Samsung Galaxy S21 FE

in this post, we'll be doing the full review of the Samsung galaxy s21 fe 5g I have been actually using this smartphone with my primary sim for the last two weeks through this post I'll share my experience.

what did I like some of the nitpicking and what are the things that I did not like let's get on with this one and let's start with the things that I liked and guys this is a successor to the galaxy s20.

I uh, in fact, I had given the s20 fe 5g to my daughter so this is the one so I'll be doing some comparisons also there some of the things that I have no test and the first thing is again as it's a Samsung smartphone guy,

it's all about the screen this one is having a 6.4-inch screen and it's an AMOLED screen, of course, a super AMOLED screen and the good thing is it's a 120-hertz screen so that way and not an issue and it gets decently bright if you keep it on auto-brightness uh but the thing is that guys this is not the topmost amulet screen from Samsung.

for example on the Samsung's true flagship the s21 ultra and something like that uh it's actually having a proper dynamic display where it can adjust the refresh rate and can go down up to about 10 hertz if I uh recall this one is fixed at 120 or 60-hertz guys so that is something I've noticed not a big deal, uh but if it would have had the same screen the battery life would happen even better but nevertheless excellent screen uh like you expect on Samsung's smartphone.

so no issues with that and can get uh decently bright also and also in dull lighting situations it does not strain your height or gets any issues like that in the fact I also like the in-display fingerprint scanner uh Samsung went with this in-display fingerprint scanner, not the ultrasonic that is used in the higher end but this one is actually faster than the ultrasonic one and again as you can see no issues so that way it's a fast and reliable what do you say a fingerprint scanner that we are getting on this work and works with this uh screen.

by the way guys this also has an always-on display you have to enable in the settings I did not use the always-on I was just using it like this in the uh regular mode you tap this for 10 seconds it comes so my battery starts will be based on that okay now moving to the next thing is uh I like that this smartphone is ip67 rated and also it supports wireless charging which is generally not found in this price range uh generally many vendors skip the IPV rating and wireless charging but you have those features on this one ip67 is generally useful.

I would say uh if your dip accidentally falls in water or something nothing should happen to this device and also it supports wireless charging I personally do not use wireless charging a lot but if you are a person who uses it for For example,

in the car it's convenient if your the car has a wireless charger you can just place it and it charges so that convenience features I would say are there on this one so nice to have features I would say next thing is regarding the build guys I would say a nice thing is that this is actually metallic so this is solid but the back is that polycarbonate plastic

I'll talk about that in the latter part of the post but the thing that I really liked about this one is the front glass is actually a gorilla glass vector and this is the best that you can get and I was surprised that Samsung gave this one because generally, Samsung was reserving that only for their true high-end flagships but nice to see that we have gorilla glass victors and I think so that saved this smartphone,

as you see uh I'm using a phone, is just like this and you also do not get any case in the box so I accidentally it actually fell once but as you can see nothing has happened to this device and because as the back is plastic also nothing happened so nice to see that we are getting gorilla glass vectors because again in this price range generally other smartphones that you get are coming with gorilla glass 5 etcetera or even 6 but not gorilla glass.

victor so that's a nice thing they didn't do the cost-cutting uh next thing I like again this is regarding the processor guys in India we're getting the Exynos variant the 2100 and I was also very worried about that one it was uh when the original Exynos 2100 came actually, this one is having a version two of the Exynos 2100 revamped one you could say uh the original s21 ultra.

when I got it it was a review it was heating up quite a bit but this one is not heating up that much yes when I just first got the phone and I set it up initially for the first time for the first two or two-three hours it was a little bit warm because it was indexing stuff but after four-five hours it was just normal and it simply does not heat up in daily usage,

I would say, and again it's a very fast processor almost equivalent to snapdragon 888, in fact, the heating problem that I was worried about is not an issue only time I notice I still uh you can heat a little bit if you're using the camera continuously but again that's the same case with even the iPhones and other flagship phones that I'm using so general heating that we used to get with Exynos 990 or even the first-generation Exynos 2100 that is sort of salt I'm not noticing any heating issues using this one as my primary and even.

