**Introducing the Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra: A Powerhouse of Camera Capabilities**

One of my favorite things to talk about when it comes to new phones is the camera, and the Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra does not disappoint. The phone's camera bumper means that there's a lot of new camera functionality available, but really, the thing that you're interested in probably is the 108 megapixel wide angle camera. This is very similar to what we saw on the S20 Ultra from earlier in the year, essentially what it means is yes, you can take 108 megapixel shots, but really, the key is the pixel binning to be able to get the most detailed and less noise in the image when you are shooting at the 12 megapixels by default on that main rear camera.

The other important thing about the still images is the zoom functionality. We did see the S20 Ultra have that 100 times space zoom, i think Samsung realized that was a little bit too out there and it wasn't particularly good quality at 100 times either as you would expect. Now, on the Note 20 Ultra, it is now a 50 times maximum zoom that's digital and five times optical zoom, and really for me, the sweet spot in my limited testing just recently with the Note 20 Ultra is that 10 times zoom that seems to be like a really nice compromise between the hybrid of optical and digital zoom. You might also remember that the S20 Ultra used a phase detection autofocus system and that had some problems when it first rolled out namely it just wasn't getting the focus right in a lot of situations there was a lot of hunting, the Note 20 Ultra is hopefully going to fix this with its laser autofocus system i've done a little bit of testing alongside the S20 Ultra, i think it has been improved significantly so more testing to be done obviously but i think it is off to a really good start.

There's also a Pro Video mode on the rear camera that gives you lots of extra control over your video recording. I'm actually shooting this right now 4k 30 frames a second using Pro Video mode, you get full exposure control there's also a live histogram and live level monitoring, you also can change the direction of where the audio is coming from from the built-in microphone so it's either omnidirectional coming from the front or the rear of the camera i have it set to coming from the rear camera so take a listen and see what it sounds like apart from all those controls, it's also about resolution and frame rates so the Note 20 Ultra also gives you the ability to shoot in 8k if you want to at 24 frames a second. I can't show you what that looks like right now because this has been rated out to 4k but you can also shoot 8k.

The frame rates and aspect ratios you also get are quite exhaustive there is 21x9, 16x9 lots of different frame rates within that whether you're shooting 4k or 1080 but i really like the fact that there is a 1080 at 120 frames a second it's going to open up a lot more possibilities for some cool slo-mo effects so looking forward to diving into that more.

**What You Can't See But Are Still Important**

Samsung has promised that the Note 20 Ultra will receive three generations of updates, the next is Android 11. We know that the Note 20 Ultra is going to receive the update once it's rolled out the phone also is ready to go with Android Nearby Share straight out of the box so you'll be able to use that and also it has the ultra wide band or UWV chip, it's the first Samsung phone to have this basically it's going to make transfers wirelessly to other UWB devices really easy except the caveat is that there's only one Samsung phone with UWB at the moment that is the Note 20 Ultra so unless you're sending to another friend that also has a Note 20 Ultra you're really not going to be able to make the most of that just yet.

