After a few years of ever-increasing flagship machine costs, this 12 months Samsung is taking a fairly completely different method with the brand new Galaxy S21 collection – not solely stopping the worth will increase, however really decreasing this 12 months’s flagship line-up costs in comparison with the 2020 predecessors.
This 12 months, Samsung can be extra notably differentiating the specs of the gadgets – there’s nonetheless a base mannequin, a bigger “+” mannequin, and the super-sized “Ultra” mannequin, nevertheless solely the Ultra mannequin has managed to return out relatively unscathed, with the 2 different conventional fashions discovering themselves with technical compromises that we haven’t seen in previous years, equivalent to decrease decision, last-gen panels, completely different construct supplies and designs, on prime of the standard completely different digital camera configuration.
Today we’re reviewing the Galaxy S21 Ultra in each Exynos and Snapdragon SoC flavours, as properly the baseline Galaxy S21 – contrasting two very completely different gadgets in Samsung’s new collection, coming in at two very completely different worth factors.
| Samsung Galaxy S21 Series | ||||
| Galaxy S21 | Galaxy S21+ | Galaxy S21 Ultra | ||
| SoC | Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
1x Cortex-X1 @ 2.84GHz 1x1024KB pL23x Cortex-A78 @ 2.42GHz 3x512KB pL2 4x Cortex-A55 @ 1.80GHz 4x128KB pL2 4MB sL3 |
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| Samsung LSI Exynos 2100
1x Cortex-X1 @ 2.9GHz 1x512KB pL2 4MB sL3 |
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| Display | 6.2-inch 2400 x 1080 (20:9) 48-120Hz |
6.7-inch 2400 x 1080 (20:9) 48-120Hz |
6.8-inch 3200 x 1440 (20:9) 10-120Hz |
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| SAMOLED HDR10+ 120Hz Refresh Rate |
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| Dimensions | 151.7 x 71.2 x 7.9mm
171g (mmWave), |
161.5 x 75.6 x 7.8mm
202g (mmWave), |
165.1 x 75.6 x 8.9mm
229g (mmWave), |
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| RAM | 8GB | 8GB | 12 / 16GB | |
| NAND Storage |
128, 256GB | 128, 256 GB | 128, 256, 512 GB | |
| Battery | 4000mAh (15.4Wh) typ.
3880mAh (15.01Wh) rated |
4800mAh (18.57Wh) typ.
4660mAh (18.03Wh) rated |
5000mAh (19.25Wh) typ.
4855mAh (18.87Wh) rated |
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| Front Camera | 10MP 4K video recording F/2.2, 80-degree |
40MP 4K video recording F/2.2, 80-degree |
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| Primary Rear Camera | 79° Wide Angle 12MP 1.8µm Dual Pixel PDAF
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79° Wide Angle 108MP 0.8µm DP-PDAF 3×3 Pixel Binning to 12MP |
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| mounted f/1.Eight optics OIS, auto HDR, LED flash 4K60, 1080p240, 720p960 high-speed recording |
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| Secondary Rear Camera |
76° Wide Angle (Cropping / digital zooming telephoto) 64MP 0.8µm f/2.Zero optics, OIS 8K24 Video Recording |
12° Telephoto (10x optical) 10MP f/4.9 prism optics, OIS |
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| Tertiary Rear Camera |
– | 3x optical 10MP f/2.4 |
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| Quartenary Rear Camera |
120° Ultra-Wide Angle 12MP 1.4µm f/2.2 |
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| Extra Camera |
– | Time of Flight (ToF) 3D Sensor | ||
| 4G / 5G Modem |
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| Snapdragon 5G TBC |
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| Exynos 5G TBC |
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| SIM Size | NanoSIM + eSIM | |||
| Wireless | 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax 2×2 MU-MIMO, BT 5.1 LE, NFC, GPS/Glonass/Galileo/BDS |
+ WiFi 6E | ||
| Connectivity | USB Type-C no 3.5mm headset |
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| Special Features | Under-screen ultrasonic fingerprint sensor | |||
| (Qualcomm QC 2.0, Adaptive Fast Charging, USB 3.Zero PD PPS), reverse wi-fi charging (WPC & PMA), Ultra Wideband IP68 water resistance |
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| Launch OS | Android 11 with Samsung OneUI 3.1 | |||
| Launch Prices | 128GB 5G: $799 / €849 / £769 256GB 5G: |
128GB 5G: $999 / €1049 / £949 256GB 5G: |
128GB 5G: $1199 / €1249 / £1149 256GB 5G: 512GB 5G: |
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Starting off with the core {hardware} parts of the brand new S21 collection, the brand new flagships are amongst the primary gadgets available in the market powered by Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 888 SoC in addition to Samsung LSI’s new Exynos 2100. The two new silicon chips this 12 months are extra comparable to one another than in…
