Around this time last year, I snagged from Amazon despite being under their "refurbished" line, a "used, like new" black Note 20 Ultra. I've had so much bad luck on Amazon with their refurbished devices and figured it might be a good sign that it was being sold from Amazon's warehouse themselves, as opposed to some third party seller. Cost me around 300 bucks.

Well, fast forward to one year later. I've been alternating back and forth between the S21 Ultra and this ever since then. My Note has quite a bit of screen burn. This is one of the problems for me buying device's like this from Amazon, you are generally getting someone's rejected device.

My camera worked fine for awhile. However, I am constantly having the annoying all too common focusing issue. But I do find that when the camera actually works, images are fantastic IMO. It's great at taking pictures of up close things with lots of detail as long as you have the right lighting. If you have ANY thing on the camera lens though it will throw the focusing off. In terms of comparison of image quality to newer devices, like I said, when it works, I feel for myself personally images are good enough and happy with the quality from them. I'd describe them as similar to the S21 Ultra without being as oversaturated.

My S21 Ultra just got a new update for One UI 7/Android 15... And I honestly hate it. I much prefer the look of Android 13, or even 14. My Note 20U has Android 13 obviously. So I've kind of drifted back into using it. My reception has also been sketchy since the update on my S21U.

I also LOVE the fact that I can actually use an SD card on my device. I currently have a 512gb on it, and I don't see myself running out of storage any time soon. I don't need any internal storage beyond 128-256gb personally since I have an SD card. I frequently have to delete things on my S21 Ultra, which only has 128gb of storage.

Anyone feeling similar sentiments? I had considered trying to get a new screen put in at some point, but I don't have the money or motivation to do so.