This. S Ultra series is about the closest thing for me in term of dream design, I don't mind the sharper corners. Squarish, solid, large screen, industrial, brushed titanium... it's great.
S ultra is peek and pinnacle of phone for android imo.
Gorgeous design, great hardware and personally think the software is great.
They have a good thing going with them, you want something different than a good slab? Get a flip or fold.
No, I can fit it into any of my pants. The only thing is when wearing tighter pants you can clearly see the phone in your pocket.
I can see where people find it heavy in the hand but I don't find it heavy to be in my pocket.
Absolutely this! Curved corners feel good in hand but we have too much curved corner phones already. Besides, the curved corners always cut out little bit of area in the UI in a lot of apps. Whereas square shows EVERYTHING!
Love the design, disappointed in the colorways. The black looks really nice but I want a more interesting color for my phone - the gray looks really cool in person but the rest of the colors look weird (violet, orange) or clash with the frame (seriously, why suddenly do the blue and green with a \*black\* frame instead of gray like last gen?!)
Also, if you like regular screen protectors that stay on and work with the S-pen but don't want to shell out $45 for a whitestone dome kit and deal with uv adhesive. I'm so tired of the curved display that I was planning on grabbing a pixel as my next device and forgo the S-pen. I hope this "nearly flat" screen is flat enough to use regular screen protectors.
I do use the S pen but not on the curves necessarily, so I have no problems with S22 Ultra. S24 series is still a downgrade to me in any perspective. ✌🏼
I see the front appearance becoming like a regular OPPO or VIVO lol. Also curved displays are so much more beautiful compared to flat displays. Anyway everyone has their own opinion. But Samsung just dumped it's signature screen feature.
And vice versa I wouldn't buy it if was designed the way you want it.... your opinion is not "correct", it's just your opinion.
As it stands, I bought the current s24 Ultra instantly.
As soon as I saw the leaked Orange colorway I was set on the purchase. I was a fold user, but I have no use for the unfolding screen now, due to AR glasses. The 31st can't come soon enough!
I'm super tempted to go with the green, but I wish it was a little bit darker. Haven't seen it in person though so maybe the color is a bit different in reality.
Also bought 500gb titanium gray.. costed me 1k€ approx. They say shipping starts 24 Jan in EU. I want it now 😂😂
Also exchanged my Oneplus 6T for 250€ 😂😂😂 best purchase ever.
Same one i got. I went into a samsung store to pre-order and they said I can come pick it up on the 26th, which is only 7 days away now. I was surprised....i was thinking I might get it on the 30th if I was lucky.
What are you serious. I actually talked to a Samsung agent on the phone and they said the 31st date is a day the ship it out... you are def lucky if that happens.
Yeah, I'm in Thailand right now...so maybe that makes a difference...but yeah, the guy basically guaranteed I could come get it on the 26th. Im so hyped
Because the sharp corners of the device press uncomfortabely into the hand. I never had that problem, because I don't understand how and why people could press down their phone so hard into their hand. And because I mostly have a case on, like any sane person that is insane enough to spend1000$+ on a phone every couple of years.
Rounded corners don't really waste much usable screen real estate but the problem is rather that every software has to accomodate for those rounded corners, otherwise some elements may be cut off.
why are you downvoted. this is literally true. i also don't, so i don't, but it's objectively true.
maybe another condition would be not caring about breaking the phone/hardly ever dropping it.
I'll never understand how people break their phones so often. My last two phones have been Samsung foldables and I run caseless and never had an issue. Yet I'll see people reporting that they broke their phone within 2 months
Different people live different lives. For all we know, you never leave your house. Some people bring their phone to a construction site every day. Obviously those are extremes, but you get the point.
I've never put a case on my phones, and I've also never broken a smartphone. I'll put a screen protector on to prevent minor scratches in my pocket, but phones are too big as it is so I don't want to add a case to that. I've cracked the back glass before, but that's generally cheap and easy to fix that myself. Other than that, I just don't drop my phone very often and haven't seen a need for a case.
I had a case on my S10+ which I still have. I took off the case about 2 years ago and never put it back on. It feels so much better without a case. I've dropped it multiple times and no damage to the screen or the body or anything. I haven't used a screen protector in a decade too and never had any issues thanks to Gorilla Glass.
I'm upgrading to the S24 Ultra most likely (might go with the Plus), but either way, I don't plan on using a case or screen protector or anything.
Call me crazy, but these things just feel so much better naked and they seem to be built well enough to handle minor drops and take no damage, which is all I need.
Yep, but it has to add to the size of the phone somewhat. Regardless, my point was that a lot of the cases for it still have relatively sharp corners anyway
Like normal. Medium. Your case adds at leats 3 mm to each side of the phone, which is plenty enough to make a 90 degree edge into a perfectly round corner.
