Samsung Galaxy S20 2020 lineup

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Samsung Galaxy S20

Rear Triple Camera: Ultra-Wide, 12MP, f/2.2 & Wide-Angle, 12MP, f/1.8, OIS & Telephoto, 64MP, f/2.0, OIS.
Front Camera: 10MP f/2.2
Space Zoom - 3X Hybrid Optical Zoom and up to 30X Super Resolution Zoom
8K, 4K, FHD, HD video
6.2-inch Quad HD+ infinity-O display
4000mAh battery
Memory options - 8GB/128GB and 12GB/128GB
IP68 Dust/Water-Resistant
151.7x69.1x7.9mm
163g

Samsung Galaxy S20+

Rear Quad Camera: Ultra-Wide, 12MP, f/2.2 & Wide-Angle, 12MP, f/1.8, OIS, Telephoto, 64MP, f/2.0, OIS and DepthVision
Front Camera: 10MP f/2.2
Space Zoom - 3X Hybrid Optical Zoom and up to 30X Super Resolution Zoom
8K, 4K, FHD, HD video
6.7-inch Quad HD+ infinity-O display
4500mAh battery
Memory options - 12GB/128GB and 12GB/512GB
IP68 Dust/Water-Resistant
161.9x73.7x7.8mm
186g

Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra

Rear Quad Camera: Ultra-Wide,12MP, f/2.2 & Wide-Angle, 108MP, f/1.8, OIS & Telephoto, 48MP, f/3.55, OIS and DepthVision
Front Camera: 10MP f/2.2
Space Zoom - 10X Hybrid Optical Zoom and up to 100X Super Resolution Zoom
8K, 4K, FHD, HD video
6.9-inch Quad HD+ infinity-O display
5000mAh battery
Memory options - 12GB/128GB, 12GB/512GB, 16GB/128GB, 16GB/512GB,
IP68 Dust/Water-Resistant
166.9x76.0x8.8mm
220g

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Samsung will stop producing and selling flagships released in 2020. This is reported by the TechRadar.

The journalists noticed that the Galaxy S20 series smartphones disappeared from the official Samsung online store in the USA, Great Britain and several other countries. In the UK region, the 2020 flagships are not available from many of the Korean company's partners such as Verizon, Best Buy, Mobiles and other sellers. In particular, the website of the popular retailer Mobiles in the country has information that Samsung has stopped production of the Galaxy S20 series. The authors concluded that the Korean company buried its devices.

Way to keep big price for top smartphones.

MikeLinn

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B&H items with discount

Samsung Galaxy S20 5G SM-G981U 128GB Smartphone https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1543089-REG/samsung_sm_g981uzaaxaa_galaxy_s20_sm_g981u_128gb.html
Samsung Galaxy S20+ 5G SM-G986U 128GB Smartphone https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1543094-REG/samsung_sm_g986uzkaxaa_galaxy_s20_sm_g986u_128gb.html

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Vitaliy_Kiselev

Sales had been so good that we see $200 discount already.

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Durability tests

Vitaliy_Kiselev

Such price estimates are usually fully unfounded, as lot of products do not have any "market price" as they are produced inside corporation, and lot of others are being provided to only Samsung under special contract and design terms.

Top of the line smartphones usually are extremely profitable (after design and such cost being paid off), as most companies drop price around 50% within one year (Apple do it less).

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With each generation smartphones become cheaper (in construction) and weaker.

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Also Samsung have S3K250AF special chip, aka Secure Element. It is attempt to copy Apple approach with T2 chip.

Public designation is to store passwords and such. But more real one is to harden any repairs and mainly prevent motherboard repairs, as such chip also has ids and special codes for all main chips.

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The GH1, which uses ISOCELL Plus technology, has a reported resolution of 7968 x 5840 (43.7 MP). The Tetracell color filter array is in use and manipulating the contrast on our optical images we can see an artifact of the Super-PD phase detection autofocus (PDAF) pixel pattern. We have documented Samsung using masked and 2x1 on-chip lens (OCL) PDAF on different 0.8 µm generation sensors. Here at the 0.7 µm generation we expect only 2x1 OCL PDAF will be used, as on the GH1.

One other topic to mention on this world’s first 0.7 µm pixel sensor is the stacked chip interconnect strategy. The through silicon via (TSV) arrays visible in our die photograph show us immediately that Samsung has not yet adopted a Cu-Cu direct bond interconnect strategy as we have observed in Sony and TSMC fabricated imagers.

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The focus issue seriously undercuts shooting video, which is a bummer because, otherwise, Samsung has an easy claim to make as the best video camera on an Android phone — and it might even be able to take on the iPhone for quality.

Samsung’s splashy video feature is the ability to shoot and edit 8K video, and the S20 Ultra can do both. It’s an accomplishment but not something I’d recommend most people do, though the ability to pull out high-quality stills from that footage is neat. The slightly improved video stabilization is more important to me (even though it locks you into shooting at 1080p).

Looks like usual Samsung, just worse.

No EIS in 4K for video, huge issues with focusing, big issues with auto processing you can't turn off, and much more.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/27/21155012/samsung-galaxy-s20-ultra-review-5g-screen-camera-space-zoom-price