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Is NOW the time to upgrade? Samsung Galaxy S21 vs S23

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Should you upgrade your phone to the Samsung Galaxy S23? With older S20 and S21 phones starting to see diminished returns, it might be the right time to switch to the Samsung S23.

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00:00 – Setting the stage
01:27 – Rules for this Head to head
01:47 – Design
03:04 – PHNX Cases
03:38 – S23 vs S21 Price
03:55 – Does the S21 has the better Display?
05:19 – Battery
06:37 – S21 vs S23 Cameras
08:05 – Performance
08:42 – S21 vs S23 benchmark scores
09:46 – S23 is a champion phone
09:52 – Overall thoughts?

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  3. I had an S21 for about two years. I dropped it a whole bunch of times. So I broke the front screen, the battery life was bad and it kept overheating. I just bought a refurbished S23 off Amazon for $500, but It looks brand new. After only a few days, I already like it a lot. It's better than my S21 indeed 👍

  4. The best phones are the s6 s7 s8 s9 the s21+ is a pile of shit hate it beyond all belief now the s24 is out not sure if i would buy that s21 battery takes hours to charge connection is of and on and shit camera is good but look closer the edges are fussy not great dont buy it…

  5. 5:03 complaining about the S21 brightness quote…."literally made my old S21 feel like a dull and tarnished piece of trash in my hand".
    Dude…..S21 on dark mode, S23 on light mode😂. Its this a joke??

  8. I have an S21 Exynos 2100. Now I made the comparisons. 3Dmark wildlife average score 6600 40 FPS. In Geekbench 6, 1452 single and 3637 multiple scores were achieved.However, when shooting videos, it overheats and the battery drains very quickly, but the quality is great.

  10. Good video, but why did you show the brightness comparison with the S21 in dark mode? I feel like it would've been an easier comparison with both in the same mode

  11. The first year I got S21+ it was acing it with all aspects. Battery, camera, smoothness and so on. However, as soon as an update installed around in March 2023, the phone started to "seem" bad in processing speed, battery and specially camera.

    I am a regular user of basic browsing and youtube and music. No games, I tweaked all background apps to stop functioning.

    Battery: As soon as i take it out of the plug, 5% of batter is gone within less than 10 minutes even if not being used.

    Camera: Camera recording became very sluggish and blurry, the 30x zoom used to capture the moon with details on surfuce, however that is not the case as the moon now becoming blurry and out of focus.

    Processing: If I play music on car bluetooth, and lock the devie it will lag for 5 seconds and the song will be stuttering. if i navigate apps while music is on (Anghami, samsung music, back ground youtube) then all sounds are stuttering.

    It is a shame that samsung is having such targeted & planned downgrade of performace.

    PS: I dont download ay weird apps, as I said I am a basic phone user (Email, camera, music, notes, youtube). Not even clicking unknown clicks types of user.

  19. Swapped it although I think it wasn't 💯 necessary but I guess it's ok since my old phone I'll give it as a present to someone who needs it..

  20. I wanted the better chip set. Also free upgrade… why wouldn't you? In 2 years we may get the BIG jump and ill be able to get a nice trade in value vs what i would get from a 4 year old phone.

  21. You don't know how much I've searched for a video like this. I also own the S21 and was thinking I made the wrong choice but I'll stick to it for a little more.

  24. Im only upgrading because my teen needs a new phone and I could use 256gb instead of 128.. I get s23+, he gets my old s21. 😉
    S21 still runs Fortnite and other games very well. The pics are quite good as well.