Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra & S-Pen Silicone Case Unboxing & First Impressions! (Phantom Black) By TechDaily

What's going on guys, my name is wade with tech daily and in this video we're going to be checking out the new Samsung Galaxy s21 ultra. This is, of course, the biggest most feature, packed most expensive s21 in the lineup, and I'm really excited to see what it has to offer. Now. You might already know that the s21 ultra this year also offers s pen support kind of, like the note series, and I've got the s pen, silicone case combo accessory here as well, so lots to check out, but first things. First, let's just quickly unbox this phone and see what comes inside this new slim packaging. If you didn't already know, Samsung really minimized the box and included accessories for the entire s21 lineup this year inside the box here.

The first thing we get is a little sheet that says Samsung on it and underneath that is the phone itself. I obviously got mine in phantom black, which I think looks really cool, we'll set it to the side for just a second and digging a little deeper inside the box. You can see that there's not much else. That's included! There's a small little packet here with the sim ejector tool attached to the outside and inside you get a stack of paperwork and an USB cable, and that's it like, I said, no other included accessories any more even on this super expensive s21 ultra. So here is the phone itself once again and if this matte black finish, doesn't do it, for you, there's also phantom silver and some exclusive colors like titanium, navy and brown that are all made to order.

So they'll take like six to eight weeks to be delivered, but if you want something more unique, you can definitely have that with this phone and for the most part, the new s21 ultra looks kind of similar to previous Samsung flagship devices. But there are a couple of new features, add-ons and interesting things worth mentioning first off in regard to the size. The s21 ultra is the largest phone in the lineup this year by just a little, it's a 6.8 inch device which certainly puts it on the upper end of the smartphone size spectrum and if you're curious here is what the ultra looks like stacked up against the s21 plus and the regular s21. Now, interestingly enough, the difference isn't so drastic up against the s21 plus that phone is 6.7 inches, so just a tiny bit smaller height wise, but both these phones are pretty close, honestly they're about the same width and thickness, obviously just big devices in general. You don't really get a difference until you jump down to the 6.2 inch s21. That phone feels almost small in comparison, though it's still kind of big in its own right and really this year, with all these phones being well above six inches, you're kind of stuck deciding between a big device or a huge device.

That's pretty much the lineup this time around up front. The s21 ultra obviously shares the same center hole, punch, camera, cutout design and super slim bezels that we've seen on plenty of other Samsung flagships before, but one other interesting design cue worth noting is that the ultra actually has a slight curve to the front glass and display, and that's not something you get on the regular s21 or s21. Plus, it's super subtle. Just along the edges, you might not even notice if you didn't know to look for it and, fortunately to me, it doesn't feel too different in the hand. I don't find myself like accidentally touching the display on either side because of it.

I know not a lot of people like the curved edge on the smartphone displays nowadays. So that's why I wanted to mention it. But to me, I think it's subtle enough to not really be an issue around back. The s21 ultra gets an all glass rear panel. You get that on the s21 plus as well, but not on the cheaper, regular s21 on this phone, though it's not any nicer or more premium of a material.

It's the same sort of soft matte, finish frosted glass that we've seen before and the rest of the phone, the outside edge and the frame. That's a polished aluminum, which I think looks really nice, and that is the same material and design as the entire rest of the s21 lineup. So all in all you're, not really getting any better materials or a different design in going with the ultra, it's pretty much the same Samsung flagship, you're familiar with and that you'd get with most other models as well. Taking a look around there's nothing on the left side of the phone there not much up top either. Just some microphone holes on the right are your usual power and volume buttons on the bottom.

There's a sim card tray! That's just a sim card tray. Now, no expandable storage here on these phones anymore, which is kind of a bummer there's the USB charging port and speaker down there as well up front there's a secondary speaker in the earpiece for stereo sound and the out loud. Listening. Experience on this device is really great. Here's a quick sample, so you can get an idea.

