Mi 10 Ultra Vs Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Comparison Review (In-Depth!) By TechTablets

Welcome back to another video with these two ultra phones here- ultra expensive phones here, so the Xiaomi mi 10 ultra. This one does sell for around about 780 euros. If you were to import one in, you cannot actually buy them from your local Xiaomi me store. No, it's china! Only at the moment. Hopefully, there's going to be a global release and then, of course, the Samsung Galaxy note 20 ultra with its s pen. This is the local model here retails for 1300 euros, ouch.

Yes, it is expensive. So, first up, let's have a look at the build quality. Here I have to give the more expensive phone the win here, it's kind of obvious, but it's more premium than build, so our Samsung does have a stainless steel frame around the outside. We've also got gorilla glass, Vitus front and back gorilla glass 7. It is, I believe, the first phone to actually use it.

It's got a nice matte finish to the glass and both of the rounded edges and a little thinner. Furthermore, it actually does feel just slightly better in hand. Furthermore, it is a large phone. Furthermore, it is heavy this one's about approximately 210 grams versus about 220 23 grams, thickness, wise we're looking about 10 millimeters here with the meter ultra an about 8.6, but with the camera bulge brings it up to about 11 they're, almost about the same now take a look at this camera bulge. Here, it's just ridiculous.

Look at it! It is huge. It really does stick out by about three millimeters almost- and I don't like it. I think that's a little ugly. It's a massive slab of camera there, and we've got the squid off edges, and it all does feel kind of nice, but in your hand the square edges do feel not sharp it just not quite as comfortable. I wish they'd rounded it off just a little more there, but overall premium build quality.

Now we do have an ip68 rating with this, we've got micro, SD card support and also video out with the type c port down the bottom. Both of these do not have 3.5 mm headphone jacks. We got the stylus right here, of course, and that's probably the main reason you would be buying this phone. So cameras this one 108 megapixel main sensor: we've got a 12 megapixel ultrawide 12, megapixel uh five times optical zoom. I'm not gonna, go too much into the specs here, four thousand William hour battery as well, exactly the same as this guy, so the meter ultra.

The main camera is 48 megapixels, it's a custom sensor, and we have 48 megapixel five times optical zoom camera. It's actually better. The zoom camera. In this one check my camera comparison, 20 megapixels, ultra-wide 12, megapixel portrait so see through. Obviously you can see the um, the coil there for the wireless charging, NFC and in-hand fuel is good, but not quite as premium as the Samsung.

So we do have two stunning displays in both of these mobile phones. You can't go wrong with either of them, okay, but for them to have a curvature to them on the edge. So this edge curve means that when you look at them at certain angles, you get a slightly lighter image. The color does shift out and then that may actually irritate some people me personally. I prefer a flat screen.

This is a stunner that is in the k30 ultra that review of this phone will be in the channel. Hopefully maybe this week, I'm just completely overloaded at the moment, but perfect flat, 120 hertz screen. So yes, both of these have 120 hertz. However, you can only run the 120 hertz at full, HD plus on the note 20 ultra, and you've got that 1440p option so much sharper, but you're only stuck at 60hz. You have to make that decision.

It's a shame that Samsung can't give us both, but it would kill the battery life completely now maximum brightness on both of these two uh we're looking at about 750 nits. According to my measurements, on this one and we're looking around 850 or so um up to 900 with the Samsung, I think it even goes up to about a thousand when it's in the sun, so sunlight legibility, on both of these is really, really good. You can make out send text messages, read everything even websites, not a problem. They are so bright both of these and being super AMOLED. Now, with these screens here, I've noticed that the touch performance, especially when you are using them both of the 120 hertz, is very, very good, so really quick to respond to touch no issues.

However, with the Xiaomi, I notice that 60 hertz, when it's on 60hz the touch response time to me. Sometimes it doesn't seem to trigger some of the apps it's just now, and then that seems to happen and overall, I think, they're, both very, very good screens here, premium ones as well. When you take a look at say, just a banning test here, uh you'll see what I mean that very, very, very good here. Okay, that's just a complete red image right there. I've got on the Xiaomi, but both of them have no problems, no faults that I can see with them at all, so we're not seeing any funny gray bands coming through with complete black image.

