Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Neo Rahmen
TechRadar Verdict
It's easy to love the Notation 20'south S-Pen and the fun versatility of its triple-camera array. Simply its short battery life is testing, as is the sense that Samsung is really seeing how much profit information technology can squeeze out of each sale with this 1, more so than usual.
Pros
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Versatile iii-camera array
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S-Pen is brilliant, as always
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Strong performance
Cons
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Expensive for a phone with a plastic back
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Lower-res screen than other Samsung flagships
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Only has a 60Hz display
Two-minute review
The Galaxy Note 20 is a lower-cost alternative to the Note 20 Ultra. Information technology's a height telephone, if not a $1,300 one, equally the Ultra is, and you still get Samsung's all-time 2020 processor, a assuming OLED screen and the series's signature S-Pen stylus.
However, it'due south still not cheap, and Samsung has made more compromises here than it did with the drop down from the Galaxy S20 Ultra to the Galaxy S20 - though this is somewhat in line with differences betwixt the Galaxy S21 Ultra and the Milky way S21.
The Note twenty doesn't have a drinking glass back, an ultra-high-res screen or a curved front, and while none of these omissions has a huge impact on how the Note 20 feels to use, they brand the phone seem expensive for what you lot get.
The prospect of buying any phone in the region of $one,000 or more involves a moment where y'all accept to stop thinking nigh the toll and merely throw downwardly your credit bill of fare; but the expense hither is less obviously justified than usual. The Galaxy S20 Plus is a classier telephone with a better display and meliorate build, and is now cheaper online in some places.
There's no real improvement to the photographic camera tech in the Annotation twenty over the S20 phones either.
All of this puts more pressure level on the S-Pen, as it needs to do much of the heavy lifting in terms of justifying the Note 20's $1,000 toll. It's a fun accompaniment, and still the best drawing tool y'all can get for a phone – and if it helps you wean yourself off looking at social networks when you lot accept a spare moment, maybe that alone makes information technology worth the money.
There's some other problem, though. While the Galaxy Note xx has one of Samsung'due south typically efficient screens, the UK version runs on the Exynos 990 processor, which isn't all that easy on the juice – and due, we doubtable, in large part to this, the battery doesn't last as long as we'd like. It doesn't have the longevity to satisfy heavy users, and information technology never seemed to last us longer than a day.
If yous're a light or moderate telephone user who doesn't need the very latest tech in every area of your phone, and who doesn't want to pay the very highest prices, the Galaxy Notation 20 is slap-up. It has plenty of power, tried and tested software, and adept cameras, while the S-Pen really does offer something you don't get anywhere else.
Samsung Galaxy Note 20 price and release appointment
The Samsung Galaxy Note 20 launched in August 2020 alongside the Annotation xx Ultra, and is the more than affordable of the pair.
In the U.s. the 5G model with 128GB of storage costs $999. The cheaper 4G version isn't available in the US, which arguably makes sense when a 4G phone costing the better function of $1,000 would exist a bad investment.
In the UK the Note 20 starts at £849, which gets you the 4G model with 256GB of storage, and the 5G variant costs £949.
This means the 5G Annotation twenty is $300 cheaper than the base-model Note 20 Ultra in the US (with half the storage) or £230 less in the Great britain (with the same 256GB storage).
It's worth noting that while the in a higher place prices are what the Note xx launched at, it can at present often be institute for significantly less if you lot shop effectually.
There are no instructive price comparisons to be made other than with Samsung's other phones, as nothing else has anything to match the mighty Samsung S-Pen. But those not obsessed with owning the stylus should check out the S20 Plus and S20 Ultra, which accept dropped in price a lilliputian since they arrived earlier in 2020.
Y'all might also want to consider the Samsung Galaxy S21 range, with the standard model being more than affordable than nigh Samsung flagships, and the Samsung Milky way S21 Ultra coming with South-Pen back up - significant you don't even demand to purchase a Note to get Samsung'due south stylus anymore.
Thanks to Vodafone UK for providing TechRadar's review unit
Design
- Plastic back, metal sides
- Smaller than the Note twenty Ultra
- IP68 water resistance
The Samsung Milky way Note 20 might be the most expensive plastic telephone you can buy. Samsung has used plastic on the dorsum of this telephone in order to salvage on the toll of curved drinking glass.
