Only Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra will get glass back, Plus and vanilla to get plastic

15 June 2021
Samsung will employ an all-new back processing design.

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  • Anonymous
  • gm%
  • 15 Jun 2021

NY Yankee , 15 Jun 2021Meanwhile Xiaomi giving glass black on their (non-ultra) fl... moreXiaomi doesn't cut corners, neither in their budget devices, nor in their flagships. That's a sign of a true premium brand. Others brands are just popular names that are selling you a subpar phone under the label of a flagship.

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    • LCQ
    • 15 Jun 2021

    Plastic Back with some extra higher price tag.

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      • Anonymous
      • g0t
      • 15 Jun 2021

      NY Yankee , 15 Jun 2021Meanwhile Xiaomi giving glass black on their (non-ultra) fl... moreMy marble white edition is an experience in itself to hold.
      You will never find something like this on Apple. It's all same boring looking exterior and boring interiors (UI) {and this is coming from an iPhone user for more than a decade}

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        • Anonymous
        • Bw5
        • 15 Jun 2021

        You people won't buy it anyway. Just worry when other companies go this way.

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          • Anonymous
          • Mkm
          • 15 Jun 2021

          [deleted post]Just put a wooden back skin and call it a day

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            • Anonymous
            • Mkm
            • 15 Jun 2021

            NY Yankee , 15 Jun 2021Meanwhile Xiaomi giving glass black on their (non-ultra) fl... moreXiaomi is the only phone worth paying 1000$ and above.

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              • Anonymous
              • Mkm
              • 15 Jun 2021

              [deleted post]Lmao!!!

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                • NY Yankee
                • Mk0
                • 15 Jun 2021

                Meanwhile Xiaomi giving glass black on their (non-ultra) flagship.

                Ultra flagship gets premium ceramic.

                As usual Samsung and apple cheapening out on cooling, fast charging, etc.

                  I dont like plastic!!

                  Even for soda I get the tin can and eould never opt for plastic bottle!!

                    artificially creat value and softly push you to buy more expensive product,,
                    Samsung once again mimic Apple disgusting, get Less for More, strategy

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                      • AnonD-1003038
                      • M}3
                      • 15 Jun 2021

                      Anonymous, 15 Jun 2021Just use a skin. Can't you spend 10$ on skin of whatev... moreWhy would I spend anything to put more plastic on existing plastic? That's just ridiculous.

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                        • 0Np
                        • 15 Jun 2021

                        Even more polarizing design choices than before. What matters to me is keeping the battery/performance/thermal design and dissipation at the highest standard. I would put that phone on a plasticky case anyway.

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                          • Anonymous
                          • Mkm
                          • 15 Jun 2021

                          AnonD-1003038, 15 Jun 2021Thing is, I never shattered a single glass piece. But every... moreJust use a skin. Can't you spend 10$ on skin of whatever material you want?

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                            • Anonymous
                            • p%B
                            • 15 Jun 2021

                            Fayth, 15 Jun 2021plastic back is fine wooden back is also nice and why not... moreYou have cases for that particular type of material. And for S series from Samsung even more offers, because it's a well known series. Exactly like iPhone models each year. There are tons of accessories for them (you just need money, lol).
                            Is not like some strange model from Nokia, Sony or Motorola that you will struggle to find any type of case for it.

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                              • Anonymous
                              • Dpc
                              • 15 Jun 2021

                              pufanu, 15 Jun 2021The 11 Ultra has great hardware but Xiaomi's processin... moreLol it's the best Camera smartphone right now

                                "The new leak also suggests Samsung will employ an all-new back processing design for the S22 and S22 Plus which is said to look and feel as premium as glass."

                                Will it also be as scratch resistant as glass?

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                                  • Fayth
                                  • XTA
                                  • 15 Jun 2021

                                  plastic back is fine
                                  wooden back is also nice
                                  and why not fabric back

                                  or rubber back, so your phone will bounce when dropped

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • HMy
                                    • 15 Jun 2021

                                    Tigolebitties, 15 Jun 2021I'm using it rn and imo, it's terrible. Even Mi 1... morecan confirm. i have a mi 10 ultra and a pixel 4a. every photo on the mi 10 ultra should be much better than the pixel 4a but for standard photography i often prefer the pixels processing.

                                    not that the mi 10 ultra is a bad phone, it's just that xiaomi's camera algorithm is not the best.

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                                      • pnK
                                      • 15 Jun 2021

                                      AnonD-1003038, 15 Jun 2021Thing is, I never shattered a single glass piece. But every... moreI was not talking about these chinese miror sparkling back, more about the thick polycarbonate uni body of Nokia's Lumias. Well, it got scratched but it wasn't really bad looking due to the appearance of the plastic.

                                      Glass is easily scratch-able from the small vibration/movement when you use your phone on a flat hard surface like any table. Especially if there is a camera bump, then the phone lay on a line at the bottom of the back. I micro scratched gorilla glass 5 like this in less than a month. Yeah, keys in the pocket don't do that (well, it would first be really dumb to put key in the same pocket than the phone, but whatev') but the protection is only against big dumb scratches. Then again, plastic or aluminum would behave the same.

                                      in the end most of user use a case so it's not like any of this would matter.

                                        Siddhant Pandey, 15 Jun 2021The flagships like mi 12 ultra can compete with iphones and... moreThanks to the hardware. If Apple or Google uses the same hardware, it will blow Mi 11u away