Why the Galaxy S20 Ultra FAILED - Explained! By Max Tech

Samsung has recently released their most expensive mainstream foam ever the Galaxy S 20 ultra for a massive starting price of fourteen hundred dollars, and so far it looks like this incredibly hyped launch was a massive flop. Here's why first off, not that many people are willing to spend a thousand dollars on a smartphone, let alone a huge $1,400, especially knowing that in about six months, Samson will be releasing the note 20 anyway, and at that price the s20 ultra is gonna, have massive expectations and it better perform exactly how Samsung said it would, and I think that's part of why it failed. This review from Android police explains it perfectly. A $1400 phone needs to be perfect, and this one isn't at Samsung's unpacked event they made. It seems like it was the best phone ever made by going way overboard with the marketing with the new 108 megapixel main camera, the crazy 100x space zoom lens, a 40 megapixel selfie camera in an insane 8k video recording feature now, while all those specs sound incredible, it turned out that some of them are just plain gimmicks and don't just take my word for it. Many of the initial reviews from reviewers who received an S 20 altar before the actual launch, were disappointed with it.

The verge complained about camera software issues and called the 100 X zoom and 108 megapixel main camera features mostly gimmicks. They ended up calling the regular $1,000 s 20 better than the ultra MHD rated, the new crazy camera system on the s20 ultra as third place behind the pixel for in the iPhone 11 Pro. He also called the new a Key video recording mode, really, really bad in terms of autofocus performance and mentioned a bunch of other reasons. Why he'd rather stick with 4k for another year or two and mister who's? The boss is extremely popular battery test. The s20 ultra came in fourth place using the 120 Hertz mode, which most buyers will obviously be using, and it actually got worse battery life than last year's Note, 10 plus, and the list goes on and on with initial reviewers being a bit by the s20 ultra and first impressions matter, a lot to consumers looking to buy a new phone.

We tested the 8k video recording mode, and we noticed that stabilization went out the window. The overall exposure of the image became really dark. The autofocus speed was terrible. It was plagued with huge focus, hunting issues and in low to medium light situations. The iPhone 11 pros 4k footage was actually more detailed than the s20 ultras 8k.

Now Samsung did admit that the Estonian camera is having software issues, and they pledged to improve it. There's a good chance that consumers are waiting to buy the s2000 until the software improves and with more and more videos coming out showing underwhelming performance for the price. Some of those people will end up changing their minds more on the whole software update ordeal in a minute, but I want to first mention that I think Samsung made a few mistakes. That'll end up hurting the sales of the Estonian try. One of the major features of the ultra is 5g supporting both sub 6 and the superfast millimeter wave 5g, but they also included the same exact support on the cheaper $1,200 s, 20 plus.

So that's one less reason to go for the ultra and those who have realized that the 108 megapixel main camera and the 100 times space zoom features are gimmicks, can save $200 and get a regular 12 megapixel camera, which features a tried-and-true Sony sensor instead of Samsung's own brand new 108 megapixel sensor, which is experiencing the issues to make it even worse, both the regular s 20 and s, 20, plus pack, the long-awaited 120 Hertz displays and even 8k video recording. So for a lot of people. It may make sense just to go with these cheaper models and save a lot of cash is no wonder why the verge said the regular s.20 was better than the ultra another mistake. I think Samsung made was continuing to sell their S 10 series of phones at some pretty great discounts which are all pretty good phones, and they actually pack headphone jacks, unlike the S 20 series, and to make this even worse. All of this is happening in the midst of the new virus that has all but crashed the stock market.

This means that consumers are more cautious about buying a brand-new phone, let alone a phone that costs $1,400, and this isn't just my own speculation. Samsung themselves has blamed the poor first day, sales of the s20 line on the virus, specifically around half as much sales as last year's as ten line sales in the first day and looking at all the recent news in stock market, the situation doesn't seem to get any better for the $1400 s Tony altar. We recently put out a video where we ran a blind test between the cameras on last year's Note, 10, plus the new S 20 plus, and the s 20 ultra all running the latest software. To my surprise, I chose photos and videos. From the note, 10, plus, more often than the other two and so did a lot of people in the comments section, there were quite a few people who commented that we need to wait for the software updates and then the S 20 ultra is going to get much better.

They said that most phones that get released don't perform great in terms of camera quality until a couple of updates come out. However, it's been 2 weeks since we first got our hands on it and that magical software update is nowhere to be found, and I want to remind you guys that when the iPhone 11 Pro was released, the cameras performed great right out of the box, and even the initial reviewers were extremely impressed with it. No waiting around for magical software updates that will fix the cameras now, while I do agree. That Samsung will continue to improve the cameras with updates. I, don't think they'll be able to make them great any time soon, because I believe that part of the problem is actually the hardware itself for the new main camera they're using their own brand-new Samsung sensor.

Instead of the usual reliable Sony sensor, so there could be limitations in terms of dynamic range and focus performance. As we've seen in our camera tests. We also see an issue in close-up shots where the center is in focus in the outer parts of the image are all smeared. This is because they used a sensor so large that it's incredibly hard to get the lens optics right without having this problem. The 4x optical telephoto lens uses a very dark F 3.5 aperture, instead of the s 20 pluses F, 2.0 aperture, which naturally lets in ? la more like that's why these telephoto images turned out, so bad on the ultra compared to the more traditional note, 10 and s 20 plus. These are two things you just can't fix with software and that's part of the reason why it's been two weeks with no updates.

So, if you're looking to buy the ultra I would honestly recommend waiting for that update to get released to see if the camera does actually get better or not. We're actually planning to shoot a camera test. Before and after the update to see, what's changed in what hasn't, so, if you're interested in seeing that click that circle above to subscribe, so you don't miss it and check out those camera comparisons over there. Thanks for watching, and we'll see you in the next video.

Source : Max Tech