WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.960 Fine, I heard you. You guys aren't happy, I bought an iPhone. 00:00:03.960 --> 00:00:08.080 That's okay. How about we take a look at the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra? 00:00:08.080 --> 00:00:11.440 Will that make you happy? To be very clear, I'm actually pretty excited 00:00:11.440 --> 00:00:14.920 to take a look at this thing because of the display on it. 00:00:14.920 --> 00:00:19.920 This phone is boasting the world's first privacy display 00:00:20.880 --> 00:00:24.960 on mobile. I kinda wanna see it in action and see how well it works. 00:00:24.960 --> 00:00:29.200 Let's open it up here. That's all you get. Is there a cable, please? 00:00:29.200 --> 00:00:32.240 Oh, it's gonna be like, man, the fastest unboxing ever. 00:00:32.240 --> 00:00:36.600 Oh, oh, hold on. Okay, good. We do still get a cable. 00:00:36.600 --> 00:00:40.640 At least they haven't fully taken everything from us yet. I wanna see how long, this does not look 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:45.440 like a very long cable, though. It's probably about three feet, something like that. 00:00:46.480 --> 00:00:50.160 Definitely not the longest cable we've seen with phones. Man, these phone unboxings are real quick 00:00:50.160 --> 00:00:53.680 because that was it. We're straight into the phone here. 00:00:53.680 --> 00:00:57.760 Oh, gotta do our peel. Oh, yeah. 00:00:57.760 --> 00:01:01.600 Man, I'm gonna be bringing out my phone a lot to do comparisons to in terms of just weight 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:06.360 and overall feel. I'm actually quite impressed. It is a little bit thinner than their S25 00:01:06.360 --> 00:01:10.600 and it in turn means it's a little bit lighter. And in our case, we got the, what color is this? 00:01:10.600 --> 00:01:14.760 They call this the Cobalt Violet. When it catches the light, it actually looks like, 00:01:14.760 --> 00:01:18.640 kinda cool, I like the looks of it. What I don't like, oh man, 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:23.040 if you've seen me on box phones, you know this, I am a fricking camera bump hater 00:01:23.040 --> 00:01:26.840 and that is a whole other phone as far as I'm concerned on top. 00:01:26.880 --> 00:01:30.160 Oh my goodness, can you see like how much this thing is gonna rock 00:01:30.160 --> 00:01:33.880 when you lay it down, dude? I guess while we're looking at the rest of the outside, 00:01:33.880 --> 00:01:37.540 let's go all the way around here. So on our right side, you've got our power 00:01:37.540 --> 00:01:41.480 and our volume rockers right there. On the bottom, you've got your SIM tray, 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:47.400 one of your speakers, your USB-C, and yay, the stylus, which, listen, 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:52.560 I've heard there's some drama around and I need to verify this. I don't believe it has Bluetooth this year. 00:01:52.560 --> 00:01:55.920 That's gonna be a real downer for me. When I used to have my Note, 00:01:55.960 --> 00:02:00.760 I had a Note 20 back in the day. I used my pen as like a camera remote. 00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:04.000 So you could set up your phone, it's your camera, you just take the pen out, 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:07.520 you go and get in your group photo and you're like, geez, and you could take the photo. 00:02:07.520 --> 00:02:12.040 It was the coolest thing ever. Removing Bluetooth seems like an unnecessary change, 00:02:12.040 --> 00:02:14.860 but oh crap, does it only go in one way? 00:02:16.200 --> 00:02:19.840 Oh, it does. Why would they do that? That seems so dumb. 00:02:19.840 --> 00:02:24.320 So you can see the tip here is slightly curved till the actual curve of the phone 00:02:24.320 --> 00:02:29.120 and that is why you can only put it in one direction. 