samsung comes out with a lot of new
phones and they do it very quickly
this new galaxy note 20 ultra 5g
is their most expensive top of the line
flagship yet
for 2020. it's one of those phones where
we all pay
extra for the 5g but only 5 people get
to actually use it
inside the box we get a protective
rubber case kind of cool
this is the mystic black version and it
comes with the normal usbc headphone
cord
and a 25 watt wall charger the thing
that stands out to me the most though
is this camera bump the cameras kind of
own this phone
it's like a full-fledged domino glued to
the back
and it's just about as thick as a lego
rather incredible
anyway i hear samsung is using new glass
this time around
gorilla glass victus so it should be
interesting
let's get started
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one of the reasons i'm interested in
this galaxy note 20 ultra is because
it's the newer version of the phone that
i'm currently using
the galaxy note 10 plus and with their
nearly identical footprint and specs
it's time to decide if it's worth the
upgrade for me or not
for reference currently my older note 10
plus can be found on ebay in the 700
range and the new note 20 ultra is a
wallet breaking thirteen hundred dollars
so if you ever want to save oodles of
cash buying last year's model is always
an option
let's talk about the glass so corning
just came out the new glass
and they've switched from using numbers
to calling this glass
victus meaning to live
samsung was nice enough to protect the
victus glass with a free screen
protector
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but once we get that removed we can
start with the real scratch test
my most mineral picks can differentiate
between different materials
you know if the screen were plastic it
would start scratching in the two or
three range
if it were glass it would start
scratching in the five or six range
and if the screen was made from sapphire
which we haven't seen in a while now
the screen would start scratching at a
level eight or nine corning gorilla
glass victus
is still glass and it scratches at a
level six
with deeper grooves at a level seven you
might be thinking but jerry what in the
world does corning mean when they say
victus is four times more scratch
resistant than regular glass
and that's a great question when corning
uses these talking points they aren't
comparing victis to previous versions of
gorilla
they are comparing victis to regular
glass and it is indeed much stronger
than regular glass
but it's still glass you know we have
the plastic
glass and sapphire realms of hardness
the glass realm is here in the middle at
five
six or seven all of the incremental
improvements that gorilla glass has made
have been inside this glass realm which
my mohs hardness picks are too
generalized to differentiate between
the mohs mineral test is a rough scale
designed to find the difference between
lots of materials
like plastic all the way to sapphire but
not to check the minute subtle
differences between different types of
glass
a machine capable of specifically
analyzing that section of information
would cost in the hundred thousand
dollar range
and maybe someday i can get my hands on
one but while victus
is an improvement in the glass realm
glass is still glass
and i'm still always just going to use a
case the s pen does still have removable
tips
so you can switch between the soft and
hard depending on your writing style
the s pen even though i don't actually
use mine all that often is still one of
my favorite pieces of technology
pulling out the back half of the pin we
can see the brains of the operation
along with the capacitor at the end that
can charge up in a matter of seconds
and provide enough power for the pin to
last 30 minutes outside
of the phone capacitors are way cooler
than batteries
above the capacitor is just the clicky
bit of the pin
but the writing tip of the s pen is
where things start to get fun
there are a lot of copper windings
around the tip this generates a magnetic
field so the phone knows where the tip
of the pin is at
even without it actually touching the
capacitive display
there is a pressure sensor inside the
tip of course for when it is touching
but apparently it needs to be in like
one piece or something to keep
functioning
but you get the point it gets even
cooler when we look on the inside of the
phone there is a super tiny wireless
charger resting on top of the s pen slot
that you can see here on my tear down
skin and that tiny wireless pad is what
charges up the s pen through the coils
in the tip
while it's inside the phone pretty
awesome
the note 20 ultra does have a circular
10 megapixel front facing camera
with about the same placement from last
year's model as well as the almost
non-existent earpiece grille
just a tiny slit up here at the top
the phone body is made from aluminum
you can see the silver peeking out from
underneath the mystic black
and the buttons are also made from metal
and for some reason still totally
removable
the top of the phone has some protective
clear plastic
along with the micro sd expansion and
sim card tray
and no headphone jack the left side of
the phone is still bare
no dedicated bixby button again glad
that change is lasting
the bottom of the phone has more
temporary clear protective plastic
and metal
next to the usb-c port the note 20 ultra
back is made from glass
but rumor has it that samsung's regular
note 20 is made from plastic this year
let me know down in the comments if you
want me to test that phone out where i
do start to get a little bit tempted is
the cameras
the note 20 ultra has a built-in 12
megapixel five times periscope camera
where
mine only has it two times then there's
the 108 megapixel
8k main camera where mine's only 12
megapixels and 4k
then we have the 12 megapixel ultra wide
camera where it mines at 16.
there are some pretty big changes this
year camera wise but still
probably not worth my thirteen hundred
dollars especially since my own phone is
still working
pretty great plus maybe if i wait a bit
they'll find a way to minimize that
camera bump
the only way to make this camera bump
cool is by showing what's actually
inside of it
i'll lay the tear down skin over top of
the camera plateau
and get the rest of the phone covered up
and now we can see exactly how big the
sensors are
and how much real estate that periscope
zoom camera takes up underneath the hump
it's kind of all similar to last year's
design except for the s pen is on the
other side
i'll leave a link for my tear down skin
down in the description it's already
available for most of the popular phones
tablets and even laptops
the screen has improved a bit this time
around even though it's the same
resolution it has grown 0.1 inches
and also has the capability to refresh
at 120 hertz
also a tiny bit tempting but avoiding
1300 hertz on my wallet
is more important than needing hertz for
my eyes
after about 23 seconds the screen
started to go black which is
normally something we only see on lcd
screens this guy doesn't recover and
stays burnt
rather interesting for an amoled and
just another prime example of
why we really have no idea why the burn
test exists
the fingerprint scanner test is useful
though samsung is once again using the
ultrasonic fingerprint reader
you can see that it's not using the
light from the screen to illuminate my
digit
it's just using those ultrasonic waves
through the glass to capture my
fingerprint ridges
i'll add some level 7 deeper grooves to
damage things up and try again
and it still works every single time
not too shabby i'll peel off this
structurally enhancing magic skin
kind of kidding on the structural part
but it is magic
the note 20 ultra weighs 4 grams more
than my note 10 plus
and just like last year it's as solid as
a rock
no flex in the frame no damage to the
glass or to the phone itself
i would say i'm impressed but it does
cost thirteen hundred dollars
so it better be durable and no one
should be surprised that it is
instead of buying an ultra phone and
having an ultra thin
wallet i'm gonna stick with my regular
phone and just keep my wallet where it's
at
speaking of keeping your wallet where
it's at i'm gonna be giving away these
jerry rig everything stickers for free
all you have to do to get one is send me
a regular old snail mail letter to the
address you see on screen
and i'll send you one of these large
stickers back to you for free
just make sure your return address is
readable so i know where to send it
and feel free to send me a sticker of
your own if you'd like i'll add it to
the sticker wall in my garage
with trump and a joy working their
hardest to stop the mail
it might take a bit longer for you to
get your sticker but we can help stick
it to them by being pen pals
the address is up on the screen and i'll
even be sending these internationally
for free
so feel free to write me a letter no
matter where you're from it feels good
to keep my phone around a while longer
no need to replace something that isn't
broken i will be taking apart the note
20 ultra
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