Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra’s killer hidden feature just revealed

Samsung Milky way S21 Ultra'southward killer hidden feature just revealed

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A secret Samsung Milky way S21 Ultra feature only got revealed, and it explains how the brandish on the company'southward latest flagship phone looks and so practiced while not annihilating battery.

Samsung Brandish, the company'south display development and manufacturing arm, announced a new OLED technology that greatly improves efficiency. It offers some details about this new type of brandish, as well equally reveals that the S21 Ultra will be the first device shipping with this panel.

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The biggest benefit is battery life. Samsung claims that its new display uses sixteen% less ability than a standard OLED panel thanks to greater "luminous efficiency". That can end up working out to several extra hours of phone life, and may explain the S21 Ultra's splendid bombardment performance on our custom TG battery test in our review.

Other benefits of the new material include "broad color gamut, high brightness, HDR, and outdoor visibility," according to Samsung's printing release.

What also helps is LTPO, another key brandish technology used on the S21 Ultra. This allows the brandish to dynamically change its refresh rate between 10Hz and 120Hz, depending on what you're using the telephone for at the time, conserving ability. For example, playing games will make the phone get up to 120Hz, but going back to the habitation screen and not touching the telephone would tell the phone to reduce the refresh rate.

The Galaxy S21 and Galaxy S21 Plus use a similar technology called LTPS. The dynamic refresh rate alterations remain the aforementioned, merely they tin simply driblet to 48Hz.

Samsung'southward next flagship telephone is likely going to be the Galaxy Note 21, Galaxy Z Fold 3 or Milky way Z Flip 3. Information technology's a reasonable assumption to make that this new brandish will be nowadays on at least some of the models for these devices. Given how well the S21 Ultra turned out, there's a good risk these phones volition make our best Android phones or even our overall best phones rankings upon launch.

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Richard is a Tom's Guide staff writer based in London, roofing news, reviews and how-tos for phones, gaming, audio and whatsoever else people need advice on. Following on from his MA in Magazine Journalism at the University of Sheffield, he'southward besides written for WIRED U.G., The Register and Creative Bloq. When not at work, he's likely thinking about how to brew the perfect cup of specialty coffee.