Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra review

11 February 2023


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gos, 13 Feb 2023If you are unhappy with the Galaxy S23 Ultra’s shutter lag ... moreI can't understand why Samsung doesn't include this in the camera app itself. Also the way how photos are snapped. Some say that Samsung snaps them after you lift up the finger opposed to when you touch the snap button. Why? Why go the other way and annoy everyone and then require you to use some extra app to adjust that? And it's something EVERYONE was complaining about Samsung Galaxy S models for years.

    Anonymous, 13 Feb 2023Good standby time = losing no more than 1% between 00:00h -... moreThis is something related to android OS and its handling to background processes, but still Samsung did an impressive job in beating the pro max time.

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      • Jason
      • F10
      • 13 Feb 2023

      Maxed out Ultra costs $1600.

      $1600 for a phone

      Thats destined to have a bad battery in two years

      That’s non user replaceable.

      Hard pass.

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        • Anonymous
        • Lkg
        • 13 Feb 2023

        Phones fan, 13 Feb 2023Not just that but also overall camera performance, battery ... moreGood standby time = losing no more than 1% between 00:00h - 07:30h.

        Samsung cant do it.

          Anonymous, 13 Feb 2023At being overpricedNot just that but also overall camera performance, battery life in standby time and calling time, and GPU performance.

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            • Anonymous
            • Lkg
            • 13 Feb 2023

            Phones fan, 13 Feb 2023The first android phone that really can beat the iPhone.At being overpriced

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              • Anonymous
              • J5x
              • 13 Feb 2023

              Micro Upgrades. That's fine, but lazy. Its just not my phone. If I buy a phone this expensive, I would want something new, something that stands out to the previous phone. People wouldnt even see its the new version and not the 22 and worse: I wouldnt even notice myself, not even in the UI and Software.

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                • Me
                • 00F
                • 13 Feb 2023

                Your were testing the oder 45W charger from Samsung. With the new Samsung EP-T4510
                charger it also charges up to 75% in 30 minutes

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                  • AZY
                  • 13 Feb 2023

                  But if you drop it it will break, same drop with 14 pro max it won't. Also imessage, video and audio is so seamless it has no competition in android world. Also no android has emergency satellite communication like in the pro and max. This alone can save your life 1 day.

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                    • Anonymous
                    • x0k
                    • 13 Feb 2023

                    My S23 Ultra came on Saturday. Pretty great so far. Coming from a Flip 4 this thing feels huge. Battery life is very good.

                      The first android phone that really can beat the iPhone.

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                        • Anonymous
                        • 3SI
                        • 13 Feb 2023

                        To all people who are STILL complaining about headphone jack/SD card:

                        Yes it's bad that they are not there. However, they haven't been there since YEARS already and all of the comparable phone also don't have them since years as well. It's only fair to expect that most of the flagship phones will not have that, you should have gotten over that a while ago already.
                        If you want then you can list dozens of obscured features out and saying "oh but it's bad because blablabla":
                        -Battery doesn't last 1 week like my old brick phone
                        -Phone not durable enough to survive 10m drop like the 3310
                        -No physical keyboard so I can type faster
                        -and dozens more...

                        Move on please people.

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                          • Anonymous
                          • Lkg
                          • 13 Feb 2023

                          Anonymous, 13 Feb 2023Actually the S23 Ultra does not use the entire sensor width... moreObviously, no 4:3 ratio sensor can be used fully for video unless some downscaling is going on. Which is not case here.

                          To use full width, the 8K would need to be downscaled from 12288 x 6912.

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                            • 13 Feb 2023

                            RayVone, 13 Feb 2023No cons? - Very high price - The smartphone is big and h... morevery high price is not its cons..... its your cons

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                              • Anonymous
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                              • 13 Feb 2023

                              Actually the S23 Ultra does not use the entire sensor width for video.
                              Neither for 8k, nor for 4k. The only difference to the predecessor is, now the S23 is using the same crop for 8k as for 4k. This is a reasonable improvement which you can see in both dynamic range as well as sharpness. But it os not a full sensor readout.

                                Yo, 13 Feb 2023What's the difference between an Ultra review and a re... moreThey are both the same. Just look at the title of the review. There is no “ultra” review.

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                                  walkman8, 13 Feb 2023Same. Cash was in the pocket, ready to buy right there in t... moreExpensive? Yes. Bad? No. Will get better with some updates and optimizations.

                                    AcademicBarzo, 13 Feb 2023To give Samsung some credit, the camera software/firmware a... moreI was testing S22 Ultra 2 months ago, and the problems mentioned by me were present there as well. As an example, I can say, that when shooting yesterday a sunset, I saw on both JPG and RAW previews in the gallery some darker blocks of the sky, like Samsung was dividing pictures into parts and taking care of the processing separately for each part. Blocks were square shapes. Because of that, the pictures were looking really bad. I wanted to check in the LR, is possible to fix it somehow, but to my surprise, it was not there. Sky was perfect. The same goes with white halos around branches when taking pictures of the same sunset. It was visible on the JPGs and previews of RAWs, but not in the RAW itself. Big drawback of that is, that mode JPG + RAW is somehow not usable now, as what is the point of having badly generated JPGs.

                                      Nick Tegrataker, 12 Feb 2023Xiaomi's camera app has several filter options that yo... moreAh, good point about the filters. I only tried the default filter. I played around a bit with the 13 series and i think the colours are better (at least for my tastes). Human subject photos have definitely improved and the skin tones I think are much better than on the 12 and 12s series (again for my tastes)

                                        SirArtur, 13 Feb 2023You are sending this link for the second time, so for the s... moreTo give Samsung some credit, the camera software/firmware always get significant updates across the first few months of the device being in the wild. So, I would be wary of judging the camera performance at launch, which may be more about potential. Issues will usually get sorted. Also, Samsung are one of the best at updates generally, including monthly security updates.

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