Now these are top tier, absolutely fault, free screens that I have with these units now, both of them. I have to point out as well. They do support HDR plus they both have wide vine level, one cert, so you can watch Netflix in full HD. You should have the HDR features coming through, but from the app store you can't actually get Netflix. You have to side load it with the Xiaomi right here.

So that's when it comes to now. Let's talk a little about the UIs, the performance, so we have mini 12 here on the Xiaomi. We've got one UI 2.5 on the note, 20 ultra very different in terms of performance when they're both set again to 120 hertz. They are incredibly fast and smooth and no issues in my time. Using them, I don't see any stutters or gesture kind of lags or problems like that when at that, but as I mentioned before, just on the Xiaomi occasionally, I also notice that sometimes the animations, when triggering gestures like bringing it up home, if you do run it at 60, hertz just seems to have a bit of a frame dip.

What I'm talking about as you'd see it constantly running, 60 frames per second and then suddenly it would dip down for a split second to like 30 or 40 frames per second, I can detect it and see it, but I know a lot of people won't actually probably be able to see this, so it's minor nitpicking there, so the UIs they have both their strength and weaknesses. Here, this being an import model, only the meeting ultra it does not come with. Google Play Store, okay, but it is very easy to install it. The Google framework is already actually in the ROM and many other things you simply need to install the latest play store. APK file, that's going to be working on this android version, android 10, of course, on both of them and away you go.

You set the permissions' auto start, and you shouldn't have any problems and store your apps there without too much difficulty. Both of them do come with quite a bit of bloatware. So if I take a look here and just show you quickly in the gallery, I took some screenshots when I first got this, and you get a lot of different apps on here. So for some people like Samsung members, galaxy store, Facebook, Spotify bloatware, maybe to some I know useful applications. You get uh other bits and pieces there.

The Xiaomi comes cram, packed also with a lot of Chinese applications. I removed them all. You can uninstall pretty much 95 of them, and you shouldn't really see anything in Chinese occasional apps like this right here, calendar that has some Chinese come up. You may see some notifications come through. They will be in Chinese, but you simply go into the settings disable them.

It's not too hard. Give yourself a day, and you'll get it going perfectly without any problems with the Chinese, the Samsung UI, I think the UI 1ui version 2.5 is actually running better than me, UI down to personal preference subjective. I know, but I just believe the Samsung I think for the UI would have to give the win there. It's just a little better. Then, of course, it comes with Google Play Store, other things to note that these phones have that are different.

Well LTE band 20s. Here on this one, we've got all the European 5g bands. We have banded 28, this model's missing, LTE band 20 is not with the me10 ultra, and it also does not have Lt band 28. So that's one thing to factor in that, if you're importing these and if you're a viewer from the US, sprint, Verizon and all those other ones with very different frequencies, not going to be covered here, but your local Galaxy Note, 20 ultra will be. Of course, there are a couple other things, of course, that the note 20 ultra has that this model doesn't.

This is the main reason to get it. The stylus, of course- and this is a very responsive stylus, so this has nine millisecond response time. They have improved the performance of it, and it really is very, very good. Super quick and you can do all sorts of things which I won't get into software wise. This stylus is.

It really covers everything. It is great if you're, an artist you're, something someone that likes to write on your phone, then that is the main of course reason to go for it. The other thing that it has, of course, is micro, SD card support. So these guys right here, micro SD cards, you can expand upon your storage with this model. Unfortunately, the Xiaomi does not support micro SD cards so both of these models they do have in screen fingerprint readers and I would rate them as both being about the same performance wise.

This Samsung can sometimes miss a few fingerprints now and then, especially if your thumb or finger is a little damper before you just washed your hands and your hands aren't completely dry, then you might have a bit of trouble, but the same goes for this guy here now normally tapping in where the region is of the fingerprint reader, it should turn on wake up and there we go so place my thumb here, and that is pretty quick. The animation probably makes it look a little slower and then, with the note, 20 ultra the same kind of deal here. So just tap, and it wants to wake up, and the location of it is quite good now that was probably actually marginally faster than the Xiaomi mi 10 uh ultra-right here so face unlocking time, because I've got my tripod over here tripod and all that stuff. In the way I can't demonstrate it, but I can show you and tell you well, I can try and do it right now. Let's have a look if it gets me, okay, that it did actually, but they're both about the same.

