within just one generation samsung make
quite a lot of changes to their flagship
of flagship smartphones i'm talking
about the leap from the galaxy s21 ultra
to the new galaxy s22 ultra they
obviously look different but there are a
lot of minor changes too so in today's
video let's take a look at what has
changed
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before we go into anything we need to
clarify this first the galaxy s21 ultra
that we have here is the exynos 2100
variant whereas the galaxy s22 ultra is
the snapdragon 8 gen 1 version the
reason why we didn't sync up exynos vs
exynos and snapdragon vs snapdragon is
that i'm going into this by walking into
the same shoes as any other malaysians
everything that i show here
is or was available in the retail market
with official local warranty
so let's start off by talking about the
aesthetics first i'm sure many of you
already know that the galaxy s2 ultra is
essentially a note at heart
i've gone into detail about the design
of the galaxy s22 ultra in our review so
check that out instead one thing i'll
highlight again is that the new more
elegant 5 circle camera bump on the
galaxy x22 ultra it doesn't rock as much
on the table as the galaxy s21 ultra
another difference in the design is
actually the colors available for many
parts of the world there were only two
colors available for both the galaxy s20
ultra and also the galaxy s21 ultra it's
only either black or white
i think samsung played it a little bit
too safe eventually samsung opened up a
little bit more and they did have more
color choices for their premium
smartphones and i think they are much
more playful right now with the new
burgundy and also the green color on top
of the usual phantom black and phantom
white
and looking through our comments for the
galaxy s 22 ultra reveal many of you
picked either the green or burgundy
color too
then comes the differences in terms of
the screens i want to quickly highlight
the difference between the maximum
brightness of these two phones first the
data shown on the screen here was taken
one year ago for the galaxy s21 ultra
when it was just launched
the reason why i did that instead of
taking a brand new reading is because
the galaxy s21 ultra it has been my
daily driver for last year so i think
the oled panel might have deteriorated a
little bit so we'll use back last year's
data
as you can see the maximum brightness of
the galaxy s21 ultra is somewhere about
416 nits at maximum average brightness
and since there's no extra brightness
option like the galaxy s22 ultra this is
the absolute maximum
however the galaxy s22 ultra has two
tiers in terms of its maximum brightness
so the first one is at about 368 nits
and then if we head into the settings
menu enable manual brightness and set it
to extra brightness we can go beyond 750
nits of brightness which is insanely
bright
and realistically speaking these
brightness levels are rarely utilized
except for during broad daylight what i
also want to point out is samsung's
exclusion of a pre-installed screen
protector on their smartphones when we
reviewed samsung phones in the year 2021
that includes both the galaxy s21 ultra
and also the galaxy default 3.
there was a pre-installed screen
protector on the device itself out of
the box however i realized that when we
did our review for the galaxy s21 fe
there was no pre-installed screen
protector i thought i was insane but
nope samsung didn't include any screen
protectors for the galaxy s22 series 2.
maybe samsung just realized a lot of
people are gonna yank it out right away
anyway so why bother putting on a
pre-installed screen protector
with then said finding a screen
protector for these two phones right
here is gonna be difficult since they
are curved around the sides tempered
glass screen protectors are quite
impossible on these displays unless the
manufacturer also provides you a jig to
aid in the installation process
and you'll also most probably need those
uv curing adhesive which i don't
recommend since it's very messy
my best recommendation for you if you
buy these phones and you want a screen
protector is to get those either hydro
gel or film type of screen protectors
they are easily damaged but they are
very cheap so just buy a bulk of them
and just change up every two months or
so then your display will always look
pristine
and of course we'll have to talk about
the s pen too i won't go in depth about
the technicalities and responsiveness
and whatnot because if you want to know
that then check out our review of the
galaxy s22 ultra
what i want to focus here is the
usability of the s-pen as in to bring it
around as you know the galaxy s21 ultra
s pen was sold separately you can get
the s-pen alone
and have nowhere to carry it or you can
buy the bundle which includes a rubbery
case that deteriorated after like three
months of usage into its lifespan but it
does have a slot for you to carry the
s-pen along with the phone
for the galaxy s22 ultra the s-pen goes
inside the phone's body which means
you'll never lose it and the galaxy s
22's s pen since it's connected to the
phone via bluetooth low energy or ble
for short they have some sort of
presence detection so
the phone will beep if it gets too far
away from the s pen
and since the s pen is connected via ble
then you can also use the magic wand
feature too
which is something that i really like
since the galaxy note 9 series of
smartphones that is extremely relevant
nowadays too since the galaxy s 22 ultra
camera are so good and you can just get
a tripod and utilize that camera to its
full extent
however that also means the galaxy s 22
ultra s pen will need to be thinner to
fit inside the phone
that is why we have a much more slender
space efficient s-pen for the galaxy s2
ultra which is just not so comfortable
to use for an extended period of time
on the flip side the galaxy s21 ultra s
pen is a separate accessory anyway so
that design of that s pen can be
thicker bigger and hence much more
comfortable to hold but we don't have
the magic wand feature
there is no clear winner between these
two phones s pen unfortunately i
personally prefer the galaxy s 22 ultra
solution since the s pen is inside the
body and i can quickly grab it if i just
want to make some
quick drawings or sketches or something
like that and it is also very useful to
take pictures as a remote shutter
so let's jump right in and talk about
the cameras now i'm sure this is what
many of you guys are looking forward to
the configuration on paper is nearly
identical
i mounted these two phones to our
thingamajig and started snapping
pictures
again these pictures were taken on a
