
The front glass is high-gloss, and the back is a warm satin finish both do a decent job of repelling fingerprints. Polished on the outside to a near-chrome finish, the metal is sandwiched between two Corning Gorilla Glass Victus+ plates. The frame is a solid Armor Aluminum that rigidly resists bends.

It starts from the original Galaxy Note 10 design but takes it forward with even more premium materials. Armor Aluminum frame with Gorilla Glass Victus+Īn inarguably beautiful device, the 6.8-inch Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra – owing to its Note roots – doesn’t look much like the Galaxy S22 Plus.Screen is 6.8-inch OLED with WQHD+ resolution.Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra's AMOLED screen measures 6.8-inches diagonally. It does have a much bigger and bolder camera array (lifted pretty much intact from the S21 Ultra), but it’s otherwise a canny adjustment of the Note aesthetic or, as Samsung might call it, the “Note Experience.” Still, this adjustment leaves it as easily the best Samsung phone. Part of Samsung’s new S22 lineup, but looking nothing like its siblings, the Galaxy S22 Ultra is to the casual observer a Galaxy Note in a shiny, new coat. If you wished that your device had just a little more power to complete those raw image-editing tasks, your wish has been granted. If you struggled in the past to take photos of the moon, you’ll wonder why Apple hasn’t figured this out yet. If you were used to a smaller-screen device, you’ll feel cramped if you ever go back to it.

Ultimately, though, this is the kind of device that can make you forget what’s come before it. We did get a full day of solid use (18 hours or so), but we thought we might get more out of the massive 5,000 mAh battery and high-performance, energy-efficient CPU. The point is, we couldn't find a single app that was sluggish or disappointing on the mobile monolith.īattery life was more of a mixed bag. Performance-wise, the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra’s 4nm Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor acquits itself nicely (no, it doesn’t beat Apple’s A15 Bionic). Other tools, like Expert Raw, a freely downloadable Samsung app that gives you full access to all the camera controls and lets you capture and save RAW format photos, and the video-conferencing app Google Duo, which both do an excellent job of showing off the phone’s power and versatility, are the real highlights here. Samsung’s One UI 4.1 software is mostly good, even if it does create some duplication of browsers, photos, and messages apps. Storage: 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, or 1TB available

Telephoto camera: 2 10MP resolution sensors
