Samsung Galaxy s20 FE - Cloud Navy (Unlocked)

I really love this phone so far. The stylus is my favorite which I use to play some puzzle games on my phone. The battery lasts all day and features are nice. I love the digital processor to take photos. I wish the night mode photos were a little better but it's not bad. I wish the edges of the screen weren't as curved because it makes it hard to keep the screen protected.

I will dislose upfront that I am likely an android fanboy, whose never had an iphone. However, I did seriously consider switching right before getting this S23 Ultra. Heres why I ultimattely went with Samsung this time. I have stuck with android, and used many over the years. Droid Razr, Nexus6P, Pixel2, Xperia I 3. I am familiar with and like the useability of android. Just how it is. MAIN USE: It was important to me I get a phone that can meet my goals of retaining media. I was able to move all my music files and photos collections rather easily to the S23. About 2400 songs, and favorite pics and videos from all my phones. It would have likely been a nightmare if I switched to iphone. Something about needing itunes or whatever, on a PC. No thanks. And i use a 3rd party music app and bam, phone is my main music collection. In my research, and knowing full well, Samsung is the android leader that Pixel wants to be. I have no illwill toward them, just acknowledging Google desperately trying to catch up. Samsung has the specs, the hardware, and top camera above all. They have the brand too stand behind as well. CAMERA: I love how great the camera works. It really shines when outdoors is good lighting. Videos come out crystal clear. I know some of my iphone friends may have taken a doubletake at the quality when seeing for themseelves. Has slowmo, superslow mo, wide angle, zoom, you name it. SHots still come out great even zoomed. Not blurry like my previous phones with a zoom lens. BATTERY: S23 is fast charging when using the right cable and plugin charger, otherwise slow trickles if using a "slow" one. Battery seems to last me 2 days, but I do not use my phone 24/7 on super brightness. It would last longer if I didnt use it at all during work, but I tend to play music so of course. SCREEN: Its a nice big display alright. Not 100% sure, but i think bigger than newest big ihpone? Nice and bright and clear. Phone is fast, and works well. THE BAD: Here re my legit criticisms of this phone. NO headphone jack. I know its old tech, but having nice wired phones be relegated to pc use is meh. No SD card slot. As media focused as I am, I hate that sd card slots have been phased out. BRING THE SD CARD SLOT BACK. OVERALL: This S23 Is a great phone. Despite the industry ditching sd cards and headphone jacks. IMO, likely the best android brand today. Pixel would likely be the close 2nd place. This S23 is frequently on sale due to the next Galaxies coming out, and is ultimately still cheaper than comparable iphone equivalents. If you want top of the line, its this.

I got this phone on sale, $200 off, 256gb version. Samsung doesnt offer a 128gb version on the ultra, which is bogus in my opinion. Amazon prime offered same day shipping, which was nice. Phone arrived intact and fine. No problems with shipping. The build quality of the S23 Ultra is very solid and feels good in the hands. The matte finish on the back is very nice and smooth, leaves no fingerprints. The screen feels really good and smooth. The s pen is nice to have, but I find that I dont use it that much. Its nice when taking photos you can set up the phone and press the s pen button to take the photo when youre ready. Speaking of the camera, the photos are excellent quality. This phone is equipped with a 200mp camera, which takes some very detailed and clear photos. I would say this phone has the best camera compared to every other phone. This phone is equipped with a 5000 mah battery, which lasts the whole day. The fingerprint sensor works 98% of the time, when my hand is very dry it doesnt work as well. I havent tested facial recognition yet so I cant speak on that. The screen is 120 hz, and looks and feels very smooth. The android skin this phone uses, OneUI, is one of the better android skins on the market. The customization of this phone is way better than IOS in my opinion, you can do so much more. One thing I dislike about the os is that after every time i swipe up to exit an app, the samsung quick access wallet app pops up in place of the spot where I use to swipe to exit apps. I find this very annoying and I'm not sure where to disable it. One other thing I dislike is this phone requires you to have two different accounts with Google and Samsung, whereas with iPhone, all you need is an icloud account. Screen protectors are hard to put on this phone because of the curved edges, so be mindful of that. Overall, this is a VERY solid flagship device, if youre in the market for a new cell phone, this is the phone to buy.

