Samsung Galaxy S21 FE Full Review Exynos 2100 Finally Improved

 Samsung Recently launched their Galaxy S21 FE In india and Globally it's a successor of Galalxy S20 FE Which is also a popular Device.

Now we are Doing a full review of this Smartphone this review is based on Actual testing of smartphone And it's not Biased review.

DISPLAY

 The screen on this one

is  a 6.4 inch 

and it's an amoled screen of course a

super amoled screen and the good thing

is it's a 120 hz screen so that way

and not an issue and it gets decently

bright if you keep it on auto brightness

uh but the thing is that guys this is

not the top most amoled screen from

samsung for example on the samsung's

true flagship the s21 ultra and

something like that  it's actually

having a proper dynamic display where it

can adjust the refresh rate and can go

down up to about 10 hertz if i recall

this one is fixed at 120 or 60 hertz

guys so that is something i've noticed

not a big deal uh but if it would have

had the same screen the battery life

would happen even better but

nevertheless excellent screen like

you expect on samsung's smartphone so no

issues with that and can get uh decently

bright also and also in dull lighting

situations it does not strain your

height or gets any issues like that in

fact i also like the in-display

fingerprint scanner samsung

went with this in display fingerprint

scanner not the ultra sonic that is used

in the higher end but this one is

actually faster than the ultrasonic one

and again as you can see no issues so

that way it's a fast and reliable what

do you say a fingerprint scanner that we

are getting on this work and works with

this uh screen uh by the way guys this

also has always on display you have to

enable in the settings i did not use the

always on i was just using it like this

in the uh regular mode you tap this for

10 seconds it comes so my battery starts

will be based on that okay now moving to

the next thing is i like that this

smartphone is ip67

rated and also it supports wireless

charging which is generally not found in

this price range generally many

vendors skip the ip rating and wireless

charging but you have those features on

this one ip67 is generally useful i

would say  if your dip accidentally

falls in water or something nothing

should happen to this device and also it

supports wireless charging i personally

do not use wireless charging a lot but

if you are a person who use it for

example in car it's convenient if your

car has a wireless charger you can just

place it and it charges so that

convenience features i would say are

there on this one so nice to have

features 

BUILD QUALITY

the build  Quality guys i would say nice thing is

that the side frame is  is actually metallic so this

is solid but the back is that

polycarbonate plastic i'll talk about

that in the later  but

the thing that i really liked on this

one the front glass is actually gorilla

glass victus and this is the best that

you can get and i was surprised that

samsung gave this one because generally

samsung was reserving that only for

their true high-end flagships but nice

to see that we have gorilla glass

victus and i think so that saved this

smartphone and you also do not

get any case in the box so accidentally

it actually fell once but

There is nothing has happened to

this device and because as the back is

plastic also nothing happened so nice to

see that we are getting gorilla glass

victus because again in this price

range generally other smartphones that

you get are coming with gorilla glass 5

 or even 6 but not gorilla glass

victus so that's a nice thing they

didn't do the cost cutting.

PERFORMANCE

The processor guys in india we're getting

the exynos variant the Exynos 2100 and i was

also very worried about that one it was

 when the original exynos 2100 came

actually this one is having a version

Of exynos 2100 revamped one you

could say the original s21 ultra when i got it it

was a review

it was heating up quite a bit but this

one is not heating up that much yes when

i just first got the phone and i set it

up initially for the first time for the

first two or two three hours it was a

little bit warm because it was indexing

stuff but after four five hours it was

just normal and it simply does not heat

up in daily usage i would say and again

it's a very fast processor almost

equivalent to snapdragon 888 in fact

the heating problem that i was worried

is not an issue only time i notice i

still 

you can heat a little bit if you're

using the camera continuously but again

that's the same case with even the

iphones and other flagship phones that

i'm using so general heating that we

used to get with exynos 990 or even the

first generation exynos 2100 that is

sort of salt i'm not noticing any

heating issues using this one as my

primary and even i used it for gps

mounted on my bike etc i didn't have a

Any issue so i think that the heating issue

is fairly solved and again it's a

fast processor guys you don't have to

worry about it though it comes with just

eight gigabytes of ram handles

everything memory management is actually

pretty good on this i don't have to actually close the

apps or do anything and apps that

you want in memory are there they don't

get booted out so that way even with 8

gigabytes of ram the memory management

has been done very well in that aspect i

would say

samsung is doing a good job this comes

with the latest one ui4 also that comes

with android 12 and it's been optimized

well so there's nothing like lag or

something that i noticed with this phone

so that area performance you don't have

to worry about it.