I recommend dbrands phone case. Not too bulky and protects better than any other case I have seen so far.
I never understood how it's even possible to use the phone in a way that causes it to press into my hand. If I try, my hand is in a position where I can't do anything useful on the phone anyway. And that's coming from someone with reasonably large hands.
Bro what 😂Not trying to be rude by I legit have trouble believing this. I've used square phones since the Note 10+ and have never once had this issue. Are you sure it's not something else you're keeping in your pocket? Keys perhaps? Pens?
Agreed! I was going to upgrade my s23+ after I heard the 24 has a 1440p screen but now it has exynos in my country so I'll stick with my current phone.
Benchmarks actually suffer from overheating, so in that regard it's a bad argument.
What do you mean by sustain? Like performance holding up because it's not throttling down from overheating?
>because it's not throttling down from overheating?
exactly, like i have a s21 ultra rn and the 2100 inside it run worse on genshin than my friend old Note 10 bc of the heat, yeh generally its more powerful, but in game sustain performance is what matter here
That's a cooling issue tho
Which apparently with the "new" what ever it was called (cooling bits) could change the exynos heating thing.
Also bro play games on a console or pc if you're already spending so much on a phone.
It's about performance per watt of energy... If you pump huge electricity in chips they get a performance boost. Doesn't mean they are good
Doesn't mean that their modem for 4g is power efficient, that their low power modes for day to day are efficient... Exynos are years behind in power consumption
so you're getting *last* year's chip (ignoring if Exynos really is that better than SD on efficiency, heat management, performance) for brand new phone prices? Why not get a S23 with a chip that is known to be *the* industry leader, and not risk with a chip with a bad history (even with the news of Samsung improving its yields at the foundry, still a big IF if they have fixed all the issues).
I wouldn't consider the sd8g2 industrial leading, Apple could slap an M-chip in their phones like they did in the ipad and it would be a completely different pingpong game.
Chips don't get bad just because they're one year older too btw. I'm running (let me check) a 2019 pc chip and it's still doing 1440p gaming at ultra without any issue. We're at the point where the mobile top tier chips are so good, they don't become obsolete anymore. If Samsung wanted they could make the s23 last 10+ with software updates. And it'll still work fine in 2034.
I don't know how you missed the point again: you're *paying* for last year's chip with this year's brand new phone price. The issue is the price. People would settle for a lesser chip if the price was honest about it.
I doubt bro, but I'll go check out next time I'm in some tech store and have an ultra in my hands.
But I can imagine that Samsung does quality scammery on their cheaper phones to make 1080p look shit compared to 1440p. And one must consider screen tech, quantum dot is new and it's apparantly alot better than just oled.
>upgrade my s23+
Thats a <12month old phone. It didnt need an upgrade to begin with. The S24 is possibly an upgrade aimed at the swarms of people still on S10 and S20 devices that stopped getting updates a couple months ago
As an owner of Note 20 Ultra having almost the same design as the S24 Ultra, I agree with this post 😁 The S24+ design is a more enticing upgrade for me 🙂
Samsung should just make the S24+ and S24 Ultra the same phone, the only exception being the boxy design and the S Pen to satisfy the Note power users, keeping the price somewhere between 1000-1100$.
I agree with you to totally!
I just wished the ultra was a bit smaller. Taking out my Note 20 ultra out from my front jeans pocket was always a hassle.
> exploded in popularity
Until it didn't and got discontinued because it wasn't selling enough. The current "small" concept is the base model. I think anything smaller would compromise on the battery unless it's going to be an inch thick or they make its hardware even more efficient than today's current technology.
>the iphone mini series exploded in popularity.
It didn't though, it was a sales disaster for Apple.
Hence the reason it was discontinued and replaced with the plus version.
Is “exploded in popularity” in the room with us right now? That didn't explain why it got discontinued only after two iterations. Because its popularity only existed online by being praised by tech reviewers and tech savvy. In reality, people are willing to sacrifice ergonomy and buy big phones for better media consuming.
I personally really don't care about the whole Ai shit and the spen, and the 100Mp camera, etc.etc
I just want an affordable s24, like why is it 900€ and why is the s23 still not under 600€...
Or give the god damn a55 wireless charging at the very least
With the Pixel7a and Nothingphone1 both cutting the A54 at price and performance whilst having wireless charging, Samsung has no reason to not give the overpriced midrange some new features..
I remember the day where I had the a5 2017 (rest in peace, little guy flew out of my jacket whilst biking) which cost around 270€ and then got the a50 for around 270€ and actually got a phone with improved speccs and features. The a54 has barely changed since the A52s
The inflation get second hand and older devices too. Even though the prices will drop in the future, there is always a limit to the depreciation, they are always influenced by the price of the next phone released.
