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Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra vs. Galaxy Note 10 Plus: What's different?

Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra vs. Galaxy Notation 10 Plus: What'south different?

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The Galaxy Annotation series has always followed a "Go big or go home" philosophy, and that's very much on display with the Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra. The new Annotation has ane of the largest screens you'll always find on any telephone — at least on one that doesn't fold open — along with the most powerful processor available to an Android device. You'll too get multiple cameras and an upgraded S Pen with less latency than ever before.

In fact, the Annotation 20 Ultra introduces so many changes, y'all might wonder if it's a completely different device from the Galaxy Notation x Plus that used to be Samsung'due south best big telephone. While the new model notwithstanding has a lot in common with last year's super-sized phone, much has changed since the Note 10 Plus made its debut a yr ago.

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This Galaxy Note 20 Ultra vs. Galaxy Note 10 Plus face-off considers all the changes Samsung has introduced to its phablet lineup, as we determine how big an upgrade the Notation 20 Ultra is over its predecessor — and whether it'due south worth it to make the jump to the new model.

Galaxy Note 20 Ultra vs. Galaxy Note 10 Plus specs

Galaxy Note 20 Ultra Galaxy Note 10 Plus
Starting price $1,299 $1,099
Screen size (Resolution) vi.9-inch AMOLED (3088x1440; 120Hz) half dozen.8-inch AMOLED (3040x1440)
CPU Snapdragon 865 Plus Snapdragon 855
RAM 12GB 12GB
Storage 128GB, 512GB 256GB, 512GB
Rear cameras 108MP broad (Æ’/i.viii); 12MP telephoto with 5x optical zoom (Æ’/3.0); 12MP ultra wide (Æ’/2.2) 16-MP ultra-broad (Æ’/ii.2); 12-MP wide angle (Æ’/one.5-f/2.4); 12-MP telephoto (Æ’/2.1); time-of-flight VGA
Front end cameras 10MP (Æ’/two.two) 10-MP (Æ’/2.ii)
Battery size iv,500 mAh 4,300 mAh
Battery life (Hrs:Mins) 10:26 ten:47
Size 6.48 x three.04 x 0.32 inches 6.4 x 3.0 x .31 inches
Weight vii.33 ounces 6.9 ounces
Colors Mystic Statuary, Mystic Black, Mystic White Aureola Glow, Aura White, Aura Blackness, Aura Bluish

Galaxy Notation 20 Ultra vs. Galaxy Notation 10 Plus price and availability

One area in which the Milky way Note 20 Ultra has surpassed its predecessor is in terms of price. The Galaxy Note 10 Plus debuted at $i,099 final year. Prices haven't fallen that much in the ensuing 12 months, though yous'd expect that to change in one case the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra starts shipping August 21, and retailers look to clear out their stock of older phablets.

If y'all thought $i,099 was a lot to pay for a phone, get a load of the Galaxy Notation 20 Ultra's $one,299 price tag. That's for the 128GB model, as opting for 512GB of storage raises your cost to $1,449. Club the phone through Samsung and yous can get up to $650 off the cost of the Note twenty Ultra when you trade in an older phone. The Notation x Plus commands the highest rebate, if your twelvemonth-erstwhile phablet is still in good condition.

Galaxy Annotation twenty Ultra vs. Milky way Note ten Plus design

You demand to suspension out the calipers to decide much departure in the size of the Galaxy Annotation 20 Ultra vs. the Milky way Note 10 Plus. The Note xx Ultra is taller and wider, but only slightly, and the Note x Plus is thicker, but by an even smaller margin. Pick upwardly the phones and yous might find the Notation 20 Ultra weighs a touch more at 7.33 ounces to the Notation 10 Plus' 6.nine-ounce weight.

Galaxy Note 20 Ultra vs Galaxy Note 10 Plus

Milky way Note xx Ultra (Image credit: Tom'due south Guide)

Flip over the phones, and you'll meet a big design difference. The Note x Plus camera assortment is pretty minimal, with its lenses descending down the left side of the phone. For the Note 20 Ultra, Samsung went with a more than prominent square array that'south hard to look away from. It's the i surface area where the Note xx Ultra might be a step back from its predecessor.

