Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra long-term review

15 July 2021


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  • 15 Jul 2021

Brilliant review of a brilliant phone.

    Daylight photos are not that great. Procession needs a lot of work. Even recent oppo phones have better procession. Still, I think even pixels are the best for photos.

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      • Anonymous
      • BiP
      • 15 Jul 2021

      Hemedans, 15 Jul 2021samsung Ui has never been the fastest, but you choose Samsu... moreOne UI is fast and smooth in my experience if you change animations to x0.5 never found it slow or stuttery on top hardware

        Hemedans, 15 Jul 2021samsung Ui has never been the fastest, but you choose Samsu... moreI completely agree with you

          Anonymous, 15 Jul 2021"While performance is great, smoothness suffers. Don&#... moresamsung Ui has never been the fastest, but you choose Samsung because of feature rich software. nothing on market come close to one ui. things like secure folder, dex and desktop mode, knox, etc are only exclusive to them.

            Anonymous, 15 Jul 2021They keep talking about bloatware on miui (which can be eas... moremost people don't talk about Samsung bloatware because its a well known fact, Samsung has bloatware more than 10 years ago. its boring repeat same thing everyday. even Samsung fanboy knows it.

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              • gLn
              • 15 Jul 2021

              Anonymous, 15 Jul 2021"While performance is great, smoothness suffers. Don&#... moreMIUI 12.5 is so good and TBH I really like the xiaomi's effort on lower bloatware , lighter android skin
              It's lighter than One UI

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                • Anonymous
                • asP
                • 15 Jul 2021

                Shui8, 15 Jul 2021P40 Pro+ are the 1st dual optical zoom cam with x3 & x1... moreSamsung sensor is much more advanced, equipped with dual pixel AF among other things.
                It's camera quality is much better.

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                  • Anonymous
                  • BiP
                  • 15 Jul 2021

                  What is so creepy about having a zoom lens?? Many people use a zoom for wildlife photography and landscapes not creeping on people. Jeez GSM Arena

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                    • KZK
                    • 15 Jul 2021

                    P40 Pro+ are the 1st dual optical zoom cam with x3 & x10 zoom (Its available globally unlike the newer Mate 40 Pro+). As on this long term review theres no mentioning about on how it compared between those two, I guess because the two phone launched year apart? I wonder how the quality will be like.

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                      • Anonymous
                      • yZ6
                      • 15 Jul 2021

                      Anonymous, 15 Jul 2021"While performance is great, smoothness suffers. Don&#... moreThey keep talking about bloatware on miui (which can be easily removed)
                      yet Samsung One Ui comes with most amount of bloatware, does lot of data collection on you, if you aren't setting up your phone correctly.

                      https://youtu.be/tdTTupm3vkI

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                        • Anonymous
                        • yZ6
                        • 15 Jul 2021

                        When are you guys going to a detailed camera comparison with other flagships?

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                          • 15 Jul 2021

                          34SciencePigeon, 15 Jul 2021My experience with Samsung tells another thing. Sam (Three)... moreThey said the same about S21 Ultra being the best upcoming product of 2021.
                          It dissapointed a lot of people

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                            • Anonymous
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                            • 15 Jul 2021

                            "While performance is great, smoothness suffers. Don't get us wrong, this is the smoothest Samsung ever, but that's still not enough to take the smoothness crown away from the Xiaomi Mi 11, and to be honest, it's very close but not matching last year's smoothness champ, the Oppo Find X2 Pro."

                            Where are the ppl blaming Chinese OEM skins? Miui flagship smoothest this year, Oppo flagship smoothest last year. Color OS and miui better than OneUi as confirmed by Gsmarena.

                              Why are you always going in timisoara for the long term reviews? Leave my country alone

                                A very witty review. Nice.

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                                  • Azo
                                  • PTp
                                  • 15 Jul 2021

                                  No doubt best in class S21 Ultra blows away all smartphones out of the park with great design, great display, versatile Cameras and 5 years of security updates 👏

                                    My experience with Samsung tells another thing. Sam (Three) Sung.

                                    3 is deliberate.

                                    GS III, GS6, GS9.
                                    Note 3, Note 6 (Changed to 7 which unintentionally fired and FE was born which is still successful line), Note 10 (in fact is 9).

                                    Ultra is not exception, also Z.
                                    S22 Ultra is the best tech-wise product of the upcoming year. No Doubt.

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                                      • 15 Jul 2021

                                      We know s21 ultra is the best in 2021.

                                      Xiaomi 11 ultra was overhyped by the company and maybe some paid youtubers and sites and now it disappeared because it simply a gimmick.

                                      Sony lost with their( iii )in many aspects

                                      Oneplus is too expensive and not worth it for the spec

                                      Funny they all these flag ships share that bad chip sd888
                                      It is so bad that people with exynos 2100 feel lucky and happy even against s21 ultra snapdragon version

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