There's also a whole lot of other features that i haven't even touched on including Dex, Microsoft support and so much more but don't worry because everything like that including battery life and performance we are going to cover off in our full review.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthe galaxy note 20 ultra is finally here so let's take it for a spin when you first take the note 20 ultra out of the box there is no doubt that this is samsung's flagship phone for a reason it just looks and feels incredibly premium ahead of our full review i wanted to share with you some thoughts and first impressions after having used the note 20 ultra everything from the s pen to the camera tricks and the display so let's dive in the note 20 ultra shouldn't provide too many surprises if you're coming from an earlier note device a few things that i did notice compared to last year's note 10 plus which incidentally is one of my favorite phones of all time so this phone definitely has a lot to live up to in my eyes the configuration of the buttons was the first thing i noticed so instead of being on the left hand side as they were on the note 10 plus they are now on the right hand side so they fall really easily on the thumb if you are right handed i prefer them on the right hand side the next thing you'll probably notice is where the s pen is located it's no longer on the right hand side as it was on all of the previous notes now it is on the left hand side underneath the screen it's actually advantageous i think for left-handed users because i'm actually right-handed and when i'm not using the s-pen the phone is usually in my right hand but when i need to use the s-pen i take it out using my left hand swap the phone over to my left hand so i can have the s-pen in my right hand it's just a little bit of extra muscle memory that i know i'm going to have to get used to given that the pen has changed locations the other thing you're really going to notice is the camera bump on the back which is significantly larger than any other note phone that we've seen in the past it's more on par with the galaxy s20 ultra from earlier this year which also had a much larger camera bump and there's a reason for that it is housing a lot more camera it has got a five times optical zoom which then goes out to 50 times digital which i will talk about in a little bit in the camera section overall the bump itself is doesn't really make the phone feel too heavy one way or the other i didn't find that it was like counterbalanced oddly when i was holding it at all the only thing that i did notice about the camera bump was that if i was lying the phone on a flat surface it did cause the phone to be a little uneven if i was using it while it was lying flat or using the s pen to right without holding the device to get around that obviously you can put a case on and i did find a case provided a little bit of a better balance on a flat surface but if you put a case on it you are going to lose the nice effect of whatever color you choose either the mystic bronze or the black the mystic bronze actually looks really really nice in person and i found that it was much less of a fingerprint magnet than last year's note 10 plus which really looked like a crime scene any time i used it so i'm really grateful to see that there's less fingerprint residue left on the note 20 ultra the other reason why you might not want to put a case on this is because it's covered in gorilla glass victus on the front and back now this is the first phone to use the brand new gorilla glass which promises drop resistance from heights up to 6.6 feet that is two meters so we are yet to do our durability and drop tests on this phone stay tuned because it's going to be really interesting to see how this new glass performs and whether or not that camera bump is going to be affected at all let's talk display because that flagship feature of the 6.9 inch dynamic amoled is the 120 hertz refresh rate and it looks great on the note 20 ultra if you've used a high refresh rate phone before you'll know what i'm talking about unfortunately i can't really show it to you on camera but you'll see incredibly seamless scrolling going through menus reading articles social media and especially gaming it all looks great on this phone and the screen is bright and dynamic it's set by default to the 120hz or adaptive screen which is in the settings you can actually switch it back to 60hz if you want and it is interesting that samsung clearly says in that menu item that using 120hz will detract from battery life now this is just a preview this is not our full review so do stay tuned we will be doing full battery tests and performance analysis for you really soon all right time for the s pen because that is the big reason why you want a galaxy note so first up the actual s pen itself is not any different to the s pen that we saw on the note 10 plus from last year it is pretty much exactly the same what is different is obviously with a higher refresh rate there is slightly more accuracy and more realism when it comes to using the s pen now what i mean by that is that when you're using it to say take notes it is so like there's so little latency it feels like you're actually almost riding on a real piece of paper air actions are also a new feature of the s pen this time around so what that means is you'll be able to press and hold the button and then move the pen in a certain direction to do things like navigate back forward make a scribble in order to take a screenshot and then you can annotate over it and you can also navigate between music and media apps and also use the pen in the camera to do things like take selfies or start the remote shut off when you are got the phone sitting on a bench and you want to start shooting remotely using the s pen so i really like those extra bits of functionality although whether or not they are a little bit gimmicky only time will tell i have so far found that i have to be very deliberate with the air actions so by that i mean i can't just furiously press and hold the button down and just like conduct an orchestra virtually i actually have to be very deliberate and slow with the action in order to get it to register there are also some tweaks to the notes app so you'll be able to attach and time sync recordings using your voice and then playing back and seeing them play back in real time with the notes that you've written you'll also be able to change the style of the text after you've written it with the s pen just tap the a icon and then you can do things like change the color and the stroke width as well and you'll also be able to straighten your handwriting too just tap the icon with the arrow and the lines and it should straighten your very crooked handwriting all right camera time one of my favorite things to talk about when it comes to new phones now the camera bumper as you've probably imagined means that there's a lot of new camera functionality available but really the thing that you're interested in probably is the 108 megapixel wide angle camera now that's very similar to what we saw on the s20 ultra from earlier in the year essentially what it means is yes you can take 108 megapixel shots but really the key is the pixel