BATTERY LIFE

IT has 4500 MAH Battery 

slightly better than the regular s21

and again i would say the battery life

is decent on this one i was getting a

battery life in terms of screen on

time guys i was getting anywhere from

about five hours to a max OR about six

and a half hours and that's actually

pretty good for a flagship level

processor because if i recall the s21

ultra was giving me just about four

hours to four and a half hours of screen

on time so decent battery life and it's

comparable to many of the flagships they

also generally get about five to five

and a half hours of what you say sot and

this is  with about one day of standby

 but again guys i was not using it

with the always on using like this if

you use always on like this always on

is always there then it will use a

battery life little bit more but battery

life was a non-issue i would say i was a

little bit worried but again this second

gen whatever 2100 exynos is doing a

good job in terms of standby but again

it's everyday charge phone don't expect

it to last about two days if you want

that then you have to go to the

mid-range smartphone they're far more

efficient than these flagships

5G BANDS AND NETWORK

regarding the 5g

bands i like that here also samsung is

not skimping i believe this has 12 bands

of 5g so whenever 5g comes that's coming

this year at least in metros you will

have 5g on this you don't have to worry

about that next thing is regarding the

call quality uh and here again uh still

my primary something isn't there the

airtel the sim is there again it supports

everything the wi-fi calling and all

those things are there as you can see

you can enable it disable all those

things and all the bells and whistles

are their decks dolby atmos and all

those things uh in call quality i did

not have an issue uh typical samsung

flagship i would say so call quality was

good earpiece quality was excellent and

i like the fact that this handset is

actually not that heavy so even for long

calls you can easily take it it weighs

just 177 grams or generally the

flagships these days are hovering on 195

200 or even 205 grams so that way

i would say it was light and no

proximity sensor issue call quality was

also good  and i also took calls with

speaker and it was decent i wish the

speaker phone was a little bit louder

but decent so no issues in terms of call

quality that i had with this one.

WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION

 The weight balance

is done well 177 grams so definitely

if you're coming from some other

flagships they are a lot more heavier i

would say so i i started appreciating

that it just weighs 177 grams

so that's nice but still the outer

chases is not plastic this is important

for rigidity so there they did not

compromise.

CAMERA QUALITY

 The camera on this one  the triple

 camera all are 12 megapixel but all

cameras are functional on this one

the regular one

is the wide angle and we have a 2x zoom

the picture Quality that i got with this one

was very very good and again in portrait

mode it uses that 2x zoom and the pictures come with the zoom so

definitely i would say camera was

something that exceeded my

expectations i would say and here they

did not compromise i thought they will

compromise because this is a fe edition

so camera would be a little bit

compromised but i i'm actually pretty

impressed with the rear facing camera,

 In fact much better than i expected.

especially that portrait mode works

brilliantly on this one  front facing

is a 13 megapixel and here i would say

 outdoor shots and good lighting come

out to be good but again in dull

lighting i feel the front facing camera

is struggling a little bit  instead of

the 32 megapixel they should have just

gone with the 12 megapixel because uh

like what they did with the rear one

because 12 megapixel captures in a lot

more light so yes in low lighting  i

would say front facing camera was

struggling a little bit that's what i

have noticed.

SOFTWARE DEPARTMENT

Another very good thing about this

smartphone as i've told you this comes

out of the box with android 12 with one

ui 4 that is the latest that we are

getting and again samsung has already

promised that this smartphone will get

next three what do you say android

upgrade so android 13 14 and 15 will

also get and four years of security

update so this is the best in the

industry so if you're a person who does

not change like to change this phone

very often also then you are covered

with this in that aspect i would say

samsung is doing a very good job in

terms of updates and many of the phones

these days new phones are also coming

with android 11 they say that android 12

will come out later on but this comes

with android 12 out of the box so in

that area i am happy with this

smartphone and again i didn't find any

major bugs in the ui or anything

so software you're sort of covered.