I used it for GPS mounted on my bike, etc I didn't have a shoe so I think that the heating issue is not fairly solved and again it's a fast processor guy you don't have to worry about it though it comes with just eight gigabytes of ram handles everything memory management is actually pretty good on this one uh so as you can see I don't have to actually close the apps or do anything and apps that you want in memory are there they don't get booted out so that way even with 8 gigabytes of ram the memory management has been done very well in that aspect I would say Samsung is doing a good job this comes with the latest one ui4 also that comes

with android 12 and it's been optimized well so there's nothing like lag or something that I noticed with this phone so that area performance you don't have to worry about it next thing is regarding the battery life that I was getting on this one this has a 4500 the milliamp-hour battery on this one slightly better than the regulars 10 and again I would say the battery life is decent on this one.

I was getting a battery life uh in terms of the screen on time guys, I was getting anywhere from about five hours to a max of about six and a half hours and that's actually pretty good for a flagship-level processor because

if I recall the s21 ultra was giving me just about four hours to four and a half hours of screen on time so decent battery life and it's comparable to many of the flagships they also generally get about five to five and a half hours of what you say sot and this is uh with about one day of standby, Oh but again guys I was not using it with the always-on using like this.

if you use always-on uh like this on is always there then it will use a battery life a little bit more but the battery life was a non-issue I would say I was a little bit worried but again this second-gen whatever 2100 x Exynos is doing a good job in terms of standby but again It everyday charge phone don't expect it to last about two days.

if you want that then you have to go to the mid-range smartphones they're far more efficient than these flagships okay next thing is regarding the 5g bands I like that here also Samsung is not skimping I believe this has 12 bands of 5g so whenever 5g comes that's coming this year at least in metros you will have 5g on this you don't have to worry about that next thing is regarding the call quality uh and here again uh still my primary something isn't there uh the atl the sim is there again it supports everything the wi-fi calling and all those things are there as you can see you can enable it to disable all those things and all the bells and whistles are their decks.

Dolby Atmos and all those things uh in call quality I did not have an issue uh typical Samsung flagship I would say so call quality were good earpiece quality was excellent and I like the fact that this handset is actually not that heavy so even for long calls, you can easily take it weighs just 177 grams or generally the flagships these days are hovering on 195 200 or even 205 grams.

so that way I would say it was light and no proximity sensor issue call quality was also good, uh and I also took calls with the speaker, uh and it was decent I wish the speakerphone was a little bit louder but decent so no issues in terms of call quality that I had with this one uh next thing again after you the weight balance is done well 177 grams so uh definitely.

if you're coming from uh some other flagships they are a lot heavier I would say so I started appreciating that it just weighs 177 grams so that's nice but still the outer chases are not plastic this is important for rigidity so there they did not compromise uh next thing is what I like is the camera on this one uh the triple uh camera all are 12 megapixels

but all cameras are functional on this one the regular one is wide-angle and we have a 2x zoom and here are some of the samples taken with this one and as you can see the picture quality that I got with this one was very very good and again in portrait mode, it uses that 2x zoom notice how good the pictures come with the zoom so definitely,

I would say the camera was something uh that exceeded my expectations I would say and here they did not compromise I thought they will compromise because this is a free edition so the camera would be a little bit compromised but I'm actually pretty impressed with the rear-facing camera in the fact I also have the uh oneplus 7 uh oneplus 9 rt and soon I'll be doing a camera comparison.

