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 received my new S24 ultra phones today, but I am considering returning them due to the lack of bright and vivid colors, which was a unique selling point of Samsung. Samsung should clarify whether this is a software issue that can be fixed, or a hardware limitation of the new anti-reflective screens, to prevent a large number of returns.
This is correct, they need to not only address the vivid colors but the color palette is also off. I compared it between my Note 20 ultra and the S24 Ultra and the colors are different when trying to use the same background to get the palette
Colores are washer out, im coming from S22 ultra and colores are plain, and BRIGHTNESS is lower than my s22 ultra (both at max) and lastly the gestores are messed up!
I hope this is a simple software update. It looks ridiculous next to the s23 ultra. It's not brighter and not even more vibrant than the s23 ultra. It's a complete downgrade. Please blow this post up so Samsung sees this
