However, you can rest assured that the screen has a pin-sharp contrast ratio of Infinity:1 and it’s also capable of reaching a blinding maximum brightness of 748cd/m2. The Samsung Galaxy S20 has the ability to record in 8K resolution – a first for smartphones – although this isn’t stabilised in any way whatsoever, and you need an 8K TV to view the footage in its original resolution anyway. All of the phones are capable of 8K video recording, although the keen-eyed might have noticed that the S20 and S20 Plus don’t use the S20 Ultra’s 108MP camera, and neither are capable of 100x zoom – instead ‘only’ zooming up to 30x.

He has a love for everything ‘smart’, from watches to lights, and can often be found arguing with AI assistants or drowning in the latest apps. For instance, you might have spotted that the small pinhole notch, which houses the 10MP selfie camera, has moved to the top-centre portion of the screen.

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Of course, these new flagships can’t bend like the Galaxy Z Flip – unless you try very hard and don’t care about your warranty – but the basic Galaxy S20 costs the same as last year’s Galaxy S10. Note that more colors may be released later, and that the availability of each shade may also change over time, but at the time of writing you have the following options. Oddly, if you stick with the same refresh rate but drop the resolution down to FHD+, you won’t notice much of a change. In testing, I found this to be the most colour accurate of the three screen profiles at my disposal, although it suffered from noticeably oversaturated red tones and undersaturated pink and purple tones, so it isn’t perfect.Still, this is mildly upsetting because it means there’s no low-cost ‘e’ variant this year – last year’s S10e was my preferred choice of last year’s lineup, and was eventually crowned Expert Reviews’ favourite phone of 2019.

Cosmic Black is available for both the Samsung Galaxy S20 Plus and Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra, so you can’t get the standard Galaxy S20 in this color, which might seem slightly surprising, as it’s the most ‘ordinary’ color. It’s a light, youthful blue and is likely to prove more eye-catching than the shades above, but perhaps also more divisive. According to my tests using a display colourimeter, the Galaxy S20’s Dynamic AMOLED screen covered 94% of the sRGB colour gamut, with an overall volume of 96% and an average Delta E of 2. Sadly the phone I was sent (Galaxy S20 5G) looked perfect but restarted about 30 times and overheated constantly for the first 2 days. It doesn’t quite match the superior levels of performance we’ve seen from the iPhone 11’s A13 Bionic chipset in the past, but it’s certainly fast enough that you shouldn’t have to worry about a sluggish experience, no matter which application you decide to throw at it.Both pictures are filled with detail, although they both struggle a bit when it comes to distortion in the far corners of the frame.