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Welcome. In front of me I have the Galaxy S-21 plus, which is, oh, there we go, barely visible
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And today I will go of unboxing along with an overview and my just opinions about this phone
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How about it all, for it to do, let's just pop it open. Now, for some reason, the box already came a little bit scratched, as you can kind of see it right here
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I'm sure why but it did come a little bit damaged. Now the phone itself is fully fine so don't worry about that one
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So starting off up here we got some paperwork and the semi-ject tool
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Let's be honest no one only cares about that. And that's about it and here
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Then we got the phone itself. Now this is already a set up phone. As you can see there's also an applied tempered glass on here so I won't need to actually
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set it up. So that's positive but also makes it not with a very good. a true first unboxing. Now in here we got cable and some instructions or warranty and
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a charging cable. Now the cable here is a type C to type C once a there we go. You can see both
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the ends are type C. Now if you haven't bought actually a Samsung phone in the past
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what is it like two years or one year something like that
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then this cable will be literally useless to you because if you have a previous charger from Samsung device
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or basically majority of other companies, then type C to type C doesn't really help you in any way
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because majority of them have a type A port. So just a typical old-school USB port
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and then the other end is type C. So in certain cases this might be just kind of useless
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So let's set this to the side and get the phone itself. So, there we got a really nice 6.7 inch
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1080p display and is what they call a dynamic amelette. Now, in other words, this is just basically an amulet display at a high refresh rate
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Now, I'm going to zoom on the camera just so you can get a better look at it. Okay, so there we go
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So, 1080p by 2400, dynamic Amelette, meaning it will run at 120 hertz
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Now, if I remember correctly, from what I've seen, a decent at 21 instead of the 21 plus
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If I go under the display, they only have two options. There we go, motion, adaptive, yeah
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So we have the adaptive and standard. Now, for some reason, they didn't think that giving you just the actual option to set it to 120, force it into it
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as a thing here so you either are stuck with the adoptive or just 60 hertz. Now in other words
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the adoptive is basically changing refresh rate all the time. So as an example if you're looking
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at a picture it will drop aside I believe it was said that it will drop to even like 40
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40 hertz so you'll get 40 refreshers per second. Now for a picture that doesn't really matter because
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picture you're not really moving it and when it's stationary it doesn't really
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matter you won't see any kind of JIR and that that just disgusting look when
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you're when you would actually run something fully at 40 Hertz but then when
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you actually scrolling up and down like right here it switches to 140 now when
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it stops moving it then switches back to like 60 or 40 just so it preserves
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battery it will only go up when it needs to now in certain cases this might be
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good but then I believe there might be some apps that just kind of won't be
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implementing this correctly and for instance they will be either running fully on 120 or they won't be running at 120 at all because it the phone
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might consider this to be a picture or something like that and it could cause some
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kind of problems in terms of just the settings itself now phone should work
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fine but you won't be getting for instance like the great experience out of
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this one now I also want to point out amazing battery level 69% nice yeah so moving further with it because this is an
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Ammelet display obviously it has HDR 10 plus it gets really bright as well I believe
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if I max it out right now it will be a little bit capping what I have an exposure
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settings right here because it's a little bit too bright right now for the camera so I'm gonna drop it down to something a little bit more normal go I think
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this looks a little bit better. So outside of that HDR 10 it peaks out
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1,300 and it's the max peak brightness also has a gorilla ventis so glass on the
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front just a typical so I guess this I believe the newest one and when it
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comes on to just a screen-to-body ratio and pixel densities we are dealing
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here with a 88.3% screen-to-body ratio so this is taking majority of the
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screen right here and 394 pixels per inch which is a little bit higher than I was actually expecting
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this is after all a 1080p display uh which is a little bit of a basically a draw uh or downscale I guess
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from like the previous S20 which were uh coming up with a 1440p resolution and uh you did have a choice
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between either going with a 1440p resolution at 60 or 1080p at 120 here we just get the
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basically the high refresh rate and single resolution so we don't really have a choice
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which is a little bit of a bummer that Samsung decided to make that choice for us in the
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S-20 lineups we did get the choice there to choose which one we prefer more some people may
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have may want to have a just a better resolution and they don't care about the refresh rate
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here you don't really get the choice so it's a little bit of a bummer now going further
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to the cameras now this phone here I believe shares basically the same cameras as the S-20 so the smaller and a little bit
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less spec-out version of this this one I quickly check it just so it's a
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1264 and 12 and 1264 yep so it's basically the same so if we flip it over
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bam we get that a sticker which let's get rid of it there we go I'm gonna
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just stick it somewhere voila so here As you can see, we have a triple camera setup
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It looks exactly the same as on the S20, or S21, I mean
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It just, the phone itself is a little bit bigger. Not much more difference here
