WEBVTT 00:00:00.230 --> 00:00:05.900 - My S20 Ultra 5G just arrived and I already have some questions. 00:00:05.900 --> 00:00:11.700 To my knowledge this, the priciest of Samsung's non-foldable smartphones, 00:00:11.700 --> 00:00:16.700 is only available for $1,400 with 128 gigs of storage 00:00:16.750 --> 00:00:21.670 or 1,600 with 512 gigs and yet, here we are, 00:00:21.670 --> 00:00:26.460 it's a weird 256 gig one that Deebrand seems to have unearthed somewhere. 00:00:26.460 --> 00:00:29.530 So, without further ado, 00:00:29.530 --> 00:00:34.890 let's get started. Oh, cute. They sent me JerryRigEverything's phone. 00:00:34.890 --> 00:00:37.773 Thanks guys. And wow, 00:00:38.900 --> 00:00:42.360 this thing is freaking heavy. 00:00:42.360 --> 00:00:47.120 I hadn't managed to stay completely cloistered on this one. So I had already seen some people's comments 00:00:47.120 --> 00:00:53.370 that this thing was thick and heavy, but feeling it for myself as a different than held together. 00:00:53.370 --> 00:00:59.283 You know, more than the weight, I think it's really the thickness that makes the S20 Ultra feel so different. 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:04.200 Somehow, even compared to a monstrosity, like the Note9, 00:01:04.200 --> 00:01:09.630 it just dwarfs it. Look at this. Even without the camera bump, it's a monster. 00:01:09.630 --> 00:01:14.600 And then you add that in and this thing is like, it feels like double the thickness 00:01:14.600 --> 00:01:18.333 when you're holding it right here. Oh yeah. Can I borrow that? Thanks Sandy. 00:01:18.333 --> 00:01:23.730 (phone thuds) Oh my God. Why would you do that? Well, no wonder it felt lower density. 00:01:23.730 --> 00:01:28.810 They're about the same weight, but this is like a centimeter shorter and here, wow. 00:01:28.810 --> 00:01:32.050 Let's get camera bump to camera bump, look at that. 00:01:32.050 --> 00:01:36.590 That's a bump. (phone thuds) That's a, that's a hill. 00:01:36.590 --> 00:01:39.913 It's big, but to Samsung's credits, it's very well balanced. 00:01:40.840 --> 00:01:44.830 Like, I don't feel like there's a heavy side or a heavy end to it. 00:01:44.830 --> 00:01:48.500 Now, I wasn't that happy with the speed of Samsung's ultrasonic fingerprint scanner 00:01:48.500 --> 00:01:51.950 when it first came out and I was accused of using it wrong, but as it turned out, 00:01:51.950 --> 00:01:56.540 they did end up updating it. And no, it doesn't matter if you just touch it 00:01:56.540 --> 00:01:59.830 or if you touch it, then hold it. It's exactly the same speed. 00:01:59.830 --> 00:02:03.800 And it was, and still does appear to be a touch slower than OnePluses, 00:02:03.800 --> 00:02:06.150 but they've definitely improved it quite a bit. 00:02:07.570 --> 00:02:11.910 That's not bad. I can definitely live with that. It's in a really ergonomic spot too. 00:02:11.910 --> 00:02:16.540 Like it's right where I would naturally touch the phone if I was bracing it on the bottom with my pinky 00:02:16.540 --> 00:02:20.670 and actually it seems to not really care if you get it in exactly the right spot. 00:02:20.670 --> 00:02:24.780 It took a little longer that time you see, but it still managed to hit it. 00:02:24.780 --> 00:02:28.040 Let's go a little low. Yeah, managed to grab that one. 00:02:28.040 --> 00:02:31.220 You know, what I really like about this out of the box is the bezels. 00:02:31.220 --> 00:02:35.230 So the top and bottom are both skinny enough that I think you can with a straight face 00:02:35.230 --> 00:02:39.100 call them infinity edge or whatever it is that Samsung's branding for that is. 00:02:39.100 --> 00:02:43.440 But more importantly to me, the right and left bezels are a little bit bigger 00:02:43.440 --> 00:02:46.500 than they were on the Note10. That was something I praised with the Note9, 00:02:46.500 --> 00:02:49.920 having a little bit of buffer space for when you're reaching across the screen 00:02:49.920 --> 00:02:53.230 and I was disappointed to see them remove. I'm really glad to see that that's back. 00:02:53.230 --> 00:02:57.650 It's got support for dual SIM, but not in the conventional way. So you wouldn't put one SIM here 00:02:57.650 --> 00:03:02.750 and then another one here where the micro SD slot is, you would just use an eSIM for your second one. 00:03:02.750 --> 00:03:06.960 Out of the box, it looks like we're configured for 60 hertz display mode operation 00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:10.460 and that's one of the big features of the S20 Ultra, 00:03:10.460 --> 00:03:14.000 the 120 hertz refresh rate. 