Unboxing, Setup and First Look - Samsung Galaxy S20 5G

 Hi everyone, 

This is the Samsung Galaxy S20 5G this is the smallest phone offered this year out of the Samsung s 20 lineup and the least expensive but it’s not inexpensive this comes in at 999 dollars 128 gigabytes of storage that’s the only option right now as far as storage is concerned there may be some different ones later on now in the United States its only available in three colors there are some other colors and some are really nice the red color I particularly like but its only available in three colors in the US cosmic grey cloud blue and cloud pink this is cloud blue now let’s go ahead and unbox it so well open it up here and I’ve never seen one of these in person so let’s take this out and its definitely smaller than the

ultra well take a look at the comparison in size a little bit later but let me set this aside for now well take a look at what’s in the box and I think in the top there’s something here so in the top of the box we have a SIM card removal tool an sometimes in different countries you get different things with the phones that you purchase so there’s no case and then.

You’ve just got a couple different pieces of information the first one says this device is packaged with a screen protector if you remove it and want to use a different one make sure it allows for use of all touchscreen functions or features and then you’ve got a quick reference guide and some other information like warranty now in the box we have a charger and I believe this is a 25 watt charger so it’s a fast charger but it’s not the fast or 45 watt but there’s really not too big of a difference between the two I guess from what I’m seeing online and then we have our power cable and this is USB C 2 USB C so this is included and then we should have AKG headphones so basically the same amount of things you get with the s20 ultra so you’ll see you’ve got AKG headphones and its USB C here so AKG and then some different ear tips sizes.

If you need those let me set this aside and well take a closer look at the phone now the phone overall looks pretty nice the camera bump is pretty small compared to the other phones this year and the frame is made of aluminum with a coating over and then you have glass front and back now on the right hand side of the phone you have your power sleep/wake button along  with a volume button on the top of the phone you have a microphone along with your SIM card tray and your micro SD card tray well take a look at that in a moment on the left side of the phone we don’t have anything at all and then on the bottom we have a speaker we have USB C and then. 

We have a microphone there’s no headphone jack this year so that’s kind of a disappointment for some people other people won’t mind now as far as a quick size comparison well last year this is the s10 II so this gives you an idea this phone is definitely bigger than the s10 II its actually feels a little bit thinner but I’m not sure if that’s accurate but the camera bump makes it thicker so the actual frame feels a little thinner then to compare it with the s10 all are the s10 plus from last year it gives you an idea so it’s a little bit smaller it’s in between the s10 II and the s10 plus and then finally to compare it with the 5g ultra version this has a case on it but this gives you an idea of the size difference so let me remove the case and here is the ultra-next to the s 20 and.

So the s 20 plus would be in in-between this size so there’s definitely a massive size difference and there’s actually a couple advantages to the s 20 over the s 20 ultra-so let’s go over the specs and then well turn it on and set it up now internally we have a QUALCOMM snapdragon 865 with an Adriano 650 GPU this comes with 12 gigabytes of RAM and then allows for a micro SD up to 110 Buy ten it also supports Wi-Fi 6 Bluetooth 5.0 along with 5g sub 6 but currently there’s no millimeter wave however Samsung’s website does say millimeter waves. 

So I’m not sure if it supports it but at launch it currently doesn’t it’s also got Gorilla Glass 6 front and back it has a dynamic AMOLED 6.2 inch display 3200 by 1440 pixels at 563 pixels per inch with a 22-9 ratio it also supports 120 Hertz and HDR 10 plus and that is the same pixel resolution that you get with the ultra as well just in a smaller phone you have the under the screen fingerprint sensor will set up a little bit later and then when it comes to the cameras this is a little bit interesting when I was going over the specs now the forward-facing camera is 10 megapixels and still supports dual pixel autofocus unlike the ultra it also supports 4k video on the back we have three cameras we have a 12 megapixel ultra wide with an F 2.2 aperture then we have a 12 megapixel wide F 1.8 that still has dual pixel autofocus and then. 

We have a 64 megapixel telephoto F 2.0 they do support 8k video at 24 frames per second or 4k 60 you also have a depth vision camera now the phone comes with Android 10 with one UI - and then the battery is a very large 4000 milliamp hour battery it supports fast wireless charging 25 watt fast charging and then its ip68 certified for 1.5 meters for 30 minutes dust and water resistance now let’s go ahead and turn the phone on so well hold down the power button and there is a small very thin screen protector pre-installed so that’s really nice it’s not super protective but it will protect from major scratches and things like that so let’s wait for this to boot up here and then well get it set up so we can take a look at the overall UI in the camera now you can turn off the voice assistance if you want to just tap the little speaker in the upper right and then. 