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:32.880 It's pretty basic around the outside. I mean, I don't know what you really expect 00:02:32.880 --> 00:02:36.640 unless you're getting like a red magic phone or something that's got like liquid cooling. 00:02:36.640 --> 00:02:39.720 All phones are kind of pretty basic, but let's power this thing on 00:02:39.720 --> 00:02:44.960 because I am really interested in seeing that display. Before I turn on the privacy settings of the display, 00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:50.360 let's talk about the specs of the display. This is a 6.9 inch AMOLED 2X screen. 00:02:50.360 --> 00:02:54.560 It's featuring the Corning Gorilla Armor II, so you know, hopefully it'll stay nice and protected. 00:02:54.560 --> 00:02:59.580 We'll find out later. I'm not gonna drop it though. We'll see if we can survive my tests today. 00:02:59.580 --> 00:03:03.400 The resolution itself, it is 3120 by 1440 00:03:03.400 --> 00:03:06.400 and the refresh rate can go all the way down to one Hertz 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:11.580 and all the way up to a 120 Hertz that you would expect on a premium flagship phone like this. 00:03:11.580 --> 00:03:16.680 The one Hertz is really, really nice. For example, if you just have this laying on your bedside table, not really doing anything, 00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:20.160 basically just displaying the clock, being able to go all the way down to one Hertz 00:03:20.160 --> 00:03:23.280 will probably last you all night with zero battery drain 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:27.080 or very minimal battery drain, which is awesome. 00:03:27.080 --> 00:03:31.560 I mean, unless your notifications are lighting it up all the time. Okay, I need to see this privacy. 00:03:31.560 --> 00:03:36.880 Where the heck do I go to turn this on? Oh, it's right there. Right away from the control panel drop down. 00:03:36.880 --> 00:03:40.360 Oh, you can see it does a little flash. Okay, let's... 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:46.200 Whoa. Holy crap, this works so much better than I... 00:03:46.200 --> 00:03:48.340 How much do I have to turn roughly? 00:03:49.340 --> 00:03:54.580 Like 45 degrees. And you guys basically can't see it at all. 00:03:54.580 --> 00:03:58.020 Dude, that's pretty cool. I want, okay, I want to crank the brightness up though. 00:03:58.020 --> 00:04:00.820 Because if I turn the brightness up, does it make it easier? 00:04:02.780 --> 00:04:06.020 Wow, it's about the same, maybe a little bit more 00:04:06.020 --> 00:04:09.820 in order to fully get blacked out so you guys don't see it. We'll do one without privacy. 00:04:09.820 --> 00:04:14.100 This is still max brightness. It's kind of blowing out the camera a little bit, but it gives you an idea. 00:04:15.540 --> 00:04:20.060 From the top down, it looks like I'm just like, lowering the brightness, right? 00:04:20.060 --> 00:04:25.620 But I'm not. Oh, that wasn't even maximum. There's an option to turn maximum privacy protection. 00:04:30.020 --> 00:04:33.240 Whoa, it's way harder to see 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:36.340 when it's just on the default privacy display. So not the maximum. 00:04:36.340 --> 00:04:41.900 If there's really contrasty images, I think it's a little bit easier to see that contrast 00:04:41.900 --> 00:04:46.640 when I'm on the angle. But if I turn on the maximum privacy protection, 00:04:46.640 --> 00:04:51.280 you can see it kind of almost, I don't want to say it gives it like a balanced gray tone to everything. 00:04:51.280 --> 00:04:55.120 You can see that like all of it starts to kind of dim equally 00:04:55.120 --> 00:04:59.760 versus you can kind of still see some hot spots like the volume slider. 00:04:59.760 --> 00:05:02.920 It's very, very subtle, but there is a difference in it. 00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:06.160 And it's quite a difference if you are really looking for it. 