Goodbye Samsung...

Alright, so that time has come to switch smartphones

It's just, it's part of the gig here. As you know, many new smartphones come across the table

and I'm always examining them, trying to figure out which one is gonna be the next one to become my daily phone

It goes in my pocket and I use for an extended period of time. And often that means beyond the typical one week cycle

In many cases, it means I'll use that phone for months if it happens to be my favorite during that period

That's been the case with this one in front of me. This is the S20 Ultra

I've told you guys about it dating back to when it came out and my SIM card went into it

I recently updated you and asked you guys what I should switch to from this device

You guys voted, so I heard you on that. But before I switch over to another device from this one, I feel since I've used it for so long

I should give you guys some feedback, some feelings, some things that, some observations

that I think you start to pick up on with an even greater extended usage

Takeaway, biggest takeaway, this is a big phone. That seems weird. That seems like something that you could observe immediately upon getting it out of the box

which I did. It's a thing that becomes more apparent to you as it is your main device

as it sits in your pocket for a longer period of time. I think for me, this is right at that fringe

it's right at that edge of maybe being too big. I didn't know if I was ever gonna say that, to be honest

because smartphone sizes have just been consistently scaling up and the screen's big and beautiful and bright

But this one may have been the first where I was sitting there thinking, man, it'd be nice to have a slightly smaller phone right now

Maybe lighter. Maybe the weight is even a bigger component for me

If I'm out and maybe even put a pair of gym shorts on, you know, that could happen

It has happened. It's kind of it's crazy. Then this thing it's flopping around and you feel kind of like you have a weight in your pocket

It's got the huge camera module on it. It's totally understandable That said that comes with probably my favorite aspect, which is the battery life because the phone is huge

It means they can slap a giant battery in there That's exactly what this thing has has a 5000 milliamp hour battery has some of the best battery life

I've ever experienced in a smartphone so much so that there's been times where I forgot to charge it one night and I made it through most

of the next day no problem which is kind of crazy for me personally. It's been at the very top edge

for me on the day-to-day of anything I've tested recently. You have a huge display, you have 120

hertz refresh rate. Now granted most of the time I'm running this not in the highest resolution

because I'm picking the high refresh rate instead. I'm not super excited about the fact that I can't

I'm gonna do both. Hey man, if I wanna drain the battery and I wanna run high res alongside high refresh

I wish I could do it, because the refresh is probably my next favorite feature after the battery Just the unbelievable fluid nature snappiness Now the next thing I wanna touch on is probably the biggest con for me

Maybe I just had high expectations in this department and I don't think they were actually met here

which is the camera department. I just expected this camera to demolish

and it didn't really do that. And I'll tell you specifically where

And I talked about this a little bit in a camera test video. the autofocus here leaves a lot to be desired i don't know what is going on there's been some

updates but it's still particularly if you're shooting video the autofocus is just not grabbing

very quickly it's it's kind of bizarre but it's just not at the level that i had hoped for

personally this doesn't matter as much for still photos where it can grab focus you can snap the

photo and move on with your life but during video it's just it's painstaking sometimes when you're

just waiting for the thing to grip focus and it doesn't none of the drawbacks to me are a complete

deal breaker that said just because samsung is a leader in the space like i said you set your

expectations really high and you hope for things to be perfect it might very well be the best

battery on any smartphone right now outside of those endurance things that exist as far as just

flagships go it might be the best battery it might be the best display when you combine samsung's

OLED tech along with this high refresh, but it's not a perfect phone. No phone is perfect. The

speakers are really good on it as well, by the way. I should also pop that in there. But anyways

it's time to switch now. You guys voted. I gave you guys the choice. I talked to you on Twitter

and I even put a community post on YouTube, and it was a unanimous thing. You guys want me to

switch to this one right here. This is the latest OnePlus device. It is, of course, the OnePlus 8

Pro. I was kind of thinking about the OnePlus 8 as being a potential option, but it just

they added a feature to this one that I have been waiting for OnePlus to add for so long that I just

couldn't imagine going with the regular OnePlus 8 model. And that of course is wireless charging

