APRIL 2020 PCWorld 43product line to feature a high-refresh
display, and it’s gone for the gusto,
opting for a full 120Hz, twice as fast
as the standard 60Hz. It’s glorious.
Compared to the standard 60Hz
setting, scrolling, animation, and
gaming are fantastically smooth, well
worth the serious hit to battery life
when it’s switched on.
When pitted against the Pixel 4’s
90Hz Smooth Display, however, the
difference is not nearly as obvious.
Samsung could easily have gotten away with
90Hz, saved some battery life, and offered it
for 1440p resolution as well, but as it stands
the 120Hz setting is available only with Full
HD 1080p resolution. Fast refresh with
WQHD would have been nice, especially on
a screen this size—I’m holding out hope that
Samsung will unlock it with a future update.Samsung has once again gone with an
ultrasonic in-display fingerprint sensor on the
S20 family. While a thousand-dollar-plus
phone should really have 3D facial
recognition, this implementation of the
fingerprint sensor is much improved over
what we had with the S10. The position of the
scanner is higher on the screen and the target
is a bit bigger, so I didn’t
need to alter my grip or flex
my thumb to hit it. It’s still not
quite as consistently fast as
the hardware sensor on the
S9 and probably never will
be, but it’s plenty accurate
and reliable now.
The best feature on the
S20 display is actually
switched off by default (and
I’m not talking about the usual
WQHD 1440p resolution).
The S20 is Samsung’s first
That’s no moon, that’s the 100X Space Zoom camera bump.
You can fit an awful lot of app icons on the Galaxy S20 Ultra’s screen.