Originally Posted by
gray2018 So despite all the negativity surrounding the S21 series... I am going to take a shot in the dark and ordered the 256 GB model of the regular S21 since currently Samsung has the device which the larger amount of storage as the same price as the 128.
I would normally prefer the larger sized device, but being that the device is 6.2 inches, that's already fairly large. I am used to 6.4 inch sized phones now and larger. the S21+ is 1000 currently for the just the 128. No thanks. Having a flat screen like this device has would be definitely welcomed. I am so tired of curved screen devices.
I was also able to get a free 25 watt fast charger at the time of purchase. I don't necessarily need the headphone jack now as I have an AUX to USB type C cable in my car for music and it works fine. Kind of hard to find them though.
Other then that, how does this device perform? The price was around 850 after checkout.
This is the phone that pulled me back over from apple. There is nothing realy negative about this phone IMO. I can understand users who are use to things like expandable storage being upset that it is gone. Having been with apple for last few years, I am completely use to not having this as an option. Plus cloud storage is getting really good, at least icloud is stupidly good. I haven't really looked into cloud storage options on android yet. I imagine they are just as good. For that reason I did opt for the 256 over 128 just to be covered.
The size of the device is perfect, the screen on the device is stupidly good. It has decent speakers, I have notice that sometimes at higher volume there can be distortion-ish sounds. I don't use a phone to really consume media out side of the occasionally reddit video. I could care less about the camera, for me that is my least considered feature. I honestly like that is a plastic phone, I dropped it the other day and it landed on the back. For the first time in a while didn't pick up a dropped phone and cringe at the the possible damage. The other nice thing with the plastic is the weight of the phone. It is incredibly light, especially compared to my bosses 12 pro max. You kill a horse with that damn phone haha.
The whole software an UI feels really polished and very well put together. It honestly feels very similar to using an iphone in that aspect. Its just buttery smooth and everything work in unison on the design and animations of the UI. That was always a bit of an annoyance when I would try previous samsung devices. It was missing that fluidity I was use to using on an iphone. I feel like samsung really took one ui and instead of slamming a million new features in it. They took and just refined the existing ui into something very nice.
I mean there is always some minority that cares about some feature or the other but the majority audience doesn't care about stuff like that. May by people in these tech forums care but normal user isn't going to worry about some SD card, headphone jack or stuff like that.
