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00:00This is the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra and we're looking at what makes it so
00:05ultra. We're also doing an unboxing and a quick camera tour.
00:15Good day you beautiful people. Welcome to Issa Does Tech where we do tech in your life
00:20in style. Like I said we have the S21 Ultra and we're checking out all the features on this thing
00:25to find out just what makes it so ultra. But before all that a quick message from this video's
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01:41More on this game later on in the video too. For now let's get to the unboxing.
01:49To be honest there is not much of an unboxing experience in these slimmed down boxes. It has
01:55in the box the phone, sim eject tool, charging cord that's a USB-C to USB-C, quick start guide
02:03and that's basically it. Now I'm all for lowering prices and saving the environment but I sort of
02:10expected a power brick to come with an ultra phone. Quick confession I sort of didn't mind
02:15this big tech company move where they remove the power bricks from the phones until people in my
02:21house actually started asking me for extra power bricks and it's all fun and games until no one
02:27in your house has a power brick. Right let's look at this phone a little more closely.
02:33Right now some quick impressions on the S21 Ultra. Basically the stuff I've been wanting
02:58to check out. So first off I wanna talk about size. Obviously this is one big and heavy phone.
03:05So big and heavy in fact that my wrists are not very comfortable holding it up. I have tiny tiny
03:11hands and tiny tiny wrists and tiny tiny pockets which probably wouldn't really enjoy a phone this
03:18big. And also I cannot for the life of me manage this phone with one hand. Like I can't even reach
03:24from corner to corner with my thumbs. This is definitely a two-handed phone for me. That being
03:30said the camera bump on this particular ultra isn't as bad as the previous ultras I think.
03:37Maybe it's that new camera design which wraps the module through to the side of the phone.
03:45It's not as big. It doesn't feel as big. I mean it's still definitely there but just a little
03:52bit more graceful. And speaking of the cameras on that bump, once this was pointed out to me
03:58I could not unthink it. Now Samsung went on and on about this new matte black and I get it some
04:06people really like this phone. It looks very understated and elegant but you know me I like
04:12my bright colors and this phone sort of reminds me of Batman. Now you know what they say about
04:20phones that are big. That they have big screens. And yes this phone does have a big screen. A good
04:28screen. And it's fitted with an adaptive display with 120 hertz refresh rate. That's pretty good
04:35and it makes the phone feel fast and snappy. Worth it to note that this is the only S21 device that
04:43still has a curved screen and this time around it's not so pronounced anymore. Like you barely
04:51see the curve but it's there. Personally I like curved screens but I know people who definitely
04:57swear off them so I guess this is a compromise. Okay a notable feature of the S21 Ultra versus
05:05the S21 is that this phone has two zoom lenses. Why do we need two zoom lenses? Well I guess we'll
05:14find out when I do my camera vlog test. But I have to say it is pretty amazing to have 100 times zoom
05:23on a phone. You see the things you don't even see with your naked eye. I mean it's cool but do we
05:30really need it needed you know? These new S21 phones come with new creator tools like director's
05:37view which allows you to preview what your shot is before switching to the actual camera. And there's
05:43a pro video mode. You heard right. Video. One cool feature is that you can now switch your audio
05:51settings how you record it. So this is pro video and this is on omni audio settings meaning the
05:58phone records audio from all directions. Still pro video and yes shooting with the rear camera still
06:04and this is front audio settings meaning it's recording from the front of the phone so the
06:10opposite side. And finally rear audio settings. So this should sound better but I have another
06:19better audio setting. You can now record via bluetooth earphones. I'm now wearing earphones.
06:25You are now hearing audio recorded through the mic of my bluetooth earphones. Really cool feature.
06:33Unfortunately this really cool feature only works on pro video mode as of the moment. Unfortunately
06:39only on the rear cameras. So I guess you'll have to hold up those wired earphones when shooting
06:45those tiktoks too. Anyway more of those camera features in the camera tour later. Now normally
06:52the phones that have the S-Pens are not the S-Phones. They're the note devices but Samsung's
06:59decided to let this ultra phone work with an S-Pen. And yes finally I get to use this really nice
07:06literal pen looking S-Pen that I got from my last New York Unpacked event. Check out that video here.