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:11.440 Holy crap, the screen is bright. It's 2600 nits, which our Labs did confirm. 00:05:11.440 --> 00:05:16.800 They were able to hit. That is a bright screen. Outdoor use, no issue with that. 00:05:16.800 --> 00:05:19.400 That's actually not the dimmest I've seen on a phone. 00:05:20.560 --> 00:05:23.080 Maybe I should turn on adaptive. Oh, nevermind. 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:28.280 Holy crap, I can't see it now. Where's the volume? Holy cow, that got so dim. 00:05:28.280 --> 00:05:31.640 I was struggling to find the brightness slider to turn it back up. 00:05:31.640 --> 00:05:35.040 I take back what I said by it's not the dimmest display I've ever seen. 00:05:35.040 --> 00:05:39.360 That is on right now. Before I actually go watch a video, I've just been informed that apparently 00:05:39.360 --> 00:05:42.800 if you toggle the privacy display really close to your eyes, 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:46.360 you might actually be able to see some of the pixel shifting. 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:51.600 We have a whole article on lttlabs.com that explains kind of how this privacy display works. 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:54.640 So I'm not gonna go too much into it today. Let's watch a YouTube video. 00:05:54.640 --> 00:05:58.780 I wanna see what it looks like here. I miss having a proper keyboard. 00:05:58.780 --> 00:06:03.580 That was one of my biggest complaints about the iPhone is the keyboard on it sucks ass. 00:06:03.580 --> 00:06:07.840 Immediately typing on this thing, I kind of miss a full-size Android keyboard 00:06:07.840 --> 00:06:11.640 and individual volume slider. Oh man, okay. Now that I have another Android in my hand, 00:06:11.640 --> 00:06:15.280 I'm like following back in love. No, stick with the iPhone. 00:06:15.280 --> 00:06:18.360 Stay strong. Again, it's a 1440p screen. 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:23.160 Like it's a lot of pixels in there. Dude, I'm six X zoomed into this video 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:26.680 and it still looks freaking incredible. I'm gonna probably blind the camera 00:06:26.680 --> 00:06:30.960 but I wanna test full brightness. Hey, are you looking at my screen? 00:06:32.080 --> 00:06:35.280 Don't look at my screen. Now see, this is where you can kind of see it again. 00:06:35.280 --> 00:06:41.360 I think when you have the really contrasty images, you can kind of tell that something is on the screen. 00:06:41.400 --> 00:06:45.960 Let's go to maximum privacy here. It's a lot harder to see but again, I'm on full brightness. 00:06:45.960 --> 00:06:49.100 And yeah, it definitely gives it like a great hint. 00:06:49.100 --> 00:06:53.200 If you guys look straight on at it now, when you're on maximum privacy, 00:06:53.200 --> 00:06:56.400 it shifts like the whole color tone of the display. 00:06:56.400 --> 00:06:59.560 So you gotta really be wanting to hide what you're looking at 00:06:59.560 --> 00:07:04.040 if you're willing to give up kind of accurate colors because watching content on this 00:07:04.040 --> 00:07:07.320 looks kind of washed out and pee-pee-pooh-pooh. 00:07:07.320 --> 00:07:13.520 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. 00:07:13.520 --> 00:07:18.000 As they make phones thinner and thinner, I get more and more worried about speaker quality in them. 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:21.320 You can only make them so good when the device is so thin. 00:07:21.320 --> 00:07:23.520 Let's see if Samsung compromised on the speakers. 00:07:27.520 --> 00:07:30.940 Those sound like ass on full volume, especially the bottom speaker. 00:07:30.940 --> 00:07:34.720 I'm hearing the bottom speaker the most is like giving me the most issue. 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:41.320 It sounds like sand is in the speaker. Am I actually at the beach with these crabs? 