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
The display is washed out, but the pictures taken by the camera are also washed out! Samsung should rename it: "S24 Ultra, the Washed Out Colors Edition"!
This is not a popular opinion here, but here you go. I compared new S24U 512GB ( US unlocked) next to S23U in Vivid / same screen settings. I barely see any difference. Display is amazing. I understand Vivid vs Natural switch is broken in S24 series at the moment, however you will NOT see a big difference after fix is made. S21/S22 and below folks got used to overly saturated colors and Samsung has been slowly transitioning to more natural colors (even with Vivid set to ON). So do not be disappointed later. If you don't like it now, it's not going to be miles better after patch.
There have been many that I've seen return them already. To take it even further, I just saw someone recently comment in a thread here that Samsung will have to do recalls if it's a hardware issue. Lol.
correct. I simply assume that a new device, at launch, will have a few issues and that they will be addressed quickly (Samsung, Google, Apple). if that doesn't sound appealing, buy the new model 6 months after launch. problem solved.
