#Samsung handy note plus#

It makes the Note 20 look more ordinary, but in a pleasant way.ДЄ flat screen is another nod to the ordinary, and another area where Samsung has scrimped on the design.

The Note 20 also has much less severe corners than the Note 20 Ultra, which softens its appearance. ItвЂ™s only slightly narrower than an iPhone 11, and bigger than 2019вЂ™s Note 10, but as the number of genuinely small phones decreases, and more budget ones try to offer вЂvalueвЂ™ with ever-larger displays, the Note 20 feels like no more than a mid-size phone. It measures 161.6 x 75.2 x 8.3mm, and shaving just a couple of millimetres off the width and height makes the standard Note 20 seem part of a different class to the Ultra, size-wise. If you want a larger device, opt for the Ultra. The Note 20вЂ™s camera housing doesnвЂ™t stick out anywhere near as much as the UltraвЂ™s, and the phone is significantly smaller, which will please those with smaller hands or smaller pockets. This is in several ways a watered-down Galaxy Note 20 Ultra, but that isnвЂ™t always and everywhere a bad thing. The Samsung Galaxy Note 20 is not all-plastic, though, as its sides are metal. ItвЂ™s what the company is calling вЂGlassticвЂ™. It has the same light-diffusing style of finish, and it looks exactly like textured glass until you hold the phone вЂ“ and then it feels like plastic. However, Samsung has at least put some work into making the Note 20вЂ™s back look as close to the Note 20 UltraвЂ™s matt glass as possible. Is it cheeky to try to sell us a $1,000 plastic phone? Absolutely. Samsung has used plastic on the back of this phone in order to save on the cost of curved glass. The Samsung Galaxy Note 20 might be the most expensive plastic phone you can buy. Thank you to Vodafone UK for providing TechRadar's review unit Design You might also want to consider the Samsung Galaxy S21 range, with the standard model being more affordable than most Samsung flagships, and the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra coming with S-Pen support - meaning you don't even need to buy a Note to get Samsung's stylus anymore.

#Samsung handy note plus#

But those not obsessed with owning the stylus should check out the S20 Plus and S20 Ultra, which have dropped in price a little since they arrived earlier in 2020. There are no instructive price comparisons to be made other than with SamsungвЂ™s other phones, as nothing else has anything to match the mighty Samsung S-Pen. It's worth noting that while the above prices are what the Note 20 launched at, it can now often be found for significantly less if you shop around. This means the 5G Note 20 is $300 cheaper than the base-model Note 20 Ultra in the US (with half the storage) or ВЈ230 less in the UK (with the same 256GB storage). In the UK the Note 20 starts at ВЈ849, which gets you the 4G model with 256GB of storage, and the 5G variant costs ВЈ949.

The cheaper 4G version isnвЂ™t available in the US, which arguably makes sense when a 4G phone costing the better part of $1,000 would be a bad investment. In the US the 5G model with 128GB of storage costs $999.

The Samsung Galaxy Note 20 launched in August 2020 alongside the Note 20 Ultra, and is the more affordable of the pair. Samsung Galaxy Note 20 price and release date It has plenty of power, tried and tested software, and good cameras, while the S-Pen really does offer something you donвЂ™t get anywhere else. If youвЂ™re a light or moderate phone user who doesnвЂ™t need the very latest tech in every area of your phone, and who doesnвЂ™t want to pay the very highest prices, the Galaxy Note 20 is great. It doesnвЂ™t have the longevity to satisfy heavy users, and it never seemed to last us longer than a day.

While the Galaxy Note 20 has one of SamsungвЂ™s typically efficient screens, the UK version runs on the Exynos 990 processor, which isnвЂ™t all that easy on the juice вЂ“ and due, we suspect, in large part to this, the battery doesnвЂ™t last as long as weвЂ™d like. ItвЂ™s a fun accessory, and still the best drawing tool you can get for a phone вЂ“ and if it helps you wean yourself off looking at social networks when you have a spare moment, maybe that alone makes it worth the money. All of this puts more pressure on the S-Pen, as it needs to do much of the heavy lifting in terms of justifying the Note 20вЂ™s $1,000 price.