CONS 

now let's move to some of the nitpicks

so these are not strictly current but

these are some of the things that i have

noticed and again the first thing is

that again back again guys this is

plastic back

and i know this is a nitpick because uh

what i've noticed that yes definitely if

it was having a glass back it would have

looked slightly more premium but 

this is also having a plastic bag but again

it's held up pretty well and my doctor

drops the phone quite a bit But again nothing

that has cracked if it was a glass back

this would have cracked uh easily so yes

in terms of durability uh definitely i

think so

the plastic bag is good but i think so

this plastic bag feels a little bit 

cheap so if i were using this phone i

would add just some skin to make it look

better so that's my take regarding the

plastic uh back many people feel yes

they are more durable and i have to

agree with that next thing that i

noticed is

again in the box there is no case

provided they should have given the case

because the competition the oneplus 9rt

does give a silicon case and they could

have bundled that so i don't like that

they are skimping uh there  next thing

is again 

it has decent haptics haptic feedback is

decent but i felt that the haptics are

not as great as what samsung puts on

their flagship and that's how i think so

they are differentiating a little bit so

the haptic models are decent but not

superb i would say  next thing is and

this is something samsung should not do

and because this is sort of a premium

phone costing almost 50 000.

samsung tries to push some of the stuff

over here for example this galaxy store

and you can't remove it i know i can

easily disable it going there but again

for a novice user it prompts you to

install apps and stuff over here i just

didn't disable it but you can disable it

but that this is something that samsung

should stop doing i can just go to the

my galaxy apps and from here i can

disable this app so i will eventually

do that but i don't like that some of

the it keeps sending stuff like this

and next thing is

regarding the  what do you say

charging this supports a max of 25 watt

of charging and i don't like the fact

that the charger is not there in the box

and

i don't know why samsung is doing it i

understand with flagships apple has also

stopped doing that but

if one plus has to look at the

competition the oneplus 9 rt in the box

you get that fast 65 watt charger so

the competition is that so they should

have given that 25 watt charger in the

box in my frank opinion here also they

are doing that cost cutting and i don't

like that so you have to really if you

want that fast charging you have to buy

the 25 watt the charger separately from

the market 

it has stereo speakers

but this is the max volume i'm keeping

so the volume level

is okay but

i felt it could have been louder

you had very good stereo separation it's

not like only like 30 of the sound is

coming from this time but in terms of

loudness it could have been louder

certainly the true samsung flagships

have far better and louder stereo

speakers  next thing is 

that

regarding the pricing

inconsistency this was launched at about

55 000 and just last week i noticed that

the price came back to about 50 000.

this is without offers you can add

credit card offers or whatever up from

that but now i just looked at it before

making this REVIEW

today is what 27th

and today again it's showing me the

price of about 55 000 yes there are some

offers but i don't like this price

fluctuation every week what the hell is

going on the best price that i saw of

this one was that last week it was

priced at 50 000 but you could add

actually some credit card offers so it

worked out to be about 47 000. that was

the best but now if i look even at

amazon india and even the samsung's own

website they are quoting a price of 55

000. you have some credit card offer

5000 off but i don't like the pricing in

customs if one week it's like this one

week it's like that is it a stock market

or what be consistent with your pricing

so that users can make a decision and i

feel  at this price point it's

slightly overpriced for what samsung is

trying to do because the real

competition is the oneplus 9r team

and i feel if you are able to get this

smartphone at around 45

000 price point eventually it will come

down to that price i feel then it's a

good buy but i feel the biggest

competition as of now to this smartphone

with the current pricing is the

samsung's own s20 fe 5g this you can

have i was looking at amazon for about

37 or 38 000 37 000 i think so and at

that price point this is an excellent

smartphone  so that was my review of

this samsung galaxy s21 fe.

CONCLUSION

 so this is the summary  overall

much better than expected i was worried

about the exynos 2100 but it has been

working well and i did not notice any

major heating issues while using the

phone regularly the camera performance

especially the rear facing camera

surprised me and it's a very good and

proper triple camera setup that we are

getting it has some good features like

ip67

water resistant and wireless charging

which are generally missed in phones in

this range so in terms of features

samsung is not skipping a lot of stuff

just that the stereo speakers could have

been louder

for working professionals

that have important data on the

smartphone this smartphone does support

uh samsung's nox security and even decks

wireless so if you use those features 

those are there but i feel samsung

should get it surprising right it's

fluctuating all over the place every

week now it would be a good buy if you

can get it around forty five thousand

constraint you can get last year's

galaxy s21 fe at about 10 to 13 000 

rupees less which is still a pretty good

phone so guys this was my review of the

samsung galaxy s 21 fe 5g what do you

guys feel about the same do let me know

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