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It comes with a 12 megapixel white sensor, 64 megapixel telephoto, and 12 megapixel ultra wide
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And just as the S21, the smaller version of specifically this one, it shoots at 8K-24 frames
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If you drop it down to 4K it can shoot at 30 and 60 So that really nice And then also 1080p obviously 30 60 Also slow motion at 240 frames and if you want to drop it even lower to 720p
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which will approach a little bit of a pixelated territory, you can shoot out super slow motion of 960 frames per second
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So this will make the footage look, well, super, super, super slow
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But now I'm going to use the camera a little bit, just to show you how it actually looks like
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It's not going to be anything substantial here. I'm just going to capture a couple of photos of the plant and call it a day
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But it is a really good camera, which, like I said, capturing plant won't really do it justice
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So let's get the plant right here. I can see it. Now, it is right now a little bit environment that is in
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It's a little bit poorly lit at this moment. It's not the best that it could be
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So keep that in mind that if the photos are a little bit looking a little bit weird, different than what you've seen in other cases
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I am not taking photos outside. I am literally in a dark box
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So you will, as you can probably see from the foam that is basically all around me at an angle
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So this is a, on the corner I can basically see it
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So this is a fairly poorly lit room and the only lights that are here are from the three little lamps that are, as you can see, reflecting right here, here and here
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So let's get the camera. So we're starting off with the white sensor and let's capture a photo here
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Also I'm going to check if it's clean. And yep, it looks spotless, so let's go
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So that's wide. Then this is a three times zoom
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I do need to pull it back a little bit. Now there's this really nice optic feedback when you capture a photo. Cool
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So I just capture a couple of photos right here. So let's see how they came out
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So gonna make it a little bit brighter. There we go. So here you can see the ultra-wide sensor
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And at ultra-wide, you do get a wider shot, but it does suffer a little bit in quality
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As you can see, this is kind of bad, I would say, for some reason
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But then if we go the three-time zoom, this is just looking amazing, I would say
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This is better than, for instance, what macro lenses can do a majority of the time
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So just a three-time zoom on a 64-mixel sensor outperforms what I used to
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I use the Huawei Mate 20 Pro as a macro shot. That was really good for a long time
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Here, I would say this hands-down outperforms the macro lens when you're trying to get pure quality of the photo
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Obviously, when you zoom in super close like this, it is a little bit blurry which you can see it on the photo
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But let's consider the fact that we are zoomed in so close that when you zoom out, this is a super detailed photo
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And it looks really nice. Now, there is a little bit of a bluriness going on around the edges here
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which I don't think should be happening. And this is just, I believe, the AI
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not really grasping what it's taking a photo of so this should be focused
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obviously because the part right here is but it does kind of blur it out with the background for some reason
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oops not what I wanted to do let's go back and look at the last one
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so this was just a typical wide shot and obviously it looks
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also really nice again it looks like it's a little bit This actually came out a little bit better in terms of how it blurs it out
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It does have a nice bokei effect I would say, maybe a little bit too strong, but it does add
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a little bit of that depth and make the image pop a little bit more. As you can see, you can clearly see what is the subject of the photo right here and basically
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everything is just kind of background. Now also I'm gonna turn off the lights right here and let me..
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Turn off the monitor as well. So I'm going to take a night shot and you can see how it does basically in super poor lighting conditions
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And the only light that you will be seeing is if I can lock it
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So, I'm trying to find a reflection of... But there is basically a monitor right here, which is a monitor that I used to see what the camera sees
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above. So once I turn off the last light, this one, this monitor will only show what is going
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to be lighting up is just the screen itself, which can be not really visible. I have literally
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in a way of showing it. But yeah, so the only light that will be coming out is whatever the screen
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right here lights up and that will be transferred to the actual monitor. So let's turn off the light
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and see what do we get to? Let me change to night mode
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I can actually quickly find it. Oh, there we go, night
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And as you can see, on the camera, obviously you basically cannot see anything
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My hand is literally under the phone, and the phone itself can see it quite
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Okay, now on the on here it's gonna look on the phone itself it's gonna look much more grainy than when it actually captures it but
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Let's actually take a photo So right here it also auto auto's to a three-second exposure and to see if I can make it into four
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five okay so that was a five second exposure time and let me turn back on the lights
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okay so let's come on flip over there we go so if you look at it um you can clearly see
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where it was where the light was coming from and like i said the only light visible on this
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photo itself is the uh the glorious backlight of a monitor that is right
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here and the only thing that it's lighting it up is with the actual phone itself
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which the camera sees and if you look at the photo actually closely you can see that basically the light was coming from this direction based on the shadow and how dark the side that I was capturing is right here Well as you can see it is kind of kind of has like
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dark spots based on the lighting that came in. But anyway, considering this was a five second
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exposure and a room that is almost fully black, this is a really outstanding result. Obviously