It's very quick on both of these the face, unlocking and I would rate them as being equal- it's much faster than using the fingerprint reader, but, of course, less secure. All right. Let's get serious here now and talk about a few benchmarks that I have run on these particular models here. Both of them have extremely fast wireless. This is connecting up to my Wi-Fi six routers that I've got here.

It's a very good ANZUS, one that I've got and when you're close to the router, you get great speeds slightly marginally, faster on the note 20 ultra and with the price tag. It has you kind of expect this. Furthermore, it's also better at performing away. In my spot too, where I test downstairs, which is quite a distance from my router. Unfortunately, the Xiaomi gets rather low speeds when you don't have perfect signal strength, which is a minor thing.

So hopefully a firmware update will fix this. It's not good to see. It's also not a dealbreaker. I believe, unless, of course, you're connected to a wireless router that happens to be on the other side of your house, then you may have issues with the speeds coming through on the me10 ultra and now, looking at the internal storage speeds, we've got ufs3 versus UFS 3.1, so spec wise, this particular phone, the mi 10 ultra, is actually much better than this one, as you see with some of these benchmarks about to show you too. So the random reads and writes is where this is so much quicker, and you do notice this.

You notice, when you install applications or load some very heavy applications to me, they seem to actually be, but not always loading faster. Sometimes they actually come up quicker. On the note, 20 ultra that's down to optimization, I might do a mini speed test in this particular video as well later on. So that means the internal storage on both of them is very, very quick you're not actually going to notice in real world use these differences. It's only synthetic benchmarks, and now we get to the big down point here: the Achilles heel of the global version here.

So, if you happen to live in the US, you get the snapdragon 865 in various other different regions. Lucky you, but we get screwed over by Samsung with the Enos processor, which is just so not disappointing. Most people won't actually see this kind of difference. Unless you game a lot, it's really in the GPU. The big difference between that mallet, the.

What is it the g77 could be wrong. There versus the arena 650 huge difference there and that's why a lot of people are angry with Samsung. They say why do we get screwed over with the Enos yet again just make it snapdragon 865? You know why. It is, though, because Samsung gain more profits off their own in-house chip and that's why we've got this massive difference here, so an absolute monster of a score here with the snapdragon 865, and it's not the xs5 plus. So if it was the plus, it would be even better, but Xiaomi has really optimized.

These thermals actually seem better in this particular model as well. In my use, it doesn't get quite as hot as the Galaxy Note, 20 ultra charge. Time is also where this one is just legs ahead. The 10 ultra charges in around 25 minutes from about three percent battery to 100 right here I went from 16 to 100 and only 20 minutes, and this one using the included charger. Uh was a little slower.

Well, 88 minutes. Both of them have the same battery capacity more or less, which is officially 4 500 William hours, but you're always going to get something a tiny little less, which this is currently detecting here, but they're, both more or less the same. So the winner with the battery life is at 120 hertz. Both of these were set were the displays calibrated to 200 nits, the me10 ultra it only just both of these battery times. I would classify as poor, okay real world use.

You're looking at, I would say, really realistically about five hours on screen time for both of these models here at 120, hertz 120 hertz kills batteries set it to 60, and you'll, be looking at on screen time, then of at least about six hours. Seven hours, plus you gain an additional two hours or so not as much as you would think, but it is much better if you need the battery life 60 hertz. So what about our cameras? I have done a separate camera comparison between both of these that is in my channel. So I recommend you do go and check that out. I can briefly summarize here that the best video performance is the Samsung.

I believe the best ultra-wide is also the Samsung, but the Xiaomi did trade blows with it ended actually went out in several categories. The zoom camera on this one 48 megapixels on the me10 ultra, does a much better job than the 12 megapixel five times optical, so it wins out with the optical zoom camera. It also has the two times optical portrait camera as well. I believe it wins there portrait photos, the Samsung to me just had slightly better stitching slightly better skin tone, so I would give that one there a win overall, it was very, very tight. Low light performance was so close, but the edge just went to the Samsung Galaxy note, 20, and you've got to remember that sorry, the 20 ultra I've got here is the Enos version.

