just as i find myself approaching the end of the honeymoon period with my
galaxy z fold 3 where the flaws of the device begin to stand out against the
obvious advantages samsung has refreshed their s lineup with the s22 family we've
got two of them here today the s22 plus and the note 22
excuse me the s22 ultra which is
by all appearances a spiritual successor
to samsung's old note lineup that hasn't actually seen a new family member since
the note 20 ultra 5g which we've also got on hand today for comparison so
let's start of course with that as something of a
note fanboy if i was going to switch off of a foldable i would probably end up
with a note and from everything that i've seen so far although that's very
little this appears to be a worthy
and heavyweight successor to it
wow that is a flippin heavy phone
now one of the reasons actually a couple of the reasons that people on the
interwebs are saying that they really feel like the s22 ultra is less of an s
and more of a note is that the industrial design compared to the note
series is completely different instead of having a camera bump that is
one large bump with multiple lenses embedded in it the s22 ultra has
individual camera bumps with their own accent rings about them that i think
looks absolutely fantastic it's also less rounded off in the corners which
is less comfortable for sure in the palm like i can tell
already holding the s22 plus that i'm gonna be less likely to get like a
little divot buried into my buried into my palm here
the edges are a little bit on the sharp side compared to the s22 ultra
but that gives them more internal space for of course the other big difference
between the note series and the s series traditionally
the embedded s pen now i've seen some complaints about the relatively boring
design of the s pen this time around oh no it's just matte black compared to
some of the cool looking ones i've done in the past i'm gonna say as someone who used a note
for so long and absolutely loved the s pen when i was using it i don't care
what it looks like if i've got an s pen i'm absolutely going to be doing things
with it it does everything from allowing you to take quick notes while the screen
is still off to using it as a camera shutter which i actually used more often
than you might think and on this particular camera
is going to be a whopping 40 megapixels oh that's cute i can already see their
automatic fake bokeh being added here obviously not right now because i'm
recording a video to mask a cut that we had to make there but that's one of the
areas that the new snapdragon 8 gen 1 soc that's in the s22 series is
dramatically faster than its predecessors image processing where it
can handle sustained 720p 960fps
recording among other things as well as
significantly improved machine learning performance where they are claiming that
with their new ai assisted uh fake bokeh mode so let's find out
here we have a portrait mode they can actually even handle like like flyaways
so i don't know do i have enough
do i have enough flyaways that we can try this on me how am i looking here
ladies and gentlemen
i actually use this feature all the time because even if you're not
using a fold which conveniently does allow you to preview your selfie
pictures on the main camera with the outside screen
as long as you can kind of aim at yourself you can get way better selfies
on a rear proper camera than you will even with a 40 megapixel front camera
it's going through that tiny little hole there it's definitely losing some of the
detail and in some of those little wispy hairs but
not bad look at that it even got the neck hair
other main benefits of the stylus are the ability to pop up this little menu
to quickly create gifs or get screenshots or write on screen
capture so that you can jot notes down and send them off to people these are
things that i have really missed about the note and could actually tempt me to
return it another cool thing about the s pen this time around is apparently the
latency even compared to the last gen has been dramatically reduced using a
combination of ai and then technology that they've integrated from wacom wacom
so i'm gonna go ahead and i don't know whatever let's just write on the screen
yeah it's like a scratchy
it's cheesy but i don't mind it uh in terms of the feel i wouldn't say that
it's markedly different from my experience with previous s pens but in
terms of the latency wow
um it feels less like writing with a stylus and more like
just drawing on your screen like that's pretty cool back to the
cameras for a second on the ultra version we've got a total of five lenses
here including a main shooter that's 108 megapixels this time around a 12
megapixel ultrawide 10 megapixel telephoto another 10 megapixel telephoto
with a 10 times optical zoom as well as a depth sensor on the 22 and 22 plus
versions of the phone you get a 50 megapixel main shooter along with 12
megapixel ultrawide and 10 megapixel telephoto but just the one telephoto
lens and both of those at least spec wise are the same this video is brought
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now in terms of the other specs where i really want to start is the display
samsung it's no secret produces the best
mobile phone displays in the world by
basically any way of measuring them and they have once again one up themselves
apparently reaching 1750
peak brightness but you only get that on the s22 plus as
well as the s22 ultra not on the regular s22 of course i'm going to want to see
what some HDR content looks like on here
frankly i'm not even expecting to be able to benefit from that kind of peak
brightness on just regular hdr10 content on youtube but
it's interesting samsung is calling out that part of their performance outdoors
with the s22 series is a.i enhancement