Galaxy Note 20 Ultra vs Galaxy Note 10 Plus

Milky way Notation 10 Plus (Epitome credit: Tom'due south Guide)

You lot'll besides have less dynamic color options with the new telephone, as the Aura Glow option on the Notation 10 Plus was a real eye-catcher. The Note twenty Ultra'due south Mystic Bronze, Mystic Blackness and Mystic White options are not well-nigh equally mystical as their names might have you believe.

Still, the Note 20 Ultra looks a chip more sophisticated overall, thanks to its squared-off edges and the manner the gleaming, mirrored metallic frame plays off against the matte back. Information technology's also more durable, as the first phone to comprise Corning's Gorilla Glass Victus technology, which the drinking glass manufacturer says is two-times more than resistant to scratches than the Gorilla Drinking glass 6 incorporated on the Notation 10 Plus.

Once once again, the Note 20 Ultra is rated IP68 water resistant, just like many Samsung flagships before it, including its predecessor. That translates to 1.5 meters of submersion for a maximum of 30 minutes.

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The AMOLED panel on the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra is slightly larger than the one on the Note ten Plus, with a six.9-inch screen replacing the 6.viii-inch display on last year'southward phone. Merely that's not the real story here.

Galaxy Note 20 Ultra vs Galaxy Note 10 Plus

Galaxy Annotation xx Ultra (Epitome credit: Tom'south Guide)

Instead, the most noteworthy thing near the Galaxy Note twenty Ultra is its use of a dynamic 120Hz refresh charge per unit. That means the Note 20 Ultra tin adjust how quickly information technology refreshes depending on what you lot're using the telephone to do. If you're scrolling or playing a compatible game, the Note 20 Ultra volition max out the refresh rate; when y'all're engaged in more static activities, that refresh rate volition calibration all the fashion down to 10Hz if you're looking at still images.

Galaxy Note 20 Ultra vs Galaxy Note 10 Plus

Galaxy Notation 10 Plus (Image credit: Future)

The Note 10 Plus just doesn't compare to that feature, as it's got a 60Hz refresh charge per unit — typical of most smartphones, really. That said, HDR10+ back up and Quad HD+ resolution means that the Annotation x Plus' display is still sharp and colorful, fifty-fifty if information technology's not as immersive as what the Milky way Note 20 Ultra offers.

The Note 20 Ultra's panel is more physically responsive as well, because it reacts to S Pen deportment with just 9ms latency, compared to 40ms latency on the previous generation Note.

Responsiveness is, indeed, the main reward of the Note twenty'due south screen technology; in all other metrics these devices compare quite favorably where their displays are concerned. They go about equally bright (662 nits for the Note 20 Ultra versus 686 nits on the Note 10 Plus) and tin render a similar gamut of colors (124% of the sRGB space in Natural mode for the Note xx Ultra, versus 125% on the Note 10 Plus). Gamers and artists, even so, will certainly gravitate toward the newer model for its far smoother animations.

Galaxy Note 20 Ultra vs. Galaxy Note 10 Plus cameras

Samsung shuffled upward the cameras information technology used on its dissimilar Milky way Notes, scrapping a time-of-flight sensor on this twelvemonth's model but opting for more megapixels and a more than powerful zoom. The results yield sharper photos with the Milky way Note xx Ultra, peculiarly when you're zooming in on a subject.

Galaxy Note 20 Ultra vs Galaxy Note 10 Plus

Milky way Note 20 Ultra (Image credit: Tom's Guide)

Specifically, the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra adopts the 108-megapixel main photographic camera that Samsung kickoff introduced with the Galaxy S20 Ultra. To aid alleviate some of the focus issues users experienced with that before phone, Samsung added a light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation autofocus sensor, which replaces the time-of-flight sensor found on terminal year's Note 10 Plus. The master camera on that older Galaxy Note topped out at 12MP.

