Fine, I heard you. You guys aren't happy I bought an iPhone. That's okay. How
about we take a look at the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra. Will that make you
happy? To be very clear, I'm actually pretty excited to take a look at this
thing because of the display on it. This
phone is boasting the world's first
privacy display on mobile. I kind of want to see it in
action and see how well it works. Let's open it up here. That's all you get.
Is there a cable, please? It's going to be like, man, this fastest unboxing
ever. Oh. Oh, hold on. Okay, good. We do still
get a cable. At least they haven't fully taken everything from us yet. I want to
see how long this does not look like a very long cable though. >> [laughter] >> It's probably about 3 ft.
Something like that. Definitely not the longest cable we've
seen with phones. Man, these phone unboxings are real quick because that
was it. We're straight into the phone here. Oh, got to do our peel.
Oh, yeah. Man, I'm going to be bringing out my phone a lot to do comparisons to in
terms of just weight and overall feel. I'm actually quite impressed. It is a
little bit thinner than their S25 and in turn means it's a little bit lighter.
And in our case, we got the What color is this? They call this the cobalt
violet. When it catches the light, it actually looks like kind of cool. I like
the looks of it. What I don't like Oh man, if you've seen me unbox phones,
you know this. I am a freaking camera bump hater and that is a whole other
phone as far as I'm concerned on top. Look Oh my goodness, can you see like
how much this thing is going to rock when you lay it down, dude? I guess
while we're looking at the rest of the outside, let's go all the way around
here. So, on our right side, you've got our power and our volume rockers right
there. On the bottom, you've got your SIM tray, one of your speakers, your
USB-C, and yay, the stylus. Which
Listen, I've heard there's some drama around and I need to verify this. I
don't believe it has Bluetooth this year. That's going to be a real downer
for me. When I used to have my Note, I had a Note 20 back in the day. I used my
pen as like a camera remote. So, you could set up your phone as your camera.
You just take the pen out. You go and get in your group photo and you're like, cheese, and you could take the photo. It
was the coolest thing ever. Removing Bluetooth seems like an unnecessary
change, but Oh crap, does it only go in one way?
Oh, it does. I >> [music] >> Why would they do that? That seems so
dumb. So, you can see the tip here is slightly curved to match the curve of
the phone. And that is why you can only
put it in one direction. It's pretty basic around
the outside. I mean, I don't know what you really expect unless you're getting like a Red Magic phone or something
that's got like liquid cooling. The All phones are kind of pretty basic. [music]
But let's power this thing on cuz I am really interested in seeing that
display. Before I turn on the privacy settings of the display, let's talk
about the specs of the display. This is a 6.9-in AMOLED 2X screen. It's
featuring the Corning Gorilla Armor 2, so you know, hopefully it'll stay nice
and protected. We'll find out later. I'm not going to drop it though.
We'll see if it can survive my tests today. The resolution itself, it is 3120
by 1440 and the refresh rate can go all the way down to 1 Hz and all the way up
to a 120 Hz that you would expect on a premium flagship phone like this. The 1
Hz is really, really nice. For example, if you just have this laying on your bedside table, not really doing
anything, basically just displaying the clock, being able to go all the way down
to 1 Hz will probably last you all night with zero battery drain or very minimal
battery drain, which is awesome. I mean, unless your notifications are lighting
it up all the time. Okay, I I need to see this privacy. Where the heck do I go
to turn this on? Oh, it's right there. Right away from the control panel drop
down. Oh, you can see it does a little flash.
Okay, let's Whoa. Holy crap, this works so much
better than I How How much do I have to turn roughly?
Like 45°? And you guys basically can't see it at
all. Dude, that's pretty cool. I want Okay, I want to crank the brightness up
though cuz if I turn the brightness up, does it make it easier?
Wow, it's about the same maybe a little bit more in order to fully get blacked
out so you guys don't see it. We'll do one without privacy. This is still max
brightness. It's kind of blowing out the camera a little bit, but it gives you an idea.
From the top down, it looks like I'm just like lowering the brightness, right? But I'm
not. Oh, that's wasn't even maximum. There's an option to turn maximum
privacy protection.
