Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, S23+, and S23 hands-on review
- Kangal
- vJt
- 02 Feb 2023
Positives:
New
IP68
4-Year Software Updates
Processor is good, not great, but pretty good
Negatives:
No User Removable Battery
No microSD card slot
No Headphone Jack
No FM Radio
No IrDa Blaster
No OIS on certain cameras
Has a camera cut-out/notch
Very heavy and slippery
Extremely fragile built device
Almost impossible to repair
Price rises across the board
...did I miss anything?
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- marclee37
- yJt
- 02 Feb 2023
with the chipset manufacturing stay unchanged at 4nm this year. i am fearing the chispset on this device is hotter, consuming battery faster than that of the s22. seeing it is a custom version of chipset specially made by the qualcom for the samsung. and the phone has a larger battery installed.
i bought every generation of S since the s6. i might be holding up on buying the s23 this year. there is no real advancement on the chipset manufacturing process yet. such a newer phone might have a shorter battery when compared with the last year’s one. the gen2. nice marketing words. there will be the 3,4,5,6 and beyond going forward. the intel had been stuck on the 14nm for some years. same thing is happening on the phone seems. i am looking forward to the detailed review of this model.
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- Anonymous
- wv{
- 02 Feb 2023
Basically is a newer design s22/s22+/s22u.
Old-new-replacement more like Samsung taking your $1000 s22 back for free and "allow" you buy another unit from them.
Guess google wouldn't come out with another 149mm length small phone then...
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- Maria
- PA7
- 02 Feb 2023
It seems ckearly that Samsung will focus on the foldable ones.
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- Dr
- iL9
- 02 Feb 2023
Kaluas, 02 Feb 2023Marxist EU? You can leave if you don't like it. Feel f... moreOr he can stay an fight...
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- Bailey
- p%4
- 02 Feb 2023
naturalbornflagship, 02 Feb 2023ain't nothing new.. innovation dead. camera punchhole ... morewhen people say no innovation in a phone. I will ask what are you expecting. Essentially a phone is a communication device and that's it. Although mobiles have now become pocket knives and do a load of extras. they only have a certain amount of space and to be honest, there is no app that is pushing some form of innovation. And also you and I don't make phones so it's easy to talk innovation and give no mention of what you think that is. People always want the next new thing and forget that when the iPhone came out in 2007 to mobile phones now there has actually been massive innovation. if you got innovation today with the Samsung mobile next year you would be bored and say lack of innovation. The fact this company now has a phone that folds in half is actually innovation even though that is now 4 years old and actually is a technical achievement. But I am guessing you actually don't care you just like banging your drum.
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- Anonymous
- gDf
- 02 Feb 2023
[deleted post]look, dude, if you are satisfied with 54mp main, 8mp ultrawide and 2mp macro cameras then nobody will have a problem with it. but don't troll just because you are jealous of other people who can afford to buy a 3 times more expensive phone with a 10 times better camera.
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- uH@
- 02 Feb 2023
Ss, 01 Feb 2023No mention of downgraded front face camera and who produce ... moreIf you bothered to watch some first look reviews, the 12MP was actually an upgrade when it comes to selfie quality.
Deluded ones like yourself only focus on megapixels.
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- ddas
- vGB
- 02 Feb 2023
Only good thing I find this year in Galaxy S-series line up, is the uniform usage of SD8 Gen2 CPU in all 3 models...no more Exynos CPU.
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- LOL
- uH@
- 02 Feb 2023
Bambino, 02 Feb 2023The same s22u but more expensive xD. I can't wait to s... moreHardly the same thing, unless you are so dense that you really can't see beyond the external design.
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- LOL
- uH@
- 02 Feb 2023
[deleted post]You get what you paid for in a Chinese phone. MIUI is terrible.
Once upon a time, Oxygen OS was a good Android skin from the world of Chinese phones, but even that is no more... it got assimilated by ColorOS.
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- Joe
- SvB
- 02 Feb 2023
ASL, 02 Feb 2023Satellite emergency messaging ? not this year, according to (sam$ung)chief..
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- Anonymous
- 0p}
- 02 Feb 2023
[deleted post]Another person who doesn't understand mobile specifications 🤣🤣
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- Anonymous
- 0p}
- 02 Feb 2023
naturalbornflagship, 02 Feb 2023ain't nothing new.. innovation dead. camera punchhole ... moreTell me you don't read tech news without telling 🤣 complaining about Samsung still using punch holes, guess you don't know the cons of using UDCs, you want flagship grade quality on UDCs, it's funny how some people type comments they deem smart when in reality it's just a dumb comment that shouldn't have left their phone unto this platform
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- Kaluas
- iAE
- 02 Feb 2023
naturalbornflagship, 02 Feb 2023ain't nothing new.. innovation dead. camera punchhole ... moreMarxist EU? You can leave if you don't like it. Feel free to leave.
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- naturalbornflagship
- JLD
- 02 Feb 2023
ain't nothing new.. innovation dead. camera punchhole still there in 2023?? can't be tricked anymore, stopped buying and prolonged the buying cycle massively as our marxist EU is waging war against people wallets.
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- Anonymous
- gJt
- 02 Feb 2023
An0nymouse, 02 Feb 2023samsung being scummy i'll bet we'll have Exynos a... more1. Why is it scummy for the a company to use their own chipset 2. If you bothered ronread any announcement you would know that the S23 will nit be using Exynos.
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- Anonymous
- gJt
- 02 Feb 2023
Anonymous, 01 Feb 2023How long before this new camera app with expert raw mode bu... moreS22 is old new now , nobody cares.
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- Bambino
- Pcx
- 02 Feb 2023
The same s22u but more expensive xD. I can't wait to see people fighting to get the same thing they got last year.