Samsung Galaxy S21 5G
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- aaronwt
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- 29 Dec 2021
tituskl, 28 Dec 2021The exclusion of microSD expansion here is a dealbreaker fo... moreThat is what cloud storage is for. All my photos and videos get automatically uploaded to the cloud. I have been doing that for many years. Much, much easier than dealing with a micro SD card.
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- 29 Dec 2021
Anonymous, 29 Dec 2021Same here, i just got an Xperia 1 III and i'm never lo... moreI mean now* everyone is doing it
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- 29 Dec 2021
tituskl, 28 Dec 2021The exclusion of microSD expansion here is a dealbreaker fo... moreSame here, i just got an Xperia 1 III and i'm never looking at Samsung again
I've seen a lot of outrage about it but i don't think they'll bring back the SD because back in 2015 only Apple and Samsung did it so Samsung lost a lot of customers but not everyone is doing it except for Sony
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- 28 Dec 2021
The exclusion of microSD expansion here is a dealbreaker for me. It's not a matter of expanding storage, necessarily, but the security of having all my important photos on a removable medium, so that if the device fails or breaks, I can simply pop the card out and have all of my important data, instead of having to send the device to data recovery professionals.
I remember when people got extremely upset at the removal of this feature back in the days of the S6. Why is it now a total footnote, if even mentioned at all?
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- 27 Dec 2021
John , 27 Dec 2021Yeah, especially considering how crappy this year is, they ... moreYes, perhaps the biggest crime here is how Samsung doesn't know how to make a good chip but still sells it in 99% countries while they keep the Snapdragon for themselves
Apple on the other hand makes chips that rival the Snapdragon or even surpass sometimes. iPhones are also much better optimized and won't lag or slow down like Android phones after a few years, i know this because i'm using both, i have a Galaxy S8 and an iPhone 6 and the iPhone works better now despite being 3 years older
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- 27 Dec 2021
Anonymous, 27 Dec 20212021 has been a rough year for Samsung making a crappy flag... moreYeah, especially considering how crappy this year is, they still do inferior chips while snapdragon variant were sold in the US, Korean, and whatever the country is called, which I'd say it's not really worth the switch! Imagine what 2022 might look like when they did release a samsung phone with snapdragon variant after a few backlashes of exynos that were reported several years ago!
I mean, Android phones aren't really that bad, they were still very good, but however, there is other people who were criticizing apple and samsung are going to do some research before deciding what their next device might be worth the extra money!
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- Anonymous
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- 27 Dec 2021
2021 has been a rough year for Samsung making a crappy flagship like this. Maybe they realized more people are moving to the superior iPhones so they stopped putting much effort into their phones
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- 25 Dec 2021
Anonymous, 24 Dec 2021First if you whant battery to last longer you can change yo... moreAgreed, but don't get me wrong, samsung phones are very good, but me personally, I don't even think it's worth the money to buy a samsung s21 due to how trash the sales were while iphones sell pretty well!
I will also get an iphone 13 pro max to have the best camera for content creation at some point eventually, but I doubt these improvements will make the s22 ultra a better phone than the previous generations when it comes to performance and battery life!
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- 24 Dec 2021
Anonymous, 23 Dec 2021I think this is the only honest opinion about the Samsung G... moreFirst if you whant battery to last longer you can change your display resolution. But is not ok a low resolution for a flagship .
And second S-series where never made to charge after 2 days. Everyone is charging everyday and you know that. But S-series in the past (except S21) had the best display quality for that time.
I had S21 in my hands and i don t like the display quality.
I love that they want to make s22 more compact , but stil FHD display is not ok .
Please let this specs with 1440p screen and i would buy it .
I am not really a big fan of Qualcomm's always on camera for Snap 8 Gen 1, so I hope that the Exynos version is actually good this year.
Exynos 2100 wasn't great but it certainly wasn't terrible like its predecessors, so I am a bit optimistic about Exynos 2200 with mRDNA.
i think it's time to leave samsung again. it gets more and more worse again. it's just hard to find a phone what is compact. and i don't know why everyone loves a television at the ear!
Yes same . me two living Samsung. Not going to buy Samsung. Again.
Moving to Sony. Sony offers 1440p display
Smaller screen size is good thinking, listening to feedback. Hope it won't get above 8mm thickness and width hopefully is lower too.
Droping the hybrid telephoto is natural, was awful.
I think they should have done better at selfie camera, I bet this is where Iphones will improve (wider angle?) so they could front run them.
I like the plastic on the back honestly, very practical
again FHD screen ? I understand that they whant to reduce cost , but they can do that on cheaper devices. When you throw with money you whant the best and this screen is clearly not that.
I have the s10 , and i would wait for s22 to see if they would bring back quality display and 12gb ram. If not S20 5g would be my next one. Better buy S20 with 12gb if S22 would be fail just like S21
Usually I'll upgrade to the latest S Series device. I skipped upgrading to the S20 and glad I did but I won't consider the S22/Note 22 or whatever label Samsung settles on. Very few improvements and in some features they're going backwards. Innovation for mobile phones have reached a plateau, why drop a bundle for a bit better camera or a new color? Sorry Samsung, I'll sit this one out.
