After 4 years on iPhone I watched all those US-based reviewers with their Snapdragon CPU and decided, that it is right time to switch on Android and ordered an Exynos version. I was so happy in the first day.
Such a dissapointment.
I. Camera: total failure.
1) Camera overheats even while being in app. While doing photos or changing setting, heating intensifies. Recording video makes the phone temperature grow gradually, and after 1 min it is literally unusable.
2) Slow shutter speed. "Hey, S21! 2012 called, asked his camera back!"
3) Overall photo quality on my 2021 Exynos ultra-mega S21 4-lens camera is not even a bit better, that my 2018 iPhone XR. That's a shame. Not worse though, lol.
4) Portrait mode and HDR in direct lighting on even a "budget" single-camera iPhone XR are better. Who needs macro, when you can't deal with a regular sunset?
II. Gaming: total failure.
I was very surpized and I didn't belive my eyes, when some simple and by any mean not the most intesinve games like Blizzard's Hearthstone, which is basically a card game, were unplayable due to constant lags. Laging was the same, as on my old budget HTC 10 or so years ago in the end of its cycle.
I googled and read, that it happens due to Samsung Game Booster and some gaming optimizing services meant to enhance gaming experience, but in reality ruining it. I had to buy $4 app in order to disble that noncence, afer that game lags dissapeared.
III. Advertising. Samsung, I just bougth a brand new S21 Ultra, to see an advertising of S21 Ultra in my health app? Like really?
Verdict:
I will return my S21 ultra later this week, ask for a refund and will return to apple with no delay. Apple may give you less functions, but they are working perfectly. Samsung is giving you twice as more, promices twice more from that and then nothing works. Shame.
did you just have to install the app and it worked, or you had to change some setting in the app?