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:21.850 So let's go ahead to apply that. Now, one thing that I think people weren't really expecting was that when you go to 120 hertz, 00:03:21.920 --> 00:03:27.133 you are stuck in the full HD plus screen resolution. So you can either do WQHD plus. 00:03:27.980 --> 00:03:31.190 This names have gotten confusing, or you can drop down to full HD 00:03:31.190 --> 00:03:35.240 and you can have 120 hertz. So you're gonna see what's going to happen here. Yeah, high refresh rate isn't supported 00:03:35.240 --> 00:03:38.960 in WQHD plus. Frankly, it's been years since my eyes 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:43.830 have been good enough to notice the difference between the two anyway. So I know the first thing that I'd be doing 00:03:43.830 --> 00:03:48.600 is adjusting to 120 hertz and sticking with 10 ABP. Now, one thing that's curious about this phone 00:03:48.600 --> 00:03:52.040 is that Samsung is not giving users the ability 00:03:52.040 --> 00:03:57.210 to run at a variable refresh rate. So that is to say it will drop down to 60 hertz 00:03:57.210 --> 00:04:02.140 to save battery sometimes, and then jump up to 120 when the user will benefit from it. 00:04:02.140 --> 00:04:06.000 Some other manufacturers have done that, but Samsung seems to be of the mind 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:11.100 that the 10% hidden battery life is worth it to just have this responsiveness all the time 00:04:11.100 --> 00:04:16.080 and personally, I guess I could kinda get behind that. 00:04:16.080 --> 00:04:20.780 Like, even though we're filming this video at 24 frames per second, I'm sure you guys can notice 00:04:20.780 --> 00:04:24.860 what I'm seeing here. This is absolutely freaking nuts. 00:04:24.860 --> 00:04:29.210 What's remarkable though, is not just the smoothness, but also the low pixel persistence 00:04:29.210 --> 00:04:35.210 like you can read the text as it's scrolling by. One of the reasons, allegedly, that Samsung didn't release 00:04:35.210 --> 00:04:40.170 one of their own phones with a high refresh rate display up until now, was that they weren't happy 00:04:40.170 --> 00:04:44.680 with the color reproduction on them. So that's why you've only seen them on third-party devices 00:04:44.680 --> 00:04:48.160 from the likes of OnePlus and ASUS. 00:04:48.160 --> 00:04:51.853 That's pretty though, there's nothing to my eye that looks off about this. 00:04:53.300 --> 00:04:57.350 It's a fine HDR experience. You can really see the highlights of the reflections 00:04:57.350 --> 00:05:01.780 on the leaves and things like that, that flash of the sun behind him. 00:05:01.780 --> 00:05:05.840 Great. You know, what's curious, even with all the power in this thing, 00:05:05.840 --> 00:05:10.820 it barely got warm during initial setup like I'm accustomed to, actually I realized we haven't 00:05:10.820 --> 00:05:15.210 even talked specs yet. So if you're in the US which apparently also includes Canada, 00:05:15.210 --> 00:05:19.000 except when it comes to sampling review units, you get an 865. 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:23.410 So that's the top of the line. If you're elsewhere, you get an Exynos 990, 00:05:23.410 --> 00:05:29.450 it's got 12 gigs of RAM and the 128 gig version, 16 gigs of RAM and the 256 gig version. 00:05:29.450 --> 00:05:33.640 It's got a 5,000 milliamp power battery and upgraded Gorilla Glass 6, 00:05:33.640 --> 00:05:36.680 which apparently has the same scratch resistance as before, 00:05:36.680 --> 00:05:41.250 but with better impact resistance so you should be able to drop your phone more often 00:05:41.250 --> 00:05:44.750 and from higher. Of course, though, the big headline feature 00:05:44.750 --> 00:05:51.070 is the quadruple camera setup. So you've got your 108 megapixel F 1.8 00:05:51.070 --> 00:05:54.610 with optical image stabilization. That's the main shooter on this thing 00:05:54.610 --> 00:05:59.870 that's been making headlines, you've got the 40 megapixel F 3.5 telephoto. 