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
Yes it's a handful when you taking in the millions. If they sold 100M and 10% would be considered a handful.
Why not return it then? Why wait? That actually speaks more volumes than waiting for an update. As I said before if the update breaks the device would you be willing to wait for a fix for that, or would you complain some more and wait past the window for that to get fixed? All I see if people thinking emotionally and not rationally...
If they sold 100 million so you're just throwing numbers out there..
People who pre-ordered especially got the $150 Best Buy gift card and other incentives... that's the whole point in the upgrade. People want to keep them. If you return the S24 or any model of it before you lose those incentives.
You're speaking about hypotheticals IF IF IF IF. Let's speak reality. If you pay $1400 for a phone and there is an expectation set by Samsung themselves then they should meet those expectations. Just because not everyone is complaining doesn't make it a non issue. It clearly is and it's yet again another blunder. This is very Apple-ish. "YOU" don't get to set that threshold of what is a big issue or not... That's not in your purview of pay grade It's an issue when Samsung gave people the option of Vivid mode for years and even highlighted it for years YET they provide the same option but it barely works. If there wasn't a Vivid mode and Samsung didn't pump many many hours and marketing into how bright and punchy their displays are then people wouldn't have a leg to stand on to be upset. It's a night and day difference between the S23 previous models display and the S24. The difference is very obvious.
Maybe you should have searched this site to see if there was an answer prior to flaming. You will be happy to know that if the leaks are correct, Samsung is going to put a "vividness slider" in the display settings.
Maybe I do what I want to do how about that. I have heard multiple leaks and even leaks that say there's not doing anything. Yes I heard about the slider fix from IceUniverse not Samsung themselves. They're so busy trying to be like Apple they can't even address their fans and admit that they will fix vivid mode.
Samsung has already said a fix is on the way long before any leak. What the leaks are about is what the fix will be, and not about if Samsung will fix it...
No Samsung as it stands NOW has now officially said anything. Bloggers said there was a fix coming. Samsung has been very lukewarm with their responses. The slider fix rumor did not come from Samsung themselves. A proper press release from them would help their loyal followers
