Samsung Galaxy Note 20 vs Motorola Edge - Display Comparison By DanieBoy's Tech

Hey guys and gals Danny boy here, and today I have the Samsung Galaxy note 20, and I'm comparing it to the Motorola edge okay. So both of these phones are 20, 20 phones. They both came out around the same time in August here of 2020, okay, and what I want to talk about in this video are the displays on these phones kind of do a bit of a discussion in that area. So let's go ahead and jump right into this. So, let's start with the Galaxy Note: 20. Okay, this phone has a 6.7 inch super AMOLED display. We do have an always on display here that we do not have on the Motorola edge okay, but we're at 393 PPI here, okay, so it's a 1080p display and this display is running at 60 hertz 60 hertz is your only option.

It's a 60 hertz panel, okay, and then we're at 20 by nine for the aspect ratio. So it's a bit of a tall display. Okay and then we have this hole: punch cut out for the selfie camera in the center there. Okay! Now I would prefer the cutout to be on one side, but it is in the center here: okay and uh. You can black that out I'll show you how to do that.

If you go into the settings display full screen, apps hit this little button up here, hide camera cut out and that's actually how I rock mine, with it blacked out. Usually that's how I rock it. I like it like that, okay, so this is the Galaxy Note 20. Now a big criticism of this phone was that for the 999 dollar price tag, full retail price you're only getting a 60 hertz display okay. So that was a big criticism of this phone.

Now I will say that with the snapdragon 865 plus processor, the phone still feels lightning fast. It feels really smooth. As a matter of fact, if somebody told me this only had a 60 hertz display, I'd probably be a little surprised. It almost feels like I don't want to say it feels quite like a 90 hertz, but maybe almost like. If there was a 75 hertz display, the fast processor definitely gives you that buttery smooth scrolling.

Okay, but it would have been nice to have a 90 or a 120 hertz display here, but it is what it is guys. It's a 60, hertz panel, okay, let's go ahead and jump over here to the Motorola edge. Okay. Now this phone also has a 6.7 inch display. Okay, this is an OLED panel.

Okay, we're at 385 PPI, so a little less on the PPI, but really not that much less, very minimal there um, so 385 PPI, you know uh. We do have, however, 90 hertz on a refresh rate on this display. Okay, so that's really, really good really like that. We see that here definitely adds to the smooth feeling of the display. Okay, because we do have the 765 g processor in here snapdragon 765 g.

So we do have a lesser uh, uh, more of a middle range upper middle range processor here on the Motorola edge versus obviously top line on the note 20. Okay, now the aspect ratio here is 19 and a half by nine. So almost as tall as the note 20, okay and, of course I got the black-out on there, and then you do have a hole, punch cut out now this on the Motorola edge. It is on the left side of the screen here, and I definitely like that better uh than the note 20. , okay.

So like the placement better here, um and, of course, hence the name edge. We got these large edges curved edges on this display. Okay, so this display feels a bit more narrow, even though it's technically not versus the note 20, because of those curved edges, it gives the phone the appearance that it is thinner than the note 20. Um the edges on this phone. I actually am okay with.

I generally prefer a flat display, like the note 20 has, but I'm okay with it on this phone because they have this software feature built in that allows you to fill the app on more on the flat part of the display so that you don't have text bleeding over the sides. So they have addressed the problem I have had in the past with screens that are curved and that the text would sometimes bleed over the sides. And if you do a lot of reading on your phone, it can make it difficult to read at least for me, so they have addressed that here on the Motorola edge, and I'm really glad they have uh. The bottom line is that this just looks perfect um. It definitely looks good, but even so, I still prefer a flat display like we have on the note 20 here, but this is a perfect display.

The colors are good as a matter of fact, let's go ahead and compare our calibration options between the phones just so we can kind of see where they stand in that department. So if I launch here turn off the blue light filter now I keep the blue light filter on 24 7 on my phones, just because I like that extra punch, it gives the display um so screen modes. We got vivid or natural here on the note 20, so a little modest on the settings here we do have the white balance control. I keep mine all the way on warm, and then you can control the RGB setting by tinkering with the sliders. However, you want, so that's good.

I mean it's. Okay would like to see more options here on the calibration, but it is what it is. Okay, so now here on the Motorola edge, let's go ahead and look here and see what we got. Okay, I do the same thing here. I leave the night light on: okay I'll turn it off just for a second okay.

Let's look at the calibration here, colors, okay, so we got natural boosted and saturated okay generally, I leave it on saturated. I think boosted is also good. I'm not usually don't use the natural mode that just makes everything look a bit more realistic, definitely prefer the saturated there and then, of course, like I said, I leave the night light on that's what it's called over here: 24 7. , okay, so you do have edge lighting on both displays. Um, let's see here edge, screen okay edge lighting here, if I, you know, get a notification.

This is what it'll look like it'll light up the edges, even though it is a flat display and then over here um, let's see, yeah lights can show on the edge display edges when you're charging or receiving a call notification or alert, as you can kind of see there in the graphic, okay settings. Okay, that's what you can kind of control on that, so both phones are similar. In that regard, I think obviously the Samsung has more customization there um, but you know the biggest difference here. Guys is the refresh rate. Okay, as you can see here, we can leave it on 60, all the time or 90 all the time, which is what I prefer, or we can do auto and allow it to switch back and forth depending on what you're doing okay, so um bottom line here is guys.

We do have great displays on both of these phones. If I had to pick one, even though this one is 90 hertz, I think I would still pick the note 20. Uh just because I think it's calibrated just a bit better. The blacks are very rich and deep. The colors are just very saturated.

Don't get me wrong. The Motorola edge is right behind it, but there's something about these Samsung displays with their own calibration. That just looks really, really sweet. Okay, let's go ahead and check the brightness, because I know people a lot of times want to know about that I'll max this out. Of course, you get the warning on the Samsung, which I don't prefer, but it is what it is I'll max this one out, and it's kind of hard to tell in the video guys, but the Samsung, I think, is definitely brighter.

Okay, um yeah, it's brighter uh, it's kind of hard. You know to show that in the video uh, the Motorola edge kind of has a dimmer display in general compared to all my phones, I've noticed. So, if brightness is something that is really important to you, you're going to want to probably not look at the Motorola edge, because I have to keep it about 95 percent brightness. When I'm you know using the phone I can't have it that way for filming but uh the Galaxy Note. I keep it probably about 60 to 70 percent brightness, and that's I guess that's what I'm saying the note gets probably about 30 percent brighter would be my guess, just guessing um from daily usage um.

So I definitely prefer the brightness on the note 20. So, but if brightness isn't that important to you, if that really doesn't matter, they're both great displays, but at the end of the day guys, I would still pick the note 20s display, even though we do have the 90 hertz here so guys. Those are my thoughts here on comparing the displays of the Samsung Galaxy note 20, with the Motorola edge, as always, if you're enjoying my videos be sure to subscribe to my channel and then, of course, hitting that thumbs up button helps as well, but for now guys peace out.

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