Re­view by Joel Julien

One of the first things you would most like­ly no­tice when you see the Sam­sung S20 Ul­tra 5G is its rear cam­era con­fig­u­ra­tion.

It is de­pen­dent on you whether this is ei­ther aes­thet­i­cal­ly pleas­ing or jar­ring or to the eye.

To me, it was the for­mer.

The phone has four rear cam­eras.

Ac­cord­ing to its specs the four cam­eras that it has lo­cat­ed at its rear are an ul­tra-wide cam­era, a wide-an­gle cam­era, a tele­pho­to cam­era, and a depth vi­sion cam­era.

If all this is gib­ber­ish to you, have no fear all it means is that the phone takes amaz­ing pics. It al­so has a “100x space zoom” brand­ing on the back of the phone.

Apart from the rear cam­era the phone al­so of­fers a self­ie cam­era.

Of course, a must-have for any phone at this time.

The self­ie cam­era is al­lo­cat­ed at the top-cen­tre of the front screen.

The S20 Ul­tra 5G al­so helps an­swer that nag­ging ques­tion of whether you should take a pho­to or a video when faced with some­thing in­ter­est­ing.

Well the S20 Ul­tra 5G re­sponds why not take both?

Ac­cord­ing to Sam­sung “With Sin­gle Take, stay in the mo­ment while you cap­ture the mo­ment us­ing in­te­grat­ed AI tech­nol­o­gy. Sin­gle Take us­es the cam­era sys­tem and AI to cap­ture a num­ber of pho­tos and videos at once and rec­om­mends the best shot for you.”

My phone is a Sam­sung Galaxy Note 8.

While to me it looked as though both the Sam­sung Galaxy Note 8 and the S20 Ul­tra 5G were the same size and feel, a fe­male col­league eye­balled the two phones side by side and said the S20 Ul­tra 5G was big­ger.

She was right.

The length of the Galaxy Note 8 is 6.3 inch­es. While the length of the S20 Ul­tra 5G is list­ed as 6.9 inch­es.

Ap­par­ent­ly, size does mat­ter.

There’s no dif­fer­ence in width though.

The S20 Ul­tra 5G is 8.8 mm thick.

The phone is 220 grammes heavy.

One of the most im­pres­sive fea­tures for the S20 Ul­tra 5G for me was its bat­tery life.

When I first picked up the phone for use from Rep­u­ta­tion Man­age­ment Caribbean’s of­fice Nelleen Wor­rell re­marked that the phone was on for three days and was still alive.

This proved to be true days lat­er when I was placed in a predica­ment and need­ed to record an in­ter­view.

My phone’s bat­tery was dead but I went to look for the S20 Ul­tra 5G that re­mained un­charged for days, it still had juice.

The phone is out­fit­ted with a huge 5,000 mAH bat­tery and is said to be able to de­liv­er 12 hours of en­durance when set to the de­fault 60 Hz re­fresh rate.

I was able to record the in­ter­view with­out in­ci­dent.

Hal­lelu­jah!

The S20 Ul­tra 5G record­ing qual­i­ty has been im­proved with the high acoustic over­load point Mic that min­imis­es dis­tor­tion in noisy en­vi­ron­ments.

The colour, a cos­mic gray, can be de­scribed as so­phis­ti­cat­ed.

It al­so comes in cos­mic black.

There is al­so a slight curve on the right and left edges of the screen which al­lows for more screen in­ter­face.

My one com­plaint is that it has no head­phone jack.

I searched long and hard for one but sad­ly came up emp­ty-hand­ed.

If you’re look­ing for a phone with some amaz­ing ca­pa­bil­i­ties you won’t go wrong with the S20 Ul­tra 5G.