Is 100x Zoom Worth the Price? | Galaxy S20 Ultra Review By Reviews.org

Space zoo, the final frontier: this is the review of the Samsung Galaxy S 20 altar, an ultra premium class flagship, whose job is to boldly go home with those who feel it is worth the price tag, its mission to help you explore your world and style with a feature set which complements your crave and thirst for living it up without holding you back my job, to tell you if it really can do all of that. We begin this top phone review at the top of the world. So we begin this review by testing out the main feature that Samsung has touted in its marketing the 100x space, zoom and right here in the mountain is high above the San Fernando Valley. This is as close as I could get to space. To show you these space zoom I'm going to mount this phone onto a tripod, because any time you go for an extreme zoom, the zoom actually amplifies how shaky your hands are, which is one of the reasons why you have optical image, stabilization or video in the stable of the stabilization, so we're going to mount that I'm going to take some photos, and we're going to come back to those a little later in the review. This is the cosmic gray edition of the s 25 G lino.

It also comes in cloud pink and clouds blue. You get a beautiful six point: nine inch, quad, dynamic, AMOLED, 2x, infinity, o display that is HDR, 10, certified and sports up to 120 occurred to refresh rate along with that display. You get a 40 megapixel front facing center hole, punch camera which will definitely take solid selfies and, unlike some other front-facing cameras, the ease of use is always great, as you can just hold up your fist to take timed selfies. The right side of the phone is where you'll find the volume rocker and power button. Nothing on the left.

The bottom of the phone is where you'll find a USB-C port, one half of the stereo speakers and a microphone top of the phone is where you'll find the SIM tray, which also holds expandable storage along with another microphone and right under that SIM tray, and that microphone is a stereo speaker, the second half of the stereo speakers. This one handles higher end and treble, and unlike the previous reviews, where I've said that they were imperceptible, this one actually just looks like it isn't. Even there I've looked for it, I can't see it. It truly is the definition of imperceptible. But when you muffle the bottom speaker, you can definitely hear sound coming out of that top area of the phone.

Now before we get around to the backside, I'm going to say something: I, don't often say this phone is heavy, but in a good way it feels extremely solid and well-built and comes with an ip68 rating for dust and water ingress. It definitely feels like a phone you'll be able to hold on to for quite some time. You know the other heavy thing on the s20 ultra is that camera bump it's substantial you're going to get depth vision, cameras, but you'll also get a 12 megapixel ultra-wide camera, 108 megapixels, wide-angle camera. Then a 48 megapixel telephoto camera below those cameras, you're going to get a five thousand William hour battery, which I found kept me going through five hours screen time with roughly 15% left at the end of a day from around 4:30 a. m.

to about 9:00 p. m. the battery supports both while charging that is quick charge, 2.0 compatible and fast wireless charging 2.0, which means that you'll need a wireless charging pad which supports 10 watts or better wireless charging. Inside the Sophie wireless desk pad that I use, which I put the ultra on for a couple nights, not having read the wireless charging spec and realized that seven and a half block pad wasn't charging the phone. Then I place the phone on a 30 watt wireless charger that one plus soon, along with their one plus eight Pro, and the phone charged wirelessly like it should and that's the hardware.

But what about the experience? I have to say that this phone is my cup of tea. For the most part, I see the ultra as something very similar to the note, but without the s-pen it is the top of the line and, unlike how I described the note 10 in a previous review as the Booster in the Porsche lineup, the ultra is definitely the 911 Turbo S, where the 10 was coach. The ultra is definitely terminus. On a personal level. There are little touches to the physical design which I rather enjoyed the flatter infinity o display, which meant less accidental touches loved it, the aluminum band around the device and the lines it takes around the rocker and power buttons me big anime, had it's got a reminiscent of Gun dam design, just kind of the angles and lines, and back when I used to put those together and use ink pens to do the outline the devices' thickness.

It is beefy and that screen it is big, and it is beautiful. Watching HDR content on Netflix is engrossing. I've always said that HDR is more important than 4k and watching The Witcher or our planet coastal seas. Just exemplifies that these are 1080p, not 4k. In episode, 4 of The Witcher, there is a banquet hall scene where the wolf colored eyes of the Witcher's stand out using this HDR.

In addition, there's a gentleman sitting at a table whose turquoise cake really pops, and the princess jewels do as well. It just looks magnificent all the way around and from coastal seas. This moment at 9 minutes and 30 seconds in feels, like you're, actually underwater riding that turtles bash. This is immersive content on mobile, like it should be. I've watched the same turtle clip on other smartphones and here on the ultra, with the screen resolution set to 2400 by 1080 and 120 Hertz, refresh rate turned on I would actually watch the whole thing for context.

