Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra, 128GB, Cosmic Gray - Fully Unlocked (Renewed)

One of the best phones with the best camara

bought it mainly for the camera and its Samsung. NOT disappointed at all. Best camera phone I have seen. Just mess with the settings.

This phone has some of the worst features I've ever seen period. I've never had a phone/product be such a step backwards at this price, EVER. I ended up going back to my Razer phone from 2018 because it's just better in every way. Gonna have to go with Google after this, because nobody else has anything like the quality Razer was making for the price.I should've known Samsung was terrible after I saw how they made the flashlight on the S3 a SEPARATE APP WITH ADS THAT LAGGED THE ENTIRE PHONE.- Back glass of phone broke a month after I got it. Had it in an otterbox and dropped it on a carpeted floor on the backside and it shattered. Now it has to stay in the case or the back will stab you with shards.-Aluminum shell is definitely just aluminum foil, because it's getting scratched inside of a complete case with no dust openings.-Camera (the only reason to buy this phone) doesn't work. 1x - 5x is like looking through cataracts. Everything is blurry, and their quoted fix is "You gotta shake it" which also doesn't work. It also focuses on everything around your subject. Even if you tap exactly where it should focus. I've been missing out on so many cool moments I wanted to capture because of this phone.-Curved screen so you'll never find a screen protector that works. Water gets underneath them and the screen stops working. Also makes typing a chore. It will select every letter around what you want. This also means the fingerprint reader is mediocre as well. To the designer that made the scanner in the screen, you deserve a punch in the teeth. Same to the curved screen guy. Wish they'd stop trying to copy Apple poorly and do their own thing again.-Every update breaks something else or turns settings on you already had to turn off. Like Bixby, Volume controls, Screenshots, etc.-Settings you can't change or are so buried, they're a chore to reach. They're too lazy to sort by alphabetical order, so you have to guess where evrything is at. The search doesn't work either even if you type the exact name of the setting, I guess the search bar has cataracts too. Most of the time there just aren't options to turn off the junk they include.-Bixby is on by default so when you try to shut off the phone it's like "Hey did you wanna use our subpar service you didn't ask for?" I just want to turn off my phone ad free.-Stock keyboard deletes too fast so you end up deleting entire sections of what you want to say and there IS NO WAY TO TURN IT OFF even with a different keyboard installed. It also has the worst autocorrect I've ever seen on any device ever that you cannot turn off. Captalizes random words, wont fix punctuation on obvious stuff. For reference, the terrible screen made me type "autocoppect" and it had no idea what to replace it with SO IT DIDN'T DO ANYTHING AND LEFT IT. I typed "everuytime" and it replaced it with "every ingredient". Regularly adds S's and random punctuation to the end of words you didn't want. Always skips capatlizing "i" no matter how many times your reinstall your keyboard or turn "Autocapitalize I" on and off. Even with the Google Keyboard, it seems to keep the terrible suggestions. Doesn't delete extra spaces either. It also won't stop underlining everything it does, so by the end of a message, you just see a mess. It even underlines thr punctuation you miss but it can't figure out when you want to type "the". There's no color difference between the underlines either, soyou can't tell why it's underlined. Is it spelt wrong or did it just edit punctuon? You'll never know. Just do you can see how bad the keyboard is i stopped fixing it because this is what you usually see at the end of the text. So you ALWAYS have to edit every text you type no matter thr context. There is no respite from how bad the keyboard/screen combo is.-Volume buttons don't work on the lock screen so if you had loud music or a video going in a library, and wanted to stay quiet, lord help you. You'll have to unlock it, it'll autoplay and only after it's unlocked will it let you turn it down, SLOWLY, might I add. They said it's for security, and that's cool, but just like how I can turn off screen passwords, they should let you turn off all these junk settings nobody asked for, only to be on by default after the next update.-They have a bad habit of hiding reviews as well. This is my 5th attempt at warning people how bad this phone is, I hope it gets through because I regret wasting the money everytime I look at this scrap heap.

1400 dollar phone for a couple hundred dollars. It's no longer supported with regular updates, but my last phone was an S9 ultra and I'd still have it but the battery was dying and is now extremely difficult to charge. The old S9 updates stopped almost 3 years ago. This phone is a stop gap, but it works well. I could have spent less money, but I like the fact that it can store over 1.5 TB with an appropriate SD card. No need to depend on the cloud for every little thing. I however could backup everything on both the cloud and my phone. I most likely replace this phone in 2 years if necessary. Also this phone was super easy to setup. But updating passwords was time consuming. It's a little bigger that my old phone but I can work with it. Battery life is awesome (to use a 90s catch phase). Reception is good and the wifi Hotspot works well. No need to use hotel wifi as it allows the my fire tv to stream easily in most locations.

So The camera had a popup "Warning: Camera Failure". Took it to a Samsung dealer and they said it's happened to tons of older Samsung phones (mine being the Galaxy S20 Ultra) and there is nothing they can do. The tech said he tried to help the first 30 out of 100 people who came to him with the problem, after that he's just told them it's software or hardware issue that is on the motherboard and can not be repaired (something to do with the Android 12 update killing them).Seller did (kinda) offer a partial refund to cover the costs of repairing the device with the second option to just return it for a refund. The Samsung tech said "short of replacing the whole motherboard, its not going to work, and it would be less expensive to just buy a brand new phone."Seller did not have the option to replace the phone. Because of this I had to order another phone from a different vendor. This also means that I had to pay ANOTHER $30 connection fee with my phone carrier to switch my sim over to another phone!Update: just to be fair, The second phone I ordered from Joygoods CR would not stay connected to the network. Back to the Samsung tech for another diagnosis. This time he was not sure, but it looked like the unlocked phone was still sim network locked? I am waiting to hear back from Joygoods to see if they can fix the issue... Maybe don't buy refurbished!If I had not already 2x connection fees and dropped $40 into the custom Otterbox case for the Galaxy s20 Ultra I probably would have just returned it by now and gone in to pick up a more basic phone off the shelf. With a warranty, and less problems. Whee! spending more and more on a dead horse.