Review on Samsung Galaxy S21 5G - Factory Unlocked US Version Smartphone with 📱 Pro-Grade Camera, 8K Video, 64MP High Res & 128GB Storage - Phantom Gray (SM-G991UZAAXAA) by Jnis Zels ᠌

Name: Samsung Galaxy S21 5G - Factory Unlocked US Version Smartphone with 📱 Pro-Grade Camera, 8K Video, 64MP High Res & 128GB Storage - Phantom Gray (SM-G991UZAAXAA)
Item: Samsung Galaxy S21 5G - Factory Unlocked US Version Smartphone with 📱 Pro-Grade Camera, 8K Video, 64MP High Res & 128GB Storage - Phantom Gray (SM-G991UZAAXAA)
Rating: 5

July 04, 2023

Great quality, happy with it one hundred percent!

I bought this smart for 256 GB in February of this year, before all the events, for 47k with a trade-in, I handed over my working, but with a cracked S9 screen. In general, I don’t see any point in buying Samsung flagships at the exit for the overprice, knowing that they will fall in price by almost half in six months or a year.
I have been using Samsung flagships for more than five years (S7 Edge, S9, S10, now S21)
In the end, I’m still glad that I again chose and bought Samsung and Android, and not an iOS device, otherwise, with all the current restrictions, in the form of problems with applications and the lack of payment using a smartphone, I would be very upset.
Well, thanks to Samsung, that, unlike the snarkers, you have not cut off (yet) the WORLD cards in SPay.

Pros

1) Appearance. And it’s good that I didn’t wait for the S22, it has the same design, and you can’t tell from 3 meters at all. but there are BUT in shortcomings 2) Screen 120 Hz. The display itself is now FHD + resolution, and not QHD, like the S10 (but in truth, I set the resolution to FHD + on the S10, and did not change it), but this is not a minus at all. I'm used to a flat display, and in the future there will be no such problems with sticking films as I had with the S10. 3) Cameras, but not without nuances. At first, I almost did not find any fundamental difference between the S10 and S21, although two generations ped. But over time, or with the ates of the damned 12 android, the difference in difficult shooting conditions still became noticeable, the AI was pulled up and the output was good pictures. 4) One UI, set it up for yourself once and rejoice 5) Bixby script, also a cool thing that makes life easier 6) Extension of software ates for another year 7) Still running SPAy 8) No discomfort in using under the conditions of (removal of banking and other applications from the market is compensated by installing APK)

Cons

1) Perceptible heating in everyday tasks. On the S10, it was many times smaller and only in heavy programs, or long use of the screen. S21 heats up frequently and in non-stressful situations. Especially hot in the work of the navigator through Android Auto. 2) The Camera application itself infuriates me wildly with its brakes, especially when switching modes and going to the gallery. As if not a flagship, damn it. The problem is exclusively software and all this is Android 12, because on S10 on Android 11 everything was fine, but on 12 the same lags. 3) Android 12 - the performance is disgusting, android 11 was many times better. The brakes are especially noticeable when Android Auto is running (and I use it very often) and at the same time the phone is a quiet horror, and this has not yet been fixed. I do not think that the fault of the Samsung, but the android itself let us down. Looking forward to improvements 4) Simplification by materials and in general. Compared to the S10, there is a simplification of the design in terms of the fact that the display is no longer curved, but flat, and the back cover is plastic, not gl (the phone is in a case, so it’s not critical)