As for the other rear cameras, the Galaxy Note xx Ultra features a 12MP ultra wide shooter and 12MP telephoto lens, compared with 16MP and 12MP ultra wide and telephoto shooters on the Note x Plus. The divergence in telephoto lenses is stark, though. With the Galaxy Notation 10 Plus, you could simply relish a 2x optical zoom. The Milky way Note 20 Ultra increases that to 5x and, with the help of digital zoom, can go up to 50x. (Photos can become a little fuzzy at that point; we'd suggest stopping at 20x with the Galaxy Note xx Ultra.)

Up forepart, there's no change in selfie cams with both Galaxy Note models turning to 10MP shooters with apertures of f/2.2.

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Best camera phone: Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra

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Best camera phone: Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra

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Best camera phone: Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra

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Best camera phone: Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra

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The result is one of the best camera phones you can buy today. The above gallery of shots, all captured with the Notation xx Ultra, illustrate the incredible detail and versatility possible with such an intricate array of sensors. Samsung's Alive Focus fashion has also been greatly enhanced with its latest-generation imaging hardware and software, finally delivering shallow depth-of-field portraits on a par with that from the latest iPhones and Pixels. What's more, the addition of 5x optical zoom with 10x lossless power certainly makes the Note 20 Ultra infinitely more useful than its predecessor when working from a distance.

Galaxy Note 20 Ultra vs. Milky way Note 10 Plus performance

A new year's day brings a new mobile processor to meridian-of-the-line Android phones, and that's the case with the Note xx Ultra. But instead of upgrading from the Snapdragon 855 constitute in the Galaxy Annotation ten Plus with this year's Snapdragon 865 chipset, the Galaxy Annotation 20 Ultra uses the Snapdragon 865 Plus. That'south a variant of the 865 which features a faster core clock speed on the chipset's CPU along with faster graphics rendering.

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Milky way Note 20 Ultra (Image credit: Future)

You'd expect the Annotation twenty Ultra to outperform the Note x Plus, and outperform it does. In our Adobe Blitz real-world test, where a video clip is transcoded from 4K to 1080p, the Note xx Ultra finished the job in 1 minute and 16 seconds to the Notation 10 Plus' i minute and 34 seconds.

In terms of benchmarks, the Annotation 20 Ultra's Geekbench five multicore score of 3,294 far exceeds the Note 10 Plus' 2,704-point result. And in the GFXBench Aztec Ruins exam for high-tier handsets, the Notation 20 Ultra'south 1,455 frames proved a large improvement over the Annotation 10 Plus' ane,059 frames.

Nonetheless, the Note 10 Plus actually comes with more on-board storage in its base model — 256GB to the Note twenty Ultra's 128GB — with both phones as well offering a 512GB option and microSD carte slots to expand storage even farther. Samsung packed both phones with 12GB of RAM.

By default, the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra comes with 5G connectivity, thanks to Qualcomm's X55 modem, which is capable of working on all types of 5G networks. To get 5G with a Annotation ten phone, yous would have had to buy the $1,299 Notation 10 Plus 5G.

Galaxy Note 20 Ultra vs. Galaxy Annotation 10 Plus battery life and charging

A bigger screen requires a bigger battery, and that'due south what Samsung has gone with for the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra. The new phone features a iv,500 mAh power pack, a crash-land upwardly from the iv,300 mAh bombardment inside the Note 10 Plus. That bombardment helped last year's Samsung phone hold out for 10 hours and 47 minutes on our battery test, which involves continuous web surfing over LTE until a telephone runs out of power. That result is amend than the average smartphone, though the Note 10 Plus savage brusk of landing on our list of the best telephone battery life, where you need to go at to the lowest degree 11 hours before you need a accuse.

