Samsung Galaxy S21 5G - user opinions and reviews
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Kanata, 01 Mar 2023I have one of these as my work phone. I think I concur with the negative opinions of poor bat... moreS22's battery is smaller in capacity and it lasts shorter then S21, so keep that in mind. You can check the these phones endurance ratings for yourself on this site. Just find a phone you're interested and press "compare" to compare it with another device.
Endurance rating for S22 is 85h, for S21 is 93h, for S23 is 101h and Zenfone 9 is at 108h.
If you want a "compact" phone, S23 and Asus Zenfone 9 are the best on the Android market right now and they both have a great battery life.
S21 and S22 are okay if you're not a power user and use your phone ocassionally. It's not meant for too much of daily browsing TikTok's, Instagram, shooting pics, watching Youtube, listening to Spotify, other socials or playing high demanding games. It can do everything but not for a long time. So they are perfectly fine if you're not a phone junky used to check your phone every 2 minutes or so.
Cheers!
- AnonD-1082209
- KuY
Anonymous, 11 Feb 2023Is this phone still a good buy now, what do you think??Still good if you can buy it.
- AnonD-1082209
- KuY
Yanis, 31 Jan 2023The snapdragon version is better for many reasons. it delivers much better CPU and gaming perf... more"The snapdragon version is better for many reasons. it delivers much better CPU and gaming performance and battery life, a higher GPU frequency (by 11%) a higher antutu benchmark score (by 8%), and developers usually optimize games for Snapdragon processors more often than for Exynos"
Nope, check Geekbench Exynos tend to score higher in Multicore and single, not to talk in compute tests where fares more ahead.
Gaming performance is the same but Exynos will maintain it for more time becuase is a stable chipset.
Higher GPU frequency doesn't always mean better GPU performance.
" and developers usually optimize games for Snapdragon processors more often than for Exynos"
I agree in some with this part, but is developers fault, some games are very well optimized for Exynos as well and runs excellent.
- AnonD-1082209
- KuY
serkanp, 30 Jan 2023On dxomark you can also see that snapdragon version has higher (117) score than (111) and the ... more"But snapdragon 888 is overall a better chip than exynos 2100."
The Qualcomm 888 isn't a better chipset, is worse, isn't bad but is behind, and don't use Dxomark to see scores, isn't reliable.
- AnonD-1082209
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CHISHTI, 30 Jan 2023Which version is better? Exynos or Snapdragon? Exynos on the S21 a better chipset.
- Mr.What.Zit.Too.Ya
- Rf7
Received One UI 5.1, 2 days ago, its super smoother now
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So I have went from mate 10 pro (Huawei) to this phone and my opinion is...
It has better software, screen is more instant better cameras. But what I noticed both have a 4000mAh battery but the Huawei Mate 10 Pro lasted longer in battery life. Battery still is good after it being 2 years old but overall its a good phone for the price. All they need to fix is the Battery
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- Heady
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ertvmedias, 18 Feb 2023Question: S21 FE has compatibility with eSIM? Reason of this question is that I have this one ... moreMost of the s21 series has problem with a eSIM. Dual SIM. it only affect some people so it depends if you are lucky.
- Kanata
- ID9
I have one of these as my work phone. I think I concur with the negative opinions of poor battery life. Twice now in a few weeks I started a Skype meeting with > 90% battery charge and it was dead within 90 minutes. I used my personal Samsung A8 to finish the meeting (was actually playing online poker with friends on another device) and battery charge only dropped about 15% in 1.5 hours. I was actually going to replace my A8 with the S21 but after the battery experience I'll look at something else...maybe the S22.
- Anonymous
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Anonymous, 11 Feb 2023Is this phone still a good buy now, what do you think??Very good Phone. Can be found at less than $300 on Amazon refurbished
- Anonymous
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Anonymous, 15 Feb 2023I have S21 since August 2022 and I can notice battery degradation already. The phone is Korea... moreYes, it has reliability issues, I have mine since April 2022, and I have already change the display twice because of burn in, luckily it's covered by the warranty, the battery degrades fast, I have had that changed as well, under warranty again. This phone has some uncharacteristic reliability issues for a Samsung.
- ertvmedias
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Question: S21 FE has compatibility with eSIM? Reason of this question is that I have this one since December 2022, and there's no fields of it (I'm using here in Brazil). But making some searches in Google, I found a post from the belgian operator Proximus, that shows not only compatibility but also instructions of how activate it.
S21 FE is or not compatible to eSIM?
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Anonymous, 11 Feb 2023Is this phone still a good buy now, what do you think??Don't buy one bro. You can go for the pixel 7 or the galaxy s21FE snapdragon version.
- Anonymous
- 3ah
I have S21 since August 2022 and I can notice battery degradation already.
The phone is Korean version and I've got numbers of problems.
On Samsung comunity I didn't find answer to any of them and I highly regret buying this piece of rubbish.
- Bledy007
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Just got OneUI 5.1 update in Switzerland
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- 60%
Is this phone still a good buy now, what do you think??
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Janika, 31 Jan 2023If you are tinkering with the idea of getting this phone, Don't! Get the S21 FE instead w... moreIt is not the fixed edition, it is the fan edition. Where samsung gathers feedback from the customers and makes the phone like the customers like it
- T4techdroid
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Janika, 31 Jan 2023If you are tinkering with the idea of getting this phone, Don't! Get the S21 FE instead w... moreS21 FE stands for Fan Edition. It had the same Exynos 2100 chipset international version. The gaming is quite smooth like pubg high graphics games ,. The camera I amazing, it also had smooth battery life , , One ui 5 is most refined os .
- Janika
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If you are tinkering with the idea of getting this phone, Don't! Get the S21 FE instead which is basically the same phone, 2mm bigger in size, but many of the issues this phone has has been addressed and remedied on the (FE) Fixed Edition, including the substandard battery life, and yes the SD 888 is the better handset..
- Yanis
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The snapdragon version is better for many reasons. it delivers much better CPU and gaming performance and battery life, a higher GPU frequency (by 11%) a higher antutu benchmark score (by 8%), and developers usually optimize games for Snapdragon processors more often than for Exynos
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