Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra long-term review
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- MaryusD
- n2y
- 18 Feb 2024
Sir Walt, 15 Feb 2024I love my S23 Ultra. O am sure the S24 Ultra is a nit of an... moreIt has removed the problem with oversharpening?
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- Sir Walt
- qQM
- 15 Feb 2024
I love my S23 Ultra. O am sure the S24 Ultra is a nit of an upgrade. Not enough for me to pay more money on. One year removed, I have no issues at all with this phone. It is still great in my opinion.
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- alex
- LaJ
- 12 Jan 2024
Awachie, 12 Nov 2023A long-term review without mention of fluidity and OS smoot... moreI have mine since February and even after the UI 6 update it is about as snappy as the first time it started. Not sure why you are expecting a catastrophic breakdown.
- safin asa
- KLS
- 13 Dec 2023
Xperience, 03 Nov 2023Please don't forget, Ultra name started with Xperia a ... moreMeanwhile, There is already Blu ultra from 2011 and samsung S8300 UltraTouch from 2009, not to mention ultra b and from the same year
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- Anonymous
- F0G
- 10 Dec 2023
Anonymous, 08 Dec 2023I am having s21 utra & niw thinking to change. Plz sug... moreThe S24 ultra will be expensive when it comes out while the s23ultra will have its prices lowered dramatically, the s24ultra will have built in AI & better performance from its predecessor. Overall if money isnt an issue & you are patient enough to wait for the s24ultra then go for it but if not then go the s23ultra which really great phone. You wont go wrong with any of the devices
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- Anonymous
- D3w
- 09 Dec 2023
Ohh ! Thnx a lot !
Will u plz further comment on camera of S 23 & 24 ultra.
Camera quality much more matter for me while taking final decision.
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- Anonymous
- r31
- 08 Dec 2023
Anonymous, 08 Dec 2023I am having s21 utra & niw thinking to change.
Plz sug... moreThe S24 is coming in about a month
Wait for it.
Even if you still get the S23, the release of the new phones will lower the price so you get a fair price
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- Anonymous
- BEY
- 08 Dec 2023
I am having s21 utra & niw thinking to change.
Plz suggest as towhether i should wait for s24 ultra to come or buy s23 ultra and am big fan of best camera
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- alex
- nDJ
- 23 Nov 2023
Awachie, 12 Nov 2023A long-term review without mention of fluidity and OS smoot... moreI have mine since February and even after the UI 6 update it is about as snappy as the first time it started. Not sure why you are expecting a catastrophic breakdown.
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- Anonymous
- X5u
- 17 Nov 2023
Ivan Petkov, 03 Nov 2023Not a thing. Also that's the mobile version of GSMArena ;)Please can you guys review the hero colorway of the s24 ultra? You guys have too much phantom blacks,thanks.
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- Anonymous
- X5u
- 14 Nov 2023
Awachie, 12 Nov 2023A long-term review without mention of fluidity and OS smoot... moreFluidity? Was oneui 5 lagging before? No it wasn't. Watch some YouTube videos and gain knowledge troll.
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- Awachie
- Nue
- 12 Nov 2023
A long-term review without mention of fluidity and OS smoothness? Why am I not surprised.
Samsung has always been poor in this regard. Reviewers were initially excited with the "New OneUI" but everyone seems to have shushed about this recently.
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- Scalanova
- nx0
- 11 Nov 2023
justasmile, 09 Nov 2023nah, you surely don't. otherwise, you wouldn't... morealright, you got me smart boy..
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- Anonymous
- gDf
- 11 Nov 2023
"And as rumors peg the Galaxy S24 Ultra to drop the 10x camera in favor of a 5x makes the Galaxy S23 Ultra potentially the last smartphone with an optical 10x you can get."
Future 50 megapixel sensors for 120mm cameras wouldn't necessarily leverage the full resolution of the lens.
Smartphones like a Pixel 7 Pro or S23 Ultra have an effective lens diameter of 5.43mm or 5.55mm. The Pixel 7 Pro captures possibly approximately what is physically possible with a diameter of 5.43mm due to diffraction. But the Huawei P60 Pro's periscope has 6.93mm. The effective lens diameter tells you how many details you can theoretically get from a distant object. 6.93mm theoretically lets you zoom 1.27x as much as 5.43mm, if the quality of the lens is high and if the ratio focal length/pixel size is 1.27 times as high.