Whoa. It's way harder to see. When it's just
on the default privacy display, so not the maximum, if there's really contrasty
images, I think it's a little bit easier to see that contrast when I'm on the
angle. But if I turn on the maximum privacy protection, you can see it kind
of almost I don't want to say it gives it like a balanced gray tone to
everything. You can see that like all of it starts to kind of dim equally [music]
versus you can kind of still see some hot spots like the volume slider.
It's very, very subtle, but there is a difference in it and it's quite a
difference if you are really looking for it. Holy crap, the screen is bright.
It's 2600 nits, which our Labs did confirm they were able to hit. That is a
bright screen. Outdoor use, no issue with that. That's actually not the
dimmest I've seen on a phone. Mm, maybe I should turn on adaptive. Oh,
never mind. I Holy crap, I can't see it now. Where's
the Holy cow, that got so dim I was struggling to find the brightness slider
to turn it back up. I take back what I said by it's not the dimmest display
I've ever seen. That is on right now. Before I actually go watch a video, I've
just been informed that apparently if you toggle the privacy display really
close to your eyes, you might actually be able to see some of the pixel
shifting. We have a whole article on lttlabs.com that explains kind of how
this privacy display works. So, I'm not going to go too much into it today.
Let's watch a YouTube video. I want to see what it looks like here.
But maybe before we watch a YouTube video cuz I got to connect to the
internet, I might as well hit my mandatory talking points by dbrand. They
sent over one of their prism screen protectors for the S26 Ultra and I'm
actually really interested to see if they managed to make it work with the
privacy display. So, we might as well just put it on and
find out. I almost did it upside down. Then immediately swipe along Oh I
did not >> [laughter] >> Said immediately. I was reading the
instructions. Oh no. Wait 5 seconds. Remove the tray
by peeling from the top.
Oh, it's peeling. Oh yeah, I can see air bubbles. Like which which isn't good cuz
that's me applying it very poorly.
You will likely notice bubbles. OH, NEVER MIND. NO, WE'RE GOOD. WE'RE GOOD.
OKAY. >> [laughter] >> Don't panic.
Use the included squeegee to sweep them out. This is very satisfying. I kind of
want to leave an air bubble and just like play with it. Okay, we're done.
dbrand >> [laughter] >> Let's turn it back on. Let's make sure
it works with the privacy setting. It's going to be really embarrassing if it doesn't, dbrand. Yeah, it works. I don't
know why it wouldn't. It's a piece of clear glass. They also sent over their
grip, ghost, and tank case. I'm going to try all three of them and then whichever
one I like the most, I'll keep on it. Let's start with the tank.
Jesus, that's loud. Holy. But it's probably like
Yep, it's it's pretty durable. It's a Some would say it's a tank. Then there's
the tank case. Just look at it, would you? She's a beast. That was the line
they wanted me to say. >> [laughter] >> So, the ghost case is actually kind of
nice cuz it's got the magnet built in because this phone does have wireless
charging, but they didn't include any magnets with this one. So, hey, there
you go. If you want a magnet to mount it in your car or on a computer shelf or
something or drop it. And dbrand's ghost cases don't turn
yellow like traditional clear cases. So, that way you can see your pretty colors.
Kind of nice. I got one more case to try though. Last but not least, the grip case. This is
the one I actually use on my phone, just not with the [music] ShortCircuit skin.
As the name suggests, it's really grippy in the hands. Plus with this one, you
can put any of their stickers on the back. In this case, we have the glow circuit skin. It glows in the freaking
dark, dude. If you pick up any of the cases that we saw today and you bundle
it with the screen protector, you can save 15% off that bundle by visiting
mybossisveryshort.com. I
miss having a proper keyboard. That was one of my biggest complaints about the
iPhone is the keyboard on it sucks ass.
Immediately typing on this thing, I I kind of miss a full-size Android
keyboard and individual volume slider. Oh man, okay. Now that I have another
Android in my hand, I'm like falling back in love. No. Stick with the
iPhone. Stay strong. Again, it's a 1440p screen. Like it's a lot of pixels in
there. Dude, I'm 6X zoomed into this video and it still looks freaking
incredible. I'm going to probably blind the camera, but I want to test full
brightness. Hey. Are you looking at my screen?
