Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Review 2021

The Camera Specs

Although, the 108-megapixel primary and a 50x space zoom are absent in the new Galaxy Note 20. but, the outclass triple-lens camera will still amaze the living life out of you!

You’ll be clicking what you see with the Note ’20s/1.8, twelve-megapixel key lens the majority of the time. For ultra-wide images, Samsung has given a 12-megapixel lens, and a 64-megapixel telephoto is just the cherry on top.

When zoomed in from a distance, the Note 20 becomes a much outstanding camera. Apple’s optical zoom also lacks demosaicing algorithms, which are used in most Android smartphones nowadays, particularly Samsung’s newest flagship phones. Using brilliant algorithms, the Note 20 can recreate pictures in such a style that makes digital zoom much clearer than it would be otherwise, making it snap a smoother, sharper, and far less disruptive picture at 10x capacity. In reality, if you know how to let it, the Note 20 will go up to 30x.

Apple’s Night Mode is usually our preference among all mainstream smartphone manufacturers’ low-light camera settings, but still, the Note 20 outperformed the iPhone’s maximum effort in this class. The photo clicked from the Samsung Note 20 is clearer and much less pixelated, with a little more color gradation. Apple’s tech blurs everything in bright color, resulting in a rounder, fuzzier, and less detailed effect.

Also after turning off all the face beautifying and smoothing functions, Samsung still hasn’t worked out how to accurately make people’s skin tones without creating ghostly results. It’s really the Note 20’s apparent photography flaw.

The S Pen

Although the S Pen has not yet improved significantly after last year’s model. but its purpose has most certainly improved. This is because of the latest One UI 2.5 upgrade to Samsung’s smartphones. The most noticeable change in One UI 2.5 is the inclusion of Air Action navigation. To return home, keep the S Pen out in front of the Note 20 and click the stylus button while going in an upside-down V-shaped motion. If you move your finger left or right, you’ll bring up the latest apps or move backward. To take a screenshot, zigzag backward.

Also, Air Actions aren’t particularly helpful for those who prefer traditional three-button control, but they are handy if your Note 20 is configured according to Android’s gestural panel interface and you have the S Pen with you.

The capacity to attach sound recordings to composed or un-composed notes is one of the Note 20’s ideals and freshest S Pen-related features. On the first try, when you utilize this feature, you’ll need to press the paperclip symbol in the upper right corner, at that point voice recording gets activated, and the S pen begins recording sound as you write down a note. At the point when you play the sound back, the Note 20 will show portions of the content that were embedded at that particular phase of recording progressively. It’s a cool and clear feature for somebody taking notes in a gathering or during a talk.

Samsung has claimed that they have also improved handwriting to text transcription in galaxy note 20. To be honest, we love that Samsung keeps working and updating this feature as it helps in keeping your phone organized. Even though most people don’t even use it, those who do, Note-20 will give them an amazing experience.

Another point about the Notes app: it is now designed to connect to the cloud and be available from any smartphone, whether it is another Samsung phone or laptop or your Desktop. Sadly, the desktop Samsung Notes application is only accessible for Samsung Computers, limiting its effect. Synchronizing to Microsoft OneNote is however possible, but only in a single path, via Samsung Notes to OneNote.

Also, the One UI2.5 will support the Galaxy note 20 and note 20 ultra. We wish that it remains exclusive to the Galaxy’s Note series but that’s never going to happen, of course. The company will start pushing the new UI upgrade on Galaxy S20, Galaxy Note 10 and Galaxy S10 too. So, if you have any of the phones mentioned above, and you need to see the new UI, don’t go and buy the new Note 20. Just wait for a while and your phone will receive the new update on its own.

Processor Performance

With the Qualcomm snapdragon 865 plus processor at its back, the new Galaxy Note 20 has become such a beast! It can easily pull off multiple tasks and commands without even taking a breath. Whether you need to stream YouTube while making your notes or you are playing the Asphalt 9 along with Call of Duty running at the back, this phone is certainly the most powerful mobile phone of 2020.

Asphalt 9 is the type of game that is so heavy and demanding that a lot of cell phones tend to lag while running it, others have to drop the framerate of the game. But the overpowered Qualcomm snapdragon 865 plus processor gives such an immense overclocked GPU speed that the game became buttery smooth. It was really an eye-opening experience.

Although, some users have reported that their Galaxy Note 20 is facing heat-up issues. Considering the fact that environmental and climatic factors are at play here, it is very obvious that if you are to run Live Caption along with a live YouTube video and a turn to turn google navigation, all at full brightness, of course, the phone is going to react by releasing the heat. it’s a phone people, not a supercomputer.

Talking about the benchmarks, let’s see how well this phone performed. Having 8 gigabytes of RAM, the Note 20 is on the tail of the Note 20 Ultra, scoring a whopping 3,182 points in the overall system GeekBench5 test. The Note 20 ultra was a tad ahead scoring a good 3,294 points, but that’s understandable as the Note 20 Ultra comes with 12GB of RAM.

Upon testing it through the GFXBench’s Vulkan-based Aztec Ruins test for high-end devices, the Note 20 was able to score 1,446 frames in total, and 22 frames per second! Amazingly this is a bit faster than the OnePlus 8 pro but still, slower than the Apple iPhone 11 pro max.

The Note 20 is just as swift as smartphones get these days, but there is one annoying stumbling block in its specifications. This smartphone only has 128GB of built-in storage and therefore no micro-SD slot for expansion. That’s a sour bargain for Note owners, and it’s definitely a justification to choose the Ultra model, which has more extra storage and micro-SD support.

Lastly, about the Note 20 5G feature. The smartphone has compatibility with the fast but limited to range millimeter waves and the long-range 6Gigahertz 5G networks too! 

Link to Windows and Wireless DeX Mode

The Your Phone software has many functions that iPhone and Mac owners have loved for years, such as the power to export and answer calls from your desktop. Once you’ve embraced the burst of alerts Windows needs to plunge its teeth into your Note 20, the configuration is strong and simple to set up. It’s usually impressive, but Your Phone misses the mark as you try to communicate specifically with the Note’s interface through Windows. We confess that “swiping” across Android on your Computer display with your cursor is a very perplexing feeling the first time you do it, but the awe easily fades as you consider and realize the flaws.

The desktop-class De-X mode can be cast to the displays that support Mira cast wirelessly through the galaxy note 20. Well, this sure is a new feature because as far as we remember, you always needed a wired cable to project it to a TV or a computer.

The De-X again works somewhat smoothly, there are some hiccups and lags but that is normal when you try to mirror or project your phone’s display on a third-party device.

Good news for the gamers though! The Galaxy Note 20 now comes equipped with the Microsoft 15 bucks per month Xbox game subscription. This feature lets the gamers stream their Xbox games and even the PC games straight on their phone. For the initial run, about 100 games have been included in this beta program. As of right now, this feature is exclusive to the Note 20 but soon it will spread to other devices as well.