If there is a sharp 120mm periscope camera with an effective diameter of 6.93mm or more in the future, then 50 megapixels at 120mm wouldn't be enough in order to leverage the full resolution of the lens. For 6.93mm, you would need approximately 75 megapixels at 120mm or 90 megapixels at 110mm. As the smallest pixel size is currently 0.56 micrometer, a 24mm² sensor with 75 megapixels is possible indeed. But the sensor area at 240mm would be only 6mm², which affects the base Iso performance. Therefore, a 240mm camera with a larger sensor area (the S21 Ultra had 15mm²) could still have an advantage and it might be easier to achieve a high angular resolution, if you produce a lens for a small field of view. I also imagine that there might be future 240mm cameras with an even larger effective diameter than 6.93mm.
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- Anonymous
- gDf
- 11 Nov 2023
"The Galaxy S23 Ultra gives you an ultrawide start at 13mm, moves on to a 23mm main camera that can also deliver a 2x mode (46mm?), then onto a 69mm 3x camera, and all the way to 230mm with the unique 10x camera. It's an unmatched range of zoom for a smartphone."
Actually, apart from the 200 megapixel mode and the worse color filter array at 240mm, the zoom specs of the Xiaomi 13 Ultra are superior (if gsmarena's specs are correct):
You get 50 megapixels at 75mm, whereas the S23 Ultra only gives you 10 megapixels at 69mm or 19 megapixels at 75mm, when you use the 200 megapixel mode.
You get 50 megapixels at 120mm, whereas the S23 Ultra only gives you 3 megapixels at 120mm or 7 megapixels, if you use the 200 megapixel mode.
You get 12 megapixels at 240mm, whereas the S23 Ultra only gives you 9 megapixels at 240mm. The 13 Ultra also has a larger effective lens diameter at 240mm.
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- Anonymous
- gDf
- 11 Nov 2023
"And as rumors peg the Galaxy S24 Ultra to drop the 10x camera in favor of a 5x makes the Galaxy S23 Ultra potentially the last smartphone with an optical 10x you can get."
"Optical 10x" is not a physical specification, but a marketing specification and has nothing to do with a 10x lossless zoom setting. Physical specifications are focal length, effective lens diameter, image circle, field of view, color filter array and pixels per angle. Apart from maybe the field of view (which can be also achieved by digital zoom), "Optical 10x" tells you nothing about these specs because it is just a marketing specification and not a physical specification.
1. You don't get 12 megapixels at 230mm and you also don't get 200 megapixels at 230mm. Optical zoom never reduces the megapixel count! But digital zoom reduces the effective megapixel count.
2. The focal length is NOT 10 times as high as the focal length of the main camera (27.2mm/6.3mm = 4.3). With other words: Optical zoom never reduces the sensor size. But digital zoom reduces the active sensor area.
3. The diameter of the image circle is not known. If the diameter of the image circle is twice as large as the diagonal of the sensor, then Samsung's "10x" camera is actually a "5x" camera, but combined with a small sensor in order to produce a 230mm field of view.
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- SirArtur
- mMr
- 10 Nov 2023
Anonymous, 10 Nov 2023If you knew better you wouldn't say this, get the phon... moreBut the things that he writes are all correct. You can find my comparisons with expertraw, camera app and GCAM on xda forum. I have S23 Ultra and processing in ExpertRAW is just bad. And yes, RAW from ExpertRAW is not true RAW. It has embedded preprocessing, which you cannot undo.
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- Anonymous
- X5u
- 10 Nov 2023
unxpctd, 06 Nov 2023The ExpertRAW files you posted are still horribly over shar... moreIf you knew better you wouldn't say this, get the phone first bruh and then comment, stop relying on reviews.
- justasmile
- vjq
- 09 Nov 2023
Scalanova, 08 Nov 2023I have 23 ultra?nah, you surely don't.
otherwise, you wouldn't call it a toy, because it completely isn't.