Samsung concluded its Unpacked event last week unveiling 5 new products in total. While the quality Galaxy Note 20 seems like a hot mess (at least for the price), its Ultra sibling are some things to seem out for. Featuring a replacement design language, a correct flagship spec-sheet, and an unsurprisingly hefty selling price , the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra represents Samsung’s premium Note experience for this year. and therefore the excellent news is, it's available for purchase in Nepal officially with 1 year of breakage insurance.



Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Overview

Design

The regular Note 20 left tons to be desired and thankfully, that’s not the case in terms of the Note 20 Ultra. It features a full-fledged glass body with metal frames, so you would like not worry about a cheap feel in the least . As always, it's IP68 dust/water resistant too. But what’s exciting is that this phone also marks the debut of the all-new Corning Gorilla Glass Victus. The successor to the Gorilla Glass 6, this new technology ensures more fall safety and scratch resistance than ever.


Precisely, it can survive a 2-meter drop while simultaneously also being impervious to varied sorts of scratches. Moving on, the rear of the phone features a matte finish and is out there in three color options: Mystic Bronze, Mystic White, and Mystic Black. Similarly, there’s an enormous rectangular camera bump housing the triple rear lenses. and therefore the cutouts, yeah they’re more pronounced than ever with the backplate colored during a matching aesthetics of the rear panel itself.


Here, the new IP68-certified S Pen is now positioned to the left, which brings a few of exciting features with it. Samsung has managed to scale back the input latency by nearly five times from 42ms to only 9ms on this stylus. With this, the writing experience should be near paper-like. It also supports new “Air Actions” using which you'll navigate the phone, take screenshots, etc. without physically connecting the phone’s screen with the S Pen.


Display

Coming to the front, you get an enormous 6.9-inches WQHD+ Dynamic AMOLED 2X Infinity-O display. Unlike the Note 20, it's curved a touch though not excessively like we’ve seen in phones from companies like Huawei, OPPO, Xiaomi, and Vivo with their “Waterfall Display”. In fact, its curvature is that the same as within the Galaxy S20 series.


Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra - Display


More importantly, Note 20 Ultra’s display features a 120Hz refresh rate and a 240Hz touch rate . It also utilizes LTPO (Low-Temperature Polycrystalline Oxide) technology using which the display can dynamically change its refresh rate. this could definitely help in maintaining good battery health. a bit like the rear of the phone, the display is additionally protected by Gorilla Glass Victus.


The Infinity-O display houses a front-facing camera inside alittle punch-hole cutout. Its diameter is noticeably smaller than the one on Note 20. Moreover, it's also HDR10+ certified and features a terrific 496 PPI of sharpness. beat all, the Note 20 Ultra is well on its thanks to bag the “best smartphone display” award for the year.


Performance & Memory

Note fanatics on North America and a few of Asian markets like China and South Korea will certainly be delighted to understand that the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra is powered by the new & mighty Snapdragon 865+. On the contrary, the remainder of the market will need to cope with the objectively inferior Exynos 990.


Memory-wise, you’re getting 12GB of LPDDR5 RAM with either 128, 256, or 512GB of UFS 3.1 storage within the 5G variant. Similarly, the LTE models will pack in 8GB of LPDDR5 RAM with 256 or 512GB of storage. But unlike Note 20, you are doing get an SD card support which may absorb up to 1TB of auxiliary storage . Note 20 Ultra also brings UWB (Ultra WideBand) technology that we first saw in Apple’s iPhone 11 Pro. Using this, this phone are often used as a digital key. Google’s latest Nearby Share data transfer feature also becomes much faster between UWB-enabled Galaxy devices.


Microsoft-integration

Samsung’s partnership with Microsoft has become more intimate than ever. you'll run your Samsung phone’s app during a Windows PC, pin them to the taskbar, and more. Your documents inside the “Samsung Notes” also will sync to OneNote prey on Outlook; but not the opposite way around. the corporate is additionally offering 3 months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for free of charge with the Note 20 series. Here, you'll also choose a bundle that gives a game controller and a clip with it.


