Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Fiche Technique
TechRadar Verdict
It's like shooting fish in a barrel to dearest the Note 20's S-Pen and the fun versatility of its triple-camera array. Simply its short bombardment life is testing, as is the sense that Samsung is actually seeing how much profit it can squeeze out of each sale with this one, more so than usual.
Pros
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Versatile three-camera array
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South-Pen is brilliant, as ever
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Strong performance
Cons
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Expensive for a telephone with a plastic dorsum
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Lower-res screen than other Samsung flagships
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Simply has a 60Hz display
Two-minute review
The Galaxy Note 20 is a lower-cost alternative to the Note xx Ultra. Information technology's a top phone, if non a $1,300 one, as the Ultra is, and y'all still go Samsung's best 2020 processor, a bold OLED screen and the serial's signature Southward-Pen stylus.
Nevertheless, it's still not cheap, and Samsung has made more than compromises here than it did with the drop down from the Milky way S20 Ultra to the Galaxy S20 - though this is somewhat in line with differences betwixt the Galaxy S21 Ultra and the Galaxy S21.
The Note 20 doesn't have a drinking glass back, an ultra-high-res screen or a curved forepart, and while none of these omissions has a huge impact on how the Note 20 feels to use, they make the phone seem expensive for what you get.
The prospect of buying whatsoever phone in the region of $1,000 or more than involves a moment where you lot have to stop thinking about the cost and just throw downward your credit bill of fare; but the expense here is less obviously justified than usual. The Galaxy S20 Plus is a classier phone with a better display and better build, and is at present cheaper online in some places.
There'south no real improvement to the camera tech in the Note 20 over the S20 phones either.
All of this puts more than pressure level on the Due south-Pen, every bit it needs to do much of the heavy lifting in terms of justifying the Annotation twenty's $1,000 price. It'due south a fun accessory, and all the same the best drawing tool you lot tin become for a phone – and if information technology helps yous wean yourself off looking at social networks when you lot have a spare moment, perhaps that alone makes information technology worth the money.
There's some other problem, though. While the Milky way Notation twenty has one of Samsung's typically efficient screens, the UK version runs on the Exynos 990 processor, which isn't all that easy on the juice – and due, nosotros doubtable, in large function to this, the battery doesn't last as long as we'd like. It doesn't have the longevity to satisfy heavy users, and it never seemed to last us longer than a day.
If you're a light or moderate phone 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 Note 20 is great. Information technology has plenty of ability, tried and tested software, and good cameras, while the S-Pen really does offer something you don't become anywhere else.
Samsung Galaxy Note xx price and release appointment
The Samsung Galaxy Note xx launched in August 2020 alongside the Note twenty Ultra, and is the more affordable of the pair.
In the US the 5G model with 128GB of storage costs $999. The cheaper 4G version isn't available in the U.s., which arguably makes sense when a 4G phone costing the amend part of $1,000 would be a bad investment.
In the UK the Note twenty starts at £849, which gets you the 4G model with 256GB of storage, and the 5G variant costs £949.
This means the 5G Annotation 20 is $300 cheaper than the base-model Annotation 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 to a higher place prices are what the Note twenty launched at, it can now often exist found for significantly less if y'all store around.
There are no instructive toll comparisons to exist made other than with Samsung'due south other phones, as nix else has anything to friction match the mighty Samsung South-Pen. But those not obsessed with owning the stylus should check out the S20 Plus and S20 Ultra, which accept dropped in price a little since they arrived earlier in 2020.
You might also want to consider the Samsung Galaxy S21 range, with the standard model existence more affordable than well-nigh Samsung flagships, and the Samsung Milky way S21 Ultra coming with South-Pen support - meaning you don't even need to buy a Note to go Samsung'southward stylus anymore.
Cheers to Vodafone United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland for providing TechRadar'south review unit
Design
- Plastic back, metal sides
- Smaller than the Note twenty Ultra
- IP68 water resistance
The Samsung Milky way Note twenty might exist the almost expensive plastic phone you can buy. Samsung has used plastic on the back of this phone in guild to save on the cost of curved glass.
