which you already know from the title,
I mean it's not really much of a surprise.
We've got inside here the
Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra.
But in addition to that,
we also have the Samsung Galaxy buds live.
Nice packaging with
the whole bronze theme.
I like it, I like it.
And here we are.
So we'll unbox the Note
20 Ultra first of course
and then we'll have a look
at the Galaxy buds live
which I'm also very interested in.
Now the Note 20 Ultra does have
the classic notes packaging.
We've got the S Pen here in the middle.
I quite like the design of this box.
We also have Note 20 Ultra
5G and that is because
the Note 20 Ultra is only
available in a 5G variant.
All right let's open this up.
So excited.
Presented with the device first of course
and it is in the mystic bronze
color, which looks so good.
I'm going to leave that to
the side for just a second.
Let's see what else we get inside the box.
Now we've got the usual
bits inside the box,
we've got a quick start guide,
there's a SIM card tool,
a USB type C to USB type C cable,
some AKG USB type C earphones
which do have a braided cable
as well as a 25 watt fast charger.
Now normally you do get
some nibs for the S Pen
as well as a removal tool.
This is not here on my review unit
because this is an early sample.
So your retail unit will
most likely have that
but as well as some other bits potentially
that will vary depending on your region.
Now let's get to what you
guys are all here to see
and that is the removal of
the plastic from the back.
Get ready.
Landed back on the table
fell, but so, so satisfying.
And here it is.
I absolutely love this
mystic bronze color.
This is also available in
a black as well as a white,
those have a glossy back.
But I absolutely love this matte finish,
which doesn't attract
as many fingerprints.
And I love the way it looks
when the light hits this.
It's got this really elegant look.
Yeah, I think that's
the right word, elegant.
Now, this is also the first
smartphone in the world
that has Gorilla Glass
7, which is more durable.
And it's also more scratch resistant
compared to Gorilla Glass 6.
So let me just go out and
bring my tools, no I'm joking.
I'm not really going to do
that, this is my device.
I'll leave that for Zach to
test out how durable this is.
We've got an aluminum frame,
which is also in this bronze
color, looks really slick.
And then there's this camera module
which does protrude quite a bit.
It is quite a big camera bump.
Now one thing that a lot
of you guys want to see is
how this compares to say the
Samsung Galaxy S 20 Ultra,
which also has quite a large camera bump.
And now looking at these side by side,
the Note 20 Ultra, the
camera bump isn't as wide
but it is slightly
taller and it is thicker.
However the device is thinner.
So overall, I'd say that the Note 20 Ultra
does feel a bit more comfortable for me.
If you want to see a detailed
comparison between these two,
I've already done a video,
you're in luck, I'll
link that in the chords,
and you can watch that after this video.
Now we've still got IP68
water and dust resistance,
which is great.
And the Notes has the squared off edges,
which we've seen from
the Note series before,
makes it really stand out
and look unique amongst
everything else out there.
And let's turn this round and
have a look at the display.
And here it is guys,
this looks so, so good.
It's a 6.9-inch Dynamic AMOLED 2X display,
that's what Samsung call it.
And this has a peak
brightness of 1500 nits
which makes it one of the brightest,
if not, the brightest
smartphone displays out there.
And we do have a quad-HD+ resolution,
so it's a very high pixel density.
But I think more importantly,
we do have a 120 hertz refresh rate.
Now this is only going to work at full HD.
So you can't have Quad
HD as well as 120 hertz
on at the same time.
Similar to what we had on the S20 Ultra.
This is to preserve battery life.
But what you do have
is an adaptive display.
And this will adjust the refresh rate
depending on what you're
viewing on screen.
So if you're viewing something static,
there's really no need for 120 hertz.
And that should give
you better battery life.
Now within this display,
there is the ultrasonic in
display fingerprint scanner,
which is the same as what we've seen
on previous Samsung devices
over the past couple of years.
I mean, it works really well, it's fast.
I generally don't have many
problems with the ultrasonic
in display fingerprint scanner.
Although I was hoping
for the 3D Sonic Max.
Maybe we'll see that
for the next generation.
Also within this display
is the front facing camera.
Now this is a punch out.
I really don't mind the punch out
because the bezels are very, very small
and it is smaller compared
to the Note 10 plus
that we had last year.
It is a 10 megapixel front facing camera
with an F2.2 aperture,
can film at up to 4K 60 frames per second.
But what we're most interested in is
the cameras on the back.
