Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra review

11 February 2023


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AnonF-1085071, 20 Feb 2023Well it's actually the best in zoom and battery life i... more384Hz audio means nothing on a phone without a headphone jack output. You can't use that with Bluetooth. Besides, what 99,99% of people listen to on phones is heavily compressed audio (streaming services) or just old MP3's. Bad audio doesn't get magically better if you pass it through outstanding DAC.

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    • 20 Feb 2023

    AnonF-1085071, 20 Feb 2023Well it's actually the best in zoom and battery life i... moreIt's not the best in battery, but among the better yes.
    And yeah galaxies, especially the notes, were always known for being top and all around best performers.
    But in the last so many years that gap diminished and its only by small margins.
    Especially with the way they've become lazy, and greedy, complacent. But so have most companies at this point.

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      • 20 Feb 2023

      AnonF-1085071, 19 Feb 2023It is by far... This phone has no competition. It's by... moreWhat's a bias fan's view. He stays in well.

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        • 20 Feb 2023

        Anonymous, 19 Feb 2023Sure on technicality is all around overall about the best. ... moreWell it's actually the best in zoom and battery life in Android. Both of these are really good pros. As for the rest I agree, it's the best in overall but not because it's immensely superior in every single aspect. But we have to think also that no phone is the best by anything significant.

        It's also hard to be the best in overall, and Samsung is the only brand that has been capable to do that. All chinese brands, for example, fail in some or many important aspects. For example, none of them gives a proper front facing camera, all have laugheable 1080p front cameras.

        Some still even use 1990 technology like the obsolete USB 2.0 or barely 2-3x zooms, not a single one supports really Hi-Fi 384kHz audio like this Samsung does, no S-Pen competition, and so on... Samsung offers more quality than anyone else does. And that's undeniable.

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          • Anonymous
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          • 20 Feb 2023

          AnonF-1085071, 19 Feb 2023It is by far... This phone has no competition. It's by... moreFake scores?? Not fake just their opinion they have the right. And others will surpass this phone only matter of time

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            • 19 Feb 2023

            AnonF-1085071, 19 Feb 2023It is by far... This phone has no competition. It's by... moreSure on technicality is all around overall about the best. But not by anything significant

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              • 19 Feb 2023

              SShock, 19 Feb 2023Thing with noise is that you can always filter it as much a... moreRight

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                • 19 Feb 2023

                Anonymous, 15 Feb 2023I don't think it is the "best allrounder" at... moreIt is by far... This phone has no competition. It's by far the best phone on the market and the king of 2023 and it doesn't matter if it's barely February as no chinese brand is capable to make something that can even compete with this Samsung. The S23 Ultra crushes out the chinese garbage like Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo... which are inferior in most if not all aspects!!!

                I can understand the pain of the haters, as Samsung has made the perfect phone in 2023. Some can't just accept the fact that Samsung made the best phone in history and that it hasn't got any weak points. Even GSMArena staff says it in the review!

                And about DxoFake scores let me laugh some more... but it still got a better score than Vivo X90 Pro+ and Xiaomi 12S Ultra LMAO! Even we count them as "good" the S23 Ultra got reviewed with the pre-release software, while for all of the other brands they wait weeks or months. But that page just makes scores considering the payments they receive - the more you pay the higher you go on that laugheable ranking!

                  SirArtur, 19 Feb 2023What do you expect? A statement? GSMArena run some tests, a... moreI expect news report about dxomark test because if you been following gsmarena for the past couple of years at least, they always report when dxomark does a test, specially a flagship, being it iPhone, Samsung, xiaomi etc
                  dxomark test was posted February 17th so why no news on gsmarena?

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                    • Anonymous
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                    • 19 Feb 2023

                    R1V4L, 19 Feb 2023Pixel binning doesn't work at 12 MP, or maybe some bad... moreYou are right, i had xiaomi 12t pro before and the picture in 12 mp is much better than s23 ultra because it's only 12 there is no pixels merging but if you make it 200 it's very good

                      Anonymous, 19 Feb 2023Noise is not a bad thing. Especially in limited quantities.... moreThing with noise is that you can always filter it as much as you want, none, a little or a lot. If you smear the photo with noise filter, you can't unfilter it anymore. That's why it's better if there is more noise rather than too little.

                        Bodygard, 19 Feb 2023No news on the site about dxomark s23 ultra disappointing s... moreWhat do you expect? A statement? GSMArena run some tests, and DXOMark run their. On one page a smartphone had a better score than on the other. That is the whole story.

                          No news on the site about dxomark s23 ultra disappointing score? wow....hehe

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                            • 19 Feb 2023

                            R1V4L, 19 Feb 2023Pixel binning doesn't work at 12 MP, or maybe some bad... moreNoise is not a bad thing. Especially in limited quantities. Even usually means preserved detail.
                            The amount of noise in the photos is nothing crazy.
                            Not to say they have the best balance but this is a severe exaggeration from anyone focusing on it.
                            Artifacts in the 200mp are more from the pixels being tiny and artificial processing than "of it shows the imperfections from its large resolution".

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                              • 19 Feb 2023

                              Pixel binning doesn't work at 12 MP, or maybe some bad compression takes place, therefore is noise galore in any picture. No surprise dxomark trashed this phone to 10th place. Although the new 200MP sensor is quite good, Samsung decided to release the phone with an unfinished camera app. If you take 50MP pictures, you will notice that the noise is gone, is there where the pixel binning truly works. At 200MP there are artifacts in the shadows, due to amount of detail each tiny pixel from this big matrix sensor feels. I can hardly wait for the next update, I'm pretty sure they will correct this issue with noise at 12MP.

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                                • 19 Feb 2023

                                Anonymous, 19 Feb 2023Camera is DISAPPOINTING. .. According to DXOMark. .. I ... moreTheir words differ from many reviews. Sure it's not the revolution they want it to be but it holds up better in all its capabilities than results show..
                                However they easily could have done better. So could others. Who knows anymore.

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                                  • 19 Feb 2023

                                  Anonymous, 19 Feb 2023Camera is DISAPPOINTING. .. According to DXOMark. .. I ... moreEven the P50 Pro? The camera of the P50 Pro is among the best.

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                                    • 19 Feb 2023

                                    [deleted post]Camera is DISAPPOINTING.
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                                    According to DXOMark.
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                                    I read their review last day. S23 Ultra made number 10.. Worse than even 2 year old flagships.
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                                    Even P50 Pro has higher score than Samsung S23 Ultra..
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                                      • Anonymous
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                                      • 18 Feb 2023

                                      You put the lack of charger and lack of expandable memory as cons for the S23 and S23+, both of which apply to the S23U and you conspicuously left those cons out.

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                                        • 18 Feb 2023

                                        jiyen235, 16 Feb 2023seems to me that it just reduces the aggressiveness of the ... moreIt's great if that's the case.

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