00:07:41.320 --> 00:07:44.800 Like it actually sounds like there's sand in there. I'm gonna turn it down like quite a lot. 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:46.040 Go like 50%. 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:53.000 No, it's still there. That's actually a real bummer. Samsung is still putting their 200 megapixel 00:07:53.000 --> 00:07:56.600 flagship camera in this bad boy. They have a 50 megapixel ultra-wide. 00:07:56.600 --> 00:08:02.120 And this is where it's weird. They have two telephoto lenses. They have one 50 megapixel one and one 10 megapixel one. 00:08:02.120 --> 00:08:06.400 And then on the front, they have their 12 megapixel camera, which is the whole punch design. 00:08:06.400 --> 00:08:11.480 It looks so out of place. Again, to be fair, if we're gonna compare it to a fricking iPhone, 00:08:11.480 --> 00:08:14.640 obviously the iPhone has the fricking massive island 00:08:14.640 --> 00:08:17.940 at the top, but at least they kind of own it, I guess, 00:08:17.940 --> 00:08:22.120 instead of just the whole punch. I don't know, I've always not been a fan 00:08:22.120 --> 00:08:26.680 when phones started going towards these just kind of chunks taken out of it. 00:08:26.680 --> 00:08:31.320 Red magic is the only one I've seen do a really good under screen camera. 00:08:31.320 --> 00:08:35.440 You know what? Maybe I can suck it up if the camera quality is good. 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:39.400 Selfie, holy crap. No one should ever take a look at that photo again. 00:08:39.400 --> 00:08:43.680 That's new team's profile picture unlocked. It looks really good though. 00:08:43.680 --> 00:08:47.800 In detail, look at that hair. Holy cow, you can get individual strands of hair. 00:08:47.800 --> 00:08:55.520 And then just the dead in my eyes. Jesus. 00:08:55.520 --> 00:08:59.760 Okay, anyway, sorry. I'm honestly pretty impressed with that as a selfie camera. 00:08:59.760 --> 00:09:04.440 That's a very, very good selfie camera. Okay, let's look at the rear camera. 00:09:04.440 --> 00:09:08.960 Let's do just an ultrawide photo of our kitchen set. 00:09:08.960 --> 00:09:13.720 Now one thing I will say is it does look a little washed out, 00:09:13.720 --> 00:09:17.120 but I can't tell if that's because of the lighting in this room or the camera. 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:22.840 I mean, theoretically the lighting in this room is really, really good, but that lamp is not that color in person 00:09:22.840 --> 00:09:26.000 when I'm looking at it. It's more of a lighter orange. 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:30.840 This gives off more of like a sunny D orange, right? 00:09:30.840 --> 00:09:33.720 So I don't know if it's their processing or the lighting. 00:09:34.520 --> 00:09:37.520 But maybe we should try one of their other like telephoto lenses. 00:09:37.520 --> 00:09:41.760 Oh, the ultrawide. Again, it's hard to tell with the lighting, 00:09:41.760 --> 00:09:45.440 but this almost comes across as like a brown red 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:48.840 versus the actual color of it. I'm not sure what they're doing 00:09:48.840 --> 00:09:51.400 to their processing on this. Whoa. 00:09:52.560 --> 00:09:57.920 It had some weird Jell-O effect there. I don't know if you saw that. Oh, it's trying to stabilize for me. 00:09:57.920 --> 00:10:03.400 Oh, cause this camera has the whole, oh my God, I almost forgot. It has the video horizontal lock thing. 00:10:03.400 --> 00:10:06.480 Oh, how did I forget about that? Okay, how do I turn that on? 00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:10.960 Okay, I'm gonna try to take a video 00:10:10.960 --> 00:10:14.520 and I'm gonna spin the camera and then we're gonna play the video back. 00:10:14.520 --> 00:10:16.400 Okay, so we're gonna do this. 00:10:18.400 --> 00:10:20.760 Turn it back, turn it this way. 00:10:21.680 --> 00:10:24.760 Turn it back. Okay. 00:10:24.760 --> 00:10:27.760 What? Whoa. 00:10:27.760 --> 00:10:32.680 That's pretty cool, man. If anybody has this phone and they're filming a fight, 00:10:32.680 --> 00:10:37.920 you better film with this cause I'm so tired of seeing like shaky cam for fights. 