Is information technology cheeky to attempt to sell united states of america a $1,000 plastic phone? Absolutely.
However, Samsung has at least put some work into making the Note twenty's back look as shut to the Note 20 Ultra's matt glass as possible. It has the same light-diffusing style of finish, and it looks exactly like textured glass until you concord the telephone – and and so it feels like plastic. It'due south what the visitor is calling 'Glasstic'. The Samsung Galaxy Annotation xx is not all-plastic, though, as its sides are metallic.
This is in several ways a watered-downward Galaxy Note 20 Ultra, but that isn't always and everywhere a bad affair. The Note 20's camera housing doesn't stick out anywhere virtually every bit much equally the Ultra's, and the phone is significantly smaller, which volition please those with smaller hands or smaller pockets. If yous want a larger device, opt for the Ultra.
It measures 161.6 x 75.2 x 8.3mm, and shaving but a couple of millimetres off the width and pinnacle makes the standard Notation 20 seem part of a different grade to the Ultra, size-wise.
It'south only slightly narrower than an iPhone 11, and bigger than 2019'due south Note x, but as the number of genuinely small-scale phones decreases, and more budget ones try to offer 'value' with ever-larger displays, the Annotation 20 feels like no more than than a mid-size phone.
The Note xx too has much less severe corners than the Notation 20 Ultra, which softens its appearance. Information technology makes the Note 20 expect more ordinary, just in a pleasant mode.
A flat screen is another nod to the ordinary, and some other area where Samsung has scrimped on the design. The Galaxy Note 20 Ultra and other top Samsungs have curved glass on front and back, which looks elegant and also makes those phones less large, because the casing tapers towards the parts you concur.
Curved glass makes a phone seem more luxurious, merely as the Galaxy Note 20 still has extremely pocket-size bezels, there's no great functional loss here. 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 we 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 good face unlock feature. It'south IP68 water/dust-resistant likewise, fabricated to take submersion in i.5 meters of water or less for upwardly to thirty minutes.
There are stereo speakers, ane above the screen and another on the lesser of the phone. These are loud and clear, defective but some of the bass of the Notation xx Ultra'south speakers, which may just be down to the bigger telephone having a larger enclosure.
S-Pen
- Drawing with the South-Pen feels groovy
- Air Deportment Bluetooth motion gestures
- 18ms latency
As with other Note phones, one of the highlight features of the Note 20 is Samsung's S-Pen and the stylus itself is exactly similar the Note 20 Ultra's. Have it out of its slot on the left side of the phone's base of operations and the S-Pen interface icon appears on your screen.
This is a simple menu of shortcuts that take you to all the essential Due south-Pen features. These include the Notes app, the screen-writing characteristic, the doodler app PENUP, translations and Alive Messages.
What are Alive Messages? The Note twenty can create a mini video of you drawing on the camera view, an image from the gallery or a colorful background.
PENUP is the existent identify to start for cartoon. It's a Samsung-fabricated app that offers basic cartoon and digital painting, with some advanced touches like semi-realistic modeling of what happens when you put ane layer of paint over another.
Cartoon on a Note 20 is fun, and the core experience of tracing the S-Pen nib over the screen, whether you leave the factory-practical screen protector in place or not, is great. It's a much better fashion to spend a lazy 20 minutes than scrolling through Twitter or Instagram.
Withal, PENUP does not back up layers – yous'll demand to switch to an app like Autodesk SketchBook or Adobe Photoshop Sketch for annihilation more than involved, and these both get on with the Due south-Pen and its iv,096 pressure sensitivity levels just fine.
A sketching session reveals another deviation between the standard Annotation 20 and the Note 20 Ultra, though. This telephone doesn't have the pricier one's ultra-fast 9ms response time, which means the input lags behind the pen beak only a fiddling. We noticed it most when filling in fine item, although given that its response is reportedly 18ms (still quick), the lag may actually be caused past the app working out how the current stroke should collaborate with the ones already on the paper.
