welcome everyone it is that time of year
again to unbox and take our first look
at the brand new flagship device from
samsung
so samsung recently just had their
unpacked event for 2021
where they launched the brand new
samsung galaxy s21 range
plus the s21 ultra 5g which you see here
today and i'm really excited to be
unboxing this
as well as in the next couple of days
you'll see some unboxings of a brand new
case
the smart tag from samsung and also the
galaxy buds
pro which i've never tested before but
today we're going to be unboxing the
s21 ultra 5g so on the front here we've
got s21
s21 ultra 5g i've got the phantom silver
128 gigabyte
model so let's get it unboxed so on the
back here we don't really see much
information anymore
but i will be giving you loads of
information as soon as it's unboxed and
we set up together so we just have a
little bit of tape
so it's a very small box now compared to
what it used to be and that is because
they're following the trend of removing
certain bits as they presume you have it
at home or
you're going to go and buy it from their
shop so let's see what you actually get
now
so that nice slow reveal
yeah so there's our device
sat on there should i show you the back
wow looks nice the phantom silver looks
really good
like that you get that sort of a raw or
different color effect depending on the
light
wow quite heavy device but looks
absolutely stunning
can't wait to use this on a daily basis
should we do that satisfying peel
ready
that is so satisfying every time i do it
so there is our new device there it's
already got a fingerprint on it as you
can see
so we've got a little tab here that says
samsung
and that's really about it in the box
wow
so we've got any paperwork nope nothing
else in the box
let's see what we get inside here
so you do get cable still you get some
booklets
and that's it there's also a
sim tool in there yes around the back
there is a sim tool so you do get your
sim tool
so no headphones but that's okay because
i've got the galaxy buds
pro which is great to see so normally
you might get some tuned akg
wired headphones but we've got the main
thing a sim tool which i need to add in
my sim card
we've got charger which is great so when
it comes around to paperwork we've got a
quick start guide and we've got a
warranty card so make sure you register
your warranty
um our cable let's have a look at our
cable here
so our cable is usb-c to usb-c that's
fine because all of my connections now
are usb-c
the problem is though a lot of people
don't actually have a usb-c
connection on their device or a plug
that's usb-c because mainly it's usb-a
so you have to go and buy a new one
which still means you have to pay more
money
and still use then the cost of transport
and the cost of shipping
on the sort of your mileage as well your
product mileage and sort of how much
that costs
in the environment costs so i get the
why they're doing it but maybe i think
they might be doing it for profit as
well
because they're still going to be making
money so they don't give you as much
so enough said that is what we get in
the box now so very little these
unboxings will be a lot quicker in the
future
so here is our device
and that's quite a hump but the cameras
on this are
impressive they are so good it's
unbelievable
just noticed another little tab here
oh that's again so satisfying just
taking it off it's so satisfying so we
have our camera lenses there
and let's power on for the first time so
it's running android 11 and one ui
3.1 now so there is quite a large update
when you first get this not everyone is
getting it though so please be careful
please be patient
and it will come so samsung galaxy s21
ultra 5g
and i saw android down here at the
bottom so for me now i've moved into
quite a new area
where luckily we do have 5g not right at
home but just down the road so i can go
and test it a lot more
so before we go through the setup phase
i want to talk about accessibility down
here in the bottom
is your accessibility figure so we've
got talkback this will talk back
everything on your device for you a
great option
not to worry though i will link in the
video description when filmed is a full
accessibility video of android 11
on the brand new samsung s21 ultra 5g
going through all of the accessibility
features this device has
so for one thing straight away you can
actually convert the display
making it easier to read so actually
doing the color inversion
you've got high contrast text you've got
other options in here the one i'm going
to change is the font
size just making it a little bit easier
for me to read
just as i go through the review as you
can see it makes it a little bit easier
so we've got magnification we've got
view more you've got loads of different
options
inside here to make it so accessible to
you so let's go back and go through the
setup phase together so we're getting
the welcome message at the top we're
gonna go
okay so we're gonna select english and
united kingdom this option here a few
extras
so these are terms and conditions i
select all of these so i can use my
brand new device
so choose your wi-fi or enter a sim so
i'm going to actually
input a vodafone sim which is a 5g sim
card now so next
up is about copying your data so you can
press next here and you can copy from
another device or you can copy from an
iphone if you want to we're going to say
don't copy because i want to use it as a
fresh device here
vodafone uk again yes that's correct and
then we're going to sign
in with our google account here so it's
got an accessibility keyboard on at the
