Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra review

The Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra is a premium powerhouse.

Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra
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Our Verdict

The Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra is among the best phones you can buy, if your budget stretches to it. It has a fantastic-looking display, a powerful chipset, and comes with a useful stylus for extra functions. Its real strength is in the photography department though, as it’s the best Android camera phone on the market. If you’re a mobile photographer it’s a must-buy, but for everyone else you might find its high price tag or giant size just too much to handle.

For

  • Incredible camera performance
  • Loads of S Pen functions
  • Great-looking display

Against

  • The cost is off-putting
  • Too large to hold comfortably
  • Slow to charge

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If you’ve come to this Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra review to hear about its photography performance, we’ll make your research job easier. This is the best camera phone of 2022, and it’s just as great for working professionals as it is for passionate amateurs - we spent over a week straight going on photo shoots and trips with the thing, and the novelty of the device never wore off. In short: Samsung is one of the biggest phone makers in the world, and when it puts the word ‘Ultra’ on one of its devices, you know it means business!

Samsung isn’t selling this phone on its camera prowess alone, though, and this is one of the best smartphones in general thanks to its powerful chipset, fantastic-looking screen and plenty of storage space – we found it just as great for gaming as we did streaming TV.

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