Samsung's everything-phone: titanium, S Pen, four cameras and a battery that outlasts the day. Long-term coverage is unusually consistent — reviewers revisiting it a year on were still calling it a frontrunner.
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On the evidence gathered here, yes. 84% of owners say they would buy it again, and satisfaction is still 8.3 out of 10 two years in. Year-later revisits still rate it at the front of the field.
Very little shifts. The one change owners describe is the novelty features going unused while the battery and S Pen keep earning their place.
The size stops being novel and starts being the reason it stays in a bag. AI features fade from the routine after the first months. Battery health decline arrives as it does on every phone.
Year-later revisits still rate it at the front of the field. Sentiment across the ownership period stays close to flat, which is rare: it reads 8.8 out of 10 in the first week and 8.3 two years later.
Worth it for: People who write or draw on their phone; Anyone keeping a phone three years or more; Heavy camera users who want reach. Think twice if: You want something pocketable; You upgrade annually anyway; You'd never touch the S Pen.
Our reading of how sentiment moves across an ownership period, drawn from the sources below. It is an editorial estimate, not tracked longitudinal data.
| At purchase | 7.7 / 10 |
|---|---|
| First week | 8.8 / 10 |
| One month | 8.7 / 10 |
| Six months | 8.5 / 10 |
| One year | 8.4 / 10 |
| Two years or more | 8.3 / 10 |
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Extended-use review assessing whether the phone held its position months after launch.
Twelve-month revisit covering what aged well and what the next model needed to fix.
Long-term owner review focusing on daily use, battery and the S Pen.
Owner review threads covering long-run experiences with the handset.