moment that's because of the contrast
options i set so
if you don't press to change your
contrast that's fine you'll have a
standard keyboard not to worry
i've just used this one because it's
easier for me to use so sign in with
your google account if you don't have
one
you can simply create one very easily
but you'll need this to use all of the
google play services and their
applications so i'm just going to sign
in with mine now then we're greeted with
a welcome message which is terms
conditions that you need to agree to
to use all of their services as i
mentioned you can read through that
though if you want to if it's your first
time
then google services so the one i turn
off is cloud backup
which doesn't include photos though so
my photos just still go to google photos
allow i went for the 128 gigabyte model
i think that's the best
one suited to me there is no micro sd
card though so please choose the right
one for you
now we have to choose our search
provider so they don't just presume
you're going to use google now which is
great i am going to just use google
though
it comes to protecting our device so
we've got face recognition
fingerprints pattern pin or passwords or
you could skip never skip this section
so let's go for face recognition okay
and we can choose a pin as a backup so
enter your pin
here so a minimum of four and then
whatever you want it then asks do you
wear glasses
i'm gonna say no and then i'm just gonna
look at my device here
okay very quick very simple to do so
stay on lock screen until swipes that
means i get to see my notifications
instead of just picking up my device and
unlocking straight away i might just
want to read my notifications it's a
great new little added feature there so
allow then we've got faster recognition
require open eyes and brighten screen
so it'll do all that for me next you
could also use the inbuilt fingerprint
sensor which i'll show you once set up
then it's going to get all your
um google services downloaded for you
from your accounts or your settings
including your google assistant do i
want the my vodafone application
no that's okay at the moment continue
it's a samsung account
so signing into your samsung accounts
will give you great perks at the moment
including youtube premium there's some
spotify options depending in the country
you live i'm just going to skip for the
moment but otherwise
i will sign in so i'm just gonna skip
gonna tell me all the reasons why
i don't want to skip and i totally agree
but i'm still gonna skip anyway
and you're all set up and ready to go so
press done here
and we're greeted with this nice
wallpaper so our device is all set up
and it's ready to go so let's just tap
here and we can get our weather location
for us
go start to get our weather brilliance
we are due snow tomorrow so that's going
to be great to go out and take some
photos with
starting to get notifications come
through now pulling down here
you'll get to see our inbuilt camera
which is great and we'll go through
great details
as i said still loads of different bits
coming through i did notice as well
there's a little bit of plastic here
it'll peel off the one that's on your
screen i'm actually going to put mine
back
on to try and protect my screen as much
as i can but you can peel that off if
you want to
but i would leave it on unless you're
going to get a dedicated screen
protector
so our device is set up and it is ready
to go so let's go and explore and go
through some key
details and it's still coming through
loads of information so we've got google
now
instead of bixby so we've got google
over here instead of the bixby home
so we've got some information started to
come through which is great
i've got like the gestures as well you
can have the buttons here or you can
have full gestures it's up to you
but let's go through some key details
now of the brand new samsung galaxy
s21 ultra 5g so first of all let's talk
about
our display and what we're going to be
looking at all the time so it's a large
6.8 inch
amoled two times quad hd plus display
is edge to edge as well so it folds
around the edges its resolution is 1440
by 3200
which is huge and it's absolutely great
to see here
it offers 10 to 120 hertz adaptive
refresh rate
so that means when you're in options
like settings you'll fly through really
quickly but you might not need that all
the time so it's really smooth flying
through
same with your twitter feed be really
smooth really quick
but it just depends when you need it so
it won't need it all of the time this
display also offers a really large
brightness
thanks to 1 500 nits peak brightness at
any one point
swipe down here and let's just push that
to its ultimate limit there which is
fantastic for me or someone with visual
impairment
because we need brightness sometimes or
you might need it quite dim
as you know the samsung device can go
quite dim so i'm just going to leave
mine there press
back and we'll go back home here that's
really good to see
protection wise as well your protective
fire corning gorilla glass
vicky dust the strongest corning gorilla
glass as of yet which is nice to see
don't go and drop it get a case and as i
said i've got the brand's new
samsung case to come with this as well
in my next video
for further protection it offers an ip68
for
great water and dust resistance which is
about one and a half meters for 30
minutes roughly but
a quick dip in the toilet or an
accidental drop in the sink while you're
washing up
that's going to be fine just give it a
wipe off and you'll be all good to go
so taking a look at our front facing
camera so if i pull down on