Firstly I was pretty skeptical of purchasing an unlocked phone never owning one before but so far this device has been nothing but first class performance. The only issue I have had so far is with getting this masterpiece to do wifi calling, but I have this same problem with my Galaxy S20 Plus and was able to figure out how to get it working and I have high hopes that the same will happen here. I have tried the moon zoom and it was spectacular. I love the size of this phone though I wish Samsung had at least made it the same size as the Galaxy S22 Ultra which is 6.9 inches, but however I can still work with 6.8 inches. I love the bigger screen phones because they are better for conducting business on the go and of course videos, movies and photography. Love the brightness of the screen and need I not mention the S Pen which I always wanted. Though it's true that this phone is pretty expensive, still, all in all it's worth every single penny for everything thing that has been put into it including hours of labor and time. I didn't want to upgrade my Galaxy S20 Plus this soon, but after seeing the moon zoom and the fact that this phone featured the popular S Pen, I have no other choice but to dive in, besides life is too short to not have the things we work hard for, so with that said I pampered myself to this device that I hope to have for many years to come. I seen in the reviews where someone stated that the phone will not charge past 85 percent. Go to settings, battery and device care followed by battery and then more battery setting and turn off the protect battery setting if you want your device to charge the entire 100 percent. However keep in mind that keeping this setting turned on increase the life of your battery when it only charges to 85 percent. Sound quality has also improved once again in this device and that is something that I love as well. I guess the even better part is the updates that is going to hopefully follow to put the icing on the cake because, as far as the hardware..... it's all there. Samsung has even stepped up their game and threw in McAfee on this one, so with that said, I stepped mine's up as well and bought the package deal from McAfee that will protect up to 10 devices. People, you ain't going to get better than this. This phone is super fast. I'm going to miss the memory card slot but just like the headphones port, I'll get over it quickly for all that this phone packs, I say so long memory card slot, welcome home Galaxy S23 Ultra. Update: 5/28/23. After having this phone longer, I've discovered more about it. The Bluetooth feature in this device is much faster than the one on my S20 Plus. My Galaxy Watch now connects instantly, where in my S20 Plus it took a few seconds to connect. I have been loving this phone so much that I have decided to replace the original plastic S Pen that came with it with the aluminum one to do my own part of keeping high-end products matched up with high-end products as I did with the case, going with the Otterbox Defender series pro case for this baby. I've heard people mention having dropped calls on Samsung phones, however I have not experienced that in this device this far into ownership. The photo of the Cellular Tower I took using the camera on this phone was taken from about a mile and some change away and I was zoomed to around 30mm out of 100, just to give you a better idea of what the camera on this device can do. I am very tickle with the benchmark results of this device, very, very beautiful results. Still waiting to see what it will do with a full moon not to mention the very popular "Super Moon". After using this phone for nearly two months now I still must say that it has been an amazing experience. I have also noticed where some are unfairly reviewing the phone, either you have a defective device or is not doing something right. The battery should be no less than 5 stars, and I personally would give it 10 stars if I could for being a perfect 10. I have gotten at least 4 days out of my phone off a single charge, I have also noticed where the fingerprint scanner got an unfair low rating, again if you use it right it will work right. Since setting this area of the phone up I have not once had any problems with the fingerprint scanner picking up my fingerprint, even when I have done it snappy it has never failed to work. So far on this device, I have not experienced any of the dropped calls that I hear about since the very moment I inserted my sim card into this phone. At last, I was able to take a few photos of the popular supermoon. Wasn't that clear of an evening here but I still must say that the camera on this phone did an awesome job capturing it at 230mm and around 7mp.

This was unfortunately a regrettable purchase, but I was thankful that I bought it through Amazon because the return process was smooth, as has been my experience with most unsatisfactory products purchased through Amazon. First and foremost, I'm an iOS user of 10 or so years, but have experimented with usage of Android on multiple occasions (once with a Note 9, another time with a Note 20 Ultra, and just recently with the S23 Ultra). I have no issue with admitting that Android triumphs in certain areas where iOS is very lackluster, but also feel the same way in reverse in thinking that iOS wins over Android in many areas as well. I suppose if I had been an Android user all along, these issues would be minute because I would be accustomed to them. So, I will give a few reasons why I have come to the conclusion that the S23U was not for me and why I switched back to iOS (and went with an iPhone 14 Pro Max): - My biggest gripe was the battery life. I chock up many of the positive reviews (both here on Amazon and on other websites containing reviews that I used to influence me to buy the S23U in the first place) to not knowing any better, and potentially being lifelong Android users. Within a couple of minutes of removing the S23U from the charger, battery life began dropping. This is after extensive viewing of YouTube (or Google) tutorials for advice on what settings would best be used to preserve the battery life and make it last longer. Every potential setting that could be altered to make battery life more satisfactory on this phone was applied, but to no avail. I am your average social media doom-scroller and will snap a photo here and there, but never had any intention of heavily using this phone for, say, classroom note taking or anything similar. So, when I took the phone to work for a 4-hour shift and it was down to half its battery life by the time I left, even though I'd hardly touched it other than maybe throwing on a music playlist, it was a pretty big blow. Throughout the time I had this phone I was mortified at the thought of getting into an accident with this thing on hand in the event that the battery died on me, but just didn't really feel like I should I have to prioritize the idea of carrying a spare phone charger around with me at all times. With an iPhone and its already built in settings, I could take it off of the charger, doom-scroll for an hour and would *maybe* lose 1-2% battery life in that time. - Secondly, I had a heck of a time with notifications and particularly, text messages on the S23U. There were multiple instances where I would miss text messages because the phone never once notified me that someone had texted me. Again, I took to Google and found out that an additional app (Glimpse Notifications) can be downloaded to remedy this issue, and it luckily did, or that I am aware of. No one should have to download an app (also using up unnecessary space on their phone) in order to ensure they receive something as simple as text messages and see them on their lock screen. - Your average joe-schmo photos came out incredibly beautiful....that is, so long as using the zoom function was not imperative to whatever you were photographing. Even 3x zoom proved a massive disappointment as whatever you were taking a photo of was incredibly grainy and blurry. I have a friend who is a lifelong Android user (who also told me I would never want to go back to iPhone and would be incredibly satisfied with the S23U) whom I sent sample screenshots to, and he was shocked at how disappointing the photos were. Like I said, if you're just taking the average photo of something close up to you, it's a very pleasing sight, but if you're trying to take picture of an animal around 12 or so feet away and need a little bit of zooming...prepare for disappointment. Facial recognition was testy, to say the least. It didn't recognize my face half the time (even though I reset it, then set it back up again anew), so I just got fed up and decided to do away with it and go with the fingerprint scanner. All in all, I spent the majority of my time owning this phone navigating the settings menus or downloading apps to try and get basic functions to operate correctly. There was little enjoyment from it. For the money that I spent, it just wasn't worth it to me, personally.