

Here is where the upgraded Single Take feature comes in handy – the S21 Ultra now takes up to 10 shots in a second (up from two in the last gen) and then presents only the best photos based on aesthetics, including facial expression and composition. The upgraded Single Take feature is a boon for bad photographers like this reviewer. I am not sure if you have ever been an Instagram spouse and can empathise but as a self-proclaimed terrible photographer, taking photos has always been a challenge for me. The highlight of the S21 Ultra is its back cameras – a 12-megapixel ultra-wide camera, 108-megapixel wide-angle camera and dual 10-megapixel telephoto cameras, one with 3x optical zoom and the other with 10x. So if you already own a Note smartphone, you can use its S Pen to doodle and draw on the screen, or opt to buy the upcoming souped-up stylus which will be bigger, and dare I say, mightier.
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The S21 Ultra is also the first S series phone to support the much-coveted S Pen stylus, which has been exclusive to Samsung’s Galaxy Note range, the company’s other flagship series, until now.

At 120GHz, scrolling and playing games can’t get any smoother, and it’s supported at Quad HD+ (3,200 x 1,440 pixels) resolution unlike previous iterations or other models in the S21 range. During the review, it hardly failed to recognise my fingerprint and was super quick. Talking about fingerprints, the S21 Ultra boasts a much larger and faster fingerprint sensor on the front. The matte black finish is nice to the touch and, more importantly, is not a fingerprint magnet. The matte finish would be my pick if one is planning to forgo a case, as it feels nice to the touch and is not a fingerprint magnet. The phone comes in two colours – Phantom Silver and Phantom Black – the former eye-catching, while the latter more interesting because of its matte finish. Instead of just chasing megapixels and processor clock cycles, Samsung has found nifty new ways to put every tech it has managed to cram into the phone to great use, making it a polished product built in line with the user’s needs.Įven in terms of design, the S21 Ultra’s protruding camera block, an eyesore for many other phones, blends in with the design to give it a sleek finish. If only one word could be used to describe the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G, then it would be “refined”.