07:13And yeah this is perfect because if you are the type of person who are into big phones you
07:19probably also might be the type of person who's into using an S-Pen on that big slab of a phone.
07:27One con in the setup unfortunately is that I wouldn't know where you'd hide that S-Pen now
07:35because it'll be loose and there is nowhere to slot it into this particular phone. Finally this
07:42is a 5G enabled device yes. This particular version is powered by the Exynos chip. Now I have
07:49not had enough time to fully check out performance on this phone but I will say that I have been
07:56playing Honkai Impact 3 on this. That nice big screen coupled with the awesome game. Very nice
08:03and smooth experience. Now I am not the best game player. I get so impatient with games so that says
08:11a lot when I say that everything was smooth sailing gaming on this phone thus far. Here we go
08:19folks time for the camera tour. So we have wide 1x, 2x, no 3x, 10x. Oh my gosh wow it's focusing on
08:31the dust on my mirror. That's amazing and you can zoom up until 100x as you can see there and then
08:42once that thing yellows it means that it's stabilizing for your zoom shot. Pretty cool.
08:49And then up here you have settings on and off, size. Oh you can shoot 108 megapixels. You also
08:58have different filters. The my filters option on Samsung phones. Now you can watch my S21 video.
09:05I talk more about this on that. I'll link it up here and down below. Face beauty mode and then
09:13on the right side we have video and on video we can do 6, no that's wide, up until 10x, 20x on video.
09:24Whoa that wow that looks good and then we have a steady mode. Super steady mode is on. There is a
09:31wide and a 1x on that. You can shoot in different ratios and then you can shoot up until 8k.
09:40That's crazy. You also have different filters on video. You have the my filters option. You have
09:47face filters on video. So live beauty mode on video and then under more you have AR doodle. You
09:56have the photo pro mode and yes there is a wide. You have panorama mode, food mode, night mode.
10:03There's a wide up until 10x on night mode. You have portrait mode over here. There's also wide
10:12of course. Can you zoom in? No. There's only wide and 1x on that and here you have the different
10:18blur settings. You have portrait video, bokeh live on video. It says get closer so as you can see my
10:27background is blurred now. You can toggle intensity and then you have special filters like glitch,
10:34color point and stuff like that. You have live beauty mode as well. You have pro video over here
10:42which is the mode we checked out when we did the audio stuff. You have super slow-mo. We have normal
10:50slow-mo. See that looks a little better. We have hyperlapse and then we of course have director's
10:57view which allow you to switch through the different cameras and get a preview of those
11:02cameras before actually switching and the dual view mode. Well picture in picture they call it
11:07and on the right side there is of course a single take mode. There is single take mode on selfie, on
11:15photos. You have wide and 1x even if there's just one camera. You have the different filters and
11:22beauty mode. On video selfie, hey you can shoot ultra hd 60 fps. There's also different filters
11:33and beauty modes on here and then we are back to more. Now I didn't do a very detailed camera tour
11:42because it's pretty much the same as the S20 ones and I already have that video out so you can check
11:48that out but yeah those are basically the camera features of the S21 Ultra. And that's it for first
11:56look at the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra. Admittedly I was always more drawn to the smaller phones the
12:03S21. I have a video on that phone by the way check it out. As to if this phone actually lives up to
12:09that ultra title we have yet to see so stay tuned I will have a camera vlog test on this. Let me know
12:15what your questions are in the comment section down below. That's it for today you guys. If you
12:19want to see how I use my tech on a daily basis find me online that's Isa Das underscore on Instagram,
12:24Twitter, and TikTok. Until next time. Oh also don't forget check out Hongkai Impact 3L.
12:29I'll put the link in the description below.