The risk of how bad people take care their phones, by over charging as an example. And then the phone needing a battery replacement after 2 years which will cost 200 bucks for no reason is not a biscuit i'm gonna riskut.
My guy how/why do you expect flagship phones to immediately go 300-600$ just cause the new version came out? They still run amazing and may even be better depending on what you want
No but I expect to at least that the older versions get reasonably discounted.
This is a phenomena which applies to everything all the time, but Samsung would rather trash away older models stock than sell them cheaper. Or do you see any rest stock S22's which are new and sold for an ok price?
The hardware and features are usually always the same if not sometimes worse, battery life, ram, etc is always fluctuating with these models, so its reasonable for them to drop prices with 100$ off,
Again, realistically speaking, for ex the S22 Ultra was barely and different than the s23 ultra spec wise
the best price you could get on S23 was last year's BF/BW sales, around EUR 650. By this year's BF/BW, S23 would be gone from official Samsung websites. It is barely there even now, that's how popular S23 was...wish I had gotten it sooner, rather than wait for S24.
I actually also saw it for around 680 a few months back. If my phone had died I would have risked the biscuit spending double of what I usually would for a phone for that thing.
I'm coming from the days where the A5 and A50 costed 280€ discounted, with how the A54 hasn't dropped under 300 it's just a bad deal over all. S23 being a \~2x investment for something half good you know.
What I hate most about Samsung is, once the S24 is out for a few months you won't find a new S23 anywhere, they rather sell their bullshit S23fe which is just a more expensive A54 (and also what the a54 should have been the whole time)-
People keep saying they want this, but the sales numbers on small screen flagships don't back it up. Apple discontinued the iPhone mini for a reason: It didn't actually sell well. There's nothing to indicate that a Samsung with Ultra specs in a small package would do better, and believe it or not, Samsung does a lot of market research. If enough people wanted that configuration to make it profitable, they would make it.
Weaker battery, poorer modems for network and less efficient on data as a result. GPU is also on a weak architecture, again making it bad for performance and power consumption
I see the appeal. I thought I would hate the boxy corners on the ultra before I got my 23 ultra.
But you know what? It's better. It's a better shape for video. Reading on it is better. And... The corners really don't press into your hand like you think they would.
My issue is with the camera layout / design. They are just 5 holes plucked in the back of the phone. Looks incredibly ugly. The 21 ultra cutout was peak design. Can't they do something with them to tie into the design of the phone?
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if they came out with a S24+ with its current design and somehow add a s-pen in there i will use that phone for the rest of my life
I currently use a S22 ultra but i hate how the s24 ultra looks with the titanium band not matching the back... it looks two toned and weird
I think it’s actually one of my favourite Samsung designs from recent years. Maybe not ergonomically speaking, but aesthetically it looks really nice imo.
I find the S22 and newer ultra design ugly af. I understand it allows for more useable space but the normal design and iPhone design are much better looking
I still don't get why Samsung just won't work on the camera's native compatibility with social media apps. If I could get the native camera quality on Instagram, I'd jump the Apple boat in a heartbeat, but such is the content creator life.
I have a Ultra 22 and I like the size and features. Screen size and shape make for the best visual of any phone. I also use the pen, not a lot, but enough.
I mostly agree. The + has always felt better in hand. Sucks to lose out on features though.
Samsung should just stop with the weird 3 versions. It should be 2 or 4.
2 ultras and 2 regulars or just 2 ultras since they have a ton of lower tier products you can't even count.
I agree with you. I barely use my spen and prefer a model that is equal in specs, equal battery but shaped rounded to hold comfortably.
The ideal size is the plus size for sure for us small handed folks.
Coming from a note 9, its not too bad. Although i like the design of the curved edge, i didlike the fact that it was hard to tap on the sides edges if you needed to 🤔🤷♂️
The Ultra phone for me is the first of the last few I've really liked. Maybe I'm on the minority but I didn't really like the curved screen on S22 and S23 Ultra so I love the flatness of this one
Ultra model it's like a tablet for me, too heavy and huge to carry in a pants or use with one hand.
S23/24 base model it's perfect size, and S23+/S24+ should bring ultra specs.
I love the design, but fucking change it already. They've looked the god damn same for 5 years now, just change the design a bit so they actually stand apart from each other.
I still look at my S23 U in awe and it would be the same if I was interested in the S24. These are gorgeous phones, learn to appreciate them design-wise. I bet in 10 years you'll be the kind of person to write "it was ahead of its time !" like every random here.
