I'm Switching to the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra...

Ultra, we are living in the era of

ultra

, this will go into the pocket. Now say goodnight to the OnePlus 8 Pro, at least for now, that wasn't on purpose or it was so you probably saw my video on the Note 20. Galaxy Note 20 Ultra and normal. That was kind of a quick comparison, kind of an Impressions type video. I had some pre-release units that had to be rolled back, but of course I wanted to switch to the device permanently and semi-permanently because it's exciting, it's obviously premium and I've been trying to figure out where I want to put the next personal SIM card.

It's been inside this OnePlus 8 Pro since that device came out and I got nothing against that device. I had fun using it. But believe it or not, I don't always change the personal Sim to every device that appears here on the show, that would be a little crazy because like anyone here on this platform in the community, you have your favorites that you can change. come in more frequently and then you get the devices that show up that you review more temporarily, this Note 20 Ultra looks like it would be a good option for a longer sort of test and now that I have the retail unit in front of me I'm going to do a good old fashioned change video.

I'm changing like in the meme, as you may remember if you've been on the channel for a while here yes, I'm changing phones. I'm

switching

to the Note 20 Ultra and I'm excited to do so not only because the device is exciting and premium and everything else, but because it also has a stylus and because it's also going to have the new back case style because this just came out with a completely new style around the cutouts. I'll talk more about that in a moment here in a minute, but that's another reason why I'm a little excited about it, so let's do the unboxing experience since I didn't have the box before in the previous video.

This is what it looks like, you have the stylus represented on the front of one of the few devices you can get in 2020. Top-tier flagship level with stylus input. I say it every time. I'm going to try to love the pencil. I'm going to try using the pencil. I'm going to try to be one with the pencil this time. I'm serious, I promise. I'm going to tap. I'll be lying on the couch. Note 20 Ultra style because you know that, to be honest, you spend this amount of money, you probably want to use the pen. Mystic Bronze is the color of Otherwise this unit is a pretty nondescript box, we slide the lid on nice and smooth and you're greeted by the

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massive Note 20 camera module there with the three camera units, sort of that they are all very similar in scale and I don't know, it's like it's very well aligned and this is the glass model.

If you remember the comparison video, which I assume you've already seen at this point, if not, you can watch it. regular, standard non ultra

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20, looks very similar to this one, the finish, but it feels very different because it's made of plastic and people got upset with a thousand dollar phone with a plastic back, well, that It is not a problem with the ultra model. this will actually be Gorilla Glass and this will actually be that new Victus, I mean, I'm curious. I talked about it a couple of times with Lou later. It is the new high-profile product from Gorilla Glass, the most robust yet. kinds of extra drop protection all kinds of extra scratch protection so Gorilla Glass obviously always does great things and this one features the latest.

I think it's the first phone to feature the latter. The stylus has been moved to the other side of this phone as I mentioned in the Quick Comparison Video. I just notice something interesting, also made in Korea, it says on the device. I now know that Samsung uses factories in several different locations around the world. I don't think most of their devices are made in India. We'll see Vietnam, they recently started making devices in India, this one is labeled Korea, so because you have this huge camera module the table will wobble a bit, let's see if that goes down a bit with later installation of the case .

Maybe We won't find out much, but what's interesting here is the new clipping style. As you can see, we will call it Cyber ​​Edition. You can check more details on the website. It won't just be for the Note series. We are going to make Cyber ​​Edition for several different series, but what I like about this is that it gives it a futuristic look, in my opinion something Cyber ​​Punky, it just covers the entire back in carbon. Check it out for the s20 ultra too and I even had to show some love to the iPhone people so there's a cyber edition for the iPhone 11 Pro Max.

Visit the site to find out everything about it. Also in the package, here we have some stickers. I don't accept if the seal is broken, stickers but this was not sealed. Very interesting, very interesting. Samsung fast charger, actually what they call super fast charger and again the models that I have, from the impression that it didn't have all these extra components, so that's great. To check it out, it's a bit strange. It's just a 25 watt charger in the box. You may have expected something faster. Samsung has even shipped faster chargers. In fact, they also included a travel adapter.

For some reason they sent this. I think this might be for the tablet they also sent, but it has 45 watt super fast charging capability. This is 25 watts. You can use their 45 watt product with this phone, but I think it will still charge at 25 watts, so that could be considered a drawback. for some at this price, obviously there are some faster charging devices out there that say some people argue that they don't need anything above a particular speed because they're worried about battery degradation and everything else, but we've seen several Chinese brands offering over 100 watts of charging these days so some people will pay attention to that, anyway this one is 25 watts this is their travel adapter which is rated at 45 watts and obviously it's a bit a bit larger, but again you need a device that is capable of using those 45 watts, so anyway, Samsung's charging options also do 15 watt wireless charging.

