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 of 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 super fast 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 some 120 Hertz at the
same time whether or not 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 super fast 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 super fast all of
the time I've had no slowdowns whatsoever and it's great for playing
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for sponsoring this video now when you're playing games one of the most
important things is not only how it performs but also how it sounds and the
speakers on the s20 ultra are really quite good 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 bit
different but they are equally as loud I would say the 11pro Macs are just a hair
better as far as clarity but these go may be a little bit 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 because 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
wyan 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 or not 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 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's 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 whole 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 of the 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 or not 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
milliamp 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 milliamp 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 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 Maxx 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
whole 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 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 framerate 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
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Aaron I'll see you next time