Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G review By GSMArena Official

Hey, what's up guys will here for GSM marina this year? Samsung has gone above and beyond their normal flagship plus model, releasing the Galaxy S 20 ultra 5g. This thing is a beast: offering the highest end features available from Samsung, but are they worth the higher price tag? Let's find out in our galaxy s, 20 ultra review? This is the s20 ultra 5g and compared to the other s 20 models. This one stands out in a big way. It has a huge display, a larger battery and the most advanced camera setup we've seen from Samsung. The phone is made of glass with a metal frame. Just a note that this is the 5 G version, which has support for the potentially much faster 5g network speeds.

There's apparently also an LTE only version to looks-wise, it isn't very exciting. The cosmic gray finish doesn't do much to catch the eye, in contrast to the dazzling once we saw from Samsung last year, the defining design element is the camera setup on the back, which is tall and takes up a lot of real estate. It's of course practical, but won't win any beauty contests. As a Samsung flagship we'd be surprised if there wasn't any water resistance on this phone and sure enough, you get full ip68 protection here on the front, is a giant 6.9 inch AMOLED display with the high q-- HD resolution and up at the top is a punch hole cut out for the 40 megapixel quad bear selfie camera. The screen is curved on the sides, but it's more subtle than on previous Samsung flagships and should make accidental screen activations less of a problem.

All the s20 has come with a new headline feature and that's a 120 Hertz screen refresh rate. This means moving elements on the screen will look much smoother, but there's a caveat. You can only use a high refresh rate here if you turn the resolution down to 1080p, so you have to make a choice between a sharper experience or a smoother one. We generally preferred the smoother one, even though the sharpness suffers a little it's hard to notice. The difference and content still looks awesome.

Colors are bland but quite accurate, and you can make them punch your in settings and there is support for HDR, 10 plus 2, if you're looking for that kind of content. On top of that, this display is one of the brightest we've ever tested, but after almost 900 nits in auto mode and recognitions. Otherwise, the manual slider by itself will get you up to 400 under the display sister phones, ultrasonic, fingerprint reader. It works fine, they'll, compare to the lightning-fast setup, so we've seen from some competitors, it is a bit slow. The s20 ultra has a pair of stereo speakers for your audio with the earpiece acting as the second speaker.

These sound great they're really loud and well-balanced too. It comes as no surprise that there's no headphone jack on this phone, so you'll have to use the USB-C port and a dongle is not included in the box. There are three storage tiers on the s20 ultra, and they start at 128. Gigs storage is expandable to through the card slot. At the top.

The user interface is Samsung's, 1uy 2.1 /, android 10. It comes with some tiny tweaks over the 2.0 version, such as rearrangement of some menus and settings. There is a brand-new feature, though now you can make video calls directly through the phone app with Google Duo. Now, there's no need to download a third-party video chat, and you can use the power button as a shortcut for various capable functions, but by default it will activate the virtual assistant. The s20 ultra comes with two variants.

As far as internals go you either get a snapdragon 865 or an Enos 990 chipset both are top-of-the-line and not for the best performance. You can get these days from an Android phone. On top of that, the display has 240 Hertz touch sensing for extra responsiveness. When gaming, however, our Enos unit was quick to heat up when running benchmarks or games, and we ran into thermal throttling. After just a few minutes of use.

The galaxy s, 20 ultra, has a huge five thousand William hour battery inside would you'd expect more from a mid-range err, with a focus on battery life, with the display set to 120 Hertz, the phone delivers good, but not spectacular, endurance scoring eighty-seven hours in our tests. Switching the display over to sixty Hertz and HD. The results are better with a score of 97 endurance hours, it's great, but still not what you'd expect from the big battery. Although the s20 ultra supports 45 watt charging, you only get a 25 watt, one in the box. It still gives you a speedy charge, though we were able to get from 0 to 64 percent in half an hour, and you have wireless charging here, as well as a wireless power share which you can use to top-up other compatible device.

Now on to what is arguably the star of the show, the galaxy s.20 Ultra is quad camera setup, there's a whopping 108 megapixel main camera, a 48 megapixel periscope telephoto cam, a 12 megapixel ultra-wide and a TOF def sensor, I'm going to do a quick summary of the cameras' performance here, but we have another video where I go more in depth if you're interested, even though the 108 megapixel main camera is the headline feature instills, we didn't find a ton of improvement quality wise over last year's no 10, but we really did enjoy the shallow depth of field that the large sensor provides, and this is what makes the camera stand out for us. The biggest benefit of the new camera system is really the higher quality zoom. The telephoto lens shoots at 4x natively, and these photos are excellent. Going further looks nice all the way up to 10x zoom. The 100x zoom, though, is just a marketing gimmick.

We were actually pleasantly surprised by the ultra-wide camps and nighttime shots, which are clearly better than the note tents. As far as video goes.4K footage taken during the day looks great as expected, but nighttime footage looks surprisingly awesome. It really benefits from the size of the 108 megapixel sensor. The major new feature as far as video recording goes, is the ability to record a 8k at 24 fps. It looks good.

It was hard to appreciate the benefits unless you have a 8k monitor, so we'd rather stick with 4k for now. So there you have it guys the galaxy s 20 ultra brings the high-end features you love to see in a flagship phone, a huge high, refresh rate AMOLED screen a versatile set of cameras. The latest chipset fast charging, waterproofing and stereo speakers, but for over thirteen hundred euros, is the s20 ultra worth getting over a less expensive flagship, I'm, not so sure the cameras don't quite live up to the hype. The zoom is a major benefit here, but it's only good at up to 10x. Otherwise, the chipset is an upgrade but is prone to throttling there's a large battery, but it doesn't offer you better battery life and the screen is cutting edge, but it can be run in both HD and the high refresh rate.

At the same time, all these features just don't live up to their full potential. I understand the brand new tech comes with limitations, but this is just too much of a price to ask. Her device is not substantially better than what we've seen before, so you'd probably be better off with another phone unless you're, really after the best that money can buy. Thanks for watching guys and see you on the next one.

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