Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G review

25 January 2021


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  • 13 Feb 2021

a dude, 13 Feb 2021actually buying a charger separately means you use more pac... moreWeird that GSMARENA HASNT UPDATED IPHONE 12 pro max numbers for Antutu. My iPhone 12 Pro Max last score V8.3.8 was 656,629 the one before it was 648,229. I have to say that Antutu is getting worse as a test because for iPhones the numbers are not consistent. My iPhone is pretty high I guess I’m lucky but I don’t think that is the reason.

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    • w98
    • 13 Feb 2021

    actually buying a charger separately means you use more packaging just for the charger, but also even more packaging by the delivery company, more trips taken by the delivery company to deliver the package, i.e. more CO2 emissions, and also get inferior third party headphones, in samsung's case of the premium AKG ones, therefore to wrap this up, in what way do you think this is in any way, "saving the planet", yet alone "saving ur customer from losing brand loyalty 'cause you are removing stuff every year"?

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      • 7yu
      • 12 Feb 2021

      Would really like to know if the screen also has a 240hz touch polling rate like the Note 20 Ultra does...it's a noticeable difference and can't find that info anywhere.

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        • Slym
        • q{P
        • 12 Feb 2021

        I got the s21 ultra, 128 GB Snapdragon. Its a beautiful phone, fixed the annoying photo blue fiasco from the 20 series. It's a slight annoyance not having the SD card but 128 GB is more than enough for me. The headphones I couldnt care less about. The charger I wish they added but it's not a big deal. The screen and camera imo at the price more than make up for it. I recommend.😄

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          • pJG
          • 11 Feb 2021

          Jun, 31 Jan 2021Charging sucks on the ultra. Without the wall adapter it ch... moreWho cares how long it takes to charge, my s20 ultra finished charging about 30mins ago, its currently on 98% and will probably be on 90% when I wake up. I charge it once a day and it gets battered during that time.

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            • pJG
            • 11 Feb 2021

            URSC0003, 06 Feb 2021I find this S21 lineup completely nonsense and idiotic by S... moreDual sim is great, I have the s20 ultra, 2 sims, one personal, one for work. Most of my data is in Google drive at £2.49 per month for 200gb. Sorted.

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              • 10 Feb 2021

              Anonymous, 10 Feb 2021Gsmarena reviews the Exynos version since they're base... moreI'd take exynos over snapdragon.

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                • KS2
                • 10 Feb 2021

                Andrey, 27 Jan 2021With what version of the processor were the photos taken? E... moreGsmarena reviews the Exynos version since they're based out of Europe.

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                  • KS2
                  • 10 Feb 2021

                  Vj, 09 Feb 2021Charging a battery to fast can not only be dangerous due to... moreWith your logic, even 22W charging is quite damaging. 5 or 10W charging is the best for prolonged battery life.

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                    • 09 Feb 2021

                    There needs to be another battery test run at 1080P and 60hz. There are many reviews on here that have figures for more than one screen refresh rate setting, but not recent S21 reviews. I'd be very interested in how much battery life this and the S21+ achieve at lower settings.

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                      • 09 Feb 2021

                      URSC0003, 06 Feb 2021I find this S21 lineup completely nonsense and idiotic by S... moreAbsolutely agree.

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                        • 09 Feb 2021

                        Sam, 08 Feb 2021Did anyone know how many hz of touch sensing for S21 ultra?Touch response is 240Hz

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                          • 09 Feb 2021

                          ypcx, 01 Feb 2021Okay I may be whining too much. But 30 minutes from zero to... moreCharging a battery to fast can not only be dangerous due to over heating but it also takes a toll on the battery and can shorten the battery life. So don't be in to big a hurry to charge it up.

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                            • 09 Feb 2021

                            URSC0003, 06 Feb 2021I find this S21 lineup completely nonsense and idiotic by S... moreCompletely agree about the charger. Its just a marketing stunt to get more out of the customers wallet by charging a huge price for a Samsung brand charger. And removing the expandable storage was a mistake. The fact that I could expand my memory up to 1TB on a micro sd card was always the deal maker for why I'd choose a samsung phone over iphones. They do give you free 1TB cloud storage with Microsoft One Drive but, be assured that in the near future after they force most everybody over to Microsoft One Drive, I'm sure they will start charging for it. Unfortunately I might as well switch to an Iphone since everyone in my family has one and just about everybody i know has an Iphone. Might as well join them.

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                              • 08 Feb 2021

                              Sam, 08 Feb 2021Did anyone know how many hz of touch sensing for S21 ultra?120hz

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                                • pmy
                                • 08 Feb 2021

                                thermal throttling will kill half of your GPU perf after few minutes.
                                These chips are so HOOOOT

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                                  • FB1
                                  • 08 Feb 2021

                                  Did anyone know how many hz of touch sensing for S21 ultra?

                                    URSC0003, 06 Feb 2021I find this S21 lineup completely nonsense and idiotic by S... moreMe

                                      I find this S21 lineup completely nonsense and idiotic by Samsung leadership and lead architects who designed and gave their consent to produce it.
                                      1) They removed SD card and instead gave dual sim along with eSim support. Who the fu©k uses 3 numbers on its phone ? With no roaming these days, people have stopped using dual SIMs on phone, its complete waste in my opinion.
                                      2) If apple is eating shit, Samsung doesn't need to eat that shit by copying that and being a tail of apple. If you want to compete with apple then compete in good things like there software support, customer support etc instead of gimmicking people.
                                      3) Removing charger brick on the name of saving climate is like ... as if we all are fool and don't understand that Samsung wants to mint more profit out of each sale. Instead remove the unnecessary paper work and provide longer software support to its customers so that they can hold these phones for more number of years and reduce the pollution per head.
                                      4) Selling plastic backs with low configuration at flagship prices is really ridiculous, why one should buy yours? What better are you providing by charging the difference ?

                                      I look forward to see how this lineup perform in terms of sales.
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                                        • Anonymous
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                                        • 05 Feb 2021

                                        so now news that exynos chip runs between 3200 and 4100 in multicore a large variation
                                        something causing this issue bug or heating or better chip
                                        makes sense as cpu is clocked much higher but scores are same as snapdragon

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