binning to be able to get the most detailed and less noise in the image when you are shooting at the 12 megapixels by default on that main rear camera the other important thing about the still images is the zoom functionality so we did see the s20 ultra have that 100 times space zoom i think samsung realized that that was a little bit too out there and it wasn't particularly good quality at 100 times either as you would expect now on the note 20 ultra it is now a 50 times maximum zoom that's digital and five times optical zoom and really for me the sweet spot in my limited testing that i've done just recently with the note 20 ultra is that 10 times zoom that is just seems to be like a really nice compromise between the hybrid of optical and digital zoom now you might also remember that the s20 ultra used a phase detection autofocus system and that had some problems when it first rolled out namely it just wasn't getting the focus right in a lot of situations there was a lot of hunting the note 20 ultra is hopefully going to fix this with its laser autofocus system i've done a little bit of testing alongside the s20 ultra i think it has been improved significantly so more testing to be done obviously but i think it is off to a really good start there's also a pro video mode on the rear camera that gives you lots of extra control over your video recording i'm actually shooting this right now 4k 30 frames a second using pro video mode you get full exposure control there's also a live histogram and live level monitoring you also can change the direction of where the audio is coming from from the built-in microphone so it's either omnidirectional coming from the front or the rear of the camera i have it set to coming from the rear camera so take a listen and see what it sounds like apart from all those controls it's also about resolution and frame rates so the note 20 ultra also gives you the ability to shoot in 8k if you want to at 24 frames a second i can't show you what that looks like right now because this has been rated out to 4k but you can also shoot 8k and i'll show you lots of samples of that later on the frame rates and aspect ratios you also get are quite exhaustive there is 21x9 16x9 lots of different frame rates within that whether you're shooting 4k or 1080 but i really like the fact that there is a 1080 at 120 frames a second it's going to open up a lot more possibilities for some cool slo-mo effects so looking forward to diving into that more now let's touch on the things that you can't see but are still incredibly important the first is android updates samsung has promised that the note 20 ultra will receive three generations of updates the next is android 11. we know that the note 20 ultra is going to receive the update once it's rolled out the phone also is ready to go with android nearby share straight out of the box so you'll be able to use that and also it has the ultra wide band or uwv chip it's the first samsung phone to have this basically it's going to make transfers wirelessly to other uwb devices really easy except the caveat is that there's only one samsung phone with uwb at the moment that is the note 20 ultra so unless you're sending to another friend that also has a note 20 ultra you're really not going to be able to make the most of that just yet there's also a whole lot of other features that i haven't even touched on including dex microsoft support and so much more but don't worry because everything like that including battery life and performance we are going to cover off in our full review thanks for watching if you have questions about the note 20 ultra or if you want to find out more information you can check out a bunch of our other videos leave me a comment and let me know if you are upgrading to the note 20 ultrathe galaxy note 20 ultra is finally here so let's take it for a spin when you first take the note 20 ultra out of the box there is no doubt that this is samsung's flagship phone for a reason it just looks and feels incredibly premium ahead of our full review i wanted to share with you some thoughts and first impressions after having used the note 20 ultra everything from the s pen to the camera tricks and the display so let's dive in the note 20 ultra shouldn't provide too many surprises if you're coming from an earlier note device a few things that i did notice compared to last year's note 10 plus which incidentally is one of my favorite phones of all time so this phone definitely has a lot to live up to in my eyes the configuration of the buttons was the first thing i noticed so instead of being on the left hand side as they were on the note 10 plus they are now on the right hand side so they fall really easily on the thumb if you are right handed i prefer them on the right hand side the next thing you'll probably notice is where the s pen is located it's no longer on the right hand side as it was on all of the previous notes now it is on the left hand side underneath the screen it's actually advantageous i think for left-handed users because i'm actually right-handed and when i'm not using the s-pen the phone is usually in my right hand but when i need to use the s-pen i take it out using my left hand swap the phone over to my left hand so i can have the s-pen in my right hand it's just a little bit of extra muscle memory that i know i'm going to have to get used to given that the pen has changed locations the other thing you're really going to notice is the camera bump on the back which is significantly larger than any other note phone that we've seen in the past it's more on par with the galaxy s20 ultra from earlier this year which also had a much larger camera bump and there's a reason for that it is housing a lot more camera it has got a five times optical zoom which then goes out to 50 times digital which i will talk about in a little bit in the camera section overall the bump itself is doesn't really make the phone feel too heavy one way or the other i didn't find that it was like counterbalanced oddly when i was holding it at all the only thing that i did notice about the camera bump was that if i was lying the phone on a flat surface it did cause the phone to be a little uneven if i was using it while it was lying flat or using the s pen to right without holding the device to get around that obviously you can put a case on and i did find a case provided a little bit of a better balance on a flat surface but if you put a case on it you are going to lose the nice effect of whatever color you choose either the mystic bronze or the black the mystic bronze actually looks really really nice in person and i found that it was much less of a fingerprint magnet than last year's note 10 plus which really looked like a crime scene any time i used it so i'm really grateful to see that there's less fingerprint residue left on the note 20 ultra the other reason why you might not want to put a case on this is because it's covered in gorilla glass victus on the front and back now this is the first phone to use the brand new gorilla glass which promises drop resistance from heights up to 6.6 feet that is two meters so we are yet to do our durability and drop tests on this phone stay tuned because it's going to be really interesting to see how this new