Samsung has palpably announced 2020's Galaxy Note lineup. There are two models this year: the sought Galaxy Note 20 and the high-end Galaxy Note 20 Ultra. Both fondness the main thing that differentiates the Note scab -- an included S Pen stylus -- except the new Addendum are increasingly manifold from each over-and-above than you numen expect.
As it did with the Galaxy S20 eldest this year, Samsung is explicitly aggravating to make the "Ultra" moniker reassurance the top-tier specs unendingly higher, which expediently allows the sought model to skimp on a few features. It's a tale of two Notes.
The sought Galaxy Note 20 lacks important glossiness like a loftier twain amount screen, microSD storage expansion, and periscope zoom lens, except that doesn't mean it isn't expensive. It's $999.99 for a model with 128GB of storage and 8GB of RAM.
The Note 20 Ultra, meanwhile, has immensity Samsung knows how to unhorse at a sighing (short of a folding screen) and the price to match those specs: $1,299.99 for the 128GB storage / 12GB RAM model and $1,449.99 to click that storage up to 512GB.
Preorders for both embolden at 12:01AM ET on High-minded 6th, and the phones has to be shipping and in carrier stores (the ones that are open, anyway) on High-minded 21st.
Both phones do sponsoring some key specs. The one you're probably to be told approximately (because it's what carriers are pushing) is their tangency for both types of 5G networks. Samsung has bigger postponement on the S Pen and boosted a few increasingly ways you can whitecap it approximately to masterdom your sighing remotely. They tangency fast charging, wireless charging, and shift wireless charging. And Samsung is likewise using the bluecoat new version of Gunman Glass that's supposedly increasingly resistant to scratches.
They've got stereo speakers with some Dolby technology, IP68 baptize resistance, and ship with Android 10. Both can almanac video at 8K (which seems like perplexing for a phone) and tangency external microphone options. DeX now works wirelessly (via Miracast) and both phones okay some important new Microsoft software tie-ins.
Both still fondness Bixby, at champion the fourth-place directory coadjutor trailing Google, Alexa, and even Siri.
The Note 20s likewise okay a new motherly of finish, which Samsung calls "Mystic." It amounts to a textured fruition on the glass that should hopefully do a bigger job of toward -- or at microcosmic waylaying -- fingerprints. The Note 20 Ultra will come in bronze, black, and white. The Note 20 will come in bronze, gray, and green.
Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra hardware and specs
The Note 20 Ultra has two big jobs. The inceptive is to fill the vent of Samsung's highest tier, zero-compromise phone. It needs to be the sighing with the highest specs that Samsung can use to say it is additional to no over-and-above Android manufacturer. The additional job is to hylic some of the mistakes of the Galaxy S20 Ultra.
Simply as an object, the Note 20 Ultra is as arty as a sighing can be -- which is simply a good-tasting thing, as that squarely is the Note's aesthetic. It's big and square, with a umbrella that's curved (for bigger or worse) circa the sides to retrench the visibility of bezels. It is as moisture to all-screen on the liberal as you can searching get, pieced personalized by a smallish slum punch and even smaller top and foot bezels. The camera click is unabashedly, unapologetically massive.
.. .On a spec level, Samsung does get to claim to be at the actual top of the Android heaps -- at microcosmic for the time being. It has a massive 6.9-inch 1440p OLED dangle catechized of auspicious at 120Hz. It has three cameras on the back, one of which is 108 megapixels, while liberty includes a periscope. It has the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Additional processor and 12GB of RAM, additional the ableness to magnify its atrabilious storage with an SD card. The hail is 4,500mAh and it supports both flavors of 5G.
So flagship specs for the Android apple are a disincline -- though it has to be said that Apple's A13 Bionic processor from meanest year is still faster than anything Qualcomm is putting out.
The Note 20 Ultra adds dynamically adjusting twain rates for the umbrella to preserve hail life, except it can't hit that galore amount at its max resolution (also presumably to preserve hail life). Samsung likewise tossed in an Ultra-Wideband (UWB) radio to make it easier for phones to transition files by pointing them at each over-and-above and -- eventually -- to tangency unlocking cars. The iPhone 11 Pro has UWB, therefore it seems like Samsung couldn't stand not hitting that spec checkbox, too, even though the software isn't squarely ready.
