Stuff - UK (2021-03)

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Kit got chunky

At 227g this phone is hefty – and
you will notice. Not everyone will
fall for the camera housing either,
which juts out like a piece of
Brutalist architecture. But there
is a heck of a lot going on behind
that aluminium stage – as you’ll
find out in the panel opposite.

Pearly wurly

The 6.8in OLED is an ultra-sharp

1440p screen with fantastic

colour depth, killer contrast and

1500-nit brightness to shrug

off sunny days. And this 120Hz

display is adaptive, so it chooses

how often the image refreshes on

the fly to save battery.

Galaxy ripples

Yes, Samsung has made a phone
that doesn’t look boring. This
is its big-boy toy for adults,
using top-quality curved Gorilla
Glass Victus and gloss-painted
aluminium, and there’s another
hidden feature: an S-Pen stylus
nabbed from its Note models.

Workish delight

Our initial worry was battery life,

but the 5000mAh cell lasts a solid

day unless you go really hard at

120Hz. Samsung’s chip seems

more efficient than the last one,

but the Oppo Find X2 Pro, iPhone

12 Pro Max and Huawei P40 Pro

still last longer.

Double techer

In Europe we get an Exynos 2100
processor. The lucky folks in the
US and China get a Snapdragon
888, which has more graphical
grunt. Oh well – our S21 Ultra 5G
still runs like a dream, with masses
of RAM and storage. Fortnite even
runs in 90fps mode.

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