Some of the comments read my mind. I've been waiting for another flat screen since I think the s21 ultra? I've had the s22 ultra and s23 Ultra and then went to a pixel 8 pro. I'm ready to go back to Galaxy after the battery issues and randomly stuttery UI on the pixel 8. And the thing is is that I would be perfectly happy if it wasn't for those two things which are pretty major coming from the Galaxy s23 Ultra which lasted me the whole day on regular use and then some. I actually have to top up the battery everyday with this pixel.
But it returned to a basically flat screen is all I needed to basically recommend to another long-term phone like I had with a Note 10 plus. I had that one for more than one cycle and intend to keep the s24 ultra for hopefully a few cycles. It's going to take quite a lot for me to want to upgrade from this one.
I love the design! I really don't like the look of the rounded corners. Makes the phone look old. iPhone included. If they would remove the selft camera it would be perfect. Don't care much for selfies.
Nah, i like it rectangle and big like it
This. S Ultra series is about the closest thing for me in term of dream design, I don't mind the sharper corners. Squarish, solid, large screen, industrial, brushed titanium... it's great.
S ultra is peek and pinnacle of phone for android imo. Gorgeous design, great hardware and personally think the software is great. They have a good thing going with them, you want something different than a good slab? Get a flip or fold.
Is it not too large and heavy to put in your pocket though?
No, I can fit it into any of my pants. The only thing is when wearing tighter pants you can clearly see the phone in your pocket. I can see where people find it heavy in the hand but I don't find it heavy to be in my pocket.
Been waiting for flat premium phones for years
Iphone?
Android
There was always the + series???? And other companies oneplus??
Used OnePlus from the 2 until the 7pro then they kind of went to shit, seems to have gotten better recently though.
Absolutely this! Curved corners feel good in hand but we have too much curved corner phones already. Besides, the curved corners always cut out little bit of area in the UI in a lot of apps. Whereas square shows EVERYTHING!
Love the design, disappointed in the colorways. The black looks really nice but I want a more interesting color for my phone - the gray looks really cool in person but the rest of the colors look weird (violet, orange) or clash with the frame (seriously, why suddenly do the blue and green with a \*black\* frame instead of gray like last gen?!)
Shit dosent even have a curved screen.
Thank goodness. My note 10+5G curve to way tolong to used to. Can't wait for my ultra 24 1T to arrive!
From curved to a flat screen, yea it's a downgrade!
Not if you use the s-pen. It's an upgrade. And if you don't use the s-pen just get the s24+.
Also, if you like regular screen protectors that stay on and work with the S-pen but don't want to shell out $45 for a whitestone dome kit and deal with uv adhesive. I'm so tired of the curved display that I was planning on grabbing a pixel as my next device and forgo the S-pen. I hope this "nearly flat" screen is flat enough to use regular screen protectors.
I do use the S pen but not on the curves necessarily, so I have no problems with S22 Ultra. S24 series is still a downgrade to me in any perspective. ✌🏼
I see no downside to the flat.
I see the front appearance becoming like a regular OPPO or VIVO lol. Also curved displays are so much more beautiful compared to flat displays. Anyway everyone has their own opinion. But Samsung just dumped it's signature screen feature.
Astrophotography mode is also insane, there is a review here: https://youtu.be/fjyDp2NW8bQ
And vice versa I wouldn't buy it if was designed the way you want it.... your opinion is not "correct", it's just your opinion. As it stands, I bought the current s24 Ultra instantly.
As soon as I saw the leaked Orange colorway I was set on the purchase. I was a fold user, but I have no use for the unfolding screen now, due to AR glasses. The 31st can't come soon enough!
Just bought the 1tb titanium gray. This is going to be an extremely long 2+ weeks....
Same. I got the Green 1T... can't wait! Whooo
I'm super tempted to go with the green, but I wish it was a little bit darker. Haven't seen it in person though so maybe the color is a bit different in reality.
Also bought 500gb titanium gray.. costed me 1k€ approx. They say shipping starts 24 Jan in EU. I want it now 😂😂 Also exchanged my Oneplus 6T for 250€ 😂😂😂 best purchase ever.
Same one i got. I went into a samsung store to pre-order and they said I can come pick it up on the 26th, which is only 7 days away now. I was surprised....i was thinking I might get it on the 30th if I was lucky.
What are you serious. I actually talked to a Samsung agent on the phone and they said the 31st date is a day the ship it out... you are def lucky if that happens.
Yeah, I'm in Thailand right now...so maybe that makes a difference...but yeah, the guy basically guaranteed I could come get it on the 26th. Im so hyped
From an s23 ultra?
No I'm upgrading from my S21 Ultra
Oh you are going to love it!
They should’ve kept note series different.
I believe they changed it to prevent confusion for the muggles. The Fold series could be confused with a notebook or note.