Cameras

Moving to the cameras, Note 20 Ultra comes with a far better triple-lens system compared to the quality Note 20. it's a huge 108MP main sensor with alittle 0.8μm pixel size with PDAF and OIS, a 12MP ultrawide camera with 120˚ FOV, and eventually a 12MP telephoto camera that's capable of 5x lossless optical zoom and 50X digital Space Zoom. The rear camera arrangement is additionally aided by a fanatical Laser AF (AutoFocus) sensor. On the front, it's a 10MP selfie camera with Dual Pixel AF.


Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra - Cameras



Seeing how the 108MP sensor on the S20 Ultra had focusing issues, it’s nice to ascertain Samsung double-down on its performance by pairing during a Laser AF sensor. Toning down the unuseable 100X zoom to its half is additionally something to notice . Since the new 12MP zoom lens features a larger pixel size and a tighter focal distance , it should theoretically give out good-looking telephoto images. As always, you'll also record 8K videos at 24fps and Samsung has also worked on improving Live focus video.


Battery

Finally, the battery on the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra may be a sizeable 4500mAh unit that supports 25W fast wired, 15W wireless, and reverse wireless charging. At a time when triple-digit charging is getting more common, it's quite surprising to ascertain Samsung recoil from its own 45W fast charging.


Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Specifications:

Body: 6.49 x 3.04 x 0.32-inches; 208gm; IP68 certification

Display: 6.9-inches Dynamic AMOLED 2X “Infinity-O” panel; HDR10+; Always-on Display; 496 PPI; 120Hz Refresh Rate; 240Hz Touch Sampling Rate; Corning Gorilla Glass Victus; Curved

Resolution: WQHD+ (3088 x 1440 pixels); 19.3:9 ratio 

Chipset: Exynos 990 (Global) / Snapdragon 865+ (USA, China, South Korea); 7nm+ Mobile Platform

CPU:

Octa-core (2×2.73 GHz Mongoose M5 & 2×2.50 GHz Cortex-A76 & 4×2.0 GHz Cortex-A55) – Global including Nepal

Octa-core (1×3.0 GHz Kryo 585 & 3×2.42 GHz Kryo 585 & 4×1.8 GHz Kryo 585) – USA, China, South Korea

GPU: Mali-G77 MP11 (Global) / Adreno 650 (USA, China, South Korea)

RAM: 12GB (5G) / 8GB (LTE); LPDDR5

Storage: 128/256/512GB (5G) / 256/512GB (LTE); UFS 3.1 (expandable up to 1TB using micro SD card)

Software & UI: One UI 2.5 on top of Android 10

Rear Camera: Triple-camera;

– 108MP, f/1.8 primary shooter; 0.8µm; PDAF, OIS

– 12MP, f/2.2 ultra-wide lens; 1.4µm; 120˚ FOV

– 12MP, f/3.0 telephoto lens; 5x optical zoom; 50X Space Zoom

– Laser AF sensor

– LED flash

Front Camera: 10MP, f/2.2 lens; 1.22µm; Dual Pixel PDAF

Security: In-display Fingerprint Scanner (Ultrasonic)

Audio: Stereo Speakers (Tuned by AKG); aptX codec

Connectivity: Hybrid Dual-SIM (Nano-SIM and/or eSIM), WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax, Bluetooth 5.0, GPS/AGPS/GLONASS/GALILEO/BDS, USB 3.2 Type-C, UWB, Samsung Wireless DeX, sub-6GHz/mmWave 5G, 4G LTE

Battery: 4500mAh with 25W fast charging; 15W wireless charging

Colors: Mystic White, Mystic Bronze, Mystic Gray


Price

Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra (8GB/256GB)- RS 1,39,999