I finished that video about 50 need to shoot a lot more samples so stay tuned with that because I think that will be the nearest competitor but definitely, the cameras are a highlight of this one in fact much better than I expected especially since portrait mode works brilliantly on this one uh front-facing is a 13 megapixel

and here I would say uh outdoor shots and good lighting come out to be good but again in dull lighting I feel the front-facing camera is struggling a little bit uh instead of the 32 megapixels they should have just gone with the 12 megapixels because uh like what they did with the rear one because 12 megapixel captures in a lot more light so yes in low lighting uh I would say the front-facing camera was struggling a little bit that's what I have noticed so another very good thing about this smartphone as I've told you to come out of the box with android 12 with one ui4 that is the latest that we are getting and again.

Samsung has already promised that this smartphone will get the next three uh what do you say android upgrade so android 13 14 and 15 will also get four years of security updates so this is the best in the industry.

so if you're a person who does not change like to change this phone very often also then you are covered with this, in that aspect, I would say Samsung is doing a very good job in terms of updates and many of the phones these days new phones are also coming with android 11 they say that android 12 will come out later on but this comes with android 12 out of the box so in that area I am happy with this smartphone and again I didn't find any major bugs in the UI or anything so the software you're sort of cover.

now let's move to some of the nitpicks so these are not strictly current but these are some of the things that I have noticed and again the first thing is that back again guys this is plastic back and I know this is a nitpick because uh what I've noticed is that yes definitely if it was having a glass back it would have looked slightly more premium but I think so because as I've told you this is my daughter's s20 uh fe 5g that I gave her last year and as you can see this also has a plastic bag but again

it's held up pretty well and my doctor drops the phone quite a bit as you can see some over here uh but again nothing that has cracked if it was a glass back this would have cracked uh easily so yes in terms of durability uh definitely I think so the plastic bag is good but I think so this plastic bag feels a little bit uh cheap.

so if I were using this phone I would add just some skin to make it look better so that's my take regarding the plastic uh back many people feel yes they are more durable and I have to agree with that next thing that I noticed is again in the box,

there is no case provided they should have given the case because the competition the one plus 9rt does give a silicon case and they could have bundled that so I don't like that they are skimping uh there uh next thing is again uh it has decent haptics haptic feedback is decent but I felt that the haptics are not as great as what Samsung puts on their flagship and that's how I think so they are differentiating a little bit so the haptic models are decent but not superb I would say uh next thing is and

this is something Samsung should not do and because this is sort of a premium phone costing almost........ amsung tries to push some of the stuff over here for example this galaxy store and you can't remove it I know I can easily disable it going there but again for a novice user, it prompts you to install apps and stuff over here I just didn't disable it but you can disable it but that this is something that Samsung should stop doing

I can just go to the my galaxy apps and from here I can disable this app uh so I will eventually do that but I don't like that some of it keeps sending stuff like this and next thing is regarding the uh what do you say? charging this supports a max of 25 watt of charging

and I don't like the fact that the charger is not there in the box uh and I don't know why Samsung is doing it i understand with flagships apple has also stopped doing that but if one plus has to look at the competition the one plus 9 rt in the box you get that fast 65-watt charger uh so the competition is that so they should have given that 25-watt charger in the box in my frank opinion here also they are doing that cost-cutting

and I don't like that so you have to really if you want that fast charging you have to buy the 25 watts the charger separately from the market is okay so these are some of the net pickings now let's move to some of the cons that I have noticed with this device the first thing is that yes it has a stereo speaker let me actually uh give you an idea let's just go to copyright to free songs

and hope you write a free music let's just play over here it has stereo speakers but this is the max volume I'm keeping so the volume level as you can see it is okay but I felt it could have been louder this is the max you had very good stereo separation it's not like only like 30 of the sound is coming from this time but in terms of loudness it could have been louder certainly the true Samsung flagships have far better and louder stereo speakers uh next thing is uh that regarding the pricing inconsistency this was launched at about the credit card offers or whatever up from that today is what 25th and today again it's showing me the price of about ........ yes there are some fluctuation every week what the hell is going on the best price that I saw of this one was that last week it was priced at ........but you could add actually, some credit card offers so it worked out to be about ................. that was the best but now if I look even at