glass performs and whether or not that camera bump is going to be affected at all let's talk display because that flagship feature of the 6.9 inch dynamic amoled is the 120 hertz refresh rate and it looks great on the note 20 ultra if you've used a high refresh rate phone before you'll know what i'm talking about unfortunately i can't really show it to you on camera but you'll see incredibly seamless scrolling going through menus reading articles social media and especially gaming it all looks great on this phone and the screen is bright and dynamic it's set by default to the 120hz or adaptive screen which is in the settings you can actually switch it back to 60hz if you want and it is interesting that samsung clearly says in that menu item that using 120hz will detract from battery life now this is just a preview this is not our full review so do stay tuned we will be doing full battery tests and performance analysis for you really soon all right time for the s pen because that is the big reason why you want a galaxy note so first up the actual s pen itself is not any different to the s pen that we saw on the note 10 plus from last year it is pretty much exactly the same what is different is obviously with a higher refresh rate there is slightly more accuracy and more realism when it comes to using the s pen now what i mean by that is that when you're using it to say take notes it is so like there's so little latency it feels like you're actually almost riding on a real piece of paper air actions are also a new feature of the s pen this time around so what that means is you'll be able to press and hold the button and then move the pen in a certain direction to do things like navigate back forward make a scribble in order to take a screenshot and then you can annotate over it and you can also navigate between music and media apps and also use the pen in the camera to do things like take selfies or start the remote shut off when you are got the phone sitting on a bench and you want to start shooting remotely using the s pen so i really like those extra bits of functionality although whether or not they are a little bit gimmicky only time will tell i have so far found that i have to be very deliberate with the air actions so by that i mean i can't just furiously press and hold the button down and just like conduct an orchestra virtually i actually have to be very deliberate and slow with the action in order to get it to register there are also some tweaks to the notes app so you'll be able to attach and time sync recordings using your voice and then playing back and seeing them play back in real time with the notes that you've written you'll also be able to change the style of the text after you've written it with the s pen just tap the a icon and then you can do things like change the color and the stroke width as well and you'll also be able to straighten your handwriting too just tap the icon with the arrow and the lines and it should straighten your very crooked handwriting all right camera time one of my favorite things to talk about when it comes to new phones now the camera bumper as you've probably imagined means that there's a lot of new camera functionality available but really the thing that you're interested in probably is the 108 megapixel wide angle camera now that's very similar to what we saw on the s20 ultra from earlier in the year essentially what it means is yes you can take 108 megapixel shots but really the key is the pixel binning to be able to get the most detailed and less noise in the image when you are shooting at the 12 megapixels by default on that main rear camera the other important thing about the still images is the zoom functionality so we did see the s20 ultra have that 100 times space zoom i think samsung realized that that was a little bit too out there and it wasn't particularly good quality at 100 times either as you would expect now on the note 20 ultra it is now a 50 times maximum zoom that's digital and five times optical zoom and really for me the sweet spot in my limited testing that i've done just recently with the note 20 ultra is that 10 times zoom that is just seems to be like a really nice compromise between the hybrid of optical and digital zoom now you might also remember that the s20 ultra used a phase detection autofocus system and that had some problems when it first rolled out namely it just wasn't getting the focus right in a lot of situations there was a lot of hunting the note 20 ultra is hopefully going to fix this with its laser autofocus system i've done a little bit of testing alongside the s20 ultra i think it has been improved significantly so more testing to be done obviously but i think it is off to a really good start there's also a pro video mode on the rear camera that gives you lots of extra control over your video recording i'm actually shooting this right now 4k 30 frames a second using pro video mode you get full exposure control there's also a live histogram and live level monitoring you also can change the direction of where the audio is coming from from the built-in microphone so it's either omnidirectional coming from the front or the rear of the camera i have it set to coming from the rear camera so take a listen and see what it sounds like apart from all those controls it's also about resolution and frame rates so the note 20 ultra also gives you the ability to shoot in 8k if you want to at 24 frames a second i can't show you what that looks like right now because this has been rated out to 4k but you can also shoot 8k and i'll show you lots of samples of that later on the frame rates and aspect ratios you also get are quite exhaustive there is 21x9 16x9 lots of different frame rates within that whether you're shooting 4k or 1080 but i really like the fact that there is a 1080 at 120 frames a second it's going to open up a lot more possibilities for some cool slo-mo effects so looking forward to diving into that more now let's touch on the things that you can't see but are still incredibly important the first is android updates samsung has promised that the note 20 ultra will receive three generations of updates the next is android 11. we know that the note 20 ultra is going to receive the update once it's rolled out the phone also is ready to go with android nearby share straight out of the box so you'll be able to use that and also it has the ultra wide band or uwv chip it's the first samsung phone to have this basically it's going to make transfers wirelessly to other uwb devices really easy except the caveat is that there's only one samsung phone with uwb at the moment that is the note 20 ultra so unless you're sending to another friend that also has a note 20 ultra you're really not going to be able to make the most of that just yet there's also a whole lot of other features that i haven't even touched on including dex microsoft support and so much more but don't worry because everything like that including battery life and performance we are going to cover off in our full review thanks for watching if you have questions about the note 20 ultra or if you want to find out more information you can check out a bunch of our other videos leave me a comment and let me know if you are upgrading to the note 20 ultra\n"