I've just got my S24+ today to upgrade my trusty but ageing S10+ having not strayed from Samsung for almost 10 years. Naturally I was hoping it would be an upgrade in all departments but although on the whole it is, there's several annoying and unexpected downgrades that are making me seriously question whether it's actually worth spending quite a bit of money to change.
Firstly, the screen although pin sharp is really washed out. Even in vivid mode the colours are dull and the blacks are significantly more grey than the S10 screen, and even look washed out when put alongside my wife's budget spec A52! I've played around with brightness and colour tone etc but I can't dial it out, and my cousin who's got an S24 Ultra said exactly the same when comparing it against the S22 it's replacing.
Then there's some bizarre features missing from OneUI 6.1, the ones I've noticed so far are specifically in the Always On Display settings. I use AOD to display as a bedside clock, with my S10 and also in OneUI 6.0 / Android 14 on the A52 you can rotate the AOD to landscape orientation and control the brightness, you could even do the latter from the AOD lock screen by tapping twice on the clock to access the brightness slider. In OneUI 6.1 unless I'm missing something it seems all that functionality is missing, the brightness of the AOD is linked to the main screen brightness setting which is far too bright for overnight use, and you can't set it to landscape mode which I'd prefer when on it's horizontal night stand next to the bed. Why this functionality would be omitted I have no idea, but it's really annoying! Please someone enlighten me to some hidden menu somewhere that fixes all these issues?! 🙂
Yeah wait till you try the camera on both. Im so surprise at how bad the pic quality on s24U compared to note 10+. Blurry lost background details, noisy picture, yellowish night mode, busy focus lens, flash mode wash out all background details only left with noise and blur at backlit and low light scene. Contrast is ok but green differentiation is omg bad like it only recognise 1 type of green. Enlarge it and all **bleep** break loose. I ll just gift it to my son.
I am having the same problem, upgraded from S23 ultra to S24 ultra. The colors on the S24 ultra look dull especially when you hold them together. so annoying
Well, I'm kind of glad it isn't just me. I had my S21 Ultra side by side with my S24 Ultra and the colours so dull. Red look almost pink-ish. It's crazy. Hoping it can be fixed with software update.
I have found out, that apparently it's a new anti glare glass that was used on S24 series causing the colours to be so dull and boring. So I am afraid software update wont be much helpful there 😭.
