A hot new phone released by Samsung, the S 20 ultra.

And the reason I want to talk about it is because I've been using it.

I switched over to this phone.

I was using an iPhone for a while.

I was using a pick sold phone before that.

Well, you know, that's kind of how it goes around here.

That's the job.

You try a lot of different phones.

You figure him out to figure out the things that you like.

You figure out the things that you don't.

So I thought it would be cool at this moment.

Given some initial exposure to this device toe lay it out for you to give you five reasons you might want to get this phone or at least five observations.

Five things I like about this particular device.

They're not exclusive to the ultra.

Some of the factors would also apply to the other devices.

The's s 20 s 20 plus not exactly, but like wheels using s 20 the regular ass 20.

The number one thing that I like about this phone having used it now for I don't know.

Maybe three days is the display.

Now, I don't know if that's surprising to you or not.

You probably imagine that would be the case.

Maybe you thought I was gonna say camera the display, I put it at number one.

Uh, just because of how big it is.

I just I guess I feel like if you were out there is a smartphone buyer in 2020.

You got a budget to support this particular phone and believe, Believe me, it is a budget.

Full disclaimer.

Everything I say you're applies to a very expensive phone, but you already know that since you clicked on it.

If you want the biggest, baddest display, this is probably it in 2020.

At this scale is the biggest display Samsung has put on a device.

And that includes the note Siri's, which typically had the biggest displays.

So he's got a massive display with very little obstruction from any type of cut out.

Of course, we have Thesing Gle from facing cap camera symmetrically in the middle with a small hole punch.

It has ultrahigh brightness.

And believe me, I'm a bit of ah brightness aficionado.

I'm I'm always looking for the brightest screens in daylight.

Outside, I pay attention.

I'm curious.

This one is one of the brightest I've ever used.

You add to that 120 hertz refresh, and I've explained this to you in the past with other high refresh rate devices.

This has a tremendous impact on how snappy the phone feels when you're interacting with it, how fast it feels, and it won't completely show up to on camera.

But once you get this in hand, it's gonna be hard for you to go back to a regular 60 Hertz phone.

And since the last phone I was using before, this one was an iPhone 11 pro Max, which is a 60 Hertz device, the gap the jump was significant.

And it's like men, look what I was missing.

It's not just speed.

It's also sort of a smoothness that comes along with that 1 20 hurts.

Now, keep in mind it doesn't use battery, and there has been one of the criticisms of this particular device.

Even though it has, it's a big footprint, has an enormous battery in it.

At 1 20 hertz, if you're watching a lot of video.

You're moving around a lot of playing games, something like this.

You can dream it.

It is possible, so just keep that in mind.

If you want better battery life, you can talk.

Go back with 1 20 hurts.

But you know me.

It's like Max Brightness 1 20 hurts.

I want to experience the ultra thin ultra format if you care about the display mate stuff.

They took a look at this screen and basically ranked it up at the top here.

So you put together the resolution the size the 1 20 hertz refresh.

Samsung's history and delivery of oh led displays the tiny little hole punch.

You just add it all up the high brightness, and I think you probably have the most compelling display.

If we're strictly talking displays, maybe on any smartphone.

Right now, this all depends on whether whether or not you're in the market for the biggest, baddest display because it is a huge phone, so I could see some people, maybe with a smaller hand or you just don't want to have a beast in your pocket.

You just say to yourself, I can't handle it.

I'm not gonna do it Or maybe you don't have the budget for it.

So I hear you.

When it comes to that as well, Will is one of these people he decided, go for the S 20 Standard edition.

He's been customizing it.

He absolutely loved it.

All right, Number two, this is a weird one.

And it does apply to every single new s 20.

Or will the latest Samsung stuff in general one you.

Why the new one?

You I This is crazy.

I can't imagine myself saying this in fact, because you guys have heard me on here before.

I've been a huge proponent of the stock android experience the pixel android experience the android experience the way that Google intended it.

This is one of those rare circumstances where I feel like Samsung has actually made an improvement.

And that improvement applies specifically to this ultra model because of how big it is.

So Samsung thought a lot about one handed usage.

And as you can see, I can drag from this point in the screen and get my drop down.

If I go up to the settings area here, I can grab from anywhere and bring it down into a more reachable location is in my left hand, so the grip is a bit more abnormal.

But this is especially important on a really big phone that there's thought that went into How are you going to use this thing with one hand?

And are their software improvements we can make that are gonna make your life a bit easier?

Now this same thing follows through the Samsung APS and setting, so the default will be sort of like this.

But what if I have to reach connections in one hand like check it out right now?

I can reach it, but the default would stick it at the top, making it further away from me.

This matters on a device that's this massive.

The whole thing is pretty clean.

There's a dark mode baked in its snappy.

It's not a heavy skin, so it's kind of crazy.

I'm sitting here using one you.

Why, instead, often alternate browser in 2020.

That should go to show you from a guy who's been on the vanilla experience and talking about it for so long.

That's meaningful.

Now, keep in mind that particular point applies to any of the latest Samsung Devices and not just the Ultra model.

It's kind of surprising.

I put it at number two, but I just I don't know.

I feel like it deserves to be talked about.

It's a differentiating factor that Samsung has.

If you were cross shopping this against something that was a non Samsung flagship, that lies all right, The next one, this stood out to me right away.

