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
Really disappointed with this update. I still have my s23 ultra so I will be returning my 24 today. Samsung is a great phone, but for the money we paid on this phone, this update they should of got it perfect in my eyes. Hopefully the 25 series will be a great one š
My vivid mode works now. It is a night and day difference on my S24 Ultra. I turned the "vividness" slider up all the way, then went back and changed the "Screen mode" to Natural, and then to back Vivid, and the differences are quite apparent.
The Vivid mode slider definitely works - try scrolling to the left in that screen to one of the other sample photos other than that multi-colored pinwheel. It's subtle with that photo but much more noticeable with the other two sample photos.
Let's start with I've owned a total of 17 Samsung Galaxy phones so I feel qualified to rate their latest s24 ultra, this recent update does almost nothing, and I've noticed that none of the display settings do much of anything.
