There is no optical zoom on both these devices. Not 3x, not 5x and certainly not 30x Space Zoom. They advertise "hybrid optic zoom", which is technically and blatant false advertising. The "zoom" lens is just a 1.06x true optical zoom! And the rest is a sensor crop. So yeah, previous gen S10/N10 and older will give you actually better zoom than these phones. But don't believe me, ask them: https://www.notebookcheck.net/F ake-Zoom-Samsung-Neither-Galaxy-S20-nor-S20-feature-real-Telephoto-or-Zoom-Cameras.453934.0.html
(Copy-paste the link in your browser and remove tje space between f and ake. If you wonder if this site is trustworthy, they are an excellent source like GSMArena, and they have an extensive list of CPUs and GPUs encyclopedia.)
The S20 Ultra has 4x optical zoom. To go to 10x, the same sensor crop trickery is employed.
And another reminder that the 30x/100x space zoom marketing gimmick is false. It's not a zoom, it's a very lossy crop.
Yes I am very touchy about bold, borderline false claims and actual false representation. I hate being fooled and I hate letting others being fooled too.
If you still want to buy them for the other things they offer, then you may go ahead. I just don't want anyone to commit to such a big expense (the most expensive they ever released in Canada) based solely on a lie.
Well I wont be buying any phone from Samsung in future anyways completely based on their poor after sale customer service. They really need to learn from Google and Apple. I was a long time apple and google user not because it has more or less features completely because their after sale service. Waiting on Google to not do something stupid and give us a beautiful device
Unbelieveable...Stunning...there is no frackin way optical zoom is in any way comparable to digital zoom...I would call it "BLATANTLY FALSE AND MISLEADING ADVERTISING"!!!!! I'm almost embarrased to own a Samsung after reading the article link...Shame on You Samsung!
Kudos on the link, CHmultimedia...youd think there would be more lawsuits about stuff like this. Really **bleep** if you have to take a tech whiz and a lawyer with you just to buy a Samsung device. So does my Note 10+ actually have a 2x zoom lens?
