tiny little hole punch on video, especially for look at it there even against a light backdrop. It is a tiny little hole punch against the dark black drop. You hardly see it. So that's a nice implementation. If I go ahead and boost the volume, let's see what we're working with a request by pigeon, oh carrier pigeon, the old-school one yeah they're, still in the PlayStation controller, it's firing out of both locations from the bottom region and up around the earpiece, which is hardly even there.

So that's kind of nice is that the screen type of setup it's buried in their controller will Travis Scott, but it does give you uh it's a pretty nice. I don't think they skimped on it too much. I'm I'm satisfied, I'm okay with that. If I launch into the camera you can see, I still have camera versatility. I don't have the same reach on the zoom, but how often were you using that this is your standard? Focal range photo bang, and we move into the zoom a 3x now there's other settings for the hybrid zoom and all that up to 30x.

But let's use the 3x for the purpose of this, and we can go all the way back to 0.5 for the ultra-wide. I think it's enough versatility for the average person plus these s20 devices have been great performers in the camera department, and they've seen continued improvements through software. Now, if I switch over to the selfie camera, I can go ahead and do a little selfie test real quick. I just got to turn off the beauty. I need the original.

Furthermore, I can't be having the beauty mode on there. As you know, beard hair test it passes. We have plenty of resolution. What is the resolution? It's a 32 megapixel front-facing camera. Interestingly enough, that's more megapixels than the standard s20! You got to go all the way to the ultra model to beat that with a 40 megapixel shooter, that's kind of I mean there.

This is a weird phone. It's hard to figure out. It has a bigger screen than the regular s20. Furthermore, it has a bigger battery than the regular s20. Furthermore, it's almost half the price of the regular s20.

I get if it's plastic, but I feel like I can live with that when I get the cost savings. I was mad about it with the note, as you know, but when I get the cost savings, I think I can live with it face recognition and fingerprints. Now it's an optical based face unlock system. Well, I've tricked some of these in the past, but tremendous speed, I'm going to go ahead and register my fingerprint. The fingerprint is added, we'll give it a quick test.

Yes functions as expected in display's, gotten a lot better, it's kind of funny to see some manufacturers going back to the capacitive rear scanner, like the new pixel devices that we saw today, there's a rumor that the upcoming Apple devices could potentially have fingerprint back touch ID in the power button. So many implementations, one of the advantages of being in display. You can use it even when it's on the table, you see that may or may not be important to you, snapdragon 865. It means tremendous prowess when it comes to processor, intensive tasks, including gaming, so I'm going to go ahead and launch a game, real, quick and just showcase. What this thing's capable of.

I know a lot of people out there. They want the top level chip, but they don't want paid the top level money. You don't want to pay a thousand dollars for a smartphone. That's reasonable! Here's a way you can do it. Look at this, I'm fine with the layup.

I'm fine I'll, take the two points, all right cool. So yes, of course you can game on it. Whatever games your style, whether it's uh, basketball or you want to do a shoot or something like that plus, more and more games are supporting the fast refresh- and I talked about this in recent videos having that 120. Once you see a game at it or even 90, or something above 60, it has this extra itchiness to it, which uh can really enhance the experience wow. What a device I mean, what can you say? It's a s20 sort of rehoused and trimmed back a little, but then also improved in other areas.

If you want a big battery performer forty-five hundred millimeter, you want a flagship chip. You don't just because you're spending a little less money doesn't mean you don't want a snapdragon 865. Okay, it's in there. You want galaxy, s20, caliber cameras, oh yeah, that's in there as well. You want the versatility of expandable storage.

That's in there as well. You got fast charging it's in their yeah you got to put up with the plastic chassis. Okay, fine! You saved a bunch of money. This one you pop this out the pocket and your pal has the regular s20. I believe willy does, using it right now, and he's sitting there saying you got the plastic phone.

You say yeah! I got the plastic phone, but I got a spare 500 bucks, you don't! Then you pull the 500 bucks out of your pocket and willy dude is very upset. So look if you got to trim it back. You trim it back, but you pass the savings on to the customer, and they definitely did that here, and it's probably why they call it. The fan edition well done. Samsung I mean, like I said: look you got five six seven hundred dollars to spend on a smartphone right now, it's a good time for you.

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