Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Malaysia Review: A crazily pricey upgrade By KLGadgetTV

Despite its name, the Samsung Galaxy note 20 is the 10th entry into the Galaxy Note, uh, series of smartphones and after a decade's worth of devices, Samsung has created arguably their best business, centric smartphone to date, but I still wouldn't dump an entire month's pay, 5199 ringgits to be exact onto this phone. Yet, let's find out why? But a quick disclaimer before we dive deeper. This is the top of the line. Samsung Galaxy note 20 ultra with the Enos 990 chipsets. So I just want to get that out of the way before people go into the comment, sections and complain about not knowing which version this is being the ultra. It has a 6.9 inch dynamic AMOLED times, 2 display that, as usual of a Samsung phone looks amazing. This one offers impressive color accuracy, while brightness is also good.

The curved edges, despite being done to death, still adds that premium touch. The display also pushes a 1440p resolution and a 120hz refresh rate, but you cannot enable both at the same time, this is similar to the galaxy s20 ultra, and it's something that annoys me, because there are other flagships out there that allow this. You can argue that for Samsung this is to reserve battery life, but for people who enable both features are willing to sacrifice battery anyways but moving to the back, there's nothing. I want to complain about the new mystic bronze finish on this phone looks absolutely fire and the frosted glass material adds to the classy aesthetic good. To note is that despite its appearance and how it sounds when you tap on it, the back panel is in deep glass, corning, gorilla, Victor's glass to be exact.

You get the same material on the display as well, and it's the toughest kind you can fit on a smartphone right now. The phone is relatively light and thin enough to fit in the pockets without being a nuisance, but the phone is slippery, so use a phone case if you're clumsy. Now, let's move on to audio the note, 20 ultra has stereo speakers and I think they sound fine without being outstanding, even with Dolby Atmos turned on. I find the audio to lack just a little of balance when watching Netflix dialogue is clear, but you don't hear much of the lows same goes for music, but you can always tweak it with the built-in equalizer. Moving on to photography, there isn't much to talk about.

Besides saying, it's kind of similar to the s20 ultra setup, you have a 108 megapixel main shooter, with a 12 megapixel periscope lens that only goes up to 50 times the space, soon not 100 times like on the s20 ultra. This isn't an issue for me, as I find anything past 30 times, zoom to be unusable. Anyways there's also a 12 megapixel ultrawide shooter that has minimal edge warping and in typical Samsung fashion. Images come out crystal clear, but colors can be over saturated. There's no focusing issue to mention this time around thanks to its laser autofocus sensor and then there's the 108 megapixel mode that we've seen time and time again sure you get a lot of detail, but it's not for the everyday point and click Instagram a photographer for that 27 megapixel works.

Just fine night mode is also impressive, with only a two-second shutter speed, seemingly set as default after about one second of processing. When you load up the image you get a final product that has dark spots well, illuminated colors are balanced and details are retained, which is really important when it comes to 108 megapixel mode at night. The general rule is that you don't use it, but here it performs surprisingly, quite well too, with the help of AI details are retained with minimal noise. I don't really want to get too much into photography this time around, because videography is where it's at with the Galaxy Note 20. The feature that I'm most excited about is the one added to pro video mode that lets you choose, which direction the mic picks up: audio from front rear, omnidirectional or even hook it up to a mic via Bluetooth or USB.

So this comes in handy. If you interview people a lot like you know if you're a journalist or are filming quick dialogue scenes. This is a mic test of the front mic pickup, as you can probably hear. I am very clear. My voice is very clear, but if I change it to the rear mic, it is now rear mic, and I'm talking to my videographer, hello, hello.

So, as you can probably hear, my videographer was sound, much clearer. How are you today yeah, I'm fine, and we're gonna. Do the test of the note, 20 and testing one two three now, if I change it to the front, you can probably hear me much more clearly now, but if you want your surroundings, you can also change to omnidirectional. So this lets you hear whatever else is on your sides too. Speaking of filming the note 20 ultra lets, you record 8k videos at 24 frames, but with that you sacrifice the super steady mode which is impressive on this phone regardless, you still get regular video stabilization at 8k, which is not too bad, then there's the zoom speed control in pro video mode, which does exactly what it says unless you control how fast you zoom in and out of a scene, and this adds to a filmmaker's arsenal for more stylistic shots.

It doesn't quite replace professional equipment, obviously, but it's a decent pickup for YouTubers, for example, when it comes to selfies, you get a 10 megapixel lens that performs quite well when that enough light, it doesn't do so hard when it's dim, but to remedy this you can also use night mode with selfies too. One thing that bothers me, however, is that even when toned all the way down, the beautification feature does something really weird with my eyes: it's just too sparkly, but seeing as the phone is a business centric device, maybe you can overlook this aspect of the phone next, let's move on to what might detour some people from buying the note 20 ultra. It's hardware, like I said before this comes with an Enos 990 chipsets and although it performs well with multitasking and gaming, it gets very warm to the point that it's uncomfortable to hold. We also went ahead and did some benchmarking and compared it to one of its closest rifles, the OnePlus 8 pro, which runs on the snapdragon 865 and, as I expected, the snapdragon outperforms, the Enos 990 in every benchmark. We tried testing it again when the phone's cooled down with different power settings on the note 20.

In the end, the OnePlus 8 pro always came out on top, so um Samsung, please it's about time when it comes to memory, configuration, there's, 12, gigabytes of ram as standard and up to 256, gigabytes of internal storage, with expandable storage of up to one terabyte, with a micros card, no qualms here in terms of battery life. The note 20 ultra has a 4 500 William hour pack and despite its Enos 990 chipsets, which is known to have a weaker battery life than its snapdragon counterpart, it actually doesn't perform too badly with heavy usage either I lasted a full day with navigation, heavy gaming and regular browsing with about 25 left in the tank. At the end of the day to charge the phone you get, a 25 watt superfast charging adapter that gets the phone from 20 to 100 in just about an hour when it comes to features. The main reason you get a node device is for the s pen. For the note 20 series you get an improved stylus, which Samsung claims has a lower touch, latency of just 9 milliseconds, and it's true taking notes feel more responsive than ever on a Galaxy Note device.

Then there are also new navigation air gestures, meaning you don't have to tap on your display as frequently anymore. You can go back, go back to your home, screen your task manager and even take screenshots all with a switch of your s-pen. All the regular features are present like taking photos with gestures AR doodle screen, write, smart, select and more. The full suit of Samsung ecosystem features are here to this time around. You can connect Samsung decks on a TV wirelessly now, but you still need cables for laptops or monitors.

The phone runs on one UI 2.5, based on android 10 and, as usual, it's intuitive and is one of my favorite software overlays. You have your app bar to the side and app tray that I'm happy to see still retained. The in-screen fingerprint reader, as well as the face unlocks, are also responsive as ever so no complaints. Here with that said, the Samsung Galaxy. Note 20 ultra is a very good phone, but to me, it's just very expensive.

Its new features such as an improved s-pen, the pawning gorilla Victor's glass, as well as new gestures and new videography features, may appeal to some people and therefore the 5199 ringgit price tag may be justified, but for people who don't really care about those features, I guess you could just go for the OnePlus 8 pro or the Oppo find x2 pro which are cheaper, but arguably just as good as the Galaxy Note, 20 ultra. Let us know down in the comment section below what you think about the phone. Would you go for it, which will go for the other phones that I suggested give us a like to remember to subscribe? This is victor signing off bye.

Source : KLGadgetTV