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December 22, 2021By Origin Ten LTD16 Minutes

Galaxy S21 Review: Would You Notice? By Marques Brownlee


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hey what’s up give you stay here so the Samsung Galaxy S21 is $200 cheaper than last year that’s a big deal we’re so used to the prices of phones going up and up and up year after year that when you do see a big jump down in price because there was a conscious decision made here to offer more value so basically every smartphone that’s not the highest anything they can make is fundamentally a balancing act to try to check just the right set of boxes and combined just the right set of features to appeal to the most buyers especially if your Samsung because they’ve got his goal to be the default smartphone to keep their top spot top of mine but the customer is more educated than ever so no pressure or anything but you got to check the red set of boxes or the switch on it

do the Galaxy S21 they drop this year I think checks all the most important boxes most people care about performance battery camera and the smart sacrifices they have made to get to drop the price by two hundred bucks almost no one will notice

will you first of all let’s just start with the big one the design I said I think is nice sexy grown on me I started with like I don’t really hate it and it went somewhere up to I kind of like it and now I think it’s one of the best honestly if you’re going to have a camera bump own it this phone looks good in Gray looks even better in this purple and gold Teddy fresh contrast combo and looks even better in an icon skin link below of course but generally like I said in my S21 Ultra review this purposeful design bring in the metal camera bump straight to the sides where it wraps around the rails that’s not that’s nice that’s a good call but just camera will play here is the only piece of metal on the back of the phone the rest is plastic

and you’d barely notice it still coated in the same way with this like super fine smoothest texture still has the same Sheen to it it is lighter when you’re holding it than the glass phones the S 21 plus in the s20 ultra but to be honest I’m way more focused on the smaller footprint than the way this goes all the way down to a 6.2 inch display so it expected to be decently late anyway and 6.2 in by the way still plenty of screen it’s a little bit smaller but it is a pretty big screen so the plastic definitely not something you immediately feel and go all they did a bad job you’ll barely notice so let’s talk about that screen show me a couple things going on here it’s still a really great Samsung display it’s very bright and readable Outdoors has great color and HDR search It’s Perfectly flat even flatter at the edges then this slightly curved S21 Ultra so I like this flatness a lot on this color way you do get a little bit of the gold rails kind of peeking around the sides which can make it look a little bit cheaper ideally it’s just like thin black bezel

I mean nothing that would look Sleek but overall great display same great larger ultrasonic fingerprint reader as the ultra same size tiny selfie camera cut out even though it’s a different selfie camera and there’s no way you notice from watching this YouTube video but they drop the resolution from 1440p to 1080p but the reason most people won’t notice is one it’s still pretty sharp display 1080p on 6.2 in is up over 400 pixels-per-inch it’s not like a bad pixel density but to last year in order to switch to 120 hertz you had to use the screen at 1080p

and so you couldn’t use 1440p and 120 hertz at the same time and it was kind of a bummer but Samsung I guess ran the numbers to the research understood that most people like the 120 hertz and would take 1080p for that every time so now we do is 1080p every time and it’s under 20 Hertz now would it have been better if we could use both like we can on the ultra yeah

but well most people even notice I don’t think so there’s also a couple of even smaller things missing no expense report on the regular S21 like the ultra got and the variable refresh rate goes from 48 Hertz 220 hurts instead of 10 to 120 hertz so very small differences that Samsung has weighed against how much money they can save and whether people will notice or not I absolutely did not notice any difference in responsiveness or performance this phone has been a great performer and speak to Performance honestly this is the one area where they still did go super high end this phone has the same ship the Snapdragon AAA in this region and is every bit as much of a performer as it is on the old trip it does have 8 gigs of RAM instead of 12 or 16 but I never found I noticed any hesitation or performance or Worse multitasking where I was wishing I had all that ran back now they could have they could have gone with a low rench if that’s the 7-series they could have put a Snapdragon 765g in this phone like a lot of others have

