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
Samsung why are you still keeping quiet about this??? This is pathetic! Thats why you LOOSE customers! We all MUST punish you and never buy Samsung products again! This is how you treat your customers ?!
I have yet to see evidence of a single S24U screen without grain. From seeing my dad's screen and his view of it, some people's eyes just can't make out the grain, but it is 100% there and any large grey or other dark but not black object will show the grain the worst, and that is not an acceptable reason or excuse for Samsung. That would be like them only allowing 1080p after advertising 1440p and then saying its ok because most people can't tell the difference. When viewing a scene from a dark movie, this grain is very noticeable and actually causes detail loss. I tried watching the club scene from The Bat_man on both my S23U and S24U at the same time and the dark areas had noticeable detail loss due to the grain. It was like watching on an early generation OLED panel, not the supposed flagship panel. I even offered money to anyone that could prove a grain free screen in another forum and no one could.
My S24 base model doesn't have any of these issues, but I think this will be my last Samsung device. The company clearly has issues with quality control and customer service. The grain issue isn't the only one. I hear about an issue with green lines pretty frequently, and also poor battery performance. I'm not going to gamble on the next one.
