- Well, well, well, look what we have here.
A Samsung Galaxy S21.
S21.
Hey, I'm Jerry.
And yes, this is the brand new Samsung Galaxy S21
that just arrived.
We're gonna pop it open, take a look at it
and get a couple of first impressions
and go from there, I guess.
Now, if you've been watching my channel for a while
you're probably wondering
why the heck does he have an Android phone?
Well, honestly, since I started my channel
I have been mostly iPhone
but this is not my first Android rodeo.
Actually, that sounds pretty cool.
I would go see an Android rodeo for sure,
but no I've had a lot of Android phones
and iPhone just happens to be what I use at the moment.
I use whatever technology, whether that's Android or iOS
or Mac or windows or whatever type of smart device
is best for me at the moment.
And, at the moment my go-to phone is the iPhone
because I like the integration that I have with the computer
and with the Apple watch and with the iPad.
But there's nothing that's really preventing me
from going back to Android if that's what I choose.
In fact, I've had a lot of Android phones
starting with the HTC Legend
that I bought back in 2011 or 2012
in Malaysia when I lived in Vietnam.
And since then, I've had like the Nexus six
and the Nexus five, and Galaxy S9.
You know what? I got a list.
All right, so here's all of the Android phones
that I've had since about the 2011, 2012 period.
I've had the HTC Legend,
the Nexus five, Nexus six, Moto G, Galaxy S6,
Nexus 6P, Galaxy S7, Google Pixel XL, Moto 5G
Pixel 2XL, the Glaxy S9 and the Google Pixel three.
And then I went back to iPhone
for the last couple of years, but now let's try this.
So very simple packaging, of course, a very slim box
because you know, what's missing, a power adapters missing.
Yeah. They pulled an Apple.
And actually, if you look at the box, it's very similar.
Of course, this one's a little bit taller
because the regular S21 has I believe a 6.2 inch screen
and this is the iPhone 12 mini, but you know what?
Apple still wins on thinness of box size
but we're not here to talk about iPhone.
So let's get this guy open.
So this is the standard S21
which I believe is 6.2 inches just black.
And I think it's what 128 gigabytes or something like that
whatever the base storage is.
Oop, dropped something there
that is worthless.
All right, oh, look at that.
This phone came with something on it.
Yeah, debris from across the world.
Inside the box, we have the phone of course.
And we'll get to that in just a minute
but it looks pretty cool.
Underneath the phone we have a SIM tool
and a box with a charging cable
and some documentation that nobody's ever gonna read.
And, that's it.
Get rid of this.
So, this phone is roughly the same size
as the regular iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 pro
but it does not have the squared edges
like the iPhone 12 phones do.
And I've seen a couple of comments
in the last couple of days
about people actually preferring the rounded edges
to the sharp edges.
Even though the sharp edges look a lot better.
And the sharper flatter edges of the iPhone 12
I know we keep talking about the iPhone,
but the sharper flatter edges
of the iPhone 12 make for more grip ability, in my opinion.
At the bottom he got a speaker, the SIM slot,
nothing on this side, microphones, volume rocker,
and the power switch or sleep switch.
And I guess the second speaker is up here in the earpiece.
And on the back, we have the three cameras,
wide, ultra wide, and the space zoom
which I'm super excited to actually try out.
All right, so let's turn this on and pull the plastic off.
There we go.
Samsung Galaxy.
Powered by Android
in case you were wondering.
So a couple of things about this phone real quick
the back on this phone the regular standard S1.
So not the S1 plus or the S1 ultra is plastic,
which actually this is fine.
It keeps the cost down and it looks pretty nice.
It's a nice matte black finish.
And I think it looks pretty good.
It's getting a little fingerprinty
but you know, whatever
most people are going to throw a case on it.
And we'll talk about the screen more after I get it set up.
But the screen is I believe a 1080P panel
which a lot of people are upset with
that it's not at least a 1440P panel
or whatever the other resolutions are
but it is a high refresh rate panel which means
just like on something like the iPad pro as you scroll
it should be a much cleaner, crispier view of text
and other things as you're scrolling
and moving around the screen.
It should feel like less delay when you touch the screen
or swipe or do anything on the display.
And the S21 comes with
a larger in-display fingerprint sensor
or under-display fingerprint sensor, the last year's phone.
So let's set that up.
Says start scanning with the center of your fingertip.
And, I think you just slightly adjusted
just like you do with other fingerprints sensors
kind of move your finger around
and keep doing that over and over
until it gets enough photos of your fingerprint.
Yay. I've done it.
So we have the phone set up with the fingerprint sensor.
And I think if I just place my phone
on the area that the sensor should be in
even with the display off, it should turn on.
Yup. I sure did.
And we can see that if we lock the screen, turn it back on
it wants to fingerprint right there.
Here's my finger.
There we go.
And if I use a different finger of course
that should not work.
Yup. All right.
