Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra Review - The Good and The Bad By zollotech

Hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech- and this is the Samsung Galaxy s 20 ultra 5g. This is a phone I've had since the day it released, and I've been using it on and off and for the most part, I really like it. It has some really great things about it, but it also has some things that aren't so great, so we're going to go over the good in the bad and if you want to know all the different specs and things I'm not going to talk about those specifically in this video, but I did do an unboxing with all of that information. Now. The first thing that's great about this is its display. This is easily the best display on the market.

It's super vibrant. It goes really bright, and you can really bring it up in brightness has great blacks and great bright whites, its HDR, and also it has 120 Hertz and, as you can see, I have set up. Basically, what looks like the pixel launcher, and it's superfast and smooth. If you have that option turned on, but you can turn that off and bump the resolution as well. It's just not an option to do both.

You can't have high resolution and the same 120 Hertz at the same time whether they make that an option in the future. It's hard to say, but you'll see you have high refresh rate or standard refresh rate to get better battery life, and you have both options, but you can't do one or the other with the higher resolution here of screen resolution. So I can't go to the higher mode. If I apply it, it will change it, so I'm at the standard, refresh rate. So that's not a huge deal for me, but I love the display itself and think it's great now.

The next thing is the speed of the device. It's superfast. It's got a Qualcomm, snapdragon 865 and this model has 12 gigabytes of RAM, so you can pin apps into memory. If you want to pin settings and keep it open for quick launching, you can do that. You can pin up to 3 apps.

It's just superfast. All the time I've had no slowdowns whatsoever, and it's great for playing games and things like that, and that leads me into the sponsor of this video raid Shadow Legends raid Shadow Legends really shows off what the s20 display can do, and this game looks amazing. We'll go into a battle here, and this is a turn-based strategy game. If you haven't seen it, so we'll just go into this battle and let it play out when you log in you get daily reward points and here's what it looks like, so I've got it on auto. So you can see so I.

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They go nice and loud and if you're watching a video, here's an HDR video of mine on YouTube. If you're watching a video I'll turn the sound up, the stereo sound is great. It's nice and clear it's loud. The sound is really immersive and it sounds really. Great.

Samsung did a really great job on these speakers, and they're, just as good as say an iPhone 11, Pro Max. They do sound a little different, but they are equally loud. I would say. The 11pro Macs are just a hair better as far as clarity, but these go may be a little louder, depending on how you're testing it now. The next thing is, it runs Android 10, it's running the latest version of Android 10 and in the past this has been a bad thing for Samsung and the reason I say this is that the updates have been slow to come in.

But, as you can see right now, the latest update was just a day or two ago. So, if I go to download and install they're, getting regular updates monthly, so we're getting monthly updates with monthly security, patches and I expect a new update within the next few days to bring us up to the April security patch, so they're guaranteeing that for at least a few years, and we've got updates on our Samsung phone to make us nice and current with security, but also occasionally give us new features with one Ryan things like that. The next positive or good thing is build quality. The build quality of the s20 ultra 5g is up there with iPhone, 11, Pro max and any other high-end flagship phone. In fact, it's the same or better than anything else out there.

Samsung has really nailed the radius of these curves. Now the screen is pretty perfect, you don't have accidental touches or anything, and just the overall feel and quality of construction is just another level, so the design itself is fairly subjective, whether you like this giant camera bump, but in general it's hard to argue that this is not a very solid and well-built phone. Of course, it's glass on the back and front it should be durable, but in general it is glass, so it can shatter. So I would recommend a case for something like that, but it is a fingerprint magnet. It looks good, maybe if they had some other colors I'd be a little happier with it.

Maybe a blue or a red for this particular model, but in general it's a solid phone, and it's really well-built. So Samsung did a great job here now. The next positive thing or good thing is the camera. The camera on this phone has great photos. In fact, here are some photos that I took outside in a comparison with the iPhone 11 Pro Max, and it's got great quality.

The problem comes in, and this is the first bad thing is with the focus. The focus tends to hunt a lot with video and if you don't pinpoint a location to record so if I don't tap and hold to kind of lock the focus, it will hunt back and forth when you're recording video from time to time. Now they were supposedly supposed to fix this, but this has the latest patch, and it really did not make much of a difference. But when you get a photo or a video or even night mode like you can see here, I really prefer it over the 11pro max. When it comes to night mode, the colors were actually more accurate and many of the tests I did with this phone as compared to that 11 Pro max.

