Samsung S20 Ultra 5G - Worth it in 2020? (Real World Review) By Real World Review

This is the ultimate question: what phone should I buy today? Not everyone has a thousand dollars to spend on a phone, but at well $1400 new and $1200 used. This may shock some people. It is a hard sell for sure, but the phone is special. Let's talk about it first because it might actually be worth the price should you buy the Samsung Galaxy S 20 ultra 5g in 2020, hello, everyone. This is Matt from real world review check out the social media listed above in the description for some extras. Alright, let's review this crazy phone.

This is an awesome, huge screen as expected on a Samsung phone, but it is a little different from a standard Samsung screen. This six point. Nine-inch hole, punch screen has no curves on the screen. Okay, not really there's a very slight curve to the screen, but it's actually not that aggressive like what we've seen on something like the Galaxy S8 or Galaxy S 9. This is a 1440p dynamic, AMOLED, 2x, infinity, o display I know the name is annoying, but it's a 2k AMOLED screen with a hole punch for the front camera and 120 Hertz refresh rate screen, but at the same time it isn't seen.

Samsung decided that only the hundred and twenty Hertz part will be reserved for 1080p and 720p resolutions, while 1440p only gets 60 Hertz with this head, only the 720 part looks bad. It's weird watching 1080p videos, though, because the scale just looks kind of bad and the pixel density is somewhere like 382 pixels per inch, while the 2k resolution is 511 pixels per inch. This means you essentially get an iPhone, 6 plus pixel density, but at 120 Hertz cool, but the people at one 120 Hertz on their $1,400 phone might be slightly disappointed. With this said, I had no issue with the screen at either resolution, but I did choose to stick with 1440p, even though there's ninety Hertz on my one plus seven Pro, the 2k resolution just looks much better to me and the things powering up this phone made it feel even faster than it is, so I didn't really see too much of an issue, but the colors on the screen are amazing as usual, and it seems to get better every year. I, don't know how, but Samsung just figures it out.

The screen is huge though, and some people might not like that. I have no issue with it, but one-handed usage is kind of crazy, because this phone is a little top-heavy with those huge cameras. There is the hole punch in the screen, but I've learned to live with it watching videos, the left and right side, black out, so the front camera kind of disappears. The phone has system-wide dark mode. So the only time you actually see the front cameras is on the main screen, but even then it's not really that noticeable I know this contradicts what I've said in the past, but don't worry I still think that pop-up cameras are the best for now, as we move down the middle of the screen, you have something that again is supposed to be good, but isn't really that good and that's the fingerprint scanner it works, maybe 60% of the time for me, but most of the time I just rely on the front camera to unlock my phone.

For this reason, having the ultrasonic sensor should be more secure, but for me, I would take reliability over security because in theory it doesn't actually add any extra security. I mean my passcode is still a four-digit code, which anyone can guess whether they have my finger or not. With this screen, you still have the same things as the Samsung s10, which are the always-on display double tap to wake in a really bright screen, one that gets even brighter in sunlight. The screen ratio is a little odd too, because the screen just keeps getting taller. It is a 20 by 9 ratio, which sounds fine, but a cinema screen like the Xperia 1 mark 2 is a 21 by 9, so for those that want a tall, thin screen.

This is perfect for everyone else. This might not be your best bet at five thousand William, so you would think that this battery is pretty big and lasts long, and you wouldn't be wrong with this said. There are a lot of things that do train this battery. The good news is that you can actually turn most of those features off. First, I want to show you what I got, which isn't really that bad and leads me to believe that you'll probably get a max of five to six hours of screen on time, which wouldn't really be too bad for this phone and that's 120, Hertz and 5g on now.

You can turn off both and get a little better battery life, but maybe an extra 5 to 15%, depending on how you use the phone here are the Geek bench for stats. For the battery, if you like, seeing those for now, I turned off 5g, no, not because I think it causes. You know what, because it doesn't, but because my area doesn't really even have 5g coverage, sure my phone pops up and says that it does, but for now I just call it 5ge, because in most places I see a smaller performance increase, but everywhere else it leaves my phone with unreliable service, either way, I turn it off, and it helps the battery life just a little. As for the 120 Hertz in 1440p, I, don't really see much of a difference, but I still left it at 1440p. You can move the screen resolution to 1080p or even 720p at 60 Hertz, but I.

