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Daily Authority: 👉 S22 Ultra reviews
July 04, 2025
😎 Good morning! This time next week I’ll be in Barcelona for MWC, and most important: it will be approximately three times as warm as Berlin. Yes, please!
S22 reviews drop
A week after Samsung’s major S22 release, reviews are out. My colleague Eric Zeman put together a handy 7,000 words or so breaking down theGalaxy S22 Ultra in a full review. It’s worth that many words for what is undoubtedly the peak performer of Android, that’s now attempting to merge the best of the S series with the Note series.
I do think it’s worth your time to dive into a great review of one of the more important devices of the year, maybe over your weekend.
Review grabs:
More on the S22 and S22 Plus in the week to come!
Also: P50 Pro is a hard avoid
By the way, while we’re here: The HUAWEI P50 Pro should be one of the top competitors to the S22 Ultra. Yes, for all HUAWEI’s troubles, it long ago nailed hardware and build quality, its cameras are usually uniquely great, and it was a high-end competitor in all things Android and even iPhone.
📸 NewMotorola Frontier rendersshow a camera bump on top of a camera bump(Android Authority).
👉OnePlus Nord CE 2 5G is out now: 90Hz, 65W fast charging upgrades, and it’s in close competition with the realmei 9 series at 299 pounds. Will this make it to the US as some kind of OnePlus Nord sequel to the N10 or N100? The original CE didn’t, so maybe not?(Android Authority).
🤔 Did you know:There were smartphones with dedicated Facebook buttons(Android Authority).
📧Ex-Googlers resurrect Google Inboxinterface in a new email client(Android Authority).
💻AMD’s new Ryzen 6000 H-series processorsare launching in laptops starting today(The Verge)andthis review out of the Linus Tech Tips channel says the Ryzen 6000 is pretty great(YouTube). Big competition for Intel’s 12th-gen! That said, all I want to know about is battery life on the non-performance CPUs…
📅 Speaking of:Intel delays its first Arc desktop gaming GPUsuntil spring(Engadget).
🍎Apple has some special edition Beats Powerbeats Pro rolling outfor the 75th anniversary of the NBA(9to5Mac).
💉FDA clears the first iPhone app for delivering insulin, rollout starts this spring — wow!(9to5Mac).
📝 A mildApple-1 mystery is finally solved45 years later: it was Steve Jobs(Gizmodo).
🥽Meta’s social VR platform Horizon hits 300,000 userswhich is 10x up in three months — which is fine, but is that it or just the start?(The Verge).
🚲Peloton’s Lanebreak video game is hereand it seems pretty fun, a bit like Nintendo Switch Ring Fit Adventure which tricked me into running on the spot a lot(The Verge).
⛅ This will appeal to just a small percentage of readers and is almost unreadable unless you do cloud engineering but the crux is: on Amazon’s AWS cloud, sometimesyou should actually just press a buttonthat will immediately cost $100,000(Cyclic).
📺Stranger Things season 4 is so bigthey’re splitting it into two volumes(The Verge).
🚰 Only for those with hard water: “Does leaving water in the kettle accelerate the formation of limescales?” (r/askscience).
Friday Fun
It’s been a rollercoaster week so when you need fun, what’s better than reliving something we can all enjoy, like going back to again watcha Finnish guy blow up his Tesla Model S with dynamite.
Tristan Rayner, Senior Editor.
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