Every refurbished phone is given a brand new battery, new unique identifiers(IMEI) and all the latest software. That 4G phone aside, the addition of 5G means you're paying more for2020's base model than for the base-model S10.

Some of the difference, I suspect, is in software, as the Ultra tends to over-brighten some night scenes. Download speed will still be faster than 4G, but not as fast as the (theoretical) peak speeds of the approaching tech known as millimeter wave, or mmWave. There’s also a new 64MP telephoto camera, which may sound like a huge upgrade over last year’s 12MP telephoto camera.Likewise, Samsung gifted the S20 and Plus with 30x zoom, which is about as far as I wanted to go before image quality took a nosedive. Around a thousand affected users tweeted about it asking for help and others decided to take legal action. Not everyone will be capable of using this phone with one hand, but it’s the closest you’ll get on a flagship Samsung phone. Combined with the larger sensor, you should be able to capture more detail and more light with the Galaxy S20’s main snapper, and we found that to be the case when shooting in darker scenarios.

If you’re in the US you’ll get Qualcomm’s top-end Snapdragon 865 chipset, while those around the rest of the world get Samsung’s similarly high-end Exynos 990. That update, currently available in the OnePlus 7T Pro 5G McLaren, helps make 5G slightly faster than 4G LTE in many areas, as opposed to sometimes slower. First the good news: while the S20 is taller than the S10, it’s also a little narrower, with a 20:9 aspect ratio, and the screen is only marginally bigger.It's just so big and heavy that I'm unconsciously white-knuckling the thing while I'm walking down the street, and that can slightly impact performance and range. The Galaxy S20+ has the same 5G hardware as the Galaxy S20 Ultra, but I found that it performed slightly better on Verizon's 5G network than the Ultra did.

If you're sold on its features but can afford to wait, keep an eye out for the most aggressive trade-in deals and discounts, especially around holidays. On the back, there's a camera/microphone patch with six elements: the four cameras (wide, regular, 3x zoom, and time-of-flight), the flash, and a microphone. We continue to like the fact that you can swipe anywhere on the screen to flip between the front and back cameras, make a hand gesture to trigger the selfie camera timer, and double-press the physical lock button to blindly launch the camera app.If you’re desperate for a connector that will play nice with your wired headphones, this won’t be the device for you, although there are enough alternative options that this shouldn’t be a deal-breaker for most people. Commentators remarked that by February, "most everything the company is planning to introduce has already leaked out.