Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra REVIEW! | The Tech Chap By The Tech Chap

Hey guys Anton the tech Jackman. That was my attempt at a cool intro transition thing, but anyway, I'm here with this guy, the brand new Samsung Galaxy S 20 altar, been using a for a few days. I want to give you guys my sort of extended first impressions having used it for a little, but you may be wondering why I'm not giving you my full review just yet, because some people are posting their full reviews. But there's a couple of reasons and the first one is actually slightly annoying because I spent all of yesterday traipsing around my local towns to get some perfect photos on this. The iPhone 11 Pro in the pixel for Excel for an awesome camera comparison. But then I saw the news that apparently Samsung will be updating the camera firmware on this in the next few days.

It's already available in Korea, but I don't want to create a video that is out of date as soon as I, post it or even worse, give you guys the wrong impression of this phone and also how it compares to the other sort of top-end flagship phones. So I'm going to scrap that and do it again when the update is live, and it does kind of call into question people who are posting their full reviews that this camera right now is not quite what it's going to be when you guys actually go and buy it and use it for yourself in a good way. They're, hopefully going to improve the autofocus and also I, found there are some issues with its softening faces, particularly in portrait mode and especially when you use the ultra-wide lens. The other reason is battery life, because when the pixel 4xl came out and pixel for initially, everyone was saying how terrible the battery life is, and it's true it was especially at launch- and it's still not great now, but crucially, it did get better over time. I probably get an extra two and a half hours from my pixel now than I did six months ago or whenever it came out, and it's the same with the s20 ultra or really any modern phone, and you can see here, I've seen their battery settings and the device care if I tap on battery.

It says learning usage pattern so over the next few days weeks and probably even months, the battery will keep getting better and that's why, along with the camera, update and also just because I'm getting used to using it, I want to hold off on my full review. So after that pretty long and ramble intro. What's it actually like using the s20 ultra well, I can tell you for a star that I've switched from my Pixel 4 XL, which I have been using as my main phone for the past prepare for the past few months to the s20 ultra, because it is pretty much across the board better phone. We get a bigger 5,000 William hour battery. We got a new processor I've got 12 gigs around here, 128 storage and also a stunning 120 Hertz 6.9-inch AMOLED screen, which is just stunning, whether you're watching movies, YouTube videos or you just sort of browsing around and enjoying that smooth motion. I think it's probably my favorite screen on any phone right now.

So let's talk about that high refresh rate. What does it actually mean? Well, if you've ever used a high refresh gaming monitor, then you pull have a good idea, but essentially the screen refreshes itself 120 times per second, as opposed to 60 times per second on a regular 60, Hertz phone, and so whether you're just browsing around like this you're opening apps everything feels a lot smoother. It really is a big difference, and while the compromise right now on this is that you can't use the full who plus resolution at 120, Hertz between the two I would always go for the higher refresh rate. It's much more noticeable than the extra sharpness you get from. The resolution now what's interesting, is that when we look at other upcoming phones like the OnePlus 8, for example, they're teasing that we'll get the full res and 120 the best of both worlds, so maybe something's holding that off.

For the note 20, perhaps, but also there was a good reason for in this battery life because from my testing so far, the difference between 60 and 120. It knocks off about 25% of your battery and while the five thousand million power cell on this is actually relatively very big for a phone with that huge screen at 120 Hertz, the battery life is pretty good, but not as amazing, as you might think. I have heard, though, that Samsung is planning to release an update for this, which will dynamically adjust between 120 and 60 Hertz a bit like the pixel dos from 90 to 60, depending on your battery life. So that's e. That would be a welcome change because you shouldn't have to jump into the display settings to change that yourself.

That should hopefully come soon speaking of gaming them well. I, don't think this is you know the ultimate. The best gaming phone in the world I think the Asia DOG phone 2 still holds that title because of its air triggers and its range of accessories, although the s20 is more powerful with the new processor and graphics, but playing something like Call of Duty. Mobile on this just looks absolutely stunning, as I say that huge 6.9-inch screen and to get technical just for a second we've got OF s3 storage. We have Samsung's brand-new much faster lpddr4, my ram.

This is the first phone to come with that. We also have the new processors that 125 screen Android 10 Samsung's, 1, UI 2, that combination of the hardware and the software. This is probably the most powerful phone in the whole world right now, although I guess you probably expect it to be for 1,300 quid unlocking the s20 is pretty much the same as before we get the same ultrasonic fingerprint reader as the note 10 plus, which is fine but I, was hoping. We'd seek welcomes new 3d sewing max. We do which they unveiled back in December, and then we have faced unlock, but there's still no IR sensor, so it's definitely slower and less reliable in low-light or at night with both, though it is worth registering your face or finger twice for better accuracy.

One thing I had to turn off straight away, though, was Samsung daily, their little newsfeed thing to the left of the home screen. It takes a few seconds to load every time, and it's kind of annoying I wish it was the Google News feed instead, but you can always just pinch in and then tap a little toggle at the top right to turn. It off. I think my favorite new feature, though, and really it's just because of Android 10- is the improved gesture. So previously, if you wanted to go back, you'd have to swipe up from the bottom corner, but now you can swipe in from the edge to go back, and we've got a huge screen like this.