I have always been a fan of wireless charging so I can go that route too of course at the expense of a little speed also inside the package we have a USB cable and it is a typical type c to type c and lastly , this is just a little bit of extra protection, from the looks of it, okay, cool, so we have an unboxing. experience finally and on camera. I should also mention that I recently made a video about these guys that the Galaxy Buds live in and of course this would be a good companion for this particular device.

You can watch that video if you're curious about these, so let's go. Go ahead and boot this up fine, so while it boots up, we'll take a look at the device on top. Here you can see we have our SIM tray which is actually a pretty wide SIM tray and then the bottom is where almost everything else is the type C connector as well as the speaker and of course the stylus which is a key component in any

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s experience, here is the screen. Something that occurred to me during my Note 20 Note 20 Ultra comparison video was that this screen behaved a little differently and looked a little different than the standard version of the Note 20.

I don't know, Kirk, am I crazy? Which image looks best here? Yes, hmm, although this would be the more premium model and would have a higher resolution and everything. the rest, so I'm curious now that I have a retail model, if I'll notice the same thing. I mean, it's a very vibrant OLED screen, obviously pretty. I'm going to set it to dark and turn off adaptive motion. smoothness I mentioned this above, but there seems to be no way to lock it at 120, at least not within the default settings here. I think they want you to keep it in adaptive mode in order to get the best battery life, um, but you can however lock it at 60 hertz in the settings menu if you want to prioritize battery life at all times.

I'm going to leave it customizable for now. The display mode is set to Vivid. I wonder what will happen if I go to the advanced settings. Now, something else. people had mentioned in the comments section that maybe they didn't have the video enhancer turned on, so let me take a quick look, where are they hiding that the video enhancer is there? So I'm going to turn this on now as well. that doesn't change anything in the OS, it will actually only affect the video player Google Play Movies and TV YouTube and Netflix as far as the pre-installed apps are concerned, but that said it was analyzing YouTube videos but then it was only analyzing images in Google Images, so I don't think that was the problem, you know, the other speculation was that it might have something to do with the new Gorilla Glass.

I just think the screens work a little differently, behave a little differently, and look saturated. It's not necessarily a good thing, it's just some people you know, there's a flavor that goes with it and some people might like a dimmer display like this one has and it's in no way lacking in saturation, it was just a curious find that I had among this and the Note 20. Now the other thing I like to do is enable maximum resolution. There is a battery drain here too, but I feel like if you have a 3088 by 1440 resolution you'll want to see that. so that's wqhd plus now maxed out, very nice, very sharp.

When I'm scrolling through YouTube, for example, with that extra resolution, you can actually do it depending on how far you hold the phone from your face, but I'll be scrolling through thumbnails like somewhere around here and I can actually tell the difference now between a high resolution screen. Is it the most important thing in my life? No, but I play with this stuff all the time, so it's something I pick up on and notice now that it's starting. Of course, we're going to have to go ahead and insert the SIM card now, as I mentioned. I have been using the OnePlus 8 Pro.

In fact, I am very happy with this device. I'm happy with the battery life, it doesn't have the biggest battery in the world, it's been performing well, so there are a few things I'm probably going to miss here, including this mute switch, the textured switch that I use all the time. time, the form factor, this, I mean, this is a big phone this is a bigger phone it feels bigger it's a little bit sharper in the hand the hole punch moves to the center of the screen instead of the corner top it's amazing how big OnePlus flagship devices have gotten where you're talking about an Ultra note and they're actually close in scale which is pretty incredible.

The speaker performance I tested on this device in that quick video I made earlier. I'm actually very impressed with the speaker on this one. I think it might have a slight edge and I use that. the speaker actually quite frequently on this screen. I feel like I'm noticing the same thing here, where the OnePlus screen may have a little more pop, the color balance is obviously different, as I'm sure you can. Tell me now you can change the color balance on the Samsung side by heading into the settings once again to the screen and when I go here to Vivid mode I can change the white balance to be a little bit warmer than the OnePlus, let's say lower to this a little bit closer to cool on that setting and come back here look, I prefer that color balance.

There's an argument that blue light might be a little harsher on your eyes, but that's more to my taste. There you also get an idea of ​​how much bigger the screen dimension is on the Note series. It is a little big. You have this bar at the bottom that takes up part of the screen, but you notice it a little. It goes from edge to edge, it's kind of a perfect rectangle or closer to perfect, but I will say that I feel like this has more contrast for some reason. I feel like the OnePlus screen has more contrast.

I felt the same way about the standard 20 note. series which is kind of interesting, this is the premium flagship model, but it has a slightly dimmer screen, what more can I say about OnePlus? Well, the cameras are fine, nothing too crazy. I was never impressed. I've been a little. a little lukewarm with the various camera apps and camera software that OnePlus has been using and matters less at the sub premium tier, but once you get to a thousand dollars or close to it, you really start to examine that just a little more closely, I have said previously.

