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

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: 2

November 28, 2022

The product disappointed, does not meet the promises.

Little internal memory available to the user. Approximately 100 gigabytes. The Chinese flagships have two or even four times more.

Gets hot when doing light tasks. Even without a cover. We are talking, for example, about video shooting in 1080p. I am to blame here, or rather, my stinginess, because Samsung has a variant of the S20 without this problem (model G9810). But with a trade-in, it would cost almost twice as much (at prices on August 10, 2022). But, in general, heating is not a critical drawback for me. And in severe winters, it can turn into dignity.

Battery life is an hour better than the S9 in the same scenarios and at the same screen refresh rate. Why is it at a disadvantage? Because the S9 battery had three years of continuous charging and discharging.

The volume and power keys have become louder. With some rattling sound. I flip through the pages with the volume keys while reading, and in complete silence it interferes with others. Responsiveness, tactile pleasantness of pressing also ceased to be flagship. But this is already nit-picking.

Conclusion: while there is no competition in the field of compact flagships, we eat what they give. I do not recommend switching from S9.

Pros

This is not really a review, but a comparison with my previous device - Galaxy S9. Before the S20, I managed to try the P40 Pro and the Galaxy S20+ for a month. I use my phone for calls, reading, browsing, if necessary I edit sites on WordPress, I take a lot of pictures, I watch YouTube. I don't play resource intensive games.

Cons

The length of the device has increased compared to S9 and s10. Buyers appreciated the S-series just because of the small, convenient dimensions. To whom the dimensions were not important, they bought the "plus" version. Samsung, please practice pulling screens on other models. The fingerprint scanner has been removed from the back. On the S9, it worked so well and the finger lay on it so naturally that there was no process of unlocking the device. The S20 sub-screen scanner works every other time. To make it work the first time, you need a whole ritual - aim, calculate the pressing force and the correct angle of application of the finger. Rave! And this despite the fact that there is no protective film on the screen. Here, I'm sure, Samsung simply decided to save money, because the under-screen scanner works fine on the P40 (but it's still far from the S9 scanner). To Samsung's credit, after one of the ates, the scanner's work improved a bit - it was ugly, but it became bad. Removed retinal unlock. It allowed you to unlock the device with a mask on your face without touching the screen. A mega-useful function has become a victim of an overgrown, not in the right place, screen. The camera block began to bulge out of the device. And this is not a price to pay for a significant improvement in photo quality, like the Nokia 808 and other phones with a large camera matrix and / or flash. Photos are only slightly better than the S9. And for a number of parameters, for example, focusing at close range, the camera (cameras) work worse. Under pressure from Bixby haters, the extra button was removed from the side of the phone. Of the flagships, only Sony has an additional side button (for taking photos), but, in my opinion, it cannot be remapped without root. Here S8, S9, S10 were unique. On my S9, the button was responsible for "home" and "back". Imagine that you have lost your usual way of managing basic commands. I get used to it with difficulty. There are no complaints about Samsung here - it is unlikely that many people have used this key. But this is my review, I write that affected me personally.