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Samsung's Galaxy S20 lineup innovates on many fronts. For most consumers, the S20 will be the first 5G device they unendingly lay their hands on, the inceptive phones with Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 865 processor, and the grant of Samsung's much-hyped 108-megapixel sensor (at minuscule on the S20 Ultra). But the most important feature the S20 lineup is going to introduce to most roast owners nimbleness be the one that isn't enduringly that new at all: the high-refresh 120Hz display.

Of course, there have been versicolor high-refresh brandish devices in the US before: Apple's offered a high-refresh "ProMotion" mode on its iPad Pro lineup back 2017, and the Razer Phone migrator the technology on smartphones latterly that year. Back then, it's appeared in a variety of devices with both 90Hz and 120Hz reinvigorate rates, including the OnePlus 7 Pro, the Asus ROG Roast II, and most notably, the Pixel 4.

People will enduringly buy the Galaxy S20

Why does Samsung's accomplishing of the tech in 2020 matter, then? Considering unsuitable the litany of devices listed above, bodies will enduringly buy the Galaxy S20. This isn't a dig conjoin Google or OnePlus -- those phones are hebetic phones! But the simple fact is that neither of those companies mass-produce up an observable corporeality of the smartphone supermarket globally or in the US.

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The fact of the outgo is that Dearest and Samsung -- and Huawei, outside of the US -- make up the majority of roast sales. OnePlus, Google, Razer, Asus, and the rodomontade scantily annals as blips on the sales equation compared to those juggernauts. And of those three major brands, Samsung's S20 lineup will be the inceptive to introduce high-refresh displays to customers. Yes, Google and OnePlus may have browbeaten everyone remotest to the punch, but at the end of the day. it's Samsung that'll put high-refresh displays in the mainstream.

The mainstream consumer may be enlightened that Apple's priciest iPads or the Pixel 4 have super-fancy screens, but high-refresh technology isn't the sort of toot that translates well-built to video or photos: it needs to be shown in stuff to really cognize the drastic difference it makes in the quotidian validating of your phone. And given the vastitude of the S20 relative to the padding phones with high-refresh displays before it, Samsung's roast will permitted be most people's inceptive time experiencing the technology.

It's not a smallish upgrade, either. As my colleague Dan Seifert wrote inadvertently back the Razer Roast inceptive launched, "The difference between a high-refresh awning and a unanimous one is as noticeable as the jump from the iPhone 3GS's awning to the iPhone 4's Retina Display." The material perquisites are permitted to be orderly biggest than that leap, given that developers (for the most part) won't gotta renovate their apps to booty advantageousness of the faster reinvigorate rate.

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There may still be a few roadblocks: customers may not enduringly co-opt to booty advantageousness of the high-refresh perk (depending on how much Samsung chooses to surface the feature). There's likewise the catechism of hail life -- redrawing the cut-up on the brandish more conventionally may offer smoother animations and interactions, but it comes at the stratum of drawing more power.

It's not a smallish upgrade, either

Samsung isn't the only visitor with ultra-smooth displays launching this year, either. OnePlus has once said that its next flagship will feature a agnate 120Hz display, baroness in concert with Samsung, and some rumors claim that Dearest may be totaliser the feature to its 2020 iPhones, too (although that's far from confirmed at this point).

With Samsung on board, though, high-refresh displays are inescapably obtaining the spotlight on one of the biggest phones of the year. We'll routing out anon unbearable whether customers are on board, too.