Galaxy S21 Ultra vs S20 Ultra: All the differences! By PhoneArena

The s21 ultra is much cheaper than last year's s20 ultra, but that doesn't mean that it's worse in any way hey there guys. My name is victor from fan arena, and here are all the differences you should know about the Samsung Galaxy s21 ultra and what makes it way better than the Samsung s20 ultra from last. By the way you will hear more about some of the toughest cases for the s21 ultra by our sponsor encased towards the end of this video starting off with the s20 ultra. This was the first device of its kind from Samsung featuring a massive camera bump and design sitting at 6.9 inches. It feels hefty and massive in the hands it pretty much screams premium at this point with aluminum sides and a glossy glass back and front, quite the fingerprint, magnet actually but story for another time. But at the same time we have the new s21 ultra with relatively the same size and a redesigned.

Look where the s20 ultra had a massive camera bump. The s21 series replaced it with a more tapered and natural flowing design. Not only that, but the whole back is now matte. I mean listen to that. So then, moving on to the display boy was the s20 ultra a much-needed refresh.

The s20 lineup was the first from Samsung to feature a 120 hertz display refresh rate, and it's one of the best things they could have done for their friends at the time. This made the phone overall much smoother and faster, but here's the drawback. You could not use the option on the devices full 1440p resolution. You have to drop to 1080p to use it. Thankfully this was fixed on the s21 ultra, so you can now squeeze all of those 120hz at 1440p.

The newer ultra can also detect when you're not scrolling and don't need that full 120 hertz, and it will then drop the refresh to as low as 10 hertz automatically to preserve battery life. Besides that, the camera system on both is now slightly different. The s21 ultra packs two telephoto lenses, while the s20 ultra has only one, but the main and ultra white cameras are practically identical, and good news is that the infamous focusing issues on the s20 ultra have been fixed on the new model which, by the way, ditched the depth sensor for a laser autofocus module. If you're not convinced that there is a difference, though, let's have a look with a simple video test. Shall we found stabilization to be quite decent and colors seemed fine, and autofocusing was good on both, but we should note that the s21 ultra came out a bit more saturated, while also handling exposure slightly better? Nevertheless, I moved on and did some wide angle shots and both seemed to do quite okay, with the s21 ultra being slightly wider and with the ability to selectively focus then moving onwards to the telephoto.

This is where we noticed mixed results. The s20 ultra actually comes out on top, if you shoot it five times to zoom, but for most anything else, and especially above 10 times, the zoom, the s21 ultra stands out with cleaner photos with more detail. So, in summary, at 3 times and 10 times, the s21 ultra was much more sharp and clear, while the s20 ultra came out better at five times the zoom. So then, moving on from there, I tried some portrait mode shots and I have to admit that both did an awesome job. I mean Samsung is really on top of the game with this mode.

To be honest, and I didn't find any notable differences in color or a problem with the depth of field simulation. I then moved indoors to check both in a bit of a low light condition, and they were pretty much on par. I mean our mechanical chameleon did come out rather sharp, given the lower light, but moving on from there, a quick macro shot showed that the s21 ultra did a much better job at capturing close-up subjects, since it was more true to life, whereas the s20 ultra came out a bit more mushy and soft with wrong colors. So finally, we decided to check out the selfie cameras. Both were actually quite good, but the s21 ultra had a bit better dynamic range with, albeit an annoying lens flare, but I'll put it down to preference.

So my conclusion here is that both cameras are amazing, and I would not recommend one phone over the other solely based on camera quality, unless you really care about 10 times zoom and further, but for oils the differences are not huge performance wise, the s20 ultra is a beast if you get it in the US with the snapdragon 865 chips, but it had notable issues with the international models. You know rocking the Enos 990 processors, I mean sure the 990 is still a flagship level soc, but it had a big gap from the snapdragon version felt like a different device all together. Thankfully, the s21 ultra manages to fix many of those wrongs. The US model comes with the newer snapdragon 888, which is a further jump, but international models also get a big improvement with the Enos 2100. By the way in our testing, the Enos is still a few percentage points slower, but the gap has narrowed and in terms of battery life you no longer get huge discrepancies.

So in the spirit of that I was hoping that the battery would be a good improvement too, but I ended up with mixed results. So take that with a grain of salt. I guess there are limits to how much you can improve over one year after all, or so I thought I mean the fingerprint was also improved. I noticed that it's much more reliable, now and easier to find with your fingers. Since it's larger, I mean just have a look and just in case you're not convinced so far as to which phone is worth more per gram.

The price is the real hook line and sinker. Here guys, the s20 ultra starts at around 13.99 us dollars, whereas the s21 ultra is now 200 cheaper, starting at 11.99, I mean sure you would miss the SD card slot and lack of charger in the box, but this is still a good deal even more so when we mentioned the fact that the s21 ultra has support for the s-pen, I mean that's darn impressive, so I guess what I was trying to get to be. The following. These two devices are amazing: had Samson not lowered the price of the s21 ultra, it would have been hard to recommend it, but this new price is a perfect example of running a good business. After all, and if you're still against these two devices to your core, then I really have to say you're, not the target audience for them, the uterus for those who want the absolute best, no matter the cost and Samsung did that with their latest iteration, while also paying attention to the price.

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