Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra

I have 4+ years old S22 Ultra and there is absolutely nothing slowed down. I didn't install any crap semi-random apps just for the lolz, its basically static set of features with maybe 2 new apps per year added as it keeps doing more and more like ebanking or work auth. It doesn't even have Snapdragon processor, just their own Exynos and its simply fine. It keeps getting all updates and will keep for few more years. Camera results massively improved cca 2 years ago with some update so that they are cca on same level as current ones. Plus I still has 10x physical zoom which trumps all current models, iphone pro max including since we still can't bypass physical limits of optics. Really, 0 reasons to update and battery capacity is the only upcoming issue - still fine now but I feel the decrease a bit. If I could swap it easily myself without paying some phone shop to do it, that's a massive advantage.

Samsung recently pushed Oneui (their skin over android) I think version 8 to my 3.5 years phone (s22 ultra). Menus and light design changes are barely noticeable, but - they also revamped photo app. Now every single picture taken is much sharper and better looking, the darker it gets the bigger the difference. Also 10x physical zoom produces much better photos in all conditions. It feels like I just got a new phone with amazing new cameras, I'd say dxomark score should be revisited. Now maybe they tackled some hardware reserves via better algorithms, its all possible. Or, slightly more probably, some tiny little AI is ironing out pictures on a level not detectable by mere viewing by eye. I don't complain, camera is #1 priority for me on phone as an amateur photo enthusiast, and basically I don't need to upgrade phone for quite a few years. The results are really really good and I haven't seen anything noticeable in few hundred snaps, often done after sunset.

I have a similar photo done on S22 ultra on March 6 this year, and neither look like your (position of lower right mega crater but also the rest). So its not simple 'photoshop-into-predefined-nice-image'. I can clearly see that most folks here don't actually own discussed devices (which is fine, its US-based HN, a bastion of iphone and many Apple employees dwell here and uncritical appreciation of Apple is very evident in every single related thread). I've used its 10x zoom extensively over more than a year, it simply blows all other phones away easily for that kind of situation (more than those rather weak 3x zooms available everywhere). Family photos, wild animals, nature, anything you want to come closer, otherwise the scene is tiny dots in the center like on other phones. It works really well for what it is, with obvious unavoidable physical limits. Overall this phone made me put my fullframe Nikon D750 away on a day I bought it. I took it 'just to be sure' on vacation to Egypt last year, didn't touch it a single time. Most often it doesn't produce strictly as good images but a) they are good enough to be viewed on phones side by side easily, basically as good as fullframe there and sometimes even much better, ie handheld photos in the night of dark scenes, fullframe is utterly lost without tripod, and b) it weights 0 and takes 0 extra space (and cost 0 instead of many thousands for modern camera with big sensor), since I have phone with me always anyway. Tried exactly th…

Any 4 year old medium range Android phone is mighty fine these days, ie Samsungs just keep chugging, mine S22 ultra still has fine battery and rest is like new and I've seen the same for lower tiers. Market won't allow much gap anymore

This is pretty normal setup these days, we have the same with HP boxes, previously connected to HP laptops, now Dell. Coming to work and just connecting single usb-c cable. Also when I connect my Samsung S22 ultra to this usb-c cable, via Samsung Dex I get immediately full screen portable Android desktop, pretty usable for basic stuff as much as Android can be, but controlled with keyboard & mouse. Sort of fully utilized USB-C cable.

S22 ultra here, when I shake my phone there is something rattling, I always assumed it was some part of lenses, since they have some advanced stuff like periscopes and maybe for some good reason some part is not tightly held as the rest. Otherwise there shouldn't be a thing moving in the phone. As long as it keeps working no concern, and it works fine, focus is quick. But yeah I won't be mounting it on motorcycle (or mountain bike) anytime soon

You mean like wrinkles in basically all today's phones (at least for selfies camera, very aggressively) for silky smooth skin or completely changing skin tone that make even ghouls look OK for a nice instagram stream? I properly don't get all the outrage, ironing faces, changing colors and removing moles is a nice celebrated feature and even created whole 'Apple skin' thingie, but adding well known static details to blurry image of the moon is somehow suddenly crossing the line? That line has been crossed long time ago my friends, look at optic physics of those tiny sensors and crappy lenses and results 'ya all want from them. Plus how things are exactly done in phone is known to maybe 10 engineers most probably in Korea, but people here quickly jumped on outrage wagon from 1 very lightly and non-scientifically done test on reddit (I tried to repeat his experiment with S22 ultra but failed 100% of the time, with his own images, it was just blurry mess 100% of the cases). I have S22 ultra and its making properly good completely handheld night photos in total darkness (just stars, but no moon and no artificial light). I mean me standing in dark forest 11pm, snapping nice detailed foliage and starry pics, where my very eyes see very little from the scene. It very well surpasses my fullframe Nikon with superb lense in this. But its true that is done by main, big sensor, and not 10x zoom one, which is then zoomed extra say 3-4x digitally to get shot of moon which spans whole p…

Today's smartphones are very capable devices. I do most coding web based (code-server) on my S22 Ultra using Samsung DeX and an external monitor. My phone has more RAM than the average laptop. There just isn't any need for me to buy a new laptop or PC.