Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra/Note 22 Ultra

[aggie99]

My battery still seems to be draining kind of fast but I have the same issue with every phone the last few years so I think it's just due to living in a bad zone for AT&T service.

One thing I've noticed dealing with doctors lately is if you have an iPhone you're kind of golden child to them because they will just say "Oh let's FaceTime" That's come up a few times now and today the doctor wants to video conference with me about my child's newly diagnosed mostly benign condition (we just aren't getting a break lately...had a veterinary emergency a few weeks ago, too) but the crazy thing is I wasn't even told how this video conference was to take place. I thought everyone Zooms these days so it's going to be that. Then I thought oh crap, I don't know how to do zoom since I haven't set my PC up for that. And this is one of those rare days my husband went to the office in town and I have no idea how to use his computer.

Well I worried for nothing because the conference is via FaceTime. But they just took it for granted I have an iPhone to do FaceTime on. It went down like "Oh yeah of course it's FaceTime." That was the pediatricians office. But it's the same with my own doctor, too.

Fortunately I do have the ability to FaceTime. But it just seemed weird to me that where I live, at least, it's automatically assumed everyone is on iPhone. People really do freak out a little if you hit them with a green bubble, too.

Meanwhile I've been taking SPen notes left and right on my Ultra and thinking this would be the ultimate device and the one I could totally switch to...except apparently it's an iOS world and I'm just living in it.

Oh well I'm totally going to rock the fact I have two phones going. Well I have my Pixel as well. I am going to record the video conference on my Note. Yeah I know I know. It's not a Note. Except it IS a Note.

And the conference itself will be on my iPhone. Heck I may even record it on my Pixel so it can transcribe the whole thing. I haven't tried that feature yet. Why not. May as well go crazy with it all.

So far I haven't found anything I dislike about the Ultra. Other than it can't integrate into the iOS world of communication. If FaceTime and imessages were separate cross platform apps I could take the plunge. But I have to stay in both worlds.

I don't understand why people can't get on board with Google Duo or any of the other cross platform video calling apps. I'm fine being a green bubble but the disconnect when it comes to video calling with iPhone users can be a major pain at times.

 

[Bkdodger]

I don't understand why people can't get on board with Google Duo or any of the other cross platform video calling apps. I'm fine being a green bubble but the disconnect when it comes to video calling with iPhone users can be a major pain at times.

Most definitely for sure. I mean with the zoom and all the other stuff available. You would think they would just accommodate accordingly...

 

[koigirl]

My battery still seems to be draining kind of fast but I have the same issue with every phone the last few years so I think it's just due to living in a bad zone for AT&T service.

One thing I've noticed dealing with doctors lately is if you have an iPhone you're kind of golden child to them because they will just say "Oh let's FaceTime" That's come up a few times now and today the doctor wants to video conference with me about my child's newly diagnosed mostly benign condition (we just aren't getting a break lately...had a veterinary emergency a few weeks ago, too) but the crazy thing is I wasn't even told how this video conference was to take place. I thought everyone Zooms these days so it's going to be that. Then I thought oh crap, I don't know how to do zoom since I haven't set my PC up for that. And this is one of those rare days my husband went to the office in town and I have no idea how to use his computer.

Well I worried for nothing because the conference is via FaceTime. But they just took it for granted I have an iPhone to do FaceTime on. It went down like "Oh yeah of course it's FaceTime." That was the pediatricians office. But it's the same with my own doctor, too.

Fortunately I do have the ability to FaceTime. But it just seemed weird to me that where I live, at least, it's automatically assumed everyone is on iPhone. People really do freak out a little if you hit them with a green bubble, too.

Meanwhile I've been taking SPen notes left and right on my Ultra and thinking this would be the ultimate device and the one I could totally switch to...except apparently it's an iOS world and I'm just living in it.

Oh well I'm totally going to rock the fact I have two phones going. Well I have my Pixel as well. I am going to record the video conference on my Note. Yeah I know I know. It's not a Note. Except it IS a Note.