Galaxy Note 20 Ultra vs. Galaxy Note 10 Plus

Milky way Annotation 10 Plus (Image credit: Futurity)

Does Note 20 Ultra outperform its predecessor? Non quite, though it doesn't lose by much, with a runtime of 10 hours and 26 minutes in our test while the phone'due south display was capped at 60Hz. That dropped to seven hours and 59 minutes at total 120Hz mode.

It's unclear exactly why the Note xx Ultra'southward longevity pales in comparison to the Note x Plus,' despite having a larger battery. The addition of 5G connectivity could hamper efficiency, though it'due south difficult to pin down on one cause.

The Galaxy Note ten Plus shipped with a 25W charger, which returns with the Galaxy Note xx Ultra. It gets the Note 20 Ultra to 56% in thirty minutes. Yous can also charge both the Annotation x Plus and Note 20 Ultra wirelessly, or wirelessly recharge other devices, like a pair of Galaxy Buds in their instance, using the phones' Wireless PowerShare feature.

Galaxy Note 20 Ultra vs. Galaxy Notation ten Plus S Pen and other features

The S Pen remains one of the marquee features for the Milky way Annotation lineup, though you won't find many new features added to the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra vs. the Galaxy Annotation 10 Plus. Instead, Samsung chose to build on the Air Actions information technology introduced with the Galaxy Note x models, calculation new gesture based controls you lot tin use with the telephone'south stylus.

The biggest change you'll notice is in the functioning of the South Pen, every bit the Notation 20 Ultra version features a reduced latency of 9ms — making for a much more than responsive stylus than before. The Note xx Ultra also features an updated Notation app with alive syncing and the ability to match written notes with vocalism recordings.

Galaxy Note 20 Ultra vs Galaxy Note 10 Plus

Galaxy Annotation twenty Ultra (Image credit: Tom'southward Guide)

Similar the Galaxy Notation 10 Plus, the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra supports Samsung's DeX manner, where you can use your phone like a portable PC if in that location's a monitor nearby. The Annotation 10 Plus required either a dock or a cable to get into DeX style — the Note xx Ultra doesn't need either, as it can support the feature wireless with whatever Miracast-uniform TV or monitor.

Galaxy Note 20 Ultra vs Galaxy Note 10 Plus

Galaxy Note 10 Plus (Image credit: Future)

The Notation 20 Ultra ships with Android 10 and Samsung's 1 UI 2.0 interface. The Note x Plus has upgraded to Android x after initially shipping with Android 9. Nosotros wouldn't expect an Android xi update to exist available for either telephone until the cease of 2020.

Galaxy Note 20 Ultra vs. Galaxy Note x Plus verdict

You'd expect a phone that'southward a year newer to be at least a year amend than its predecessor. After evaluating the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra, it's clear to see Samsung's new premium phablet easily surpasses the Note 10 Plus in a number of critical ways, and is worth the added expense if yous're choosing between picking up the new model or saving a few hundred on final year'south edition.

The cameras on the Note twenty Ultra are more powerful, with massively-improved sensors and more versatile zoom for the telephoto. The souped-upwards Snapdragon 865 Plus silicon handles demanding games and apps effortlessly, and DeX Manner is easier than ever to utilize, cheers to wireless support via Miracast. And, of course, the better performance and responsiveness of the South Pen is sure to please the Note faithful.

However, the real difference-maker is the faster refreshing display on the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra, which makes for an experience that is not only visually dazzling, but makes navigating the phone feel and so much snappier in full general and especially comes in handy while gaming.

The Galaxy Note 10 Plus is still a powerful telephone, and unless yous plan on taking reward of a generous merchandise-in offer to mitigate the price of upgrading, it would be hard to justify spending $one,299 on a new phone when your old Notation still performs well. Even so, if you want 5G connectivity, better overall operation and — nigh significantly — that more immersive display, the Galaxy Notation 20 Ultra is the Samsung phablet to get.

Philip Michaels is a senior editor at Tom's Guide. He has strong opinions well-nigh Apple tree, the Oakland Athletics and onetime movies. Follow him at @PhilipMichaels.

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