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in a real world, if you go outside during night, you will get far greater
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results here. After all, during night, there's still plenty of light sources outside from like
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shops and cars and stuff like that. So the camera will pick all those up and basically produce a way
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higher quality photo than what I got here. This is basically with the trashiest, most disgusting
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example that I could have basically sinuate here with just a single poorest light source possible
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before, if I would turn off that monitor, this room would be literally pitch black
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There would be zero light. And at that point, I believe if you try to capture a photo with almost zero light, sometimes you can
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But the phone will, in certain cases, drop to like 30 French exposure or 30 second exposure
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which in turn does need to, I believe, be stabilized for the photo to actually come out good
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And if the phone doesn't actually detect stabilization or that is mounted to the tripod
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then it won't opt into that long exposure. That's also not producing the best results
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But like I said, we're talking here about the most extreme cases ever
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Anyway, you can also actually take out the selfie camera. there's the selfie
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now obviously you can clearly see that the quality here is really good at this
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is, and this look a little bit wonky right here for some reason. This looks really weird
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like it's almost double photo, one lay overlaid over the other one. I'm sure what is
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happening here. But otherwise the detail is here. It looks really nice. I believe it does
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make me look a little bit thinner, like it kind of smushes it and makes the photo longer
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for some reason, but I might be just completely wrong and not remember how I look like. Well
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But yeah, anyway, now let's get out of here and go over the last part
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Now, actually before I do, I'll mention the selfie camera right here that I just captured is a 10 megapixel white sensor
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I just thought I would drop that in there just so you know what the photo I was dealing with here
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Now, moving on to the last part, which is the, I would say, the worst part of this device and overly the S
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S-21 lineup, at least where I'm from, it's going to be the specification
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So this phone right here comes with an ex-NOS 2100. Now, obviously, if you're buying this in US, you don't have to worry, you get the actual
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better processor of Snapdragon 888. But because I'm not from US, I get to have to deal with the Exxonos 2100, which
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it is a better and just CPU performance, hands down, not by much, basically mediocre
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but then it loses in just a raw GPU performance. And anybody who basically tells or says that it's comparable, I don't really care that it is
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comparable, when you pay the same price for the device that comes, well, the same price for
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for instance the S-21, it costs the same no matter where you're buying it, but in certain
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region of the world you will get an inferior product. I don't care if it's inferior by a 3
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5% single or half a percent, it is still inferior compared to what someone else is getting
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for the same price. And even though the CPU here is tiny bit better because it is
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people that will use this for gaming will have an inferior experience and that
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That is not just the processor or the graphics unit here being a little bit, well, not as good as the Snapdragon version, but also just the overall throttling and problems like that are more present on the Exenaz version rather than the Snobdragon
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Snabdragon runs a little bit smoother in terms of graphical performance and throttling
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Well, the Exxonast from what I've seen benchmarks and stuff like that is more volatile
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just drops and jumps all over the place. So keep that in mind
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That is one thing that I really don't like what Samsung is doing. Just drop Snapdragon to every device or none
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Don't give EU some trash Exxonus that you try to perfect over the years
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and using us as basically a test subject. Because anybody who's buying the Exxonus version
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what I would do is call this a beta release and anybody who basically buys it is a beta tester in a way
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because once they actually do a good version of it I wouldn't be surprised if they give you
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yeah here you go here's the snapdra again now get happy while the Exenaz users that will have a way better process
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or snapdra or not something about the Exenaz processor will be US again I wouldn't be really surprised about it
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but at this moment, as it is, the exonance that is in here
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and comparing it to the Snapdragon is inferior, and that's why I kind of feel like I'm a beta tester of a device
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while paying full price while the US is basically getting something that I would call better
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Now, anyway, moving to the rest of the specifications, because I kind of went on the rent here
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we do have 8 gigabytes of RAM, and that is the only version here
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We do also have two different versions of storage, So it comes with a 128 and 256 gigabyte storage, both UFS 3.1
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So you're going to be getting really fast read and write speeds on this, as you should
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If you're dealing with something like 8K footage, that is going to require some fast storage
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But unfortunately, you're not getting an SD expansion slot. So if you wanted to expand it via SD card, yeah, you kind of bummed out
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All you get is max 256 gigs. you better be happy with what you get because if you want ASD expansion slot, you better opt out for the Ultra
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Now, what you can see right here in terms of how this device is made, or at least the entire S-21 lineup
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as they decided to take the same approach to just the different versions of S the same way that they did with the before when you had Node S A line and all those So before they were all kind of Node being the most premium
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S being basically the typical flagship, then A being the kind of mid-range
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and there was also, I think, one lower as being a budget version. And what they were doing now is also dividing that same kind of
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or adding the same kind of divination to this, to just a single line-up of, for instance, as flagships
