My First Impressions of the Samsung Note 20 Ultra

The Samsung Note 20 Ultra has curved edges, similar to some of Samsung's premium flagships. While I personally don't love this design feature, fans of curved screens will likely appreciate it. In contrast, the non-ultra version of the regular Note 20 has a flat glass display.

In terms of performance, the phone feels very fast and games run nicely on it. As expected, the performance is excellent, which is in line with what you'd anticipate from a high-end device like this one. The launch event for the Note 20 also showcased the upcoming Xbox Cloud Gaming service, which I'm excited about. However, the Note 20 doesn't get first dibs on that platform; it's just a launch partner.

The S Pen has been upgraded this year to have a more responsive interface, with nine milliseconds of latency. While latency is important for creative work like drawing on tablets, I don't feel like it's a huge deal for general use cases like jotting down notes on the phone. A lower latency time would be beneficial, but nine milliseconds is still better than 26 milliseconds, which is found in the regular Note 20.

One of the main conversation points surrounding the Note 20 series is pricing. The phone is priced at $1,300, which makes it one of Samsung's most expensive devices. This price point is often discussed among potential buyers, who wonder if it's worth paying such a premium for a device with so many features. I think that the price is fairly reasonable, considering the overall market and how Samsung usually prices its products.

However, there is another version of the Note 20 series, the regular Note 20, which costs $1,000. While this may seem like a more affordable option, I think it's overpriced due to the plastic back and stripped features compared to the Ultra model. My take on this is that Samsung usually sells its devices aggressively during holiday sales and other events, so the initial price might not be as high as it seems.

