Samsung Galaxy S23 FE review
- YUKI93
- K1L
- 16 Nov 2023
I can't tell how different its battery performance is compared to the Exynos S22 series that GSMArena reviewed before since the latter is not yet available in the new Active Use Score database. Still, it's surprising that this Snapdragon S23 FE scored less web browsing and video playback duration than the Exynos S22+ despite both phones having the same 4500mAh battery.
What surprised me, though, is the GPU benchmark performance. I'd thought the Exynos 2200's AMD GPU would beat the Snapdragon in GFXBench and 3DMark tests, but it didn't. It makes me wonder what goes wrong with it.
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- Kinneius
- 0Ex
- 16 Nov 2023
Twice in this article they call this thing compact; it's nearly 77mm wide and heavy to boot, not sure where the compact description comes from. It's also a bad deal when there's a bunch of downgrades since the S21FE and the rest of the S23 series has come down a little in price.
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- cruizer
- sR1
- 16 Nov 2023
reminds me of my old Sony Xperia Z2 with the same purple back
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- P C M
- XVJ
- 16 Nov 2023
SliMShadY112, 15 Nov 2023That purple color is hideous. So is the orange. But that�... moreThese type of colors usually look great in person. Picture cant represent them.
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- potato4k
- XZ8
- 16 Nov 2023
Embarrassing battery life compared to a smaller S23 with smaller battery. Worse, many tech youtubers are actually praising this, clearly they don't know much about tech.
The only saving grace is Samsung is heavily promoting it with extra discounts with trade-ins etc.
Skip this one folks. Just get the regular S23 or S23+.
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- Anonymous
- tZ4
- 16 Nov 2023
smartjunkie, 16 Nov 2023to each his own i guess but to me that purple is ugly an... morePrince would approve of that purple
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- BlinG-BlinG
- nJ7
- 16 Nov 2023
"The 32MP selfie camera remains the same as on the S21 FE and S20 FE" : wrong, it is 10MP now.
"Even better, it's smaller than the average phone, so some users would definitely find it a good offer just for its compact size" : wrong, it is bigger and heavier than the S23 +
Why test the Snapdragon version when most people can only get the inferior Exynos version ?
Why not saying that the adaptative brightness is of the virtual type, like all the very cheap Samsung phones ?
Those bezels for a 600 dollars phone…
At the moment i have a S21 FE 256 GB, and very happy with it.
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- rizki1
- u7V
- 16 Nov 2023
This phone costs almost $600 8/128GB in Indonesia and this is also the price of a used iPhone 12 Pro which is not worth buying compared to the S23 FE which is a good thing for this phone.
Since there is no top flagship that will be reviewed by GSMArena later this year, and the Xiaomi 13 Ultra is officially the flagship of the year.
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- Anonymous-C
- IVB
- 16 Nov 2023
GSM Arena team should get a hold on S23 FE which has Exynos 2200 (4 nm) to compare with Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
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- smartjunkie
- uCm
- 16 Nov 2023
to each his own i guess
but to me that purple is ugly and gay.
even more hideous than a normal purple.
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- Anonymous
- Rk2
- 16 Nov 2023
GSMArena should stop spreading misinformation regarding color modes in Samsung phones. NO, Vivid DOES NOT target DCI-P3, nor is Native restricted to sRGB. In fact, Native is the mode which has content color management for sRGB and DCI-P3.
Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/samsung-galaxy-s23-ultra-display-deep-dive/
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- Anonymous
- Rk2
- 16 Nov 2023
I don't think the phone not being a flagship is an excuse for those horrific bezels. Heck even the Redmi Note 13 and the Poco F5 have thinner bezels than this.
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- Anonymous
- IWP
- 16 Nov 2023
Should be called Galaxy S23 RE (Ripoff edition)
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- kx2
- 16 Nov 2023
The bezels are just awful.
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- Anonymous
- PG0
- 16 Nov 2023
i just wanna say...poco f5 is a lot better than this😊