- With the official Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event
weeks away, we pretty much already know everything
there is to know about the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra.
What's up guys, Saf here, on SuperSaf TV, and as always,
we're going to be breaking down all of the information
that we have available,
so you guys know exactly what to expect.
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So as we've had in previous years,
there will be three Samsung Galaxy S devices.
This year there's going to be an S22, an S22+ and an S22 Ultra.
Now in this video, we are just going to be concentrating
on the S22 Ultra, which is the flagship device.
And the first thing you'll notice right away
from all of the leaks and rumors, is that the S22 Ultra
looks quite different to the S22 and the S22+,
this is a fresh design.
Samsung introduced a new design for the S21 Ultra last year,
where the camera module kind of blends into the edges,
something that I really do like.
And although this design has been continued on to the S22
and the S22+, the S22 Ultra has something
that Samsung hasn't really done before.
We've got all of the camera modules separate,
and they are almost flush with the back of the device.
But more interestingly, the S22 Ultra
now looks like it's got more of a boxier design.
You guys know where I'm going with this.
Samsung traditionally has more of a boxier designed
for their Note series, but as you may already know,
last year, we did not have a Note device.
Now this was for many reasons,
one of which was the chip shortage.
But if we do look at previous years,
the Samsung Galaxy S line has been getting more
and more close to the Note line,
with the S Pen really being the differentiator.
On the S21 Ultra last year, it did have support
for the S Pen, although this was something
that you'd have to buy separately.
With the S22 Ultra, it looks like we are getting the S Pen,
but it will be included, and it will be housed
within the device itself, like we've had on the Note series.
And Samsung has just now teased the merging
of the Galaxy Note series into the S series,
which all but confirms this.
Now for somebody like me, who's a big fan
of the Note series, I'm very happy about this.
Essentially it's a Note device, but it is now named
an S22 Ultra, which I'm absolutely fine with.
From the leaked info around, the size,
it looks like this will be very similar in size
to the Samsung Galaxy Note20 Ultra we had last year,
a little bit thicker.
And it will have an aluminium frame
with curved glass panels, both on the front and the back.
The front panel will be Gorilla Glass Victus+
according to rumors, this will be a step above
the current Gorilla Glass Victus we have.
The S22 Ultra will be available initially in four colors,
a black, a white, a bronze,
which is similar to the Note20 Ultra we've already seen,
but also a new green, which looks really good.
The S22 Ultra will also have IP68 water and dust resistance.
Now the S Pen will be improved
compared to what we've had in previous years.
And it's rumored to have a latency
down to just 2.8 milliseconds, which is amazing,
a much lower latency compared to the S Pens
that we've had in previous years.
And if we move over to the front,
the display actually looks very similar
in terms of the design to the Samsung Galaxy Note20 Ultra.
So we've got small bezels with a center punch out
for the front facing camera.
Now, although the design looks overall the same,
the technology has been improved.
So we've got LTPO technology going all the way
down to one Hertz and all the way up to 120 Hertz.
Now this is going to be able to switch quicker
compared to what we've had in previous years,
making it more efficient.
We're going to have a Quad HD+ resolution.
I mean, Samsung is the best when it comes to displays,
so I can only expect that this will be one of the,
if not the best display on the market when it releases.
And we've not really had much information
about the in-display fingerprint scanner,
but we can expect this to be the ultrasonic Gen 2,
or maybe an improved version of it.
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Now for the cameras, as far as we can see,
the overall setup is going to be quite similar
to what we had on the S21 Ultra last year.
So a 40 megapixel selfie camera at the front,
and then a quad rear facing camera set up,
with a 12 megapixel ultra-wide camera,
108 megapixel primary camera with a super clear lens.
And two telephoto cameras, one with three times optical zoom
and the other with 10 times periscope optical zoom.
Now, although the specs are overall the same,
we should be having some improved sensors
along with the new image signal processes
that are going to come with the new chipset,
so this should give us improved imagery.
And for video, it is rumored that the S22 ultra
will support 12-bit HDR recording,
this will give you around 64 times more colors
compared to what we had previously.
Now, personally speaking for me, the Samsung Galaxy series
generally has the best video on the Android side,
so I'm very excited to see what the S22 Ultra would offer.
And of course, we're going to be doing lots of SuperSaf-style
camera comparisons as soon as the S22 Ultra is in-house.
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Right, moving on, what is the S22 Ultra going to be powered by?
Well, we're going to have a similar situation
like we've had in previous years, there will be
a Qualcomm chipset, as well as an Exynos chipset.
The Qualcomm version, pretty obvious,
it will be the Qualcomm Snapdragon8 Gen 1,
this is the flagship chipset
for most Android devices this year.
But on the Exynos side of things,
we're likely to have at the Exynos 2200.
This is a four nanometer chip with AMD RDNA 2 architecture,
based on Samsung's Eclipse GPU.
Now, in terms of which one of these is going to perform better,
we've seen some leaked benchmarks,
but I try not to go towards benchmarks.
Generally, the Qualcomm version has been superior,
but maybe that's going to change this year.
We'll be doing lots of tests,
and I will try to get both of these devices in-house,
so we can do some more experience-based comparisons.
And for storage, the S21 Ultra last year
came in three options, 128, 256, and 512 gigabytes.
It is rumored that the S22 Ultra
will also have a one terabyte option.
And unfortunately there will not to be a micro SD card slot.
We didn't have that last year, and it's not going to make
a come back to this year unfortunately, I'm sorry.
Stereo speakers are expected, there's going to be one
in the earpiece and one bottom firing.
For software, it will be Android 12 with One UI 4.1.
One UI for me, it's personally
one of my favorite skins on Android.
You've got great one-handed usage,
and Samsung has actually been keeping on top of updates,
so this is something that I'm definitely excited about.
Right, for the battery, from all the leaks and rumors,
it looks like we will have the same size battery as we had
on the S21 Ultra, this will be around 5,000 milliamps.
Now, generally, Note devices have a slightly smaller battery
because you need space for the S Pen, but it looks like
by making the device maybe slightly thicker,
they have managed to get the same size battery
as we had on the S21 Ultra, which is great.
The S21 Ultra in my experience generally
did have very good battery life,
so I'd expect the same with the S22 Ultra.
Now for charging, it looks like we will have improved
45 Watts wide charging available.
This will have to be bought separately however,
because as we had with the S21 ultra, there will not be
a charger included out of the box with the S22 Ultra.
You're going to get those slim boxes, which are now a fee.
Wireless charging will also be supported,
this will be just at 15 Watts,
so not as fast as some of the competition out there.
We can also expect reverse wireless charging powershare,
so you can charge other devices like earbuds and things
on the back of the S22 Ultra.
Finally, when can you officially hear about the S22 Ultra?
Well, the current date for Unpacked
is rumored to be the 9th of Feb.
There was some reports saying the 8th of Feb,
but most recent ones are saying 9th of Feb.
And once the S22 Ultra has been officially announced,
you can expect it to go on sale
around a couple of weeks after that date.
For pricing, we've only had leaked pricing in Euros,
which is similar to the launch price of the S21 Ultra.
And considering that the S21 Ultra came in at around $1,200,
I'd expect the S22 Ultra to come in around about that price,
maybe slightly lower, maybe slightly higher.
And that's everything that we know about the S22 Ultra
so far, I mean, it's pretty much everything.
What do you guys think of it
based on all of these leaks and rumors?
Personally, I'm very excited.
Do let me know what you guys think in the comments below.
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