Samsung Galaxy S21+ 5G

The Samsung Galaxy S21 Plus price in Kenya is Kshs. 94,000. The phone was launched in 2021 January alongside the S21 and S21 Ultra. The Samsung Galaxy S21 Plus 5G has a 6.7-inch Full-HD+ 120Hz AMOLED display with a screen resolution of 2400 x 1080p pixels. Coming to cameras, it has come with a triple primary camera setup that consists of 64 MP + 12 MP + 12 MP lenses while the front camera has a 10-megapixel setup for great selfies.

Samsung Galaxy S21 Plus 5G specs and price in Kenya

The Galaxy S21 plus 5G is powered by the new and improved Exynos 2100 with Mali-G78 MP14 GPU. The phone is packed with 8GB RAM and 128GB/256GB of onboard storage that can not be expanded. The Galaxy s21 plus 5G comes in Phantom Violet, Phantom Silver, and Phantom Black colors.

The Galaxy S21 Plus 5G is a powerful premium flagship smartphone that has a solid build quality, a good long-lasting battery, and a good set of cameras that are feature-packed. The Galaxy S21 Plus 5G is a premium smartphone with a flagship design. 

Design

If you’re getting the base Samsung Galaxy S21 Plus, you’ll have a choice of six colors, Phantom Black, Phantom Silver, Phantom Violet, Phantom Pink, Phantom Gold, and Phantom Red. The biggest design change on the Samsung Galaxy S21 models is the camera bump. Flip it over and you’ll see some differences.

For years, we’ve been stuck with big ugly protruding camera bumps. Last year’s S20 lineup was particularly egregious with that massive thing that just stuck out of that otherwise beautiful glass back. But instead of jetting out, Samsung has made it this seamless piece of metal that smoothly flows from the metal rails of the phone onto the back.

5G support

Samsung Galaxy S21 Plus fully supports 5G with support for both sub six and millimeter-wave 5g, thanks to the integrated Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 / Exynos 2100 processor. It should work with whichever phone network you have (but 5G was not yet in Kenya as at the time of this review). The complaint on battery life is quickly silenced when at the mention of S21’s Li-Po 4800 mAh, non-removable battery. The same supports fast charging 25W, fast Qi/PMA wireless charging, and reverse wireless charging 4.5W. There is wireless charging if you need another way to charge your phone.

Cameras

As for those three cameras, on Samsung Galaxy S21 Plus 5G there’s a 12 megapixel wide, a 12 megapixel ultra-wide, and a 64-megapixel telephoto lens along with a 10-megapixel selfie camera in that whole punch on the front display. Now, if those sounded a little familiar to you, it’s because these are virtually identical, at least hardware-wise to the cameras on last year’s Galaxy S20 and Galaxy S20 plus. That said, Samsung says that it has made improvements to things like AI processing and added some new camera features. So there are some things to look forward to.

Notable differences

For starters, the base Samsung Galaxy S21 Plus 5G’s back is made out of glass. This is not polycarbonate plastic-like Galaxy S21’s.of aluminum. It has shifted from the curved screens that Samsung has been using for years down to a flat panel. There are a couple of bigger changes to the specs that Samsung has made here. Both panels are lower resolution than last year’s now down to 2,400 x 1080 resolution instead of 3200 x 1440.

They come with less RAM, 8 gigabytes instead of 12. Of course, there’s still a lot of new things to like there’s the new design, Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 / Exynos 2100 processor, and there are improvements to the already really good cameras from last year.