Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra 5G
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- Kris17
- 7v0
- 21 Mar 2022
I wish people stop asking for more RAM. 12GB is plenty and Apple does very well with 6GB. 16GB is the standard for a DESKTOP rig. Sometimes I even question myself my I bought 32GB in my main system, unless I do video editing 50% just sits there consuming power. It's not about how much you have, it's about how you use what you have. People have been sent to the moon with a lot less. Hmm...consumer logic...
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- John
- 80i
- 21 Mar 2022
Anonymous, 21 Mar 2022Maybe people around you aren't buying Samsung. I hope ... moreHow thick is your skull mate? read what i previously wrote. I said look at how many units of flagships and whats Samsung's best selling phone.
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- Darknoor
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- 21 Mar 2022
MDSN, 21 Mar 2022For the average professional user an A series like A53 or A... moreAll you said would make Samsung lead the market once and for all, it is every buyers dream, but lets face it; they don't give a sh!t. I was on the verge of buying S22 ultra just for the s-pen which I miss oh so much, I am holding on my note 4 for that only (I don't use it now but I just love it so much). I wanted the S22 base model, but the battery was so laughable.
For now, I will stick with Xiaomi.
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- MDSN
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- 21 Mar 2022
Gill, 12 Mar 2022Exact. Same for me. No card slot , no buy. I'll keep m... moreFor the average professional user an A series like A52s would be just fine. The A5x series has been the best selling product in the Galaxy range.
The excessive price increase to go to a S22 series is simply too hard to justify unless you wanted a stylus and hence the need for S22 Ultra. If Samsung can't reduce their prices for next year's S23 Ultra, perhaps they could consider targeting the mid range market by introducing a stylus enabled A series? Perhaps an A53s with stylus to capture the mid range stylus phone market vacated by LG Stylo and currently held by Motorola Moto G Stylus? I believe Samsung would continue to lose market share in this niche (stylus) segment to the likes of Motorola if they didn't do one of the 2 options - reducing S -Ultra prices or introducing an A-series with stylus. There is a segment of the market that needs a stylus, ruggedness like the LG Stylo, iris scan, MicroSD, MST all at a sensible price similar to an A53. This market is currently un satisfied. Samsung more than any other company can do it. Whether they will is another question.
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- MDSN
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- 21 Mar 2022
Darknoor, 11 Mar 2022If you got this phone, congrats you wasted money on a phone... moreFor the average professional user an A series like A53 or A52s would be just fine. The A5x series has been the best selling product in the Galaxy range.
The excessive price increase to go to a S22 series is simply too hard to justify unless you wanted a stylus and hence the need for S22 Ultra. If Samsung can't reduce their prices for next year's S23 Ultra, perhaps they could consider targeting the mid range market by introducing a stylus enabled A series? Perhaps an A53s with stylus to capture the mid range stylus phone market vacated by LG Stylo and currently held by Motorola Moto G Stylus? I believe Samsung would continue to lose market share in this niche (stylus) segment to the likes of Motorola if they didn't do one of the 2 options - reducing S -Ultra prices or introducing an A-series with stylus. There is a segment of the market that needs a stylus, ruggedness like the LG Stylo, iris scan, MicroSD, MST all at a sensible price similar to an A53. This market is currently un satisfied. Samsung more than any other company can do it. Whether they will is another question.
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- MDSN
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- 21 Mar 2022
I too considered buying the S22 Ultra to replace my Note 9. I baulked at the high prices and limited storage options among other issues. For the average professional user an A series like A53 or A52s would be just fine. The A5x series has been the best selling product in the Galaxy range.