That's all new on a Samsung
device not having fingerprints
when you turn it around.
I love this color.
anyway so on the rear facing camera
is where we've really had some changes.
The camera module, I
do like the look of it,
it looks much better in my opinion
to what we had on the S20 Ultra
and we've got three different lenses.
The primary camera is the 108
megapixel sensor from Samsung.
It has been refined from
what we had on the S20 Ultra
And this time we also have
a dedicated laser auto focus sensor,
and that's going to help with auto focus.
The S20 Ultra did have some
issues with auto focus,
which a lot of experience
and although some of these
were improved with software.
Having the laser auto
focus hardware on here
should make things much better.
We have a 12 megapixel ultra wide camera.
As far as I can see, it's
very similar to what we had
on the S20 Ultra.
I hope there have been
some improvements on here
because I did prefer the
Note 10+ ultra wide camera
to the S20 Ultra this year.
And finally we have a telephoto
periscope zoom camera.
This is again at 12 megapixels,
and it can give you up to
five times optical zoom,
and up to 50 times spacesuit,
that's what Samsung call it.
It's essentially digital zoom.
Now that's improved on the
four times optical zoom
that we had on a the S20 Ultra.
I'm glad Samsung have gone
away from the 100X zoom,
which was cool but it really
didn't work that well.
So I of course cannot wait
to test out these cameras
and put them against something else.
SuperSaf style, definitely let
me know in the comments below
which device you'd like me
to put this up against first.
Now disclaimer, I am going to have to wait
till a another software
update on some embargoes
before I can publish
the camera comparison.
So do bear with me, but I do promise
that I will get onto
one as soon as possible.
For video, we do have 8K once again
adds up to 24 frames a second.
And we do have some
improvements for the software.
So we've got to the pro video app,
which is going to allow you
to do a few different things.
You're going to be able to
get a much smoother zoom
rather than just having to snap.
So if you are filming and you want to get
more of a cinematic zoom,
you're going to be able to do that.
And we've also got some improved
audio recording options.
So you can select omni mic front rear,
you can also plug in
an external USB C mic,
and there's also Bluetooth.
So with the Galaxy buds live,
if you've got those plugged in,
it can actually pick up
the audio from there.
So if you are in a noisy environment,
then that should help kind of clear out
a lot of that background noise.
Moving on, let's take a
look around the device.
So on the right hand side
we have the power button
as well as the volume buttons.
These have moved from the left hand side
that we had on the Note 10+
and now on the right hand side.
There's actually nothing
on the left hand side.
At the bottom, there
is a USB type C ports.
There's a speaker, which is one of two,
we've got another one in the earpiece.
So we do have stereo
speakers tuned by AKG,
which sound really good.
And then we have the S Pen.
Now, this is on the left hand
side, not the right hand side.
But it's really what makes
the Note series unique.
Now you can see that as
soon as I've taken it out,
we do get the air actions screen
and it lets you try this out.
Air actions lets you do certain things
with the S Pen remotely so you
can kind be far away from it
and you still going to be able
to do a few things like move up,
do a kind of left arrow,
we've got a shake action,
and we've got a clockwise circle action.
Okay, exit tutorial now.
Honestly speaking,
I'm not somebody who
personally uses air actions,
the only thing I really use it for is
as an remote trigger for the camera,
which I find very, very useful.
If you want to take a group shot
and you don't really
want to be using a timer
and quickly running across,
just having that S Pen is so useful.
And this S Pen has been improved,
we've got latency down
to nine milliseconds,
which is, I believe the
smoothest writing experience
that you're going to get on smartphone.
It's at the same level
as the Apple Pencil.
And there's also some new features such as
improved handwriting recognition,
as well as the ability to
import and annotate PDFs.
On the top, we've got the SIM card tray,
which does have space for a micro SD card,
so you can expand the storage
on the Note 20 Ultra which is great.
And that is on top of the base storage,
which is a little bit confusing
128 gigabytes in the US,
256 gigabytes in the UK,
Europe and other regions.
And you can also get a
version with 512 gigabytes.
Now why is there this
difference between the storage
in the UK and the US.
Well in The UK and Europe
etc, you will be getting
the Exynos 990 series chipset,
that's what's going to be
powering the Note 20 Ultra.
That is the same chipset
that we had on the S20 Ultra.
But in the US, you will be getting,
the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 plus chipset.
Now this is something that
I've endlessly ranted about.
