SAMSUNG Galaxy S20 FE 5G Factory Unlocked Android Cell Phone 128GB US Version Smartphone Pro-Grade Camera 30X Space Zoom Night Mode, Cloud Navy
This is the Samsung galaxy s20 fe 5g. I've been using this phone for the past four months. Now, so I know this phone in and out. So high refresh rate displays are pretty common these days most smartphones come with a 90hz refreshed panel but s20 fe 5g comes with a fixed 120 hertz. Now I won't be able to explain in detail what high refresher displays. But in short, It makes the overall experience of using the phone smooth and it is difficult to go back to a regular 60hz panel. After using this one. It has a 6.5 inch 1080p Samsung AMOLED display bright enough to use in direct sunlight and contrasty as you would expect from a Samsung's flagship display. It has widevine l1 and hdr10 plus support as well. However for some odd reason. It doesn't play videos in hdr on Netflix but it is there on youtube and other supported apps. 
Now I'm not sure if Samsung is at fault here or Netflix but the phone is already 10 months old. So I don't think. It's going to be fixed in the future. It has an optical in-display fingerprint sensor and you can store up to three fingerprints. It works fine but not that quick as compared to an ultrasonic sensor on the s21 lineup. It is also ip68 water and dust-resistant. Which is rare to find in this price segment. One important thing for all non-tech savvy people out there. There are two versions of this phone one with 5g and the second one without 5g support the non 5g version comes with an Exynos processor. Which was launched in late 2020 and this 5g version comes with a snapdragon processor. Which launched in India in March 2021 and it is one of the few phones from Samsung with the flagship snapdragon chipset right now before you ask go for the 5g version because Exynos runs a bit hotter as compared to a snapdragon chipset and because of the 5g capabilities. It comes with a snapdragon 865 processor with 8 gigs of ram well even if this is an old chipset that doesn't mean that it is slow or laggy the overall experience is quite smooth. I mean, I don't play games on smartphones now but I tried call of duty and ask for a line for summer for testing purposes and I didn't notice any major frame drops. So it is holding up well also. It comes with 128GB of internal storage with an expandable memory option or you can use a second sim instead the phone supports Dolby atmos for good sound quality through dual stereo speakers and earphones as well and sound from either of them is loud enough and I never went above 70 volume and there are ample settings to set the sound signature as per your preference like equalizer personalized sound profiles etc and yeah, there is no headphone jack. So you have to rely on Bluetooth earphones or buy a connector separately about the battery life after charging the phone to 100. I get a full day of use plus a couple of hours more.
So if I dive into the technical details the phone has a 4500 milliamp battery. Which gives me five hours of the scene on time on average well. This can vary from person to person depending on the usage including an hour of Instagram and Facebook an hour of music streaming on Spotify an hour of attending zoom calls and a couple of hours of video streaming on youtube amazon prime and Netflix combined also wi-fi Bluetooth location and always-on display are always enabled and before I forget. It is running on android 11 with Samsung's One UI 3.1 on top. There is no aggressive battery saving on by default. Which I was used to before as I was using Asus zenfone 5z before this phone. Samsung advertises this phone as 25 watts super fast charging. Which is not super fast by any means on top of it. The phone comes with only a 15-watt charger in the box. You can argue that flagship phones and iPhones specifically don't come with a charger nowadays but that is just silly in my point of view the 15-watt charger charges the phone in one hour 50 minutes and honestly. I don't have that much patience and time. So I bought the 25-watt charger which charges the phone in 70 minutes flat. I'll put more detailed specs somewhere here or wherever.
There's space in the frame but it is not all a sad story. Here s20 fe 5g supports a 15-watt wireless
Now I'm not sure if Samsung is at fault here or Netflix but the phone is already 10 months old. So I don't think. It's going to be fixed in the future. It has an optical in-display fingerprint sensor and you can store up to three fingerprints. It works fine but not that quick as compared to an ultrasonic sensor on the s21 lineup. It is also ip68 water and dust-resistant. Which is rare to find in this price segment. One important thing for all non-tech savvy people out there. There are two versions of this phone one with 5g and the second one without 5g support the non 5g version comes with an Exynos processor. Which was launched in late 2020 and this 5g version comes with a snapdragon processor. Which launched in India in March 2021 and it is one of the few phones from Samsung with the flagship snapdragon chipset right now before you ask go for the 5g version because Exynos runs a bit hotter as compared to a snapdragon chipset and because of the 5g capabilities. It comes with a snapdragon 865 processor with 8 gigs of ram well even if this is an old chipset that doesn't mean that it is slow or laggy the overall experience is quite smooth. I mean, I don't play games on smartphones now but I tried call of duty and ask for a line for summer for testing purposes and I didn't notice any major frame drops. So it is holding up well also. It comes with 128GB of internal storage with an expandable memory option or you can use a second sim instead the phone supports Dolby atmos for good sound quality through dual stereo speakers and earphones as well and sound from either of them is loud enough and I never went above 70 volume and there are ample settings to set the sound signature as per your preference like equalizer personalized sound profiles etc and yeah, there is no headphone jack. So you have to rely on Bluetooth earphones or buy a connector separately about the battery life after charging the phone to 100. I get a full day of use plus a couple of hours more.
