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Welcome. So in front of me I have a Simpson Galaxy S-21 and today I'll go over
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unboxing along with an overview. Now in terms of unboxing there is not much to be
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completely honest with you as you can see we have some paperwork we don't care
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about that one we got a phone and we got charging cable and that's about all
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we get in here so just drag the charging cable out there we go so boom done with unboxing really quick
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there's a phone now alo mention i did already go to the setup of it so we don't have to um but in all
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honesty uh we probably are seen seen that setup of a Samsung device oh look at and there's an update
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apparently disregarded for now let's get rid of it so um to try to the specifications of this device um this is
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a 6.2 inch display, so it's going to be one of the smallest one out of the new lineup of
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Samsung phones. This is basically the lowest model, and then it does have a just a 1080p resolution
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which personally I am completely fine with it. It seems to be well adequate. If you compare it to
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for instance, the S-20s, the last year model, I believe they did have the ability to go higher
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in resolution, but then if you wanted to use high refresh rate, you still had to drop it down
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so it didn't really matter. So here we have basically the same. same thing without actually high resolution, but we are running at 120 Hz when it needed
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and then drop it to like 60 or even sometimes 40, depending on what the device sees as a need
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Now this is right now I believe set to the adaptive refresh rate which like I said just drops it down
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to in certain cases to like 40 frames. And if you're wondering what might be the purpose of that is if you're for instance looking
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at something like a picture, let's be honest, you don't need high refresh rate, the image
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ain't moving. But then when you start actually moving between pages, well, then that's when
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refresh rate picks up and then goes to 120. So you get that super smooth transitions between like
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pages and just really buttery smooth animations, which is a really nice feature here. But
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finishing up the display, like I said, it's a 1080 by 2400 with a 2400, with a 421 pixels per inch and
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87.2% screen-to-body ratio. Honestly, there's a screen to body ratio might seem personally like it's a little bit higher. The
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bezels are here fairly minimal. They are a little bit thicker. If you would compare
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to something like a phone with a curved display, then that percentage would probably
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be above 90%. But because this is just a flat screen, we lose a little bit of that, of
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that, well, higher percentage screen to body ratio, which is a little bit of a shame
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And personally, I would really like to see a curved display. It would, I would, I in my opinion a little bit more premium feeling to this device because in all
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honesty I can't really say that this is a flagship device anymore now it's not all
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bad in this case what what they did is what I would call making a flagship
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spec device with while sacrificing other things that might not be as important so if
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you for instance if I would have to compare it if you look for instance for the like
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comparison between S-stabre 20 lineups and then for instance something like an A Galaxy A lineups
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they usually had more crappier chipsets they were a little bit lower in spec and then costed less right
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later on they did want to make them a little bit more premium looking so they look better
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but they still were rocking kind of a budget specs if that makes sense and what it looks like
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Samsung is doing right now is taking for instance the S lineup as an example and dividing it
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into basically different categories of how premium it is. So S lineup right now, I would call it
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S isn't the flagships, depending on what you go for. If you go for this one, it does rock the best, well, maybe not this one that I have here
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But in normal circumstances, if you're buying it in US, it would be rocking the best snapdragon on the market and then have fairly decent cameras
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But it's sacrificing on a lot of other things that you might not really need. And honestly, I would say it's okay
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If you get to pay less for basically flagship performance of a device but then not actually
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get certain things that you just simply won't care, then it's a fairly good trade-off
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And honestly, before I was kind of cropping on Samsung for the things like, as an example
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their note lineup, their note lineup supposed to be the top of the top of the line
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and with like, for instance, the Note 20 or S-20, yeah, Note 20, that wasn't the case
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You were basically getting an inferior product if you compared to like S-20 Ultra
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So that was a little bit of a shame. But it makes a little bit more sense now if you look at the idea of what they're kind of going for
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which is dividing each of their premium lineups to basically have a little bit of a wider array for customers
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Some of us just care about raw performance. we don't really, for instance, we might not really care that we don't have glass back
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especially if it's decent like it is here. So, moving further into the display, which I haven't actually finished
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it has, like I said, 120 hertz, that is the max refresh rate here
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It's a dynamic Amelette display. It's basically an Amelette display with a higher refresh rate