00:05:59.870 --> 00:06:05.430 So that one uses this extra space over here to add a 10 X hybrid optical zoom. 00:06:05.430 --> 00:06:12.010 It also has optical image stabilization and then you've got the F 2.2 12 megapixel ultra-wide camera 00:06:12.010 --> 00:06:16.030 for fitting all of your friends in your photos. For people who have lots of friends. 00:06:16.030 --> 00:06:20.340 I wouldn't know. I don't. Finally, there's a 0.2 megapixel time of flight cameras. 00:06:20.340 --> 00:06:24.100 One of these down here, I think it's that one a little flash and all that good stuff. 00:06:24.100 --> 00:06:27.960 So that's for 3D depth sensing. So it'll show you the broader context 00:06:27.960 --> 00:06:31.250 of what you're looking at and then the little square indicates 00:06:31.250 --> 00:06:35.330 what you've actually got in the frame of the image you're capturing. 00:06:35.330 --> 00:06:38.690 Let's start with our one X image, there's a little bit more purple in this wall 00:06:38.690 --> 00:06:43.070 than there is in person but overall, I would say that is darn impressive. 00:06:43.070 --> 00:06:46.721 Like you can read a lot of detail on things like, you know, here. 00:06:46.721 --> 00:06:50.843 Like I can clearly read this label at least as well as I can in person. 00:06:51.910 --> 00:06:55.630 This dark area over here, you can see it captured a ton of detail over there. 00:06:55.630 --> 00:07:00.750 At least what I can see to the eye. Really nice looking and then let's zoom 00:07:00.750 --> 00:07:06.030 in on our little house here. Now, one of my criticisms of phone cameras 00:07:06.030 --> 00:07:11.220 that have alternate lenses or optical zooms in the past is that a lot of the time I have noticed 00:07:11.220 --> 00:07:15.630 that you don't actually get much of a benefit over just zooming in the main shooter, 00:07:15.630 --> 00:07:19.430 which is typically the best quality one. Now, one that did a better job of this 00:07:19.430 --> 00:07:24.410 was one of Walway's recent phones, where I was like, oh yeah, there is a market improvement here. 00:07:24.410 --> 00:07:27.810 But let's go ahead and make our way through. So this is our 2x image. 00:07:27.810 --> 00:07:32.057 I would say that there is maybe, a slight improvement there 00:07:32.057 --> 00:07:34.633 and not much, here's our 4x image. 00:07:36.580 --> 00:07:40.780 That, looks way better than our zoom in, 00:07:40.780 --> 00:07:44.140 definitely, a 100%. Okay, here's our 10x 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:48.890 that also does not look noticeably better than this one to me. 00:07:48.890 --> 00:07:53.550 In fact, I would go as far as to say that actually looks more processed and worse. 00:07:53.550 --> 00:07:59.940 Now let's go all the way to 100x. I don't think that's any better than just zooming this in. 00:07:59.940 --> 00:08:03.780 I mean, it makes four an impressive spec, but like that's clearly worse. 00:08:03.780 --> 00:08:06.920 I'm actually more impressed by the 12 megapixel ultra wide. 00:08:06.920 --> 00:08:10.500 So that's a perfectly usable image for a 12 megapixel camera, 00:08:10.500 --> 00:08:16.980 but that's not really what I'm looking at. I'm more interested in how straight the C-stand pools 00:08:16.980 --> 00:08:20.060 are at the edge. You can see they've had the process them a little bit. 00:08:20.060 --> 00:08:24.963 They're not perfectly straight you can really see it on this one right here, but that is not bad. 00:08:25.860 --> 00:08:30.330 The weight? Oh, wow. So now that's really impressive. 00:08:30.330 --> 00:08:35.390 Yeah, it is actually slightly. It is slightly curved and this table here along the bottom 00:08:35.390 --> 00:08:40.350 looks completely straight. That's really hard to do with something so close 00:08:40.350 --> 00:08:44.157 to a fish eyes capture mode. I'm really happy with that. 00:08:44.157 --> 00:08:49.250 You know what's interesting is you can really, you can actually see it making the corrections in real time. 00:08:49.250 --> 00:08:54.190 So when you're moving it around, you see something more akin to what the lens sees 00:08:54.190 --> 00:08:58.160 with all the distortions but then when you hold it still, 00:08:58.160 --> 00:09:02.830 it's kinda like, ah, hold on, go stretch this out a little bit. Yeah, got no problem. Got this, got this bro. 00:09:02.830 --> 00:09:06.060 So that iPhone looks the same size 00:09:06.060 --> 00:09:09.330 in the center of the frame or at the edge of the frame. 00:09:09.330 --> 00:09:13.820 Once they've made their corrections. Now, I wanna address the big one, 00:09:13.820 --> 00:09:17.120 the 8K video recording feature. 