Welcome, everyone, I'm Ricky from tech talk and in today's video I will provide my open honest review
of Samsung's latest flagship galaxy note 20 ultra 5g device so Samsung has come back again year on
the year with the launch of their note series and they haven't paused in pushing the boundaries with this
the latest model so let's begin the review with the display and what we are going to be focused on
all the time while we're watching our content from streaming services or enjoying social media or if
we are browsing the web to playing games with Xbox game paths and it could be even used for creating
notes and being productive thanks to the s pen built-in so our display that we are going to be
looking at all the time is a very large 6.9 inch edge quad HD plus it's a dynamic AMOLED 2x display
it offers hdr 10 plus which means content will have a level of detail unseen on most smartphones
its resolution is 3088 by 1440 with a pixel density of 496 pixels per inch it offers 120 hertz
dynamic refresh rate which is two times faster than most other smartphones which mean when
you fly through the menus it's going to be really quick and load really fast it will have no stutter
or jolt when scrolling through in the display it houses a front camera with an infinity o
display so right in the centre so coming to the body and the design of this smartphone around
the device is a beautiful mystic bronze body which offers subtle tones of rose gold in certain lights
and it offers a satin texture to touch the minimal design features a metal body elevated by exquisite
details and transcendent colours and durable corning gorilla glass thicketus on the front
so your display is going to be really strong and dirty the toughest gorilla glass ever in a
smartphone each galaxy note 20 and note 20 ultra 5g is complemented by a matching s pen both the
volume and power keys are in the same colour but one thing to note here there is no tactile
the difference just looking from an accessibility point of view to come around two dimensions it's
164.8 millimetres in height and its width is 77.2 millimetres its thickness is 8.1 which i think
is relatively a thin design thanks to the pound performance that's actually inside this device and
what it can actually offer to do its weight is 213 grams which I think is okay and I haven't noticed
the difference they offer three different colour options depending on your geographical location
here in the UK with Vodafone UK you can get the mystic bronze they also offer mystic white and
mystic black so let's take a look at the ports and the buttons that we see on our device so starting
at the top is a sim tray and it offers a dual sim option or you can use a micro sd card for extra
storage if you have the 512-gigabyte variants you can get a micro sd card that pushes past
one terabyte of storage which is really impressive to see at the top we also see a microphone coming
down the left-hand side there's no actual physical detail here just a thin merging of the display and
the body which will allow for 5g connectivity through the antenna system at the bottom you've got your s
pen to the left hand side with a simple little push in this comes out you also have your speaker
you have your USB-C charging port and another microphone down the right-hand side you're
going to find your power button and volume keys and as I mentioned they're the same beautiful
mystic bronze color however no tactile differences between these so now let's take a look at the rear
camera mind boggling is the best word i can use to refer to the rear camera on this device
the images are crisp and clear offering pin sharp detail when needed or allowing you to zoom in and
check out the time on your nearest town clock is simply amazing and must have to see and actually
feel in your hands it has a triple camera with a dual ois which is optical image stabilization
your top lens is an ultra-wide camera which is 12 megapixels in size and offers an aperture of f 2.2
the middle lens is a wide angled camera with a super speed dual pixel 108 megapixel autofocus
and again offers an aperture of f 1.8 which is really amazing to see 108 megapixels if you
think of the first generation smartphones when they first come out its actually 0.2 megapixel
or 1.2 megapixels actually now to jump up to 108 is amazing and it is just unbelievable to see and
use and as i'm talking about this you should see some photos that we've been taking on this device
and on the bottom is your telephoto lens which is face detection autofocus 12 megapixels in size and
f 3.0 in aperture so when you're taking photos and using the smartphone in the camera app you
have the ability to zoom up to 50 times super resolution zoom which is really amazing to see
and you can see such a great distance as you'll see from the photos we're showing you i would
recommend when doing this to maybe use a tripod if you want to get an absolute still perfect shot
without any blur because your handheld movement will actually blur the image it does find a very
the clever way using the onboard systems and software to actually take some of this stuttering or
juttering out of your way however i would use a tripod to get that absolute pin perfect shot
from 50 times zoom away you've got pin point zooming with five times optical zooming which is
really nice option to see compared to the standard note series that has three times this one has five
times so you can go a little bit further and again images will look crisp and clear and very sharp if
