Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra review: Expectation - Iron Man, Reality - The Hulk
Come March 6 and plenty gents are scheduled for a gadget enhancement - the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra. Holding the 6.9 inch Hulk in your hand, it’s what you’ve always wanted. Or could it be?
To start with, you’ll probably need hands as large as The Hulk or you may wrap up pushing some wrong buttons.
The 6.9 inch display apart, the S20 Ultra can execute a Hulk leap of 100X zoom with its three rear cameras, which may have a primary, 108-megapixel sensor and a 12-megapixel ultra-wide option that captures a 123-degree field of view. Sounds impressive huh? But here’s where you wished you'd Iron Man instead.
Like the Hulk, the S20 Ultra can leap far but struggles to focus clearly once there and gets quite thick-headed. Anything beyond 10X zoom is blurred. Perhaps, if Samsung’s image processing software were as smart as Iron Man’s Jarvis (ONLY A Rather Very Intelligent System), you could get a good bang for all 6.9 inches as well as your Rs 92,999 bucks.
What you’re essentially shooting with is a 12-megapixel camera using technology that combines 9 pixels into one to provide you with a 108-MP image. Ideally that could mean brighter and sharper pictures, but everything you get are an algorithmically modified softer-edged output.
Besides, those mega pix take up mega space for storage, making the Hulk run out if you’re snapping up one too many shots. Leading 40MP selfie camera would loosen up the space for storage too. Unless you prefer to keep carefully the resolution low enough not to show off every i'm all over this your face.
Where in fact the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra shines is in capturing moving images. The S20 Ultra’s 8K video capture is stunningly clear and the 120 Hz screen ensures fluid motion display. For a Hulk, the S20 Ultra is very stable. Videos shakily shot are smoothened out by the image stabilizer.
But don’t anger the hulk with way too many 8K clips at a chance or it’s going to get too hot to take care of. Beyond one minute of shooting, the Snapdragon 865 processor-enabled phone feels a little warm.
Also, you’ll need an 8K TV to cast the video too, to get the best viewing experience. Even though the phone is 5G enabled, you’ll need to wait for that telecom tech to roll out in India.
So, all the features being equal, such as for example reverse wireless charging, in-display fingerprint sensor and so forth, and the Samsung Galaxy S20 being priced even greater than the game-changing folding display Galaxy Z Flip, you may well be better off with the less macho Samsung Galaxy S20+ or S20.
