Review on Samsung Galaxy S20 8/128 GB Smartphone, Dual: nano SIM eSIM, grey by Anastazja Szuba ᠌

Name: Samsung Galaxy S20 8/128 GB Smartphone, Dual: nano SIM eSIM, grey
Item: Samsung Galaxy S20 8/128 GB Smartphone, Dual: nano SIM eSIM, grey
Rating: 4

July 04, 2023

Not a bad buy, well worth the money.

A flagship device with near maximum performance at an affordable price. Is there room to grow? - Yes. Is it possible to buy something better, cheaper and more compact? - No. Incredible breakthrough? - No. A slightly improved S10? - Yes. Let's see what will happen in the next iPhone, this samsung is too boring, there is no breakthrough, as if there is no sense of progress in this phone.

Am I satisfied with the S20? In general, yes, I want to look at the screen, take pictures, talk, hold in my hands, the low price warms. It seems like there are no competitors, so what do you want then? .

Pros

1. Screen 120Hz. Really very smooth. 2. Super juicy amoled screen, maximum color saturation, and I don’t see acidity, I see a bright juicy screen, better than in Samsung s10. 3. Compact, this is the narrowest smartphone of all flagships. This is very important to me, S10 was wider. The P40 is wider, the screen is smaller, the 11 is wider, the 11 pro is wider and the screen is much smaller. In fact, S20 is the maximum screen inscribed in the case. It is also relatively light compared to all competitors. 3. IP68. 1.5 meters up to 30 minutes 4. eSIM, it is very convenient when traveling, you can buy a SIM card from another country in advance and use the Internet / calls at an affordable price, without going to salons, etc. 5. I think the fingerprint sensor works adequately and quickly. I don't see a problem. But four fingers, of course, is not enough. 6. I do not agree that the speakers in the S20 have become worse than in the S10. Bass is better, volume is better or the same. 7. Very loud conversational speaker, just a grandmother's phone. I like it very much, you can hear it even in the noisiest conditions. 8. The battery seems a little better than in the S10, lasts all day, 4.5-5.5 hours of screen with auto brightness. Fine. 9. Samsung Pay, convenient, preserved MST. 10. 1.5 year warranty for official devices. 11. Wi-Fi began to catch much better, now in the farthest room from the router it catches stably and does not lose connection. I have no problems with communication, bluetooth or something else, everything works stably and well 12. Cameras. And here is the question. The front one has definitely become better, but all the rest are in question. It seems better, but there is no breakthrough, the photos are somehow oversaturated, in general, ok. 13. Price. Samsung offered to upgrade, roundly it turned out a little more than 40 14. Samsung chips, always on display, DeX, Samsung Pay, etc. 15. Charging 25W, included. An hour and a half is fully charged, and the laptop is charged from it in 4 hours. Very convenient.

Cons

0. Ergonomics. Why have the buttons moved? What does not suit the standard: the power button on the right is slightly higher than the middle, the volume on the left is even slightly higher. I still keep pressing the wrong buttons. Taking a screenshot is also not convenient. I just don't understand why. 1. No 3.5. 2. Design. Just none. There is no black. There are no differences between series. S10 favorably differed. 3. Tired eyes from the screen. I found three possible reasons: the resolution at 120 hertz is not 3200 * 1440, they themselves are 120 hertz, shim. 4. There is no way to turn on, for example, the 3200 * 1440 mode at 90 hertz. I don’t have enough FHD + resolution, I have good eyesight, and in texts I can easily see the difference, I don’t care about battery consumption. 5. The weight distribution could be better, yes, the back of the smartphone is heavier, but it could be even heavier. Because of this, smart sometimes tries to slip out. 6. Stupid marketing: - Hybrid 3x optical zoom is a hoax, there is no optical zoom here, this is a picture cut from 64 megapixels. - Shameful commercials from bloggers on youtube, custom articles and reviews. A shame. - Incredible and incredibly useless 8K - 100X/30X 7. Still, android and applications are not quite optimized for 120 hertz, either for exinos, or something else, there are microlags and brakes, after the presentation of iOS 14, android looks outdated. 8. Android. Not all data is transferred normally, passwords are forgotten, Samsung with its Smart Switch tries to make life easier, but no, there are no ring tones, no alarms, no additional folders 9. I didn’t like the new vibration, I even had to compare it with the test one in the store, it turned out to be even worse there. Very weak 10. Autofocus, I don’t understand how on the latest firmware I still can’t take a picture of a flower or when the picture on the screen is normal and the photo is blurry, I photograph a lot of documents, for some reason the text is blurry at the edges. There are no such problems on the S10. If the camera even began to wipe, it does not help. 11. There is heating. I don't play games at all. Sometimes it just happens. 12. Where is 5G? Why not put 256 GB of memory? For yours then 8K?