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for them good job samsung","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"as usual i have sequestered myself consuming no media about the galaxy s21 and s21 ultra so i get to have my very own fresh reaction and you know what the first thing i want to say about these is who does samsung think they are exactly like oneplus they've lowered the prices but they've also gotten rid of or reduced some of the things that make the galaxy s series the s series this this is pretty though wow that matte like blasted finish on the s21 looks absolutely fantastic and like the contrast with the with like the glossy aluminum mid plate that looks really good doesn't it it almost distracts you from the fact that samsung threw so much shade at apple about not including chargers with their phones and then went and didn't include a charger with their phone i get it you guys gotta save a buck okay you lowered the prices at least to samsung's credit they lowered the prices of the phones but don't pretend this is anything other than a cost-saving measure if apple really cared about the environmental impact of providing all those chargers what they would have done is what xiaomi did which is allow you to have a charger if you want or not have a charger if you don't need it and not charge you extra for it and there's a couple other things about these devices that make them less samsung s series for me and more like one plus so for example the s21 and the s21 plus are both only available with a maximum of eight gigs of RAM now it's lp ddr4x memory it's freaking fast but only eight gigs of memory and only up to 256 gigs of storage and on top of that they actually got rid of the microsd slot so on the bottom you've got your sim slot you've got your speaker port you've got your usb type c charging and data port on the left you've got no bxp button whatsoever on the top you got a couple of microphones for noise cancellation then over on the right you got your volume rocker and your lock button and that is pretty much it for the physical buttons feeling the hand on the s21 really nice s21 ultra also nice especially after having played around with the iphone 12 quite a bit lately i do appreciate rounded corners on devices that don't kind of stick into your hand but that's not to say that i appreciate everything here so the s21 and s21 plus are the first s-series devices that i can remember that actually use 1080p class displays the ultra has a 1440p class display and both of them are running 120 hertz so you get that really nice fluidity oh so nice but as part of the apparent cost saving measures that samsung has gone to here they've done away with 1440p displays now in fairness samsung already shipped their devices by default and in fact even the s21 ultra ships by default running at 1080p resolution in order to save power even though it has more physical pixels than that but it's just a weird move backwards to me to go to a 1080p display personally i can't tell the difference at this screen size but if you've got really sharp eyes 1440p can look a little bit nicer which isn't to say though that the displays on these phones aren't gonna look freaking awesome the s21 and s21 plus both max out at 1300 nits meaning that like i said before with the s20 the odds are that for people buying this phone this is going to be the best HDR content consumption display in the building you live in while the s20 ultra actually maxes out at 1500 nits i'm a little curious about the speakers that's one of the things that tends to be a cost saving measure when you're trying to lower prices still stereo man this display looks good actually pretty darn loud too let's take something with dialogue though i did have to change the default display profile from vivid to natural in order to make sdr content look good but it should be noted i didn't feel like i had to do the same thing with HDR content so your mileage may vary there remember HDR content includes metadata in the video itself that tells the display how to behave so this really unfortunate thing happened between shoot days one and two of this a big rock chip really nice actually both of them sound great one area samsung didn't cost down at all is in the soc so both of these are featuring snapdragon 888s in the north america region and then exynos 2100s outside of that and these are pretty sick cpus both of them are built using samsung's new five nanometer process and both of them are using new ARM x1 cores so just like we saw in previous generation snapdragon socs or exynos for that matter you've got four low power cores for high efficiency and four high power cores for higher performance but here instead of four lower power cores and then four of the same high power cores we've actually got three cortex a78s which are pretty high performance but built using ARM's traditional balance of power consumption and performance we've also got a single x1 core so this is ARM's attempt to kind of steal some of apple's thunder when it comes to single threaded performance now as for whether it actually gets there well maybe not yet but it's definitely a step in the right direction just like the news that samsung is continuing to work with AMD on some kind of Radeon mobile graphics it could be a huge step in the right direction i would be very excited to see not just the generational improvements that we're seeing in CPU GPU and ai performance like we are now but like a big like huge multi-generational leap in GPU performance because that could be an absolute changer for them now i want to talk about another compromise while unlike the s21 the s21 ultra does have flagship class memory and storage configurations going up to 16 gigs of RAM and 512 gigs of storage both of them have kind of mediocre charging capabilities so we've got a 4 800 milliamp hour battery here 4000 here this is a small upgrade this is basically the same as last gen both of them max out charging over a wire at 25 watts wirelessly at just 15 watts and with reverse charging that's a measly four and a half watts compared to some of the chinese phones out there these are like these are numbers that are like half of what's available on the market in some cases less than half but i've got to say that i appreciate samsung's conservative approach here as someone who cares about the longevity of my device i actually go out of my way to charge my battery with a wire at just one amp so that's just five watts and the reason that i do that is because there's less risk i mean the last thing samsung needs is another phone that like lights on fire all over the place and it helps your battery last longer so if you're the kind of person who keeps your phone for longer than a year or two you should seriously consider charging at lower rates even if your phone does support crazy 65 watt charging or like you know 25 35 watt wireless charging now let's run through some of the additional differences between the ultra and the regular s21 honestly for me it's at the point where these are such completely different classes of products i don't even really understand why they share the s21 name they've both got 5g connectivity that's included with the snapdragon 888 but the ultra has wi-fi 6e instead of just regular wi-fi 6. which isn't a huge speed advantage but it could be a big advantage in terms of congestion so if you live in an apartment or something like that wi-fi 6e could mean that