So if I dive into the technical details the phone has a 4500 milliamp battery. Which gives me five hours of the scene on time on average well. This can vary from person to person depending on the usage including an hour of Instagram and Facebook an hour of music streaming on Spotify an hour of attending zoom calls and a couple of hours of video streaming on youtube amazon prime and Netflix combined also wi-fi Bluetooth location and always-on display are always enabled and before I forget. It is running on android 11 with Samsung's One UI 3.1 on top. There is no aggressive battery saving on by default. Which I was used to before as I was using Asus zenfone 5z before this phone. Samsung advertises this phone as 25 watts super fast charging. Which is not super fast by any means on top of it. The phone comes with only a 15-watt charger in the box. You can argue that flagship phones and iPhones specifically don't come with a charger nowadays but that is just silly in my point of view the 15-watt charger charges the phone in one hour 50 minutes and honestly. I don't have that much patience and time. So I bought the 25-watt charger which charges the phone in 70 minutes flat. I'll put more detailed specs somewhere here or wherever.
There's space in the frame but it is not all a sad story. Here s20 fe 5g supports a 15-watt wireless
charging as well as reverse file charging which as the name suggests can charge other wireless charging supported devices wirelessly. Now as compared to the competition s20 fe has three useful cameras at the back and be useful. I mean no crappy 2-megapixel macro camera or a depth camera. I was surprised to see how good these cameras are. So you got one 12 megapixels primary a 12-megapixel ultra white and an 8-megapixel three-time zoom camera aka telephoto lens. Now the main and the telephoto cameras have ois which helps to avoid those blurry shots so that you don't have to click multiple picks all three have good dynamic range reduce sharp images but sometimes noisy in the night mode but overall solid cameras. Now I didn't notice any color shift while clicking with all the three cameras in the normal mode but if you click the photo in the night mode with the ultra white camera then you get a slight pink issue in some shots which were a bit odd but I'm still quite happy with the results all the cameras can record videos in 4k 60 fps including the front camera the front cam is a 32-megapixel sensor. Which is fine.It performs well in good lighting conditions but okay in artificial lighting but you can use night mode to increase the overall image quality nothing special here not a selfie guys. So I didn't click much for selfies. You can go with the one plus 9 but only for selfies rear cameras are better and produces a consistent result on the h20 f5g. Let me tell you briefly about the software experience on this phone. it is not close to the google pixel stock UI experience by any means.
There are several apps from Samsung like my galaxy app Samsung browser and the infamous Bixby. Nobody uses but there are a ton of useful features that you will not get in other smartphone brands like Samsung pay. Where you can add your credit and debit cards digitally and make payments directly my favorite edge panels for quick access to useful apps are Samsung decks Samsung knocks for security and a good lock app for customization and Samsung has promised to provide three major android updates and four years of security updates. So it will be getting android 13 and security updates till the year 2024.
There are several apps from Samsung like my galaxy app Samsung browser and the infamous Bixby. Nobody uses but there are a ton of useful features that you will not get in other smartphone brands like Samsung pay. Where you can add your credit and debit cards digitally and make payments directly my favorite edge panels for quick access to useful apps are Samsung decks Samsung knocks for security and a good lock app for customization and Samsung has promised to provide three major android updates and four years of security updates. So it will be getting android 13 and security updates till the year 2024.
Samsung Galaxy S20 FE 5G SD865 - Specifications
- Dimensions: 74.5 x 159.8 x 8.4 mm.
- Weight: 190 g.
- SoC: Qualcomm Snapdragon 865.
- CPU: 1x 2.84 GHz Kryo 585, 3x 2.42 GHz Kryo 585, 4x 1.8 GHz Kryo 585.
- GPU: Qualcomm Adreno 650.
- RAM: 6 GB, 8 GB, 2750 MHz.
- Storage: 128 GB, 256 GB.
- Memory cards: microSD, microSDHC, microSDXC.
