The Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra Is One Sleek Phone
I do not get too hyperbolic within my reviews, but wild – the 10x contact lens on this camera system is something I'll miss in every phone that doesn’t get it from now on. Most phones with ‘telephoto’ lens options go approximately 2x and 3x, which is nice but often you can get similar shots just by taking a few steps nearer to your subject. The 10x lens though? It allow me to get shots which i just literally could not have otherwise. Sitting on one edge of a football oval and becoming perfectly clear shots from the scoreboard over a hundred metres away blew me away. To be fair, the shots from the telephoto often don’t hold up as along with ones in the standard ‘wide’ camera – but it’s just so nice to have an entirely new tool in the kit to get new and interesting photos from the phone.
The other cameras within the set take fantastic photos too – like the standard S22 the wide camera uses Samsung’s Adaptive Pixel tech to consider photos with the massive high-resolution sensor (108MP in this case) after which bin them right down to 12MP to obtain more detail and lighting in your shots. Even the selfie camera is overkill at an absurd 40MP, but this type of phone is where the absurd lives. Your selfies could be more detailed than they’ve have you been.
While it’s not technically a Galaxy Note, the Ultra has clearly been passed the Note torch. It’s an email fit, a Note in dimensions, and carries along with it the most Note-defining accessory – the S Pen. It’s an accessory I’ve been curious to try but never figured I'd find much use for. Samsung has provided it some near useless gimmick features – does anyone really want to wave a stylus just like a magic wand to show up the phone’s volume? – but alongside this really is some genuine utility you won’t find elsewhere. Tap the screen using the Pen while the phone is asleep, and you’ll begin taking a fast note that is going to be saved to your Notes app. You should use the pen to pick servings of the screen to screenshot and simply mark up screenshots or documents. It surprised me when you are useful as a mouse cursor for remoting into a desktop computer at home – using a hover state and a click makes it a pretty fantastic way to interface with non-mobile optimised interfaces just like a home server, something I'd never have predicted to be as useful as it is.
You can find the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra on Amazon with free delivery, or check out the full Samsung Galaxy S22 range in the Samsung Store.
