Ok la, I think some of them are getting the corporate buy program, coz they are offering the S20 Ultra for as low as 4350.

I used to think the unusual battery drain was an inherent Android problem too, but over the years there has been significant improvement in Android including restricting data consumption of background apps and putting unused apps to sleep, and that has helped greatly with the standby battery performance. My ownership of many Android phones (especially Samsung ones) seemed to point me to the Exynos and Samsung UI, but now that I've used the S10 Lite with a SD855 for more than a month now, I can narrow it further to the Exynos being the culprit. But that's my personal view, I have no scientific evidence, only experience

That said, for you to drain the Note 10+ battery from 100 to 0 in 8 hours is pretty heavy usage! In such a short span of time you'd probably be doing 6 hours SOT or more?

Also your power efficiency will decrease substantially when you're on 4G or mobile data vs WiFi. But your usage and standby drain above sounds about right

Usage wise I think about the same, but standby is where the SD truly shines. Anyways, yeah, because you need the S-Pen it's difficult to recommend you an alternative for your next phone. Hopefully they'll also put a 5000mAh battery in the next Note to fulfill your needs

The G-stylus is very midrange, hahaha. Definitely wait for the next Note then