in their phones at this price and it would have been yet another savings that could have made that we probably wouldn’t have really noticed actively as a difference in performance but they didn’t this is still the fastest ship in a phone so I really do appreciate that all the same capabilities from the ultra as far as software and Able by the chip they’re all still here and I didn’t notice the difference in a ram I used it just like I use the ultra and I had no problems with lag or chopping us at all so throughout all of Samsung’s absolutely packed software now the dozens of embedded one UI features and maximum customization it’s definitely nice to have a smaller phone that’s so performs almost exactly like the bigger phone now these cameras on the back there another area where you foresee a difference between this and the ultra the ultra we already knew was all about giving you the big numbers the ultra camera experience that the focus of this phone on this phone I think they’ve done a great job balancing taking the features out of the ultra

that most people probably won’t need or even notice I was actually one thing one thing that this phone does on cameras better than the ultra might not have known that if you can guess that caused this video go ahead and write down what you think this camera might do better in the ultra and I hit play we’ll see if you alright so there’s triple cameras on the back of the S 21 and they are essentially the same cameras from the s20 the main camera does an ultra-wide and a 3X telephoto so no crazy 100x space Zoom just a reasonable maximum of 30 x but at the end of the day if you don’t do a ton of huge zooms and still have the same sort of zoomlock rating Zoom all the way into the end of the camera and it will stabilize a software that’s probably about as good as most people will need it’s not quite as sharp at that range is the ultra but will you notice there’s no laser autofocus here either although I found with the smaller sensor it still has no Focus issues and under the same Snapdragon Triple Eight so all the same capabilities like single take mode 8K video the directors mode off

my stuff is still here so what does it do better than that the ultra what the one thing with the word Ultra in it is the ultra-wide camera here on the x21 it’s actually a little bit wider than the ultra-wide on the ultra if you can stay at labels at 0.5 x versus 0.66 but it’s a little noticeably white or actually didn’t notice it before checking the numbers is great also I just want a shout-out Simpsons portrait mode for getting consistently better and better over time this will be my hot take for this video but I think Samsungs portrait mode is now the best portrait mode in any smartphone put it over the iPhone put it over the pixel seriously impressive stuff so don’t know if the lack of holes in the back of the camera fool you this is still a very capable camera system the lack of laser autofocus the lack of Zoom past 30 x the lack of a macro mode built in

I noticed them because I’m a camera nerd but most people won’t actually missed that stuff it’s a great camera has a couple of other small things here there’s a 4000 milliamp hour battery which is of course if it’s smaller than a 5,000 milliamp hours on the bigger one yes but it’s still a big battery and it lasted all day getting five plus hours of screen on time no problem I could kill it in a day if I’m hammering it all day with a lot of GPS in a lot of screen on time but aside from that it’s fine it’s a no worry battery there’s no expandable storage but that’s also gone from the entire lineup and so is MST which was this cool trick that live Samsung phones use magnetic pulses to replicate credit card functionality so they could pay with stuff at terminals that don’t support NFC some people are going to hate that this is gone but that’s another bet Samsung had to make that most people weren’t using it those are like the two most sorely missed features for me and a lot of enthusiasts expandable storage and MST was super useful but the whole line dropped by to

$100 is going to be stuff that they cut out and that’s the calculus they made is okay that’s not getting a whole ton of used will get those but at the end of the day I think Samsung checked the right set of boxes with the S 21 and it’s also only fifty bucks to upgrade and double the storage to 256 gigs which is pretty important since you no longer have expandable storage and if you’re taking lots of photos and AK videos you might want that that’s not a great calculus to make but overall this is no doubt the best bang for the buck in the lineup super common early to compare the S21 to the ultra which is a lot of what I did in this video but this phone cost $400 more so when you compare this phone up against this competition which is a bunch of other phones sitting around six seven eight hundred bucks it’s going to be a pretty favorably is going to have the highest and Chip can have one of the nicest screens for a fingerprint reader great camera system and stuff it’s missing which is the stuff that Samsung is hoping you probably won’t care too much about or even notice

I think they made the right calculations on so this is it this is the standard package have no problem recommending this phone but I’m also very curious to see how the rest of the competition will be attacking S21 all year for the rest of 2021. That’s when it definitely watch the S21 Ultra video wrestler that like button if you haven’t seen it already that’s that’s pretty much it I’ll catch you guys in the very next video player