Samsung Galaxy S22 vs Nothing Phone (2a)
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Here we compared two smartphones: the 6.1-inch Samsung Galaxy S22 (with Exynos 2200) that was released on February 9, 2022, against the Nothing Phone (2a), which is powered by MediaTek Dimensity 7200 Pro and came out 2 years and 1 month after. On this page, you will find tests, full specs, strengths, and weaknesses of each of the devices.
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Key differences
Reasons to consider the Samsung Galaxy S22
- The rear camera has a 3x optical zoom
- 42% better performance in AnTuTu Benchmark (1398K versus 985K)
- Handles wireless charging up to 15W
- Waterproof body (IP68 classification)
- Slow-motion recording at 960FPS
- Uses a faster type of memory: LPDDR5
- More recent OS version: Android 16 versus 15
- The front-facing camera can record video at 4K
- Ready for eSIM technology
Reasons to consider the Nothing Phone (2a)
- Shows 77% longer battery life (29:55 vs 16:55 hours)
- Has a 0.6 inch larger screen size
- Comes with 1300 mAh larger battery capacity: 5000 vs 3700 mAh
- Newer Bluetooth version (v5.3)
- Delivers 14% higher peak brightness (974 against 856 nits)
- Supports higher wattage charging (45W versus 25W)
- The phone is 2 years and 1 month newer
Review
Display
Screen quality, color accuracy, brightness
Camera
Photo and video recording quality
Performance
CPU and memory performance (apps, system)
Gaming
Capabilities for playing modern games
Battery
Battery life, charging type and speed
Connectivity
Networks, ports, data transmission
Scores with a red asterisk (*) are approximate and may change in the future as we gather more data.
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Value for money (Beta)
Tests and specifications
Comparison table of technical specifications and testsDisplay
| Type | Dynamic AMOLED | AMOLED |
| Size | 6.1 inches | 6.7 inches |
| Resolution | 1080 x 2340 pixels | 1080 x 2412 pixels |
| Aspect ratio | 19.5:9 | 20:9 |
| PPI | 425 ppi | 394 ppi |
| Refresh rate | 120 Hz | 120 Hz |
| Adaptive refresh rate | Yes (10-120 Hz) | Yes (30-120 Hz) |
| Max rated brightness | 780 nits | 700 nits |
| Max rated brightness in HDR | 1300 nits | 1300 nits |
| HDR support | Yes, HDR10+ | Yes, HDR10+ |
| Touch sampling rate | 240 Hz | 240 Hz |
| Screen protection | Gorilla Glass Victus Plus | Corning Gorilla Glass 5 |
| Screen-to-body ratio | 88.6% | 87.8% |
| Display features | - DCI-P3 - Always-On Display |
- DCI-P3 - Always-On Display - DC Dimming |
| RGB color space | 99.3% | 99.3% |
| PWM | 239 Hz | 90 Hz |
| Response time | 10 ms | 1 ms |
| Contrast | ∞ Infinity | ∞ Infinity |
Screen space comparison
Phone (2a)
6.7″ (20:9 ratio) = 16.8 in2
Galaxy S22
6.1″ (19.5:9 ratio) = 14.2 in2
~18% more screen space
Peak brightness test (auto)
Design and build
| Height | 146 mm (5.75 inches) | 161.7 mm (6.37 inches) |
| Width | 70.6 mm (2.78 inches) | 76.3 mm (3 inches) |
| Thickness | 7.6 mm (0.3 inches) | 8.6 mm (0.34 inches) |
| Weight | 167 g (5.89 oz) | 190 g (6.7 oz) |
| Waterproof | IP68 | IP54 |
| Advanced cooling | - | Vapor chamber |
| Rear material | Glass | Plastic |
| Frame material | Metal | Plastic |
| Colors | White, Black, Gray, Blue, Green, Pink, Purple, Yellow | White, Black |
| Fingerprint scanner | Yes, in-display | Yes, in-display |
Screen-to-body ratio
Performance
| Chipset | Samsung Exynos 2200 | MediaTek Dimensity 7200 Pro |
| Max clock | 2800 MHz | 2800 MHz |
| CPU cores | 8 (1 + 3 + 4) | 8 (2 + 6) |
| Architecture | - 4 cores at 1.82 GHz: Cortex-A510 - 3 cores at 2.52 GHz: Cortex-A710 - 1 core at 2.8 GHz: Cortex-X2 |