Now around back the camera setup, there is probably the thing that stands out most about this s21 ultra and for good reason. It's quite the setup. You've got a 108 megapixel main lens, a couple: 10 megapixel telephoto lenses for crazy zoom capabilities, there's an ultra-wide lens, some additional sensors for video stabilization, and I'll go more in depth with all that in just a second. But I do just want to point out that, physically, while the lenses are bigger- and there are some additional ones and sensors and things the camera module on this phone- isn't as obnoxious as it maybe was last year on the s20 ultra, it sticks out about as much as the other s21 devices. Now it is still quite a bit wider, though, and in the hand I do think I noticed that sort of top heavy feel you might get with potentially some extra weight from the chunky camera setup.

It's not bad. The phone isn't going to like slide out of my hand because of it, but it is something that I do notice with this whole thing. So I figured I'd just point that out, so we'll get back to the phone in just a minute, but one of the new sort of features or supported accessories. I guess with the s21 ultra this year is the s pen, and this is an interesting potential edition to say the least. Now you don't get an s pen with the s21 ultra, you have to go out and buy it separately.

It costs like forty dollars just for the pen itself for seventy dollars. You can get a pen and case combo like this, which might make a little more sense. This is the silicone cover case directly from Samsung and inside the package. You get the case itself. Obviously the new rather large s, pen to go with it and actually sort of hidden inside the box.

There's also an additional s, pen, tip and removal tool. So don't forget to look out for that before throwing away the box and there's also this little diagram. That shows you how to insert and remove the s pen from the case, which, to be honest, was more helpful than I thought, because the setup maybe isn't as intuitive as I would have liked. The case itself is just your average silicone protective case. It's a soft touch, rubbery material with a hard inner shell, and it pops on the phone pretty easily, all in all a decent case setup that I think offers plenty of protection for the phone itself.

So no complaints there and on the side of the case, is where you can store the s pen. Now the s pen only goes in the case, one way tip down inserted first and then you kind of click the top end into place. If you try to put it in any other way, it obviously just doesn't work and what's kind of weird, is that the s pen isn't totally round it has a flat profile, but if you put it in the case adjacent to how it should go in a little crooked, maybe it's suddenly more difficult to pull back out again. So that's a little weird now the whole case and s pen setup obviously adds quite a bit of size and bulk to an already quite large device. The width of this whole setup is just crazy.

Now it sort of feels like you're, holding a whole book in your hand and to be totally honest, the whole thing is fine. I don't have a lot of complaints about it, but I think this whole thing is probably best set up for left-handed folks. Obviously, the pen is on the left side of the case when you're looking at the phone from the front and for someone right-handed like me, I haven't really found the fastest way to sort of get the s pen out and start writing. If either have to crisscross my hands or shuffle everything around or maybe start with. The phone turned around completely it's a little awkward, but it's probably the first time a right-handed person has ever felt inconvenienced by something.

I guess I can kind of feel for left-handed people after this experience now this new s-pen obviously is quite a bit larger than the s pen. On the note 20, for example, this thing is almost the size of like a regular pen or pencil. Really, it's got that flat profile like I mentioned, which I think makes it a little more comfortable, there's no top click button or anything there. There is, however, a clickable side button, but it actually has far less functionality than you might expect, which I'll explain in a second, the tip is a very sharp pointed pressure, sensitive setup and all in all, it's the stylus setup. You'd expect from Samsung there's no real surprises here.

As far as the features and functionality with the s21 ultra, it's basically identical to the note series. You've got the shortcut panel that pops up when the phone recognizes that the pen is nearby, and you have quick access to written notes. A coloring book, smart select AR doodle translate live messages, all the usual s, pen stuff you already know and love. It looks to be all the same as the note series. You can also, of course, just utilize, the s pen to tap, touch and swipe your way through the phone as well, which I know a lot of people like to do, and the writing experience is smooth fast and accurate.

Just like you'd expect. The stylus is, of course, made for the phone and vice versa. So you have the nearly seamless and lag free writing experience that I think Samsung is known for on these products, which is great so a couple other important things to mention with this whole setup. If you want to just use the stylus by itself and not have the case installed at all on the phone, that's fine, you can do that. The case isn't connected to the phone or the stylus, or anything like that.