Is it cheeky to try to sell u.s. a $1,000 plastic phone? Admittedly.
Still, Samsung has at least put some work into making the Note 20'due south back look as close to the Annotation 20 Ultra's matt glass equally possible. Information technology has the aforementioned light-diffusing style of finish, and information technology looks exactly like textured glass until you concur the phone – and then it feels like plastic. It'due south what the company is calling 'Glasstic'. The Samsung Milky way Note 20 is not all-plastic, though, as its sides are metal.
This is in several ways a watered-downwards Milky way Note xx Ultra, but that isn't always and everywhere a bad matter. The Notation 20's camera housing doesn't stick out anywhere near as much as the Ultra's, and the phone is significantly smaller, which will delight those with smaller easily or smaller pockets. If you want a larger device, opt for the Ultra.
Information technology measures 161.6 10 75.2 10 8.3mm, and shaving just a couple of millimetres off the width and peak makes the standard Note xx seem part of a different class to the Ultra, size-wise.
It's only slightly narrower than an iPhone 11, and bigger than 2019's Note 10, but as the number of genuinely small phones decreases, and more than budget ones endeavor to offer 'value' with e'er-larger displays, the Annotation 20 feels like no more than a mid-size phone.
The Annotation xx also has much less severe corners than the Note 20 Ultra, which softens its appearance. Information technology makes the Note 20 look more ordinary, but in a pleasant way.
A flat screen is some other nod to the ordinary, and some other area where Samsung has scrimped on the design. The Milky way Note 20 Ultra and other meridian Samsungs have curved glass on front end and back, which looks elegant and also makes those phones less large, because the casing tapers towards the parts you concord.
Curved glass makes a phone seem more luxurious, but as the Milky way Note xx notwithstanding has extremely small bezels, there's no corking functional loss hither. Some may even prefer a flat screen, as curved edges puddle reflections, which can be distracting when you're watching a video on your commute, although nosotros tend to get used to that a day into using a curved-glass phone.
Other top features are present. The Note 20 has a fairly quick in-screen fingerprint scanner and a adept confront unlock feature. It'southward IP68 h2o/dust-resistant likewise, made to take submersion in 1.five meters of h2o or less for up to 30 minutes.
There are stereo speakers, i above the screen and another on the bottom of the phone. These are loud and clear, lacking only some of the bass of the Note 20 Ultra's speakers, which may just be downwards to the bigger phone having a larger enclosure.
South-Pen
- Cartoon with the S-Pen feels great
- Air Actions Bluetooth motion gestures
- 18ms latency
As with other Annotation phones, one of the highlight features of the Notation xx is Samsung'due south S-Pen and the stylus itself is exactly like the Note 20 Ultra'southward. Accept information technology out of its slot on the left side of the phone'south base and the Due south-Pen interface icon appears on your screen.
This is a unproblematic bill of fare of shortcuts that accept you to all the essential S-Pen features. These include the Notes app, the screen-writing feature, the doodler app PENUP, translations and Live Messages.
What are Live Messages? The Annotation xx tin create a mini video of you drawing on the photographic camera view, an paradigm from the gallery or a colorful background.
PENUP is the existent place to commencement for cartoon. It'due south a Samsung-fabricated app that offers bones drawing and digital painting, with some advanced touches similar semi-realistic modeling of what happens when you put one layer of paint over another.
Drawing on a Note xx is fun, and the core feel of tracing the Due south-Pen nib over the screen, whether you leave the manufactory-applied screen protector in place or not, is great. It's a much amend fashion to spend a lazy twenty minutes than scrolling through Twitter or Instagram.
Still, PENUP does not support layers – you'll need to switch to an app like Autodesk SketchBook or Adobe Photoshop Sketch for anything more involved, and these both get on with the S-Pen and its 4,096 pressure sensitivity levels just fine.
A sketching session reveals some other difference between the standard Note 20 and the Note 20 Ultra, though. This phone doesn't have the pricier one's ultra-fast 9ms response time, which ways the input lags backside the pen nib just a little. Nosotros noticed it most when filling in fine item, although given that its response is reportedly 18ms (still quick), the lag may really be caused past the app working out how the current stroke should interact with the ones already on the paper.
