Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Samsung Galaxy S20 Review: All the Right Moves!”.
Hey what’s up guys mkbhd here, and this is samsung’s new flagship with the galaxy s20 i actually kind of like that: they’re catching up the name to the year. So 2020 galaxy s20. Now i don’t know that they’d say this ever publicly, but if you went to samsung and just asked hey, what’s the most important phone that you guys make every year, what’s the most influential phone in your lineup it’ll, be this it’ll be the new galaxy s flagship? This is the phone that the average person sees as the android iphone competitor as as the big nemesis, and when you have such a big reputation to protect, you tend to not take as many risks you want to make the right safe moves in the right places And then take the risks with other phones, so i have my buddy judner here whose youtube channel is your average consumer to help me out with this one, so you should definitely check out his channel link below so without any further ado, let’s get into galaxy s20. So samsung made some moves with this phone and they’re all around pretty great. It’S a new higher fresh rate display a bigger battery, a new camera system and 5g, pretty simple, safe, but all good moves so i’ll start with the display, because it’s the best upgrade.
So you might remember, i was harping all of last year on how much i love high refresh rate displays and there were naysayers, but now we’re all slowly. I guess realizing how good it is now samsung’s onboard with the galaxy s20 and we’ve got a super. Fluid 120 hertz display it’s also 0.1 inches bigger and flattened out a bit on the edges. So this is the biggest best change for the galaxy s20, i’m a gamer. So when i’m gaming and if the phone support, if the game supports 120 hertz, it’s a it’s a whole nother level guys, it feels so different from regular games that you just fall in love immediately. There’S certain types of games also that take that look better.
At 120 hertz like i, was just playing a golf game and you know it’s, you know the ball flies through the air and it’s smooth and everything, but a racing game where you’re really trying to react quickly and stuff is coming at you, real, quick flying across The screen there’s less tearing that’s where 120 hertz looks amazing. Yeah, like i said it, it’s a must. It’S a must so, needless to say, i’m a huge fan of the high refresh rate. I’Ve been saying it, but also something you notice in pretty much every phone. That’S moving up to the higher fresh rate is a bigger battery to keep up with it, and so galaxy s20 also.
Does that moving from 3400 to a 4 000 milliamp hour battery on paper? That’S pretty good! That’S a substantial gain! It’S almost 20 percent bigger and you also still have the wireless charging and you have up to 25 watt fast charging, but at the end of the day you just want battery life to hold up all right, so battery life how’s your battery, been, i don’t want To spoil your video and i’m sure, you’ll go into detail on it, but generally on s20. What’S that been like uh i mean i, i can pretty confidently hit five hours, uh, maybe even slightly under that, but we’re talking about 4 000 milliamp hours and 120 hertz. Always on right, so i’m not going to say i’m, i’m i’m pretty happy with it.
That’S like that’s a whole day like getting to the end of the day, no problem, oh yeah, yeah. For me, it’s been about the same like a five hour screen on time. Day is pretty good. There are some days where i might need more, and so i can kill this phone in a day. I don’t think i could say that about like the five thousand. Six thousand milliamp hour phones right, but yeah, i’m comfortable with the battery at 120 hertz yeah.
I i mean you’ll, see a difference between this and like the ultra yeah for sure i think so. I think, given the fact that you’re, you are using it at 120 hertz, it’s worth the trade off 120 hertz. Is that good to me, it feels like an even trade between high refresh rate and battery life, meaning this phone got up to 4 000 milliamp hours and didn’t really gain a ton or lose a ton of battery life. The ultra still has better battery life with that even bigger battery, but overall i’d give this phone a solid b plus, and then, of course, if you really want to save battery pro tip, you can it’s like. It comes out of a box of 60 hertz, but pro tip you can switch it back down to 60 hertz and you will gain test say around 30 battery life by switching down. So, if you’re about to have a super long day – and you know you won’t – have access to a charger, you can switch down to 60 hertz fine, longer battery life, but the rest of the internal specs as a reminder are bumped up to 2020 flagship numbers which Are just crazy, big numbers across the board, so snapdragon 865 12 gigs of ram across every one 128 gigs of ufs, 3.0 storage to start and all great performers, and, as i expected, this phone performs great. Actually it performs every bit as great as the s20 ultra. That’S something we don’t talk about as much is the ceiling for performance in these high-end phones is pretty consistent and in a brand new phone you know going from 12 to 16. Gigs of ram doesn’t make that much of a difference right now, so the s20 doesn’t stutter or lag or have any problem multitasking or holding apps on the ram any worse than the ultra. In case, you were wondering all right. I got an average consumer question for you: okay, because i’m apparently out of touch okay.
Does the average consumer miss this headphone? This is the first headphone jack being gone from a samsung flagship. It was gone from the note 10, but like this is the default android phone, the headphone jack is gone. Yeah is that is this a big moment for that? It’S it’s a big moment. I’D say because i think it shows the willingness people are to accept that.
