Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra Unboxing + Galaxy S21 and S21+ By Unbox Therapy

Exciting day here we have got our hands on the brand new s21 products from Samsung, as you can see in front of me, is the s21 ultra 5g, the s21 5g. I also have a couple pairs of Galaxy Buds pro which are new as well. I've actually got pretty much every single variant of the s21 ultra and the uh regular s21 and the s21 plus. Let's kick it off with the ultra, that's the one that I'm most excited for that's the top of the line flagship of the bunch. The ultra takes things to another level. It's the biggest display of the bunch coming in at 6.8, glorious inches all right here we go so check it out. That is your first glance at the s21 ultra.

This is probably the color that I'm going to go for. To be honest, I know me when it comes to black double black, like they have going on here. Actually they call it phantom black, but I like that they went with a sort of matte finish as well. It's going to be a little more resistant to fingerprints, this glossy portion, so you can see the two different types of black. This kind of carries a similar effectiveness to the frame of the device metallic around the edge.

What's new on this model is how they integrated the camera module. Unlike last year, they were able to kind of blend it into the frame here, which I think is a more elegant approach. Everybody wants the top performing camera stuff, but maybe we want something that appears to look a little more slender from the side, and they were able to do that with this curved edge around here now there is a little sticker on their remove that wow. That is a comprehensive, looking camera setup. Those are huge lenses.

You can see the periscope style zoom lens down here on the bottom and then the other camera modules above there on the side of the device. You'll see your volume rocker in this location, as well as your power switch down below there the screen protector. This is a large display. They brought the pen input to the s lineup, so it's no longer relegated just to the note series, the front-facing camera here, this tiny little hole punch layout, symmetrical in the center of the device on the bottom of the device. Here we have our USB connector for the fast charging speakers over here as well, and then this device also does feature the shared wireless charging, so you can charge buds on the top of it.

If you choose to, there is an USB type-c cable, so it looks like Samsung has joined the party here as far as not putting the power brick in the box and that's resulting in a slimmer package for shipment. This does support fast wireless charging as well. So you may want to go the wireless route if you're going to pick up another charger to go with it. Sim tool is also inside the package and yeah that pretty much completes the unboxing experience. Now, let's go ahead and move over to the s21 5g, so this is the smallest of the bunch.

So this one is coming in at 6.2 inches for the display, and you can see already. We have a much more colorful look right out of the gate, but this is called phantom violet and what's interesting to me, here is the two-tone effect, which you haven't really seen very much of that's kind of a nice look to it. Now the texture is kind of similar. This one maybe has a slightly gripper feel to it, but it's also a matte finish, a kind of semi-reflective finish, which changes its hue a little depending on what it happens to be reflecting three cameras along the top and none of which are as large as on the ultra variant. However, that design characteristic of minimizing the camera hump by bringing the frame of the device around the back edge.

It exists here as well. You do have your power switch and volume buttons in the same location as they exist on the ultra, even though this is obviously a much smaller form factor. There is a screen protector as well. Now, just like on the ultra model, you have your camera unit, tiny little hole punch in the center of the frame there bottom of the device is where you'll find your USB type-c connector and your speaker modules and place that one down right there, you get your sim tool, you get your USB type-c, cable, and you're up and running first going to reach for the bigger version of this. That's over here.

So this is the s21 plus which actually sits between the s21 and the s21 ultra, and that takes your screen size up to 6.7 inches. Now. The specifications, of course, are going to be a little different here, since the ultra is the flagship model. That's where you're going to find the maximum spec with up to 16 gigs of ram. Am I correct? Is it 16 gigs that we're dealing with these days and 512 storage option that exists with the ultra? If you do step down to the s21 plus then you're, looking at eight gigs of ram and 256 storage, so the regular s21 and s21 plus same spec, it's still for most people plenty of ram, but for those that want the powerhouse status that want to go ultra.

Well, that's why it's called the ultra. I also have the phantom white, which really grabbed my attention because of how matte it comes off and almost like sort of a pearl type of texture to it. I don't know what it is for some reason. This one spoke to me still a two-tone setup with a kind of polished steel around the outside the silver frame. Yeah, there's just something about this one that sort of speaks to me.

