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so this week i spent an hour and a half
with the note 20 and the note 20 ultra
which we usually think of as samsung's
most souped-up powerful devices
but what became very clear to me wasn't
the differences between this year's
models and last year's models it was
the differences between the two models
this year and how in my mind
only one of these devices really earns
that
oh gee this is the most powerful phone
note title let's get into it
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first these phones do share some common
features so let's get those out of the
way the note 20s both have
s pens of course they both have a power
button and volume rockers on one side
they both have usb-c ports on the bottom
and samsung claims that
both now have 25 brighter screens at
peak brightness and both devices come
with snapdragon 865 plus
processors and they both support full 5g
with both sub six and millimeter wave
but when it comes to pretty much every
other hardware spec
their differences start to show so the
note 20 comes in mystic
bronze mystic gray and mystic green well
the note 20 ultra comes in a mystic
bronze mystic black and mystic white
that's right i only saw the mystic
bronze color of both of these phones
which is the only color they share
now they have this great matte finish on
them and samsung says that's
you know going to take away from all
those fingerprints that we usually get
on these phones but
i mean for me i film a lot of these
phones so i'm just happy that it's not
like a straight mirror looking back at
me for once
now let's talk displays the note 20 has
a 6.7 inch
fhd plus flat screen with a slight bezel
and center hole punch camera while the
ultra rock's a 6.9 inch
wqhd plus edge screen with almost no
bezels and a smaller camera hole punch
the ultra also supports an adaptive 120
hertz refresh rate but
only at hd plus resolution now
personally i'll take the 120 hertz even
if it means a lower resolution because
well a higher refresh rate is way more
noticeable to me than a screen
resolution
am i like the only one that's like
disappointed by the 60hz
screen on the s20 i mean like 2020 this
phone's a thousand dollars
should probably have 120 hertz refresh
rate maybe it's just me
now looking at the note 20 and the note
20 ultra they look
different i mean aside from the ultra
being physically bigger than the note 20
the note 20 is a bit more rounded on its
top and bottom corners and
the rounded corners of the screen really
drive that whole more rounded design
home
and for the first time in this line that
design really differentiates the two
models
but i mean let me know what you think
but i always really dug the squared off
look of the note line
i mean for starters it looked more like
a notebook
gotcha but also that edge display really
hides the rails of the phone in such a
nice way
it was kind of weird to see a note
looking like it belonged in the s line
but more on that later anywho both
devices
certainly still feel bulky with the note
20 weighing in at 193 grams and
the ultra coming in at 208 grams couple
that weight with the size and well
with my small hands it was almost
impossible to do anything with just
one hand but that's standard for the
note line in me
both devices of course support decks and
this year they're getting the wireless
glow up so you'll be able to use decks
wirelessly with anything that supports
mirror cast
also samsung notes will sync with
outlooks onenote and
the s pen in these devices has the same
accelerometer and gyroscope for motion
controls but
with some new gestures i didn't have a
whole lot of time to test these out so
you'll have to tune into our full review
in the coming weeks for more on that
but by far the most noticeable change in
the note line this year
is its camera ray and dudes like staring
at that camera array staring at you
is uh intense
like camping i can't help myself get it
like
intense like camping like
ten let's run this down
both phones have a 10 megapixel f 2.2
front facing camera so the note 20
you've got a 12 megapixel
f 1.8 wide a 64 megapixel f2
tele with a hybrid 30x zoom and a 12
megapixel f 2.2 ultra wide
that's all fairly standard stuff now on
the note 20 ultra you've got 108
megapixel f 1.8 wide
a 12 megapixel f3 tele with 5x optical
zoom using this like sick periscope
design
and the samsung space zoom going 50x
and finally a 12 megapixel f 2.2 ultra
wide
there's also a new laser autofocus
sensor that comes as a welcome to
improvement to the slow focus issues
that totally plagued the s20 ultra's
cameras
i can't wait to test that 50x zoom out
though like i couldn't really test it in
the first look environment i was in
because i simply wasn't far away enough
from anything to see if it
actually holds up but overall these
cameras offer a wide variety of lens
options that
at this point we've come to expect from
flagship phones on the video side
both phones support 4k 60 on the
front-facing camera and around back they
do 8k
24 and if you're a monster they'll do
ak-30
but remember you're a monster i'm i'm
just so excited to put this camera
to the test i mean every time a new
phone comes out i'm like let's shoot a
movie on this thing and i have this
series called full frame where we talk
anything and everything cameras and i
legitimately built a camera in the last
episode so if you didn't see that
go watch me struggle but also when i'm
shooting verge videos i've totally
taken to using phone footage in them so
ak is a welcomed resolution for all the
punching in i do
battery should hopefully not be a
problem with these devices both have 45
watt fast charging that
can charge up to 50 percent in a half
hour with the note 20
using a 4 300 milliamp hour battery and
the ultra coming in at 4 500 milliamp
hours
the note 20 ultra comes with 128
gigabytes of storage with 12 gigabytes
of ram
for 1299.99 or 512 gigabytes of storage
and 12 gigabytes of ram for 1449.99
the note 20 is available with 128
gigabytes of storage and 8 gigabytes of
ram
for 999.99 999
999 999.99
with pre-orders for both devices
starting on august 6 and shipping
beginning on
august 21st so the note 20 line
do you remember when the note line was
legitimately so
souped up it was fire now to that
stunning recall
of samsung's galaxy note 7. some of them
were overheating and even catching fire
i'm sorry i just can't talk about a note
without thinking about the note 7
but it also had decent specs and well
that's the note 20 ultra
minus the fire i hope now it just seems
like samsung uses this line to make
minor fixes to the
s line and add an s pen
i mean the note 20 is almost spec for
spec and s20 plus
with actually a bit smaller battery and
fair the s20 only has a snapdragon 865
and not 865
plus processor but the note 20
ultra that feels like a note to me
i mean those are the spec fonts i expect
to see in this line
so it seems like to me if you're looking
for the most specked out
badass samsung phone the word to look
for now is not
note it's ultra thanks so much for
watching buds i appreciate you
also we're gonna have a full review of
the note line coming hella soon and
we've got tons of coverage over on the
site of everything galaxy unpacks so be
sure to check that out
anyway be well i hope that everyone
around you as well and that you're well
and that
the world gets well real soon and okay
that's it for me bye buds