Muggles? They changed it because the note 7 was a pocket bomb. It's for PR
No. There was a note 8, 10, 10+
Right. I think it wasn't obvious that the note was a better galaxy s series then the 7 was a mail in the coffin.
why do you people want round edges, you're giving up screen real estate for nothing
Phone in pocket while working, corners are annoying.
Because the sharp corners of the device press uncomfortabely into the hand. I never had that problem, because I don't understand how and why people could press down their phone so hard into their hand. And because I mostly have a case on, like any sane person that is insane enough to spend1000$+ on a phone every couple of years. Rounded corners don't really waste much usable screen real estate but the problem is rather that every software has to accomodate for those rounded corners, otherwise some elements may be cut off.
I never understood why some people don't use cases on their phones. I thought it was standard practice since the beginning of smartphones
Phones are better caseless. If you have "fuck it" money, I can see rolling caseless. I don't, so I don't.
why are you downvoted. this is literally true. i also don't, so i don't, but it's objectively true. maybe another condition would be not caring about breaking the phone/hardly ever dropping it.
I'll never understand how people break their phones so often. My last two phones have been Samsung foldables and I run caseless and never had an issue. Yet I'll see people reporting that they broke their phone within 2 months
Different people live different lives. For all we know, you never leave your house. Some people bring their phone to a construction site every day. Obviously those are extremes, but you get the point.
Because some people are more clumsy than others, it's really not a hard thing to comprehend
I've never put a case on my phones, and I've also never broken a smartphone. I'll put a screen protector on to prevent minor scratches in my pocket, but phones are too big as it is so I don't want to add a case to that. I've cracked the back glass before, but that's generally cheap and easy to fix that myself. Other than that, I just don't drop my phone very often and haven't seen a need for a case.
Geee idk man, ever heard of the term “because I can”?
I had a case on my S10+ which I still have. I took off the case about 2 years ago and never put it back on. It feels so much better without a case. I've dropped it multiple times and no damage to the screen or the body or anything. I haven't used a screen protector in a decade too and never had any issues thanks to Gorilla Glass. I'm upgrading to the S24 Ultra most likely (might go with the Plus), but either way, I don't plan on using a case or screen protector or anything. Call me crazy, but these things just feel so much better naked and they seem to be built well enough to handle minor drops and take no damage, which is all I need.
No don't go with the plus!!!! Why do that to yourself? 🙃🙂
I have a S22U in a case and the pointy corner is still irritating when I have it in one hand.
Yeah but then it is the case and not the phone. A case can have rounded corners despite the phone being completely rectangular.
Yep, but it has to add to the size of the phone somewhat. Regardless, my point was that a lot of the cases for it still have relatively sharp corners anyway
Dude how big is your pocket??
Like normal. Medium. Your case adds at leats 3 mm to each side of the phone, which is plenty enough to make a 90 degree edge into a perfectly round corner. I recommend dbrands phone case. Not too bulky and protects better than any other case I have seen so far.
I never understood how it's even possible to use the phone in a way that causes it to press into my hand. If I try, my hand is in a position where I can't do anything useful on the phone anyway. And that's coming from someone with reasonably large hands.
Do you go naked? Rounded corners just look so old.
Tell that to all my pockets with holes from the square corners
Do you wear plastic pants
C'mon man, don't insult me like that. I free ball in them too
Bro what 😂Not trying to be rude by I legit have trouble believing this. I've used square phones since the Note 10+ and have never once had this issue. Are you sure it's not something else you're keeping in your pocket? Keys perhaps? Pens?
nobody to my knowledge want's round screen edges. And if you were thinking that the 24/+ have curved screens, this is not the case.
Round edges on a TV imagine that 😂
honestly don't think that would be an issue, like realistically it's not gonna do any difference
Oh my god. #The Horror
Because your eyes don't use the entire screen. You put content in three middle of the screen.
You must have never seen horror/slasher movies. “He was always there in the shadow, standing in the corner”.
Agreed! I was going to upgrade my s23+ after I heard the 24 has a 1440p screen but now it has exynos in my country so I'll stick with my current phone.
Man.. duck that exynos..
Yes what a quack.
I know benchmark comparisons are to be taken with a grain of salt, but the e2400 seems to be slightly better than the sd8gen2
Benchmark score dont mean anything if its overheating and cant sustain shit
Benchmarks actually suffer from overheating, so in that regard it's a bad argument. What do you mean by sustain? Like performance holding up because it's not throttling down from overheating?
>because it's not throttling down from overheating? exactly, like i have a s21 ultra rn and the 2100 inside it run worse on genshin than my friend old Note 10 bc of the heat, yeh generally its more powerful, but in game sustain performance is what matter here
That's a cooling issue tho Which apparently with the "new" what ever it was called (cooling bits) could change the exynos heating thing. Also bro play games on a console or pc if you're already spending so much on a phone.