Now we do have another ultra variant as well. This is going to be your silver, and this one is probably the most interesting of all the colors available. This one is much more reflective even than the violet over here. So whatever happens to be in front of it is going to kind of reflect in the surface, and it colors shifts and changes depending on the way. The light hits it, so it can be anywhere from a teal to sort of pinkish tone, and it really represents many colors inside the look there.

This is getting wild, so this one is the black variant of the s21 plus this one is also a cool color which is kind of like the black, but not quite it actually comes off as like a really dark, matte gray and the frame changes too, which almost has like a sort of bluish tone to it. So this one they're calling phantom gray and that's available in the s21 and s21 plus check this out. This is a silicone case and that's going to be for your ultra model, as you can see right there now in order to accommodate this pen on the side here, they actually had to extend the case on the front side, so I'm going to actually go ahead and insert this right here. As you can see, that's how that works. Now I don't know if this is going to be for everyone.

Obviously, the device becomes a little wider, but as an exchange for that you're now getting the opportunity to use a pen for your input. It just pops out of their like that, and, of course, if you've ever seen an s pen previously, you kind of know how this functions. Now the s pen is a little different from previous versions. That we've seen with note series there's no more click bit on the eraser portion or in the eraser location, but it kind of makes sense. This device is so big at 6.8 inches that you really could enhance your productivity through the use of the pen, and the pen, of course, has many features here. Everything from note-taking to smart selection screen, write, live messages and so forth.

So the next case is this wallet style case, and you can see it has the clear view on the front, so you can actually catch your notifications and updates, even when the wallet style case is closed. When you have a wallet style case, I think pen input becomes even more important. The way you're holding it- and that's just my guess, but anyway, I'm going to go ahead and insert the ultra model into this case. Now the frame of the case is actually very similar. In fact, it might be identical.

It's silicone on the outside, and it has this channel on the side over here for your pen. However, it just has this piece glued on this hard plastic piece which turns this into a wallet. As you can see right there. This will show you your time battery life the date. Whatever notifications you have and the other thing that happens on this one- is it kind of has a cool cover for the camera portion a little nicer, maybe than the one on the plain silicone case.

So anyway, that's the wallet case. I should also mention at this point uh. Of course, we're also going to be doing the later case for everything within this series, from the ultra down to the regular s21, so go check the site. I believe you can order it. I think it's gone live right now, and I'll have more on that coming up very shortly.

But if you want to be one of the first to receive an ultra slim case, if that's more, your style then go check that out I'll put the link in the description as well all right. So since we're on an unboxing spree here, we might as well reach for the buds pro as well. This is silver. This is blue. I don't know if there's any phantom in the name, one two one there's a few specifications on the back two-way speakers for rich sound, active noise cancellation, so that's built in five to 18 hours of play time and IPA 7 certification for durability.

It's the exact same kind of hue and tone, so you can have the perfect outfit here I'll crack that open. Oh, look at that all shiny and shimmery see a little LED light in the center there, and we have an interchangeable ear tip. So usually the medium is installed. That's a soft touch, ear tip lets. It sits a little further in the ear canal for improved performance.

Often you will have ear tips to choose from and that's exactly what you have inside the packaging here it looks like you have a small and a large to go with the medium. That's already pre-installed, plus an USB type-c cable to charge that up. If you don't want to use the reverse wireless charging, which phone are you supposed to have to get this one? I guess this can go with anyone that you choose and oh yeah. Definitely the white one here once you see the buds themselves, so it's a reflective silver and then the tips and the remainder are white. So this would match really well with the phantom white model variant, okay, cool, I'm gonna reach for the ultra model right now, because that one is just calling my name.

This is a big phone, but it actually maybe doesn't feel that big because of what they've done on the edges of the frame here, the part that you're gripping is actually this thin band and the remainder curves off fairly quickly. So this one obviously takes things to another level. We have the latest chip in here. Now we have the snapdragon 875. We have an adaptive refresh rate on the display, well, first off how about resolution, so you can see out of the box it's in 2400 by 1080, that's FHD! Plus you can go ahead and toggle that up to 3200 by 1440, that's who plus so for those people that really appreciate the extra pixels.