of color or something like that to make it more readable but i had actually
noticed a similar thing where it's not just that the display brightness amps up
but also that the color profile changes even on my old
note 9 so i don't really know what the deal is with that maybe if you guys know
anything about it you could give me some clarity in the comments
as usual a new generation of phones comes out and
it is almost without a doubt going to be the best display in your house
man there's a big difference between HDR
and HDR in terms of other specs i already
mentioned that it's using a snapdragon 8 gen 1 processor but what exactly does
that mean what it means Android friends is that we are still
a couple of generations behind apple in terms of raw performance but in the real
world it means that we're getting anywhere from a
five to twenty percent uplift in raw
performance over last generation snapdragon 888 depending on what kind of
metrics you're looking at a huge boost in machine learning performance and a
massive generational increase in gaming performance to the point where for games
the s22 ultra assuming that it has no cooling issues which of course we
haven't tested yet i just opened the boxes should be competitive with the
iphone 13 lineup in terms of games one
spec change that's causing some controversy is samsung's decision to
downgrade the 128 gig version of the s22
ultra from 12 gigs on the s21 ultra to
just 8 gigs you will get 12 gigs on the
256 512 and one terabyte versions but on
the base model you actually get less RAM than last generation on the s22 and s22
plus you don't have to worry about that because you're gonna get eight gigs regardless and they're only available in
128 gig and 256 gig configurations one
thing that's not looking as promising is samsung's charging technology this time
around we get a 3700 4500 and 5000
milliamp hour battery depending on whether we go for the s22 plus or ultra
but the charging rates are while good for samsung
not that good compared to particularly some of their chinese competitors and
it's limited to 25 watts on the base model and 45 watts on the higher end
ones personally i don't consider this to be a major issue because i almost never
fast charge my phone it's just it might not kill your battery immediately but it
sure as heck isn't good for it but if you're the kind of person who wants to
be able to juice your phone up quickly then you're gonna have to settle for
what is it they quote uh 50 in 20 minutes or something like that
hopefully you can you can get by with half of your charge in the time it takes
you to have a shower and get ready to go out you know what i want to come back to
now though is the display on the s22 and s22 plus you get the same 120 hertz
refresh rate as well as 240 hertz touch
sampling in game mode so that's going to be up there with the decent gaming
phones on the market and the same 10 to 120 hertz refresh window but on the
ultra i'm actually expecting that even though its display is significantly
larger it's 6.8 freaking inches this
time around you could be getting significant energy efficiency savings
from the fact that they've gone all the way from 10 hertz down to just one
refresh per second one hurts is it still
a hertz or is it a hurt when you have just one of them
one refresh per second on the display when you're looking at static content
that is a pretty impressive feat
running through some other key specs we've got ultrasonic fingerprint sensors
across the entire lineup we've got wireless charging at 15 watts across the
entire lineup and Android 12 with samsung's one ui 4.1 that includes some
cool features including a newer improved wallet that'll store more than just
payment cards as well as a new privacy dashboard that i actually want to have a
look at here that's designed to prevent
any unauthorized apps from getting access to anything that you don't want
them to have when the clipboard is accessed that's super cool uh
get alerts when they have camera access
that is a weird little jelly effect when you
can't say i'm a big fan uh shoot there was something that i had
wanted to check out in here all right i remember i wanted to see how
their ultrasonic fingerprint sensor is doing in terms of speed these days
it's okay apparently they've done a lot to improve
stabilization and honestly i can see it
holy crap are you going to get a close-up of me kind of shake
that's that's pretty cool
damn sung instead of samsung get it
damn son damn son oh it doesn't matter
there's still no sd card slot which blows um i'm still not over it i'm over
the headphone jack but i'm not over the sd card slot
i don't think i ever mentioned that the selfie camera on the non ultra models is
just 10 megapixels instead of 40 megapixels i'm not expecting it to
honestly make an enormous difference because you're more limited by just how
much light you can get through that tiny little hole
oh i lied
yeah it's sharper see there's enough resolution to pick up my nose hairs on
the ultra whereas they just kind of fade away this is where higher resolutions
are just really not doing us any favors sometimes you know what i'm saying
leaving only one thing remaining price they're freaking expensive with the s22
ultra starting at twelve hundred dollars in the us
and for 128 gigs of storage with no expansion options that is a really tough
pill to swallow but it certainly appears to be the entire package in every other
way so if you're looking for a flagship Android device i mean
recently Yvonne needed an upgrade and i tried giving her anything other than a
samsung and she was just like yeah this is not doing it for me oneplus has
really slipped up on hardware or excuse me software so she wants to go back to
samsung who ironically used to be notable for their
terrible software experience pun intended
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