Is the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra ULTRA enough?? (Review!) By Android Authority

If you look at a spec sheet. The new Samsung Galaxy S 20 altar, is huge. It's got a huge 6.9 inch AMOLED display. It's got a huge 120 Hertz refresh rate. Furthermore, it's got a huge camera module, the latest Snapdragon processor, 12 to 16 gigabytes of RAM and even a five thousand William hour battery and 5g on paper. The s20 ultra is the epitome of future perfect, but it's also $1,400, so I guess.

The question that needs to be answered in this review is: is the Galaxy S Tony ultra enough to cost $1400, or does this flagship of flagships deserves to be killed? Let's take that list of huge things and start with the display. Like I, said its six point: nine inches, which is massive for a lot of people. This phone is gonna, be too big for your hand. For me, though, I've slightly gotten used to bigger phones, and it still feels pretty big, but it's not like it's completely unusable, but the most important and interesting part about this display for me is the 120 Hertz refresh rate, there's been a lot of debate over whether high refresh rate phones are even worth it. Do they actually make the experience, feel smoother, and personally I think they do? I really appreciate that 120 Hertz refresh rate, especially on the giant screen it just looks gorgeous.

Now. You can't use that in HD+ commode, you can only use it in full HD, but personally I would prefer a 120 Hertz refresh rate over a HD+ panel, and there is concern about that.120 Hertz, refresh rate destroying your battery life I mean with the OnePlus 70 that 90 Hertz kind of wore it down so that it had pretty mediocre battery life. But this phone has a five thousand William hour battery and I can confidently say, day after day, I'm still getting stellar battery life, even with 120 Hertz mode engaged on any given day. I was getting like eight and a half to nine hours of screen on time and I know no screen on time can seem arbitrary, but I usually get around six and a half hours of screen on time on a normal phone. So that's really, really good.

I did try this in 60 Hertz mode, and it did get a little better battery life, but I would really rather use the 120 Hertz mode and get like half an hour less screen on time and get that really smooth experience. Okay, so we've got a big screen. Big refresh rate big battery next is big performance and, of course they same think: Galaxy S, 20, Ultra, performs it's got 12 to 16 gigabytes of RAM in the snapdragon 865 processors. And, of course, if you have a phone that has one of the newest processors in the last three or four years, it's probably going to perform pretty well as long as it has the RAM to back it up and 12 to 16 gigabytes of RAM is way more than any Android phone needs right now, but Samsung's actually taking some measures to make that RAM pretty useful, sometimes letting you pin some apps into memory so that they can pretty much always be open in instantly launched, and that is pretty convenient. Now I've don't usually take that long to launch as it is, but there are some apps that take a while to boot up and if you want to use these apps day after day really continuously, it is nice to be able to pin those apps in a ram alongside a big performance.

You've also got 5g in the Samsung Galaxy s.20 series is actually one of the first series to have all the bands for 5g, which means you have low band, mid-band and millimeter-wave. Now I still wouldn't go out and buy a phone specifically because it is a 5g phone, but going around New York. It was actually pretty nice to be able to get a low band signal on Google v, which use st-mobile's network. If you have Verizon, you can actually find a few millimeter wave antennas around New York as well, which just gets stupid speeds. But of course, if you turn your body around the wrong way, you're going to lose that signal.

So while 5g isn't something that I would recommend, you go look for a phone specifically, for it is a nice way to future-proof a device if you're going to have this for three or four years. And finally, probably the last big thing on the list of big things about this phone. Is the cameras and look I should note that the regular Samsung Galaxy S 20 the galaxy s 20 plus they both have a lot of the things that make this phone big. They still have pretty big displays. They've got the 120 Hertz refresh rate, they have 5g, even though the smaller one doesn't have millimeter wave for some reason.

If so, that decently sized batteries they've got a lot of the things that make the s20 ultra. So really this is writing or dying on its camera system. The Galaxy S 20 ultra has three main camera systems. It's got a huge 108 megapixel main sensor, a 48 megapixel 4x optical telephoto sensor, which uses a prism mechanism very similar to the Huawei p3 Pro, and it's also got a wide-angle sensor and the most talked about thing on the galaxy s xx. Ultras camera system is in zoom capabilities.

Now that optical telephoto is a 4x optical, but it can actually use a hybrid form of zoom to get 10x hybrid optical, digital zoom. From then on, you can do 30x digital zoom, or you can do 100x, which Samsung is calling space soon. Now the versatility of having a camera that can be wide to a hundred X is pretty insane. I will say that the 100 X zoom is really, really blurry and really, really bad and in most cases you're not going to use it. It's really nothing more than a party trick, but it is pretty insane that Samsung is actually able to achieve this.