very gloomy day and it already started
to rain when i was about to go out and
take the pictures and videos
i can tell you right now in terms of
outdoor shots these two phones do look
good truth to be told i don't have a
clear preference on which phone looks
better some shots look better on the
galaxy s21 ultra due to a more natural
look
but some shots look better on the galaxy
s22 ultra with its more dynamic and
dramatic contrast
one thing i can confirm though is that
the zoom shots are arguably better on
the galaxy s22 ultra
as for the indoor shots i took pictures
of the dogs but they are always moving
around so it's quite impossible to take
the exact same pictures on both phones i
tried to match it and i realized the
galaxy s 22 ultra
shot is much more natural and closer to
what i see with my own two eyes
i also realized that the galaxy s21
ultra tends to bump up the exposure a
little bit more to make it look brighter
than the galaxy s22 ultra as a quick
mention the portrait mode on the galaxy
s 22 ultra is also much sharper and the
age detection on the dog's fur is much
more accurate to the point that i can
see strands of hair poking out which is
not visible on the galaxy s21 ultra
that is actually quite a huge
improvement for the night shots i also
realized that the galaxy s 22 ultra is
triggering night mode a lot more often
compared to the galaxy s21 ultra when i
pointed both the phones at the same
scene galaxy s2 ultra stays like mode
but the galaxy s21 ultra says no
to make this comparison fair i toggled
night mode on the galaxy s21 ultra 2 and
this is where the clear differences
start to show for whatever reason the
galaxy s21 ultra tends to over expose
some of the night shots i mean if you
look at this picture without any context
you can immediately tell that it's not
realistic the galaxy s22 ultra on the
other hand looks believable
another thing that i found out is that
the 10x zoom at night also looks cleaner
on the galaxy s 22 ultra but for some
reason the 100 times zoom shots at night
on the galaxy s7 ultra is super noisy
just like my neighbors i presume that is
because the galaxy s22 ultra is still
new and a lot more work needs to be done
in terms of optimizing the camera to
work better with the new isp on the
chipset i also tried expert raw mode for
a little while on these two phones and i
just left everything on auto though the
processing on the expert raw app is
different from the usual camera app the
results are pretty similar to what we
saw before the galaxy s22 ultra is much
more contrasty
and we'll leave the expert raw
conversation for another day because
this is an entirely topic that i think
it deserves a video of its own
and i also quickly want to breeze
through selfie shots and as you can see
here the colors and particularly the
skin tones on the galaxy s22 ultra
are also much better
for selfie videos i recorded this but
what about selfie video recording then
well as you can see i got both phones
set up right now the framing is a bit
weird because i need to get both phones
in the same shot so
yeah but anyway i hope you can hear me
clearly because it's very windy right
now it's about to rain and the kids
screaming at the back
so
yeah this is the comparison of the
selfie video both of them are recording
in 4k 60fps by the way it's just that
you are watching in 1080p 60fps so
yeah let's just test the dynamic range
for a second
so behind me here is dark
it's actually quite good both phones are
quite good in terms of dynamic range
good surprise
the microphones on the galaxy s and the
one ultra doesn't sound as good
so i think that's because there are some
dust or lint just clogging up the
microphone a little bit which might have
affected the microphone quality
so take that with a grain of salt and
then testing the stability of the rear
facing cameras when it comes to
recording a video in broad daylight the
galaxy s22 ultra is obviously better and
it manages to iron out some of the
little jitters on the galaxy x21 ultra
the details and colors also look better
on the galaxy s22 ultra
and then when the knight came i took the
same video again and this is where the
galaxy s22 shines the most the noise
level stabilization and even the colors
are just unbelievably good on the galaxy
s22 ultra so great job there samsung
okay so enough about the cameras now it
comes to the battery life and also the
efficiency between these two devices i
have already spoiled the surprise in our
galaxy s 22 ultra reveal but i'll just
mention it again here the galaxy s21
ultra was my daily driver for 8 months
last year but it manages to outperform
the galaxy s22 ultra in our battery life
test i think we'll have to wait for new
software updates to further optimize the
galaxy s22s
chipset and also efficiency but as of
now i'm just very disappointed with the
snapdragon 8gen one
in the galaxy s22 ultra
now as for the charging time samsung say
that the galaxy s2 ultra has gone back
up to 45 watts as compared to 25 watts
on the galaxy s21 ultra
but i couldn't prove this since our
charger only reported 28 watts on the
galaxy s22 ultra someone in the comments
said that it's because our charger
didn't support super fast charging 2.0
standard however sam mobile published a
video where they did a charging test
instead and they have the true super
fast charging 2.0 charger
even though our testing methodology
isn't the same i compared it alongside
with our data and found out that the
charging speed doesn't actually change
that much after all i also compared our
galaxy s2 ultra charging test with the
galaxy s21 ultra charging test that we
got from a year ago
and we found out that the galaxy s22
ultra is indeed faster to me fast
charging standard isn't always about
reaching 100 the fastest
it's more about which devices can reach
50 mark faster
and so that's it that's our comparison
between the galaxy s21 ultra and the
galaxy s22 ultra
on paper these two devices are very
similar but in truth they are very
different
many things can't be told through words
which is why i hope this video conveyed
the differences between these two phones
effectively
so
one last thing that i want to highlight
though is that if you want to get the s
pen for the galaxy s7 one ultra it's
actually much more expensive because you
have to buy
the case and also the pen separately
which kind of adds up to the price of
the galaxy s22 ultra and that is all we
have to share with you about these two
phones so if you have any other
additional questions leave them down in
the comment section below we'll answer
them whenever we can and we'll see you
guys in the next video
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