Galaxy Note 20 vs Ultra: If you are trying to decide which one you want to buy or you just want to know the differences I'm gonna break it down for you one piece at a time. Just one note before we begin I've got the galaxy note 20 here the regular standard one that costs a thousand dollars and you can tell because of this mystic green colour the note 20 ultra is what I'm actually using to shoot a video.
Now apart from the colour you may think that size is going to be the first difference you notice at first glance that isn't really true because we've got a 6.7-inch screen on the standard galaxy note 20 and a 6.9 inch screen on the ultra, so side by side they don't look that different but what is extremely noticeable is the back and again not just the colour it's the camera bump the camera module on here sticks out a little bit but it is much more noticeable on the ultra. It protrudes from the sides and you just have larger sensor openings you also have gorilla glass victus on the back of the note 20 ultra which is strengthened glass on the note 20.
You have plastic Samsung calls it polycarbonate but it's really the same thing if you put a case on your phone you probably won't really notice anyway but I do think it is a little bit cheeky for Samsung to charge you one thousand dollars for a phone that basically has a plastic backing especially when the company spent all of this time conditioning us to believe that glass is more elegant and just a higher quality product overall, however, one benefit is if you drop the note 20 the back of it probably won't shatter.
Another difference you might notice is the flat screen on the note 20 versus the curved sides of the note 20 ultra. I'm a little bit mixed about this because I do love the immersive feel of the ultra with its curved screen. However, because the screen truly is an edge to edge on a curved screen I always have the problem that I call the finger going over the edge of the waterfall. If I'm trying to place my cursor at the beginning of an email for example the bezels here are still very narrow so I still did experience the accidental process that I didn't like on the note 20 ultra. You're not going to escape this with the flat phone so it really is just a matter of taste.
We had fast refresh rates what does that mean nothing if you've never used a phone with a fast screen but if you did use it then you might notice that this one feels slow.
Cameras this is where the note 20 ultra truly stands out it's not just because the camera mount on the back is physically larger it is because there are one or two tricks that the ultra has that note 20 doesn't the most important one to me. I think in my everyday photography is 5x optical zoom. Now the note 20 is no slouch there's 3x optical zoom but when I took both phones out on a photoshoot I noticed that I did use the note 20 ultra's 5x zoom all the way up to 50x zoom a lot more than I used the regular note 20 and I thought that the photo quality was much much better on that phone as well for those telephoto shots.
The ultra really does have the upper hand when you're taking a photo of a flower or a portrait of your roommate then I don't think it really matters as much the ultra also has a 108-megapixel camera you're not going to use that every time but it does mean that if you take a photo with lots of detail or a picture that is far away and you crop in you'll retain more of those details than you would on a phone like this. I think those are really marginal use cases there are extras that are nice to have but they don't really impact most of the shots that you're going to take on the phone.
Let's talk about everything that the note 20 and the note 20 ultra have in common because there's quite a lot they are for example the two phones have in common like wireless charging 8k video recording wireless power share waterproofing and all that jazz so here's what's different between the two phones apart from everything that I've already said about the screen and the cameras one of them is the battery.
The regular note 20 is a little bit smaller so is the battery 4 300 milliamp hours rather than the 4500 on the note 20 ultra but guess what it doesn't have that 120 hertz refresh rate sucking down more battery, so you might actually find that battery life is slightly better on this phone but really they're both going to last you all day on a single charge and you'll want to charge it once a day. There is no micro sd card on the regular note 20 but there is one on the ultra however you do have 128 gigabytes of onboard storage. There's also a little bit less ram here 8 gigabytes instead of 12 but that's still pretty good.
Now you know
the basic specs what's different what's the same and we come down to the question which one do you buy regular note 20 or the note 20 ultra and this is
my dilemma because I actually prefer the note 20 ultra. I think that it is a
slightly better phone if you're gonna buy a phone why not buy the most
expensive phone that you can afford. However, I think that it's too expensive at
thirteen hundred dollars and then you've got the regular note 20 here and it
has all of the core specs that really matter it is a good solid phone and I do
recommend it however
I still don't really think it's worth paying a thousand
dollars for that's a sticking point for me I have a hard time recommending that
you pay a thousand dollars for a phone with a plastic backing. I think that is a
premium price and you should have a top-quality product not that the quality
isn't there but design-wise this is definitely the lesser phone but at the same
time I don't think it's necessarily worth 300 extra dollars to buy the note 20
ultra just for the glass backing. The micro-sd card slot that you may or may not
use the faster screen refresh rate that you may or may not notice and even 5x
optical zoom although I absolutely prefer the photos that come out of the note
20 ultra.
Again it is hard to swallow thirteen hundred dollars for the note 20 ultra and did I also mention it is a big heavy pocket buster. I would take it and consequently if you can find a really good deal on the regular note 20 that maybe brings it down say closer to 700 800 and a lot of those deals are going to be constantly around the corner trade-ins buy one get ones all sorts of offers then I would consider that but I would not pay full retail for either of these.
Here is another wrench that I am going to throw in your phone buying plans if you don't think that you're going to use the stylus much anyway and if all you're interested in is those core features on a phone with a nice design that has good solid cameras excellent performance long battery life big screen then I'm gonna actually recommend the Samsung galaxy s20 fe or fan edition that phone has a 6.5-inch screen with 120-hertz refresh rate. If that's something that you're interested in the camera has 3x optical zoom just like the regular note 20 here it also has a 4500 milliamp-hour battery, so you're gonna get long lasting all-day battery life and it retails for 700. The s20 fe is the smartest buy if not the flashiest phone but if you truly have your heart set on one of the note phones either the ultra or the regular my advice to you is pretty simple buy the one that has the best price the day that you're ready to purchase it.
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