Samsung Galaxy S21 vs. S21+ vs. S21 Ultra - Pros and Cons

14 January 2021
Concise lists of the relative advantages and disadvantages of the three new flagships compared against each other.

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HEY GSMARENA !!! Is it 8K at 30 fps ?? Or 24 fps again ??

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    • AnonD-973296
    • GYi
    • 14 Jan 2021

    so the ultra is the best one, so then i am getting the ultra, not the base s21

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      • Sarkirssian
      • LiJ
      • 14 Jan 2021

      I still use my Huawei P9 Plus. I dont need this garbage.

        Nice phones. A bit too expensive but it's samsung, can't ask for less

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          • Anonymous
          • IbE
          • 14 Jan 2021

          👎👎👎👎I was very excited, but Samsung is in reverse. A huge mistake to have removed the external memory. see you never. 👎👎👎👎👎

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            • Anonymous
            • JT5
            • 14 Jan 2021

            TheLastOracle, 14 Jan 2021I noticed Samsung mention 12-bit HDR somewhere. Is it only ... more12bit raw for photos. Not video recording.
            Since 2018, few sensors were already able to do 12bit.
            But none has taken advantage of it.
            Jpeg turn into 8bit in the end.

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              • Anonymous
              • 4Rx
              • 14 Jan 2021

              Your cons was trash.

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                • Miguel
                • pUW
                • 14 Jan 2021

                Why USA cheaper than Europe

                  I noticed Samsung mention 12-bit HDR somewhere. Is it only in the Ultra or across all models?

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                    • Anonymous
                    • GRT
                    • 14 Jan 2021

                    Very worst design s21 series

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                      • Hehehe
                      • Trk
                      • 14 Jan 2021

                      S21 and s21+ 256gb comes with 12gb ram

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                        • Anonymous
                        • fI%
                        • 14 Jan 2021

                        In my country, we had only 1 variant for S21 & S21+ and 2 variant for S21 Ultra. A bit different than in US, here, we get 12gb ram, with 256gb storage for both S21 & S21+. Theres no 8gb ram, with 128gb storage or 256gb storage. But the Ultra is same with US, 12gb ram with 256gb storage, and 16gb ram with 512gb storage.

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                          • Panz
                          • nDx
                          • 14 Jan 2021

                          Its time to start making iphone users switch to Android. S21 ultra and Vivo X60Pro should be the catalysts

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                            • Anonymous
                            • 4@{
                            • 14 Jan 2021

                            Anonymous, 14 Jan 2021They are relative more expensive if you take into the accou... moreYeah I'm not sure why the article didn't point this out, these are obvious downgrades that other sites are making out, even gsmarena mentioned this in another article just last week.

                              Anonymous, 14 Jan 2021Because full resolution is artificial on these kind of sens... moreThen I'm interested a bit, 108mp before was tragic on patterns the most. Still I wish hw remosaicing would come, shoot8ng raw non ultra are then better if using gcam hdr raw.

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                                • Jke
                                • 14 Jan 2021

                                I felt those like a S20.1 version (aka iPhone "s" versions)

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • JT5
                                  • 14 Jan 2021

                                  vrvly, 14 Jan 2021Like that improved RAW. Wonder though what's that remo... moreBecause full resolution is artificial on these kind of sensors.
                                  To emulate a bayer sensor.
                                  Red/green/blue/green arrangement.

                                  Quadbayer/Nonacell = 4 or 9 pixels same colours are always together , physically. They cannot move to be mixed with red and blue ones.

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                                    • Shahar
                                    • Hxm
                                    • 14 Jan 2021

                                    202 gr for the normal S21? Are they crazy? So glad I just bought the s20 fe 5g it is much better than both S21 and s21+..

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                                      • dM8
                                      • 14 Jan 2021

                                      Wtf? They even removed autofocus from ultra wides in non-Ultra? Pff, this has gone too far xD. S21/S21+ are that far away now from the Ultra that I feel like that is a whole different series of the phone

                                        It appears that a Samsung Rep was so happy to sale consumers a Galaxy 21 that it forget that they tweeted the medsage on their APPLE's iPHONE!

                                        Embarrassing!

                                        The Samsung Rep:

                                        "Hey, you guys purchased this mess, but I won't use the G-21 and I have it for free"

                                        Bahahaha!


                                        https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2144459780919/samsungs-marketing-team-accidentally-uses-an-iphone-to-tweet-about-upcoming-galaxy-unpacked-event