you're fighting a lot less with your neighbors assuming you have a wi-fi 6e router and getting better wi-fi speeds on your mobile device another big difference is that while they both do have 120 hertz displays which gives you that sexy smoothness only the ultra goes down to 10 hertz with its variable refresh rate technology the regular s21 and the s21 plus even though i don't have it on hand only go down to 48 hertz which means they could end up being slightly less power efficient depending on the application finally we've got the cameras these are two very different classes of cameras the regular s21 has a 12 megapixel main shooter which isn't that crazy except that for years samsung kind of chased the megapixel race and now they're going oh you know what maybe apple's got a point and it's better to just capture more light as opposed to being able to capture a ton of pixels under ideal lighting situations so the s21 has a 64 megapixel telephoto and then a 12 megapixel ultra wide moving over to the s21 ultra we get a honking 108 megapixel main shooter so the megapixel race is back two 10 megapixel telephotos and then a 12 megapixel wide and the reason for two telephotos is that they're doing some like trippy ai combination thing for a theoretical maximum of 100 times zoom now i'm expecting that to be a gimmick but who knows maybe i'll be pleasantly surprised so we're gonna go regular wide angle taking a picture of the little dude adama jig over there i'm gonna go 3x zoom take another picture i'm gonna go 10x zoom wow that actually looks really good and this stabilization is like freaking outstanding i think 10x looks like it might be the sweet spot it's definitely over sharpened but that's obviously way more detail left in the image than if we just tried to zoom in the main shooter and this is on the ultra and then we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna step it up let's go 30. oh cool so when you press the little preview up here it actually locks the stabilization uh well you can't really see it now because i'm not zoomed into something but it actually works really well that's that's super cool so you gotta kind of frame the way you want it you just press that and then it'll like hold your frame there we go 30x is just a blurry mess like we could have just as easily digitally zoomed this and 100x is yeah i don't know man maybe maybe maybe the ai is doing a little bit there looks a little less over sharpened but there's like almost no color saturation in it finally there's the difference in selfie cameras the ultra gets a 40 megapixel selfie camera which is like what and then it's just a regular 10 megapixel one on the s21 and s21 plus i can okay to samsung's credit the natural color of the selfie camera is like outstanding like they're not doing any of that stupid beautifying and smoothing or if they are it's really not much that looks like really that looks really natural you ready for some 8k brandon yeah i can already tell even looking at this tiny display that it's like hot garbage i can already tell even looking at this tiny display that it's like hot garbage wow the microphone's great though like if i was vlogging on this thing i think i'd be stoked can do 4k 60. oh man that just like already looks better than the 8k mode whatever it doesn't it doesn't matter you know what they've got it they got a market there they got to market their shiz now for the most important test for me the ultra actually has support for samsung's s pen which isn't to say that it comes with one or even has a place to put one in fact you've got to buy it as a separate accessory i think it's like 40 us dollars or something like that and then you also have to get a case that has somewhere to put your s pen so it's like uh okay but to their credit apparently they've worked on intergenerational compatibility and while some people are curious about whether the note 20 pen works i actually want to take it back a couple more steps and see if my note 9 pen will work wait it totally works that's freaking awesome i i actually love the s pen for no reason other than scribbling on screenshots and sending them to people it's really nice or like writing down the dimensions of a room for my trip to ikea like i'll scribble on my picture or this one so you can record a gif of any video you watch just like going like this going like that boom you can save it you can share it it's like freaking awesome if you're a social media nerd or whatever the case may i just wish there was somewhere to put it so that's sort of a downer but hey at least it works so that's cool it's really nice to see samsung putting that kind of effort in unless it just like worked on its own i don't know but uh honestly one of the reasons that i have decided to stick with the note 9 for so long is to see how well it does last i've given samsung a hard time in the past for not providing enough software updates for their devices and not supporting them in the long term and overall other than the couple of drops that have shattered the back glass on this thing the experience of using it today is basically like it has always been and i think they've done a pretty darn good job of it for me so i'm i'm still getting software updates it's still not sluggish i'm pretty happy and it's getting me to the point where i'm getting closer anyway to being able to recommend samsung in the same way almost that i would apple apple's still way better but hey improvements improvement speaking of apple i actually told you guys on ShortCircuit that i was going to do a full review of at least one of the iphone 12 series so the one that i've been driving is the 12 pro and the reason i didn't end up doing it is i just i didn't have anything to say so i'm going to change gears for a little bit and i'm going to tell you some of the notes that i had down if you guys actually cared and then i'm going to just put that to rest so i have stopped being disingenuous about your eco friendliness if you actually cared about the environment there's lots of other things you could do to to help save the environment i didn't like the the hard edges the notch is a piece of um hole punch is a piece too but the notch is worse i guess i i can't wait for for that trend to go away forever i missed 3d touch still 3d touch was amazing 60 hertz blows um some of the apps are better so that's cool some of them are worse so that's less cool face id sucks in a pandemic because i'm wearing a mask all the time i think one of the reasons that my iphone reviews tend to end up really nitpicky and people label me as a hater is that it's just mostly good it's fine it's an iphone the only things i can really talk about are the things that are like wrong and a lot of the things that are wrong are things that have always been wrong and they just don't seem to get about fixing like not adding t9 dialing so there that's why i didn't do it as for whether i'm gonna review this i don't know what do you think is it worth trying to switch to yeah 120 hertz display would be really nice so smooth i'm going to miss my s pen though i'm not going to get a stupid like case with a pen holder in it it's ridiculous i'm a naked phone guy no case if i review it'll be over on on Linus tech tips but that's that's it that's it for ShortCircuit for today oh oh yeah also they launched their smart tags but i'm not gonna unbox a smart tag like what on earth would i say about it so good for them good job samsung"}