you are a fan of slow motion and creating slow motion content you have 960 frames per second
which is really amazing and i've had some fun taking some shots and you should see them as well
so when it comes to video recording this is where samsung are stepping up the game and improving it
and making it even more enjoyable and actually giving you a pro camera design that offers the
ability to record video at 8k not 4k but 8k which is amazing to see at 24 frames per second
you can record 4k at 60 frames per second 1080p at 120 frames per second or 60 frames per second
depending on you so when it comes to the front facing camera you can also record at 4k which is
really nice so 4k front facing and 4k rear facing really nice improvements to see here from samsung
and actually an overall just great performance for taking photos the colors look crisp and
sharp they're quite bright and in their bloom as you know from samsung they sort of highlight
the tones of colours on photos but otherwise it looks really nice and I've really enjoyed my
time with this device so coming around to the front facing camera which is in your infinity o
the display is a dual pixel 10-megapixel autofocus f 2.2 in aperture again takes really nice crisp
clear selfies and you can get wide shot in there so everyone can get involved or if you want to
take a selfie in front of a memorable object or somewhere quite famous you'll be able to
see yourself and that object as well in the shots which is really good coming around to the camera
application the camera application is smooth it's from samsung as you know works really well robust
loads of different modes and options to choose from and you can download different options and
also you can use third-party applications to edit your photos afterwards or use samsung's built-in
editing suite so moving on to pound performance and what's actually inside our device so i have
256 gigabytes of internal storage you can use up to one terabyte of micro sd card storage if you
want to of course recording 8k footage will take up your storage very very quickly so recommended
getting a micro sd card if you use that we have 12 gigabytes of ram which is unbelievable again
considering what's on the market what they offer compared to samsung here that's really good to see
its cpu switch processor is the xms 990 version here in the uk and that's a seven nanometer side
obviously in the us they're using the snapdragon processor the external 991 here in the uk is a 5g
chipset so the 5g network will work it has an optical processor with varying speeds between
2 gigahertz and 2.7 gigahertz and this depends on what you're doing and the task you've asked your
device to do but again everything I've thrown at it, it has worked really well haven't had
any interruptions or any stutters or any sort of app stops or apps just not responding back to me
it's just worked really well which is good it's GPU is for mali g77 mp11 again that is for outside
of us because in us they have a different version but we have this version here in the UK
and throughout the rest of europe so as i have mentioned in previous sections you can use a
micro sd card for extra storage if you so wish to it has an ip68 water and dust resistant so it's
really good if you accidentally sort of drop it into the toilet or when you're going out for walk
and now here in the uk it's absolutely coming down with rain it's horrible we're turning into
very awesome weather now so it's really nice to have that option there of an ip68 water and dust
resistant its battery is very impressive the 4 500 millionth-hour battery with super-fast charging
fast wireless charging which is sold separately and also you have the wireless power sharing so
with wireless power share, you could charge someone else's a phone for them you could also charge an
iPhone as you know the battery is not so good on an iPhone you can charge your galaxy
buds you can charge your samsung what it even works with the huawei watch as well so there's
different options you can choose there so when it comes to the super fast charging you can get 50
in just 30 minutes and we got that just over 32 minutes which was really impressive
so let's take a look at gaming now so i want to play a couple of games for you and show you the
gaming aspect of this device because it has the pound performance inside as i've just gone through
has a beautiful massive amoled display 6.9 inches so it's really enjoyable to watch so moving on to
the s pen which comes with your note series from samsung and has changed the way you use a device
so you might be a bit more proactive and create a note for on the go you could create a shopping
list it has the new feature now where it will turn that into text for you and of course if you have
other samsung devices you can quickly send this over and again you can save it to onenote in the
new feature with microsoft systems the s pen does work with microsoft office which is really helpful
as well so the s pen the feel of a real pen the power so much more s pen offers groundbreaking
low latency to provide an incredibly realistic pen experience packed with the versatility of
bluetooth gesture control and so much more it's galaxy's most powerful pen that's very true so you
can do air gestures as well as well as taking a photograph of the s pen if you don't want to sort
of that hard way you're trying to all fit in the selfie but you've got your arm in the way there's
so many little bits you can do so as i mentioned you can do offhand track scribbles and it will