Overall, my first impressions of the Samsung Note 20 Ultra are very positive. The device looks stunning, with a design that's both sleek and premium. I'm excited to dive deeper into the phone's features and performance in an upcoming review.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enall right let's talk about the samsung note 20 ultra this is their premium flagship super phone right now it's packed to the gills with features it's got that 120 hertz screen that new upgraded s pen and it's got this 50x zoom now the image quality isn't fantastic right but this is the kind of stuff you need to do when you want to get this far away and this wide from your smartphone it's pretty nuts i gotta get out of the sun because it is so hot oh my god so what so i've been using the note 20 ultra for about five days now and there's some kind of early thoughts i have about this phone i want to share with you guys this is the nicest looking phone that samsung has made in my opinion there's something about the finish on this thing so normally samsung does like the super glossy finish they have this really nice matte texture that i think is better than anyone else's matte texture this is a really nice look and there's also it's such a simple design element but this simple ring around each lens makes such a big difference in how it looks like this is a very similar shape and size of camera hump to the s20 ultra let's say but this looks so much better in my opinion those rings are on point now here's the here's the downside to this phone it is a huge camera hump you got case this phone like the bump is what feels like three and a half maybe four millimeters it is a big bump and if you don't case it i feel like this hump is gonna catch on a lot of things like when i put this thing in and out of my pocket i can notice that hump like it's just that pronounced which is a shame right because the moment you case this thing it masks the like it masks this this is the thing that makes it look so good the back glass of it but that's the nature of a beautiful phone with a massive camera hump now the camera itself my initial impressions of this thing is that it's a really solid camera this year it's got that 50x zoom i don't think that most people are gonna be using this thing on a regular basis like that kind of zoom is tough to actually make proper use of but it's got that capability if you need it it's also interesting that they got rid of the 100x zoom like the one from the s20 ultra i would have thought they would have carried that tech over to this thing but 50x is already really good and i think the image quality on this is what they're focusing on this time around now the screen this is a display that is it's the best in class right this you know 120 hertz 1440p this is the screen of dreams it's very fast it's fluid it's super bright great colors this is a flagship screen it does however still have curved edges i mean samsung likes to do that on their premium flagships they curve the edges of the glass which i personally don't love the regular note 20 like the non-ultra version has a flat glass but that's a whole other conversation uh but yeah if you're into curved screens you're gonna like this one the performance on the phone is excellent like you'd imagine right it feels very fast and games run nicely on it the note 20 launch event also showcased the upcoming xbox cloud gaming service i'm very excited for that thing but the note doesn't get first dibs on that platform or anything they're just a launch partner all right the pen has also been upgraded this year to have a more responsive interface so it's now running with nine milliseconds of latency it's a very responsive screen and pen interface but here's the thing when it comes to pens and phones i don't feel like liency is a huge deal like when it comes to creative work like tablets and people are drawing on that stuff absolutely the lower the latency the better i want one millisecond i want zero milliseconds but when it comes to this stuff people are just using the pen on their phones for jotting down notes and i i don't feel like it's a big deal i'm not saying that it's not good that they put it in but if you're interested in the note 20 like the cheaper version of this note 20 series like the regular note 20 not the ultra that has a latency time of 26 milliseconds which is a lot slower than the nine on the note 20 ultra but i don't think that should be like the main reason why you should purchase one or the other because it is just for note-taking for most people just keep that in mind uh so i want to talk about pricing and i feel like the conversation around the note 20s at like both the ultra and the regular one revolve strongly around the pricing and here's the thing if this thing was a 500 phone so many people would buy this phone right because it's just packed with so much good stuff but because it's not it's a 1300 phone we have to have the conversation of price now this is a phone that has always been one of samsung's most expensive phones and they usually get a pass into charging whatever they want to charge because there's not many other companies that make something quite like this if you want like a high quality big phone with a pen that slots right inside it usually people go for the note now this year at 1300 i feel like it's an appropriately priced product like it's not crazily overpriced right considering the pricing of the entire smartphone market but there is a brother to this like the 1 000 regular note 20 that's been somewhat controversial because it's so feature stripped and it has a plastic back and it still costs a thousand dollars but here's my take on it to me that phone feels it feels overpriced but here's the thing when it comes to samsung's phones they price their stuff a little bit differently right their stuff goes on sale so often and so aggressively and i feel like they bake that kind of sale pricing into their retail pricing on these phones like these phones come out at these very high prices like thirteen hundred dollars a thousand dollars they're expensive but samsung stuff it just goes on sale and if you don't have these high msrps right at the beginning you don't have that wiggle room down the line right when it comes to like holiday sales and whatever carrier sales that companies do i feel like samsung bakes that into their phone so if you really want the stuff early on and you want to get like you know you want to be an early adopter to this tech you got to pay up right but i think for most people if you let this stuff wait let it simmer for a month or two it comes down in price pretty quickly so yes that thousand dollar samsung note 20 is weirdly overpriced but i think it'll come down quite quickly and i think that product particularly the note 20 not so much the ultra but that note 20 i think is going to come down a lot over the course of this year but yeah my early impressions of this phone are really good i think that this is the nicest looking phone that samsung has put out to date like look at this thing it doesn't even look like a real phone it looks like a render floating around my hand it's so nice but that wraps up my first impressions of this thing i'll be doing a more extensive review in the near future so you have any particular questions just ask them