72 Hours With The Samsung Galaxy S20 FE....WHY? By ASBYT

Oh, hi guys it's SBT, and this is the Samsung Galaxy s20 Fe or fan edition a fresh take on the flagship, s20 series at a more affordable price. It takes away a few features from the s20 series in order to do this, but in some respects it's actually better for certain people confused. I know I was when I unboxed it ah satisfied. It's got some really great features, but also some limitations as you'll see and for a few key reasons. It's left me feeling a little like why, let's talk so the s20 Fe feels to me like its everything. Samsung tried to do with the standard note 20.

, but this time they got the price right. The Fe starts from just 599, as opposed to the 849 of the standard. Note 20, so straight away. It becomes more interesting in order to achieve this lower price. It does of course, scale back on a few features, but in some regions for some people it actually outperforms the most premium, most expensive, s20, ultra flagship from February, at a much lower cost.

I am, of course, referring to the fact that the 5g version of the Fe is rocking the Qualcomm snapdragon 865 everywhere this phone is available, so even in regions that are used to the exodus chips, Europe, for example, you will be getting the snapdragon version. If you buy the 5g variant hallelujah with that, according to benchmark comparisons, you will get around 7 performance boosts compared to the Enos 990 and, most importantly, from my point of view, better battery efficiency, so you will get more juice from the same 4500 my battery cell. That's in the note 20 ultra. If you have an Enos version of this phone and even though it's not huge, I have noticed the difference. I'm sometimes gaining up to an extra hour of screen on time with the Fe over the note, 20 ultra staying on battery, you get 25 watts fast, charging, 15 watts, fast.

Wireless charging and 4.5 watts reverse wireless charging, which is a nice touch at this price point now the Qualcomm 5g version that I've got here will set you back around an extra 100 pounds than the 4g Enos version that you could also get. So that is a dilemma that you will have to decide upon for me. If you have the extra 100 pounds floating around, then I would definitely put it to good use and get the 5g snapdragon version. It's a no-brainer, even if you're just future proofing. But equally, I appreciate that in the current climate times are hard for a lot of us and if you do decide to go down the 4g Enos route, then rest assure you'll still be getting a perfect performing device, and it will work brilliantly for most people with the high-end chips and with up to eight gigabytes of ram.

It has felt very smooth and fast in transitions scrolling through social media, and it's great for watching movies and gaming on that 6.5 inch, full HD, plus AMOLED display, as usual from Samsung it's bright vivid with great contrast and viewing angles like I said. It's made by Samsung it's what we've come to expect from their displays, but we also get the 120 hertz refresh and 240 hertz touch sampling rates. That is all the hype these days on smartphones that was actually missing on the standard note 20 that was more expensive than this you're, probably starting to see a pattern of confusion here as to where this phone lies in the market, but more on that in a second now the display is flat, which is a plus for some and the bezels. Although larger than the slight curves of the original s20 series phones are pretty small and the viewing experience is still pretty great, with only the 32 megapixel front, camera cutout blocking true immersion. Now, yes, you don't get the option of going quad HD, like you, do on the note, 20 ultra or the rest of the s20 series phones, but because you can't go quad, HD and higher refresh rate.

At the same time, you have to choose one on the other. I don't think it's a massive problem because I would always go higher refresh rate over the quad HD in the first place, so you're not really losing a lot there. In my opinion, you're also, even though there are limitations, I'm not going to be losing out a massive amount on the camera department, either from the more expensive flagship, Samsung phones. In my opinion, the subtle changes which we'll touch on in a second probably wouldn't be dealbreakers for you. Samsung's cameras have changed over the last couple of years.