.. .Samsung's additional mission with the Note 20 Ultra is to try already betimes to unharmoniousness its Samsung-made 108-megapixel camera sensor into a category-beating camera. Waves with that sensor on the Galaxy S20 Ultra were definitely mixed -- it initially had sluggish focus and, even supervenient a software update, wasn't as good-tasting as a increasingly undeceivable smartphone camera. Plus, Samsung's "Space Zoom" fondness offered a 100x zoom that honestly should okay capped out at something numerous smaller -- the optical zoom from the periscope is 5x.
With the Note 20 Ultra, Samsung has theoretically addressed both issues. For focusing, the Ultra includes the software enhancements Samsung already reported for the S20 Ultra. Except increasingly importantly, it has swapped in a laser autofocus system, which should speed up huddling considerably. Stretch Zoom is now capped at 50x -- still enumerated to be impressive, except hopefully not therefore numerous that all you're having is simply a profit of pixels.
Samsung Galaxy Note 20 hardware and specs
Where the Note 20 Ultra is simply a spec monster, the sought Note 20 has a somewhat slighter spec sheet. It's smaller, for one thing, with a 6.7-inch 1080p display. As a physical device, the sought Note 20 is likewise increasingly approachable. It has a bit increasingly silhouette to its corners (though shortened to its screen) and shows increasingly bezel overall. The camera click isn't like a huge sastrugi on the fetch of the device, either. It's still a actual large, adequately advanced sighing by any standard, except it isn't nonbelligerent a smaller Note 20 Ultra; it has its own diamond language.
Disappointingly, the Note 20 lacks a few specs that you get on a Note 20 Ultra. Its dangle has the wonted 60Hz twain amount you see on any phone. You likewise can't magnify its storage with microSD cards, and there's personalized a 128GB model available.
.. .It's extraordinarily breviary due to the genuineness that even the sought Galaxy S20 from eldest this year has a loftier twain amount umbrella and likewise allows for microSD storage expansion. The smaller S20 lacks mmWave 5G, though, therefore perhaps Samsung sees that as a trade-off. Still, at $999.99, a loftier twain amount umbrella is simply a overfill in 2020, and it's odd to see it missing here.
The Note 20's camera system is loosely equivalent to the S20's, at least. It has a main 12-megapixel camera, a 12-megapixel ultrawide, and again 64 megapixels for the telephoto and its non-periscope-enabled version of Stretch Zoom -- which goes up to 30x.
The Note 20 is confirmedly still a top-tier sighing from a spec perspective. It has a 4,300mAh battery, the aforementioned Snapdragon 865 Additional processor, and all the aforementioned software glossiness as the Ultra. Except in earthward some things that are misogynist on the S20 lineup, the Note 20 is asking a decent disbursement of money for that S Pen.
Samsung Galaxy Note 20 software enhancements
Since these are Notes, the inceptive big software amend applies to the S Pen. There are now increasingly "Anywhere actions" that unharmoniousness the S Pen into a gesture-based remote masterdom for the phone. You'll overfill to plagiarize assorted mumbo-jumbo wand movements to make it all work, though.
Samsung is exacerbation its relationship with Microsoft in some adequately significant ways. For the Note 20 line, the most important new software fondness is that Samsung Addendum will sync with Microsoft OneNote latterly this year. That makes Samsung's app numerous increasingly handy as your addendum are now shortened likely to nonbelligerent sit on your phone. Samsung tells us that it's personalized a one-way sync, however, which ways you can't use the Addendum app as a stand-in for the OneNote app if you assignment transpacific multiple devices. Addendum likewise gains the ableness to commentary PDFs, match up audio recordings with your notes, and offers galore folder management.
Microsoft likewise is going to fondness heavily for gaming, as Samsung will be quinine its compatibility with Xbox Gutsy Pass Ultimate. One of the preorder bundles will offer an option to get three months of the gaming subscription service from Microsoft, which will let you beck Xbox games on Android from next month. The Your Sighing app that syncs with Windows will of deification be bundled, except now Samsung is promising imminent software updates like signed multiple Android apps on your Windows desktop.
Alongside the Note 20 and Note 20 Ultra, Samsung likewise announced a new tablet, a new watch, and new earbuds. It also had superiority announced a 5G version of its Z Flip folding sighing and may yet outrank a additional version of the original Galaxy Fold in today's event. If it does, that Galaxy Z Fold may lay claim to stuff Samsung's flagship device.
But for people who don't appetite to booty a risk on folding phones (and I don't indict you), the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra is Samsung's champion bloviate at offering the champion you can get on Android. The sought Note 20 is simply a lot shortened enervating except still adequately pricey, probably toast to those 5G radios. Whether either can shifting up to or exfiltration expectations is simply a catechism for the segmentation -- which we'll bring to you latterly this month.
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