Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra & Galaxy Buds

 Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra & Galaxy Buds

 We've got inside here the Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra. But in addition to that, we also have the Samsung Galaxy buds live. Nice packaging with the whole bronze theme. I like it, I like it. And here we are. So we'll unbox the Note20 Ultra first of course and then we'll have a look at the Galaxy buds live which I'm also very interested in. Now the Note 20 Ultra does have the classic notes packaging. We've got the S Pen here in the middle.

 I quite like the design of this box. We also have Note 20 Ultra5G and that is because the Note 20 Ultra is only available in a 5G variant. All right let's open this up. So excited. Presented with the device first of course and it is in the mystic bronze color, which looks so good. I'm going to leave that to the side for just a second. Let's see what else we get inside the box.

Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra having Type-C 

 Now we've got the usual bits inside the box, we've got a quick start guide, there's a SIM card tool, a USB type C to USB type C cable, some AKG USB type C earphones which do have a braided cable as well as a 25-watt fast charger. Now, normally you do get some nibs for the S Pen as well as a removal tool. This is not here in my review unit because this is an early sample. So your retail unit will most likely have that but as well as some other bits potentially that will vary depending on your region. Now let's get to what you guys are all here to see and that is the removal of the plastic from the back.

Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra having Gorilla Glass7

 Get ready. Landed back on the table fell, but so, so satisfying. And here it is. I absolutely love this mystic bronze color. This is also available ina black as well as a white, those have a glossy back. But I absolutely love this matte finish, which doesn't attract as many fingerprints. And I love the way it looks when the light hits this. It's got this really elegant look. Yeah, I think that the right word, elegant. Now, this is also the first smartphone in the world that has Gorilla Glass7, which is more durable. And it's also more scratch resistant compared to Gorilla Glass 6.

 So let me just go out and bring my tools, no I'm joking. I'm not really going to do that, this is my device. I'll leave that for Zach to test out how durable this is. We've got an aluminum frame, which is also in this bronze color, looks really slick. And then there's this camera module which does protrude quite a bit. It is quite a big camera bump. Now one thing that a lot of you guys want to see is how this compares to say the Samsung Galaxy S 20 Ultra, which also has quite a large camera bump.

 And now looking at these side by side, the Note 20 Ultra, the camera bump isn't as wide but it is slightly taller and it is thicker. However, the device is thinner. So overall, I'd say that the Note 20 Ultra does feel a bit more comfortable for me. If you want to see a detailed comparison between these two, I've already done a video, you're in luck, I'll link that in the chords, and you can watch that after this video.

Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra having Dynamic AMOLED

 Now we've still got IP68 water and dust resistance, which is great. And the Notes has the squared-off edges, which we've seen from the Note series before, makes it really stand out and look unique amongst everything else out there. And let's turn this around and have a look at the display. And here it is guys, this looks so, so good. It's a 6.9-inch Dynamic AMOLED 2X display, that's what Samsung calls it. And this has a peak brightness of 1500 nits which makes it one of the brightest if not, the brightest smartphone displays out there. And we do have a quad-HD+ resolution, so it's a very high pixel density.

 But I think, more importantly, we do have a 120-hertz refresh rate. Now, this is only going to work at full HD. So you can't have QuadHD as well as 120 hertz on at the same time. Similar to what we had on the S20 Ultra. This is to preserve battery life. But what you do have is an adaptive display. And this will adjust the refresh rate depending on what you' reviewing on screen. So if you're viewing something static, there's really no need for 120 hertz.

 And that should give you better battery life. Now within this display, there is the ultrasonic in-display fingerprint scanner, which is the same as what we've seen on previous Samsung devices over the past couple of years. I mean, it works really well, it's fast. I generally don't have any problems with the ultrasonic in-display fingerprint scanner. Although I was hoping for the 3D Sonic Max. Maybe we'll see that for the next generation. Also within this display is the front-facing camera. Now, this is a punch out.

Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra having 4k Video Recording

 I really don't mind the punch out because the bezels are very, very small and it is smaller compared to the Note 10 plus that we had last year. It is a 10-megapixel front-facing camera with an F2.2 aperture, can film at up to 4K 60 frames per second. But what we're most interested in is the cameras on the back. That's all-new on a Samsung device not having fingerprints when you turn it around. I love this color. anyway so on the rear-facing camera is where we've really had some changes.

Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Camera Specification 

 The camera module, Ido likes the look of it, it looks much better in my opinion to what we had on the S20 Ultra and we've got three different lenses. The primary camera is the 108megapixel sensor from Samsung. It has been refined from what we had on the S20 Ultra And this time we also have a dedicated laser autofocus sensor, and that's going to help with autofocus. The S20 Ultra did have some issues with autofocus, which a lot of experience and although some of these were improved with software.

 Having the laser autofocus hardware on here should make things much better. We have a 12-megapixel ultra-wide camera. As far as I can see, it's very similar to what we had on the S20 Ultra. I hope there have been some improvements on here because I did prefer the Notre 10+ ultra-wide camera to the S20 Ultra this year. And finally, we have a telephoto scope zoom camera. This is again at 12 megapixels, and it can give you up to five times optical zoom, and up to 50 times spacesuit, that's what Samsung calls it.

 It's essentially a digital zoom. Now that's improved on the four times optical zoom that we had on the S20 Ultra. I'm glad Samsung has gone away from the 100X zoom, which was cool but it really didn't work that well. So I of course cannot wait to test out these cameras and put them against something else. SuperSaf style, definitely let me know in the comments below which device you'd like me to put this up against first.

 Now disclaimer, I am going to have to wait till another software update on some embargoes before I can publish the camera comparison. So do bear with me, but I do promise that I will get onto one as soon as possible. For video, we do have 8K once again adds up to 24 frames a second. And we do have some improvements to the software. So we've got to the pro video app, which is going to allow you to do a few different things. You're going to be able to get a much smoother zoom rather than just having to snap.

Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Having External USB C Mic

 So if you are filming and you want to get more of a cinematic zoom, you're going to be able to do that. And we've also got some improved audio recording options. So you can select omni mic front-rear, you can also plug in an external USB C mic, and there's also Bluetooth. So with the Galaxy buds live, if you've got those plugged in, it can actually pick up the audio from there. So if you are in a noisy environment, then that should help kind of clear out a lot of that background noise.

 Moving on, let's take a look around the device. So on the right-hand side, we have the power button as well as the volume buttons. These have moved from the left-hand side that we had on the Note 10+and now on the right-hand side. There's actually nothing on the left-hand side. At the bottom, there is a USB type C ports. There's a speaker, which is one of two, we've got another one in the earpiece. So we do have stereo speakers tuned by AKG, which sounds really good. And then we have the S Pen.

 Now, this is on the left-hand side, not the right-hand side. But it's really what makes the Note series unique. Now you can see that as soon as I've taken it out, we do get the air actions screen and it lets you try this out. Air actions let you do certain things with the S Pen remotely so you can kindly be far away from it and you still going to be able to do a few things like move up, do a kind of left arrow, we've got a shake action, and we've got a clockwise circle action. Okay, exit tutorial now.

 Honestly speaking, I'm not somebody who personally uses air actions, the only thing I really use it for is as a remote trigger for the camera, which I find very, very useful. If you want to take a group shot and you don't really want to be using a timer and quickly running across, just having that S Pen is so useful. And this S Pen has been improved, we've got latency down to nine milliseconds, which is, I believe the smoothest writing experience that you're going to get on a smartphone.

 It's at the same level as the Apple Pencil. And there are also some new features such as improved handwriting recognition, as well as the ability to import and annotate PDFs. On the top, we've got the SIM card tray, which does have space for a micro SD card, so you can expand the storage on the Note 20 Ultra which is great. And that is on top of the base storage, which is a little bit confusing 128 gigabytes in the US, 256 gigabytes in the UK, Europe, and other regions. And you can also get a version with 512 gigabytes.

 Now, why is there this difference between the storage in the UK and the US? Well in The UK and Europe etc, you will be getting the Exynos 990 series chipset, that's what's going to be powering the Note 20 Ultra. That is the same chipset that we had on the S20 Ultra. But in the US, you will be getting, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 plus chipset. Now, this is something thatI've endlessly ranted about.

Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Having Powerful Processor 

We already had a gap in performance between the Exynos and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 on the S20 Ultra, I covered that in detail. Now we've got even more of a gap because the 865 Plus is a more superior chipset. Now how is this going to affect your day to day and how is it going to affect the battery life? Well, this is something that we're going to have to wait and see. I'm going to try to get the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 plus variant over as soon as I can, and I will try to do a long term review and really let what the performance is like and what the battery life is like.

Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Having Powerful Battery

 We do have 12 gigabytes of RAM and the battery is 4500mAh. Now I would expect good battery life here because of the adaptive refresh rate. But obviously, this is something that I will feedback on. We do have support for 25 watts charging which I mentioned earlier. There is no 45-watt charging supports like we had on the S20 Ultra,15 watts wireless charging as well as reverse wireless charging support. So you can charge things like your buds on the back of the Notes 20 Ultra.

 For software Of course, we have Android 10 with one UI. And the note 20 Ultra does come with an ultra-wideband chip inbuilt. This should allow faster transfer between other devices that also have an ultra-wideband chip. And going forward, it should help with things like unlocking your car. I'm not too sure what the benefits will be long term. So we'll take a look at that. And we also have support for wireless decks. So you'll be able to connect the Note 20 Ultra to an external display as long as it supportsMiracast technology, and you'll be able to have somewhat of a desktop experience that external display.

Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Having Powerful Hardware

 Previously, you had to use a cable of some sort to have this connection, and having that completely wireless is obviously a big, big advantage. Now let's talk about the price. So the S20 Ultra in the UK is going to be starting at £1180, which is for a 256-gigabyte option. And in the US, it's going to be starting at $1300 for the 128-gigabyte variant. Now, this is more compared to what the Note 10+ came in last year, but it is cheaper compared to what the S20 Ultra came in this year.

 Are you going to be picking this up and what additional coverage would you like me to do with the Note 20 Ultra. Do drop me a comment below and let me know. Let's now move on to the Galaxy buds live. Now one thing to mention straight away is that if you do preorder the Note 20 Ultra, I believe in certain regions, you can get the galaxy buds live included. So do go ahead and check up on that. The release date is the 21st of August.

 Let's check these out. So inside the box, we've got the usual stuff. There's a quick start guide, there's a USB Type-A to USB type C cable, we've got some ear tips. And then we've got the Galaxy buds live. These are in this mystic bronze color, which looks really really nice. They are also available in white and black. Let's go ahead and open these up and see how quick the connection is. All right, so I'm going to open them here. Shiny and took a few seconds, but we now have the galaxy buds live pop up.

 The device has been connected, connect, allow, allow. We get an indication of how much battery life we've got on the earbuds as well as the case. And it immediately brings up the app with all of the instructions and how to wear these. So let's go ahead and try them out you're all set. Okay, that was pretty easy, I like the setup. It was very straightforward as it was with the Samsung Galaxy buds plus, which are currently my go twos. And in terms of the fit, I have to say it does.

 My first impression is obviously I'm sat down here, I'm not going to go for a run right now. But they do seem to be quite comfortable. And I have the weirdest shape is in the world, because most earbuds just don't fit my ears. But these seem to be sitting in very well. And they also look quite different from the traditional earbuds that we've been seeing for the past many, many years. So props to Samsung for coming up with a design that is very unique, although these do look like beans.

 Yeah, I'm sure there have been lots of beans jokes already. Okay, they sound pretty good to me. I, of course, can't test out the active noise cancellation. My good friend Ede, from bought out wack, has actually done a review of these and he's an audiophile. So, I will link to his video in the cards so you can go ahead and check that out. I'm definitely not an earphone expert shall we say, for battery life, we do have eight hours of listening on the buds themselves. But with the case, you can get up to 29 hours on a full charge which is very impressive.

 A five-minute charging here is going to give you about an hour of listening and there is wireless charging supported so you can drop this on a wireless charger. And for pricing, these start at £180 in the UK or around $170 in the US. And guys, that's the SamsungGalaxy notes 20 Ultra, as well as the Samsung Galaxy buds, live. Hope you guys enjoyed this unboxing if you did then do hit that thumbs up button for me. As mentioned, there's going to be lots more coverage here on the channel with the Note 20 Ultra.