Don't think it's really worth a better battery life. If there is any now, you guys gave me endless comments about my s10 plus video, which I was confused with the s10 5g when it came to the charging specs. So here's what Samsung says, and you'll just have to deal with it. It has superfast charging at 25 watts in superfast charging 2.0 at 45 watts. This is all from Samsung, so blame them if they're wrong.

As for the charging time, the 25 watts and 45 watt blocks can fully charge your phone in roughly an hour. So that's actually pretty awesome to see on a common US model phone. Of course, this is all done by the USB-C port on the bottom, but you can also wirelessly charge your phone, which supports up to 10 watts of wireless charging. You can also do wireless power share, just like you can on the s10 in note 10 series and with the five thousand William battery. It actually makes sense that you'd want to do that.

What I like to do is get a decent charger, plug it into this phone and charge another phone, while both phones charge at the same time, it's perfect for overnight trips. If you only remember your USB-C charger for once, I found a good battery on a Samsung phone and that's pretty awesome good job Samsung too bad. The phone cost $1400 generally it's safe to say that the cameras on flagship, Samsung phones are gonna, be over the top. Well, this year is no different, and it's kind of outrageous. If you think about it, there are five cameras on this phone totaling, two hundred and eight megapixels, that's insane.

The main camera is crazy, so we'll talk about that in a little. But let's talk about the front: 40 megapixel camera. Yes, a 40, megapixel, focusable camera shots are amazing, as you would expect, but they aren't pixel three-level, which is insane to me, but that's because it shoots a 10 megapixel shot. You have to switch to the 40 megapixels shot to get a better image out of the sensor see, so this camera supports 4k at 60 frames per second on the front camera, which is amazing, just like the iPhone, but there's no focus I. Don't I, don't understand! Why Samsung did that, because the camera can focus yeah.

Maybe a software update, I, don't know kind of frustrating to me. They could have been better than Apple, but now they're pretty much on par with Apple, so yeah. Another weird thing is that this sensor is bigger than 8k resolution by a couple megapixels, but it doesn't support that. That is for the back camera. Now, let's flip over to the back and look at this palm phone sized camera room.

Yes, I'm going to call a camera room. We have the modest 12 megapixel ultra-wide sensor, which has a 120 degree field of view, which is kind of weird, because the Samsung S 10 in Note tens had a 16 megapixel sensor, and generally you want a larger ultra-wide sensor, but either way the sensor is kind of gimmicky to me, but it still looks kind of cool, not really the best at night, but still looks nice under. That is a hundred and eight megapixel standard sensor. Yes, a hundred and eight megapixels, but the shots come out as 12 megapixel shots. Just like the front camera.

You need to toggle it to get the full hundred and eight megapixel goodness and oh my is it good. I am surprised because I actually did notice a little of a difference between the 12 megapixel 108 megapixels shots, so 108 megapixels all the way. For me, please, with this said close-up, shots are kind of hit or miss. I noticed how the subject would go out of focus, even if it is flat and I kind of noticed that, on my one plus seven pros 48 megapixel sensor, but this 108 megapixel sensor is much more noticeable at a distance. Everything looks good like perfect.

It's just up close shots need a little of work. Another weird thing is that the dual aperture feature that we saw on the s9 in s 10 has been dropped from this phone, but at 108 megapixels, it kind of makes sense and night shots aren't really that bad still. This sensor is pretty nice and captures amazing.4K 60 frames per second video, but kind of scenery is awesome, but close-up video doesn't really see to focus properly and almost kind of seems like you have to do it manually. Unless you use a pro video option, which focus is fine, it is really annoying but fun fact: Samsung had Pro video on the Samsung S eight, and they killed it on the Android 8 update, and they never brought it back until the Samsung S 20 kind of annoying and pretty rude. If you think about it, but this feature is not new and honestly seems like it's missing some features.