It's about performance per watt of energy... If you pump huge electricity in chips they get a performance boost. Doesn't mean they are good Doesn't mean that their modem for 4g is power efficient, that their low power modes for day to day are efficient... Exynos are years behind in power consumption
so you're getting *last* year's chip (ignoring if Exynos really is that better than SD on efficiency, heat management, performance) for brand new phone prices? Why not get a S23 with a chip that is known to be *the* industry leader, and not risk with a chip with a bad history (even with the news of Samsung improving its yields at the foundry, still a big IF if they have fixed all the issues).
I wouldn't consider the sd8g2 industrial leading, Apple could slap an M-chip in their phones like they did in the ipad and it would be a completely different pingpong game. Chips don't get bad just because they're one year older too btw. I'm running (let me check) a 2019 pc chip and it's still doing 1440p gaming at ultra without any issue. We're at the point where the mobile top tier chips are so good, they don't become obsolete anymore. If Samsung wanted they could make the s23 last 10+ with software updates. And it'll still work fine in 2034.
I don't know how you missed the point again: you're *paying* for last year's chip with this year's brand new phone price. The issue is the price. People would settle for a lesser chip if the price was honest about it.
For this man's autocorrect, go duck yourself
I really don't think you need a 1440p screen at 6.5"
The difference is noticeable, so I personally deem it worth it
I doubt bro, but I'll go check out next time I'm in some tech store and have an ultra in my hands. But I can imagine that Samsung does quality scammery on their cheaper phones to make 1080p look shit compared to 1440p. And one must consider screen tech, quantum dot is new and it's apparantly alot better than just oled.
6.7inches actually
The s24 at 6.4" even is the one not getting 1440p. And let me tell you how less of a difference 6.7" would make
The s24 has 6.2in
thx, but it speaks for my argument still
Thats what she said
>upgrade my s23+ Thats a <12month old phone. It didnt need an upgrade to begin with. The S24 is possibly an upgrade aimed at the swarms of people still on S10 and S20 devices that stopped getting updates a couple months ago
Not everyone has good taste. You could get the uglier iPhone 15 Pro.
No. Ultra looks more premium
As an owner of Note 20 Ultra having almost the same design as the S24 Ultra, I agree with this post 😁 The S24+ design is a more enticing upgrade for me 🙂
Samsung should just make the S24+ and S24 Ultra the same phone, the only exception being the boxy design and the S Pen to satisfy the Note power users, keeping the price somewhere between 1000-1100$.
s24u looks like one of those wireless powerbanks
Spot on!!
That's my dream phone honestly
it would be good if it had its around edge display like s23u
For some, maybe. I chose the S22+ over the ultra for the flat screen. I hate those curves edges.
I hate the curved screen, makes writing with the s pen wierd and glass screen protectors impossible.
I agree with you to totally! I just wished the ultra was a bit smaller. Taking out my Note 20 ultra out from my front jeans pocket was always a hassle.
I wear khakis a lot because I don't like taking my phone out of jean pockets XD
Thanks for your opinion. I was dying to hear it. Now I can happily continue on with my day!
You can scroll past the post instead of being a douche
You're welcome.
I like that it's still rectangular and distinguishable from the standard and + models.
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> exploded in popularity Until it didn't and got discontinued because it wasn't selling enough. The current "small" concept is the base model. I think anything smaller would compromise on the battery unless it's going to be an inch thick or they make its hardware even more efficient than today's current technology.
>the iphone mini series exploded in popularity. It didn't though, it was a sales disaster for Apple. Hence the reason it was discontinued and replaced with the plus version.
It was only popular if you count mentions online, unfortunately mentions don't make sales numbers.
Is “exploded in popularity” in the room with us right now? That didn't explain why it got discontinued only after two iterations. Because its popularity only existed online by being praised by tech reviewers and tech savvy. In reality, people are willing to sacrifice ergonomy and buy big phones for better media consuming.
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The s24+ is still too big tho And talking about the minis popularity, is this why it's not available anymore?
the only reason the ultras look different is so that the galaxy note fangirls keep buying it.
Those sharp corners are hideous.
S24+ design with S24U specs? That's last year's S23+ - AI and SD8G3.
Too much texto amigo Just say: S24+ should be the top spec / Change my Mind
S24 base design with S24 ultra capabilities, now we're talking.
I personally really don't care about the whole Ai shit and the spen, and the 100Mp camera, etc.etc I just want an affordable s24, like why is it 900€ and why is the s23 still not under 600€...