And the conference itself will be on my iPhone. Heck I may even record it on my Pixel so it can transcribe the whole thing. I haven't tried that feature yet. Why not. May as well go crazy with it all.

So far I haven't found anything I dislike about the Ultra. Other than it can't integrate into the iOS world of communication. If FaceTime and imessages were separate cross platform apps I could take the plunge. But I have to stay in both worlds.

Interesting, I’ve had tons of different dr appts this past year and they all use Zoom or Telehealth but no Facetime requests although isn’t it cross-platform now? I kind of don’t care what iOS users think about green bubbles at this point and resent Apple using this to try and lock people in.😅. And yes, a Note by any other name is still a Note. I hope my special order blue ships soon!

 

[Bkdodger]

Don't ask me why I always like to watch his videos.. so I can never get over the scraping of the sides LMFAO..

 

[jamesrick80]

Found a quick way to share notes/images between my Ultra and iPhone. I use OneNote, and I have the side button on my S-Pen programmed to open up OneNote, and the OneNote app on my iPhone updates extremely quickly once I write/attach anything to the app on my Ultra. Really nice. This will great for class notes.

The Ultra is the nicest phone I've ever used. My iPhone feels so pale in comparison. In the year 2022, the Ultra is what a smart phone should be

Based on this comment, you could have felt this way as far back as the galaxy note 9 since it still did all of this amazingly well then too.

 

[jamesrick80]

I like this phone so much more than the 13PM that I'm managing without iMessage. Most people that I care to text with are on FB anyhow. You can semi get the same messaging experience as iMessage thru FB messenger.

It truly is a fantastic device. It's by far the smoothest, fastest Samsung device I've used and the display and camera are top notch.

Right on, and I don't allow a messenger to decide who I socialize with; there has always been other methods to message and iMessage has never been that important; a simple sms can be sent from anywhere and usually it is more than enough to get a point across; if you think like that; imessage is unwarranted. For me, I use the messengers that come natively with my devices and they seem to work out the best.

 

[5105973]

Interesting, I’ve had tons of different dr appts this past year and they all use Zoom or Telehealth but no Facetime requests although isn’t it cross-platform now? I kind of don’t care what iOS users think about green bubbles at this point and resent Apple using this to try and lock people in.😅. And yes, a Note by any other name is still a Note. I hope my special order blue ships soon!

As it turns out todays conference was NOT FaceTime. It was a proprietary service of the hospital association my pediatrician is a member of. They sent me a link in text. It’s just that the office staffperson who initially set it up referred to it as FaceTime. I guess she thought of FaceTime as sort of generic for video calling just like some people think of all facial tissue as “Kleenex” and people in the UK refer to vacuum cleaners as Hoovers. Lol Tim Cook may not like that! Watering down the brand! A second person called me to finalize everything and referred to it by its proper name.

But the bulk of my other video communications with the people caring for my parents and my own doctor has been FaceTime. This is not to be confused with a service I used called Teladoc when my regular doctor was unavailable for an urgent situation with my eye.

I think with the people regarding my parents, this was due to Covid and the fact I wasn’t going to be able to visit and take care of a lot of business in person. I got the feeling a lot of medical staff were using their own phones and winging some things because they were overloaded with patients and short on resources and had to improvise, especially as the winter surge hit our area and face to face communication was out of the question. This was certainly true when my father was hospitalized. He was in for something ostensibly treatable, but the care facilities were full to the brim with Covid patients and eventually he became one of them— and at his age with comorbidities it didn’t go well.

It’s less dire right now for my mother. I’m able to visit her now that she’s settled.

 

[5105973]

So anyway I video recorded my iPhone call with the doctor. It was the lowest setting. But it looked nice and the phone stayed nice and cool for the 32 minutes of recording. Lol I had the camera positioned down on the desk facing up so basically its 32 minutes of video up my nose! 😄

The Google transcript my Pixel 6 Pro made was comically bad but important information was preserved and I was able to share it with my husband. I really appreciate that the Pixel can do that. Is there an app on the Samsung that can do that, too?

