Review: Samsung's Galaxy S21 is the no-brainer upgrade phone
The Galaxy S21 lineup is now available. Before you buy one, the biggest takeaway you need to know about the Samsung Galaxy S21 5G, along with the Galaxy S21 Plus 5G and Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G, is that Samsung cut the US price of each by $200 (the savings are less in other countries). Clearly this wasn't done out of generosity and Samsung's made trade-offs to hit that lower price on the Galaxy S21: The wall charger and headphones don't come in the box, the phone doesn't have a microSD card slot for expanded storage and it has 4GB of RAM less than the S20. Samsung also removed half of the pixels from the screen and replaced the Gorilla Glass from the back with polycarbonate, which is a nice way of saying plastic.
Samsung's made some wise choices to get the price down on the Galaxy S21. Here's what we think of the new 5G phone.
Lower price; Design; Android 11/OneUI 3.1; High refresh rate screen;
Less RAM; Display is only HD; Gets warm when using it; Lacks a microSD slot;