It’S gone, yeah uh samsung’s been one of the last companies to really hold on to it yeah. I agree, no headphone jack, not a big deal for me. It’S been like three years now of me not using a phone with a headphone jack.
I have my wireless headphones, but yeah i’ve i’ve complained about it for a long time, yeah and then, after a while, i noticed a lot of people in my comment. Section would just be like dude get over it like. Oh, am i i’m trying to defend you guys, but if you’re cool with it, then okay, so i stopped kind of knocking companies for taking it away.
Yeah you still got ta. Have the headphone jack there’s a couple options left, but this is no longer one of them, so the new camera system, the last big change in these phones, it’s kind of funny. It’S a 12 megapixel main camera with ois a 12 megapixel ultra wide camera and a 64 megapixel, 3x telephoto camera.
So, of course, the specs are a bit worse on paper, but the camera experience of the s20 in a couple of ways is actually better than the s20 ultra. That’S mainly because the s20 ultra had a couple issues that the s20 doesn’t have, plus the couple of things that the s20 ultra does specifically better than most like zoom, aren’t necessarily enjoyable or applicable to everyone. So a typical photo from the galaxy s20 camera is sharp.
First of all, some may find the look over sharpened actually at times, but you can’t ever really complain that it’s soft and samsung has continued to tone down and dial back. What used to be this crazy, saturated and vivid color complex to now a more neutral. Look that i like, and i still think it works. It definitely still likes bright exposures though, and it will air on the side of overexposure, sometimes, but generally it takes nice photos plus i’ve had none of the s20 ultra’s auto focus issues thanks to dual pixel. Autofocus. Being back here and the sensor being smaller, also technically means the fringing at the edges that i talked about with the s20 ultra is less of a problem. I’M actually seeing less involuntary bokeh and less close focus, smearing and then zoom will get you to a maximum of 30x instead of 100x.
But i still find that’s plenty, that’s enough for me, like i mentioned before, i usually just zoom with my feet, but in the few instances where i can’t you will get crisper far away shots with just this telephoto i mean videos are pretty solid, especially if you’re Using like the super, steady, that’s really good, it looks so good like i can shoot b-roll with this and probably get away with it really. I think so. I think for the for the average person. I think oh yeah yeah, that’s true, but for us, maybe maybe not but uh. I think regular people using this for video they’re not going to have any complaints like things are a bit sharp. You know uh, but for the most part it’s pretty solid.
So the 4k video on this phone looks good 8k video, while it’s available and that’s amazing, it’s still kind of compromised again. It’S still 24 fps still has some rolling shutter and has no tracking autofocus, but really the main thing is. It doesn’t even come from the main camera this time it comes from the higher resolution, 64 megapixel telephoto camera, which means it crops in a lot and is just generally harder to use. So i’d stick with the 4k video for the most part for safety, so they hit the big three with the right moves with camera battery and display they’re all better.
But then they have to be smart about preserving keeping the familiar good stuff, which they also did. A lot of with s20, so they kept the ultrasonic fingerprint reader and it’s fine. You know they kept the speaker at the bottom of the phone. That’S fine! They still have one ui, of course, and all their 25 million features still ip68 water resistant, still expandable storage.
It’S actually better button placement, meaning they got rid of the bixby button. Now they still have the hole, punch camera up at the front. It’S moved to the middle now, but it’s still a small cut out and really they just kept the same general design, aesthetic and materials.
From galaxy s10. I mean it’s a glass sandwich in the spirit of figuring out the average consumer. I did a little poll on twitter to try to figure out how many of you guys use a case on your phone and if i was guessing i would, i would have said something like 60 65, but it was closer to 80 of you. So if you’re looking for a case for the galaxy s20 might as well check out the grip case from channel sponsor dbrand, i don’t have it here, but uh. I think andrew does over there.
On the other side of the studio, you got the one with the teardown skin on it. Let me get that one over here, so yeah the grip seems to work pretty. Well, it’s pretty protective. So yeah like i said, a lot of the right moves. Uh. These phones also now have 5g across the board s20 to s20 ultra, but the regular s20 only supports low to mid band 5g, while the s20 plus and ultra add millimeter waves. So you all know how i feel about 5g.
I already have said you probably shouldn’t buy these phones just for 5g, but it’s worth noting this will never have millimeter wave 5g, but now that we’ve seen what samsung’s improved and we’ve actually used it. This definitely still looks and feels like the default android phone, which, if you’re gon na compete. This is the thousand dollar phone you got ta measure up to and if you wan na charge more than that, you got ta beat it at something and i feel like that’s exactly what samsung wanted and they’re still happy to have that spot.
So big thank you and shout out again to juddner for the collab. You should check out his day in the life video i’ll link it below the like button, where he goes over all the little nuances and things you find using a phone like this on a daily basis, but that’s the galaxy s20. Is it the best phone? No, it’s not even samsung’s best phone in their lineup. That would be the ultra, but this is a better buy. So this is the new default who’s gon na beat it that’s been it thanks for watching catch you guys in the next one peace.
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