Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra 5G
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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 👌🏻
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- Anonymous
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- 20 Mar 2022
Tonker, 19 Mar 2022Just got my S22 Ultra 8 Gen 1 yesterday. The performance, s... moreWhat's the chipset of the phone you bought?
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- SlimReaper
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- 20 Mar 2022
Why the hell did they accept preorders and be overwhelmed by the demand that delays the delivery. Hadn't receive it yet. 512GB, Green
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- Pepe68
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- 19 Mar 2022
Kev, 18 Mar 2022I remember handling the S22 Ultra in the store. (No S-Pen, ... moreI totally agree with you. I bought an S22 ultra with SD in Argentina because of a carrier promotion. And it is a very good phone overall. It does worry me that it gets warm, I wonder why... OnePlus 10 with the same processor does not so much. Apple is still on another league in power, battery endurance and overall value.
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- Pepe68
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- 19 Mar 2022
Apple is and sill will be the best overall phone. ULTRA is very good though, its features are amazing: pen, 10x zoom, display, DeX, very good value there.
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- Anonymous
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- 19 Mar 2022
John, 19 Mar 2022You're not very bright are you? Go see the Sales of Sa... moreJohn the phones were released in 2022, stop smoking whatever you're smoking or get outta here
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- Tonker
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- 19 Mar 2022
Just got my S22 Ultra 8 Gen 1 yesterday. The performance, software and screen is good. Though i thought the difference in performance was not as significant compared to Poco F3 i bought last month.
One concerning issue is, the heat. With just normal transfer of apps and data from my old phone making this phone going hot. I not talking about gaming etc. And this heating issue can be serious if no stable update from samsung. Im holding the phone and definitely hotter than body temperature (>36 degree Celsius). This is without any cover yet. I can imagine how hot it can be once i use phone cover. The heat will accumulated in the cover and destroy the phone. Samsung pls do something!
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- 19 Mar 2022
It's been a month since I placed order on Amazon India, and those bitc**s have not delivered yet. It's not in enough stock to meet the overwhelming demand. Better, to wait and by that time something new/better will hit the market.
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- Klima
- Ej5
- 19 Mar 2022
Exynos has better battery back up than snap 8 gen1
can't believe my eyes!
https://youtu.be/kVCSHivymw4
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- Slo
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- 19 Mar 2022
How s the gsm and gps signal ? I have 3 bars of signal, but my telefon is unrachable....how s that possible ? On my s9+ I hvae full 4g+ signal, but ob my s22 ultra only 2 bars of 4... I thing that s22 hase very poor and bad antenas or is it this only software big ?!
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- John
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- 19 Mar 2022
DnaAngel, 18 Mar 2022You act as though this is the first Samsung phone without S... moreYou're not very bright are you? Go see the Sales of Samsung phones, specially the flagship and see which one has the highest sales for 2021. I don't think i need to say more.
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- Kev
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- 18 Mar 2022
I remember handling the S22 Ultra in the store. (No S-Pen, the slot was empty)
The heft and size of the S22 are REALLY impressive. I love how dense, smooth, and solid it feels, and it screams at you with its size.
The screen is great. Period. It's so good, as is all flagship displays tbh; It's so good that it made my P30 Pro and the P40 Pro sitting beside the S22 stand look incredibly BAD.
The issues, however, were abhorrent the instant I picked the phone up. It was warm. From what, looping a promotional video around? That really worries me, feeling how warm the phone is from doing almost nothing.
The cameras are NOT an improvement whatsoever from the previous generation. Also, their zoom lock is still horrible. I'm sorry, but that is pretty terrible for the second generation of flagship cameras from Samsung; even the P40 Pro's images look pretty decent side by side. The most humiliating thing is that the P40's 5x and 10x images look pretty much the same as the Samsung's. The only difference is past 20x, where Samsung gets better and better.
But in whole, the camera on the Samsung is a disappointment. Surprisingly, looks, weight, heft, and feel are what I like about it, which is strange considering how iPhones were so good at it. Somehow, Samsung's feels better now.
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- jakas
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- 18 Mar 2022
DonAKG, 15 Mar 2022I have it. The battery come for a day easily, night standby... moreI have it too and it is good battery easily lasts a day. Good phone