Samsung Galaxy S20 FE User Reviews

I've had it for 11 months, everyday basic use is super smooth as it should be, when you play demanding games such as Pubg mobile or Genshin Impact the Framerate drops are awful. This is thermal throttling city. I would avoid the Exynos variant if you care about performance. Even the camera stutters bad. Due to heat output the camera app has closed itself while recording a video, this is kind of rare, but I wouldn't rely on it for very extensive recording sessions.

Display has good things like the refresh rate, it might be only my unit but it's significantly worse than the display of the S20, S20+ and S20 ultra, I've compared side by side. Also, I’ve turned off Vivid mode on the display settings, at first glance it looks cool but if you try natural mode for a while, you’ll notice the difference, now it annoys me a lot on the vivid mode.

Battery life is mediocre and inconsistent due to the exynos chipset. Overall disappointed every "reviewer" out there fails to properly review this phone, it's a fine phone for casual daily use but I could have gotten the same for less money, I thought this was going to be a near flagship experience with some compromises but let me tell you the Exynos variant is not a flagship experience. SD 865 variant should be significantly better.

Picture quality seems decent, but I’ve seemed better, Samsung likes to give you the “good colors”, too much saturation for my personal taste. The focus performance on my unit is not great, it has difficulties focusing close objects. Video is great, I really like it, my cat looks glorious on 4K. Front camera is fine.

I would advice you to avoid the Exynos variant of this phone, get a cheaper one if you’re a casual user. Off course if you get a good deal, you could consider it, I’d be willing to pay no more than 500 USD. If you’re a power user, you probably won’t be satisfied.

All the power, all the screen, with little drawbacks such as sub par batter and heating up quickly. For the price, it easily rivals the iPhone 12 and IPhone 11 pro. 120hz makes it suuuuuuuuuuuper smooth too.

The FE is really one great phone and especially with all of the deals going on, this would be really hard to beat. Coming from a S8 the speed is significantly better, the camera is much better and the battery life is tremendously better.

I'm not going to write a long boring overview, you can read that anywhere. I'm just scoring it based on my experience and why it has that score. I've purchased two of these both via trade in replacing a S10+ and S10 5G.

The phone as far as day to day usage has been fine so far with a few exceptions. With heavy usage being 120hz at all times, 50% brightness, always on display, location and bluetooth on, using gps, split screen multitasking between social media, using microsoft teams, google meet and zoom for hours, streaming movies and music for a few hours, and heavy gaming on call of duty mobile, pubg, and fortnite, the phone basically doesn't last the whole day. Starting at 7 am, the battery died about at about 3 pm. Fast charging via a wired connection was okay taking around 3 hours from dead to fully charged, with fast wireless charging taking even longer. As far as build quality is concerned, the plastic back doesn't necessarily feel like cheap plastic found on many cheap phones, but doesn't quite have the denseness and rigidness that glass has, but i will say that at least it won't shatter with a drop like glass does. The front glass however is a bit weak and i've already noticed scratches and a small crack at the corner. The speakers sound nice and loud, but typically i use headphones with the phone. The image quality is okay, and the overall usage of the phone, scrolling, opening and closing apps seem to work very quickly with no lag at all. I have notice accidental touches although the screen is flat, as well as the fingerprint scanner taking multiple tries just to unlock the phone. As for the cameras, the photos are fine with pretty good detail and colour accuracy. All in all, its not a bad phone, i'm just not a huge fan of one ui as oppose to stock android.