I was contemplating yesterday and morning still had stock. Then night when I decided to buy, everywhere out of stock. *Cries*
Miss the free gifts opportunity

from the video s21+ battery life last longer than s21U

Debated before, likely the smaller resolution at works.

Higher resolutions = more pixels = more GPU powers required

Some are suggesting the variable refresh rate may be at play too, but there’s no way we can confirm until someone do a conducive frame rates monitoring.

Yeah they should come up with better indicator than using high-end smartphone as an indicator for economy health

No wonder cannot find S21+ review at all

Same, but still need to hands on 1st before purchase
Hope the price drop faster like Note 20 Ultra

Bro.. this or PS5? I'm very sure the PS5 would bring your more satisfaction.

Could it not be due to the present economy, less inventory is stocked and hence same ran out faster than usual? Just saying .

If only if I able to secure one unit of PS5
Either in queue in waiting list, else everyone buy from respective game shop website which I always fail to buy, so bad luck

Anyone knows if s21 FP works with tempered glass this round?

You are partially correct.

More GPU power required for higher resolution is only true or significant when you play moderate to heavy game titles. For displaying content, it makes negligable differences as modern GPU is very efficient now. Resolution is no longer a major factor dependent on using more GPU power if it just use for displaying static content or video. For example, 10 years ago turning on Anti-aliasing (AA) will impact the game FPS severely. Nowadays turning on AA will only have little FPS drop due to architectural and instructions improvement within the driver and the chip.

Like I have said before in previous post, S21+ have longer battery life due to lower panel resolution. 1080p to 1440p is roughly 1.7x more pixel count. The extra pixel count means more subpixel RGB LED in it. If you wanna know, display panel consumes most of your battery life in a smartphone if you are not playing heavy title games.

Variable refresh rate will only yield power savings if the content display is static (as it will downclock the refresh rate). For people who do benchmark on battery life, the display will be actively used so power savings gain is insignificant here (more applicable here since both S21+ and S21U supports Variable Refresh Rate (VRR).

This post has been edited by Josh95: Jan 24 2021, 10:41 AM

Now for the most important question, hows the battery life performance of exynos2100 really? I rekon its gonna be inferior to sd888. Basicly both sd888 and exynos is made by samsung right, both soc is kinda similar minus the gpu, since samsung know the mali gpu not gonna able match adreno performance, theve decide to overclock abit the cpus to give exynos some advantage...so this overclock things gonna mess up the battery life again, just like last time when 990 fall short theve overclock the hell out of those chip in order to make it looks good against the 865 last time....

According to this test (which is quite limited IMO)
https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?act=findpost&pid=99714331

SD s21 did win a noticeable margin over Exynos s21, but honestly speaking Exynos s21 had already doing better than average. It’s more like SD somehow manage to squeeze extra battery life doing the same scripted task.

Real life usage may have different mileage.

Can buy SD version
But if got anything samsung my likely will not cover

Any outcome from their side?
I am still waiting mine..

Hi, from Samsung side still no feedback.

Daily i send reminder to them and they keep on saying that they are investigating on the issue.

are you referring to S21 instead of S20? 🤔

Looks like quite a lot people did not received the code... Do update us the outcome if you received.. I also have the screenshot as my proof of submission..

oh look at the line at MCD, where got hungry people in Malaysia ? same logic
oh look so many new BMW on the road, economy is still great...

iSinar, loan moratorium put more money in people's hand to get the economy going.

hahaha.... well said bro.

anyways, back to topic - for those of you that bought the s21 ( whichever variant ), what case will you be buying ?