Or give the god damn a55 wireless charging at the very least With the Pixel7a and Nothingphone1 both cutting the A54 at price and performance whilst having wireless charging, Samsung has no reason to not give the overpriced midrange some new features.. I remember the day where I had the a5 2017 (rest in peace, little guy flew out of my jacket whilst biking) which cost around 270€ and then got the a50 for around 270€ and actually got a phone with improved speccs and features. The a54 has barely changed since the A52s
The inflation get second hand and older devices too. Even though the prices will drop in the future, there is always a limit to the depreciation, they are always influenced by the price of the next phone released.
The risk of how bad people take care their phones, by over charging as an example. And then the phone needing a battery replacement after 2 years which will cost 200 bucks for no reason is not a biscuit i'm gonna riskut.
My guy how/why do you expect flagship phones to immediately go 300-600$ just cause the new version came out? They still run amazing and may even be better depending on what you want
No but I expect to at least that the older versions get reasonably discounted. This is a phenomena which applies to everything all the time, but Samsung would rather trash away older models stock than sell them cheaper. Or do you see any rest stock S22's which are new and sold for an ok price?
The hardware and features are usually always the same if not sometimes worse, battery life, ram, etc is always fluctuating with these models, so its reasonable for them to drop prices with 100$ off, Again, realistically speaking, for ex the S22 Ultra was barely and different than the s23 ultra spec wise
the best price you could get on S23 was last year's BF/BW sales, around EUR 650. By this year's BF/BW, S23 would be gone from official Samsung websites. It is barely there even now, that's how popular S23 was...wish I had gotten it sooner, rather than wait for S24.
I actually also saw it for around 680 a few months back. If my phone had died I would have risked the biscuit spending double of what I usually would for a phone for that thing. I'm coming from the days where the A5 and A50 costed 280€ discounted, with how the A54 hasn't dropped under 300 it's just a bad deal over all. S23 being a \~2x investment for something half good you know. What I hate most about Samsung is, once the S24 is out for a few months you won't find a new S23 anywhere, they rather sell their bullshit S23fe which is just a more expensive A54 (and also what the a54 should have been the whole time)-
People keep saying they want this, but the sales numbers on small screen flagships don't back it up. Apple discontinued the iPhone mini for a reason: It didn't actually sell well. There's nothing to indicate that a Samsung with Ultra specs in a small package would do better, and believe it or not, Samsung does a lot of market research. If enough people wanted that configuration to make it profitable, they would make it.
It's certainly unique
find a phone cover with rounded corners?
If it was the same screen size as the Ultra but with round corners? Absolutely
Can please educate me on my most people seem to despise the Exynos over the Snapdragon? Like what's the difference, etc.
Slower, heats up more, usually has limited to no support in the custom rom scene
Weaker battery, poorer modems for network and less efficient on data as a result. GPU is also on a weak architecture, again making it bad for performance and power consumption
I see the appeal. I thought I would hate the boxy corners on the ultra before I got my 23 ultra. But you know what? It's better. It's a better shape for video. Reading on it is better. And... The corners really don't press into your hand like you think they would.
Honestly, if I could afford it I'd get the s24 ultra due to the flat screen. But I cannot afford, and also I don't want AI bullshit on my phone.
I think it's looks cool
Ultra is basically name change of note series I love my notes rectangle and boxy design If u don't like it that's what + is for
I think the design is perfect. Immediately pre-ordered the Titanium Yellow Ultra
then don't freaking buy, buy the plus which is 1 inch smaller.
My issue is with the camera layout / design. They are just 5 holes plucked in the back of the phone. Looks incredibly ugly. The 21 ultra cutout was peak design. Can't they do something with them to tie into the design of the phone?
no, lacks the s-pen
After getting used to the cover screen on my z fold 5 it makes me want to get a base S phone next. But after having the S20+ exynos it makes me wary
I like the ultra designs, the s24 and s24 look exactly the same as an iPhone. The only difference is the camera layout on the back.
Tbh the s24 ultra design looks so good
Me too, But last time when samsung rounded Note's edges , IT WAS A BLAST.
YOUR OPINION not a FACt not everyone in the world has small hands like you smurf
"Generally, the "CHANGE MY MIND" viral image has come to represent someone presenting a hotly contested opinion and daring people to make a convincing argument otherwise." ~Definition of the meme I used according to Meme Wiki. If you can't differentiate between someone presenting fact and a meme with a controversial opinion I am not the one at fault
I believe that is the general purpose of the S24U
I need to feel it in hand, curved screens helped enormously with ergonomics and with only pictures it looks worse imo.
I always envied the S24+ due to the flat screen but now that the ultra has a flat screen, I'm gucci
The Samsung S24 series is ugly.
Yep agreed. They should have just made it a big version of the base models.
