Samsung Galaxy A21 vs. A21s Comparison! What's The Difference? By TechDaily

What's going on guys, my name is Wade with tech daily and in this video we're going to be comparing the new Samsung Galaxy a 21 to the equally new Samsung Galaxy, a 21s if you're confused by the phones, that's okay, I'm, pretty confused myself. Honestly, while an S phone in Samsung's, a series lineup, usually denotes a mid-cycle update to an already existing device. This time around Samsung just decided to launch the 821 and 821 s at basically the same time. The 821 s actually even launched a few weeks before the 21 which is just really bizarre but weird release. Schedule aside, we have both of these phones here now and, if you're in the market for a new budget device. There's certainly a lot to consider with these two new phones, given the crazy popularity of last year's, a 20 both here in the US and around the world, I anticipate a lot of folks are going to be interested in these a 21 s as an upgrade, and I'm sure a ton of people who don't have an A Series phone at all, yet might also look into these as well.

My goal with this video is to just kind of go over all the similarities, the important differences and everything else you need to know about these two phones, and hopefully, by the end, you can decide if either one of them is right for you. So enough talking. Let's just go ahead and jump right into it and see what these phones have to offer. First things first I want to talk about pricing and availability since there's already a few important differences with the a21. This phone is getting a wide US release right now, with major carriers like Sprint, Verizon and T-Mobile, all selling it already and prepaid carriers like Metro cricket and boosts likely jumping on boards sometime soon as well, the regular a21 retails for around 250 dollars, though the carriers have already discounted it down to 199 dollars, and you may see even better deals than that as we head further into 2020.

The regular a21 is probably the phone that a vast majority of US buyers will see in-store and be familiar with. The 21s is more of an international device, it's available in countries around the world, and you can also purchase an unlocked variant for use here in the US on places like Amazon for as low as 220 dollars. Right now, those of you outside the US will likely be more familiar with this a 21 s, but, to be honest, I wouldn't be surprised to see this phone hit US carriers to sometime later this year, either way you want to go, though both of these phones do fall into that $200 range. You might be paying 25 to 50 dollars more on either side depending on when and where you buy them from, but they're a lot closer in price than you might think, and because of that, and because well spoiler alert the 821 s is the better phone I might lean more towards the 21 s right away. If you guys are interested in doing some comparison, shopping of your own- or maybe you want to buy one of these devices for yourself.

I'll leave some links down below in the video description to where you can get these phones at their cheapest. Current prices so be sure to check down there, so you don't miss out on any good deals. Physically, the 21 and a 21s are close and at a glance they look almost identical. They even have the same default wallpaper, which just adds to the confusion, but they are actually different phones, different size, slightly different design and housing. Unfortunately, you can tell them apart pretty easily, if you have them in your hands, size, wise, they're, both technically six and a half inch phones, that's the screen measurement at least, but you can see that the regular, a 21 is slightly larger than the 21s a bit taller by about 4 or 5 millimeters.

The regular 821 is also a tiny bit wider, though that's less obvious, while the 21s is a few millimeters thicker, the main physical difference up front, at least that contributes to the size discrepancy has to do with those bezels. You can see across the top. At least both phones have the same. Newer, refreshed, infinity, Oh hole, punch, cut out for the front camera, that's kind of a nice change. It certainly gives the phone a more modern.

Look and things are pretty even up top, but down below the regular.21 rocks a much larger bottom chin compared to the slightly less obvious, a 21s side-by-side. You can really tell the difference and I think this big bottom bezel is mainly what has the 21 being been taller device in the hand, though both of these phones feel big and that's simply because they are they're. The largest a series phones by sheer housing and body size and one-handed use is tough. Even for someone like me, it's quite the stretch to reach all the sides and corners, and I'd say that the phone, the size isn't necessarily the right fit for everyone, but, on the other hand, getting a big huge display like this is pretty nice. Considering the $200 price point around back.

