Choosing the best Samsung smartphone is no easy task since the South Korean manufacturer makes a whole range of pretty damn good phones, but the Galaxy S21 Ultra is easily the company’s most comprehensive offering right now. In true Samsung fashion, build quality is exemplary and the quality of the screen is to die for. It really does have one of the best screens on any smartphone right now.
A smartphone’s camera is one of the main features that set different models apart, and in the Galaxy S21 Ultra, you get one of the best smartphone cameras around. Offering no less than four sensors, you get a 108-megapixel main sensor, 12-megapixel ultra-wide sensor and two telephoto lenses coming in at 10-megapixels each. Oh, and there’s a 40-megapixel camera on the front for those all-important selfies.
The full rundown on how all those sensors work in tandem can be a bit confusing, so to make it simple, you can be sure of great photos day or night.
As for everything else that makes up a modern smartphone’s headlines, the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra runs on the company’s latest Exynos 2100 processor (in other regions it could be the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888) which results in lightning-fasti navigation around the menus and the opening of apps. It also makes this smartphone a dab hand at gaming, if that’s what you’re into.
On the software front you get the very latest Samsung One UI 3.1, which is based on Google Android 11. This means you get full access to the Google Play Store suite of apps, along with an easy-to-navigate interface that shouldn’t pose too many problems for you, if you’ve owned Android smartphones in the past.
Battery life can be considered good, but not necessarily great, but as with any smartphone, it depends on how you use it. If you spend barely any time away from it and choose to scroll through TikTok, watch videos and play games, expect to have to charge it every night. There’s no charger in the box anymore, as a heads up, so you’ll have to source your own.
Yes, the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra is expensive, but no more so than other flagship smartphones to offer similar experiences. If you’re a devoted Android fan, you can’t get much better.