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And now, S-21, just a base one, will be kind of the bare minimum
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racking, well, the flagship with the specs that they're calling it, with Exenosa 2100 or Snapdragon 888
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Well, if you go for the plus, you're going to get, for instance, bigger battery and a couple additional features
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And then if you opt into the ultra, you're going to basically get the max lineup of what they have to offer at this moment
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Now moving further to it, this device, and I have right here, the 21 plus, does come with a 4,800
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milliop-power battery, so it is by 800 milli-aums bigger than the S-21, so the smaller version of this
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And it also has a 25-watt charging, which, like I said, doesn't come in a box
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There is no space for a charger, and this is kind of hilarious
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considering Samsung was one of those that decided to basically take a job about Apple for not
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including chargers and then what do you know next lineup of their phones comes without a charger
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now it does come a little bit cheaper so that is a I guess a benefit of this but then
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also if I look at this I wouldn't be so sure if it's coming actually cheaper because
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this costs about a thousand dollars and comes without a charger and it comes with a charger and it comes
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the best processor, yeah, sure, a good storage, okay, cool, wireless charging all that, the jazz
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but if you consider it other devices on the market, they also come with the same thing, also
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with the charter, and also they will most likely come at lower price tag. Now, I am really
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waiting for One Plus to come out with their new device, their flagship, and I want to really
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compare it because I think that one will come with a charger, and it most likely will be
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comparable to this. and we'll see what kind of price it comes and what comes in a box with it
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But at the moment, I kind of find it pitiful that Samsung decided to make fun of Apple for doing something
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like dropping charger, and then they did it themselves, and thinking that no one will point out a finger here
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And finishing up the charging specs right here, even though you don't have a charger in a box
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it does also charge with a wireless charger. So if you have one, you can simply slap it on
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Just bring one. voila. So you can drop it on here. It's plugged in, there we go
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And it's charging. Now, it does charge with a 15 watt speed right here on a wireless charger
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So it is better than some other devices, but then it is still behind in terms of some, I would call
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market-leading charging speeds, like 120 wired charging and 40-watt wireless charging. so this is far behind
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and I assume a Samsung just doesn't want to make the same mistake of their devices blowing up
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because that would cost them even more now so I guess it's kind of expected
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that they didn't include a faster charging but then come on it's 2021
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just make it up to at least 30 or something like that but also apart from the wireless charging
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we do have the 4.5 reverse wireless wireless charging and I believe this hasn't changed much I think that was just the
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on the base reverse wireless charging as it was before now reverse
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whileers charging is primarily used for charging your earbuds and stuff like that so you can just flip the phone over slap your earbuds on here and charge
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them without actually needing to plug them into anything nice feature honestly I이 have to use it so that being said it is there but kind of
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find it pointless but maybe you don't and that being said this would
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basically conclude the overview of this device now personally it is a okay
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device I really have a problem with that exonus processor right here even
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though it's supposedly faster in CPU performance I just I just want to see
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the same processor on every device so I don't have to go on a couple hour
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search to see which which processor exceeds at what part of process power
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So if it's better in GPU or CPU performance, I just want to see one so I don't have to pick and choose
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and basically debate if the EU version is better than US. It's just kind of ridiculous at this point
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So that being said, this is one problem that I have right here. Also, the device being priced at about $1,000 seems a little bit overpriced at this point
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considering it doesn't even come with a charger. and I believe the $1,000 that I pulled out the price
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is also for the base version, so the 128, not that that's 2506 gigabytes
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so if you want more storage, you will have to fork out even more. But from what I remembered
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it only is about $50 more, so not that much. And then, lastly, when I compared to, for instance, S-21
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just the smaller version, if you're not looking for a bigger screen
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then probably going for the smaller version of this will be better
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It is a cheaper phone. It comes with basically everything that this one does, minus the huge screen
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And overly, I would say it will be a better purchase just because of that price tag being lower
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and still offering almost the exact same experience as this one does, because this is just a bigger version of the S-21
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But if you're looking for the actual, the best experience here, and you're not even going to be looking at this device
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you're going to be looking at the Ultra, which I haven't actually checked the price
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but I assume it's going to be somewhere around $1,500. But the benefit there would be that you actually have a better camera set up
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Now, the one on Ultra, it is better than what you get here. This is equivalent of the S-21, which comes at around like $700
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So keep that in mind. But, yeah, that being said, I personally wouldn't be getting this device
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big and expensive for no reason big is just I would prefer something smaller
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That's just personal taste. If you want bigger screen then yeah sure you can go for this one
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But if you're looking just for bang for your buck, I think the S-21, the smaller one, will be a better choice here
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