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Samsung today announces its new range of phones, the Galaxy S20 , which will clearly be accompanied by a new type of folding mobile, the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip, whose appearance and features have already been completely filtered.

The Galaxy S20 mobile range consists of three terminals, namely: Galaxy S20 , the standard model with three cameras; Galaxy S20 Plus (or S20 +) with more battery, a larger screen and a fourth camera to improve the depth effect; and Galaxy S20 Ultra , the highest range because it has the new camera that reaches 108 megapixels of resolution, the largest screen and the largest battery.

All the S20 carry the Exynos 990 processor inside (or the Snapdragon 865 in international versions), which has a 5G modem included , but Samsung has not yet confirmed which versions of the mobile phones will support 5G coverage in Spain.

On price and availability of the S20 range, Samsung has not yet given the figure in euros, but the phones will go on sale on March 13 . It is expected that prices, depending on the model and capacities of RAM and storage, will be announced throughout the day.

In PIXEL we have been able to test Samsung's new mobiles in advance in an event organized for the international press in the city of Munich. The first sensations, very limited by the time available, are good. They are a very high quality device, a very careful design and that do seem an important leap with respect to the small steps that Samsung has taken in the last two years .

The push of the Chinese manufacturers has put Samsung in a delicate situation, which they have managed to expand the products of its Galaxy A range, prices for all budgets. But in the high range, the Galaxy S9 and S10 gave the feeling of being somewhat behind what Apple offered, traditional competition; like Huawei, which made several quality leaps in its cameras, although now they are in a break given the veto imposed by the US.

With the Galaxy S20, Samsung has continued to refine the design of its 'infinite' nicknamed screens and that cover, almost symmetrically, the entire front of the mobile. A single camera breaks the continuity of the company's huge AMOLED displays, which remain the best in the mobile market. And as it happened in the S10, they have the fingerprint reader underneath, which I couldn't test, but I guess it will work by ultrasound like the one in the previous model.

On this occasion, in addition to vivid and precise colors and inches for all tastes (each model has a larger screen than the previous one), they include a new technology to improve the fluidity of movements. The panels used in the S20 range reach 120 hertz , twice what traditionally all the mobile phones on the market have been using. There would be, therefore, two ways to configure the operation of the screen: with less resolution (FHD +) and more fluidity (FHD + and 120Hz) or more resolution and the usual fluidity (QHD + and 60Hz).

This seems to be a nod to the most advanced and technology users, something that may not call attention to the user on foot and that focuses more on features such as size or battery or cameras, but in person, I At least I quite appreciated the effect of the 120 hertz, of that extra fluidity.

Twice the image refresh rate, however, can lead to a large increase in battery consumption. In this first test, it is impossible to judge, but in case the battery consumption is very high, which is likely, it can always be configured to the user's taste, with QHD + resolution and 60 hertz or even with FHD + resolution and 60 hertz , which would theoretically be the least consumed.

Be that as it may, it is not as if these mobiles were short of battery , since they are immense even in the S20 (4,000mAh) and S20 Plus (4,500mAh) models, reaching outstanding quotas in terms of gross power in the S20 Ultra, which has a 'battery' of 5,000mAh . That is why it is also something thicker than his 'little' brothers, but it is almost something that I forgive him.

The battery, or rather, its duration, is a key point for the phones of the highest ranges, as are the processor, the amount of RAM and the space available for storage. The processor does not vary in any of the Galaxy S20, all include the new Exynos 990 for the European market .

The RAM and storage are given of the chosen model, from 128GB to 512GB of space and from 8GB to 16GB in relation to RAM (the latter figure, reserved for the Ultra). They are sufficient, in any case, for the phone to work smoothly and can store three hundred movies downloaded from Netflix and thousands of Spotify songs.

In the same way, the chosen Galaxy S20 model also conditions the performance in terms of cameras , which is where it is most noted that Samsung has put its efforts this year, something to be grateful for after the small advances in the last two years.

The Galaxy S20 have rear cameras with three lenses: a wide angle, a zoom with capacities of up to 30 hybrid magnifications and a super wide angle, typical of group photos. The Galaxy S20 Plus, the next step, includes one more camera, to improve the effect of depth in the photographs. And finally, the S20 Ultra includes these four cameras, but it makes two changes: the main camera has 108 megapixels and the zoom goes 'further' , to the point of reaching 100 magnifications.

According to Samsung, it will be possible not only to take pictures with all the lenses at the same time and merge them to get a better image, but also to 'zoom' into a photo already taken without losing quality in the crop.

Similarly, the S20 Ultra is capable of recording video in 8K , editing it lightly enough, taking captures of such videos to convert them into 33-pixel photographs and, perhaps most interesting of all, using that 108 megapixel lens to reduce nine times its size and get 12 megapixel photographs with much more detail, information and, ultimately, quality. It is something that we have already seen Huawei do with great success and that Samsung has now decided to do in its own way.

In the brief test I could make of this new camera, the result was impressive and, if I kept this capacity in a less controlled environment, it could become one of the best, if not the best, mobile camera of the year.

Samsung placed a lot of emphasis on the camera throughout the test, almost as much as it did with 5G , but this second part of its bet is still not entirely clear in the Spanish market, whose consumers currently do not seem very worried about giving the jump to 5G in 2020.

Still, the Galaxy S20 plays all the right sticks , some of which Samsung had been taking care of for some time. The apparent qualitative leap with its cameras and batteries accompanies good designs and good specifications, which were already taken for granted and are the least of the novelties in a high-end phone.

It is a pity that there is no Galaxy S20e , as there was an S10e, that is, a mobile that was smaller, without a curved screen and something more humble in price and performance, but it is clear that that did not work for Samsung in sales The Galaxy S20 is not as large as it may seem and perhaps this is the model for those who do not want hulks in the pocket, but already bulky more than an iPhone 11 Pro, for example, so it is a gap that leaves Samsung vacant and that , I assume, they will fill with the Galaxy A range that has given them very good numbers.

The S20 range, for finishing, is a range of mobiles with power to spare and that enters through the eyes . The curved lines make it easy to pick up, the materials are of quality, their colors in the back are bright and it has nothing to envy in design to other brands. Samsung is, in the opinion of who writes these lines, the company that makes the most beautiful phones of the moment .

In the absence of trying it and being able to give an opinion beyond its appearance and its gross characteristics, the Galaxy S20 could not arrive at a better time for Samsung. The Koreans are in luck: other traditional manufacturers (Sony, LG) are weakened, the main opponent who ate ground has serious problems (Huawei), the next great adversary continues to make phones a step below in certain aspects to keep prices adjusted ( Xiaomi) and the only company that can match or exceed its offer of quality and high-end (Apple) is not yet going to announce a mobile phone within seven months. Too bad they have to be given to Samsung so that the S20s do not have to speak, at least.

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