The excessive price increase to go to a S22 series is simply too hard to justify unless you wanted a stylus and hence the need for S22 Ultra. If Samsung can't reduce their prices for next year's S23 Ultra, perhaps they could consider targeting the mid range market by introducing a stylus enabled A series? Perhaps an A53s with stylus to capture the mid range stylus phone market vacated by LG Stylo and currently held by Motorola Moto G Stylus? I believe Samsung would continue to lose market share in this niche (stylus) segment to the likes of Motorola if they didn't do one of the 2 options - reducing S -Ultra prices or introducing an A-series with stylus. There is a segment of the market that needs a stylus, ruggedness like the LG Stylo, iris scan, MicroSD, MST all at a sensible price similar to an A53. This market is currently un satisfied. Samsung more than any other company can do it. Whether they will is another question.
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- Anonymous
- P%G
- 21 Mar 2022
John, 21 Mar 2022They failed in 2021 and in 2022 its no difference, nobody i... moreMaybe people around you aren't buying Samsung. I hope you realize the world is actually bigger than just the few people you see daily. Samsung sold the most phones in 2021 with 20% market share.
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- John
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- 21 Mar 2022
Anonymous, 19 Mar 2022John the phones were released in 2022, stop smoking whateve... moreThey failed in 2021 and in 2022 its no difference, nobody is buying Samsung anymore. Look around lol!
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- BS Detector
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- 21 Mar 2022
Varcor, 21 Mar 2022Some valid points you have raised but ignored the elephant ... morelmfao.
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- Varcor
- Lu$
- 21 Mar 2022
Jenny, 20 Mar 2022I just got the cheaper version of Samsung s22 ultra. Please... moreThere's no such thing as a "cheap S22 ultra" and all have a SIM Card slot. If you don't have the Sim slot you bought a knock off for what, $100 - $150 USD? You get what you pay for and sometimes even less!
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- Varcor
- Lu$
- 21 Mar 2022
MDSN, 21 Mar 2022S22 Ultra is excessively priced and is underwhelming.
Sam... moreSome valid points you have raised but ignored the elephant in the room. The biggest drawbacks on the S22 Ultra is it's software and chipset. The S22 Ultra is the most problematic device Samsung has released since the Note 7. During production runs the wafers only produced a 30% rate of usable chipsets. Samsung/AMD had designed abclock speed of 1.9 GHz but at that speed overheating is impossible to contain. So instead of redesigning the chip they dumbed it down (throttled) to 1.34 GHz but even at the lower clock speed it still overheats. Quality Control is lacking as well. Many of the chipsets that should have been rejected have found their way into user's hands. Even after updates numerous users are upset with overheating and poor battery life.
Secondly, Android 12 paired with Samsung's skins OneUI 4.0/4.1 is nothing short of a disaster. After 4 "final releases" it's still buggy as hell with lags, stuttering and very poor compatibility with numerous apps including Twitter and YouTube. If someone gave me an S22 Ultra for free I'd give it back!
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- MDSN
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- 21 Mar 2022
MDSN, 21 Mar 2022S22 Ultra is excessively priced and is underwhelming. Sam... moreFor the average professional user an A series like A53 or A52s would be just fine. The excessive price increase to go to a S series is simply too hard to justify unless you wanted a stylus and hence the need for S22 Ultra. If Samsung can't reduce their prices for next year's S23 Ultra, perhaps they could consider targeting the mid range market by introducing a stylus enabled A series? Perhaps an A53s with stylus to capture the mid range market vacated by LG Stylo and currently held by Motorola? Samsung would continue to lose market share to the likes of Motorola if they didn't do one of the 2 options - reducing S Ultra prices or introducing an As with stylus.
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- MDSN
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- 21 Mar 2022
S22 Ultra is excessively priced and is underwhelming.
Samsung removed the following from its S and Note series phones over the last few years. 1. Health Sensor (so you would buy their Galaxy watch. As a GW3 user I can confirm that my Note 9 provides consistent accurate HR/SPO2 readings while GW3 is a hit and miss) 2. 3.5 mm jack (so you would buy their buds which I did but wired headsets is infinitely better for appreciating good music), 3. MicroSD card support, 4. MST support (which is still required by many retailers where I shop), 5. Iris scan (for a tradie working with heavy gloves finger print scan is unrealistic, iris scan works best). 6. LED notifications. 7. Dual physical sim support as opposed to 1 physical and 1 esim. (This applies to frequent travellers who use multiple physical sims and prefer their convenience for easy changeover). The S22 also has a front camera notch which is not ideal (though it can be hidden in settings but you lose some screen real estate in the process). Apart from the older OS there really is no real world compelling reason to upgrade to the latest S22 Ultra series. There really doesn’t appear to be any other vendor in the world who removes features and jacks up the prices. Remember Samsung no longer supply a power adaptor or earphones as part of the package. They have moved manufacturing to lower cost countries while jacking up prices.