The Notation twenty South-Pen supports Samsung'south wireless control features. In that location'south a petty battery in the S-Pen, and movement sensors that can distinguish circles fatigued in the air from upward and downward swipes.
This allows for Samsung'due south Air Actions gestures. They tin can control the track and volume when playing music, and at that place are v other gestures that tin be programmed. You can also utilize the button on the side of the pen to activate the camera.
Hardly anyone is likely to make total use of the Note 20's Air Actions, but camera and music control may come in handy.
And, as ever, the S-Pen is the all-time reason to buy a Notation device over i of Samsung's Due south-series phones, although since the Annotation 20's launch that'south get slightly less truthful, as the stylus is as well supported by the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra - though it's sold separately there, and there's no slot for information technology.
Display
- 2400 10 1080 AMOLED panel
- 60Hz refresh rate
- 570nit brightness
The Samsung Galaxy Note twenty has a vi.64-inch OLED screen that, on showtime glance, seems quite similar to the Note 20 Ultra'south.
Its OLED panel offers swell color and contrast, and images actually popular, and you can cull whether to use the screen's native color gamut or the ultra-reserved sRGB (labelled 'Natural' in the settings). It supports HDR video as well.
However, the Note 20 misses out on all of the Annotation twenty Ultra's high-end screen features, and it's this, more than anything, that sets the ii devices apart.
High refresh rate is the obvious one. This is the almost visible change in phone display tech of the last year or so, and forth with several other of this year'south flagships, the Ultra has a 120Hz screen.
The Annotation twenty, though, has a 'standard' 60Hz refresh charge per unit. If you're reading this there'southward a good hazard your electric current phone has a 60Hz screen, merely 90Hz and 120Hz ones are becoming increasingly common.
It makes Android's app homepages glide past much more smoothly, and you really notice the difference when scrolling your social media feeds. It doesn't simply look nice, it plays a perceptual play a joke on 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 here than on the Ultra or Galaxy S20 also. The Annotation 20 has a 2400 x 1080 pixel screen, which is Full HD elongated to fit the 20:9 attribute ratio. It's easily high-res plenty to make text and images appear nice and sharp, but if yous look closely you can meet the characteristic granularity of Samsung'southward PenTile OLED panels.
Brightness is also in a completely dissimilar league on the Note 20 Ultra. Information technology hits effectually 600 nits in everyday conditions, and has a 'turbo' mode that kicks in when information technology'southward very bright outdoors, increasing peak brightness to an incredible ~1600 nits.
On the Note 20, we measured 370 nits at max brightness indoors using a SpyerX Pro colorimeter, and afterward diggings the screen with a 121-LED spotlight to simulate brilliant conditions this increased to 568 nits.
This is enough for comfortable outdoors viewing, but the Ultra'southward far greater height effulgence is a large benefit when you're taking photos out in the sun, every bit you can encounter what you're shooting much more than hands. It helps if you're watching Netflix outside, too.
The Note xx screen is also less bright than the standard Milky way S20's, according to our testing. So this isn't a true high-stop display in 2020, even if it is yet a nice one.
Camera
- 12 megapixel f/1.8 main photographic camera
- 12-megapixel f/2.two ultra-wide
- 64-megapixel 8K/zoom camera with ane.1x optical zoom
The Samsung Galaxy Note 20 has iii rear cameras and one up front, and both the hardware and image quality are like to what you get with the Milky way S20 phones.
The main camera has a 12-megapixel Samsung s2k2ld sensor with an f/one.8 lens. The drop-off in sharpness at the frame corners isn't too bad, and the sensor is a large one/1.76-inch chip, allowing for likewise-large i.8-micron pixels. It's a strong sensor.
The ultra-wide photographic camera is great too – information technology's a slightly smaller 12-megapixel sensor with 1.4-micron pixels and an f/2.2 lens. Shoot indoors with this photographic camera and y'all'll see more than racket than from the main camera, but just switch to the Annotation 20's Night mode and most of that granularity volition drib abroad. Again, it's a stiff performer.