That's a tremendous amount of resolution for a smartphone. You can start to appreciate those added pixels. If you use your device like that, if you're more casual and whatnot, you may prefer the battery savings that come through lowering the resolution, which is probably why it's selected out of the box, yeah sharpest visuals most battery use, but I do appreciate that increased resolution available only on the ultra model, and you have another option here. You have the standard option which toggles back the refresh rate to 60 hertz and that's gonna, be if you're more interested in preserving battery life or, if you're, already low on battery- and you just want to juice a couple extra minutes out, then you may go for the standard setting. I personally will never remove the adaptive setting, and so it looks like we can just straight away in the operating system here run the high resolution, along with the adaptive 120 hertz, so that's kind of a nice little touch.

Why don't? We go ahead and jump into the cameras here, because the cameras are just pretty wild on this particular setup right here, so you can actually see just in the default photo app. I've got one two three four different options to select. Now I have my trusty plant here. This is going to be your standard focal range. That's number one.

We have a 3x zoom, look at the detail now I just do the quick select of the 3x you can see. I have options all the way up to 100x that become available to me on that tap. Of course, not all optical, not the whole way, but the other option here 10x. Oh, my goodness, that is tremendous. Wow.

Look at the look at the 10x optical get out of town. That is detail I mean, and I can even I can keep it going. It is wow and then let me just get the wide-angle shot as well. Now it is a combination. I mean we're sitting here on a s21 ultra, which it's one of the best displays in the game, as you know, with the AMOLED and such, and then we're also using the camera, it's all tuned up, but still that is a premium.

That's a flagship experience right. There here comes 100, oh my goodness, gracious! Oh, my goodness, gracious yeah! It showed me a picture in picture to help me try to frame it. That is just that is insane that mo you. Never even looked at your camera, like that, you never even looked at your camera like that that level of Zoom is uh. Well, it's kind of mind-boggling.

To be honest, so you have hd30 FHD 30. You have FHD, auto UHD, 30, UHD, 60 and 8k 24. If you go to super steady, you are trapped in FHD rather than UHD. Oh baby, that's steady! I can tell you right now. It is tremendously steady.

So I'm going to turn super steady off and then test out. The uhd60 yeah UHD is gonna, probably be the way to go for most people. Now it does have the crazy exotic, 8k, 24 fps, and I am now recording 8k video wow. This always gets me on a smartphone. This is in the 8k mode.

I don't know if Kurt can throw this on the timeline, but it's in 8k mode, so it's focused on the plant, and then I lift my hand, and it's smooth, and I drop it, and it's the plan, and it's by hand, and it's the plan. So it's not hunting around that's kind of a nice improvement right there in the video mode. So I'm happy about that at first glance. Over here, regular s21, s21 plus also do 8k video recording. They do have a smaller battery.

We have a- I can't believe I haven't mentioned it, yet you have a 5 000 William hour battery in the ultra. So obviously, I'm a fan of that now, as expected as you move down in scale you're going to get a smaller battery, so it's 4 000 on the regular s21 and 4800 on the s21, plus keep in mind you're powering a smaller display as well, so it's probably going to consume less battery, but still it's worth noting the biggest battery comes on the ultra model, 6.8 inches and of course we have this tiny little hole punch, so it barely obstructs anything yeah. It looks great, I mean look how vibrant this OLED isn't. Look at that. Okay, the benefit here of having this tiny little hole punch is you're getting more bang for your buck, more screen for your form factor with less obstruction or distraction up along top the hottest new, loud smartphone.

This is the most tremendous camera section of a smartphone I've ever seen. Yeah. Obviously the speaker is loud. It sounds great. It's uh super easy to listen to will just surprise me because this video didn't have enough of the entire lineup.

We also have the Galaxy Buds pro in black, and I was wondering if it did exist. What if you buy the black phone? Of course, you have to have the black model, so you might as well compare that too. These are, these would be the ones I would select. Obviously I would go for the black s21 ultra would be my choice of the bunch, and you know I would slap a later case on. Of course, you already know this, so then I had to have these to match, and it's the same idea.