My Note 9 is going strong like new and has at least 8 feature advantages over the S22 Ultra. Samsung is truly screwing the consumer by removing features and bumping up the price. Samsung is a great innovator and technology company but poorly led by its Sales and Marketing people. More to the point the S22 Ultra is underwhelming for the price charged and where I live the deals are not anywhere comparable to the USA where many of the commentators seem to be from.
5G is patchy where I live and work. At home with broadband I dont need 5G data. While roaming overseas, data for accessing cloud storage is too expensive hence the need for MicroSD slot. The Note 9 has just received its (possibly penultimate) software security update. Most people I know like to keep their phones for 4 years or more. When a 2018 Note 9 came with 8GB RAM, 512GB storage and SD card slot at less price than for todays S22 without similar RAM and storage that should cause consumers to query Samsung. Modern phones have 108 mega pixel cameras and 8k recording etc which will require close to 6-7GB storage for 10 minutes recording. To offer an S22 Ultra with just 8GB RAM and 128GB storage and no microSD slot seems a rip-off. A top end device should offer greater RAM and storage for the price being charged. More important they have to be future proofed as even Samsung now offer 5 years support to compete with Apple. Any which way you see it Samsung got it wrong on the S22 Ultra this year. They should have just 2 models – one with 12GB RAM and 512GB storage and the other at 16GB RAM and 1TB storage and at lower than the price gouging rip-off of this year’s S22. After all last year’s S21 Ultra came with 16GB RAM. When consumers don’t question Samsung’s behaviour, they will continue to rip-off consumers. After all a consumer led court case in Europe is what made Samsung extend support to 3 years, 4 years and now 5 years.
The S22 series is a premium product. Not to offer QuadHD across all the models when it was first available almost 10 years ago and on even the S6 is telling. Throttling CPU and fudging on benchmarks, reducing specs, increasing prices - in my mind this year Samsung got it terribly wrong and need to know consumers dont approve otherwise there will be no change in Samsung's behaviour.
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- Jenny
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- 20 Mar 2022
EePee, 28 Jan 2022IN MY OPINION! This phone seems rather good on paper. Its ... moreI just got the cheaper version of Samsung s22 ultra. Please tell me where the sim card goes. It says no sim card like all new phones
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- Anonymous
- nUL
- 20 Mar 2022
This is a note device, A boxy design.
This should be released as Note 21 ultra.
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- mujtaba
- X@p
- 20 Mar 2022
samsung pixels are on another level. i wish i can purchase atleast note 10
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- Juan
- RYg
- 20 Mar 2022
SlimReaper, 20 Mar 2022Why the hell did they accept preorders and be overwhelmed b... moreSame here from Canada. 256 GB, Graphite. Ordered Feb 18, still waiting.
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- Sixth Wave
- Xy8
- 20 Mar 2022
Really hesitant to go for this device upgrading from Note 10+
I Don't feel a huge difference
But it's all about future major updates
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- Rly
- MxZ
- 20 Mar 2022
Roy anzali, 18 Mar 2022I've got it for 2 weeks now,very laggy,when you brows... moreI had 2 different ones and both did the same... I returned both.
Im so pissed, i really wanted the "Note" version.
But no more Sammy for me this year.
S22 serie is very unstable, not every phone, but many is.
Android 12 is not that stable to.
And Snapdragon and Exynos hmmm, we all know about this last couple years, problems to.
So i think i go for a Dimensity 8-9000 series chip this year 👌🏻