- 6 cores at 2 GHz: Cortex-A510 - 2 cores at 2.8 GHz: Cortex-A715 |
| L3 cache | 4 MB | 4 MB |
| Manufacturing | Samsung | TSMC |
| Lithography process | 4 nanometers | 4 nanometers |
| Neural processor (NPU) | Yes | MediaTek APU 650 |
| Graphics | Xclipse 920 | Mali-G610 MC4 |
| GPU shading units | 384 | 256 |
| GPU clock | 1306 MHz | 1130 MHz |
| FLOPS | ~1003 GFLOPS | ~578.6 GFLOPS |
Benchmarks
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Compute Score (GPU)
| Compute Score (GPU) | - | 4085 |
| Single-core score | 1600 | 1133 |
| Multi-core score | 3840 | 2581 |
AnTuTu Benchmark 11
| CPU | 462329 | 363418 |
| GPU | 376985 | 172332 |
| Memory | 231805 | 158940 |
| UX | 327154 | 290571 |
| Total score | 1398273 | 985261 |
| Samples | [11 tests] | [16 tests] |
3DMark Steel Nomad Light
| Stability | 65% | 98% |
| Graphics test | 6 FPS | 3 FPS |
| Graphics score | 820 | 449 |
3DMark Solar Bay
| Stability | 66% | - |
| Graphics test | 14 FPS | - |
| Section 1 | 17 FPS | - |
| Section 2 | 14 FPS | - |
| Section 3 | 11 FPS | - |
| Graphics score | 3751 | - |
3DMark Wild Life Extreme
| Stability | 66% | 99% |
| Graphics test | 10 FPS | - |
| Graphics score | 1830 | - |
PCMark 3.0
| Web score | 11192 | - |
| Video editing | 7372 | - |
| Photo editing | 21608 | - |
| Data manipulation | 11423 | - |
| Writing score | 14877 | - |
Recent User Tests
Samsung Galaxy S22
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-09-21 -> MOLANG | AnTuTu 12 | 1628220 |
| 📘 2026-09-21 -> MOLANG | Battery life | SOT 5:35 / 7:27 |
| 📘 2026-09-21 -> MOLANG | Geekbench 6 GPU | 10630 |
| 📘 2026-09-12 (Ogurchik)) | AnTuTu 12 | 1628220 |
| 📘 2026-09-09 (Hangal) | AnTuTu 11 | 1587642 |
Nothing Phone (2a)
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-09-30 (Kaiser) | AnTuTu 12 | 1001163 |
| 📘 2026-09-19 (Vedurijuht2425) | AnTuTu 12 | 1045921 |
| 📘 2026-07-12 (note8techh) | AnTuTu 11 | 984744 |
| 📘 2026-05-06 (legusk) | AnTuTu 11 | 1025139 |
| 📘 2026-04-13 (Divyanshu Raj) | AnTuTu 11 | 1006410 |
Memory
| RAM size | 8 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory type | LPDDR5 | LPDDR4X |
| Memory clock | - | 2133 MHz |
| Channels | 4 | 2 |
| Storage size | 128 GB | 128 GB |
| Storage type | UFS 3.1 | UFS 2.2 |
| Memory card | No | No |
Software
| Operating system | Android 12 (Can be upgraded to Android 16) | Android 14 (Can be upgraded to Android 15) |
| ROM | One UI 8.0 | Nothing OS 3.0 |
| OS size | 30.2 GB | 21 GB |
| OS updates | 4 years | 3 years |
| Security updates | 5 years | 4 years |
Battery
| Capacity | 3700 mAh | 5000 mAh |
| Max charge power | 25 W | 45 W |
| Battery type | Li-Po | Li-Po |
| Replaceable | No | No |
| Wireless charging | Yes (15 W) | No |
| Reverse charging | Yes, (wireless) | No |
| Bypass charging | No | - |
| Fast charging | Yes (63% in 30 min) | Yes (59% in 30 min) |
| Full charging time | 1:03 hr | 1:03 hr |
| Web browsing | 05:42 hr | 11:32 hr |
| Watching video | 10:16 hr | 18:30 hr |
| Gaming | 04:06 hr | 06:26 hr |
| Standby | 90 hr | 148 hr |
General battery life
Smartphones With Long Battery Life (#47th place)
Main camera
| Matrix | 50 megapixels | 50 megapixels |
| Image resolution | 8160 x 6120 | 8192 x 6144 |
| Zoom | Optical, 3x | Digital |
| Flash | LED | LED |
| Stabilization | Optical | Optical |
| 8K video recording | Up to 24FPS | No |
| 4K video recording | Up to 60FPS | Up to 30FPS |
| 1080p video recording | Up to 60FPS | Up to 60FPS |
| Slow motion | 960 FPS (720p) | 120 FPS (1080p) |
| Angle of widest lens | 120° | 114° |
| Lenses | 1) Standard: 50 MP 2) Telephoto: 10 MP 3) Ultrawide: 12 MP |
1) Standard: 50 MP 2) Ultrawide: 50 MP |
