Don't get me wrong, price is not an issue.redflagdealsguy wrote: ↑ You're right about the pro buds. They're better musically, but without ANC they're actually worse than the Buds+. The Plus also lasts up to 11 hours on one charge. The Pro will last max 8.5 hours with ANC off.
I decided to stick with the Buds Plus order that came with the wireless charging pad for less than the price of the Pro.
Plus, I have a Jabra Active 75t sitting beside my desk in box, which trades punches with the Pro.
That said, I disagree with alot of your points regarding the S21 Ultra. It almost sounds like you would've been satisfied with the far cheaper S21 256GB.
In any case, I respect your opinion, the diversity of experiences paints a portrait of these devices to prospective buyers and future owners.
Them scaling back the pricing is just them getting back to standard $50-100 increase generationaly (s20 series being the outlier to the general norm since galaxy S1). Pretending that 20 series never happened lol, or that they were priced in step with previous generations (that was a huge hike last year)
To disagree is perfectly fine.
S21 is too small for me, width of s8. See,... the dreaded aspect ratio combimed with my aging eyesight lol. Videos are just too small, and cropping full screen just cuts off too much. In a few years they will release 16 inch diagonal phone with same 2.5 inch width. That is only way they can still claim size matching or beating iphone I guess. It just has no practical purpose for consuming videos and marginal benefit of seeing more while typing vertically (then again typing horizontally is just worse now because of it).
On refresh rate, SD card and 5g I can certainly see that some will not care for, or actually will and those things will be their deciding factor, depending on individual.
But the phone is heavy, and it is top heavy (balance being almost a centimeter off center). Now that is just a fact. There can be differing opinions whether it bothers some or not, but that's what it is.
S21+ is also a no go for me personally (I am getting it for wife) as it really does not offer me enough of an upgrade over my note10, considering the stuff I miss or don't like.
That is why I said I really want to like the ultra and am willing to even put a condom on it, hoping that I'll somehow get used to it. Even better, start liking it before condom gets here.
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