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?! 🙂
Personally I don't buy that. The samsung rep may have just been unsure and maybe guessed at the cause. I've raised it to samsung tech support.
The way I see it you should still see a difference between natural and vivid. There is no difference when switching between the two. Will see what samsung tech say.
samsung should know about this by now from all the reddit posts and the reports sent to samsung. They should also know alot of people will return the phone if this is not fixed including me
Pretty strange then that Samsung representatives everywhere are saying the same thing. Mine tried to justify the idea that in the long run it's better for your eyes if you play games on your phone. I could just stare at him. 😐
I hope samsung can do something with a software update as I'm seriously considering returning the S24 ultra as my S21 Ultra's display has richer colours more vibrant display and is actually brighter watching videos
Why should we my old S21 ultra image is more vibrant and brighter watching videos on YouTube 4k hdr footage my S21 Ultra images is more vibrant dynamic and actually brighter than the S24 ultra mine S24 ultra is being returned
I hope there is as my S21 Ultra colours are more saturated richer colours and the S21 Ultra's display is actually brighter than the S24 ultra when watching videos mine will be returning it if a software fix doesn't happen
