Best Review Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra

Best Review of Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra:

This is Samsung’s ultimate flagship- the Galaxy S22 ultra, and unlike the rest of this year S series, it brings a designs and features  which are more like a Galaxy Note phone.The most obvious of these is the improved stylus  support,So let’s see what the S22 Ultra has to offer in our full review.

Design and build:

The galaxy S22 ultra brings a designs that’s quite differents from the rest of the S series.It’s larger and heftier, and its camera come straight out of the back rather than being mounted in a camera bump. The  ultra has a flat back top and bottom quite like a galaxy Note device.Another big changes over last  year model is that the S22 ultra integrates the stylus into the design with a dedicated dock at bottom.That's a lot more secure, and it mean you always have your pen with you-unlike the S21 Ultra where's you’d need to keep it elsewhere. Don’t worry about the dock- the phone has full ip68 rated ingress protection.Plus it’s overall quite durable with gorilla glass victus plus on the back and the front.the S22 ultra is a lot less like a Galaxy S phone and more like a Galaxy Note-and since that lineup is discontinued now, this is the spiritual successor.

Integrated stylus:

While the stylus is the same  as saw in the last generation,the tech supporting it has been upgraded here. The S22 ultra’s AI can even better anticipate your movements, reducing the latency of  the pen from 9 milliseconds to less than 3.So taking notes is a bit more responsive. And the  function for converting your handwriting into text has been improved to be even more accurate.Adding media to your notes is nothing new.But now, you can add a snapshot of  a whole webpage, if you want to.The function doesn’t work  that well in Europe though, since websites need to ask for permissions- and  these sorts of popups end up in your notes too.

 Screen specs:

Alright let’s move on to some other  features- like the display itself. It’s a 6.8 inch AMOLED with a QHD  resolution and a fast 120Hz refresh rate.This display is curved at the edges,  wrapping around to meet the frame.It creates a neat effect, but some people would  prefer a flat screen like on the other S22 phones.The 120hz refresh rate mean that swipings and  scrollings on screen looks much smoother.The refresh rate is adaptive with static contents  the UI rendering can go as low 24Hz and as low as 1fps to save energy, and it will also  adjust to match other content on screen.The display is awesome.With its high resolution, content looks quite sharp, and you also get great contrast and deep blacks thanks to the  OLED tech. There’s HDR 10 plus support and color can be super accurates, depending on the profile you choose in colors setting. The S22 ultra also has class leadings max brightness. With the manuals sliders you can achieve 500 nits and that's boosts up to around  830 nits if you enable extra brightness. But that's not all Enablings auto  brightness mode gets you an even bigger boosts- we measured a maximum over  12 hundred and 50 nits- pretty crazy stuff.In addition to that, when auto brightness  mode is on, a new feature called vision booster will also adjust the contrast  of the screen based on ambient light,to make legibility out in the sun even better. And under screen sits an ultrasonic fingerprints reader. It’s quite fast and  responsive to wake up and unlock phone. For audio, S22 ultra has a pair of stereos  speaker, with earpiece acting as the Stereos speaker test second one. The speakers earned a score  of good on our loudness charts, but are a bit quieter than last year’s model, and we’ve  also heard better low end in the competition. 

Storage isn’t expandable here via microSD, Storage options but you can opt for up to a terabyte  of space onboard, if you need it! Android 12 and UI

The interface of the S22 ultra is Samsung’s  OneUI 4.1, based on android 12. Besides the features that are based on the stylus, it’s  the same UI you’d get on the S22 and S22 plus.Of course, one important aspect to keep  in mind is Samsung software support. They promise 4 generations of Android and  OneUI updates, and 5 years of security updates.The interface also brings a few new features, like  additional functionality and support for widgets. Android 12 allows you to change  the color of your system menus and even your icons to match your wallpaper.And there’s a dedicated privacy dashboard, which organizes all of your privacy and permissions options into one easy to reach spot.Exynos 2200/Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset Under the hood of the S22 ultra is either an Exynos 2200 chipset, for some markets, or a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset, for others. Both are based on a 4nm process, and are comparable, but the Exynos variant has a GPU that was designed in collaboration with AMD. We've an Exynos models and performance here is greats as you’d expects from a high end flagships. It’s more than enough to multitasks and play heavy game without a hitch. the thermal management is quite reasonable  here. Of course the previous generation is tough to beat, and in benchmarks the improvements compared to the S21 ultra are modest.Batter endurance and charging test Powering the S22 ultra is a 5000mAh battery, like last year’s model, but battery life scores are a little less this time around, with an  endurance rating of 108 hours in our tests. Still that’s not too shabby. Charging is a bit complicated though. The S22 ultra supports up to 45 watt fast  charging, but when using such an adapter we weren’t able to charge the phone  meaningfully faster than with a 25 watt one.There will be a new 45W charger coming from  Samsung, but based on the specs and info so far, we don’t expect charging speed will be any different with it.

