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?! š
Tech support just told me that the developers just sent them an email stating they don't feel there's a problem with the screen colors therefore they will NOT be addressing the issue.
They might "fix" the colors (they will just increase the saturation to fix the issue with the anti-glare screen that doesn't let colors go through as well as previous screens), but the grain issue will remain. This is similar to Mura that can be observed in some VR headsets using OLED screens on dark images. This cannot be fixed unfortunately since each pixel doesn't have the same intensity since they are all a separate light emiting source!
Same here. Washed out screen, horrible blurry camera and horrible reception. S24 ultra unlocked version.. **bleep** Samsung what happened. How did it leave the production line like that.
Is it just me. But my s24 ultra takes horrible photos compared to s23 ultra. I know it's the screen . But **bleep** really bad photos. I think I'm gonna have to return my s24 ultra.. **bleep** you Samsung..
It does...I really haven't played with it or the camera much yet... Too disappointed to keep using. I shut it off and have been using my s23+...still trying to see if its a hardware or software issue before I decide to send it back
