Samsung Galaxy S24 in for review

27 January 2024
The base model in the S24 lineup has landed at our office for review.

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  • 27 Jan 2024

Ravuh, 27 Jan 2024As expensive as iPhone which uses their own OS and CPU. Sca... moreWhat about camera sensors and displays in iphone?

But they are boring both.

BTW, if I not mistaken, Samsung make their exynos in their own factory. Does apple same? Nope.

    IpsDisplay, 27 Jan 2024I don't blame them cases is the only thing that can ma... moreOr current phones are fragile?

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      • 27 Jan 2024

      the EU forced apple to do things they didnt want, now the EU should force samsung to use snapdragon on the s25!

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        • 27 Jan 2024

        Zendroid, 27 Jan 2024You should get both versions.! The original and the low end... moreBut South Koreah version should be Exynos...

        https://www.samsung.com/sec/galaxy-s24/launching/

          Mills, 27 Jan 2024Should I tell my friend to get S24+ or S23 Ultra? S23 Ultra is better than 24+ by a fair margin.

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            • 27 Jan 2024

            rizki1, 27 Jan 2024The A25 lasted 2 days in the review on the front page, A14 ... moreYeah. They did two weeks of Xiaomi/Poco reviews before this. Too much of Xiaomi and Samsung. The smaller brands like Nubia get very little coverage. Mostly Xiaomi and Samsung

              Ravuh, 27 Jan 2024As expensive as iPhone which uses their own OS and CPU. Sca... moreAs expensive as Iphones only at launch man.

              After the hype for a new release passes in the first months, Samsung starts dropping the price of their phones by a lot.

              Also Samsung is number 1 Android company worldwide in terms of premium smartphone sales.

              The chinese companies need lower prices or better specs to be competitive not Samsung or Apple.

                Hemedans, 27 Jan 2024People complain about look, then first thing they do after ... moreI don't blame them cases is the only thing that can make their phones look unique and customisable

                Maybe if they all didn't look like an A25 maybe some would be tempted to not put on a case to awe in it's beauty

                  Should I tell my friend to get S24+ or S23 Ultra?

                    Anonymous, 27 Jan 2024Sales would not increase enough to make it up for higher co... moreWhen did they try, since you know that as a fact? Oh, right.

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                      • 27 Jan 2024

                      Zendroid, 27 Jan 2024They would get a lot more satisfied users. But sadly they d... moreSales would not increase enough to make it up for higher costs of snapdragon.
                      This would easily increase their costs by more than $1 billion.
                      Now, do the math in how many more S phones they would need to sell.

                        ThatOneWeabo, 27 Jan 2024it's a good budget flagship phone and the exynos isn&#... moreGood budget flagship??? There are lot better phones at same price range or even cheaper.

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                          • 27 Jan 2024

                          As expensive as iPhone which uses their own OS and CPU. Scamsung meanwhile uses Google's and Qualcomm's. There are chinese phones with same OS and CPU but with way cheaper price. They just rely on the name and hope people won't realize the specs and associated price. And they've been getting away with it for a decade now.

                            Anonymous, 27 Jan 2024Yeah, samsung would surely give up on all the money they ma... moreThey would get a lot more satisfied users. But sadly they don't care about the user.

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                              • 27 Jan 2024

                              Zendroid, 27 Jan 2024You should get both versions.! The original and the low end... moreYeah, samsung would surely give up on all the money they make by using exynos.
                              Money that returns to samsung through samsung semicon instead of entirely go to qualcomm.

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                                • 27 Jan 2024

                                Hemedans, 27 Jan 2024People complain about look, then first thing they do after ... moreMine does not use

                                  You should get both versions.! The original and the low end copy. Exynos should be banned worldwide, and only sold in Korea. Oh right, the Korean versions are with snapdragon too. Nvm.

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                                    • 27 Jan 2024

                                    s22 battery life in to s23 housing with an iphone 15 asking price🧠-never

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                                      • 27 Jan 2024

                                      I went from Xiaomi 13T to vanilla S24 (Jade Green) just because of dimensions. I can't get use to those big phones called "normal" or "standard" nowadays, so there are not a lot of options if you want a smaller phone. But this phone is absolutely not worth of 960 euro for 256GB version which is retail price here in Europe. I used every bonus possible and in the end I got it for 670, so it's kinda acceptable. I bought S23 last year, too, but returned it. Battery life was not good, cameras was dissapointing and it was getting hot pretty fast just using camera.

                                      LPTO display with dynamic refresh rate is serious update and battery life is better than expected. But cameras? Oh, man... Okay, I know cameras will probably improve with updates, but actual photos are bad. When I compare photos with Xiaomi 13T, it's completely different league. Except ultrawide, these are on par. And I didn't compare selfie cameras, I don't use selfie at all.

                                      Every flagship SOC has enough power for non gamers, so for me, there's nothing to compare. 8G3/2, D9300/200, E2400, these are all plenty powerfull, more than I need or use. IMO, it's all about efficiency and I got nothing against the current Exynos 2400. Seems pretty fine.

                                      But what drives me crazy in One UI 6.1 is that you can't hide the navigation bar at all. Who came with this brilliant idea? Even when I turn off Circle to Search, there is no option to hide navigation bar and there's always that interupting pill shaped bar at the bottom of the screen.

                                      Last thing I would like to mention is bloatware. I know people use to call bloatware those app they can found with visible icon on the screen and it's synonym with Chinese manufacturers, especially Xiaomi. There is one great app called APK Analyzer and there it can show you statistics of the apps installed on the phone. For example... When I uninstalled all the apps I am able to uninstall, there are 336 packages/apps left in the Xiaomi 13T and 457 packages/apps in the Galaxy S24. It's ridiculous amount of packages. From my experience, Nothing phone has least bloated software and Samsung is the worst in this region.

                                      GSMArena should add that to a software section in their reviews. It's not a lot of work and it will be more infomative for some people. Just put there a screenshot of analysis/statistics of packages in the system. And how much of an internal memory is occupied by system.

                                        Anonymous, 27 Jan 2024I bet gsmarena gonna give : 4.5 to s24, 4.6 to s24+ ... more4.7 is too low, try 4.8 or even a 4.9 for the s24 ultra.
                                        "Cons :
                                        Too good to be true"

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