You're, probably wondering about quality and yeah I'm, the first to say that a 108 megapixel camera doesn't make it good. Actually, subdividing a sensor into more photo sights means that you're going to get less light information for her photo site now, something Samsung has done is made this sensor way bigger than traditional smartphone sensors, so you're, actually getting just about the same amount of information per photo site. Now you've got the option to take full 108 megapixel photos, or you can use what Samsung is called Nona bidding we're just taking nine of those photo sites and bidding them each into one. Big pixel and really I see no good reason to use the full 108 megapixel mode. It is definitely a little sharper than the 12 megapixel Danone bend images, but honestly I would just use a zoom capability.

If you want to see up close the storage space just isn't really worth it now. One really nice feature about having a sensor. That large is that it has a lot of really nice and natural sofa. You don't really have to use portrait mode anymore if you're taking a photo of something kind of up close because it has a natural, smooth drop-off between the subject and the background. The problem is the autofocus on this phone currently is awful a lot of the time when you're just trying to take a picture of something the phone will hunt back and forth between the subject and in the background, and it's actually pretty hard to take a photo of what I was trying to take a picture of the Samsung says that they're trying to work on a fix for this, but I don't really like reviewing phones with the assumption that is going to get better later.

Now we will make sure to let you know if there are updates to this phone or if the autofocus system does get better over on the website. But this is a video, and so this is what you're going to get no overall image. Quality from these phones is pretty good. It's not incredible, and I think its biggest problem is the traditional Samsung processing it tends to smooth out faces and skin a lot versus if you were just taking a picture of something else, and most things are still a little over saturated. Now.

That being said, things like low light have gotten a lot better because of that Nona bidding, and they have made some improvements in things like sharpness, but you do have to be pretty darn steady in low light, because if anything in the image is moving at all, it tends to get really blurry. Also, night mode does have better dynamic range, but the light balance just seems to be really, really off, and honestly I'm, not really a fan of the hyper dynamic range shots anyway and, of course, in perfect lighting situations, you can get a perfect photo, but you can get a perfect photo in good light on most phones. Now the snapdragon 865 in this phone, alongside the 108 megapixel sensor, allows this phone to shoot a KE video which takes about thirty-three megapixel issue, and you can actually take snapshots that are going to be 33 megapixels, while you're shooting a video. Now right now when I'm, shooting 8k video I get this really weird warping in the phone and also because it's such a high resolution, it doesn't support Samsung's super steady, and sometimes it drops frames, and it just doesn't really seem ready for the mainstream. I mean I, don't think that most people are going to be shooting a KE video anyways, because 8k TVs are still a while away from being completely mainstream, but it still seems like it needs some work.

Even the selfie camera was ok, but not amazing. I actually think that I preferred the images out of the galaxies. The flip selfie camera versus this 40 megapixel selfie camera on the galaxy s, 20 Ultra, so yeah, most of the things in this phone are pretty darn. Ultra you've got the 865 the huge batteries 5g, the 120 Hertz refresh rate, but the problem is, if you get an S 20, RS, 20, plus you're, getting like 90% of those features, save some camera stuff. So it's really, really hard to recommend that you get this gargantuan phone.

Remember the s 20 and s 20 plus also have 5g. They also have a hundred and twenty Hertz refresh rates. They also have 4045 hundred million power batteries. There's a lot of the things that the S 20 and s 20 plus have so really. The only thing that makes the galaxy s 20 ultra is the bigger display and the cameras and right now, I, give it to Samsung having the versatility to have a wide image and zoom in a hundred X is pretty amazing.

Personally I, don't think it's that useful and I never really need to zoom in that far, but the technical capabilities are sound. It's just that for $1,400. There are a lot of flagship killers that can match a lot of the specs that the Galaxy S 20 Ultra is bringing the SG phone ?, for example, from last year. Yeah, it has an 855 plus, but it has that 120 Hertz AMOLED display it's got a six thousand William hour battery. It's got a perfect UI.

There are a lot of options that can really match this in a lot of ways, and you might want to take a look at those options before you immediately jump to this $1400 behemoth of a phone all right, guys, that's pretty much been it for the Samsung Galaxy s, 20 ultra review, make sure you leave a comment and head over to the website. If you want to read our full review and until next time, I'll catch you in the next video.

Source : Android Authority