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That's basically what it means. It also has a certification for HDR-10 Plus
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the plus does matter here and peaks at 1300 nits and one last thing
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on the front it has a Gorilla glass of Ventus so I believe this is the best
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one at the moment on the market so all that is fairly nice and all but when it comes down I do have to say the display looks really nice Personally the size of this display the phone really at least in my opinion suits it
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I personally was kind of want to get this for myself. Because the phone is a little bit smaller than you might be used to at the moment
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And if you don't really want these obnoxiously big phones where they kind of approach a tablet size almost
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then this is one of the smaller flagship spec devices with at least not
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this one is kind of like a Snobragon 865 plus rather than 888
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but that's besides the point so yeah I do have to say I really like it
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it runs smoothly as it should most likely it feels really nice in hand
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the only thing I would want in this display particularly is a curved display
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that's basically the only grape I have with it Other than that, the design of it is really nice
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Oh, and one more thing, maybe. This camera right here. I just hide it or get rid of it, do something to just, I don't know, motorize it
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Personally, it's already past the time something gets rid of that little cutout in there
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It's, I would say, kind of unnecessary. A lot of companies manage to do something with it
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Samsung just kind of took a laugh at, for instance, Apple for their notch and then kind of stuck around with the whole patch camera
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while other companies will already decided to completely remove it which it seems
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like something might be a little bit behind with this one now I understand why they didn't remove it yet but they should make some kind of moves to to
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nevelating that that tiny little hole that is the only remaining part of like the
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2019 idea of flagship devices with basically almost full-screen So yeah. Now moving on to the camera, we do have triple camera setup and from what I've seen or heard, I'm not really seen yet
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This is equivalent to like the previous lineups of S-20s. So apparently we're not getting much of an upgrade here, but I'm going to capture a couple photos just so we can see it now
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It does come with a little bit of a thingy thing here. So let's get rid of that. actually
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come on and there we go so there we go
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now we have a nice camera now one thing that I will mention right off the bat it's I don't know if you can see it on
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like the video but the actual lenses are recessed in that little of a bump
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here which is really nice so if you slap the phone your lenses are
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really not going to have any way of getting scratched because basically the thing around them protects it so really nice design here
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overall the design of the camera looks really nice I kind of like it it blends with
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the frame and looks really nice but anyway let's get my plant here and around
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the camera okay so I'm just gonna capture a couple photos it's not gonna be anything
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probably anything that will put this camera and to actually like hardcore testing so so whatever you get here this is gonna be
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mediocre because well I'm not a photographer and number two it probably would
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have way more effect when I would go outside and capture those photos myself rather
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than just like this lit-up environment capture a couple of plant photos but
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anyway let's just see what we got here so this is a three-time zoom now the three-time
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zoom is basically like without losing any quality so let's capture that and then
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there's the also ultra wide okay so these were I believe all three lenses
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there is the ultra wide normal three times zoom there's also what we got we got
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we got wide telephoto ultra Let's see what else we got. I kind of want to do one more thing, a night photo
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So bear with me, I'm going to turn off all the lights that I have here, and the only light that you will have is basically from the two monitors that are here
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It does, producing way too much light. I'm going to also turn those off
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But let's see what we're dealing with here when I basically turn off lighting
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I'm still too much. There we go. So, as you can see, it's fairly dark in here, right
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Okay, let's see what we got
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So this came out really nice, I have to say. Now it is not fully dark in here if I would probably turn off the thing right here
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Oh, it's dark. So let's see what we get with full... That is actually really good
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I mean, at least as you can see right here, you basically cannot see anything here
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apart from like the shadows. So let's see one more now. I believe it's going to go to a longer exposure, but we're about to see
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Apparently not. Okay. Let's bring up the lights. So, let's see what we got
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Now this is going to be the like almost fully dark, the only light that was coming out
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And this photo was straight up from the monitor right here. And even though you can see kind of like the white light, this is straight up from the exposure
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The monitor was completely black. And giving off only light was basically like the backlighting of the darkness in that way
