42 PCWorld APRIL 2020REVIEWS SAMSUNG GALAXY S20 ULTRA
as the rocker has been moved to the right
side above the power button. That leaves the
left side completely smooth, because
Samsung has dumped the Bixby button once
and for all.
Gone, too, is the headphone jack, which
we expected after the Note 10+ dropped the
port last year. Samsung is offering a pair of
USB-C earbuds in the box and selling a set of
Bluetooth Galaxy Buds+ earbuds for $150. It’s
still a bummer that Samsung couldn’t find 3.5
millimeters of free space on a phone this big.PIXEL PERFECTION
Samsung has delivered its most impressive
display yet for the S20 product line—and
that’s before you even touch it. The weirdly
off-center camera cutout of the S10 product
line has been repositioned in the S20 so it’s
smack-dab in the center of
the top of the screen. While
the hole is still a little too low
to center itself inside the
status bar, its new position
still improves the look of the
phone.
I can’t really find a fault
with the image quality. It’s
impressively crisp at 1440p
and still very nice at the
default 1080p resolution. I
was able to crank it all the
way up to 650 nits’
brightness manually, and itreached an eye-piercing 1,350 nits with
auto-brightness enabled. Its ability to
transition automatically between low and
bright light is excellent. Colors are vivid
without being too saturated, whites are
natural, blacks are impressively deep, and the
whole palette is rich and robust. There just
aren’t enough superlatives for how incredible
the S20’s display is.
It’s also not quite as curved as previous
Infinity displays. It’s hard to see without
putting it next to a Note 10 or S10, but the
S20 screen is decidedly “flatter” than those of
previous generations (though definitely more
curved than the S10e’s). That’s a good thing: It
helps cut down on accidental palm touches
and still does well to hide the side bezels. I
vastly prefer it to the extreme “waterfall”
displays that Oppo and Vivo are pushing.The front camera in the S20 line has moved to the middle of the top of
the screen, a positive change from the awkwardly off-center hole of
the prior generation. (As shown in the S20 and S20+, above)