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
I'm having the same issue with my new S24 Ultra. The screen colors are dull and muted. The screen brightness settings to go from Vivid to natural did not change anything. So disappointed. My S21 Ultra OLED screen looks vibrant and colorful. The S24 Ultra screen is not impressive. If this is because of the new anti glare coating, Samsung Needs to quickly realize that is a terrible trade off. We buy their phones for beautiful vibrant OLED screens. If putting an anti glare coating ruins the coloring, then they should Never have put the anti glare coating on the phone. Samsung please address this screen coloring issue. I plan to return my S24 Ultra.
It's as bad as the terrible Motorola Xoom tablet screen. The most useful feature at night of blue light filter makes it 10x worse. They have until my return window with t-mobile to fix this or at the very minimum acknowledge this and have a ETA for a fix. They had a whole year to get this right and it's not even a major update, it's a refresh of the S23, that's it, but they fumbled it as badly as the garbage S20U camera. If this is it, this phone is being returned and moving to Apple. Enough is enough.
