Hey guys Samsung S21 FE 5G smartphone is all about the 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 but the thing is that this is not the top most amoled screen from Samsung for example on the Samsung’s something like that 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 recall this one is fixed at 120 or 60 hertz so that is something I have noticed not a big deal but if it would have had the same screen the battery life nevertheless excellent screen like you expect on Samsung’s smartphone so no issues with that and can get decently bright also and also in dull lighting situations it does not strain your eyes or gets any issues like that in fact I also like the in-display fingerprint scanner Samsung went with this in display fingerprint scanner not the ultra-sonic 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 screen by the way this also has 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 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 I like that this rated and also it supports wireless charging which is generally not found in this price range generally many vendors skip the ip rating and wireless charging but you have those features on this one ip67 is generally useful I would say 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 use it for example in car it’s convenient if your car has a wireless charger you can just place it and it charges. so that convenience features I would say there on this one so nice to have features I would say next thing is the build quality that this is actually metallic so this polycarbonate plastic but the thing that I really liked on this one the front glass is actually gorilla glass victus 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 victus and I think so that saved this smartphone so nice to see that we are getting gorilla glass victus because again in this price range generally other smartphones that you get are coming with gorilla glass 5 or even 6 but not gorilla glass victus so that’s a nice thing they didn’t do the cost cutting. The next thing I like is again this is regarding the processor, in India we are getting the exynos variant the 2100 and I was also very worried about that one it was when the original exynos 2100 came actually this one is having a version two of the exynos 2100 revamped one you the original s21 ultra when I got 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 was not an issue only time I notice that it heat up a little bit if you are using the camera continuously but again that’s the same case with even the iPhones and other flagship phones also has a general heating issue that we used to get with exynos 990 or even the first generation exynos 2100 that is sort of not noticing any heating issues using this one as primary and even I used it for gps mounted on my bike etc I didn’t have an issue so I think that the heating issue is not fairly solved and again it’s a fast processor so you don’t have to worry about it though it comes with just everything memory management is actually pretty good on this one 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.
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 milliamp hour battery on this one slightly better than the regular s10 and again I would say the battery life is decent on this one I was getting a battery life in terms of screen on time 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 about one day of standby but again I was not using it with the always on using like this if you use always on like this always on is always there then it will use a battery life little bit more but battery life was a non-issue I would say it 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’s 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 smartphone they are far more okay next thing is regarding the 5g bands 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 and here again still primary 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 disable all those things and all the bells and whistles are their decks Dolby Atmos and all those things in call quality I did not have an issue typical Samsung flagship I would say so call quality was good earpiece quality was excellent and the fact that this handset is actually not that heavy so even for long calls you can easily take it. It weighs just 177 grams or generally the flagships these days are hovering on 195 200 or even 205 grams so that way proximity sensor issue call quality was also good and I also took calls with speaker and it was decent I wish the speaker phone was a little bit louder but decent so no issues in terms of call quality that this one next thing again after you the weight balance is done well 177 grams so definitely if you are coming from some other flagships they are a lot more heavier I would say so I started appreciating so that’s nice but still the outer chases is not plastic this is important for rigidity so there they did not compromise next thing is what I like is the camera on this one the triple camera all are 12 megapixel but all cameras are functional on this one is the wide angle and we have a 2x zoom and some of the samples taken with this one to see the picture quality that I got with this one was very good and again in portrait mode it uses that 2x zoom and notice how good the pictures come with the zoom so definitely I would say camera was expectations I would say and here they did not compromise I thought they will compromise because this is a FE edition so camera would be a little bit compromised but I am actually pretty impressed with the rear facing camera in Oneplus 7 oneplus 9 rt and so on I did a camera comparison and finished that video about 50 need to shoot a lot more samples so the nearest competitor but definitely the cameras are a highlight of this one in fact much better than I expected especially that portrait mode works brilliantly on this one front facing is a 13 megapixel and here I would say outdoor shots and good lighting come out to be good but again in dull lighting the front facing camera is struggling a little bit instead of the 32 megapixel they should have just gone with the 12 megapixel because like what they did with the rear one because 12 megapixel captures in a lot more light so yes in low lighting front facing camera was struggling a little bit that’s what another very good thing about this smartphone this comes out 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 next three what do you say android upgrade so android 13 14 and 15 will also get and four years of security update so this is the best in the industry.
So if you are 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 so in smartphone and again I didn’t find any major bugs in the ui or anything so software you are sort of covered so now let’s move to some of the nit-picks so these are not strictly current but these are some of the things that was noticed that yes definitely if it was having a glass back it would have looked slightly more premium but I think so because as I have said this is also having a plastic bag but again it’s held up pretty well but again nothing that has cracked if it was a glass back this would have cracked easily so yes in terms of durability definitely the plastic bag is good but I think so this plastic bag feels a little bit 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 many people feel yes they are more durable and have to agree with that next thing that again in the box there is no case provided they should have given the case because of the competition the Oneplus 9rt does give a silicon case and they could have bundled that so I don’t like that they are skimping there next thing it has decent haptics feedback is decent but felt that the haptics are not as great as what Samsung puts on their flagship and that’s how they are differentiating a little bit so the haptic models are decent but not superb I would say next thing is and this is something Samsung should not do and because this is sort of a premium Samsung tries to push some of the stuff over here for example this galaxy store and you can’t remove it 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 so I will eventually do that but don’t like that some of the it keeps sending stuff like this regarding what do you say charging this supports a max of 25 watt of charging I understand with flagships apple has also if one plus has to look at the competition the Oneplus 9 rt in the box you get that fast 65 watt charger 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 so you have to really if you want that fast charging you have to buy the 25 watt the charger separately from the market okay so these are some of the 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 give you an idea with max volume I felt it could have been louder 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 inconsistency and the review of this Samsung galaxy s21 fe now let me actually talk about overall much better than expected I was worried about the exynos 2100 but it has been working well and I did not notice any major hitting issues while using the phone regularly the camera performance especially the rear facing camera surprised me and it’s a very good and proper triple camera setup that we are getting it has some good features like water resistant and wireless charging which are generally missed in phones in this range so in terms of features Samsung is not skipping a lot of stuff just that the stereo speakers could have that have important data on the smartphone this smartphone does support Samsung’s Knox security and even decks wireless. Well, I hope you found the information valuable so please share your thoughts in the comment section below.