Camera specs:

Now we have the cameras: a 108MP main cam, a  10MP telephoto with OIS and 3x optical zoom, a 10MP periscope with 10x optical  zoom, and a 12MP ultrawide. The setups is almost same as last year, except that telephoto camera have differents  sensor with smaller pixel, for some reasons.Anyway let’s start off with photos quality from main camera. Its 12MP shots are good, but don’t Daylights photo quality blow us away. There’s plenty of detail, accurate  exposure and lively colors.and the dynamic  range isn’t as wide as we expect from a flagship. At 3 times zoom, we see a good level  of detail, wide enough dynamic range, and colors that match the other cameras well.  And actually, these zoomed shots are pretty noise free- cleaner than last year’s even. Portrait mode on the S22 ultra delivers great results. You can shoot portraits with  either the main or the 3 times telephoto, and you get excellent subject separation as well  as a very natural looking defocused background. Photos from the 10 times telephoto  have respectable detail levels, and good contrast and colors.If you’re shooting in auto mode in low light,  the S22 ultra will automatically apply night Low-light photo quality mode processing. These photos from main camera are impressive with an great level of detail and well preserved colors. You also get  nicely contained highlights and developed shadows.You can also toggle a dedicated night mode,  which dials up this processing even further The result  is that lighting looks brighter and there is heavier sharpenings and reduced noise.The dynamic range is pretty minimal. The ultrawide cam will also use the auto night mode in dark situations, and these shots  are pretty good. They have very good details dynamic range and lovely colors.Turning on the full night mode cleans up that noise, and it brightens up and restores the detail in the shadows.Shooting with the 3 times telephoto with the auto night mode applied will produce decent images, but they are on the soft side.Here toggling the full night mode is well worth it. The picture is significantly sharper, and shadows get a nice boost.At 10 times zoom, with auto night  mode on the photos look okay, but are soft and have some patches of noise. The dedicated night mode makes a big difference, improving the sharpness, the noise levels, and detail in the shadows.

Selfies:

Selfies are taken with a 40MP front  facing cam, but come out in 10MP. These are superb, with plenty of detail,  accurate colors, and wide dynamic range. Plus the camera has autofocus, so  your selfies will come out sharp. The S22 ultra can record video in up  to 4K at 60fps with all of its cameras.

Video quality: (daylight)

Upas well as 8K at 24fps with the main one. Starting off with 4K video from the main cam,you see a very good amount of detail,  accurate colors and excellent dynamic range.8K looks good on a specs sheet, but there isn’t  noticeably more detail here than with the 4K footage. Plus it’s softer, with some visible  artifacts, and the clips take up a lot more space. 4K video from the ultrawide cam is  detailed, with wide dynamic range. The colors are a bit warmer than  those you get from the main cam. 3 times zoomed footage is sharped and detailed,  with excellent dynamic range and spot on colors.There is some visible noise here though. 4K video quality from the 10 times telephoto isn’t mind blowing, but it is respectable,  especially for this sort of camera. There’s electronic stabilization available  on all of the cameras and resolutions,and it does a decent job, though we did  notice some overcorrection when panning.There’s also a super steady mode which smooths  things out even further, but only in 1080p. 

Video quality: (low-light)

At night, the S22 ultra can record relatively good videos, with  its main cam

The detail here is better than last year’s model.The dynamic range isn’t the widest though, with both clipped highlights and dark shadows.The ultrawide doesn’t do as well, and its videos come out underexposed and soft.In a similar fashion, the telephoto  cameras struggle at night. The 3 times zoomed clips are more  usable than the 10 times ones though. 

So, that’s the Galaxy S22 Ultra. After Samsung skipped releasing a Note phone last year Conclusion and then discontinued the Notes altogether,  this is what they’ve come up with. It brings the latest flagship features, like the cutting edge AMOLED display and top notch chipset, plus the killer cameras, but on top of that there’s the extra responsive and dockable stylus. So at the end of the day, if you’re  looking for the features and form factor of a Galaxy Note phone, in a new device with the latest software support, the S22 ultra is worth recommending.

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