Review: Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra – Big, beautiful and a bit awkward

Review: Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra – Big, beautiful and a bit awkward
The Galaxy S22 Ultra's built in pen is definitely a great feature, but how well does it work? (Image: Samsung)
Ben Moore
Samsung offered me one of its recently released Galaxy S22 Ultra devices to play with, along with a Galaxy S22 base model as a point of comparison.Being completely open, this is the first time I have used any Android phone since the Samsung Galaxy S2 that I had (and detested) circa-2012. That being said, I won’t be judging the phone on the operating system, although I will say I found the combo of Android 12 and Samsung’s One UI 4.1 to be adequate.That aside, let’s get into the details.Quick specsLaunched in February, the Gala...

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