Samsung Note20 Ultra 5G - Test

It can be written that this year we have been on the market of real supersmartphins, devices even better than the flagships.What premieres were: samsung s20 ultra, huawei p40 pro+ or xiaomi mi 10 pro plus.They can be compared to a car with full possible equipment - we get absolutely everything and a little more.Of course, the right price is associated with this, often higher than PLN 5,000.Another such supercartphone is the Samsung Note20 Ultra 5G described in this material, the best possible versions of this year's Note.

Appearance and performance

In the box, in addition to the phone, we will find a 25W charger, USB cable and AKG headphones.The most attention should of course be devoted to Note's design yourself.It cannot be described differently, as by calling Samsung's new engineering work of art.The phone looks phenomenal and fully deserves to be called a supercarton.The dimensions of the phone are 64.8 out of 77.2 by 8.1 mm, and the weight is 208 g.The screen has been covered with a very durable Gorilla Glass Victus, and the housing is a combination of glass and a sandy steel frame.Despite the size, the phone is well in your hand, one must take a correction that the back of the housing is slippery, so buying a case seems to be a must.

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Note20 Ultra has no headphone connector, but the MicroSD card and hybrid SIM were remembered.The phone can boast of the IP68 protection standard.Our tested copper model presented - in our opinion - really special.Like many flagships this year, Note20 Ultra has a module with lenses that stands out from the surface of the back of the smartphone.

Note20 Ultra would not be a Note without a cult (for some) Rysika S PEN.It was not missing this time.We will find it in the left, bottom of the phone.The stylus will be useful for both writing and drawing, as well as for the contactless use of some smartphone functions.About how to use S PENA (e.g.. w ramach doskonale sprawdzającej się aplikacji Samsung Notes) pisaliśmy w teście Galaxy Tab S7+.

Screen

The Note20 Ultra screen is a class in itself, you can easily consider it the best screen among all smartphones in Poland.The 6.9-inch diagonal and the resolution of 3088 × 1440 (496 ppi) The display was created in Dynamic AMOLED 2x technology.In its production, the HDR10+ certificate was remembered and an effective brightness of over 1000 rivets.

The smartphone offers a refresh rate of 60 Hz and 120 Hz with response to touch with a frequency of 240 Hz.The second option is called an adaptive, because the smartphone adjusts the refresh level to what we see on the screen.In some games or in the menu we get 120 Hz to go down to 60 Hz in the case of watching the movie.It is worth remembering that a larger refresh rate is associated with reduced resolution.Native 1440p will only be obtained in the case of 60 Hz.The fingerprint reader in the screen works correctly, but we will not unlock with the help of the phone screen each time with 100 % efficiency.

Once again, it should be emphasized that the Note 20 Ultra screen stands out even from other, best smartphones on the market.If someone dreamed of the best possible screens in the world of Android phones - he would dream about this model.

Specification

The European version of Note20 Ultra uses CPU Exynos 990 and GPU Mali-G77.The American version has a flagship package of this year's flagships, i.e. Snapdragon 865+ IGPU Adreno 650.What does it mean?For most users, not much, because they receive ultrashybki, operating without any delays a smartphone that can handle any application, as well as with any advanced 3D game.In the Google store, however, we will find very specific apps, such as console emulators, which are created for Snapdragons - in the case of Exynos we will get weaker results in them.Therefore, we are talking about very specific use scenarios for the selected group.How does the phone look in synthetic benchmarks?

Geekbench 5.0: 884 points.(Single-Core Score) and 2670 (Multi-Core Score),

Antutu: 504 638.

For comparison:

Xiaomi Mi 10 (8 GB RAM version) in Antut scored 520 202 points, and in the geekbench benchmark: 890 points.(Single-Core Score) and 3281 (Multi-Core Score).

Huawei P40 Pro scored 461 766 points in the Antutu benchmark.Geekbench 5: Results 776 points (Single-Core and 3182 (Multi-Core).

Galaxy S20 Ultra has 520 202 points in Antut, and in Geekbench 5 he scored 918 points.(Single-Core Score) and 2820 (Multi-Core Score) point.

Realme X50 PRO 5G (12 GB RAM) had the Antutu result - 594 794.VGEEKBENCH -916 (Single-Core), 3341 (Multi-Core)

Samsung's smartphone uses Android 10 with the latest version of One UI edition by.One UI is a really successful overlay, especially if we like to use additional applications, and in the case of Note20 Ultra - due to S PEN - it is even recommended.Once again, more about the advantages of Samsung solutions, we write in the Tab S7+test, let's only mention - in addition to the great Samsung Notes - about the possibility of using several applications on the screen, the wireless version of Dex and full support for Office 365.

The smartphone, of course, supports the 5G network - version: 5g non -standalone (NSA), Standalone (SA), Sub6 and MMWAVE.

XCloud - Xbox Game Pass on Android

Note20 Ultra 5G thanks to its computing power will work very well as playing equipment, but Samsung and Microsoft decided that this is one of the devices worthy of the title of official equipment supporting the new cloud playing service - Xcloud (Xbox Game Pass on Android).After wireless connecting and connecting to the network, we have access to over 100 games. Więcej o samej usłudze i jej testach przy pomocy Note’a20 Ultra można przeczytać w tym materiale.

The camera

Taking photos at the highest possible level is to be one of the key elements of the new Note.Did the phone come out of this task?Let's start with the short (wider at the bottom of the material) specifications: MADA MA108 MP, F/1.8, 26mm (Wide), periscope lens Zoom X5 ma: 12 MP, f/3.0, 120mm.However, the specification of the ultra -ultra -angle lens is: 12 MP, f/2.2, 120˚.In this model, Samsung added laser autofocus.Zoom allows you to familiarize the X50, the S20 Ultra model had the Zoom X100, but let's be honest - everything above 50x would be effectively unnecessary.

So how does the camera work?Sensational.Samsung is not inferior to Huawei in any way.Any important aspect of taken photographs does not raise significant objections.Zoom X5 is really perfect, even the hybrid Zoom X10 turns out to be useful in practice.Night photos (or taken in the case of poor artificial lighting) are without much allegation, although Samsung Note20 Ultra and its software do not offer computational image improvement (i.e. does not do the night of the day) like Google Pixel - such a decision of the creators.Pictures have excellent colors, there is no blur, unnecessary artifacts and, above all, they are natural, while having a bit of computing magic.Most users prefer just such a mixture.Below are some sample photos:

At the front, upstairs, in the form of a cut in the screen, we will find only one lens with a specifications of 10 MP, f/2.2, 26mm (Wide), 1/3.2 ", 1.22µm.Takes enough, good photos.

A few more words about video quality, because on this Note20 Ultra plane there is above other smartphones.The phone can record materials even in 8K, but we will get more interesting effects in the case of 4K and Full HD materials, with HDR10+ and digital stabilization.Note20 Ultra undoubtedly offers the best quality of recorded video materials among all Android smartphones.Only the latest iPhones can boast of a better camera.

Battery

The smartphone has a battery with a capacity of 4500 mAh.Because the phone does not support charging faster than 25W, full charge takes about 100 minutes.Battery consumption depends primarily on the chosen refresh mode.In the case of 120 Hz, battery consumption increases by about 10 to 15 percent.It is difficult to make an unambiguous assessment in this aspect due to the adaptive aspect of refreshment.However, the smartphone will undoubtedly guarantee us work from morning to evening, and this is the most important.With standard use, it should withstand 24 hours.To sum up: the Note20 Ultra battery is good, although on the market we will find more "long -distance" phones.

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Price: PLN 5949

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