Why I won't upgrade to the Note 20 Ultra (from the Note 10 Plus) By CNET

The note 20 ultra is here and if someone has used a note, 10 plus for an entire year, I could not care less. Here's why this is the Samsung Galaxy note, 10 plus, and it's hands down the best android smartphone. I've ever had it's the first phone that you know now after a year of using it, it hasn't started to feel stale to me, which is kind of remarkable, but, as you might imagine, I was interested to see what the next note was going to offer, and we found out during last week's unpacked event. So naturally I looked to the note 20 ultra as my upgrade path. Coming from the note, 10 plus and now that I've had a few days to wrap my head around the updates that the note 20 ultra will offer I'm actually a little surprised that I have absolutely no interest in upgrading whatsoever. Usually an incremental upgrade nets me at least one feature that grabs me in some tangible way, but with the note 20 ultra I'm kind of grasping at straws.

Don't get me wrong. The note 20 ultra seems like a fantastic update for anyone who has a note- that's older than a year, but for people like me, I'm just not seeing it the updates kind of feel more cosmetic than they do useful okay. So what am I talking about? Well, first, let's look at 5g sure 5g is really cool and if you live inside a 5g antenna, this might be attractive to you, but the vast majority of people in this country currently don't have access to 5g, and I'm not expecting that for a while. Believe me, I would love nothing more than to ditch my absolute garbage of an ISP for 5g at home internet, but it's a ways away so 5g, it's just not really a real world thing, just yet, okay. So what about that dynamic, 120, hertz screen! It sounds great, and I love smooth animations and all that junk and from what I hear it's a night and day difference, but upgrading a phone just for that.

It's not happening plus 120 hertz. On the note, 20 ultra drops the phone's res down to 1080p, which probably isn't that big of a deal, but it also hits that battery more than when you're not using it. So I'm just not sure if it's worth the hassle. Maybe this is a next-gen thing for me, plus, if you're really picky about the silky smooth operation of android, you can deep dive into the developer settings and tweak the animations around to your liking. I've done that with pretty much every android phone I've ever had, especially since they started offering developer settings it's worth, checking it out anytime I've upgraded my android phone.

It's been because I started to notice a gradual slowdown in how the device performed. Most recently, it happened to me with my pixel, which man that thing really started to slug after a couple of months. It's the reason I jumped ship to the note, 10 plus to begin with and straight up. This is the first time I can ever remember that after a full year, I don't really see any tangible slowdown. I mean, maybe it's the 12 gigs of ram.

Maybe it's the snapdragon 855 in this thing, but it feels just as fast as the first day I booted it up the note 20 plus, isn't flawless by any stretch, okay, but I guess if there's one or two features that I could see myself appreciating an upgrade on, it would be the note 20 ultras improved camera. Specs thought I don't really have too many complaints about what I've got going on here with the 10 plus or maybe an improved fingerprint sensor. That's I have to say that's probably the most disappointing thing about my note, 10 plus to the point where I actually don't even use that fingerprint sensor anymore. Just because of how high that failure rate is. You know now that I'm saying it out loud if I were recommending an upgrade to someone in the market for one, I might even tell them to look at the note, 10 plus right now, it's not as expensive as the note 20 ultra of course, and, like I said earlier, it still feels like a brand-new phone to me in terms of specs and performance all right.

So let me know what you think, especially if you're like me, and you currently own a note.10 plus, is a note.20 ultra upgrade even a consideration for you, I'm curious. Let me know all right, that's going to do it for me. Take care everyone be safe out there, and thanks for watching.

Source : CNET