Samsung's brand-new flagship Galaxy S22 Ultra, unveiled Wednesday at its Unpacked event, replaces last year's Galaxy S21 Ultra

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Amazing 10x optical zoom.

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Both phones have 6.8-inch displays with pretty much the same resolution See on amazon

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both have 12GB of RAM

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both support 5G the S21 Ultra could be configured up to 16GB

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both have pretty much the same camera hardware (including that 10x optical zoom, 8K video and 108-megapixel main sensor) and both have the same size battery.

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The S22 Ultra comes with the latest Android 12 software (the S21 Ultra got an update to Android 12 late last year)

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Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor -- or Samsung's new Exynos processor, depending on the region. How these two chips really compare to the Snapdragon 888 chip in the S21 Ultra remains to be seen in our testing

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biggest physical difference is the S22 Ultra's addition of the S Pen stylus, something typically only seen on the now-retired Galaxy Note series. If you loved doodling on Note phones then that's one reason to consider the S22 Ultra over its predecessor.

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