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MKBHD here,
and these are Samsung's new 2022 flagship smartphones.
And I'm saying it's these and not the Ultra
just because these will probably sell more volume,
and these are the phones more people will experience,
and I do have some thoughts for my first hands on with them.
So the running theme I think you'll notice here is
if it ain't broke, don't fix it,
so they didn't.
They really did not change a whole lot about these.
There's a lot that's similar.
They played it safe.
But one of the biggest differences,
one of the most noticeable differences to me
when I actually got to hold it and feel it in the hand,
is something that most people who buy it
probably won't care about that much,
'cause everyone puts a case on their phone,
and that's the build quality.
So, I have a video on the S22 Ultra
dropping at the exact same time as this one.
It'll be linked below if you wanna watch that.
It's basically a Galaxy Note,
but these phones are a small update
in every department from the S21 series across the board.
And like I said, holding it in the hand for the first time,
the first thing I noticed is it's a bit more boxy,
a little more square on the sides,
a little more flat on the top and the bottom,
and just slightly tighter corner radii all the way around,
and the display is already flat on the front,
so it just feels a bit sharper overall.
And then on top of that,
the back is real glass this year,
instead of plastic like the S21.
Again, not a huge deal for most people
just putting a case on their phone,
but that is a step up in my opinion from the S21
and the S21 FE.
And it adds a little bit of weight too,
some density, some heft to the feel of the phone.
Everything else on the outside though,
mostly the same design.
Same center camera cutout that I like so much,
same speaker and button placement,
same fingerprint reader placement,
still IP68 rated.
And at the front,
you're looking at essentially same display as last year,
but slightly better and slightly smaller.
So still two different sizes.
Of course the S22+ is 6.6 inches,
and this might sound weird to say
but because of how small the bezels are,
the S22 at 6.1 inches feels kind of compact.
Now I'm doing air quotes.
This clearly isn't a small phone,
but the new boxier shape
and then just the way it feels with the smaller bezels
and the tighter corners,
it has a nice density to it.
Just feels like a good compact sort of phone.
The update with this display though, is it is now
a much more variable refresh rate than last year.
So instead of just being 60 or 120 Hertz,
this goes from to 10 all the way up to 120 Hertz.
So, now interestingly I'm told from Samsung
it is still not LTPO.
That's for the S22 Ultra only,
so we'll see if this new display is a more efficient or not.
This is of course just the first look though.
It's not the full review,
so we'll have to see if that pans out
as I actually get to use the phone.
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So, okay, S22 and S22+ are clearly pretty similar
to the S21s from last year.
A little bit smaller and boxier,
but generally the same form factors with a spec bump,
so the new specs are a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1,
or a new 4-nanometer Exynos chip in some regions,
and all specs have eight gigs of RAM
with either 128 or 256 gigs of storage again.
That's it.
And then the new cameras are also a spec bump.
There's a new triple camera layout,
50 megapixel main camera.
That's probably binning to 12.5 megapixels,
then an ultra wide and a 3X telephoto camera.
The big change is that the high resolution camera
is the main camera, not the telephoto.
So you might remember last year when shooting 8K video
you had to crop into the telephoto.
This time if you're shooting 8K video,
it can use the main camera,
which is gonna have that wider normal field of view.
Smaller detail for some,
but that's a big improvement for me.
Then the other one thing to note is
since the phones did get a bit smaller,
the batteries also did get smaller from last year.
The + goes from 4,800 to 4,500 milliamp hours,
and the S22 goes from 4,000 to 3,700 milliamp hours.
That's really interesting.
I mean, the camera bumps aren't noticeably bigger.
I don't know if the glass is much thicker
than the plastic used to be,
so I'm not really sure of the reason,
but whatever it is,
an 8% smaller battery,
something like that is something to keep an eye on for sure,
even if the display is a bit more efficient.
we'll have to test that.
But that's it as far as spec upgrades from last year.
Like I said, not a super long list,
but if you're interested in these phones,
what you really wanna know is the difference between
the S22 and S22+,
so here is the entire official list.
First of all, they're different sized phones.
So, the same resolution display, 1080p,
but of course a 6.6 inch larger one on the S22+,
and then the + supports a faster 45 watt charging,
while the S22 only supports 25 watts.
No charger in the box for either of them,
but that's good to know.
And the + has ultra-wideband and Wifi 6E support,
while the S22 doesn't,
just has normal Wifi 6,
and then larger battery in the bigger phone
4,500 milliamp hours over 3,700.
S22+, $999.
S22, $799.
So yeah, let me know what you wanna see
in a full review of these phones
once I actually get more or than an hour to play with them.
I think One UI 4.1 is one of the interesting things
about this phone.
Obviously I saw there's a new messages app,
a default, that appears to look just like
the Google messages app.
I wanna look more into that,
but if you have questions about the battery life
that could be a concern, the displays,
let me know in the comment section.
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