The Note 20 S-Pen supports Samsung'southward wireless control features. There's a little battery in the S-Pen, and motion sensors that tin can distinguish circles drawn in the air from upward and downward swipes.
This allows for Samsung's Air Actions gestures. They can command the rails and volume when playing music, and at that place are five other gestures that can be programmed. You can also utilise the button on the side of the pen to actuate the camera.
Hardly anyone is likely to make full use of the Note 20's Air Actions, merely camera and music control may come up in handy.
And, as ever, the Due south-Pen is the best reason to buy a Note device over 1 of Samsung's S-series phones, although since the Note 20's launch that's become slightly less true, equally the stylus is besides supported past the Samsung Milky way S21 Ultra - though it's sold separately at that place, and at that place's no slot for information technology.
Brandish
- 2400 x 1080 AMOLED panel
- 60Hz refresh rate
- 570nit brightness
The Samsung Galaxy Note twenty has a six.64-inch OLED screen that, on commencement glance, seems quite like to the Note 20 Ultra's.
Its OLED panel offers great color and contrast, and images really pop, and you can cull whether to use the screen'south native color gamut or the ultra-reserved sRGB (labelled 'Natural' in the settings). It supports HDR video as well.
Yet, the Note twenty misses out on all of the Notation 20 Ultra's high-stop screen features, and information technology's this, more than anything, that sets the 2 devices apart.
High refresh rate is the obvious ane. This is the most visible modify in phone display tech of the last year or so, and along with several other of this year's flagships, the Ultra has a 120Hz screen.
The Note 20, though, has a 'standard' 60Hz refresh rate. If you're reading this there'due south a good chance your current phone has a 60Hz screen, simply 90Hz and 120Hz ones are condign increasingly common.
It makes Android's app homepages glide by much more smoothly, and y'all really observe the deviation when scrolling your social media feeds. It doesn't just look nice, it plays a perceptual trick that makes the phone seem to run faster all-round.
Even the Poco X3 NFC offers a 120Hz refresh rate – and at a much, much lower price than the Note 20.
Resolution is much lower hither than on the Ultra or Milky way S20 besides. The Annotation 20 has a 2400 x 1080 pixel screen, which is Full HD elongated to fit the 20:nine aspect ratio. It's hands loftier-res plenty to make text and images appear nice and sharp, but if you expect closely you can see the feature granularity of Samsung's PenTile OLED panels.
Effulgence is likewise in a completely different league on the Note 20 Ultra. It hits around 600 nits in everyday conditions, and has a 'turbo' way that kicks in when it's very bright outdoors, increasing peak effulgence to an incredible ~1600 nits.
On the Note xx, we measured 370 nits at max brightness indoors using a SpyerX Pro colorimeter, and after diggings the screen with a 121-LED spotlight to simulate bright conditions this increased to 568 nits.
This is enough for comfortable outdoors viewing, just the Ultra's far greater peak brightness is a big benefit when you're taking photos out in the sun, as yous can see what yous're shooting much more easily. It helps if yous're watching Netflix outside, also.
The Note 20 screen is as well less bright than the standard Galaxy S20'southward, according to our testing. And then this isn't a true loftier-end display in 2020, fifty-fifty if information technology is still a nice 1.
Camera
- 12 megapixel f/ane.8 primary camera
- 12-megapixel f/ii.2 ultra-wide
- 64-megapixel 8K/zoom camera with 1.1x optical zoom
The Samsung Galaxy Annotation xx has 3 rear cameras and one up front, and both the hardware and image quality are similar to what yous become with the Milky way S20 phones.
The chief photographic camera has a 12-megapixel Samsung s2k2ld sensor with an f/i.8 lens. The drop-off in sharpness at the frame corners isn't too bad, and the sensor is a large 1/1.76-inch flake, allowing for too-large one.8-micron pixels. It's a strong sensor.
The ultra-wide photographic camera is smashing too – information technology's a slightly smaller 12-megapixel sensor with 1.4-micron pixels and an f/2.ii lens. Shoot indoors with this photographic camera and you'll see more noise than from the main camera, just only switch to the Note twenty's Night manner and virtually of that granularity will drop away. Again, information technology'south a potent performer.