00:10:37.920 --> 00:10:42.000 Hold, okay, hold on. Pushing it to its limits. I'm doing a 360. 00:10:49.280 --> 00:10:53.800 It's gonna be a little weird cause obviously I think I'm gonna have some access tilt because I'm like spinning it. 00:10:53.800 --> 00:10:57.080 Whoa. Whoa. 00:10:57.080 --> 00:11:00.160 Dude, that's so cool. I got, okay, hold on. 00:11:00.160 --> 00:11:03.920 I gotta throw it now. Okay, hold on. Hold on. 00:11:03.920 --> 00:11:06.440 No, hold on. It'll be fine, ready? Check this out. 00:11:09.080 --> 00:11:12.400 We gotta end it where it starts. That's one thing I do know about it. 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:18.120 Wow. What happens if you don't finish it 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:23.240 the way that you started? That's a good point. Yeah, they tell you you have to finish shooting it 00:11:23.240 --> 00:11:28.840 kind of the way you start. So I'm gonna start filming. I'm gonna be like, oh man, this is a cool feature. 00:11:28.840 --> 00:11:32.680 Blah, blah, blah, end. No, it didn't. It still locked it. 00:11:32.680 --> 00:11:36.080 Dude, that's pretty cool. Does it do it on the selfie cam? 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:41.880 No, maybe I gotta try it on the selfie cam. No, the option disappears the moment you try the selfie cam. 00:11:41.880 --> 00:11:43.840 So it's only the rear camera. 00:11:45.080 --> 00:11:49.160 I don't know. I still think that's a really, really cool feature. I guess while Genshin Impact is installing, 00:11:49.160 --> 00:11:55.240 we should go over the rest of the specs on the phone. It is Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy, 00:11:55.240 --> 00:11:59.480 which means it's boosted a little bit higher than just the standard Snapdragon 8 Elite 5. 00:11:59.480 --> 00:12:03.760 It's an octa-core processor and it can boost up to 4.74 gigahertz. 00:12:03.760 --> 00:12:06.920 Our model here has 256 gigs of storage 00:12:06.920 --> 00:12:11.440 and 12 gigabytes of RAM. You can equip it all the way up to 16 gigabytes of RAM 00:12:11.440 --> 00:12:15.200 and one terabyte of storage. So when you get into our Labs numbers a little bit later, 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:19.920 keep in mind that we only had 12 gigs of RAM, but it's a fricking phone, man. 00:12:19.920 --> 00:12:23.200 I think we're so spoiled, and especially with the RAM Pocalypse now, 00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:26.640 12 gigs is probably fine for me to play Genshin Impact. 00:12:26.640 --> 00:12:31.680 Oh, are you trying to zoom in? Excuse me. Don't make me activate my privacy display. 00:12:31.680 --> 00:12:36.720 Alrighty, now that I'm running around Genshin here, I guess I should talk about some of our Labs results. 00:12:36.720 --> 00:12:42.160 In terms of performance, the CPU was basically the exact same as our OnePlus 15. 00:12:42.160 --> 00:12:45.640 We compared this phone against the OnePlus 15 and the iPhone 17 Pro. 00:12:45.640 --> 00:12:48.880 In multi-core is where this phone outperformed the iPhone, 00:12:48.880 --> 00:12:54.200 though. In single-core, they were basically the exact same. As for GPU, it was basically just better than the iPhone, 00:12:54.200 --> 00:12:58.560 but so was the OnePlus. So I don't know what that for Galaxy tag is actually doing, 00:12:58.600 --> 00:13:03.240 but it's not giving it that much of a performance boost. We did also do some stress testing on this, 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:07.480 and it did perform up to 34% better than the iPhone 17 Pro, 00:13:07.480 --> 00:13:12.520 and about 5% better than the OnePlus 15, but you guys will notice by this graph 00:13:12.520 --> 00:13:16.160 that it kind of gradually gets worse over time. 00:13:16.160 --> 00:13:21.360 And that's because I can tell you firsthand, this device is really hot in my hand. 00:13:21.360 --> 00:13:24.480 It's thermal throttling, ultimately bringing down your performance, 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:27.800 whether it's in game or some other heavy-demanding task. 00:13:27.800 --> 00:13:31.520 And I actually am noticing that as I'm running around Genshin here, 00:13:31.520 --> 00:13:36.120 the device is quite warm, and I'm occasionally noticing a little hitch in my gameplay. 