The Galaxy S21 Ultra is Better than you think.

Well, let's make one thing clear: the way the Galaxy S21 and Galaxy S21 Plus were good, they are two phones that you could sum up by just saying new chip, new look, and while that doesn't make them bad phones, it really I appreciate it. How Samsung made them cheaper than last year means it's a little hard to get excited about them, but the

galaxy

s21

ultra

is different. It's actually interesting that they ended up choosing the name s21 just because after moving from 10 to 20 last year, moving from 20 to 21 now makes this sound really inconsequential, but in the long run I

think

the fact that the name of the phones now matches the year we are in will probably help many consumers keep track of which ones. and it might even help Samsung appear in a few more search results.

Anyway, let's get into it and this video was actually sponsored by huel, which is a really fun story that I'll tell you at the end. The unboxing experience is this tendency to delete. the charges have kicked in a lot quicker than I expected, but while it's a shame, you know, even though this is the pinnacle of Samsung's line, yeah, we're getting less in the box than we've had, on the other hand aside, they are kind. of passing that saving on to the consumer as if this phone was something like £50 in the UK or £200 in the US cheaper than last year, it makes up for it if we open it up, you have the phone on you and you get an insert. which has a cable and some other manuals and that's literally it, we don't even have a case here, this is what you came for, although this is an even

better

phone than it looks, I haven't had it long enough for a full life. review, but I have had enough time to say that Samsung has fixed almost all the problems with the

galaxy

s20

ultra

, there is only one thing you need to pay attention to, like the design of this phone is two steps up from last year's I admit it is not.

Saying a lot given that its predecessor was a literal gray monolith, but this entire camera module is integrated into the body of the phone. I

think

it works either way. You'll take a hit, but this changes the rhetoric from "Oh, could you look?" that we have too many lenses, how do we try to hide them? Hey, we have a lot of cameras on our phone and we are proud of it. They are part of our design. Don't get me wrong, this phone. It's thick and I say that with 5cs but it's definitely still the nicest phone to hold, it addresses the stickiness of the s20 with this frosted matte finish and you don't have to worry about the pinched corners of the note 20 because this is a s phone and there are also an added element of peace of mind because this is all a Gorilla Glass Victus sandwich, which means that both the front and the back are something like 80 plus scratch resistant and come from something like an iPhone 12 Pro Max, which is one phone. that has taken the sharp aspects to the literal extreme this is how I would prefer my phone to feel yes it would have been nice to see some more interesting color options and yes the cameras go down a bit more than last year which means that of every once in a while your fingers bump into it but as far as I'm concerned the design they fixed it even the screen is level and I'm going to try to show you how so take this is the galaxy s10 plus from 2019 and the screen of this phone It was so good that even compared to most laptop displays and monitors out in 2021, it's still what I would call a grade A display, so you can probably imagine that next year's s20 ultra will not only It's good, but also amazing. larger, it responds much

better

at 120 hertz instead of 60 and its color accuracy is officially rated as visually indistinguishable from perfect, so when I tell you that with this phone they took that, they gave it 25 nits more brightness, 50 better contrast and they allowed it.

To run not only at 120 Hertz but also at Quad HD Plus resolution, you can probably imagine how good the screen is. I still wish they managed to get rid of this little chin at the bottom because it looks like they did it. that's on the standard s21, but yeah, if you're someone who hasn't upgraded phones recently and are coming from a 2017 model, I'd pay to see your reaction to this, but there's more. Samsung has done the unthinkable and added s pen. functionality which is something that until this point has been exclusive to the Galaxy Note phone brand, now it is not something I am going to use, since it is not only that you have to spend 70 on a case, but it is a case that looks so and you still don't get all the features of the s pen but we can't complain about having just another option and this new s pen at least looks a little more like a real pen they have created.

Faster RAM and storage. They have used a new generation of fingerprint scanner that is 1.7 times larger. They have improved the chipsets. You might remember what an absolute fiasco the Exynos chips were last year, indeed, if you were shopping for a Samsung flagship in India or the US. In the UK you would get a phone that not only ran hotter but had up to 20 times worse battery life and performance than if you were in the US and had a Snapdragon phone, but this time Samsung claims they've fixed that disparity with this new exynos 2100 and this one. The phone generation has apparently caught up, maybe because in my informational video for this phone I was told the graphics were 35 better, that's great, but when I asked later via email they told me it was 33 faster and Then when I saw the launch event for the chip itself they said it was over 40 faster.

We will delve into this. I have a full video planned comparing the exynos and snapdragon versions of this phone, so if you want to see it, then a subtitle on the channel. being ultra, I think it works, but don't forget that having a next-gen chip in this phone, whatever the region, means a host of other quality of life improvements, like better 5g, better battery efficiency, bluetooth 5.2, which is actually just a more stable bluetooth and can also make your headphones sound better, you get faster camera shutter time, faster charging all that good stuff and even wi-fi 6e which can increase the average speed of your wi-fi quite dramatically if you have the right router, but most Importantly, I think they have the right cameras, so with the s20 ultra last year they loaded it up, they jumped from a 12 megapixel sensor to 108, they went from 10x maximum zoom to 100x spatial zoom and went from 4k to 8k video. recording, but I think the focus was so much on getting those numbers that in terms of how it actually met those numbers, it was missing this 108 megapixel sensor, it was detailed, but when it was released it actually suffered from worse dynamic range than even the regular galaxy s20, not to mention it had a hard time getting things into focus, which is a pretty fundamental part of the camera experience, and the 100x space zoom was great, but beyond about 10x it just wasn't up to par. good enough to use it.

