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
If you have never had the opportunity to use an S23 Ultra or the S22 Ultra, you will not see any difference. But, believe me, when I got my S24 Ultra and set it up, i immediately noticed the colors on the lock and home screens on the 24 were dull. If you don't put those phones sided by side, you really don't notice. But as soon as I go back to my S22 Ultra after a few days of using the S24 Ultra, you immediately notice how the colors just pop out at you on my S22 Ultra. The S24 series has a lot of software bugs that need to be fixed, and hopefully soon. For me, the camera on my S24 Ultra takes worse pictures using the 12 mp lens than on my S22 Ultra. You can't turn off the AI features for the camera, and any photo you take using the 200 mp lens in low light tends to over saturate the color and over sharpen the image. My brother's $200 TRACPHONE takes better photos sometimes than the S24 Ultra.
My previous phone was the S22 Ultra, so I know what everyone is saying about the screen being less vivid, but what I'm saying is I don't think it's as drastic of a change as people are making it out to be. And I'm just wondering if everyone is seeing the same thing because my screen and the colors still look great to me. I get that everyone wants it back the way it was. I would prefer that as well, but it's just really not that big of a deal to me because the colors are still there, and the screen is nice and clear. I can't speak on the camera and the photos because I really haven't gotten into that yet because I've been working on my AOD. That's what I personally have a problem with.
When there's thousands of people complaining about their displays, chances are yes. Every one of them are "exaggerating," and you, sir, are the correct one.
First of all, I'm not a sir. And yes, it's possible that all of those people are exaggerating because they all want the screen back the way it was in previous models. I'm not saying that there is no change. I'm just saying it's not as bad as people are making it out to be. Do you know what exaggerating means because saying the screen and colors are dull and washed out is an exaggeration, unless you all just have a defective device and ya'll are not seeing what I'm seeing.
I agree. Mine looks fine. I'm glad they got away from the oversaturated colors. I have noticed that the lock screen and home screen tend to look more dull than previous models, but my apps and pictures look great. I look at the lock and home screens for about a half second to open an app.
What you're saying is you wouldn't mind if the classic (or actual) Vivid mode would have been retained, but you'd be happy to use the new Vivid mode (which should be named Natural+ or something) because like everyone else you agree that Samsung providing options (and retaining well-established ones) is the only way to go. Because I don't think anyone would actually promote the taking away of options rather than expanding them; and I certainly don't think anyone would defend the practice of bait and switch where a product/mode's name is retained but replaced by something entirely different that doesn't even match its name (vivid). You see it's fine to like a new mode, but it's not fine to defend what they actually did.
It's as bad a (subjective) matter as everyone, including you, says it is. And so, few say it's great, many say it's not great. It's called customer feedback and yes, it's anecdotal. But you have to understand or remember that Samsung themselves have made the classic Vivid option as default on a slew of devices of many years, and have conditioned customers to prefer it. To then take it away, and assume its name with a tame profile that is almost indistinguishable from the Natural profile, is a kind of bait and switch (or a trojan). Please don't make your contribution here a backtracking into knowledge. You don't have to be defensive about it, as you're clearly learning about the issue whilst at the same time having opinions about it. I get it, but there is a noticeable thing going on with the color profile when compared to all other Samsung releases. And that catches people's eyes. And most of all you have to remember that this about Samsung providing color profiles for the display. The already had the classic Vivid, it requires no work. It is they who chose to replace it (use its name) with something completely different that is not vivid at all, whilst taking away the actual/classic vivid option. They can just add another color profile, they didn't have to remove the classic and established one at all. It's just about options. In short, they shouldn't take away well-established options. But because they did, people want it back. And the washed out, dull colors on the S24's are so noticeable that people then end up googling it and ending up in threads like this.
Using a screenshot is entirely meaningless here because the issue with color reproduction on the display itself. Screenshots will match color profiles of the screens they're being displayed on, not the device they were captured on.
