SMARTPHONE FRENZY
GO YOUR PHONE WAY
For the choosy smartphone buyer, 2022 is the year of options galore – from fantastical flagships to budget bangers, there’s something for ever yone over the next 16 sparkling pages
SAMSUNG GALAXY S22 ULTRA
Price from £1149 / stuff.tv/S22Ultra
With smartphone competition reaching fever pitch over the last 12 months, from Apple striking hard with its iPhone 13 Pro Max to Google finally hitting its stride with the Pixel 6 Pro, Samsung’s Galaxy S22 Ultra has a lot to prove.
While the two other S22s (see p39) look like evolutions of last year’s S series, the Ultra sports a heavy curve on both sides with a flat top and bottom – just like the old Galaxy Note20 Ultra. There’s no harm in recycling a good look, but the whole package needs to be teeming with cutting-edge tech to justify the S22 Ultra’s four-figure price tag.
Stylus: speedy
The S22 Ultra is the first ‘S’ phone to have a built-in S Pen. Latency is down from 9ms to 2.8ms so it’s super-responsive, which Samsung says is because it uses AI to predict where the pen’s going to go