Snapdragon version should actually be a little better, but make sure you check out that comparison, detailed camera review, including video samples, low light, stills everything's in that video on to our loudspeaker performance. Now here the Samsung Galaxy note 20 ultra the most expensive phone. Yes does have the better loudspeakers. They just are a little richer. They sound a little louder now in terms of our type c to 3.5 millimeter output. Yes, they both do not have 3.5 millimeter headphones, sockets jacks on these at all. I think the Xiaomi's best here, I think, Xiaomi with the audio, does an excellent job.

They really do optimize it well, and I can hear that with Bluetooth audio as well, I'm going to have to rate, I think the Xiaomi slightly better there as well, which is maybe a surprise to some to me. It's not actually testing a lot of Xiaomi's out in the channel, but overall, very good audio from both of these phones here call quality, both sound excellent. I can't, I can't really judge which one is actually the best I think they're about equal they're, but loudspeakers definitely the note 20 ultra is better here, and I'll, give you a sample of both of them at 100 volume. So, yes, I did do a speed test. I'm not too much of a believer in this because they're very different, the spa phone specs, the UI, of course, but I did notice that sometimes on the Galaxy Note 20 ultra, it would actually load things up a little faster.

So right now, testing out chrome actually pulled up and loaded and rendered faster on the note 20 ultra, which is the less specked system unless spec mobile, but out of testing both of these when it came to loading, for example, a very demanding application or a game like right now, shadow gun legends, it clearly did load faster on the highest specs me 10 ultra. So what are they both like to game on? I did find that the gaming is just more immersive because of the larger screen better screen and the better speakers on the Galaxy Note 20 ultra. However, the performance, the 10 ultra was definitely more fluid in the long run, and when that note 20 ultra started to heat up and get to about 43 degrees. I noticed a clear little of stutter came into play now and then with very demanding parts of shadow gun, legends, and it just didn't seem quite as fluid as the me10 ultra. So if you game a lot, you would want to go for the snapdragon 865 Galaxy Note 20 ultra- or this me 10 ultra here for gaming performance.

So I've been gaming now for about 30 minutes, and I can clearly feel that the Samsung Galaxy note 20 ultra- is definitely getting hotter here. So it's getting up to about 42, 43 degrees, uh, here on the screen you can see, whereas the Xiaomi mi 10 ultra this one's topping out at about 39 degrees, flip them over to look at the rear of them. So it does actually feel quite a bit hotter on the rear of the Samsung. Here you can see, there's quite a hot patch right there. That's where the chipset will be that Enos remember.

This is not the snapdragon version and that is getting up to 41 42 degrees there. So it's definitely a hotter running phone and gaming. I think I'm getting less battery life as well with it all right. So out of these two, the meter ultra the Samsung Galaxy note 20 ultra, which one would I pick I'd actually go for the note. If money wasn't an issue of course, and the big if is this was of course the snapdragon 865 version, which it isn't it's the Enos and sadly my time using it, it gets quite hot, I'm noticing the performance differences.

I don't think it warrants the price tag at all, even though we've got a fantastic screen, slightly better cameras, definitely a better uh. I think well, better video quality than this one, but it's just not enough. It's just not enough to warrant having a keeping a phone, that's so expensive. So out of these two I would definitely keep if, of course, I didn't have the snapdragon 865 version. I would definitely keep this one here and that would be my phone of choice because you're saving a lot of money, we're talking about a huge difference here of almost 500 euros.

That is a lot and Xiaomi does an excellent job to keep up and actually better. In some areas, with the cameras as well, better zoom camera on this guy, it also has better 8k video, if you're into 8k video. That is then there's a lot to consider here. Of course, if you're an s pen user, you want the digital stylus, you want the more premium screen. You go for this, of course, and you want the name behind it too, you're paying for the brand a bit of bragging rights as well that some people won't still even know who Xiaomi is.

But everyone knows who Samsung is so that's one thing there. So hopefully, this video was well educational. You learned, which one is better at what and gave you a bit of an idea here and Samsung. I really do hope that the next note release and the s20 release, dump the Enos and give us the new snapdragons or at least give us an Enos that performs on par, because this is so behind now compared to the latest snapdragon 865. So thanks a lot for watching this video make sure you check out the camera comparison between these two.

That is up here, and I hope to see you back in the next video.

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