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Because the only thing that the camera was seeing was that because it basically the monitor that is in here is the feed from the camera itself And the only thing that camera was seeing is the light from this phone itself which was mediocre at best
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But as you can see on the photo itself, it did do really nicely, I have to say
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Let's have a little bit of a darker and grainier look to it. Then I would prefer
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But then when you consider the actual lighting conditions and only two second exposure time, I would say this is way above
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what I would be expecting here. Now going back to the other one, this was also a longer exposure to the night photo, but with
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a little bit more light. That's because there was another monitor turned on, which was actually keeping off a little bit
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decently more light. And as you can see, a decent more amount of light resulted in a photo that is way more exposed
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compared to the almost fully dark one. And it still does look really nice and considering, well, how
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well, damn it was in here. Now moving on to the normal ones, this is the ultra wide
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And if you zoom in, well, it looks to lose quality. I believe it was probably capturing focus
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Yeah, somewhere else. So you can see if the grain is a little bit more focused inside of the pot rather than the plant itself
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But it looks nice. It's a little bit deformed, but then it is captured at really close range
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So that's probably the reason for it. And then there's the three times zoom
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Basically, loose less zoom. And yeah, that is amazing, actually. If you consider that you can zoom into like the single grain
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basically like this tiny little thing where basically the spikes are coming out
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and seeing like all the fuzz in there. This is really good
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And this is the normal wide sensor again. Quality in here is just great
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There is no other way to say it. It's amazing. Now, this is going to be still outperformed by things like the S-21 Ultra, but still considering this phone comes around like $700,600, something like that, I have to say that the cameras here are punching way above what I would be expecting for this price
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I mean, it is like, although Samsung, so not sure why I was expecting less
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So moving out of here, let's go on to a couple additional things
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in terms of video recording. On this phone, we have a bunch of options
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Some of them might be a little bit redundant because we can record at 8K on here at 24 frames, 4K, 30 and 60 frames
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Then if we drop it down to 1080p, we have, again, 30 and 60, obviously. And then we also have a slow motion of up to 240 frames
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And if we decide to drop it even lower, we can get it at 720 p resolution at 960 frames
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So this is already getting a little bit insane. But still, you have a lot of choices
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Now, when it comes down, I believe, to like the 8K, the footage will be a little bit choppy
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and I wouldn't say it looks as great as, for instance, if you decide to drop it to the 4K
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And also, the 8K will consume a lot of storage. basically a huge file format for like a couple minutes of recording so keep that in mind
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if you're planning to record at 8k it might not be the best idea it's probably more
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efficient to drop it to the 4k and record at 60 rather than try to get as much of a
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resolution it does lose quality at higher the 8k we're also losing a little bit of that
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smoothness from 60 frames and just won't be as great I would say
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Yeah. Now that being said, on the front we do have a 10 megapixel white sensor, and it also shoots at 4K, 30 and 60, and obviously you can drop it to 1080p and have the same results here
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And then lastly, the pure specifications of this device, and that's basically where the European version, in my opinion, kind of falls apart
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Now, this is not to be said that the phone is bad because it's not, but it feels like we're getting an inferior product in Europe, for instance, when you compare to US
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and what I mean by that is this specific model here comes with a Exenaz 2100 while US is getting a Snobragon 888
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Now when you compare the actual benchmarks of these processors, the Exenos version, which is this one, which you paid the same amount for if you were getting the Snapdragon, is basically equivalent to the previous gen Snapdragon
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So you're getting a, basically, a last-gen-snap Dragon with a current price tag for it of this, at least, Samsung
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And when you compare basically the two devices next to each other, so if you have two galaxies S-20s
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the one with the Snapdragon from US will outperform the EU version with the Exxonus
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which is a little bit of a shame because both of them cost the same amount, and you kind of lose a little bit in performance for no reason
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which you have to still pay for full price. I kind of feel scammed here, to be perfectly honest
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but then I wouldn't be the only one. Basically, the entire Europe is scammed out of a better phone
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Now, moving on further, the device actually comes with 8 gigabytes of RAM
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and that's the only version here. It has two different variants in terms of storage
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so 128 and 256, and there is no way of expanding it by an SD card
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There is no SD card whatsoever here. So a little bit of a bummer here
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So if you're planning to record longer videos 8K or 4K, probably opt out for the $25 or $50 more expensive 256 gigs
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instead of the cheaper one because once you run out of that storage you kind of bummed out Now it also comes with a UFS 3 dependent that basically universal no matter what storage you go for so you going to be getting really really fast transfer
