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 "upgraded" to the s24 plus and returned it. The quality was more like a downgrade to me. The colours were dull. I don't care for all the AI stuff. I will wait and see if there's a fix. Samsung is commenting a lot on their fb page saying that they made "easier" on the eyes, yet there is no mention of this when the phone was launched. I don't know if there is really going to be an update to fix the screen dullness.
Probably not. Honestly, most people don't realise they don't even really need to upgrade a phone every year or even two. I don't see why fix something that isn't broken. They have natural and vivid modes already. If people have issues with saturated colours, then just go to natural. The looks of my pictures on my Note are much better than on the 24. Even my son's A15 has better colours and his phone isn't overly saturated. Plus, such a big change and Samsung never mentioned the move to more "natural" tone in their launch. I don't care for all the AI stuff. I have image eraser on my Note and I don't need a translator.
Vivid setting does nothing. The setting isn't working at all. The display looks terrible. And the photos it takes is really disappointing as well. I'm definitely sending this back and returning it!!
Can anyone tell me what the heck is going on with the washed out colors on the new Galaxy s24 ultra??? It's absolutely horrible, I can't keep a phone that has such faded color. Anyone know what this is from???
