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 guess if they like being dictated by everything they do then they will enjoy apple lol, I used to love apple and did everything apple, but then this bad boy launched and was a game changer if you ask me, apple is checked out it seems with the new stuff, zero excitement anymore lol š
I mean people can definitely complain but lots of people were being extraš like I remember someone saying that Samsung is scamming people and they won't fix their issues and all this talk. Now Samsung released their first update that fixes a lot of stuff and they will continue to update the phone to keep improving it
Those people believe they are entitled, and when they do not get the immediate results they want, they begin raging. At least Samsung puts effort into its updates.
Personally I never said Samsung was scamming us lol but in all seriousness next time they should at least come out and acknowledge the issues and promise an update is in the works.
