The Galaxy S22 Ultra is proof that Samsung knows what power users want. This beast has the best part of the Galaxy Note and a tonne of other improvements. Yes, the S Pen is built in, but this flagship phone from Samsung has a lot more going on as the company tries to top our list of best phones. First of all, the S Pen is easier to use because Samsung made it 70% faster and less laggy. The screen is also brighter and has more colors than anything else we’ve tried. The 45W charging is also faster.
Specifications
- Display: 6.8 Inches
- Storage: 128GB 8GB RAM, 256GB 12GB RAM, 512GB 12GB RAM, 1TB 12GB RAM
- Camera: 108 MP (wide), 10 MP (periscope telephoto), 10 MP (telephoto),12 MP (ultrawide) and 40MP selfie camera
- Battery: Li-Ion 5000 mAh
- OS: Android 12, upgradable to Android 13
Where to get Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra Smartphone?
[content-egg-block template=offers_logo hide=price]The Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra has a 6.8-inch screen with a hole punched in the middle of the top. The top and bottom edges of this panel are very thin. Its sides follow the shape of the metal frame, which makes this phone look very high-end and hides how wide it really is. The Galaxy S22 Ultra is 228g, and you can feel this weight in your hand. But Samsung has put the weight in a way that makes it easy to use with one hand.
The frame is made of solid Armour Aluminum, which doesn’t move at all. The metal is between two plates of Corning Gorilla Glass Victus+. The outside has been polished to look almost like chrome. Both the high-gloss front glass and the warm satin back glass do a good job of keeping dirt away. The water we ran over the phone didn’t hurt its IP68-rated body either.
This phone has a built-in S Pen and the same simple and, to me, boring style that the Note is known for. The good news is that Samsung kept what made the Galaxy S21 Ultra so great. The 5,000mAh battery didn’t get smaller to make room for the pen, and the phone still has a great screen and great cameras. Aside from minor changes to the software and sensors, these cameras are mostly the same. And it looks like that’s the plan for 2023, if it’s not broken and all.
Samsung’s smartphone cameras have always been ahead of the curve, especially on the Note and Galaxy S models. Every year, it gets better by adding a new lens or shooting mode, making the lenses faster, or improving the sensors underneath. The setup of the lenses and the number of megapixels behind each lens are exactly the same as on the Galaxy S21 Ultra.
This means a main camera with 108MP (scaled down by a factor of nine to 12MP), an ultrawide camera with 12MP, a 3x optical telephoto camera with 10MP, and a 10x optical telephoto camera with 10MP. The same goes for the front 40MP selfie camera and the 8K and 4K video resolutions on the back and front, respectively.