If there's a weak indicate – peculiarly given the price you're paying – it's the zoom photographic camera. The Note twenty does not have a true optical zoom like the Note 20 Ultra'south. It'south a 64-megapixel sensor with an only slightly longer focal length than the master photographic camera, 27mm (equivalent) as against 26mm.
Samsung says it provides "3x hybrid zoom", which is effectively a tiny, tiny amount of optical zoom, plus a crop into a sensor that's much higher-resolution than the chief 1. You see the aforementioned tech in the Galaxy S20 and S20 Plus.
While it's not truthful optical zoom, information technology even so does the job. Detail at 3x is far greater than from the main camera, which is all virtually using large sensor pixels to max-out dynamic range and image quality. Pixel-peeping detail isn't the priority with that camera, leaving room for a dedicated high-res zoom sensor.
Samsung lets yous have photos at upwardly to 30x zoom, to give yous some of the aforementioned flexibility as the S20 Ultra and Notation xx Ultra. Not surprisingly, however, these images wait dreadful – capturing 30x images with a i.1x lens requires a huge amount of digital zoom. Even 3x images but look adept if you don't showtime inspecting them down at pixel level.
This is especially highlighted because the main camera'due south images really do tend to hold up to such scrutiny. Using larger sensor pixels means Samsung doesn't have to apply intense processing in all areas to get images to their final state. If you currently own an older Samsung flagship, you may be familiar with the 'oil painting' effect that'due south applied to leaves and blades of drinking glass – there'south very little of that here.
Even so, the Milky way Note 20 is a little also keen on processing in other areas. Skies tend to look likewise blueish, whether you use the scene optimizer way or not, while grass is usually hyped to make the picture pop. And despite excellent dynamic range boosting, all 3 cameras have a tendency to permit clouds become blown out in order to make the image brighter in full general.
This isn't a sound pick, as while dimmer parts of a motion picture can be jazzed upwards earlier y'all post them to Instagram, yous can't recover blown-out particular – and information technology happens too oft with the Galaxy Notation 20.
The telephone is also poor for macro images, where you get right upwards close to the subject to bring out, for example, the fine detail in flowers or a spider'south web. None of the iii cameras lets you get specially close, and the depth of field on the main camera is really too shallow to let for striking close-ups with nicely blurred backdrops.
All this said, there'south plenty to similar almost the Note xx camera experience. Live Focus, the background blur mode, is pretty good, and lets you accept arty-looking images with near-null attempt.
The Dark fashion is great likewise, merely a half-step behind the Annotation 20 Ultra and the very best from Huawei and Google. It improves the already good depression-light performance of the optically stabilized master camera, not just lifting detail out of the shadows, but firming up detail and clarity across the frame by merging multiple exposures.
The Notation 20's video capabilities match the Galaxy S20'southward. You lot can shoot at upwards to 8K resolution, and the 8K way does offer extra detail over 4K capture. It uses the 1.1x 64-megapixel telephoto photographic camera, considering the resolution of 8K video is far greater than 12MP (it's 33MP).
However, you lot should ignore the 8K option most of the time, as it'southward virtually unstabilized and panning motion looks hasty, thanks to dropped frames.
Results at 4K 60p and beneath are much more consistent. The Note xx offers skillful electronic stabilization at this setting, although (perhaps counter intuitively) the path of movement ofttimes looks cleaner at 30fps. Stick to 30fps if you want to shoot in low light too, as 60fps naturally limits the exposure time possible for each frame.
You can have the near fun with mid-shoot editing at 4K 30fps and below. These settings allow you lot motion picture between the 3x, 1x and 0.5x views during capture (this is disabled at 4K 60p), and allow you lot play the film director while capturing a video.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 20's 10-megapixel selfie camera is smashing. Images taken in adept and moderate light are packed with fine facial particular, and while in that location'south only one lens the app offers two fields of view. The narrower 1 uses a 6.5MP ingather, and is probably what you lot'll want to use for solo selfies; get upward close with the broad view and, well, permit's just say the perspective gets less flattering.