00:13:36.120 --> 00:13:39.120 I'm definitely not staying at a 120 Hertz. 00:13:39.120 --> 00:13:44.360 Oh, you see that one? That one was really bad, but it's definitely getting hot. 00:13:44.360 --> 00:13:47.400 Onto some more testing, like I mentioned earlier about the display brightness, 00:13:47.400 --> 00:13:50.680 we actually exceeded the 2,600 nits that Samsung claims. 00:13:50.680 --> 00:13:54.280 We got almost 3,000. Why are you underselling yourself, Samsung? 00:13:54.280 --> 00:13:59.600 And finally, on our battery tests, this device lasted longer than the iPhone 17 Pro. 00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:04.280 It has a 5,000 milliamp hour battery in here. And during our video playback, 00:14:04.280 --> 00:14:08.600 we saw almost 29 hours of video playback. 00:14:08.600 --> 00:14:12.880 That is a lot. Like that seems like overkill for most people probably. 00:14:12.880 --> 00:14:16.120 You're not gonna watch a video on it for 29 hours straight. 00:14:16.120 --> 00:14:19.560 But it might be the most impressive thing about the battery is actually the charge time. 00:14:19.560 --> 00:14:22.560 From zero to 100, it was 67 minutes. 00:14:22.560 --> 00:14:26.880 But what's even crazier is to get to 50%. It was 18 minutes. 00:14:26.880 --> 00:14:30.040 You plug this thing in when you go have a quick shower or you're making a quick meal, 00:14:30.040 --> 00:14:33.840 you basically have a full battery or enough to get you through the day. 00:14:33.840 --> 00:14:38.400 That is quite impressive. But as for the rest of the device, 00:14:38.400 --> 00:14:41.640 going back to the screen issue, I actually noticed on Twitter 00:14:41.640 --> 00:14:46.480 that a lot of people had some questions about it. Apparently Samsung was telling some creators 00:14:46.480 --> 00:14:50.160 that it is a 10-bit display, but other creators were confirming 00:14:50.160 --> 00:14:53.660 that it was an 8-bit display. I'm not really sure on the language of that. 00:14:53.660 --> 00:14:57.000 We didn't get to fully test if it was 8-bit or 10-bit, 00:14:57.000 --> 00:15:00.280 but if Samsung's claiming it's 10-bit and it's 8-bit, 00:15:00.280 --> 00:15:05.600 it's a little scummy, a little sketchy in my opinion. And the display feature is really cool. 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:10.220 The privacy is sick, but the rest of the phone just kind of feels underwhelming for an Ultra. 00:15:10.220 --> 00:15:16.400 This is their flagship. I don't know, it doesn't feel as special as like the Note did back in the day, right? 00:15:16.400 --> 00:15:20.200 The Note 20, the Note 9, those were goaded phones. 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:23.800 Maybe I just missed the Note. Maybe that's the conclusion to this. 00:15:23.800 --> 00:15:26.280 Am I gonna switch from my iPhone to this? 00:15:29.040 --> 00:15:32.800 Probably not, Samsung. You're gonna have to try again. I'm sorry. 00:15:32.800 --> 00:15:35.280 It's a good phone. 00:15:36.240 --> 00:15:39.720 Anybody who buys this would probably be happy, but let me know what you guys think. 00:15:39.720 --> 00:15:43.280 If you guys enjoyed this video, maybe go back and check out any of the Red Magic phones 00:15:43.280 --> 00:15:48.780 that I've unboxed on this channel. Those ones are special because they feature women, 00:15:50.360 --> 00:15:54.080 which I would probably need the privacy display for. So Red Magic, get on it.