The stylus is just automatically recognized when it's very close to the screen of the phone, and this stylus only works with the s21 ultra. You can't buy it and use it with the s21 plus or regular s21, for example. It isn't compatible and won't be recognized. So if you want this stylus, you have to buy the ultra and one other thing to go over this current s. Pen stylus isn't one of the fancy new Bluetooth enabled ones with like AR gestures and additional button controls for selfies and things.

Samsung says that stylus, which they're going to call the pro version with the Bluetooth features, isn't coming until later this year. This current stylus does have a side button with like super limited functionality, it's sort of just like an additional select button when it's very close, but not quite touching the display, but yeah not much more than that. So while it's very much a high-end Samsung stylus as it is, it isn't the totally smart really fancy Bluetooth stylus from the current generation note devices all in all. This is an interesting if not sort, of confusing add-on for this device. I'm not quite sure at this point.

If it's worth it'll have to use it a bit more, but in my eyes this add-on, I think, might be signaling the end of the note series altogether, which I think is kind of a shame. So, jumping back to the phone itself here there are just a couple of other things I do want to go over. First off. The massive 6.8 inch display is a dynamic AMOLED panel that offers both 120 hertz and 1440p resolution simultaneously. If you remember last year, the Samsung phones that offered a high refresh rate option and 1440p resolution like the s20s they made, you choose one or the other this year.

The s21 ultra allows to have both at the same time- and I think this is just a phenomenal looking display with all the highest settings, enabled you get a 3200 by 1440 resolution at 515, pixels per inch, 1500 nits of max brightness, and it's probably the best display setup on the market right now, given everything it offers. While it is a shame that the lower s21 and s21 plus devices don't get the higher resolution at all, I think, if you're going to offer it having it paired with 120 hertz altogether is the way to go, and I can sort of see why Samsung offered it just on this s21 ultra, it's really great and honestly might be one of the most enticing sets of features about this phone. Underneath the display is a brand-new fingerprint setup as well. You do get this on the other s21s, and it's just so incredibly quick. You barely even need to tap your finger on the display, and it opens right up.

It's perfect and a noticeable significant improvement over previous years. There's also face unlock as well, and that too, is very fast inside the s21 ultra obviously packs the latest 2021 specs, as do all of these new Samsung flagship phones, but you do get a little more in going with this phone. Instead, the processor is going to be the same either the snapdragon 888 or the Qualcomm 2100, but you can get 12 or 16 gigs of ram versus just eight on the other s21s and up to 512 gigabytes of internal storage. So you can really spec this thing out if you want. Obviously it's already going to be a lightning fast and incredibly powerful device anyway, but there's a ton of potential here to maybe make this one of the most powerful devices you can buy, there's also a slightly larger battery inside this phone as well versus the rest.

It's a 5 000 William capacity. Now, if you run the 1440p resolution with the high refresh rate at max brightness, the extra battery certainly won't matter you'll, probably even get worse battery life than the rest of the s21s honestly at that point, but potentially this s21 ultra might be able to last just as long or maybe a little longer than the rest under the right conditions. And finally, let's just briefly talk about all those cameras around back now, I'm obviously going to have some dedicated videos and camera comparisons coming soon. But the setup on this phone, I think, is not only just really ridiculous but much more refined than last year's s20 ultra as well. There are a lot of things you get on this phone that you do get on other devices now, including the 8k video recording, but you're going to get things like enhanced video stabilization way, more potential with the powerful main lens for every shot and, of course, there's the 100 times zoom and just taking a quick sample shot here with all that zoom.

In my opinion, this is a much improved and way more usable sort of setup than last year, and I'm really excited to put it to the test. Also, the selfie camera on this phone is quite a bit better than the other s21s as well. You get a 40 megapixel lens up front on this phone and the results here. Look amazing as well. All in all, I'm really looking forward to putting this phone to the test in the coming weeks to see what it is capable of.

So there you go. Those are all of my initial thoughts and first impressions on this new s21 ultra. What do you guys think is this still the ultimate Samsung phone? Is it something maybe you're considering right now? Let me know in the comments down below I'd love, to know your thoughts, of course, but hopefully you guys did enjoy this video be sure to follow tech daily on Twitter and subscribe to the tech daily YouTube channel. If you haven't already, and I'll see you guys later,.

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