SamsungsmartphoneLast featured Feb 2023
Samsung Galaxy S22
Worth it if…Worth it, with caveats.
A polished, cheaper-than-last-year compact flagship and a strong pick for small hands.
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- Price when I covered it
- £400–900
- Featured in
- 5 videos · 2022–2023
- Category
- Phones · Flagship
What I liked
- Small size
- very polished
- cheaper than the S21
- compact
- Update lets users turn the optimisation off
What I didn't
- Weaker battery life
- not special on hardware
- battery life concern
- Throttled apps while exempting benchmarks
In my words
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“it isn't anything special in the hardware department but it is cheaper than last year's S21”
Every time I covered it
Most recent first, so you can see if my view has changed.
10:24Why Everyone is Buying iPhones now.He pre-ordered it and used the free earbuds bonus as an example of how freebies devalue a product.
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1:58The Best Smartphones for 2023!A great small phone, but he would skip it for its weaker battery life.
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1:33Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4 - Why I NEARLY Switched.Its camera sensors are technically a tier above the Flip 4's, despite the S22 being cheaper.
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2:48The BEST Smartphones of 2022!A polished, cheaper-than-last-year compact flagship and a strong pick for small hands.
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5:10The Samsung Smartphone Scandal: ExplainedSamsung has issued an update for the S22 series to turn off the throttling service, though he says the underlying cooling problem remains.
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