Samsung are gonna screw Europe again with another exynos cpu theyve gone with AMD gpu integrated inside to put spin on the whole thig to look more appealing to the consumer but plz believe this will be 20-30% worse that the snapdragron 8 gen1 version of the s22 yet we stil pay more than the USA for the phone. This is what made me move to hUAWEI and oppo and i'll be keeping my huawei p30 because its still a very capable 2019 phone faster than my s20 i had from samsung last year which i sold for £200 due to terrible battery jerky video camera and overheating issues and slow laggy gaming. I will at some point get either a iphone 12 or 13 to have the best of android and the apple world. l decided to stick around a bit longer to S9
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- 23 Dec 2021
Girish, 06 Dec 2021Wanted a premium phone and went through the grind of search... moreI think this is the only honest opinion about the Samsung Galaxy S21 here. The rest are just haters.
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- 22 Dec 2021
Santosh, 11 Dec 2021The battery drains a lot, don't survive post noonMy S21 with the Snapdragon can easily last all day. I've found it hard to even come close to running the battery down. It has easily lasted longer than any of the previous Galaxy S phones I've owned. I started with the S6 and upgraded every two years to the newest version.(S6, S8, S10, S21).
I was going to start upgrading every year, after I got the S21. But with the rumor of the smaller screen size on the S22, I will probably stick to every two years if the screen size actually gets smaller on the S22.
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- 22 Dec 2021
Harry, 14 Dec 2021Upgrading to S21 from S10 pros and cons:
Cons:
- Less r... moreI was glad I dumped my two year old S10. Plus the $550 trade in credit toward my 256GB S21 meant I only had to pay around $300 out of pocket. Plus I got $200 worth of accessories.
All that plus the S21 has easily been a better phone than my S10 was. The only thing the S10 had that was better, was a higher resolution screen(but smaller). Everything else on the S21 has been better for me.
I gett better battery performance and a 120hz screen.
I never needed the SD card. I haven't used wired headphones in many, many years and would never consider using them now. I only used the SpO2/heartrate sensor twice with my S10. For years I've had a couple of SpO2/heartrate sensors that I can wear and get constant data. That gets downloaded and put into a graph. So the feature on the S10 was never useful to me.
The rumored smaller screen on the S22 is why I might not upgrade from the S21. I don't want to go down to a smaller size. I would have preferred if they stuck with an 6.2 inch screen or increased it to 6.25/6.3 inches.
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- 22 Dec 2021
Harry, 18 Dec 2021Maybe those things are not important to you and it's a... moreYou need more cloud storage. I get 1TB of One Drive storage included with my Office 365.
I've never had any issues with cloud storage from my UHD videos with my S21. All my videos and pictures have been uploaded to my One Drive storage for many years now.
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- 22 Dec 2021
Adsw, 22 Dec 2021This is the worst phone I have ever had it has bugs it just... moreWhat kind of bugs? My S21 is on Verizon wireless, I've had no issues with calls. Whether over cellular or wifi. I've been using Galaxy S phones since the Galaxy S6. The S21 is easily the best Galaxy S phone I have owned.
I've been using my S21 since launch back in January. It has been nearly flawless in my use. Which is one of the reasons I rank it as the best Galaxy S phone I have owned.
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- 22 Dec 2021
This is the worst phone I have ever had it has bugs it just is a piece of s**t ..the camera is the best i have ever used on a phone shaped device ....hey Samsung its a phone ...not a camera .
You want a phone get two cans and peice of string it will work better. But if you want a camera and have no friends..go for it
Nothing about being a phone or an Internet device is any good with this . Its truly junk but hey you can take great pictures
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- 21 Dec 2021
No carbdisplay no more camera features why small size. It's look like cheapest mobile. 6.2 bad feeling.
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- 18 Dec 2021
John , 16 Dec 2021Bruh, nobody uses headphone jack, or an SD card, both of th... moreMaybe those things are not important to you and it's a perfect phone for you then good for you, but don't say "No one is using it"
No SD Card --->Just buy cloud subscription
No Headphoe Jack----> Just buy BT headphones
What about less screen resolution, do you have a genius recommendation for that too?
How is uploading stuff better to cloud is better when 4k videos max the storage pretty quick and you are traveling camping/outdoor trying to find 4g/LTE in the middle of nowhere?
Also there is not a BT codec that can handle FLAC/High quality audio files over air. l already have Shure SE535, expensive but amazing in-ear headphones. On top of that Samsung don't ship Snapdragon to EU and can't even use AptX HD but the inferior AptX.
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- 18 Dec 2021
ALPHABOY17, 17 Dec 2021Changing the display lower than 1080p? hahaha! Yeah, why we... moreWhich phone gt 720p and 120hz i wanna buy tq in advance.
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- 17 Dec 2021
Anonymous, 11 Dec 2021First if you whant battery to last longer you can change yo... moreChanging the display lower than 1080p? hahaha! Yeah, why we need 1080 too? It's better to use 720p and 120hz hahaha!