It's actually pretty fast.
It's not bad.
Now, if you get used to where the placement is
for your thumb to go, if you're pulling it
out of your pocket, you should be able to pull it out
and unlock it without ever seeing a lock screen.
Ooh. Did you see that?
If I just tap the display,
it seemed to unlock it really quick.
How about that?
All right, so that's actually a pretty sweet
that's the first time I've used an
in display fingerprint sensor
and of course you can do face unlock
and other things with that I believe as well.
And I'll play around with that later
but so far that's pretty cool.
And right out of the box, the display looks amazing.
Actually it looks really good.
It's really clear and as you're scrolling
the text is nice and sharp.
All right, so I pulled out my iPhone
so that we can take a look at this
open up the camera app,
down the bottom just like on the iPhone you have
ultra wide, wide and telephoto.
So let's see how that looks.
So there's the ultra wide, wide and telephoto
which is three X.
And if we go up a little bit,
you can kind of see how it's looking at the viewfinder
on my other camera and we can actually pinch to zoom
and get up to 30X for space zoom.
So let's see how that looks.
I can see down here, it says 30X.
And it is pretty grainy, but is it working?
Yeah, it is working.
And you actually have a little viewfinder
up at the top right there which helps you know
what you're pointing at, because it can be difficult to find
if you're not pointing in the right direction.
So that's kind of nice.
I like that.
But I can't really test a lot sitting right here.
So I'm going to have to use it a little bit
over the next couple of days to come back
and give you a little bit more feedback
or a little bit more of my opinions about this camera.
But first off, after the unboxing, the display looks great,
the fingerprint sensors kinda cool,
that's the first one that I've used
and the camera is very interesting.
One other thing that I haven't touched on yet is the design.
I really liked the design of this S21.
I prefer flat displays compared to curve displays.
I think it just makes things so much easier
things aren't distorted on the edges.
And if you want to put a glass screen protector on it
or something like that, it makes it so much easier.
And the back of course is plastic
but it still looks really nice.
You get wireless charging, you have your three cameras.
And the camera bump is very interesting.
And Samsung actually made the camera bump
a feature this year and design feature
which I think is really nice.
It kind of rolls into the side.
And if you can remember camera bumps
of years past where, you know, people were offended by them
or disgusted by them, or you have the 2018 iPad pro
which had the wart camera bump.
This one actually looks really good.
Samsung leaned into it.
They said, you know what?
It has to be there.
Let's make it look good.
And I think they did a great job.
So that's the unboxing of the S21.
I haven't had a chance to get into the software yet.
Over time I will do that
and I'll get back to you guys with my impressions.
But this is a brand new phone,
yes it's plastic on the back
but it's an expensive phone still at 799.
It's got the Snapdragon 888 processor.
It's got a big glass screen.
It looks beautiful.
You want to keep it beautiful, right?
Well, to do that, you're going to need a case.
So ESR gear actually sent me over
a couple of cases to check out.
We have their clear case for the S21
which is a silicone case
and the phone just snaps right in there of course,
like any other case.
It looks really good,
it shows off the design of your new S21.
So maybe you got the purple one.
Maybe you got the other colors
and you want to show that off.
The clear case from ESR gear is the perfect way to do that.
It doesn't hide the camera bump.
It doesn't hide the aesthetic of the phone.
So you still get to see
and admire the beauty of your new device.
One of the most important things to me in a case
is the button clickiness.
And these ESR cases have nice clicky buttons.
You know, when you're pushing it, it's not a mistake.
You don't think you pushed it and you didn't actually do it.
It's not spongy, it feels really great.
And that beautiful camera bump
that we talked about a few minutes ago
is perfectly protected.
There's a lip that surrounds it.
So when the case sits on a surface
it's not going to get scratched in any way.
So your cameras are protected.
Now, of course, ESR gear also has a number of other cases
including this kickstand case.
So if you're going to be consuming
a lot of media on your S21,
then this kickstand is a great option.
Just like the clear case,
it's going to protect the camera bump,
it's going to give you clicky buttons
but you do get this kickstand so you can set your phone up.
So let me show you how that works.
And of course, installing it could not be simpler.
The buttons are nice and clicky, and you got your kickstand.
So you can set your phone up and watch YouTube
maybe something like youtube.com/jerryschultz.
I dunno, you know, just throwing something out there
but while you're there, maybe hit the subscribe button.
Now, if you're thinking, Hey, I really want a kickstand case
but I still want to show off the beauty of the new S21
and you want a clear case,
good news is, ESR gear has a clear kickstand case.
And even better than that,
you can actually check these out in the links below
and use code JERRY2021 for 20% off
your ESR gear cases for your new Galaxy S21.
So that's it for the unboxing
of the Samsung Galaxy S21 phone.
What questions do you have about it?
What would you like to see in the review?
What would you like me to compare it against?
Let me know below.
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on the S21 and I'll see you next time.
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