We already had a gap in
performance between the Exynos
and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865
on the S20 Ultra, I
covered that in detail.
Now we've got even more of a gap
because the 865 Plus is
a more superior chipset.
Now how is this going to
affect your day to day
and how is it going to
affect the battery life?
Well, this is something that
we're going to have to wait
and see.
I'm going to try to get the
Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 plus
variant over as soon as I can,
and I will try to do a long term review
and really let what
the performance is like
and what the battery life is like.
We do have 12 gigabytes
of RAM and the battery
is 4500mAh.
Now I would expect good
battery life on here
because of the adaptive refresh rate.
But obviously this is something
that I will feed back on.
We do have support for 25 watts charging
which I mentioned earlier.
There is no 45 watt charging supports
like we had on the S20 Ultra,
15 watts wireless charging
as well as reverse
wireless charging support.
So you can charge things like your buds
on the back of the Notes 20 Ultra.
For software Of course, we
have Android 10 with one UI.
And the note 20 Ultra does come with
an ultra wideband chip in built.
This should allow faster
transfer between other devices
that also have an ultra wideband chip.
And going forward,
it should help with things
like unlocking your car.
I'm not too sure what the
benefits will be long term.
So we'll take a look at that.
And we also have support
for wireless decks.
So you'll be able to
connect the Note 20 Ultra
to to an external display
as long as it supports
Miracast technology,
and you'll be able to have somewhat
of a desktop experience
on that external display.
Previously, you had to
use a cable of some sort
to have this connected and
having that completely wireless
is obviously a big, big advantage.
Now let's talk about the price.
So the S20 Ultra in the UK is
going to be starting at £1180,
that is for a 256 gigabyte option.
And in the US, it's going
to be starting at $1300
for the 128 gigabyte variant.
Now this is more compared
to what the Note 10+
came in at last year,
but it is cheaper compared
to what the S20 Ultra
came in at this year.
Are you going to be picking this up
and what additional coverage
would you like me to do
with the Note 20 Ultra.
Do drop me a comment
below and let me know.
Let's now move on to the Galaxy buds live.
Now one thing to mention
straight away is that
if you do preorder the Note 20 Ultra,
I believe in certain regions,
you can get the galaxy buds live included.
So do go ahead and check up on that.
The release date is the 21st of August.
Let's check these out.
So inside the box, we've
got the usual stuff.
There's a quick start guide,
there's a USB Type A to USB type C cable,
we've got some ear tips.
And then we've got the Galaxy buds live.
These are in this mystic bronze color,
which looks really really nice.
They are also available
in a white and a black.
Let's go ahead and open these up and see
how quick the connection is.
All right, so I'm going to open them here.
Shiny and took a few seconds,
but we now have the
Galaxy buds live pop up.
The device has been connected,
connect, allow ,allow.
We get an indication of how
much battery life we've got
on the earbuds
as well as the case.
And it immediately brings up the app
with all of the instructions
and how to wear these.
So let's go ahead and try
them out you're all set.
Okay, that was that was
pretty easy, I like the setup.
It was very straightforward as it was
with the Samsung Galaxy buds plus,
which are currently my go twos.
And in terms of the fit,
I have to say it does.
My first impression is
obviously I'm sat down here,
I'm not going to go for a run right now.
But they do seem to be quite comfortable.
And I have the weirdest
shape is in the world,
because most earbuds
just don't fit my ears.
But these seem to be sitting in very well.
And they also look quite different
to the traditional earbuds
that we've been seeing for
the past many, many years.
So props to Samsung for
coming up with a design
that is very unique, although
these do look like beans.
Yeah, I'm sure there's been
lots of beans jokes already.
Okay, they sound pretty good to me.
I of course, can't test out
the active noise cancellation.
My good friend Ede, from bought out wack
has actually done a review of
these and he's an audiophile.
So, I will link to his video in the cards
so you can go ahead and check that out.
I'm definitely not an
earphone expert shall we say,
for battery life we do have
eight hours of listening
on the buds themselves.
But with the case you
can get up to 29 hours
on a full charge which is very impressive.
A five minute charging here
is going to give you about
an hour of listening and
there is wireless charging
supported so you can drop
this on a wireless charger .
And for pricing, these do
starts at £180 in the UK
or around $170 in the US.
And guys, that's the Samsung
Galaxy notes 20 Ultra as well
as the Samsung Galaxy buds live.
Hope you guys enjoyed this
unboxing, if you did then do hit
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