 

[Fernandez21]

I see people comment on the smaller battery in the S22 and worry about battery life, may not break records, but I’m getting similar battery compared to my iPhone 13 pro (smaller sized)

 

[kaardowiq]

I see people comment on the smaller battery in the S22 and worry about battery life, may not break records, but I’m getting similar battery compared to my iPhone 13 pro (smaller sized)

Keep in mind that people from Europe have the Exynos chip; screenshots in European forums about battery life were incredible bad which resulted for many people in returning the device. However, I tried my last switch with the S20 (Exynos) and gave up because of the battery life.

 

[Klyster]

Hi all I've just received my s22 ultra exynos as I have the s21 ultra and I've been playing a few hdr videos from Netflix and YouTube and the s22 display is quite a bit duller and less bright I've played with the setting etc and it's still noticeably dim compared to my s21 ultra is this something to do with software etc?

Go to 3.00

Hope this helps.

 

[Brockyneo]

Thanks ive also tried this and the display is definitely brighter then the s21 ultra but hdr in youtube is still dimmer then the s21 personally I thing its just a youtube app bug or a software issue u don't think it's a hardware problem unless samsung have designed this way

 

[PWMisntNice]

How's the s22U working out for people with PWM? I've seen promising comments out there, but wanted to ask. Thanks!

 

[The Game 161]

battery life seems steady for me. not using it loads due to working all day most days lately but I know it will last me all day easily which is what I want. that sadly using both 13 pro max and s22 ultra at once it's hard to really worry about battery life.

 

[Mastrociambella]

How's the s22U working out for people with PWM? I've seen promising comments out there, but wanted to ask. Thanks!

I'd like to have info about pwm as well, even though "luckily" samsung devices are less annoying on average than iPhones (but they got worse for me since S10, slightly worse every year), therefore i don't know if PWM is such a known issue.
FWIW i tried a S22 Ultra in store briefly, and something felt a bit "wrong", but i can't say if it's worse than my S21 Ultra (i have to use max brightness and extra-dim on to compensate, and this way things are good enough, even though extra dim feature, the official one or with 3rd party apps, causes color banding) or not

 

[Bkdodger]

Good morning folks afternoon wherever you are.. is everyone enjoying their phones?..

 

[majkom]

Don't ask me why I always like to watch his videos.. so I can never get over the scraping of the sides LMFAO..

God, that pwm flicker there

 

[5105973]

How's the s22U working out for people with PWM? I've seen promising comments out there, but wanted to ask. Thanks!

Fine. No problems for me. I just packed off my S21 Ultra and sent it off. I like the S22 Ultra a lot. I haven't had much of a life the last 3 days but I did get enough time with it earlier to do some reading and general use. I am glad I bought it.

 

[5105973]

Good morning folks afternoon wherever you are.. is everyone enjoying their phones?..

Loving mine. I've been super busy just in the last 3 days but before that I got a satisfactory amount of time in to know I'm going to enjoy this phone a lot!

 

[drinkingtea]

I love this phone so much that I’m returning my 128gb variant and getting the 256gb one for future proofing.

Now, I only use my iPhone for iMessage and phone calls.

 

[Klyster]

Mine is unused as yet, waiting for a case and will install screen protector today, maybe...

 

[Bkdodger]

God, that pwm flicker there

Ah bad right ..

 

[Bkdodger]

Dinner tonight

cavatelli broccoli rabe and sausage..in stages till perfection

 

[LIVEFRMNYC]

Dinner tonight

cavatelli broccoli rabe and sausage..in stages till perfection

Replace broccoli with spinach and I'm all over that.

 

[Bkdodger]

Replace broccoli with spinach and I'm all over that.

Spinach is another go to for me ...win win