Samsung Galaxy S21 5G review
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- Hindsight
- 0w7
- 30 Jan 2021
Still rocking Huawei P10 and everything works just fine for a normal day of use.
Dropping this kind of money for this specs. is crazy.
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- Just-A-User
- dWv
- 30 Jan 2021
Hey everyone,
I'm curious as to why the majority of people are moaning so much regarding the loss of the sd slot and the headphone jack. It's not that they offer you limited storage options, with the basic being 128 GB, and the removal of the headphone jack is something that is happening in nearly all the flagship phones in the past few years. I'm currently using my galaxy s8, which I have since 2017 and I don't think I ever had a problem with my 64 GBs. Granted I don't play games on that one, but I have plenty of apps and with Spotify there even when downloading playlists I still have plenty of space.
Also regarding the loss of the QHD, panel to an FHD, as I have permanently my phone on the FHD and the number of times I used the QHD is scarce.
Anyways, sorry for the long text.
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- FanBIY
- IWR
- 30 Jan 2021
Where is the charger and MicroSD expansion?? What a joke
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- T-Money
- q$v
- 29 Jan 2021
Note9 User, 28 Jan 2021Dear GSMArena, on p.5. 'Camera quality', under &#... moreWhat I noticed was that some of pictures had parts that were blurry, particularly as you get near the edges. It almost looked like some parts of the image had another image stacked on the top, but slightly askew.
I was wondering why more people weren't commenting on this!!
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- Arte
- StU
- 29 Jan 2021
Only 8gb ram, the s205g had 12 GB ram.
Epic fail
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- sdny8
- rRU
- 29 Jan 2021
Returning the S21. I can't get past the slow face unlock and inability to unlock using fingerprint sensor half the time. The UI isn't my cup of tea either still too far from stock Android.
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- Note9 User
- dQd
- 29 Jan 2021
Alex, 28 Jan 2021Have you seen the camera samples before the update? They we... moreOkay thanks, it would be good if Samsung would allow itself more time for software fine tuning before the review stage, otherwise people might think it's the hardware & ISP.
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- Alex
- qC@
- 28 Jan 2021
Note9 User, 28 Jan 2021Dear GSMArena, on p.5. 'Camera quality', under &#... moreHave you seen the camera samples before the update? They were just terrible, ultrawide unusable even in daylight.
Now they've all got better, to the level of S20: ultrawide produces good daylight images but tele still lags a little behind S20. With the exception of the selfie cam was better than S20 from the very beginning.
But all three are still hardly usable at night beyond ISO 640.
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- Note9 User
- dQd
- 28 Jan 2021
Dear GSMArena, on p.5. 'Camera quality', under 'Image quality', you state:
'Update, January 27: Three days after publishing the original version of this review, our Galaxy S21 received a major firmware update (640MB+), which included improvements to the camera. We were hoping these would address certain peculiarities we had experienced with the phone and they, indeed, have.'
Please can you tell us which aspect of the images are improved, I'm guessing it's soft detail & maybe colour saturation ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ please confirm, & which if any of the images are post update.
Thank you in advance.
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- Anonymous
- BiP
- 28 Jan 2021
Had this a few days now, I was going to wait and see what other phones come out but this ticks all my boxes and with the samsung promotion it helped make my choice. I usually buy sim free but got this through a network provider.
Nice in the hand, one handed use was a must, my old phone forced me to stretch my hand open further than felt natural. I also did not want a glass back, and will likely add a slim case to it as well. I like the idea of higher quality plastic backs or leather backs like what oppo are using. Camera is good, was out taking photos in almost pitch black handheld and whilst not up to proper camera standards are very useable for snapshots. Good results in the daylight too.
Wifi hotspot is blazing fast compared to my old phone. this supports 5ghz and wifi6 so getting proper speeds now through to my laptop. Only concern I have at the moment is maybe the battery size / life. Wish for a bit bigger but the S21+ is too large a phone for the upgraded battery and didnt want glass back either.
Overall very happy with it so far but would not have bought it sim free for so big of an upfront cost.
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- Anu simon
- ypc
- 28 Jan 2021
Bought Galaxy s21 5g yesterday now i dont want iron box in home getting hot like anything simply wasted 75000₹
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- Perogy1
- 7Aw
- 28 Jan 2021
Hard pass. Battery life not as good as it should be, and uses PWM for dimming. Size of the phone is perfect, but removing the SDCard again? Come on.
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- Steveo
- kjK
- 28 Jan 2021
If you already own the S20 and you're thinking about upgrading to the S21 do not do it!! You will lose 4 gigabytes of RAM you will lose your SD card which is extra storage for your phone unlike iPhone 🤔 Why!! You will also lose your screen resolution it only is capable of 1080p now the Samsung S20 does 4K & Beyond Also it feels much cheaper plastic back?? Also the camera protrudes from the back of the phone on the corner so if you drop it you'll damage the camera way easier the glass over the camera I would advise anyone to stay away from the S21 and just stick with the s20 it's a far better phone you can get it for the same price cuz it's a year old now.
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- Meh
- Cxn
- 28 Jan 2021
**Really** hard to justify getting this when the s20 FE is 99% the phone, but with a bigger display and cheaper price tag. Sure the processor isn't on quite the same level, but the difference is probably unnoticeable to the vast majority of users.
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- trivik12
- YH0
- 27 Jan 2021
its annoying that samsung put autofocus ultra wide camera only in S21 Ultra. While I can understand skipping persicope lens, there is no reason to skip auto focus in other models. I hope Samsung fixes the differences in the cameras between these models. I have S10 which has the same cameras as S10 plus(of course there were no ultra back then).
Based on what i hear Exynos aint so bad. Benchmarks are mostly of no value in day 2 day usage. Just look at how it behaves in day 2 day usage. I also wish Samsung did not follow Apple in some bad choices (no heaphone port and now removed microsd/power brick).
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- AnonD-973296
- GYi
- 26 Jan 2021
Jay, 26 Jan 2021In call long heat , surfing heatr u an s21 user?
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- Jay
- fCE
- 26 Jan 2021
In call long heat , surfing heat
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- Alex
- qC@
- 26 Jan 2021
Cosmin, 26 Jan 2021I see a lot of contradictory information and thoughts. I... moreThanks for the feedback, Cosmin, that's fair. Looks like you don't miss SD card, 3.5 jack and high res as well. Do you care about the camera quality, did you use it?
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- Cosmin
- pwp
- 26 Jan 2021
I see a lot of contradictory information and thoughts.
I have bought the S21 vanilla and I like it. With Exynos 2100 on my second charge I had 6h SOT.
I can understand that if you are coming from an S20/S10 it does not worth the change, except the CPU, which is something different.
I was an 100% oneplus fan and totally hated samsung/iphone. Now locking at the prices, there is no big change.
I wanted something small, close to my old good friend oneplus 3 since 2016, which still runs, but lag started to appear.
In the last 3 months I bought and returned back the following phones, OP 7T, OP8, OP8T and S20 5G. All OP phones were heavy and too big, performance very good. S20 was OK, except curved display which I do not like.
So in the end S21 covered everything. I now that is not the best, or the cheapest, but kick almost the checks.
The only negative points from my side, limited to 8GB, and hard to step away from some OP gestures and especially oxygen OS.