Don't look at my screen. I see this is where you can kind of see it again. I
think when you have the really contrasty images, you can kind of tell
that something is on the screen. Let's go to maximum privacy here. It's a lot
harder to see, but again, I'm on full brightness. And yeah, it definitely
gives it like a gray tint. If you guys look straight on at it now, when you're
on maximum privacy, it shifts like the whole color tone of the display. So, you
got to really be wanting to hide what you're looking at if you're willing to
give up kind of accurate colors because watching content on this looks kind of
washed out and peepee poopoo. I don't really like it. But again, if you're
really trying to hide what you're looking at, then
good for you, I guess. As they make phones thinner and thinner, I get more
and more worried about speaker quality in them. You can only make them so good when the
device is so thin. Let's see if Samsung compromised on the speakers.
They don't sound like ass on full volume, especially the bottom speaker.
I'm hearing the bottom speaker the most is like giving me the most issue.
It sounds like sand is in the speaker.
Am I actually at the beach with these crabs? Like it actually sounds like
there's sand in there. I'm going to turn it down like quite a lot. Go like 50%.
No, it's still there. That's actually a real bummer. Samsung is still putting
their 200-megapixel flagship camera in this bad boy. They have a 50-megapixel
ultrawide, and this is where [clears throat] it's weird. They have two telephoto lenses. They have one
50-megapixel one and one 10-megapixel one. And then on the front, they have
their 12-megapixel camera, which is the hole-punch design. It looks so out
[music] of place. Again, to be fair, if we're going to compare it to a freaking iPhone,
obviously the iPhone has the freaking massive island at the top,
but at least they kind of own it, I guess, instead of just the hole punch.
I don't know. I've always not been a fan when phones started going towards these
just [music] kind of chunks taken out of it. Red Magic is the only one I've seen do a
really good under-screen camera. You know what? Maybe I can suck it up if the
camera quality is good. Selfie. Holy
crap, no one should ever take a look at that photo again. That's New Team's
profile picture, unlocked. It looks really good though. And detail, look at
that hair. Holy cow, you can get individual strands of hair. And then
just the dead in my eyes.
Jesus. Okay, anyway, sorry.
I'm honestly pretty impressed with that as a selfie camera. That's a very, very
good selfie camera. [music] Okay, let's look at the rear camera. Let's do just an
ultrawide photo of our kitchen set. Now, one thing I will
say is it does look a little washed out, but I
can't tell if that's because of the lighting in this room or the camera. I
mean, theoretically, the lighting in this room is really, really good, but that lamp is not that color in person
when I'm looking at it. It's more of a lighter orange. This gives off more of
like a sunny D orange, right?
So, I don't know if it's their processing or the lighting,
but maybe we should try one of their other like telephoto lenses. Oh, the
ultrawide. Again, it's hard to tell with the
lighting, but this almost comes across as like a brown red
versus the actual color of it. I'm not sure what they're doing to their
processing on this. Whoa.
It had some weird jello effect there. I don't know if you saw that. Oh, it's
trying to stabilize for me. Oh, cuz this camera has the whole Oh my god, I almost
forgot. It has the video horizontal lock thing. Oh, how did I forget about that?
Okay, how do I turn that on? Okay, I'm going to try
to take a video and I'm going to spin the camera and
then we're going to play the video back. Okay. So, we're going to do this.
[music] Turn it back.
Turn it this way. We'll turn it back.
Okay. >> [laughter] >> Whoa. What? That's pretty cool, man. If
anybody has this phone and they're filming a fight, you better film with
this cuz I'm so tired of seeing like shaky cam for fights. Hold Okay, hold
on. Pushing it to its limits. I'm doing a 360.
It's going to be a little weird cuz obviously I think I'm going to have some axis tilt because I'm like
SPINNING IT. WHOA. >> [laughter]
>> DUDE, THAT'S so cool. I got Okay, hold on. I got to throw it now.
Okay, hold on. Hold on. No, hold on. It'll be fine. Ready? Check
this out. Whoa, that was a cool camera. We got to
end it where it starts. That's one thing I do KNOW ABOUT IT.
