It takes a lot to make me feel strong about a smartphone, but I hate the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra. I do not often celebrate a device that loses software support, but Samsung does Galaxy S20 Ultra owners a favor. If you have started it for so long, I hope this is the catalyst that you have to upgrade.
It is not only the poor performance of the Galaxy S20 Ultra that pulls my anger. The phone led an era for Samsung of too expensive, ugly flagships. It meant a change in the design language of the company, a change that we have not yet seen. I don’t like the Galaxy S20 Ultra because the Samsung reflects the design, performance and functions for a bloated device that nobody asked for.
What came earlier was perfection
I’ve never seen a worse downgrade
Samsung Galaxy S10+ lying on a table next to a push
I consider the Samsung Galaxy S10+ as the high watermark of the company. The design was elegant, lightweight and functional. It only weighed 175 g but was not lacking in the life of the current or the battery. The Snapdragon 855 did not get overheated and showed that Samsung could produce an attractive phone without the typical pitfalls. The price was also attractive. The Galaxy S10+ was worth the entrance fee for $ 1,000. I was never a champion of smartphone prizes that shoot up, but to be honest, and at least the Galaxy S10+ played the role.
I would still not like the Galaxy S20 Ultra if it went well, but I would have given Samsung a pass.
I don’t know how Samsung has taken such a beautiful design and it changed ultra in the Galaxy S20 in one year. The S20 Ultra was everything that the Galaxy S10+ was not. It had a large 6.9-inch display and a huge (for the ERA) 5000 mAh battery. All those functions did not disqualify, but the implementation of Samsung was terrible. The Galaxy S20 Ultra was a thick, heavy plate without one of the personality or charm of the Galaxy S10+. It was a generic smartphone directly from central casting. I just wanted the problems there.
It didn’t work so well
All that power and size for nothing
Source: Samsung
I would still not like the Galaxy S20 Ultra if it went well, but I would have given Samsung a pass. Unfortunately the phone was a mess, especially for $ 1,300. For his lifespan, the phone was plagued by car -relief problems, which often resulted in hazy photos. Samsung tried countless softwarefixes, but the only practical solution was to add laserautofocus to the Galaxy S21 Ultra of the following year.
Poor camera performance aside, the Galaxy S20 Ultra offered the battery life of the battery, disappointing in terms of 5000 mAh cell. What is the point of bringing all that extra size and weight if you can’t even benefit from more screen time of a single charge? Software -updates were spotty and I remember that mine repeatedly dropped calls. It was not the same hardware relationship that we had expected from Samsung, and I never fell in love with the device.
While telephones such as the Galaxy S10+ justified their price tags in my mind, the Galaxy S20 Ultra never came close. It felt unfinished, and that is more than I was willing to tolerate the most expensive smartphone on the market.
I hope there is light at the end of the tunnel
Maybe Samsung can turn things around
Galaxy S25 Ultra Achter Cameras
If the Galaxy S20 Ultra was a one -off error for the company, I would live with it. Unfortunately we saw a trend with Galaxyphones for the next five years. The prices remained high, and although most newer phones worked better than the S20 Ultra, the Spirit remained. The devices were slowly stripped of character and characteristics, and the innovation stopped. The Galaxy S20 Ultra felt beaten and lazy, and I could still use criticism to label the Galaxy S25 Ultra.
However, everything is not lost. I am still a Samsung fan. I refuse to state the company that the Galaxy Note 4 and Note 9 has made some of my favorite phones of all time. I hang my hope on the Galaxy S25 Edge. It is an opportunity for Samsung to prove that it can still design a slender, powerful phone that would be the natural successor of the Galaxy S10+. Samsung has reused the designs for years, so it’s a shame that the S10 never got a chance. Samsung can make up for that with the Galaxy S25 Edge. I hope that the company will use silicon carbon battery technology to give the phone a respectable battery life, and I am afraid the price will be too high. But I had hope for the future if Samsung could get it right.
The Galaxy S26 also shows promise
I keep hearing rumors that Samsung makes larger changes to the Galaxy S26 series – I hope so. It is time for Samsung to realize that Galaxy AI innovations on a phone are not enough to seduce people to buy, and nothing is on meaningful hardware improvements. The Galaxy S20 Ultra led to the darkest era of Samsung; Let’s hope there is light at the end of the tunnel.