notifications here
you see the inbuilt camera national
front-facing camera so the specs of that
is a 14 megapixel f 2.2 camera
it's wide offers phase detection auto
focus
it offers video at 30 or 60 frames per
second recording at 4k
which is great for vlogging and bringing
great content at the moment to all of us
at home that are just stuck at home
watching youtube
tik tok facebook twitter instagram
we all sort of enjoy content and going
through so much at the moment so i'm
looking forward to testing out that
front facing camera and a review will be
coming up
for the camera very soon turn into the
rear camera now this is where it gets
really exciting i can't wait to go out
and test
so starting off with the top lens at the
left there is a 12 megapixel ultra wide
camera which is dual pixel
autofocus f 2.2 has field of view of 128
degrees
which means everyone and everything will
get in your shot so if you're taking
great shots to say the grand canyon or
great shots of a party when we finally
get out vlog down
everything and everyone will be in your
shot and i can't wait to test that out
and don't worry i'm going to be going on
some safe walks soon be really testing
the camera as i said for my camera
review
next up underneath that is the 108
megapixel wide camera which is f 1.8
it has a field of view of 83 degrees it
offers something called
ois which is optical image stabilization
our next lens is a 10 megapixel
telephoto lens which adds dual pixel
auto focus and 10 times optical zoom
so i've just had a look at the samsung
galaxy s20
fe 5g which had three times optical zoom
this has
10 times which means your images are
going to look crisp and clear
no matter how far you stand away it has
f 4.9
ois and 240 mil focal length there is
also the 100 time
zoom as well which is digital which
we'll take a look at
it has the laser auto focus sensor which
is up here and then finally you have
your 10 megapixel telephoto camera which
is dual pixel
autofocus and this offers three times
optical zoom so you have 10 times or
three times depending what you want to
do
that's an f 2.3 in aperture again offers
that ois
system and it's 72 mil focal length so
when it comes to video recording you can
take it to the next level this video has
been recorded in 4k
but on the samsung s21 ultra 5g you can
actually do
8k which is four times the quality of 4k
yes you'll need an 8k display to watch
it back but it'd be great to see what
that 8k
video looks like so i can't wait to go
out and test and get that camera review
sorted for you very soon
so moving on to power and performance
and what is running
our device so is running the android 11
system
it's using the one ui 3.1 skin above
that from samsung
it has the brand new the exynos 2100
it's an
optical processor with variants of speed
and during my review i'll be going into
greater detail pushing it to its limits
so the gpu is from mali and it's a g78
mp14
this depends where you live so outside
of china and the us
you'll get a exynos version
in the us and other regions you'll get
the snapdragon version
but the external processor is 20 times
faster than the previous model
the gpu is 35 times faster than the
previous model and the
mpu-ai system that runs the device and
the computing systems behind it
is two times faster and it has hyper
fast 5g connectability
so i'm quite lucky i have an ee 5g sim
and i also have a
vodafone 5g sim so we'll be going out
and road testing that for the review
it also has wi-fi 6e it does have
s pen support so i'm going to get an s
pen to really try and check this out and
one other great thing with all of these
features it is packing a 5 000
millionth hour battery which is just
unbelievable so
with the cable and with a plug that you
need to go and buy
you can get 25 watts fast charging
wireless charging though however you can
get up to 15 watts
which is really incredible i do have a
15 watt wireless charger so when it
comes to reverse wireless charging
so to charge your devices that uses 4.5
watts so you can charge
say an iphone that's draining its
battery you can charge your samsung
watch or your
galaxy buds probe you can choose
different options there
when it comes to storage you've got
either 128 gigabytes or 256 that offers
12 gigabytes of ram or if you really
want to push the boat out there's 512
gigabytes of storage with 16 gigabytes
of ram
which is unbelievable as i said you've
got the wireless power share one little
down point that you don't have
is the no micro sd card for extra
storage but with cloud options now it
just makes it even easier
and using google photos pushes all of
your images to the cloud and one final
thing is that it does have the samsung
knox
vault and security system making sure
your data and privacy stays safe
at all times so well all i can say is
wow this is truly an
ultra option from samsung a must-have
for the budding photographers and
videographers out there i can't wait to
go and put it to the test
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so in the meantime i'm going to go away
test this out
especially against the brand new samsung
galaxy s
20 fe that i have here as well so we're
putting it against that as well
as the new iphone i'll be creating an
accessibility video as i said
looking at key highlighting features and
seeing what options
are available there for anyone that has
an accessible need to use their device
but in the meantime if you have
any questions or queries drop a comment
below and i'll be more than happy to
help for me ricky thank you always for
watching and i'll see you in my next
video stay safe
stay well bye for now