These 6 features may make the Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra worth its incredibly high $1,400 price tag

It's pretty simple — big phone often means big battery. The Galaxy S20 Ultra has a gigantic 5,000mAh battery, while the Galaxy S20 Plus sports a 4,500mAh battery, and the S20 a 4,000mAh battery.

It's true that battery size isn't everything, and there are some extra factors that can level out the playing field between the new Galaxy S20 phones. For example, the S20 Ultra's large 6.9-inch screen can draw more power than the S20 Plus' 6.7-inch screen, leading to nearly identical battery life on both devices, even if they have differing battery sizes.

Samsung doesn't provide an expected battery life for the different models on its website, and the company declined to make estimates for the phones in an email to Business Insider.

I haven't checked out the Galaxy S20 or S20 Plus yet, so it's impossible to make a comparison. But I can say that the battery life on the Galaxy S20 Ultra has been phenomenal.

The standard camera on the Galaxy S20 Ultra has a whopping 108-megapixel sensor compared to the 12-megapixel camera in the Galaxy S20 and S20 Plus.

With that said, the S20 Ultra doesn't always take 108-megapixel photos. By default, it compacts those 108 megapixels into 12 megapixels for most well-lit shots. But you do get the option to take 108-megapixel photos whenever you want, which captures more details and lets you crop into a photo while losing less detail than you would with fewer megapixels.

And for low-light shots, the 108 megapixels also combine to absorb more light, making for better low-light shots than cameras with fewer megapixels.

The Galaxy S20 Ultra's zoomed lens is made up of a prism of mirrors that gives 10x optical zoom, which means it should have little to no loss of detail when you zoom up to 10x. On its own, 10x zoom is impressive when most phones have a maximum of 3x optical zoom.

The special zoomed lens also goes as far as 100x digital zoom. That's impressive, but I wish I could say the same about the quality of the few 100x photos I've taken with the Galaxy S20 Ultra. Super-zoomed photos tend to look blurry and totally undetailed. Rather, you're better off sticking under 100x, where photo quality is a lot better.

Here's a 100x zoomed photo of a building at the top of the ski mountain from the photo above:

Samsung is differentiating the Galaxy S20 with near-excessive camera hardware, and it hasn't forgotten the selfie camera, which has 40 megapixels compared to a more typical eight- or 10-megapixel selfie camera.

This gives you both the option of capturing ultra-detailed selfies, and getting better selfies in low-light conditions.

Only the Galaxy S20 Ultra and the Galaxy S20 Plus support all three types of 5G networks, including the super-fast "mmWave" or "high-band" 5G networks.

The regular Galaxy S20 doesn't connect to the super-fast mmWave 5G networks, and "only" supports the slower low-band and mid-band 5G networks.

Despite all this, you may not even be able to connect to a 5G network with any of the Galaxy S20 phones. 5G networks are rather scant at the moment. At the time of writing, the super-fast mmWave 5G networks on AT&T and Verizon are only available in a few cities in the US. And within those cities, 5G coverage is extremely sparse. You'd be connected to your carrier's 4G LTE network the majority of the time.

T-Mobile currently has the widest-reaching 5G network with the longest range, but the trade-off is that it's the slower low-band 5G network. I've been using the Galaxy S20 Ultra on T-Mobile's 5G network, and I honestly can't tell much of a difference at all.

5G networks will need time to flesh themselves out before you make the most of 5G connectivity on Samsung's latest Galaxy S20 phones.

The Galaxy S20 Ultra is made up of the same glass and metal as its smaller and cheaper siblings. And the S20 Ultra isn't any more powerful, either — all three phones run on the same specs, including the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 chip, 12 GB of RAM, and come with the same 128 GB of storage as standard.

While I haven't tried the regular Galaxy S20 or S20 Plus, I estimate that the overall experience will be pretty consistent across all three models, at least on a day-to-day basis when you're running your usual array of apps. I can definitively say that using the Galaxy S20 Ultra on a daily basis for about a week hasn't felt much different than using any other high-end smartphone that costs hundreds less.

I'm not going to tell you how to spend your money, so it's up to you to decide whether these six features that are exclusive to the Galaxy S20 Ultra are worth its $1,400 price tag.