At the end of the day, this question will completely depend on what you want from your phone. If you want the best of the best, in the form of Samsung's most powerful phone yet, the Ultra will be the phone for you. The Ultra features a 40 MP front camera rather than the 10 MP on the other S20s. In addition to auto-HDR for high-contrast images, the camera captures 4K video at up to 60 fps. 108 MP Rear Camera

Update 2021: Please note that prices on the S20 have dropped by several hundred pounds in anticipation of the S30's release! When first launched, Samsung has proudly labelled the Galaxy S20 Ultra as the “smartphone camera to end all cameras". It includes the immense 108MP Wide Camera, a 40MP Front Camera and a 48MP Telephoto Camera. This array of cameras was one of the first to be seen on a Samsung 5G phone. And the photos show how good it is. Capturing life’s everyday moments is becoming a daily must, and now you can do so in astonishing 8K Ultra HD. If you’re finding it hard to photograph fast moving scenes (like your kids running around) now you can take 33MP stills from your 8K recordings. The rest of the internal specs are all top-of-the-line: a 7nm chipset (Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 865 in the US, or Samsung’s Exynos 990 in the UK and Europe), 12GB or 16GB or RAM, 128GB or 512GB of internal storage, and a microSD card slot for expandable storage. Let your content live and breathe on the Galaxy S20 Ultra’s 6.9” Infinity-O Display. And get ready for seamless images thanks to the standout 120Hz refresh rate. Everything you see will be smooth, crisp and picture perfect. Want to fine tune the screen even more? You’ve got plenty of options with the freedom to customise colour, sharpness and saturation to get that display picture perfect. What are the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra's specs?

Samsung S20 Ultra: Performance

We discovered that you can’t have 8K and Super Steady; in fact, Super Steady didn’t work in 4K either – it’s still a 1080p affair. And 8K is limited to 24fps, so you’re not going to get all the bells and whistles you do with 4K and Full HD video. Samsung's 'single-take mode' helps you answer an everyday question: should I take photos or a video? The Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra was launched in the UK on 13 March 2020. How much does the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra cost? And that's the rub with the Galaxy S20 Ultra camera. It has the best hardware we've seen on a camera phone, and deserves all of the hype it's attracted. But autofocus and overexposure issues leave us wondering why you should pay so much for big camera spec numbers that result in photos that look pretty good, but not any better than what you can get on an iPhone, a Pixel or last year's Note 10 Plus. Samsung’s single-take mode and 8K video Samsung’s One UI 2.0 software reskins Android 10 with a one-hand-friendly layout, with a lot of the menus items you need to touch appearing on the bottom half of the screen. Another perk is that Google Duo is now integrated directly in the dialer app – we were able to make Full HD video calls, and you can chat with up to eight people.

Versions: SM-G988B (International); SM-G988U (USA), SM-G988W (Canada); SM-G9880 (China, Hong Kong); SM-G988N (Korea) Network For others, though, the word ‘upgrade’ means a completely different thing: they want a phone that pushes new boundaries, and they don’t mind if that pushes the price tag further into Galaxy Z Fold 2 territory.

To give you some storage requirement context, 8K video files will eat up just under 600MB for every minute of footage in the HEIC format (and every 8GB it’ll start a new file) – we say that just in case you’re deciding between the 128GB and 512GB versions of this phone. Using 5G hogs battery life, and in part to counter this the Galaxy S20 Ultra has a 5,000mAh battery capacity, while the S20 Plus has a 4,500mAh battery. We found that the Ultra lasted longer than 24 hours on days we weren't testing 5G speeds non-stop. Apple has now released its latest range of devices and that means a new competitor to the S20 Ultra. However, the big issue here is that due to the long difference in time between the two launches, Apple's latest is not going to come cheap.

The Galaxy S20 Ultra could still be many people's first 5G smartphone as it's still fairly new tech.Second, the S20 Ultra has physically larger camera sensors – a 1/1.33-inch main sensor and 1/2-inch telephoto sensor. We've seen less noise from nighttime photos thanks to these physically bigger sensors that can absorb more light, although as mentioned Samsung tends to go overboard with the exposure, making some shots look artificial and smoothed. There’s still a curve on the right and left edges of the screens, though it’s much less pronounced compared to past S phones. Sadly, that doesn't mean fewer accidental presses of the nearly bezel-less screen – Samsung still doesn't have excellent palm rejection software, so when we touched the edges with our grip and tried to press the shutter button in the camera app, the phone constantly thought we were trying to activate multi-touch and zoom in, instead of performing single press of a button. Palm creep is very real on this phone. That mirrors what we saw on the Galaxy Note 10 Plus, as does the Ultra’s fast wireless charging prowess of up to 15W.