The differences are a little more obvious, though. In the end, the build and materials on both phones are actually the same. The regular a21 comes in just one color option right now: black, while the a21 s has a few colors to choose from with a shiny, shimmering rainbow effect to add it in, but both phones are constructed of plastic. That's designed to just sort of imitate the look of glass there's still both budget phones. After all, so you get budget materials and really the only thing you have to decide with.

This is, if you like, the fun flashy colors or if you're, okay, with keeping things simple, taking a look around and everything else on the left side. Both phones have the sim and SD card tray on the right. You'll see the volume and power buttons, though the design is a little different there and down below. Both phones have the same headphone jack, USB, C, charging, port and single speaker, but for whatever reason, the placement is just flip-flopped with the speaker and headphone jacks taking another look at the back. You'll see that, while both phones have a quad lens camera set up, the design is very different.

The specs and hardware are different too, and I'll go more in depth with that. In just a bit, but next to the cameras you'll see both phones also have a rear, mounted fingerprint sensor and taking a closer look, you can see. The a21 has a more rounded sensor and frame all a 21s is sort of rectangular, but the placement and function of the fingerprint sensors are identical. The only other difference is in performance from what I can see the fingerprint sensor on the a21 s is going to wake up and unlock the phone a bit faster than the regular a21. It's not a huge difference like a fraction of a second, but it is a difference that I wanted to just mention.

In addition to the fingerprint sensor, both phones also utilize face, unlock well again. The setup and function is the same, but with performance it's a bit harder to tell which phone has the advantage. Sometimes the a21 gets at first other times the 21s does so with face unlock at least I. Don't necessarily feel like one phone is any faster than the other when it comes to the displays. Both phones have basically the same hardware.

Here, though, there are a few important things to talk about. First off, like I mentioned earlier, both screens are 6.5 inches with the same 1600 by 720 resolution and the same 270 pixels per inch packed inside the regular. A 21s display is listed as an IPS LCD panel, while the 21s is marketed as a pls TFT screen, and that's actually just Samsung's own version of LCD, but whether the screen is Samsung's own or something different. The side-by-side comparisons show that, to me at least everything looks identical. The color clarity and detail are the same, and neither phone has any sort of advantage when it comes to the viewing experience.

The problem here is just the fact that last year's a20 had an AMOLED display, a really beautiful super colorful high quality panel with deep blacks and an impressive look for a phone at this price point. This year, Samsung just basically went backwards, offering LCD screens on both the 21 and a 21 s. I, don't really understand the move. I think it was a terrible decision to be honest and is likely the one reason why I wouldn't immediately jump up to either of these phones if I had the 820. The lack of AMOLED is a big disappointment, but it is what it is and in the end, the screens and viewing experience with these phones aren't bad as they are.

They just in my opinion, are worse from last year's phones, which doesn't make a lot of sense and in regards the out loud listening experience, both phones have the exact same single speaker setup, and they sound the same to no advantage here and no stereo sound either, but a decent enough speaker to use if you want to as far as the internal specs and performance. This is where the difference in these two phones starts to come out a bit more though, to be totally honest, their real-world performance isn't as drastic as I had expected. First off the regular 821 packs, the MediaTek hello p35 processor, paired with three gigabytes of RAM and 32 gigabytes of built-in storage, and this is the only configuration option you can choose for this phone. The 21s offers Samsung's brand-new budget, focused XE notes, 850 processors, the option of either three four or six gigabytes of RAM and the option of 32 or 64 gigabytes of built-in storage. Now here are the Geek bench & an tutu scores, so you can get a numeric value for each phone.

The 21s with the new Enos processor looks to be a bit more powerful, though not by much and by the way, my 821 s is the four gigabyte of RAM 64 gigabyte of storage model. So that should put things into perspective too. Both phones do ship with Android 10 and Samsung's 1 UI 2, so the user experience is pretty much the same, and you can see that with some stock Android apps a side-by-side speed test shows these phones are almost identical at times, though, when you move over to third-party apps and start to have some things loaded, the 21s pulls ahead now. To be totally honest, these are still both budget phones. So you have to keep your expectations in check, but, speaking on, the regular 8:21 first I, don't think, there's anything necessarily wrong with performance here.