So I was really surprised by that. But I think it's a great phone nonetheless for its cameras, and you have a ton of options, but that 100 X zoom, that's pretty gimmicky. It's very blurry I think they should have just said it has great optical zoom up to 30x and left it at that. So you do have other options as well as a time-of-flight sensor that you really can't do a lot with right now, but maybe you will see some interesting things in the future now. The next negative thing is that it comes with pre-installed apps that you may not want especially Facebook, so you'll see Facebook.

Here, let me switch back to one you I quickly, and if we go to Facebook and press and hold on it, we can only disable it. We can't uninstall it without changing some settings or routing it. So it's one of those things where it's not a horrible thing, but I really wish it wasn't installed and whether that data is being given to Facebook and things I would just disable it in general, or it's just too bad that they install that to begin with. Now the next bad thing is price. This is an extremely expensive phone, starting at about $1400 and going up from there now there are less expensive options with the s20 chipset and most of the things in here, but you will not get this configuration with its huge 5,000 William hour battery for under 1,400 unless you get a discount and to only have it supported for about three years with software updates at that price.

It's a lot to ask, but many times you can get discounts for this, and they'll buy it back after two years for 50% of its cost. So hopefully the values will stay up this time with this particular device. Now speaking of that 5,000 William hour battery, this is the next bad thing, that's fairly subjective and depends on how you use your device. So if you have that 120 Hertz display turned on it's going to use a lot more power than if you didn't use it. So if you want to limit the power that it's using, you turn that off, but if you're using it you'll still get through the day and that's not too much of an issue for most people.

It does have fast charging and fast wireless charging. But if you need to get through the day, turn that off you'll easily get a couple of days out of it. Usually, if you don't have the hundred and twenty Hertz display on, if you do have that display on well expect maybe six hours of screen on time. So you'll see battery usage here over the past few days. It just depends on how I've been using.

It is really dependent on what you're doing I use a lot of social media. That's really going to change how the battery behaves, but you also have optimized power modes in high performance modes, so, depending on what you're using here, really depends on what battery life you're going to get. If you have adaptive power, settings on you'll probably get the best, and it can also turn off 5g. So, if you're using 5g, the idea of 5g is great, but it does consume a lot more power. So just keep that in mind.

I, don't think.5G is ready for most carriers, such as Verizon with millimeter-wave, that's only in specific street corners and blocks in the United States in specific cities, so New York City, for example, you might have it on a few street corners, whereas in some other cities you may have no coverage, but if you have sub six, you do have good coverage. I had pretty good coverage here, so it just depends on what you've got and what your carrier is. Now. The next negative thing is fairly subjective, and that is size. This is a gigantic phone and so to use this day today.

For me, is fine. I have huge hands, no problems whatsoever, but for some people it's going to be a huge phone, it's a two-handed phone for notifications and compared to something like an iPhone, 11, Pro Max, for example. If you've seen one of those that gives you an idea or maybe a pixel for Excel, you've got that next to it, and this does have a case on it and Samsung's cassette accessories are really quite nice. This is an LED case. That's powered off the rear coil in this, and it just notifies you with LEDs.

It's pretty neat, but this is a huge phone, so that gives you an idea, pixel for XL and iPhone 11, Pro Max and the s20 ultra 5g in the middle. It's giant, and it definitely needs a case because it's super slippery. So that's why I have this on here. It's kind of a rubberized case, and if you pre-ordered this, or you buy it from Samsung, they usually give you some extras with it. Now.

As far as anything else. Well, I don't really have a lot of other negatives. To say about it. Things like the fingerprint sensor that were a problem for me on the s10, for example, are not a problem for me on this. You've got neat accessories, and the only negative for me personally is the lack of a headphone jack, but I know that's not a big deal for most people, and you can use the USP C, adapter or Galaxy Buds or any other wireless headphones.

So that's not really an issue. It has phenomenal front-facing, rear-facing cameras decent battery life, depending on how you're using it, and it's highly recommended, but there are some things that are not so great that camera focus is a big deal. I really think they should have kept the dual pixel autofocus, like they did on the S 20 and s 20 plus, but for whatever reason they didn't most of the time it works fine for photos. I just noticed the pulsing of the camera during video, so that can be an issue. The 8k video is kind of gimmicky at its frame rate, but 4k video is pretty good.

I still, don't think it's better than iPhone video, but for photos. Many people will prefer the photos out of the s20 Ultra over any other phone personally. I prefer photos out of the pixel, so it just depends on what your preference is, but this is still a great phone nonetheless, but let me know your thoughts about it in the comments below I'll link raid Shadow legends again, as I mentioned before, in the description below, if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper, and you're, not on this phone I'll link it in the description below and if you haven't subscribed already please subscribe, and if you enjoyed the video please give it a like, as always thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see you next time.

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