Note 20 Review: A Good Phone With a Bad Reputation By Mark Spurrell

Hey guys mark here- and this is the Samsung Galaxy note- 20 a phone- that's been making waves in the tech space and not in a good way. In fact, this might be one of the most hated phone releases of this year so far, and to be honest with you, I don't really think it deserves it. Because- and I want to be perfectly clear here- this is not a bad phone at all. In fact, the only real problem with this phone is the launch pricing. Samsung has listed this phone at 1 000 us dollars a very premium price for what you'll see shortly is not a very premium phone, but what a lot of reviewers are forgetting is that a lot of people don't buy the phone outright from Samsung. They can go with the carrier, deal and potentially get the phone for a very cheap monthly price or even free with a plan like this at t deal.

I found maybe you're watching this video six months later, and the phone has already dropped in price to 600 bucks, who knows either way I'm not ready to write off this phone completely, just because it has a poor, 1 000 launch price. Now, luckily, I didn't have to spend a thousand of my own dollars on this phone because it was sent over to me by my friends over at wirelessplace. com. This video is not sponsored, but if you're looking for any unlocked, Samsung phone like this one I'll leave a link to their website in the description down below, because it's a great place to get one. The first thing: you'll notice, when you pick up the note 20, is how light it is.

It's a 6.7 inch phone. So, although it is big in the hand, it doesn't feel heavy at all coming in at 192 grams. The second thing you'll notice, is that you don't get that cool, familiar touch when your hand comes in contact with glass and that's because this phone has a plastic back. This is probably one of the biggest reasons that people are very critical about. This phone plastic is really not something you'd expect on a phone that Samsung is pricing for a thousand bucks, and they do deserve all the flack they're getting for it.

That said, plastic does have its advantages, it's more durable for one and if you do manage to break it, it's much cheaper to replace plastic than it is glass. You'll still get all the comforts you'd get on a regular flagship like wireless charging and reverse wireless charging, ip68 water and dust resistance, and even a matte coating on this mystic gray variant that greatly contributes to the fight against fingerprints. It just won't feel as nice as a glass phone. The vast majority of you put cases or skins on your phones anyway. So I don't think this is as big of a deal as people are making it out to be, at least from a user's perspective, the rear of the phone, also sports, a triple lens camera system and a camera bump that is significantly smaller than the one.

On the note, 20 ultra, probably due to the fact that the regular note 20 lacks that 5x periscope lens found on the ultra more on that later flipping the surrounding phone'll see something that I haven't seen on a note device since I believe the note 5 back in 2015 a flat screen now. I know a lot of you guys like curved displays because it looks cool, but they never made sense on a phone with a stylus like the s pen, the edges of the display just become unusable on the ultra, so the flat display on the note 20 just makes sense here, plus you get no accidental touches. So it's a win-win. For me, the bezels are still nice and thin. Although the hole punch for the selfie camera is a little bigger than it is on the ultra, so not sure.

What's up with that, the 6.7 inch AMOLED display isn't all great though yes, the colors are great, and it doesn't have any off access. Color shift like you'd, find on cheaper panels, but this is a 1080p 60 hertz screen. It doesn't have a higher resolution like 1440p, and it doesn't have the high refresh rate option like the 120 hertz on the ultra. If we were at a 600 or even 700 price point, I don't think anyone would have batted an eye at that, but at a thousand bucks it just adds fuel to the fire that was already caused by the plastic back on this phone. Now.

I don't really think the 1080p resolution is an issue since it seems plenty sharp for everyday use, but I would have definitely liked to see a bump up in that refresh rate at least to 90 hertz, so we can get those buttery smooth, animations. The speakers are good, at least and with that flat 6.7 inch display in HDR 10 plus support the phone makes for a decent little pocket TV. When you're on the go. The note 20 regular does have an upgraded s-pen, although it falls somewhere between the note 20, ultra and last year's note.10. last year's s pen had a response time of 46 milliseconds and that has been almost cut in half with the note 20 down to 25 milliseconds.

It feels good, not quite as good as the ultra's nine milliseconds, coupled with that high refresh rate display, but good. Nonetheless, I'm not a huge s, pen user, but I do use it to take notes and write grocery lists from time to time. All right. Let's talk about the cameras, the regular note, 20 adopts a similar style camera module as the note 20 ultra, although the cameras and the module itself are significantly reduced in size, it has a 12 megapixel main sensor, a 12 megapixel ultra-wide and a 64 megapixel 3x telephoto. It does seem a bit weird that they put the higher resolution camera on the telephoto, but I suspect that was done so that they could get a better 30 times, hybrid zoom.

The note 20 can shoot up to 8k in 24 frames per second from the main camera or 4k at 60 frames per second from any of the cameras, including the 10 megapixel selfie camera. That seems to be the same one that is on the ultra. I do like the colors coming from the note 20 series, although it does seem like the regular note.20, does bias a little more towards over saturating, like previous Samsung phones, sharpness and contrast are decent, but I wasn't as impressed with the cameras on the regular note 20, as I was on the note 20 ultra. I would stick the ultra up there in quality with apple and Google's lineup of flagships, whereas the regular note, 20 kind of just sits comfortably in third place. Video stabilization is excellent.

Overall, though, and I think most people will be happy with the good overall camera performance on this phone battery life from the 4300 William hour battery inside has been great overall, especially when compared to the battery life I was getting on my ultra. This is most likely due to the fact that it has a smaller lower resolution display running at a lower frame rate, but I couldn't kill this battery in a single day. On September 2nd, I had a screen on time of just over 5 hours and I still had over 50 battery left, not too shabby at all. Now I do want to warn you. The model I have here is the global version with the Enos 990, and it's not the model.

I would recommend you buy if you can help it. I didn't know this at the time of my note: 20 ultra review, but there are actually fairly significant differences in both battery life and performance between the Enos 990 and the snapdragon 865 plus models Zach from jerryrigeverything did a great video on this, and I'll link it in the description down below if you're interested in watching it. But the conclusion is that the snapdragon models do perform significantly better in both speed and battery life. So if you can help it go with that model, that being said, performance on my Enos model has been just peachy, no slowdowns or glitches, and it can play the most demanding mobile games with ease, so unless you're more of a power user- and you want to use this with the new wireless DEX mode to get a more desktop experience, frequently you're, probably not going to notice a huge difference between the Enos and snapdragon models in real world use anyway. So, like I said in the beginning of this video, there's nothing inherently wrong with this phone.

Everything is good. The display is good. The battery life is good. The performance is good. The cameras are good.

It's just not a good value from a launch price perspective for a thousand us dollars. You can get an OnePlus 8 pro and use the remaining 100 bucks on a pair of OnePlus buds, which is, in my opinion, a much, much better deal. But if you can get a good discount on this phone or a great carrier, deal there's nothing wrong with the note 20. , it's a good phone. I highly recommend you go check out my video of the note 20 ultra, if you haven't seen it already and do a little of comparison for yourself and if that's the case, I'll leave a link for you right here.

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Source : Mark Spurrell