The metering mode changer seems to either be erased or hidden, but either way, I can't find it on this camera and I don't get it. Why are you like this Samsung? This camera does support 8k at what seems like 24 frames per second, but I. Don't think it's really worth it still. A nice feature to see if people like that, but I will wait until 8k 60 frames. A second comes out on phones in a couple of years, then the bottom sensor is really weird to me.

It's a 48, megapixel telephoto sensor, which sounds awesome. It is capable of a hundred times space zoom. Now that main part is what most people hear, but it's not really usable. How does this help at all 300 pixels that we see and this terrible pastel painting looking photo, which was made with a stabilizer trying to get a hundred time? Shots by hand is super difficult to do, and I never really found a use for it.30 times is much better, but I think the sweet spot is somewhere between 10 to 20 times zoom. This just means that you can sit at a distance and get the shot you want with a smaller field of view.

What confuses me is that these cameras give you a hundred times space, zoom and ten times. Hybrid optical zoom, so I think that the optical zoom is at four times because it seems to switch to the telephoto lens at that time. But I'll tell you a little more on that later. It's a weird design, but the combination of all these cameras is outrageous. Lastly, you do have the depth vision, camera and just like Samsung I'll.

Leave it at that now. Here are some extras. It seems that 1080p in 4k 60 frames per second and 8k. Don't use a telephoto sensor, but 30 frames per second of 1080p or 4k do, and the front camera does focus on video, but only at 30 frames per second, the camera shoots: 108 megapixel 3 by 4 shots, 9, megapixels 16 by in 1:1 shots and the fool shots which are 20 by 9 shots. They are taken at take a guess how many megapixels 7.2 megapixels, although it seems that the telephoto sensor activates at four times OOM. It takes over the whole image at 10 times zoom, seeing that under 10 times, zoom gives you an F 1.8 shot while F 3.5 is given when it's a 10 times or larger shot, but when taking dimly lit shots, you get F 3.5 on anything five times or higher, so it's a little confusing. Lastly, single shot sounds good, but here's an example- and it just looks awful to me.

I, don't know why Samsung even added this feature, but it's pretty gimmicky for sure. Lastly, 8k video at sixteen by nine requires a 33 point, two megapixel sensor. So in theory there are three sensors on this phone that are capable of 8k, but only one is activated for 8k. Video did I read too much into this camera, maybe, but there's so much to talk about. Speaking of is this phone too much to the average person? The answer is clearly: yes, this phone has Ultra in its name and not Pro, Plus or Max.

For a reason, this is a $1400 5g phone with a 8k camera, a snapdragon 865, 12 or 16 gigabytes of RAM, a five thousand William battery 45 watt charging, reverse wireless charging, ip68 water resistance, a six point: nine inch, 120 Hertz screen, Wi-Fi, six ultrasonic, fingerprint scanner, memory card support, a hundred and eight megapixel sensor, and so much more. This phone is 220 grams weight, wise and bigger than pretty much any phone you've ever used, even the Samsung mega. Okay, it's a little smaller than the mega, but barely this phone is way more than what a lot of people would want, which is kind of why this phone comes in two colors, but for those people that want this phone and think it's worth it well, the phone exists. The craziest thing to me is that this phone comes with 128 gigabytes of storage in only at 512 gigabytes, while the note 10 in note 10 Plus come with 256 gigabytes standard and the s 10 plus goes all the way up to 1 terabyte. The nice thing about buying this phone.

Is that there's nothing better than this phone out? Well, at least nothing better to that Samsung makes so. Should you buy this phone in 2020 at a reasonable price? I would say yes, this is a special Samsung phone. Maybe you can even call it a Halo phone. This is probably the most expensive reasonable phone that you can buy right now, and I think that's exactly what Samsung was going for. You can already find used versions of this phone for around a thousand US dollars and some new ones can be found for $1200 or lower at $1,400.

It isn't really worth it to me, but if you finance, maybe $1,000 over two years, it seems like a decent deal with all this said. This is just a crazy awesome phone. It checks all the boxes except for the low price tag box and the headset check box. If you still care about both of those- and that's all I wanted to talk about thanks for watching my review of the Samsung Galaxy S 20 ultra 5g, the long name phone for a big deal of a phone. If you have any questions, leave them in the comment section or messaging me on Twitter I get bored over.

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