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read and write speeds on the storage. So that's really nice. And then when it comes down to the battery
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it is a fairly substantial battery size considering the phone is one of the smaller ones
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so it comes with a 4,000-million-hour battery. Now, what it doesn't come with is a charger
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so there is no charger whatsoever. However, now this is completely hypocritical, considering literally the last thing that that Samsung did with their S-20 lineup was making fun of Apple for not including a charger
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And long behold, Samsung goes and does the same thing basically in the next phones
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And obviously, I guess they couldn't resist the money gain that you could have got by removing the charger from manufacturing
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But hey, guess what? You can buy it on the side probably for like 25 to 50 bucks, I guess, I've been checked it
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Yeah. Now, apart from that, I'm not sure how much, if any, price was reduced based on the lack of a charger
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But the phone right now, the S-21, it is one of the cheaper flagship, I would say, at least at the lunch where I was from
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it was bundled up with their galaxy beans, also their smartwatch and some other weird things
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tracker and if you would actually remove all those like sell them for a full price then you would have
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got basically the cheapest flagship on the market I would say now the deal is gone it was a basically
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pre-sell deal and now that it's already out it's not viable anymore and now it's a little bit less
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worth the money I would say but still the phone it is really capable and really nice even though
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it is approaching already the flagship price without actually having some of the flagship components
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You know what I mean, especially a charger. So at the beginning, if you would have gotten it with that deal, it was really worth
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It was one of the more worth purchases you could have got
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But now once the price settled down or is still being sold at, for instance, $600
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dollars without the bots the watch and and the the weird tracker then the
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price is more normalized and you could probably get something as good if you're not
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if you don't mind for instance going for something like a show me or
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well show me probably is one of the best options here when it comes down to
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dollar for performance here and going back to the charger and that it isn't
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included if you have a charger you can charge it with a 25 watts speed on a cable
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which is still a little bit slow considering things some other companies do it at
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120 watts now but you do have the wireless charging at 15 watts which is
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really nice and then also reverse wireless charging at 4 and a half watts so if you're
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planning to charge things like headphones if you have a capable of that headphones
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in wireless you charge you can just flip it over slop them on there and they
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will get charged Now, finishing this up, honestly, the phone is a little bit of a mixed bag
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I do have to say I'm a little bit biased, I really like this device, primarily because it's
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super small, it has a 120 hertz display, even though right now it's already not really
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in novelty. Basically every phone comes with it, but it's still really nice
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And I kind of regret that I didn't go for it earlier when it was being pre-sold with a really, really enticing
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price for me because basically at that point it was coming around what was it like
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500, 550 about so at that price range it's it was just an amazing phone now I did kind of
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hesitate on the price range because I did convert it from my own and the 550 that I'm
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saying it is already with a tax so keep that in mind basically
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what I mean is I could have gotten it for 3,800 PLN minus the 800 if you
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substitute and sell everything that came bundled with. So then it was coming around 3,000 PLN, making it roughly 550-something dollars, which
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at that price range, it's just an amazing device, and there is nothing better, I would say
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But now at the retail price that comes with, which is still basically 3,800 without bundling
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anything with it, it's just a average device, I would say. No, it's still a capable phone
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But that being said, if you're looking for any kind of good flagship device, small size
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this is probably one of the smaller ones unless you're planning to go with an iPhone
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iPhone does have the, what is it, like the iPhone 12 Mini, which will be actually smaller than this
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Keep that in mind. It is a really good device and basically, if that makes it
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sense, I kind of want to get it myself and it seems like a really good deal. Now, like I said
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once the price drops a little bit further after lunch, that's probably when you should pick it up
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on sale. That's going to be the best bank for your buck at that price when it's on sale
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below like around $600. But yeah, the phone is really good. And if you're buying it in US
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then, well, you're the luckier one because you get the Snapdragon 888 while we're, we
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you hear PLEPS get the Exenus 2100, which at this moment isn't necessarily the greatest processor
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But anyway, it is an amazing device nonetheless. Now that being said, if you found this video helpful, don't forget to hit like, subscribe, and thanks for watching
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