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
moderator's comments ( PIC of Display HW) > Recently, the opinion that some Galaxy S24 displays show noise or stains is due to the difference in brightness that occurs in some pixel areas when the screen is displayed in a very dark environment, and it is a unique feature of most AMOLED parts and is not a defect of the product.
Unfortunately, that is obviously not true because some S24 Ultras have the grain REALLY BAD, while others don't have it that bad. All of them have varying levels of grain. It seems this is damage control. If all the Ultras had the same amount of grain, they might have been able to get away with this excuse.
This does seem similar to what they said first about the vivid color issue, they tried to play it off as a "feature" of the phone, and that's how it is meant to be, but ultimately updated the phone with the slider.
I'm curious to see how they will deal with this grain issue as it comes to light. More and more mainstream articles are starting to bring attention to it.
Yeah, the grain on the S24 series look like grain from 10 years ago when manufacturers didn't do a demura process. This is NOT normal for a $1300 phone in 2024 at all.
This is absolutely not true... As I replied to another comment, the Pixel 8 Pro uses the same display panel as the S24 series (M13) and it does not suffer from the same issue.