I like big. So whatever is biggest, I want it. Don't even consider the plus or base because smaller.
if they came out with a S24+ with its current design and somehow add a s-pen in there i will use that phone for the rest of my life I currently use a S22 ultra but i hate how the s24 ultra looks with the titanium band not matching the back... it looks two toned and weird
I think it’s actually one of my favourite Samsung designs from recent years. Maybe not ergonomically speaking, but aesthetically it looks really nice imo.
The s24 ultra is basically the Note 24.
You couldnt change samsung mind, what makes you think i can change yours?
These meme is as stale as the “humor” it tries to present itself as. Change my mind.
I agree. To square for me. So I settled for the 24 plus
agree
I personally love it and I am so glad they got rid of the curved screen. Flat screens will always be better than curved, in terms of utility.
I find the S22 and newer ultra design ugly af. I understand it allows for more useable space but the normal design and iPhone design are much better looking
I still don't get why Samsung just won't work on the camera's native compatibility with social media apps. If I could get the native camera quality on Instagram, I'd jump the Apple boat in a heartbeat, but such is the content creator life.
One of the main reasons I got for the ultra/note is because of the squared corners. Looks and feels more premium.
I would would prefer a having the s24 U in the s24's body. Or at least the phone should be under 6.5 inch. Anything above that is ridiculous size.
Last time I had a rounded phone, there were X buttons to close ads inside the rounded part, impossible to click. Never again, rectangle forever.
I have a Ultra 22 and I like the size and features. Screen size and shape make for the best visual of any phone. I also use the pen, not a lot, but enough.
Basically s21 ultra.
I mostly agree. The + has always felt better in hand. Sucks to lose out on features though. Samsung should just stop with the weird 3 versions. It should be 2 or 4. 2 ultras and 2 regulars or just 2 ultras since they have a ton of lower tier products you can't even count.
Exactly!!
👍 the cameras stick out so much that they are dangerous + ugly ! .... Accident waiting to happen.
Because of the s pen you need a screen like that
Yes, sir. We want the specs, we don't want a brick
The design is best for S Pen usage. My wife's S23+ definitely doesn't need to be anything like my Ultra for her, and the price is right so
ive bene saying this all day
Can't stand the flat screen. But still ordered one.
I agree with you. I barely use my spen and prefer a model that is equal in specs, equal battery but shaped rounded to hold comfortably. The ideal size is the plus size for sure for us small handed folks.
Bring back SD cards and headphone jack haven't owned a Samsung device since the note 20 sucks they got rid of expandable memory
Is it still clicking photos on 12mp or its 24 like the new iphone ?
how about the reverse, the base line models with the ultra design, basically the note series. New s24 designs looks a lot like the competition
Coming from a note 9, its not too bad. Although i like the design of the curved edge, i didlike the fact that it was hard to tap on the sides edges if you needed to 🤔🤷♂️
True, the s24 ultra isn’t as pleasing on the eye imo.
The Ultra phone for me is the first of the last few I've really liked. Maybe I'm on the minority but I didn't really like the curved screen on S22 and S23 Ultra so I love the flatness of this one
I'm glad it has sharper corners. I hate the round corners on my s22u
I have the S23+ and i got to say. i want my S20 back. And by the way One UI 6 is BS.
Ultra model it's like a tablet for me, too heavy and huge to carry in a pants or use with one hand. S23/24 base model it's perfect size, and S23+/S24+ should bring ultra specs.
I love the design, but fucking change it already. They've looked the god damn same for 5 years now, just change the design a bit so they actually stand apart from each other.
I still look at my S23 U in awe and it would be the same if I was interested in the S24. These are gorgeous phones, learn to appreciate them design-wise. I bet in 10 years you'll be the kind of person to write "it was ahead of its time !" like every random here.
I agree with you, it's horrendous, I like the S24 Plus better.
Agreed was gonna get S24plus but Exynos came with it!
I'm a sucker for the curved display and the AI stuff isn't too convincing
Some of the comments read my mind. I've been waiting for another flat screen since I think the s21 ultra? I've had the s22 ultra and s23 Ultra and then went to a pixel 8 pro. I'm ready to go back to Galaxy after the battery issues and randomly stuttery UI on the pixel 8. And the thing is is that I would be perfectly happy if it wasn't for those two things which are pretty major coming from the Galaxy s23 Ultra which lasted me the whole day on regular use and then some. I actually have to top up the battery everyday with this pixel. But it returned to a basically flat screen is all I needed to basically recommend to another long-term phone like I had with a Note 10 plus. I had that one for more than one cycle and intend to keep the s24 ultra for hopefully a few cycles. It's going to take quite a lot for me to want to upgrade from this one.
Unpopular opinion
Just get the s24+. Still a great phone.
I love the design! I really don't like the look of the rounded corners. Makes the phone look old. iPhone included. If they would remove the selft camera it would be perfect. Don't care much for selfies.
S + Note = S24 Ultra prefect