I'm all Clint Eastwood get off my lawn when it comes to watching longer format, programming or rather not watching longer format, programming on mobile screens, but I'd be ok, watching an episode or two of something like Witcher on the s20 ultra. Speaking of what you can see, let's get back to those cameras. The images that 108 megapixel sensor produces are full of detail. As you can see here in this image, I took of my fur baby, the texture of the carpet, the separation of the color gradient of her fur, the individual hairs themselves. When you blow the image up and the sharpness of the background where you see the fence lance the dynamic range, it is all there.

The interesting thing for me is that I found a better to take photos with the 108 megapixel sensor and zoom in for the close-up than using the built-in telephoto lens. You can see the difference in quality here with this tennis ball in the shot taken with the telephoto lens, the colors a bit washed and zooming in you're, going to lose sharpness here in the 108 megapixel photo zooming in you keep color contrast and image sharpness, but let's go back to where we began and talk about that space too. Obviously, that's a bit of a gimmick me being above the San Fernando Valley, but in the s20 ultras defense. If you look at this photo, it's pretty doggone good. You can actually make out two cars down there on that street down there, which is actually several miles away.

So from the top of these mountains, several miles down with 100x space, zoom you're actually able to make out some cars. You know it's not something you're actually gonna post to Instagram, but that's pretty phenomenal, considering when I was actually a little younger, that's pretty much how all the photos looked at. Our cameras do on these camera photos. So that's a big deal now for the real world test, I'm going to test out how space zoom is actually some really supposed to work. What it does is space zoom is supposed to make what is 100 yards away? Look like it is one yard away.

So I'm going to stand one yard from this phone. My beautiful wife isn't gonna, take my picture at one yard away, and then I'm going to walk all the way down to the end of this parking lot, approximately 100 yards away or the length of a football field, and then she's going to take that picture again. So a real-world test I walked all the way down there. A hundred yards. My wife trying to take the picture of me.

She said it was moving a lot, and it's basically because, like I said up there on the top of the mountains, when your extreme zoom into something when you're extremely magnifying something shakes all of that gets to magnify as well. So when she was trying to send us a camera on me, she was having a hard time with that. So she wanted me to double-check it. So she walked down there, and I tried to censor the camera on her, and, let me just say, I have a whole new respect for anyone who goes through Marine Corps sniper training shout out to my old pastor. What about churches, who was actually a Marine scout sniper and got so that one of the highest levels you can get to as a scout sniper, because at distance it is actually very difficult to focus in and when I say, focus I, don't mean to get the shot in focus.

I mean actually get the camera to be where you want it to be on the subject now. This does come with the crosshairs speaking of sniper rifle. This does come with the crosshairs, so you can Center up your subject at that distance, but is it something you're actually really going to use? Not really it's very cool. It's a fun gimmick, but it's not something that is actually going to be real practical for you, probably in your day-to-day use a quick note. This is, of course, a 5g phone and where I live, I'm right on the edge of 5g service and have been testing a few phones on T-Mobile sub 6 spectra of the phones, I've tested, the ultra seems to be taking a bit of a harder hit to the battery than some of those other devices in context.

That battery is still awesome. That's it I, don't know yet if that's directly an RF issue, but I'm testing the ultra against other flagship competitors and will provide the results on my social channels when I have them for reference with all of these devices, I've kept them off my home Wi-Fi. During my use, since lockdown has had me, work a remote and, like I, said I'm in a fringe coverage area, so the phones, they're reception and battery life have been abused as far as signal acquisition, connectivity and speed are concerned, even with that again battery life on the s20 ultra has been solid. So, let's bring this face down back to earth at the end of the day. Phones like this are necessary, but not a necessity.

They show us what the best of bleeding-edge state-of-the-art mobile technology has to offer for better or for worse for great execution or glitches and bugs, and honestly I'm not disappointed if you can afford it. This is an excellent, daily driver. Everything from the speakers to the camera to the 5g when it comes to this ultra all night would be proud, and many of my reviews on entry-level and mid-range phones are often questioned. The huge disparity in pricing, but when you use a phone like the ultra, that difference becomes a little clearer, 60, Hertz or 120 Hertz, there's a big difference.1080P display or 2k, plus with HDR watching videos. There's a difference.

Ultra, isn't just a marketing term; there's definitely a difference. How big we can debate, but there'd be no debate if there was no real discernible difference and that my friends, whether you like it or not, says a lot hey, we don't take it lightly that you've taken the time and spent the time with us here at reviews org, if there's anything that I didn't address, that you want to talk about sound off in the comments below. If you haven't already in these videos, help please hit that subscribe, and we have a ton of great content actually on the site at reviews org, if you want to figure out which cell plant is gonna, go best with your s20 ultra purchase or if you want to match a rate plan with any phone we've talked about here in Izzy's review videos just hit up the site, their research team is amazing. They've done all the footwork for you. You'll get some great information there, I'm to soccer Armstrong for reviews, motto right here on YouTube and telling you to check out reviews org our home base.

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