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
Same here on S24 Ultra. It's unusable. It looks like a cheap LCD screen with almost gray colors and terrible contrast. If they don't fix it with software update within next week I'm returning it.
We all experience it. I won't be trading in my S22ULTRA since it looks way more vivid punchy and not dull and washed out like the new S24ULTRA. If they won't fix it I'm returning
I just got mine also..first thing I noticed the washed out colors..my S21 ultra looks better..I upgraded is what I thought..š¤ I had them side by side to see how a movie would look and the same picture on both phones..my s21 ultra was the winner on better picture..deeper colors.
The new AOD is cool, but please bring back manual brightness. You removed that with One UI 6.1 and it's very dim during the day. I would like the ability to manually adjust the brightness.
Also, can the progress bar on AOD music player refresh more often? I'm not talking about the waves you see when the screen is on, but the little dot on the progress bar.
