It has been 11 months since I used my Galaxy S21 Ultra (Exynos variant) for the first time.
Weeks before the Galaxy S22 series' launch, I'm finally ready to do my long-term review of the Galaxy S21 Ultra.
It's going to be a long one. 👀
PART 1
DESIGN
You know how much I love this phone's design.
How?
Well, I always did a monthly design appreciation thread of this phone, just to show how great the phone looks in different lighting conditions. The sign couldn't have been more obvious.
It is hard for Samsung to make the design look better than this and even the Galaxy S22 Ultra can't please me enough to think it has a better design than this one.
This Phantom Silver colour also suits the design really well, and so does the Phantom Black that looks really bold.
• ~𝟰𝟵𝟵 𝗽𝗽𝗶 pixel density
(vs 515 ppi on S21U)
• 𝟵𝟬.𝟮𝟰% screen-to-body ratio
(vs 89.44% on S21U)
• 𝟲.𝟲𝟭 𝗺𝗺 combined top and bottom
bezel size (vs 7.59 mm on S21U)
• 𝟰.𝟲𝟰 𝗺𝗺 combined left & right
bezel size (vs 4.72 mm on S21U)
Galaxy S22+
• ~𝟯𝟵𝟯 𝗽𝗽𝗶 pixel density
(same as S21+)
• 𝟴𝟴.𝟮𝟳% screen-to-body ratio
(vs 88.77% on S21+)
• 𝟲.𝟯𝟰 𝗺𝗺 combined top and bottom
bezel size (vs 6.31 mm on S21+)
• 𝟲.𝟬𝟴 𝗺𝗺 combined left and right
bezel size (vs 5.76 mm on S21+)
Galaxy S22
• ~𝟰𝟮𝟱 𝗽𝗽𝗶 pixel density
(roughly similar to S21)
• 𝟴𝟴.𝟮𝟭% screen-to-body ratio
(vs 85.92% on S21)
• 𝟲.𝟮𝟰 𝗺𝗺 combined top and bottom
bezel size (vs 8.09 mm on S21)
• 𝟱.𝟱𝟬 𝗺𝗺 combined left and right
bezel size (vs 6.58 mm on S21)
BUT, Samsung and Apple ultra-biased fanboys are the most delusional, stupid, and toxic, based on my experience.
Fanboys here = the super biased ones
Samsung and Apple fanboys will always try very hard to make excuses for shitty things their favourite company did.
Samsung and Apple fanboys will also try very hard to make it seem like opinions they said were facts.
Samsung and Apple fanboys will try their best to make it seem like they're unbiased, even though they are actually super biased and blinded by their favourite company.
Samsung and Apple fanboys will try to mock those that don't have the same opinion as their own.
Sony introduces its new electric car concept, the new VISION-S 02 SUV.
Sony also announces a new division for them to build electric cars, Sony Mobility. It is a new area for Sony to merge all their mobility technologies into their cars.
Sony's Vision-S UX Concept
• So many sensors and advanced tech
• 40 total sensors
• Lane Change Proposals
• 360 Reality Audio with Individual Seat Speaker
• Seamless Navigation
• Oval Concept Design with a panoramic screen, digital side mirrors, and more, built to minimise eye movement
• Intelligent Riding Experience with a continuous connection to the cloud + Digital Twin
• Vision-S Link for real-time data synchronisation
Do you guys know why I'm pissed at Samsung for only giving 8 GB RAM to the base model of the Galaxy S22 Ultra?
Well, memory management on Android WILL NEVER be as good as iOS.
iPhones can have 6 GB of RAM and it will run + multitask flawlessly.
Give 8 GB of RAM for Android phones and I bet it will never perform as good as those iPhones.
There's no excuse to justify them, giving less RAM capacity for their best flagship phone, when compared to its predecessor.
More RAM is always a better thing to have.
Knowing how much of a multitasker I am, and the fact that I use a lot of my phone's 16 GB RAM, they better have 16 GB of RAM for the model that I'm going to get.
Firstly, I'm gonna talk about how the camera of the Galaxy S21 Ultra works.
Basically, in a scene where the light source is too minimal, the phone will recognise the scene as too dark and it won't trigger the native 3x tele sensor.
1st pic: 1x
2nd & 3rd pic: 3x (digital zoom)
You can see the example with those three pictures.
Why?
Well obviously, it's because the phone thinks that it'll be better to use the main sensor as it has a narrower aperture and bigger size compared to the telephoto sensors.
The phone also thinks that "Oh, we also have our own software to make the picture look better anyway, despite being cropped from the main camera."
Well, look at the EXIF data from one of the 3x pictures shown in the first tweet.