Elsewhere, Samsung refined it, the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra that arrived a few months later had much better dynamic range thanks to improved software, they completely fixed the focus problem with the introduction of a laser autofocus module, and they created a zoom system that could actually be used. even 20 times so with the S phone they moved forward with the Note phone they consolidated and I'm glad to see that with a new S phone they moved forward again and now they're not just doing it somehow. that feels like throwing out a bunch of big numbers the numbers haven't even changed this is still a 108 megapixel camera it still has a 100x zoom it still shoots 8k video but there are three big improvements here the first one is obvious is the zoom while The s20 ultra had only a 4x optical zoom camera, this phone has a 3x optical zoom and a 10x optical zoom and this in itself has three benefits: It means you can take a good photo in almost every intermediate points. once and ten times this is three times this is five times this is eight times it means that b the upper limit of the zoom is greater how far you can go while still getting a sharp photo like now you can take a 100 times zoom photo that is can use, it is true that it must be the best case, but at 30 times you can get a result almost always sharp and in the video you can see the way the last camera worked, after zooming four times more and more. a little bit of zoom past that point is digital zoom, but if you use digital zoom on video it falls apart very quickly, so the most zoomed video you could actually take was four times, but on this camera you can take video from 4k at 60 frames per second to With 10x magnification, you can now also lock the zoom so you know when you get to these crazy zoom levels like 30x.

I already mentioned that you will be using a lot of digital zoom, which is really just taking a frame and cropping it and The only advantage of doing this is that when you zoom in on your phone you can see a lot more than you can see and therefore when you move the phone up, for example, when your hand shakes, that cutout can go down so that your The issue remains all that has been said, although how important is zoom? Is it just one of those things that's really easy to sell to people because it can be good at 100x magnification?

Our photos look much better than the competition, which is why our cameras are so To be fair, much better than the competition, when I was on the s20 ultra, I used the zoom quite a bit, but at the same time I can't think of a single point when I used it because I actually needed to see something very far away. away, it was almost always the same way you use a toy like ah, I'm curious what it can do in this type of situation and I said this in one of my videos about the phone, but there are so many comments from people like garbage.

I've seen what that phone can do, it's much more than a toy, but then I realized a lot of it actually came from this video, which is actually a fake video, if this was what the phone could really do do, then I would say yes. Fair enough, that's crazy, but it's not anyway, although zoom aside, the second big update is the sensor, while the previous one used Samsung's hm1 sensor, this one uses Samsung's hm3, the way The way it was described to me is that it will capture colors 64 times richer. and three times wider dynamic range, but I would be a little careful with that because what that really refers to is the fact that you can shoot 12-bit raw images and, as cool as that is, most of the People won't do it, but what?

It will mean that for almost every normal photo you take there will be noticeably better dynamic range and a pretty drastic improvement in low light conditions and who knows, you might find more improvements as I start testing it more in depth now that the third update of the camera is the The most interesting thing is to see that this phone technically has four cameras, it is a quad camera setup, but in reality there are five. What they've done is add dual-pixel autofocus to the ultra-wide camera so that when you get really close to your subjects, you can detect where they are.

They are and become a macro camera. I saw some people online saying they were surprised that Samsung didn't add some sort of fifth camera to fill this space, but they did have a fifth camera and being two in one, it's not just that you get a macro camera for free, but you get a better macro camera because it's true that most of them suck, with most macro cameras you get a 2 megapixel or 5 megapixel disposable lens. but with this it is 12. this ultra wide camera and therefore this macro camera has the same sensor as the main camera of the galaxy note 10.

So as long as you are in decent light it is an impressive result, there is a couple of other new software features like vlogger. view that allows you to record both the front and the back at the same time, others have had this for a while but it's nice to finally see it and the director's view that allows you to preview all three different lenses at once, I can see the use, but it's pretty specific, so I mentioned before that there was one thing you should probably pay attention to with this phone and that's the fact that Samsung has quietly dropped support for microSD cards, which means that, in compared to the frankly ridiculous 1.5 terabytes the s20 ultra could store, which is one of those things that really made us go crazy.

Wow, it's ultra, the new phone goes up to a much more normal 512 gigabytes, and it's worth keeping this in mind because Samsung markets it as the multimedia machine that the phone has. Record 4K videos at 60 frames per second on phone to record 8K videos. Want to know how much 8k video can fit in the base version of thisphone? three hours three hours of 8k video even at just 24fps will completely fill all the storage space you have and that's assuming you have no apps, no music, no photos, but I have to say that Samsung has really covered itself with this phone in almost every hole you could poke in it. there's a justification like that of expandable storage, not only have almost all competitors also abandoned its support, but Samsung has specifically tried to compensate for this by ensuring that its 256 gigabyte model, which is double the base storage, only costs 50 more , while most companies will make this option cost a hundred dollars more, you might say ah Samsung, you're so cheap that you got rid of the akg earbuds at the checkout, I really wanted them, but at the same time they're giving away galaxy buds pro to people who pre-order it and have like 10 times the value you could even say I saw this on Twitter charging speed the charging speed of the phone sucks 25 watts in what year is 1976 but what they have done They have optimized the speed with the that charges the phone with only 25 watts of power and at the same time they are half the price of those 25 watt bricks, so wait for those detailed comparisons, but so far I'm very happy, okay?

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