Hi Everyone. I received the phone on Friday and have been exploring this treasurebox over the weekend and present a few notes on my experience with this phone for your reference. From the outset of my exploration I was under no illutions whatever that the S20 Ultra is indeed a powerhouse however I had to make tweaks to the phone to get the best out of it, you certainly won’t enjoy the S20 experience right out of the box I’m afraid. The setup wizard is flexible and straight forward as one would expect from Samsung giving you plenty of configuration options for your phone, allowing you to copy data from an old phone to the new and so on so its after the setup has finished that the fun and games may begin. The Samsung launcher for the S20 phone is amongst the most inaccessible launches I’ve yet come across. Yes you can get about the screens but I think this was only because I knew my way around and knew what I should expect on the Home Screen and where so the first thing that has to be done is to install another launcher, one that is more accessible. I chose the Hyperion Launcher and didn’t’ look back, it seemed to be the missing switch to turn on in order to bring the Samsung S20 Ultra to life. I also quit running Samsung’s Voice Assistant Screen Reader in favour of Google Talkback as Talkback has more to offer me from this phone, only a personal opinion of course. As to whether or not anyone should take the time and trouble to buy this phone? Well that Is a truly personal opinion too, I happened to be I the right place at the right time when I purchased mine, in the lobby of the phone company where I was made a most tempting offer I couldn’t refuse <smile> The S20 isn’t for everyone and if you’re not prepared to spend some time with the phone doing the odd tweak and the odd modification here and there then you truly won’t get much out of the phone – makes me wonder why Samsung are bothering at all with the Voice Assistant Screen reader if this is the sort of accessibility you get from the phone by default -. My favourite phones right out of the box for the true accessibility experience are the Google Pixel phones, they just work from setup to practical use with Talkback. If yo udon’t want a Google phone then you may wish to checkout the Google Plex, a truly value for money box of kit that in many areas wipes the floor with the big boys including the areas of useability and accessibility.