And on top of that, it is the fast wireless charging. This guy right here, which is their

proprietary quick charge, warp charge 30 wireless charger. I don't mind. I have it here

but it's important to note it's an extended cost this thing is i don't know 90 bucks 100 bucks

canadian it's an extra cost on top of this to take advantage of the fast wireless charging it will

work it's backwards compatible with any wireless charger you have but it's a thing that i use i

have it on my bedside table and whenever i would switch to one plus devices in the past i'd have

to go yank the cable back out and i know it's you're nitpicking but it's just the differences

between these flagship devices, it's so slim that every little extra headache is something

you gotta report on, something you talk about. Like I said, it's tough to find a champ

so you're looking at these slight little advantages, and OnePlus didn't have it, now they have it

Samsung kinda left the door open, at least with the Ultra model in my opinion Now I know a lot of people really like this blue color I a little more traditional on the smartphones I like black and gray and things like that for the dailies

It doesn't really matter. I'm gonna pop a later case on it, obviously

Yeah, the later case for me is a must. It was actually the motivation to start the company

was to make sure that I had availability personally on these cases when I would switch

to this wide variety of models and the availability wasn't there in the past. and of course now it is

These are both available, you can order them right now. These cases, whether it's the OnePlus 8 Pro

or the S20 Ultra or the regular S20s or the regular OnePlus 8

And it's just because I got so used to this particular texture and I got used to this grip

and I got used to this in the pocket. It's the thinnest case you can do

and it provides just enough friction that these glass phones don't slide out of the pocket

which was the main issue for me whenever I was using a modern phone, caseless

All right, some quick observations with the OnePlus 8 Pro. It's all so big, would you look at that

The S20 Ultra I thought was enormous, I told you it was enormous

You look at these in the picture, and it looks like they're the same size

OnePlus is just straight up saying it, we're coming after your S20 Ultra money

That's where they're at now. They scaled up the thing, they scaled up the price

which everybody has an opinion on. I don't know if it fits their DNA

but they're coming for that S20 money. Now I will say, it does feel smaller

I know in your picture they look identical, but it's slimmer on the edges

So the whole thing feels thinner. Of course, it does have a smaller battery in it

Same chip, similar screens. Either way, these are both competitors for your flagship money

I think it's pretty obvious. and I think a lot of people will be cross shopping

these two phones now that the OnePlus 8 Pro does exist. So for me, this is a perfect transition

Put the SIM over here in the 8 Pro and then have the S20 Ultra fresh in my mind

the experience of having used it. Obviously I'm giving up some camera modules

I'm giving up some battery life. I'm gaining something that's slightly more portable

and I'm changing software. OnePlus has always been one of my favorite software optimizers in the Android space because they don't mess with it too much

They mess with it in ways that you actually would want to mess with it or you could appreciate

For example, within the customization, you can change the colors right within your settings menu here

You could change these little dots from, they were blue out the box and then you're into red very easily if you want to

System customization, your accent color. This can be whatever you want. Okay, that's a thing you might actually wanna do

Same with tone, not just dark mode, but dark mode, light mode, and colorful mode

Okay, why not? Throw that in. The shape of your system icons is available to switch

and even your icon pack And this is all within the default launcher here Of course you can put whatever launcher you want but it kind of cool to see that right out of the gate Your home settings I mean tremendous number of options The animations are sped up by default And then

of course, you can turn them off completely within the settings. Now, you can do some of these things on other phones through secondary launchers, but OnePlus just giving you that option straight away

and almost encouraging you to take advantage of it. I'm a fan of that. I mean, the whole thing

It just, it feels really snappy. I don't need to tell you guys. 120 Hertz, and this could be a big step for them, really

If I use this thing and it's a valid competitor, or if I even see it as an improvement for me

on the day-to-day over the S20 Ultra, it could mean that OnePlus has really arrived

because that top dog, that heavy Samsung favorite, that, I mean, they've dominated that kind of icon

within the flagship Android space for so long. And OnePlus has been okay to occupy this secondary space, which was the flagship killer

Now they've got this thing, which they're basically saying is a straight up flagship

certainly with the price point. So I understand why that turned some people off

But if it can displace this phone on the right, then I think it's a valid move

I need a SIM tool. Good thing about shooting all these phone unboxing videos, there's often a SIM tool nearby

I slapped this baby on. Boom. Boom. Let me do a pocket test real quick

Yeah, I mean, it feels a little bit lighter. OnePlus 8 Pro. New, personal, daily driver

If you have questions about my experience with it, hit me up on Twitter. Does OnePlus have what it takes

If they want to play in the flagship space, they got to bring the A game in every single department

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