If in that location'southward a weak point – particularly given the price y'all're paying – it'southward the zoom camera. The Note 20 does not have a truthful optical zoom similar the Note 20 Ultra's. It's a 64-megapixel sensor with an just slightly longer focal length than the primary camera, 27mm (equivalent) equally 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'south much higher-resolution than the principal one. You lot meet the same tech in the Galaxy S20 and S20 Plus.
While it's not true optical zoom, it yet does the task. Particular at 3x is far greater than from the main photographic camera, which is all nigh using large sensor pixels to max-out dynamic range and image quality. Pixel-peeping particular isn't the priority with that camera, leaving room for a dedicated high-res zoom sensor.
Samsung lets y'all take photos at up to 30x zoom, to give you lot some of the same flexibility as the S20 Ultra and Note xx Ultra. Not surprisingly, still, these images look dreadful – capturing 30x images with a ane.1x lens requires a huge amount of digital zoom. Even 3x images only expect good if you lot don't kickoff inspecting them down at pixel level.
This is especially highlighted considering the principal camera'due south images really practice tend to concord up to such scrutiny. Using larger sensor pixels means Samsung doesn't have to use intense processing in all areas to become images to their final state. If you currently own an older Samsung flagship, yous may be familiar with the 'oil painting' issue that'south applied to leaves and blades of drinking glass – there's very little of that here.
However, the Galaxy Note 20 is a petty too great on processing in other areas. Skies tend to await too blue, whether you utilize the scene optimizer mode or non, while grass is commonly hyped to make the picture pop. And despite excellent dynamic range boosting, all three cameras have a tendency to let clouds go blown out in order to make the image brighter in general.
This isn't a sound pick, as while dimmer parts of a pic can exist jazzed upwardly before y'all postal service them to Instagram, you lot can't recover blown-out particular – and it happens too often with the Galaxy Note 20.
The phone is also poor for macro images, where you go right up close to the field of study to bring out, for example, the fine detail in flowers or a spider's web. None of the three cameras lets you lot get peculiarly shut, and the depth of field on the master camera is really likewise shallow to let for striking shut-ups with nicely blurred backdrops.
All this said, there'due south plenty to like most the Note 20 camera feel. Live Focus, the background mistiness style, is pretty good, and lets y'all take arty-looking images with almost-zero effort.
The Night fashion is dandy too, just a half-step behind the Note xx Ultra and the very best from Huawei and Google. It improves the already good depression-low-cal performance of the optically stabilized principal photographic camera, not simply lifting detail out of the shadows, just firming up particular and clarity beyond the frame past merging multiple exposures.
The Note 20's video capabilities match the Galaxy S20'due south. You can shoot at up to 8K resolution, and the 8K style does offer extra detail over 4K capture. Information technology uses the i.1x 64-megapixel telephoto photographic camera, because the resolution of 8K video is far greater than 12MP (it'due south 33MP).
All the same, yous should ignore the 8K choice most of the time, as it'south virtually unstabilized and panning motion looks hasty, thanks to dropped frames.
Results at 4K 60p and below are much more consistent. The Notation 20 offers good electronic stabilization at this setting, although (perhaps counter intuitively) the path of movement ofttimes looks cleaner at 30fps. Stick to 30fps if yous desire to shoot in low low-cal too, as 60fps naturally limits the exposure time possible for each frame.
Yous can accept the most fun with mid-shoot editing at 4K 30fps and beneath. These settings let yous flick between the 3x, 1x and 0.5x views during capture (this is disabled at 4K 60p), and let you play the film director while capturing a video.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 20's 10-megapixel selfie photographic camera is great. Images taken in expert and moderate light are packed with fine facial particular, and while there's only 1 lens the app offers two fields of view. The narrower one uses a 6.5MP ingather, and is probably what you'll desire to use for solo selfies; get upwards close with the broad view and, well, let'due south simply say the perspective gets less flattering.
In extremely low light you'll still be able to make out your face up clearly. Item will have been all simply obliterated, though, and then consider switching on the display flash – this fires a blast of warm color at you merely as the exposure happens, to bring prototype quality much closer to that of a well-lit scene.
