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
Quiero exaltar este tema muy controversial. Hablo de los colores del samsung s24 ultra. Desde muy joven soy fanĆ”tico de samsung por su desempeƱo y mĆ”s por su gran pantalla amoled y curva. Esos colores vividos de hace algĆŗn tiempo que hacĆa que tu dispositivo fuera reconocible en cualquier lugar. Esos bonitos colores vivos de tono intenso hacĆan mi vida mĆ”s feliz a la hora de portar un dispositivo de cuya marca. Pero es triste ver como en este gran dispositivo de Ćŗltima gama todo respecto al tema se ha perdido sin hablar de la famosa pantalla curva, ya no resulta interesante tenerlo sin aquellos colores. Acabo de reemplazar mi s22 ultra por el s24 ultra y estoy muy decepcionado, como yo hay muchas personas que estĆ”n de acuerdo conmigo, otras muchas no. Por eso quiero pedir a samsung y toda la comunidad que nos apoyemos mutuamente para ver si esta gran compaƱĆa restaura a los tiempos antiguos aquel modo vivido del cual muchos usuarios disfrutabamos. Sin mĆ”s saludos bella comunidad de samsung.
Just received my Galaxy S24 Ultra a few days ago. I love the design and the whole Samsung AI features, but it seems as Samsung spent roo much quality time on exactly that and left out the most important features that made Samsung Galaxy flagships stand out from the competition; it's camera and display. The colors seem washed out, very dull and photos and videos taken with the S24 Ultra come out horrible. I really hope Samsung can fix this some very quick updates. If not, I'll probably be sending this phone back or just sell it and go back to the S23 Ultra.
They're not fixing the display issue. Apparently they're saying that they "tuned" the display to make it look more natural but to me and a lot of people it looks horrible. Everyone thought they'll fix it with an update but the Samsung reps recently are saying they're not.
Yeah the vivid mode is completely broken on the phone since it doesn't change anything but they still refuse to acknowledge it. There's another forum here about the display and a lot of people there are returning their phone. I'm still hoping Samsung sees the returns and does a patch.
I love it personally. I always chang my screen to "natural" so it looks great in my opinion. The photos are extremely good to my eye. I'm not much of a video person though.
hey everyone, first time posting but had to add this, please be very aware!! I ordered my s24 ultra through att and got it 2 days ago. as of this writing the left middle side of my screen is cracked. things seem to always go wrong at night or weekends so going to wait till morning, there was no drops or bumps nothing. I have the OtterBox Defender Pro Series Case on first thing I did when I got it. I am **bleep**g out right now because jerryrigeverything on youtube did all kinds of tests and many on the internet is saying level 7 and 8 scratches?? unless I got a 1 off and it was just a bad batch but a **bleep** crack when no drops or bumps and even in a really good case, I will add I did not get a screen protector however I was upgrading from an s22 ultra and had it for 2 years and dropped it so many times in the same kind of case and never 1 crack.
