Samsung Galaxy S21 & S21 Ultra hands-on review
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- Anonymous
- nsG
- 20 Jan 2021
AnonD-558092, 19 Jan 2021The plastic back only makes replacement marginally less exp... moreThe plastic back will simply not crack at the first drop. It's actually a perfect material for a smartphone. Glass is for glasses and windows, not electronics.
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- AnonD-558092
- IBQ
- 19 Jan 2021
The plastic back only makes replacement marginally less expensive. Note20 replacement costs are of 98CAD, Note20 Ultra is 113CAD. Prices include labour but not taxes. 15CAD is just a little bit over 10USD. It's not worth it.
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- AnonD-973296
- GYi
- 19 Jan 2021
Anonymous, 19 Jan 2021Wrong,it didn't look bad on Huawei P40 Pro Plus 10x opticalactually yeah, its not that bad, but there is a bit more gradient then a regular photo
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- Anonymous
- nw}
- 19 Jan 2021
AnonD-973296, 19 Jan 202110x on any type of zoom looks awful, with the exception of ... moreWrong,it didn't look bad on Huawei P40 Pro Plus 10x optical
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- Anonymous
- 8Kf
- 19 Jan 2021
Anonymous, 19 Jan 2021Can't wait for the days where a 1in. sensor can be add... more1" + f1.9 + 25mm would blur entire background.
Closeup shot would have almost nothing in focus.
For 1" and 24-26mm, f2.6 is better.
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- Anonymous
- gBV
- 19 Jan 2021
The wide angle and ultra wide cameras seem to have the worst image quality due to the very soft edges.
But yes, the "10x camera" doesn't look very good either. This has to do with the processing, but further reasons are that the "10x camera" is actually not a "10x optical zoom" camera. For example optical zoom increases the focal length by the same factor. The 1x camera has a focal length of 6.7mm, so a real 10x optical zoom setting would have a focal length of 67mm with the same sensor size. But the focal length is only 30.6mm. That's the reason why it has a smaller sensor.
Furthermore for a completely lossless (!) 10x setting, not only the focal length needs to increase by the same factor, but also the quotient of focal length and f-number. The main camera has a quotient of 3.72mm. So in this case a completely lossless 10x setting would need a quotient of 37.2mm = 3.72cm (the camera would be extremely large), but the quotient is just 6.25mm.
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- George
- xvT
- 19 Jan 2021
The sample photos taken from both S21 Ultra and S21 look worse than Xiaomi's stock camera app photos. And keep in mind it's a super expensive smartphone.
I really can't wait for the new Pixel 5 pro or any new Pixel that will come in the future.
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- Anonymous
- 8Kf
- 19 Jan 2021
Sponge, 19 Jan 2021Personally I would rather seen as follow..
S21: 50MP Mai... moreGN1 is exclusive.
Samsung Mobile would need to order a variant.
Samsung keeps betting on 108 just because digital zoom, fespite results are low quality.
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- Anonymous
- xDq
- 19 Jan 2021
Sponge, 19 Jan 2021Personally I would rather seen as follow.. S21: 50MP Mai... moreCan't wait for the days where a 1in. sensor can be added with a 1.9 aperture. 38MP. No need for more as it won't look good on these small devices.
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- Anonymous
- 8Kf
- 19 Jan 2021
Check samples from phones sold in 2013-16.
None of them look like wax.
If you told me these photos were taken by s3, I would already be disappointed with the results.
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- Sponge
- pT@
- 19 Jan 2021
Personally I would rather seen as follow..
S21: 50MP Main Camera(GN1) & 48MP UltraWide(GM5)
S21+: 50MP Main Camera(GN1), 12MP UltraWide & 10MP Telephoto(3x optical)
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- AnonD-973296
- GYi
- 19 Jan 2021
Anonymous, 19 Jan 2021Try zooming into the 10x optical zoom images they are awful10x on any type of zoom looks awful, with the exception of DSLR's and cine and prof. grade cameras
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- Anonymous
- nw}
- 19 Jan 2021
AnonD-973296, 19 Jan 2021the photos look...fine, i dont see whats bad there, i would... moreTry zooming into the 10x optical zoom images they are awful
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- AnonD-973296
- GYi
- 19 Jan 2021
Anonymous, 19 Jan 2021Yeah. Center of images looks good - but this is so narrow f... moreThe pixel takes some of the best photos i have ever seen, my samsung A50 takes better pictures than this in ideal conditions
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- Anonymous
- 0xU
- 19 Jan 2021
AnonD-973296, 19 Jan 2021super center focused cameraYeah. Center of images looks good - but this is so narrow field, like excellent quality for 40% of image. Rest is crap. If you took a look for example the straight lines etc looks fine. But without texture or details. So this comes out of poor lens quality and so so processing. Hope it is not lens quality - that won't fix any updates!
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- AnonD-973296
- GYi
- 19 Jan 2021
super center focused camera
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- walkman8
- 3q5
- 19 Jan 2021
Samsung seriously needs to up their game with camera quality. I honestly hope they do a significant firmware update before release. I really don't want to withdraw my order on Ultra.
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- Anonymous
- gBV
- 19 Jan 2021
Edge sharpness of wide and ultra wide is just terrible indeed.
I just looked at the exif data of the periscope camera. It captures approximately 95% as much light per time from distant objects as the periscope camera of the P40 Pro Plus, but the light of an object is distributed over approximately 18% more pixels, so theoretically the potential in low light can be lower.
18% more pixels per object won't capture more detail due to diffraction. Actually the 8 megapixel P40 Pro Plus periscope camera should have a very small advantage regarding diffraction (details from distant objects) , theoretically 0.027x more lossless zoom is possible with P40 Pro Plus as focal length/f-number is 1.027x as large.
In perfect light conditions Samsung's periscope camera should be able to capture approximately 18% more light per frame from distant objects than the periscope camera of the P40 Pro Plus.
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- Nevsky
- qxw
- 19 Jan 2021
It would be nice if at least the unlocked version in the USA had dual SIMS (especially given the memory card has been removed), or a single SIM and an eSIM. Unfortunately, it is so far impossible to figure this out as Samsung does not apparently want its customers to know since this information is nowhere I can find.