Photographic camera samples
Specs and functioning
- Exynos 990 CPU in UK / Snapdragon 865 Plus in US
- 8GB RAM / 256GB storage (128GB in U.s.a.)
- Very practiced gaming and full general performance
The Note 20 is a bottom phone than the Note twenty Ultra in a lot of ways, but the processor is not one of them. As is the example with the Note twenty Ultra and the S20 series, in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland and Australia the Notation 20 runs on the Samsung Exynos 990 processor, while US models have the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 Plus CPU.
Given the choice, we'd prefer the Snapdragon, which has a better GPU and superior power efficiency.
There's no obvious shortfall in performance day-to-day, though. The Note 20 feels fast, and can play games very well, and Epic Games lets you play Fortnite at 60fps, where well-nigh phones are capped at 30fps. You won't run across a solid 60fps whole playing though – the refresh rate jumps all over the place, dropping downward into the 40s, with dips beneath 30fps as assets load. But the Note 20 is still a not bad phone for demanding games.
The phone scores 2701 in Geekbench v, which is the same sort of event yous'd see from the Annotation 20 Ultra, S20 Ultra, S20 Plus or S20; same CPU, roughly the aforementioned power.
The Galaxy Note 20 may feel slightly slower than the Notation 20 Ultra in places because of its 60Hz screen, just it'southward no less powerful a phone.
Its software is the aforementioned too. The Galaxy Note 20 runs Android x (updateable to Android eleven) with Samsung's One UI on pinnacle. It's a cute-only-tasteful interface, with the primary signal of departure from vanilla Android existence the app drawer style, with pages replacing the vertical ringlet used in most other 2020 takes on Android.
One UI also has an extra home screen chosen Samsung Daily. This is populated by widget-similar panels that show the latest news, and updates from apps like Spotify. Most are likely to ignore Samsung Daily, but information technology's not terrible.
Battery life
Any discussion of the Notation 20's battery life has to start with an important disclaimer: nosotros're reviewing the Great britain/Europe/Australia version of the phone, which has an Exynos processor.
Our experiences with other top Samsungs show the Us versions, which have Snapdragon CPUs, tend to final noticeably longer between charges – and permit's hope this is the instance again here, because the Britain version of the Note 20 does not provide great bombardment life.
Our US Samsung Galaxy Annotation 20 Ultra lasted for a full 24-hour interval, and often had over twenty% leftover at the end of a long solar day. The Notation twenty has a 4300mAh cell, 200mAh smaller than the Note xx Ultra's. And our United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland unit fails the 'confidence examination'.
That's to say, offset with a full charge in the morning and you don't experience prophylactic in the knowledge that the Annotation 20 volition concluding until y'all become dwelling house if you lot get out for the evening – at one signal we had to turn the telephone off when nosotros were in a bar to make sure there was enough juice for some Spotify on the way home.
Having switched to the Galaxy Note 20 from the long-lasting (and cheap) Poco X3 NFC, this was disappointing. A power-user phone like this needs power-user bombardment life, and it doesn't take it – and this declining is highlighted by the overabundance of much cheaper phones from Realme, Xiaomi and Oppo that seem to last a full 24-hour interval no thing what you lot're doing.
Playing a 90-minute video at maximum effulgence drained 11% of the battery, starting from fully charged. This is a very adept issue, among the all-time, suggesting the screen itself is efficient. We re-ran the test starting at 65% battery instead of 100%, in case the start result was skewed by how the Annotation 20 reports the bombardment level (some hold onto '100%' for a while), but it still simply lost 12%.
Then the Galaxy Note 20 will last plenty long in a video playback drag race, simply doesn't fare so well out in the real world.
You get a 25W charger in the box, and this takes the Notation xx from flat to 38% in 30 minutes. That'due south nowhere near the fastest effectually, simply there's more: the phone supports 15W wireless charging and contrary wireless charging, which is handy if you lot take truthful wireless earphones that can exist charged over the Qi standard.
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Starting time reviewed: September 2020
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