WHOA. [screaming] SEE THE MOTION. WHAT happens if you
don't finish it the way that you started? That's a good point. Yeah, they
tell you you have to finish shooting it kind of the way you start. So, I'm going
to start filming. I'm going to be like, "Oh man, this is a cool feature. Blah,
blah, blah, end." No, it didn't. It still locked it. Dude, that's pretty
cool. Does it do it on the selfie cam? No, maybe it I got to try it on the
selfie cam. No, the option disappears the moment you try the selfie cam. So,
it's only the rear camera. [music]
I don't know. I still think that's a really, really cool feature. I guess while Genshin Impact is installing, we
should go over the rest of the specs in the phone. It is Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen
5 for [music] Galaxy, which means it's boosted a
little bit higher than just the standard Snapdragon 8 Elite 5. It's an octa-core
processor and it can boost up to 4.74 GHz. Our model here has 256 gigs of
storage and 12 GB of RAM. You can equip
it all the way up to 16 GB of RAM and 1 TB of storage. So, when you get into our
Labs numbers a little bit later, keep in mind that we only had 12 gigs of RAM,
but it's a freaking phone, man. I think we're so spoiled, especially with the
RAM-pocalypse now. 12 gigs is probably fine for me to play Genshin Impact. Oh,
are you trying to zoom in? Excuse me. Don't make me activate my privacy
display. All righty, now that I'm running around Genshin here, I guess I
should talk about some of our Labs results. >> [music] >> In terms of performance, the CPU was
basically the exact same as our OnePlus 15. We compared this phone against the
OnePlus 15 and the iPhone 17 Pro. In multi-core is where this phone
outperformed the iPhone though. In single-core, they were basically the
exact same. As for GPU, it was basically just better than the iPhone, but so is
the OnePlus. So, I don't know what that for Galaxy tag is actually doing, but
it's not giving it that much of a performance boost. We did also do some
stress testing on this, and it did perform up to 34% better than the iPhone
17 Pro and about 5% better than the OnePlus 15.
But, you guys will notice by this graph that it kind of gradually gets worse
over time. And that's because I can tell you firsthand, this device is really hot
in my hand. It's thermal throttling, ultimately bringing down your
performance, whether it's in game or some other heavy demanding task. And I
actually am noticing that as I'm running around Genshin here, the device is quite
warm, and I'm occasionally noticing a little hitch in my gameplay. I'm
definitely not staying at a 120 Hz. Oh,
you see that one? That one was really bad. But, it's definitely getting hot.
On to some more testing, like I mentioned earlier about the display brightness, we actually exceeded the
2600 nits that Samsung claims. We got almost 3000. Why you underselling
yourself, Samsung? And finally, on our battery test, this device lasted longer
than the iPhone 17 Pro. It has a 5000
mAh battery in here, and during our video playback, we saw almost 29 hours
of video playback. That is a lot. Like that that seems like overkill for most
people, probably. You're not going to watch a video on it for 29 hours
straight. But, in my opinion, the most impressive thing about the battery is actually the charge time. From 0 to 100,
it was 67 minutes. But, what's even crazier is to get to 50%, it was 18
minutes. You plug this thing in when you go have a quick shower or you're making
a quick meal, you basically have a full battery or enough to get you through the
day. That is quite impressive. But, as
for the rest of the device, going back to the screen issue, I
actually noticed on Twitter that a lot of people had some questions about it.
Apparently, Samsung was telling some creators that it is a 10-bit display,
but other creators were confirming that it was an 8-bit display. I'm not really
sure on the language of that. We didn't get to fully test if it was 8-bit or
10-bit, >> [music] >> but if Samsung's claiming it's 10-bit
and it's 8-bit, it's a little little scummy, a little sketchy in my opinion.
And >> [music] >> the display feature is really cool. The privacy is sick, but the rest of the
phone just kind of feels underwhelming for an Ultra. This is their flagship. I
don't know. It doesn't feel as special as like the Note did back in the day,
right? The Note 20. The Note 9. Those were goated phones.
Maybe I just miss the Note. >> [laughter] >> Maybe that's the conclusion to this. Am
I going to switch from my iPhone to this?
Uh probably not, Samsung. You're going to
have to try again. I'm sorry. It's
a good phone. Anybody who buys this would probably be
happy. But, let me know what you guys think. If you guys enjoyed this video, maybe go back and check out any of the
Red Magic phones that I've unboxed on this channel. Those ones are special
because they feature woman, which I would probably need the privacy
display for. So, Red Magic, get on it.