Don't get me wrong, but if you were to take the same photo on all of their main devices in that time, I don't think many people would actually be able to pick out every individual model of which took what Samsung have a style. A look, if you will, that's very social media friendly eye-catching with saturated colors, nice contrast and good shot options of zoom and ultra-wide, and this all rings true, with the Fe, the 12 megapixel primary 12 megapixel ultra-wide and 8 megapixel telephoto lenses still give you great options to snap the shots you want and yes, we lose. The high 64 and 108 megapixel modes and the ridiculous massive zoom capabilities of some higher end flagships, but in a broad sense it definitely feels good enough three times. Optical zoom is more than enough for most people to zoom in slightly and frame the shot you want without losing any detail and thirty times, digital zoom will still get you really, really close to objects in the distance and, as I said in my note, 20 ultra review video. I don't really use the 108 megapixel mode that much anyway for numerous reasons which you can touch on in that video.

So I don't really feel that that's necessarily a negative using the 12 megapixel primary sensor on here, because I kind of use a similar thing on this one. Anyway, you don't get 8k video on the Fe. If that's important to you, I love playing around with it on the s20 ultra and on the note 20 ultra, but I wouldn't say that the developments in 8k on smartphones is necessarily something I would buy a phone for. It's just a nice touch. So again it may be a dealbreaker.

It may not be so. On the whole, the camera is pretty decent. So one of my main issues with this phone, why is its existence so confusing and uh if you're enjoying this video so far, a sub would be awesome. Here's the problem, Samsung with the Fe, have completely muddied the waters even further and made their line of phones even more confusing, as if it wasn't confusing enough already Samsung, and they're, not alone in this Xiaomi Oppo Huawei. The list goes on.

They all do a very similar thing. They flood the market with lots of phones that are all incredibly similar, completely baffling the consumer. You guys as to what phone you should actually get and the naming schemes I mean with the s10 series. They introduced the e or budget model and then the following January. They released the s10 lite and the note 10 lite, which were also budget models in that sort of area very, very similar, and then, with the note 20 range they had the note 20 ultra and then just the standard note 20, which was another budget is version similar to the light versions of the note.10 and s10, and now they've introduced a Fe model which again is all around that sort of area confused yeah. Well, I would be this.

Fe phone is incredibly similar to the standard note 20, which was released just a couple of months ago. They both have a plastic back, but the Fe only has gorilla glass 3 on the front to the 5 on the note, but the Fe is much cheaper and outperforms. The note if you get the Qualcomm Fe variant here in the UK, and then you've got the series of phones which are also mid-range and also very, very similar, and I'm sure that's just hurting your head as much as it is mine. At this point, I don't understand why companies can't just produce a budget phone, a mid-range phone and a flagship phone and for the love of tech. Please choose a naming scheme and stick to it so that us as we're going to buy phones, we know exactly what phone is going to be best suited for us.

So in my opinion, the s10e made perfect sense. There should have been a s20e and a note 20e, and then you would have known exactly where you stood when it came to that device same would apply to the light naming of the device, but don't change it a year after introducing the e and then just drop both of them and have a standard version rant over. There must be a reason why they do it because, like I said most manufacturers do tend to do this. I just can't fathom it off the top of my head, and I know you guys in the comments a lot of you think the same so overall, this phone is pretty compelling. Snapdragon 865, 120, hertz AMOLED display uh stereo speakers, ip68 rated competent camera array, the same Samsung one UI software experience as the flagships, and you do get an all-day battery.

It is made of plastic on the rear and the front glass is not the latest in gorilla glass technology, but the aluminum frame and super click buttons still make it feel fairly premium. I don't get why they didn't introduce it back in February with the rest of the s20 line, but if you don't mind plastic or plastic back, then it's a pretty great device for the money, and it's definitely better in my opinion than the standard note 20, if you don't use a stylus, because it's basically the same phone, it's just cheaper, and you get the snapdragon chip which, if you're from a region that usually has Enos, I know a lot of you guys have been craving the Qualcomm goodness, so now you have it no more complaining NATO! I think we're done. Furthermore, I do. I think uh. Can you think of anything else? If you can, let me know in the comments like and share if you enjoyed the video and found it helpful, subscribe and hit the notification bell.

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