Review on Renewed Samsung Galaxy S20 5G 128GB - Cloud Blue for GSM Carriers by Xavier Xavier ᠌

Name: Renewed Samsung Galaxy S20 5G 128GB - Cloud Blue for GSM Carriers
Item: Renewed Samsung Galaxy S20 5G 128GB - Cloud Blue for GSM Carriers
Rating: 4

November 28, 2022

The product is of good quality, there is only one minor defect.

Before that, I had a Redmi 5 Plus and for me the difference in phones is palpable. Yes, there was no expensive equipment before, but, surprisingly, I didn’t have any WOW effect from the phone.
Yes, in many ways it is cooler and it is felt, but for 70k, for which it is offered too many jambs. For 40k a normal phone, you can forgive the shortcomings. Since I am a photographer, I wanted a good camera phone, but I didn’t want to sacrifice comfort for the sake of the camera when buying an apple, since for me there are much more disadvantages when comparing, but still.
In general, I would most likely not recommend this phone without discounts, because for that price you can find something more adequate. But I don’t have the right to scold the phone either, since I haven’t fully “felt” it yet. It is difficult to draw any unambiguous conclusions in a short time and I don’t think that others will have the same opinion as I do, since everyone takes a phone for their own tasks.

For me, all the fears that were read on the forums and reviews for the most part were not confirmed, which made me very happy. There was a feeling before buying that I was making a huge mistake and buying a mini stove, which, moreover, could not remove anything normally, but after a week of use, all fears disappeared.

Unfortunately, at this stage of use, I can’t speak more vividly about the phone in order to dissuade someone or, conversely, motivate them to buy it, but I can say for sure that if you are a person who loves things not only for iron, but also for convenience , beauty and attention to detail and you are not embarrassed by android, then feel free to take it (with discounts) and use it for your pleasure. BUT! If you are a person who measures phones with parrots, sit and compare every little thing between 1000 phones, looking for the perfect one for a minimum of money, then you should not buy it, most likely it will disappoint you and you will see only negative in it.

Pros

1. Screen. Quality and calibration - top. Mode with saturated colors - for egoists, tk. everything becomes brighter, more colorful and more pleasant until you open the photos on your monitor. Great 120Hz. Many wrote in reviews and on the forum that they were eating a battery - they didn’t notice much, and it’s not critical either. The lack of borders is also a plus. This phone is often compared to the iphone 11, but when I held them side by side in my hands, the apple seemed like a relic of the past, sloppy, with large frames and a massive heavy body. 2. Ergonomics. The phone is compact, narrow, pleasantly lies in the hand. The first time you take the phone in your hand, you doubt that it has a filling inside at all. Apparently, he got used to heavy phones and this one immediately caused a contrast in size and weight. 3. I read that the phone has water protection. Naturally, I will not check this, but let it be a plus. 4. The speed of the phone. I have an Exynos phone and before buying I was very stopped by the fact that this chip is here. On the Internet, they write a lot about him and mostly bad, especially about overheating and brakes. Perhaps in the future I will supplement the review, but now the phone works as smoothly as possible, smartly and does not heat up. By "not heated" I mean the operation of the device as a whole. I won’t lie that when shooting 4k with stabilization in the area of \u200b\u200bthe cameras, heating occurs, in the heat it even burns your finger a little if it is nearby, but I think that this is due to the size of the phone for the most part, although I could be wrong. 5. Cameras. Again, what do you compare it to? If you take the same iphone, then maybe it will be better in some ways, but for the most part algorithms with software decide. The quality of the photos is more than satisfactory for me, the video too, although I would say that there are some problems with the bitrate and in places small details fall apart. I hope that in the future they will correct somehow, albeit not critically. 6. I took a phone a little more expensive than 40k with the Traid-in promotion. For the money I have never regretted that I took it. Over 70k is already a dubious device, though. 7. Fast charging

Cons

1. The front camera seemed rather weak for a phone of this level. 2. Marketing. Why 8k if they are not working? Instead, you can come up with something better for shooting. Why is electronic stabilization only in FHD? 30x zoom prank. I took it off a couple of times and forgot that there is such a mode on the phone, since I would not say that it is working. Disappointed custom videos on YouTube, where everyone licks the phone for as much as he was paid. Well, I would like better stabilization in the video. Well, in general, the camera application is somehow too tricky. In some mode there is a width, in some it is not, somewhere one nuance, somewhere else. It does not feel like a full-fledged camera phone. 3. Algorithms in the photo. Yes, the quality of the photos is good, but until you start to notice some little things, which then add up to a lump. For example, when shooting at 64mp and zooming in, the picture after the picture is processed for some time, and then becomes decrepit in some places. It creates a feeling of fig gluing photos by algorithms. HDR also does not always work correctly, not to mention the night mode. 4. NFC. No matter how hard I tried to understand it, it never worked out. What is Google Pay, what is Samsung Pay - one field berry. Sometimes the phone at the terminal will give out 6 red icons with an exclamation point in a couple of seconds that it was not possible to pay contactlessly, but it happens instantly, but it’s still less common. Why this is happening I have not figured out. 5. As I wrote, there is heating. I will write it down as a minus, since there is a feeling that in the future this may lead to brakes on the phone.