Considering the last Samsung device that I used would have been back in as 10 days, they got rid of the dedicated Bixby button, which, to me was an annoyance on the previous models.

Now I know eventually you could map these things those buttons to do alternate things.

But I just hated the idea of having this feature, uh, forced upon me when you know I'm a Google assistant guy.

Like to use Google assistant.

Bixby was never a replacement to Google assistant for me, so I didn't want this button reminding me that Samsung was wishing and hoping that I would be using Bixby.

I feel like he's back into chasing his tail now that he's wearing the thing.

So, yeah, I was one of those guys I was trying to disable and remap the Bixby button, and it was okay that it was a decent substitute, but it just felt unnecessary, and it was just hard for me to get out.

Get it out of my psychology that this button represented Bixby exclusively.

And sometimes I will press it accidentally.

And in the initial way that you would disable that you could still launch it by double tapping was just I just wanted to be rid of it.

And they did that on this device, which is it means that Samsung's listening to the customer base, and I think that's always a good thing.

So now, instead, if you head over to the power settings into the side key settings, you can actually do whatever you want, even with the power switch.

So if you still want the Bixby situation, you just do it from the power button.

It can either be a double press or a press and hold if you happen to be a big B user, so that's better.

Implementation gives you more control.

It's within the one you I.

So I just think Samsung.

I think Samsung made the right move there.

This is my fourth and keep in mind, I'm trying to keep it to things that are not obvious.

These five characteristics that I think will make you want to pay attention to this particular device.

Obviously this very powerful.

He has all this ram.

It has the latest chip from Qualcomm.

Of course, it has all those things going for it, but it's trying to keep it Maur into things you might not think about or things that I experienced unnoticed having the device in hand.

So this next one actually has to do, sort of with the display again and the flatness of it.

Samsung has been through a variety of different curvature Sze to the edge of the display dating back to the device that actually had the name edge in it.

That was a very aggressive edge that they had, and they've been playing around, toying around with different versions of it leading up to this one.

I think they have finally nailed the right edge in 2020.

If you could say that now I know other manufacturers are going bananas with waterfalls and so forth, but from a person who's used them all up until this point there hasn't been the perfect implementation.

You would get these unintentional presses on the side.

Sometimes you would lack a place to grip.

They look great.

They look very science fiction with waterfall display.

But from a practicality from a usage perspective, there's still no substitute for a confident grip.

So this particular curvature still diminishes the appearance of a bez A ll.

But it keeps it glad enough that there's no unintentional presses.

And if you pair a case with the device like I have here, it's even less likely that you're gonna touch where you don't want to, because now you have this nice, substantial section that you can grip onto, as you can see right here.

Now, of course, this is a thin case, so it doesn't obstruct the original grip too much.

It's not a massive impact, but it just gives you a little bit Maur toe hold onto and gives you less likelihood of interacting with the edge at all.

I think they have nailed the curvature for now.

All right, now I can't talk about the S 20 ultra without talking about the camera.

It's a very important component here.

It's massive.

It's stand out.

It's the first thing you see with this device.

If I pull this out of my pocket, people gonna talk about this camera, they're gonna know right away.

What this phone is because of the camera at a camera's been a bit controversial.

So it might seem odd to you, I'm saying is one of the top five reasons to consider this phone controversial in the sense that there's been some issues Samsung saying, Oh, there's gonna be some improvements on the camera.

We're gonna have some next software.

There's been some issues with auto focus been some issues with image processing, so these are things you could address with software.

But there's also this argument that you shouldn't have to ask for that.

It should be out the gate, out the box maximum performance.

But Samsung gives you access to a full out pro mode on here, which can eliminate a lot of that post processing.

The reason I put it at Number five is because of camera versatility, which I think is where this particular device shine where, out of the box, Samsung gives you more control over how the camera operates.

Compared to other manufacturers, there's just so much that you can modify within the camera app.

The same thing applies to the video mode, which goes all the way up to eight K.

Plus.

There's still no riel perfect substitute for optical zoom.

It performs better than the other zooms, particularly the digital zoom that the pixel tries to do at least up to around 10 X.

Certainly at eight X, you're gonna get Maur sharpness.

Less software guesswork.

This is an area where the hardware is still outperforming even the best software in the world at trying to figure out what a zoomed image should look like.

The wide angle camera.

I've been using it outdoors.

I've been impressed with it, posted a couple pictures from it.

So the selfie camera is also very good.

So that's why I decided to title it.

Camera versatility.

It's a mixture of the available settings, the various video formats stuff in there that you may never use but that you have access to if you want to dive into it in an ultra model phone.

As far as the auto focus stuff in the image processing stuff, we're gonna have to wait and see how Samsung addresses it.

If upcoming software can improve it, it probably can.

But just keep in mind that it may progress or change over time.

My last one is an honorable mention, and it also applies to all the various Samsung devices.

And if you caught the most recent video, then you're already aware of it and that it's Samsung Dex, which allows you to plug this horsepower into a laptop or desktop style environment with a keyboard in a display.

And I haven't experimented with it before, and it actually turns out to be a totally usable thing.

It's surprisingly powerful and fluid, and I can see a lot of people in the future transitioning to a ah work flow like that.

Other manufacturers haven't progressed in this space very much.

Hallway has their thing.

Then you have Samsung with Dex, and then pretty much no one else is there yet or they're currently working on it.