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 just got off the phone with them and they told me that they do not have a solution and will text me when they have one. There was no offer for an exchange. The return clock is now ticking .
I'm very disappointed as well. Gor it yesterday. My S22U is way better in taking photos and screen is much more vibrant. The colors washed out and I look pale in photos and i am shocked . Bad phone overall I will return it
Same here. The screen colors on my new S24 Ultra are horrible. I will definitely be returning the new phone. My Note20 Ultra has better screen colors and speaker sound. I'm very disappointed with Samsung š.
Such washed out ugly colours. Returning mine. I upgraded from S22 ultra and this looks a huge step back. Even the free watch 6 won't cut it. **bleep** @Samaung vibrant colour was your thing.
It's as bad as the terrible Motorola Xoom tablet screen. The most useful feature at night of blue light filter makes it 10x worse. They have until my return window with t-mobile to fix this or at the very minimum acknowledge this and have a ETA for a fix. They had a whole year to get this right and it's not even a major update, it's a refresh of the S23, that's it, but they fumbled it as badly as the garbage S20U camera. If this is it, this **bleep** is being returned and moving to Apple. Enough is enough.
I just got my s24 Ultra and my S20 Ultra screen is way better (much more vivid & higher screen resolution 3200x1440). I have an offer worth $1000.00 for my s20 Ultra over 2 years with T-mobile if I return my s20 Ultra. I guess I'm OK with this big time downgrade. š¤·š»ā:male_sign:
