Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra review

11 February 2023


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  • Anonymous
  • 70d
  • 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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    • Anonymous
    • 3xw
    • 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
      • a0V
      • 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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        • Anonymous
        • 70d
        • 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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          • Anonymous
          • 4BZ
          • 18 Feb 2023

          Anonymous, 17 Feb 2023Dxomark lowlight score is weak ...no suprise 200mpix boy :DWhat do you expect? The sensor can bin down anyways, tit. 👎

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            • Anonymous
            • 4BZ
            • 17 Feb 2023

            Anonymous, 17 Feb 2023Dxomark lowlight score is weak ...no suprise 200mpix boy :DThat's the point. 200MP sharpness will have its caveats. 🤦

              SShock, 17 Feb 2023Ok, some more info on photo snapping speed thing. You need ... moreYes, also I don't get why now there are 3 apps for photos on Samsung. Camera, ExpertRAW, and CameraAssistant, while it could be just one app with a few more settings.

                Ok, some more info on photo snapping speed thing. You need to use "Camera Assistant" from Good Lock Labs on Galaxy Store. And here is a thing where a lot of misinformation is floating around.

                "Quick tap shutter" and "Capture speed" options. Quick tap shutter option doesn't affect photo quality in any way, it just changes how (when) Camera app captures photos. By default Samsung snaps a photo the moment you actually raise the finger from the display, meaning you need to touch and lift finger (tap) very quickly to snap photo at exact time of display touch. Quick tap shutter reverses that in way that Camera app captures photo the moment you touch display without any need to also lift the finger as quickly as possible. This doesn't affect quality in any way and it baffles me why this isn't a default mode. "Capture speed" setting however can affect photo quality if you set it to prefer speed. But I think most users had problem with the first setting (when photo is captured on display touch9 and not by capturing process itself. I wish "Quick tap shutter" was a setting inside Samsung's app without having to download extra thing to adjust that.

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                  • Anonymous
                  • 3p7
                  • 17 Feb 2023

                  Dxomark lowlight score is weak ...no suprise 200mpix boy :D

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                    • Anonymous
                    • x@M
                    • 17 Feb 2023

                    Anonymous, 14 Feb 2023No. Because to record 8K from higher resolution, the higher... moreErm yes, but according to the specs the sensor supports a full readout at 15fps and 50MP@30Hz.
                    I can't tell how the sensor is read, so there might be some lineskipping happening, but at least from the quality of the 4k Video I doubt that.
                    The crop factor from photo to video mode is definitely aproximately 1.26. This holds for both 4K as well as 8K. If you do the math 16384/1.26 = 13000. Though would not say, that my results are perfectly accurate because, as I mentioned, I can't tell what type of readout and downsampling is happing inside the phone in each scenario.
                    But it definitely takes this region from the sensor for video and there are approximately as many pixels in this region maybe its 12900 maybe it's 13000 but not far from that.

                    And no, cameras do not need to support the video modes just because their're able to capture the resolution. Look at big DSLMs Sony A7s3 and A1 both do not support recording video with more than 8k or even 4k, even though both have a 50MP+ sensor from which they can take a full readout for video.

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                      • YRW
                      • 17 Feb 2023

                      Anonymous, 15 Feb 2023Does it affect quality?"Higher megapixels affect the quality and compression" but in reality, no evidence provided about it anymore. Just saying.

                        Anonymous, 15 Feb 2023Cool propaganda broIt's not propaganda. When glass makers claim better drop resistance, there is no way they can maintain the hardness to resist scratching. You just can't have both. You have either scratch resistance or drop resistance. Only thing you can do is find a good balance, but you always trade one for the other. There is no way going past physics.

                        As for things suddenly getting scratched in pocket for no god damn reason, I know that very well.

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                          • Anonymous
                          • t7X
                          • 17 Feb 2023

                          ASL, 15 Feb 2023it's seamless because with 1 tap you send imessage or ... moreI think it's the other way around. It's the iPhone that is lagging behind android. Imagine Android had widgets since 2009. Iphones had it more than 10 years after and even then, you can't even dock it anywhere on the screen or resize it to whatever size and dimensions you want.

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                            • Anonymous
                            • t7X
                            • 17 Feb 2023

                            ASL, 15 Feb 2023I am outside of USA and I work with random people at work c... moreYou've been imprisoned by the walled garden of Apple for too long, you think it's worse outside. Well it isn't. Quite the opposite actually. You can do everything you mentioned above in Android and so much more. Voice commands using Google assistant and voice transcribe are years ahead of Siri.

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                              • Anonymous
                              • Trk
                              • 16 Feb 2023

                              Jbro, 15 Feb 2023I tried the camera and WOW IS IT HORRIBLE. I swear an iphon... moreI think this the reason why Xiaomi didn't use this time Samsung 200MP only on there mid range?

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                                • Anonymous
                                • Trk
                                • 16 Feb 2023

                                Nice phone overall, but still prefer s21 ultra design over note wanna be design aka boxy design.

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                                  • Andrew
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                                  • 16 Feb 2023

                                  jiyen235, 12 Feb 2023imagine not nitpicking on a phone that costs as much as a n... moreMy phone costs way more than my PC, and that has been the case for a while. I am also using my phone for work, communication, document review, and editing - for everything - way more than my PC.

                                  My phone is my main computer. PC is merely for occasional tasks.

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • x0k
                                    • 16 Feb 2023

                                    SShock, 15 Feb 2023People say the "lag" exists even at binned resolu... moreI get motion blur on my photos even with Prioritize Speed on. Changing the shutter speed and exposure is easily done on pro mode but it adds extra time and then I miss the shot.

                                    However the "one take" mode works well for capturing my dog in motion, even when she's at a full sprint

                                      Anonymous, 15 Feb 2023Does it affect quality?seems to me that it just reduces the aggressiveness of the sharpening.

                                        Anonymous, 14 Feb 2023No one in Europe or India should buy Samsung till they resp... moreYes , in US samsung phones value very good, no for rest of the world.