convert it to handwriting text for you so with the top of the s pen your handwriting corrects itself
if you're writing an angle keeping your notes legible and organized it can even transform
them into text so you can copy and paste them and export the notes as a pdf or a word file for easy
sharing that's really important as well because you just want to work so simply very quickly but
it's just a quick scribble but then again you can share that in the document if you so want to after
these couple of little changes what i've noticed with accessibility is that you have the option
to make accessible options available to you so you have the option to magnify where you could
hold the s pen over your device and you have the ability to magnify and see what was on your device
without actually touching your device you could launch transcribe if you wanted to the transcribe
will dictate everything you're saying or it will be even better when in a meeting you have multiple
people saying different things at once they'll all be transcribed to you to text again which could be
then copied over to word and then your minutes from that meeting is already created for you
so coming around to my personal review it's a beautiful device which houses the top level
specs we expect from samsung have us sprinkled with extras the ability to record 8k video
is simply amazing and we didn't think that would be available yet on smartphones however samsung
have pushed the boundaries as i said right at the beginning adding in these extras that just make us
enjoy our smartphones more we can create more we can be more creative remotely which is really
important at the moment as we're not able to maybe use our big camera equipment to record ak footage
but however you can do this on a smartphone you can edit it as well with samsung's editing suite
and share this on youtube or you can share to directors or you can share to content creators
and the ability there is just amazing to see so paired with all the features settings and options
you get in the camera as well as the parent performance one other note that i just want
to talk about is the accessibility side as you know being a visually impaired content creator i
have to change and adjust the settings so i can see them samsung have sort of surpassed themselves
again and has become one of the top options for accessibility options and settings you'll find on
their smartphone right from the beginning when you go through the setup stage to when you're actually
using your device there are accessible features and settings you can use to change and adjust
depending on you honestly it's such a good thing to see and well done for samsung please make sure
to go and check out my accessibility video where i go into great length of detail on the features
and options that are on here to just make this device more accessible to you no matter your
ability one other highlighting note with this device is on xbox as it offers the xbox game
pass as well as the x cloud service from xbox where you're able to play your xbox one games
and xbox one x games through your smartphone which is amazing i'm really looking forward to seeing
what samsung has to offer for this in the near future so there are accessories that can actually
hold your device while using a controller from xbox or microsoft which works great and i'll see
the parallel ability of 5g so the phone made to game designed to work with xbox game parts with
minimal latency with an upgraded cooling system an intelligent processor with the enabled 5g allows
the samsung galaxy note 20 ultra will give you the real-time competitive edge you need whatever the
game and this is really nice to see that they have paired up with xbox using accessories where you
can connect your controller and just enjoy your gaming experience through xbox games the xbox game
pass and the xcloud service from microsoft you can just enjoy next level games on your smartphone and
the screen makes them look absolutely stunning and pinpoint accurate like i said with 5g as well it
takes away that latency and it will give you the cutting edge ability to be the next level of the
player you want to be so coming round to pricing and availability it's available from vodafone
here in the uk the only option that they offer is the mystic bronze which is a starting price
of 65 pounds per month with a 29 pound upfront fee i will add vodafone uk's link into the description
so you can go and read through further details i will also add in samsung uk's personal link so
you're able to go and find out further information about the samsung galaxy note 20 range of devices
and you can make your own choice so as this is a 5g device it is powered by the vodafone 5g network
and it becomes a normal now 5g is so normal to see now on devices new launches and devices
are 5g compatible even the new iphones now are all 5g so 5g is becoming readily available but
however it's not completely across the uk so with what's going on in the world at the moment sadly i
can't go out to testing 5g networks in different areas just because it's not safe for me and safe
for other people however i know the vodafone 5g network is strong and stable all that's left to
say is thank you for watching my open and honest review i hope this video has helped you to make
your mind up if you are choosing to buy a new galaxy note series and please let me know in
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videos from me ricky thank you always for watching make sure you stay safe stay well and bye for now