In extremely low lite yous'll still be able to brand out your confront conspicuously. Detail will have been all only obliterated, though, so consider switching on the display flash – this fires a nail of warm colour at you simply as the exposure happens, to bring image quality much closer to that of a well-lit scene.
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Specs and performance
- Exynos 990 CPU in UK / Snapdragon 865 Plus in US
- 8GB RAM / 256GB storage (128GB in US)
- Very good gaming and general functioning
The Note 20 is a lesser phone than the Note 20 Ultra in a lot of ways, but the processor is non ane of them. Equally is the case with the Annotation 20 Ultra and the S20 series, in the Uk and Commonwealth of australia the Note 20 runs on the Samsung Exynos 990 processor, while US models accept the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus CPU.
Given the option, we'd prefer the Snapdragon, which has a better GPU and superior power efficiency.
There'southward no obvious shortfall in performance 24-hour interval-to-twenty-four hour period, though. The Note xx feels fast, and tin play games very well, and Epic Games lets you play Fortnite at 60fps, where nigh phones are capped at 30fps. You won't meet a solid 60fps whole playing though – the refresh rate jumps all over the place, dropping downward into the 40s, with dips below 30fps every bit assets load. Simply the Note 20 is however a cracking telephone for demanding games.
The phone scores 2701 in Geekbench five, which is the same sort of result you lot'd see from the Note twenty Ultra, S20 Ultra, S20 Plus or S20; aforementioned CPU, roughly the same power.
The Milky way Note 20 may feel slightly slower than the Note 20 Ultra in places because of its 60Hz screen, but it's no less powerful a phone.
Its software is the same besides. The Milky way Notation 20 runs Android x (updateable to Android 11) with Samsung's Ane UI on top. Information technology's a beautiful-simply-tasteful interface, with the main point of divergence from vanilla Android beingness the app drawer manner, with pages replacing the vertical scroll used in almost other 2020 takes on Android.
One UI also has an extra habitation screen called Samsung Daily. This is populated past widget-like panels that testify the latest news, and updates from apps like Spotify. Nigh are likely to ignore Samsung Daily, simply it'due south non terrible.
Battery life
Any discussion of the Note 20's bombardment life has to start with an important disclaimer: nosotros're reviewing the UK/Europe/Commonwealth of australia version of the telephone, which has an Exynos processor.
Our experiences with other top Samsungs show the US versions, which take Snapdragon CPUs, tend to last noticeably longer between charges – and let's hope this is the case once more here, because the UK version of the Note twenty does non provide great battery life.
Our US Samsung Milky way Note 20 Ultra lasted for a full 24-hour interval, and frequently had over 20% leftover at the end of a long twenty-four hours. The Notation twenty has a 4300mAh cell, 200mAh smaller than the Note 20 Ultra's. And our Great britain unit of measurement fails the 'confidence test'.
That's to say, start with a total charge in the morning and you don't feel safe in the knowledge that the Note xx volition final until you go dwelling if y'all get out for the evening – at one indicate nosotros had to turn the phone off when we were in a bar to make sure at that place was plenty juice for some Spotify on the way abode.
Having switched to the Galaxy Note twenty from the long-lasting (and cheap) Poco X3 NFC, this was disappointing. A power-user phone like this needs power-user battery life, and it doesn't have it – and this failing is highlighted by the glut of much cheaper phones from Realme, Xiaomi and Oppo that seem to last a full day no matter what you're doing.
Playing a 90-minute video at maximum brightness drained 11% of the battery, starting from fully charged. This is a very good result, amid the all-time, suggesting the screen itself is efficient. We re-ran the examination starting at 65% battery instead of 100%, in instance the outset result was skewed by how the Note 20 reports the bombardment level (some hold onto '100%' for a while), simply it still merely lost 12%.
And then the Galaxy Note 20 will last plenty long in a video playback drag race, but doesn't fare so well out in the real world.
Y'all get a 25W charger in the box, and this takes the Annotation 20 from flat to 38% in 30 minutes. That'south nowhere about the fastest around, simply there's more: the phone supports 15W wireless charging and reverse wireless charging, which is handy if yous have true wireless earphones that tin be charged over the Qi standard.
Should I buy the Samsung Milky way Annotation twenty?
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Offset reviewed: September 2020
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