You have the glossy portion which maps to the frame of the device, and then you have the matte black on the other portion. There I'm going to say something. If you don't mind, this is a very comfortable phone to hold. There is an advantage to a slightly smaller phone. I know everybody over here.

You have to have the spec champ and whatever you're all turned on by the ultra model, but willy dew is a regular s20 guy right now, and he's eyeing this from across the room. It's making me uncomfortable. However, I see where he's coming from, because this is, I mean I feel like I can hold that thing all day. It's lighter. It is uh, slimmer, it's slender, it's still a big display.

Furthermore, it's still got a tremendous screen to body ratio, and it's a very nice screen as well. I don't know man, it's a very nice screen as well. Don't know guys really nice. It obviously doesn't feel quite as premium as the ultra either, but it's a super comfy phone to hold this one is going to start at 7.99 and this one is going to start at 11.99. You see it's a smaller battery, smaller screen, lower resolution still got the snapdragon 875 in there still got a really nice display to look at.

You have the main camera units. Furthermore, you don't get the funky zoom and then, of course, to make things a little more difficult when we reach for the larger version of the regular s20 this guy right here that fits right in between the two. Maybe that's the best combination of things. The screen is almost exactly the same size as it is on the ultra variant. You have the flat edge design, it's a lighter weight in the hand.

It feels a little thinner as well and that one starts at 9.99, so tough choice to make. I think people probably know already what they gravitate towards myself. I wouldn't be satisfied not going for the ultra. Will he do? On the other hand, he likes the smaller form. Factor.

Buds can't forget the buds. These are 199. Maybe I should give them a quick, listen. What do you say so because you're completely inside the galaxy universe? Here, it's super simple. You just connect like these earbuds 100 battery case 83 percent battery.

You could see the Bluetooth volume over there. Okay, that's an actually a really secure fit. It's almost like a fitness bud. I feel like that thing is not going anywhere. I could get up and do a song and a dance and a jog now also the noise-cancelling immediately.

Furthermore, I sort of feel that if I touch and hold it will quickly toggle between those different settings- oh yeah cool, so there's like a rapid version of that. If you need to quickly talk to people and then if I want to go back to noise-cancelling boom, I'm back into noise-canceling and there's a little audio signal that lets. You know that you've done that effectively. I can actually toggle between four different settings for ambience, so not just one ambient pass-through but different levels of it. Now this is like almost an amplification of my surroundings.

Yeah, look. They got some punch to it. You know I'm listening to the boom bap as well, but they got some punch to it. Some kick to it. One of the best things about these earbuds as well, which I almost forgot is wireless power share.

I referenced it earlier so by enabling that you're ready to charge on the back of the device and look at this little setup. How clean is that little vibration red light, led? You know that you're charging up, I mean how cool is that in a pinch all right, so there you have it. It is a brand-new year. It's a brand new Samsung s, series, lineup, s21, s21, plus and s21 ultra, which now brings the s pen as well exciting times. I don't know what this means for the note series, especially since from a power perspective.

This is the real flagship right now, but it's exciting for this model. Out of the bunch. I think it's making a real case for flagship champion status. Of course, it has a price tag to match and then, of course we have some other interesting developments like the two-tone effect that they're going with we'll, probably see this show up elsewhere. Now that Samsung has done it, but I kind of like that.

That's a nice little touch and, of course, we also covered the Galaxy Buds pro. So it's been a bit of an unboxing extravaganza. Thank you for taking part now go ahead, and let me know down in the comment section which color and model is most interesting to you and which you are most likely to go for and also remember. The later case for the s21 plus s21 ultra is dropping right this moment, so click the link in the description. If you want an ultra-thin case, which actually is kind of important, if you're dealing with a massive phone like the ultra model as well, so it's something to consider go check that out I'll, have all kinds of pictures and videos and stuff with that coming up shout out to Samsung thanks for this opportunity and uh there, you go enjoy s21, s21, plus s21, ultra unboxed.

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