Just being able to swipe in from anywhere to go back is very useful in terms of the actual design, I can't say: I love it. It does look a bit industrial, the ultra comes in either black or there's very boring, gray, color, so they're, both kind of dull actually, and then we have this massive camera module dominating the back. I mean it's functional, and I always appreciate that function of a form, but it's not the most beautiful. Looking phone I'd love, one of those alright colors that we got on the previous phones but I. Guess if you put a case on it, then who cares anyway, but when you pick it up for the first time, you really do get a sense that this is a big phone, and also it's pre chunky as well as 8.8 millimeters, and it weighs about the same as the iPhone 11 Pro max. Although we are getting a much bigger screen here, actually for the similar way, but from the front, it's absolutely stunning, as I say, with those super thin bezels, the title hall punch there, which is smaller than it was on the note, M, plus, and also the curved screen, which is something a lot of people, either love or they hate.

Sometimes it can cause harm rejection issues on all the phones. The curved screen isn't as pronounced as it was on the S 10 or the STM plus, for example, but overall I think as the YouTuber clich? goes. It feels good in the hand, although it is pretty slippery, so I would definitely put case. I may be a pop sucker on this, which actually would definitely help with the size as well. This is also 5g, and it supports dual SIM cards with the second SIM card tray, acting also as a micro SD card tray, if you prefer to expand the storage which actually this is one of my little gripes about this.

Having 128 gigs of storage for the base model of the Ultra seems very stingy to be honest, but if you do have very deep pockets, then you can buy the highest spec model with 16 gigs of RAM and 512 storage. First impressions of the camera. Well, it's good as you'd expect, but it's not quite as amazingly out of this world as well. Maybe in a space, zoom or Samsung. Some marketing may be led me to believe, although, as I say, I did can an entire camera comparison.

Video as I'm waiting for that update, so I will revisit that properly. For my full review. When we have the update, we have the standard main lens. We have the ultra-wide. We had a telephoto with up to 100 times, digital zoom, as well as a 3d time-of-flight sensor, which helps give you more realistic bouquet blow in portrait shots and also helps with augmented reality.

Plus we get a 40 megapixel, front-facing, selfie camera, so you've probably already seen a billion videos on the s2000 things that stood out for me and the first thing I noticed was that I couldn't find the portrait mode of life focus in the camera app. Usually it's right there, but actually they've hidden a bunch of the camera tools in the more tabs. Then you can add, remove and move around all different camera modes. So the Ultra HD has a one hundred eight megapixel main camera, but by default it uses something called pixel bending to combine nine pixels into one. So you end up with a reasonably sized a very high-quality 12 megapixel image, but what you can do is, if you tap the little aspect ratio icon on the top.

You can switch that to the full 108 megapixels. If you want the high resolution, it's the same thing with the front camera. Actually, if you go up to the aspect ratio, you can then also go to 40 megapixels. If you want that full resolution selfie all the f-22 can now shoot 8k video, which is pretty crazy. Actually, although on the downside, is its only at 23 frames per second, so it's a little jittery.

The stabilization isn't very good and unless you're Mr. moneybags, with a 8k TV where you can then cast it to and watch it fully back, natively there's not a lot of reason to do that. Yes, you could be downscale it, but I think okay, it's just easier when it comes to file size, the best ability, but a processing we'll see, maybe updates, will improve it as well and is a very cool concept. One of the big features, though, and unique to the ultra, is this 100 times space zoom. So we got four times optical zoom, a ten times hybrid zoom and then even up to thirty times it still looks pretty good, but then you can just go for a whopping 100 times and I mean it is impressive.

That I can even barely see that with my eye, but the image itself is so low quality in kind of almost like cartoon, like I, don't know why it ever actually end up using that unless you try and look at what gate your flight is and the departure board, and you're about half a mile away from it. Something like that, but up to thirty times even up to fifty times actually is very impressive. On this, the hundred times thing canopy, gimmick, I, don't know why aim was going to use that, and so actually, for a few reasons, I'm kind of thinking that the standard s22, even the s twenty plus, may be the better option because well, this is a huge phone and I think a little uncomfortably big for a lot of people. The s 20 and 20 plus are cheaper, more compact. Yes, it doesn't have that space zoom, but I.

Don't think anyone really needs that, but we still get similar specs 120 Hertz screen. Having said that, well, I do think a hundred times is a bit of a gimmick. There are a few reasons why you may want to go for the ultra and not least, the screen size if you want a bigger screen for working for multitasking for having a more immersive, video or gaming experience than there's. Nothing really quite like this, and also the five thousand William hour battery, while obviously it does have to deal with that bigger screen. I think we will get better battery life on this versus the other phones.

And finally, we have that 108 megapixel main lens and the 40 megapixel front facing camera. If you do want the absolute best and possible and money is no object, then I think the s20 ultra is definitely it so make sure you do stay tuned for my full review coming soon, as well as my all new camera comparison once the update comes through for this. Of course, there will always be new updates for all the phones, but I think it's only fair to judge the camera with the software that you guys would be using with the retail model of when you actually buy one for yourselves relevance or pre-release software, which then doesn't really mean anything. Once it gets updated so make sure you have subscribed and stay tuned, I hope you enjoyed this site more chatty, definitely more long-winded video. Let me know if you did below and also hit that subscribe button.

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