We can accept the terms we don’t have to select the optional ones and then well choose our Wi-Fi network now one really nice feature that I noticed on the new phones this year is that the MAC address is randomized and what that means is the actual hardware address the physical Hardware address that’s assigned to every individual device around the world has a MAC address but this one’s randomized so it makes it much more difficult to actually track if you wanted to try and figure out where it was now well check for updates now along with the s20 you get a bunch of credits if you pre-ordered it so you could get the galaxy buds plus or you could get a case or you could get the watch and so I picked the watch with this one so I may do a separate video on that now we can copy our apps and data and I’m not going to copy this time maybe I’ll do it a little bit later and I’m going to skip signing into everything just so we can get to the home screen like I said but I can set this up a little bit later. 

So well just accept that and now well set up our fingerprint so you can use face recognition but it’s less secure on this phone since its only 2d and not 3d so let’s go ahead and create a pin and that’s never a good pin 1 2 3 4 I’ll make it more secure a little bit later and then it says adding finishing touches then we can sign into our Samsung account again like I said Ill skip this this time and come back later now well go ahead and set up the fingerprint sensor and this year it seems to be a little bit better than last year although it just depends on the phone but you actually have to press pretty hard this year when you’re actually putting your finger down to get this to work properly but I definitely find this fingerprint sensor to be better than last year’s fingerprint sensor I had a lot of issues setting up the s10 plus and I had issues all year long with it and this one so far with the ultra-anyway I haven’t had any issues so it seems to be a lot better.

Now were at the home screen and I actually had to set up the fingerprint sensor after I got to the home screen because it didn’t bring me to that step or maybe I didn’t hit the right button but either way its set up now and you can see this is the home screen with the pre-installed apps and so we have Google Apps pre-installed we have some Microsoft apps pre-installed and then in here we have Facebook and I showed this on the other videos you cannot uninstall it but you can disable it and here’s your typical Samsung Apps and things like that so this is everything that’s pre-installed I didn’t install any of these apps and that’s ok I think a lot of these apps are very useful of course.

You can delete most of them now as far as the camera this should be pretty interesting because this has dual pixel autofocus like I said unlike the ultra this year you get dual pixel autofocus which is very accurate usually and works pretty well lets hit allow and it works pretty well compared to probably the ultra-phone since that had some issues and Samsung’s promising a software update to fix it so in the camera we can do you’re wide here we can zoom in and we can zoom in to 30x and so that’s a slightly zoomed photo but not a lot and its actually pretty sharp so let’s take a look at the options that we have. 

So well go into video so here’s the options that we have you have the scene optimizer so it’ll take a photo based off what it thinks is best you can turn that on or off and then you have your rear video up to 8 K which is really impressive and then right here well set it up to 4k 64 default and then the front-facing camera again 4k 64 default then well go back here and lets spin the camera around and you can see its locked on to my face so let’s go to video and now I’m recording with the s 25 G so hopefully this camera is really good it seems to be locked on my face pretty well and here’s what the audio sounds like as well and so in general the cameras on the s20 are great cameras lets go ahead here we have motion smoothness and we can turn it up to 120 Hertz now you can only use 120 Hertz or high resolution so 120 Hertz at 1080p or close to 1080p 2400 by 1080 if you want to switch from 1080 to wqhd plus you have to turn off the motion smoothing so you lose that feature so you either get higher resolution or faster refresh rates. 

So see we can’t go to the high refresh rate on the higher resolution we have to first go back to full HD plus then go to motion smoothness go back to high refresh rate hit apply and now we have super smooth refresh rates so you’ll see its just buttery smooth scrolling through here and hopefully you can see that with the 60 frames per second video now this phone is packed with options and may be a good fit for a lot of people that want a little bit smaller Samsung phone the display is nice it doesn’t curve all the way over the edge this year so you’ll have less false presses on the display and in general this just looks like a really nice phone.

Now I’m sure you’ll be able to find it on discounts a little bit later on so you may want to wait a little bit if you’re looking for that However in well-known it feels proper inside the hand it's a touch bit small to me however I have huge hands so this may be great for people that want a little bit smaller phone with all the top-of-the-line specs now if you have an SS 10 plus or something along those lines I’m not sure that I would upgrade from an S 10 plus to an S 20 RS 20 plus  don’t know that its worth in this year but at least this one has dual pixel autofocus if the camera is your main focus but let me know what you think about that in the comments below if you’d like to hear anything more about this particular phone let me know in the comments below.