Samsung Galaxy S21 User Reviews

Overall User Rating
Build quality
9.5
Camera quality
7.5
Performance
7.5
Display
9.5
Battery life and charging
6.5
Rating breakdown (out of 10)
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Amazon
$290
User reviews
7

Regret

Phone owned for less than 3 months

I bought a Galaxy S21 5G grey in Brazil, here the version uses Exynos 2100. I came from an iPhone XR and I regret so much that I trade my iPhone for this phone
Battery: Only 4,5-5h SOT with a 4000mAh cell. My XR used to last 6-7h SOT with the same use profile with a much smaller battery of 2900mAh. My city desn´t have 5G yet.
Screen: Despite the screen operates at 120hz, the phone lags in certain apps, documents and all the times I open the camera. My iPhone XR, an 2018 phone didn´t lag at all.
Camera: I don´t know what samsung does with the camera. I had to take 10 pictures until I found one that I liked. My iPhone XR I had to take only one picture and boom. Samsung uses an oversharp algorhitm that destroys the photo, loses detail and increase noise. I just hated almost every picture I took.
The typing experience is horrible. I miss almost every word I type and I don´t know why
The smartphone heats and drains a lot of battery even when I was doing simple tasks like bluetooth audio, instagram, email.
Overheats and drains a lot of battery when I used the camera.

I sold my S21 and Bought an iPhone 11. Now I am happy again

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10

S21 Brilliant

Phone owned for less than a month

Returned my iPhone 12 which was faulty and tried the S21 and have not looked back since. Much cheaper much faster, better camera. Bigger screen. More apps to choose from. No software issues. Running smooth as you like and fast with 120hrtz screen refresh. Apple is really falling behind on the stuff that most people want.

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