SAMSUNG Galaxy S21+ Plus 5G Factory Unlocked Android Cell Phone 128GB US Version Smartphone Pro-Grade Camera 8K Video 12MP High Res, Phantom Black

Pros:Industry-leading processing power and firmware.Long firmware support life.Excellent battery life.Super nice display.Charges fast.Great speakers.Great glass used for the display and back.Should be more resistant to damage, in comparison to other Samsung phones (re: s20 FE) which use the brittle Gorilla Glass 3. And even if you break it, Samsung is the Honda of phones. Parts are always cheap, readily available, and as such repairs are cheaper and easier to access.Looks good while doing all of the above.Cons:The fingerprint reader is abysmal. I'm coming from a Razer Phone 2 which read and recognized my fingerprints near instantaneously, and very reliably. Sometimes this thing just refuses to recognize my prints, or takes a good second or so to do anything about it.This camera is years behind what it was hyped up to be. On my RP2 I was running a Gcam mod and generally getting better results, ESPECIALLY in night mode. I was kind of gutted when I discovered how inferior this camera array is. Lots of noise on the wide angle, tons of focus hunting regardless of which lens you're using, just generally primitive by today's standards. Is it a hardware issue or a software issue? No idea, but it's unacceptable either way. Do NOT buy this phone for the cameras. Many cameras from a few years ago are better, especially with Gcam.The display, while beautiful, has pretty terrible viewing angles. Yet another problem I thought we left back in 2015.RAM is silly low, even by flagship standards from 2-3 years ago.Meh:Samsung is still lagging behind stock android in many ways. There are a lot of redundant and pointless apps/"features" that are clearly just Samsung trying to trick you into giving THEM your data, rather than Google; and doing it poorly. Customization is somehow better and worse than ROMs which are closer to stock. Sammy put a few decent features in here for customizing, but not really anything you couldn't have gotten from a 3rd party. The launcher is terrible and restricting, but easy to replace. I personally use Microsoft Launcher with a bunch of 3rd party widgets, icon packs, etc.Conclusion:At the end of the day, this is a matter of price. When this phone was released for around $1k, it was insanely overpriced and not at all worth it. However, I snagged it on Prime Day for $699. At that price, I feel like it BARELY scapes past acceptable. $100 more than that and I would have returned it and waited to see what comes out later this year from other mfgs. The s21 line is bizarre to me. It blends top of the line features and tech with relatively archaic features and tech. I would not call this a flagship series, except in that Samsung does not have a higher-tiered line. This could have been much more polished, and it's sad they cut corners and had some critical oversights. But again, if you can get this for almost half of what it cost at launch retail, it's worth it. Don't expect bleeding edge performance across the board, and you should be satisfied.

Perfect phone and met the expectations.

My mother loves everything about this phone. It Came brand new in the box and she's enjoying learning to use it.

Buen producto

After reading a number of reviews on different sites I decided on this phone. I didn't want to pay the high prices for a new model and this one had the storage I needed along with some of the other "bells and whistles". As an added bonus, I received a charging pad with the phone, which I hadn't expected. After using the pad for a week or so I noticed that the pad was very hot to the touch and I stopped using it immediately. Other than that issue everything else is working as expected. The battery life is okay, setup was easy and using it with my carrier was seamless.

excellent

I bought this phone thinking it didn't really matter that I only had a 90 day warranty...I mean, it's a new Samsung Galaxy. I'd had an s7 for years and experienced NO issues at all. So I felt confident in buying the s21+ as a major upgrade. The phone itself is wonderful - I had no issues with anything at all, other than it seemed to echo at times when talking to friends. A couple weeks after owning this phone for ONE YEAR, I reach for my s21+ to make a call and I see the screen is totally black. I thought it was dead, so I put it on the charger and nothing. No lights at all on the screen. No beep when plugging it in. I could still touch the screen and hear the phone clicking/vibrating as if I was using it normally, but I couldn't see a thing. I couldn't turn the phone off, despite knowing where the buttons were from muscle memory. I couldn't force a reboot either. Nothing worked. I ran through all the generic troubleshooting from Samsung and Amazon. NOTHING AT ALL WOULD WORK TO BRING THIS PHONE BACK TO LIFE. And I wasn't going to pay $300 to have the screen replaced when this was clearly not an issue with the screen - THIS IS A KNOWN SOFTWARE PROBLEM THAT SAMSUNG APPARENTLY HAS NO INTENTION OF ADDRESSING OR FIXING. It's easy for them to say "plug it into your laptop or PC and factory reset" but that's IMPOSSIBLE WHEN YOU CAN'T EVEN GET THE PHONE TO BOOT UP OR BE RECOGNIZED ON YOUR PC/LAPTOP!!! I searched for weeks to determine which phone I wanted to buy - this is a big purchase item and I EXPECTED IT TO LAST FOR YEARS, CONSIDERING HOW WELL I CARE FOR MY ELECTRONICS. But I barely got 54 weeks' use out of this phone, and then I was basically thrown to the wolves because I had no warranty that could be honored and no one would help me outside of saying "replace the screen" or "sell it for junk parts." THIS PERFECTLY NEW AND (UP TO THAT POINT) PERFECTLY FUNCTIONING SMARTPHONE THAT COST HUNDREDS OF MY HARD-EARNED DOLLARS IS NOW ABSOLUTELY USELESS, OTHER THAN SERVING AS A REMINDER THAT I WILL NEVER BUY ANOTHER SAMSUNG NOR WILL I EVER BUY ANOTHER SMARTPHONE VIA AMAZON DUE TO THEIR LACK OF AT LEAST A 1YR WARRANTY. TO SAY THAT I AM SICK OVER THIS IS A GROSS UNDERSTATEMENT.

I came from the Samsung A70 (a $400 phone), and coming up to a flagship is a MASSIVE difference. I liked the camera on my old phone, it was fine, but on the s21+, it is phenomenal! Just the camera upgrade is great, but the 120 refresh rate is great too. I've heard YouTubers talk about the refresh rate pretty often, so I had high expectations for it. And I got to say, the experience is very real. After about a month of using this phone, I set my screen to 60hz, to see how long I could last with the old refresh rate. The difference was immodestly. In less than an hour, I had to switch back to 120hz. The Battery life on this phone is great too. I'm not a heavy user. Normally, I'm on youtube, texting friends, check emails, etc, and the battery is more than enough for it. I also use Google Maps a lot, and by the end of the day, I have about 30-50 percent battery left.Overall, would definitely recommend this phone for anyone that is looking fro an upgrade