below and i'll do my best to get to them okay hope you guys enjoyed this one thumbs if you liked it subs if you loved it i'll see you guys next timeall right let's talk about the samsung note 20 ultra this is their premium flagship super phone right now it's packed to the gills with features it's got that 120 hertz screen that new upgraded s pen and it's got this 50x zoom now the image quality isn't fantastic right but this is the kind of stuff you need to do when you want to get this far away and this wide from your smartphone it's pretty nuts i gotta get out of the sun because it is so hot oh my god so what so i've been using the note 20 ultra for about five days now and there's some kind of early thoughts i have about this phone i want to share with you guys this is the nicest looking phone that samsung has made in my opinion there's something about the finish on this thing so normally samsung does like the super glossy finish they have this really nice matte texture that i think is better than anyone else's matte texture this is a really nice look and there's also it's such a simple design element but this simple ring around each lens makes such a big difference in how it looks like this is a very similar shape and size of camera hump to the s20 ultra let's say but this looks so much better in my opinion those rings are on point now here's the here's the downside to this phone it is a huge camera hump you got case this phone like the bump is what feels like three and a half maybe four millimeters it is a big bump and if you don't case it i feel like this hump is gonna catch on a lot of things like when i put this thing in and out of my pocket i can notice that hump like it's just that pronounced which is a shame right because the moment you case this thing it masks the like it masks this this is the thing that makes it look so good the back glass of it but that's the nature of a beautiful phone with a massive camera hump now the camera itself my initial impressions of this thing is that it's a really solid camera this year it's got that 50x zoom i don't think that most people are gonna be using this thing on a regular basis like that kind of zoom is tough to actually make proper use of but it's got that capability if you need it it's also interesting that they got rid of the 100x zoom like the one from the s20 ultra i would have thought they would have carried that tech over to this thing but 50x is already really good and i think the image quality on this is what they're focusing on this time around now the screen this is a display that is it's the best in class right this you know 120 hertz 1440p this is the screen of dreams it's very fast it's fluid it's super bright great colors this is a flagship screen it does however still have curved edges i mean samsung likes to do that on their premium flagships they curve the edges of the glass which i personally don't love the regular note 20 like the non-ultra version has a flat glass but that's a whole other conversation uh but yeah if you're into curved screens you're gonna like this one the performance on the phone is excellent like you'd imagine right it feels very fast and games run nicely on it the note 20 launch event also showcased the upcoming xbox cloud gaming service i'm very excited for that thing but the note doesn't get first dibs on that platform or anything they're just a launch partner all right the pen has also been upgraded this year to have a more responsive interface so it's now running with nine milliseconds of latency it's a very responsive screen and pen interface but here's the thing when it comes to pens and phones i don't feel like liency is a huge deal like when it comes to creative work like tablets and people are drawing on that stuff absolutely the lower the latency the better i want one millisecond i want zero milliseconds but when it comes to this stuff people are just using the pen on their phones for jotting down notes and i i don't feel like it's a big deal i'm not saying that it's not good that they put it in but if you're interested in the note 20 like the cheaper version of this note 20 series like the regular note 20 not the ultra that has a latency time of 26 milliseconds which is a lot slower than the nine on the note 20 ultra but i don't think that should be like the main reason why you should purchase one or the other because it is just for note-taking for most people just keep that in mind uh so i want to talk about pricing and i feel like the conversation around the note 20s at like both the ultra and the regular one revolve strongly around the pricing and here's the thing if this thing was a 500 phone so many people would buy this phone right because it's just packed with so much good stuff but because it's not it's a 1300 phone we have to have the conversation of price now this is a phone that has always been one of samsung's most expensive phones and they usually get a pass into charging whatever they want to charge because there's not many other companies that make something quite like this if you want like a high quality big phone with a pen that slots right inside it usually people go for the note now this year at 1300 i feel like it's an appropriately priced product like it's not crazily overpriced right considering the pricing of the entire smartphone market but there is a brother to this like the 1 000 regular note 20 that's been somewhat controversial because it's so feature stripped and it has a plastic back and it still costs a thousand dollars but here's my take on it to me that phone feels it feels overpriced but here's the thing when it comes to samsung's phones they price their stuff a little bit differently right their stuff goes on sale so often and so aggressively and i feel like they bake that kind of sale pricing into their retail pricing on these phones like these phones come out at these very high prices like thirteen hundred dollars a thousand dollars they're expensive but samsung stuff it just goes on sale and if you don't have these high msrps right at the beginning you don't have that wiggle room down the line right when it comes to like holiday sales and whatever carrier sales that companies do i feel like samsung bakes that into their phone so if you really want the stuff early on and you want to get like you know you want to be an early adopter to this tech you got to pay up right but i think for most people if you let this stuff wait let it simmer for a month or two it comes down in price pretty quickly so yes that thousand dollar samsung note 20 is weirdly overpriced but i think it'll come down quite quickly and i think that product particularly the note 20 not so much the ultra but that note 20 i think is going to come down a lot over the course of this year but yeah my early impressions of this phone are really good i think that this is the nicest looking phone that samsung has put out to date like look at this thing it doesn't even look like a real phone it looks like a render floating around my hand it's so nice but that wraps up my first impressions of this thing i'll be doing a more extensive review in the near future so you have any particular questions just ask them below and i'll do my best to get to them okay hope you guys enjoyed this one thumbs if you liked it subs if you loved it i'll see you guys next time\n"