I like the pixel aesthetic when it comes to how the software treats photos and videos, but this one I mean, based on my limited exposure, looks pretty promising, particularly what they've done to fix the autofocus. or improve the autofocus of my last major experience with Samsung, which was the s20 ultra, so this is the camera app here and I'm going to move on, why not take a couple of quick photos. Let me line something up here, it's the foreign standard focal range. we have the 5X zoom and, of course, the wide angle. Now what I'm most excited about is obviously the main camera.

The standard focal range. The zoom inIt actually came out a little blurry. Now that I'm holding the thing, it's not the brightest here. and I'm not a big Zoom guy, but that image there is like you have some kind of roll-off with the focus on the background. Another cool thing about this is the ability to record super high resolution videos up to 8K. Rear video size, I looked at this 76 80 by 4320 and I tried autofocus on the original video and it actually worked really well and it's obviously a ton of pixels so it's another exciting thing that I want to experiment with obviously so For me the story of this phone is the camera and the possible improvements in the camera compared to the s20 ultra, which was a phone that I liked the battery life, how it holds up and then the stylus and whether or not I can finally get started to use the pencil more frequently to the point where I really feel like I'm getting an advantage from it.

They've added some features apparently it's more accurate now you can see there's a demo here for aerial actions we'll see if that ends up happening of course I'll report back eventually but it's a premium device it won't be for everyone. just for the price, but it will be for me for the foreseeable future because I'm going to go ahead and insert my SIM card, if I can locate the SIM tray that was in one of these, it's not the SIM Tray, the Sim tool, man, my SIM card has been in that phone for so long. I'm realizing it right now.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that the SIM tray has expandable storage. You don't see it as much anymore, it's still here. are a fan of that and Samsung is launching this device as a kind of work device as a do-it-all device, as a substitute for even a dedicated computer with decks or an integration into Windows with its recent collaboration with Microsoft, of course there is the side of the games. I can also try the xcloud stuff. I think this could be a pretty good device for gaming, of course you've got the 865 in there, that's official, it's the main SIM card that makes its way into Samsung's latest, the high-end Note. 20 Ultra in mystic bronze which of course, you know, I've covered it with carbon because that's how I like to do it, that's the texture I'm going for, but this is going to go in the pocket now, say good night to the OnePlus 8 Pro. al At least for now that was not on purpose or I must be over 18 years old to play this, listen to the audio.

Now that I have this game loaded, I feel like I can appreciate the screen a little. a little bit more because that OLED looks really good here and this is another thing you might not notice about this hole punch. This front camera is small. It's the smallest, maybe the smallest I've ever seen. The black border around the camera module is incredibly thin. and of course it's even smaller than what they put in the regular Note 20. It's hard to imagine how they can make it even smaller, probably the next step is to hide it under the screen, completely strange, what is that? a gaming mode now, check this out, they also got the gaming booster, it's not a gaming phone, but it's definitely a good gaming phone.

I mean what makes a gaming phone is hard to say, big batteries, big screens, fast chip, it has those things, so why? I don't have a game booster that allows you to monitor your temperature, your memory, your battery life in minutes, which is good to check, you can also mute your notifications, let me click on the settings here. Activate Dolby Atmos, change screen lock time, change performance mode. Refresh rate is quite nice the automatically generated username was cumulative liquid. I'm pretty sure that was wow, but this sound here is good with the Dolby on, it's loud, holy foreigner, it's loud for a phone.

Listen to it. It is a Powerhouse phone with a powerful Price. I don't think it's going to win any awards for value for money, but I think people who are excited about the Note brand are just happy that the pen stays up to today's modern specs and it's hard to argue. That having access to the stylus, if you use your phone as your primary kind of computing device, it gives you an extra level of precision that your finger can't give you, so I understand why this series has stuck around and why. It is popular among a group of users.

I'm just going to try to adapt to the life of the pencil. I'm going to try even more than in the past to see if the pencil has any purpose in 2020. Send me your suggestions. Because? Know what you use the stylus for and why you think the stylus is a must-have if you've been a Note user until now, but anyway there you have it. Note 20 Ultra Ultra, we live in the Age of Ultron abroad when it comes to smartphones. are worried or Pro I don't know which one is more common Ultra will become more common Pro, what do you choose Pro or Ultra Ultra?

Do you want Ultra over Pro is ultra better than Pro? I mean, Ultra sounds better than Pro Ultra, where? you go after Ultra through Ultimate, oh you go to Ultimate and then there's nothing after Ultimate and then you start going to Infinity Infinity or Infinity because I can't even measure it. Samsung Galaxy Note 20. Infinity just keeps going, it's on forever and they. I already have a type like Galaxy, which is already there, the great Universal Universe of Galaxy.