Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G Mobile Phone; Sim Free Smartphone 128GB - Cosmic Grey, (UK Version)

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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. If you're a phone manufacturer without these basic features on your camera phone, we’re judging you. Hard. READ NEXT: Which smartphone has the best battery life? Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra review: Performance and battery life Face Detection, Smile Detection, Panorama, HDR, Night Mode, Exposure Control, Bokeh Mode, AI Features, Scene Detection, Time-of-Flight Camera As you might have guessed from the headline, Samsung is really pushing the S20 Ultra’s zooming capabilities. Samsung calls this new feature ‘Space Zoom’ which is a combination of optical and digital techniques to zoom into the frame up to 100x magnification. That’s absolutely bonkers – beating the Huawei P30 Pro’s 50x hybrid zoom – and Samsung says this is perfect for taking pictures of the moon and star clusters, as the heavily-marketed name implies.

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While some of the Space Zoom 100x zoom features are a little pointless, if you’re only going up to 10x then the results are really quite good. You don’t this kind of zoom unless you have a periscope camera. You shouldn’t buy it if… You want the best flagship camera

108 MP Rear Camera

You might have caught wind of a few pre-release camera problems, most notably when it comes to laggy focus-finding and poor viewfinder quality, but thankfully these issues seem to have been fixed in a recent OTA software update, which arrived on 1 March. 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 All of these are launch prices - in practice you can often now find it for less if you shop around, but this is still a very expensive phone.

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It's not cheap...that much is obvious but is it worth that cost - that is for you to decide unfortunately. It is one of the world's best smartphones, it has possibly the most powerful camera possible, one of the best battery/processor combos and is pretty much high-end in all possible categories. Battery: Actual battery life varies by network environment, features and apps used, frequency of calls and messages, number of times charged, and many other factors.

Samsung gets the 'Ultra' right

Some people have launched complaints about dust getting in the Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra camera housing, though we haven't experienced much that in our extensive testing. The complaints appear to be – mostly – limited to Korea.

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I told you it was complicated. What this means is that Samsung is able to deliver higher levels of sustained performance, which roughly translates to superior processing speeds in our testing. As you can see, in the Geekbench 4 CPU benchmark, the Galaxy S20 Ultra provided a 21% increase in multi-core performance when directly compared with last year’s Samsung flagships: the Galaxy S10 Plus and Note 10 Plus, which both used the Exynos 9820.

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According to our display colourimeter, the S20 Ultra’s screen is pretty much faultless, aside from a slight discrepancy with oversaturated dark red tones. Contrast – as you’d expect from one of Samsung’s AMOLED screens – is a perfect infinity:1, and the screen is capable of getting plenty bright, peaking at 667cd/m2 with a torch shining directly on the ambient light sensor. Surprisingly, the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra is both the more affordable and better spec of the two handsets. This arguably makes it the obvious choice of the two. a bit like the 100x zoom, feels more like a feature Samsung hypes up rather than one the average consumer is going to really make use of. The footage, which is shot at 30fps, is very sharp – but you’ll need some form of 8K display to really see that come through. 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. Samsung's 'single-take mode' helps you answer an everyday question: should I take photos or a video?

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We still found that some iPhone 11 Pro Max and Google Pixel 4 photos retained more detail in low-light situations, although Samsung seems to have improved its Night Mode over the last year, and side-by-side, no one is doing telephoto better than Samsung – unless you count Huawei’s non-Android phones. READ NEXT: Samsung Galaxy Z Flip hands-on review Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra review: 108MP camera, Space Zoom and 8K videoCustomisability is key here; whether it’s changing how the phone performs while you’re gaming to how fast or high-res the screen is, Samsung lets you tweak lots of things to work how you want them too. It’s impossible to justify the Galaxy S20 Ultra price for everyone – even those who bought the S9 Plus or S10 Plus, and intended to get the next ‘big one’ from Samsung.