Nothing that warrants an obvious or an immediate upgrade to the 21s. Yet the real advantage with the 21s I think is just having the option to get more RAM and more built-in storage. If you want to pay a little extra and as you start to push the phones a bit harder, especially with gaming, the extra RAM seems to make a difference in load times with the 21s MediaTek processor I. Don't have any complaints. A number of MediaTek chips launched this year in different phones, and they've performed quite well in my experience, so don't immediately dismiss them.

Yet if you haven't tried them at the same time, it seems to be that Samsung brought a decent processor in their Enos 850, and it looks to be better than the P 35, as it should be really I. Think it's going to come down to how hard you want to push these phones and what kind of money you want to invest. You can spend a bit more money and get a high respect. A 21s if you want to in order to make a more worthwhile investment, but maybe jumping up to the a31, would be a better move at that point realistically, at basically the same price eh 21s is the better value in general, with performance and specs, but to be totally honest, difference just isn't as extreme as maybe I had hoped for now, when it comes to battery size, we do actually get a big difference. The regular 8:21 packs a really solid four thousand William capacity battery inside, but the 821 s ups, the ante, with a five thousand William battery that bump up means an extra couple of hours on the 821 s potentially, which could come in handy, though really both of these phones offers stellar battery life in general.

Already, if it's really important to you, the 21s, though, does offer quite a bit of extra juice. Finally, let's talk cameras, and once again, this is where these two phones differ quite a bit while they both pack quad lens setups. The hardware is pretty different. The a21 offers just a 16 megapixel main shooter 8 megapixel ultra-wide lens 2, megapixel macro and 2 megapixel depth sensor, the 821 s has a significantly better 48 megapixel main lens and the same 8 megapixel ultra-wide, a 2 megapixel macro and 2 megapixel depth sensor on the software side of things with the shooting modes and features everything is pretty much identical. You get live, focus panorama pro controls, wide-angle macro and more.

The main difference really is just in the 821 s's ability to utilise the full 48 megapixels of the main lens. With this on the 21s, you can capture much more detail in the shot provided that you actually enable this in the camera app which I know not a lot of people do. But if you do buy the 21s with its 48 megapixel camera option, you should shoot at that higher megapixel option, since that's what you're paying for anyway. Besides that most of the other settings and functions are going to be the same, including 1080p, video up front. The differences are a bit less obvious.

The 8:21 has a 13 megapixel F 2.0 aperture selfie camera, while the 821 s is a 13 megapixel, F, 2.2, aperture lens in practice. The cell he's produced by these phones are pretty similar. The big things I just noticed, really are just in portrait shots. The regular a21 / softens skin tones with a crazy beauty filter while the 21s, even though it is still softening things quite a bit. ? is less obvious and in regular selfies.

Well, the a21 is a bit pinkish, and it's skin tones and the 821 s more natural. The detail is the same and the shots look good. Both bones. Take solid, selfies and I. Don't really have any complaints.

So here are my final thoughts. A few weeks ago before these phones came out, I thought for sure it'd be a 21s would be the easy and obvious pic, but now that I have them both here, I'm, not so sure, there's nothing really wrong with the a21 as it is. It's a decent budget phone that's going to be widely available for everyone. The 21s is an upgrade when it comes to the internal specs and performance, the battery size and camera potential, but it's not a huge upgrade. It doesn't bring anything drastic or really all that worthwhile, which is kind of a shame, and neither phones have an AMOLED screen, which is probably my biggest gripe.

If you want to spend a little extra, the 21s is the better choice, obviously, but don't feel like you're missing out on anything by going with the 821. You really aren't and, to be honest, I might even consider last year's a 20 at this point or a different phone altogether. If AMOLED screens are as important to you as they are to me, so there you go. That's everything you need to know about the Samsung Galaxy, a 21 and a 21 s. What do you guys think? Which phone do you prefer? Is the 21s even worth getting? Let me know in the comments down below I'd love, to know your thoughts, of course, but hopefully you guys did enjoy this video be sure to follow tech daily on Twitter and subscribe to the tech daily YouTube channel.

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