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:21.940 So this is the part of the video where Brandon, I actually hand you the phone 00:09:21.940 --> 00:09:25.330 and you pick up one of our 8K cinema cameras from RED 00:09:25.330 --> 00:09:28.860 and record me talking about something else in 8K 00:09:28.860 --> 00:09:32.370 on the S20 Ultra. Can you do that for me please? All right. Thank you, sir. 00:09:32.370 --> 00:09:36.630 Here's the thing, guys, when you add more pixels to an image, 00:09:36.630 --> 00:09:42.600 what you're doing is you're increasing the data rate. So you're increasing how many samples you're taking 00:09:42.600 --> 00:09:46.640 and how many pixels that you are encoding into the finished file. 00:09:46.640 --> 00:09:52.320 But what you are not necessarily doing is capturing more definition, 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:55.670 like harder edges between objects in the frame, 00:09:55.670 --> 00:09:59.940 because you are inherently going to be limited by the quality of your sensor, 00:09:59.940 --> 00:10:03.830 not just the number of receptor sites that are on it. 00:10:03.830 --> 00:10:08.160 No Bixby, we don't wanna talk to you, by the way, massive kudos to Samsung removing 00:10:08.160 --> 00:10:11.420 the Bixby button about time, thank you. You know, I'm gonna use this opportunity 00:10:11.420 --> 00:10:16.670 to provide some followup notes on the Galaxy Folds. I still absolutely love the giant screen, 00:10:16.670 --> 00:10:21.520 but something I didn't do with it much during my review was use it outdoors. 00:10:21.520 --> 00:10:28.320 I didn't even realize that its peak brightness is only around 350 to 400 nits. 00:10:28.320 --> 00:10:31.697 So how's that 8K recording quality Brandon, what do you think? 00:10:31.697 --> 00:10:37.810 - It doesn't look that great. - Of course, it doesn't look that great it's a phone camera. I don't know why we keep going on with this silliness. 00:10:37.810 --> 00:10:41.770 I have no problem with adding recording modes that give you more frames per second, 00:10:41.770 --> 00:10:45.290 because then you're actually capturing more information 00:10:45.290 --> 00:10:48.620 that might be useful if you're trying to like do a back flip or whatever. 00:10:48.620 --> 00:10:51.730 But pumping up the resolution in these devices 00:10:51.730 --> 00:10:56.400 that have bottlenecks elsewhere is kind of like upgrading your graphics card 00:10:56.400 --> 00:11:00.040 when you're running a Celeron CPU from eight years ago, 00:11:00.040 --> 00:11:04.880 it just serves no purpose and all we're doing is creating larger file sizes 00:11:04.880 --> 00:11:08.060 so that people need to buy a phone with a greater storage capacity 00:11:08.060 --> 00:11:15.250 with no appreciable benefit that we couldn't achieve by just having, better encoded 4K, for example. 00:11:15.250 --> 00:11:19.130 Focus the effort somewhere else. Overall, I like this thing so far, 00:11:19.130 --> 00:11:22.720 and I think I'm gonna try and daily drive it for a couple of weeks. So you guys can expect a full review 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:26.930 over on the Linus tech tips channel. Oh! Right, and one more thing before we do that though 00:11:26.930 --> 00:11:30.900 cause I never cover this stuff over on LTT is going through the accessory. 00:11:30.900 --> 00:11:35.067 Here's a Korean standard charger, a cable (blabbering). 00:11:37.810 --> 00:11:39.263 Samsung earphones. 00:11:41.110 --> 00:11:45.505 Here's the top of the box. Not empty (box rattling) 00:11:45.505 --> 00:11:49.600 (box thudding) An included the case. 00:11:49.600 --> 00:11:52.660 Oh wait, we're not gonna use that, by the way massive shout out to Deebrand 00:11:52.660 --> 00:11:57.710 for sending us over this S20 ultra because I'm on Samsung's bad list apparently. 00:11:57.710 --> 00:12:04.380 So they also have their grip available for the S20 Ultra, which you can also get with their cool Zack edition skin 00:12:04.380 --> 00:12:09.610 that shows the internals of the phone. It's available on glossy or, actually my preference is definitely the matte one. 00:12:09.610 --> 00:12:12.810 This one looks nicer in my opinion, but I'm not gonna show it to you 00:12:12.810 --> 00:12:16.317 because you're gonna have to go over on Deebrand's website and check it out there (chuckles).