| Camera features | - Bokeh mode - Pro mode - RAW support |
- Bokeh mode - Pro mode - RAW support |
| Image resolution | 50 MP | 50 MP |
| Aperture | f/1.8 | f/1.9 |
| Focal length | 24 mm | 24 mm |
| Sensor | Samsung GN5 | Samsung ISOCELL GN9 |
| Sensor size | 1/1.56" (≈ 0.64 inch) | 1/1.56" (≈ 0.64 inch) |
| Pixel size | 1 micron | 1 micron |
| Autofocus | Phase autofocus (Dual Pixel) | Phase autofocus |
| Stabilization | Optical | Optical |
| Image resolution | 10 MP | - |
| Aperture | f/2.4 | - |
| Focal length | 70 mm | - |
| Sensor | Sony IMX772 | - |
| Sensor size | 1/3.94" (≈ 0.25 inch) | - |
| Pixel size | 1 micron | - |
| Stabilization | Optical | - |
| Image resolution | 12 MP | 50 MP |
| Aperture | f/2.2 | f/2.2 |
| Focal length | 13 mm | - |
| Sensor | Sony IMX713 | Samsung S5KJN1 |
| Sensor size | 1/2.55" (≈ 0.39 inch) | 1/2.76" (≈ 0.36 inch) |
| Pixel size | 1.4 micron | 0.64 micron |
| Stabilization | Digital | Digital |
DxOMark main camera tests
Photo quality
Video quality
Generic main camera score
| Bokeh | 70 | - |
| Preview | 72 | - |
| Zoom | 126 | - |
| Samples | Photo samples of Samsung Galaxy S22 from DxOMark | - |
Selfie camera
| Megapixels | 10 megapixels | 32 megapixels |
| Image resolution | 3872 x 2592 | 6528 x 4896 |
| Aperture | f/2.2 | f/2.2 |
| Focal length | 26 mm | - |
| Sensor | CMOS | Sony IMX615 |
| Sensor size | 1/3.24" (≈ 0.31 inch) | 1/2.74" (≈ 0.36 inch) |
| Pixel size | 1.22 micron | 0.8 micron |
| Autofocus | Phase autofocus (Dual Pixel) | No |
| Stabilization | Digital | Digital |
| Video resolution | 2160p (4K) at 60 FPS | 1080p (Full HD) at 60 FPS |
| Depth sensor (TOF 3D) | No | No |
Connectivity
| Wi-Fi standard | Wi-Fi 6 (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax) | Wi-Fi 6 (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax) |
| Wi-Fi features | - Dual Band - Wi-Fi MiMO - Wi-Fi Direct - Wi-Fi Hotspot - Wi-Fi Display |
- Dual Band - Wi-Fi Direct - Wi-Fi Hotspot - Wi-Fi Display |
| Bluetooth version | 5.2 | 5.3 |
| Bluetooth features | LE | LE |
| USB type | USB Type-C | USB Type-C |
| USB version | 3.2 | 2 |
| USB features | - Charging - USB-Storage mode - OTG |
- Charging - USB-Storage mode - OTG |
| DisplayPort | Yes, DP 1.2 | No |
| GPS | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo | GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo, QZSS |
| NFC* | Yes | Yes |
| Infrared port | No | No |
| Number of SIM* | 2 | 2 |
| Type of SIM card | Nano | Nano |
| Multi SIM mode | Standby | Standby |
| eSIM support* | Yes | No |
| Hybrid slot | No | No |
| LTE Cat* | 20 | - |
| 5G support | Yes | Yes |
Sound
| Speakers | Stereo | Stereo |
| Headphone audio jack | No | No |
| FM radio | No | No |
| Dolby Atmos | Yes | No |
Speakers test
Max loudness
Other
| Category | Flagship | Mid-range |
| Announced | February 2022 | March 2024 |
| Release date | March 2022 | March 2024 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $799 | $329 |
| Successor | - | - Nothing Phone (4a) |
| Sensors | - Hall-effect sensor - Barometer - Proximity sensor - Gyroscope - Accelerometer - Ambient light sensor - Compass - Fingerprint |
- Proximity sensor - Gyroscope - Accelerometer - Ambient light sensor - Compass - Fingerprint |
| Bundled charger | Not included | Not included |
*Disclaimer! NFC, GSM network support, and some other specs can be different depending on the country.
Conclusion
If the camera, performance, gaming, connectivity, software, design, and sound are more important to you, then choose the Samsung Galaxy S22. But if the display and battery life are more of a priority – go for the Nothing Phone (2a).
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