Intro
Here is Samsung's top S Series Flagship of the year, the Galaxy s24 or Ultra Of course, this phone should provide one of the best smartphone experiences you can get right now on Android, but is it so much different from last year?
I'm going for GSM Marino, and let's find out in our galaxy s24 Ultra.
Review of the samsung galaxy s24.
Design and build
Has made some improvements on what was already the ultimate Android smartphone package this year. You get a new five-time zoom.
Camera on the back, a brighter and flatter screen, and a revamped design.
The looks are quite similar to before with the separated camera rings and squared-off corners but this year the screen is flat, not curved.
You get a frame made of titanium rather than aluminum on the s24 ultra, and the back has a smooth satin-like finish too.
As before, you have stylus support, and you can store the stylus within the phone itself.
There doesn't seem to be anything new about the S Pen this generation, and both the spin and the phone itself have IP68-rated ingress protection against dust and water submersion, just as last year's model.
Screen specs and features
have s24 ultra 6.8 in QHD AMOLED screen and a 120 HZ refresh rate with its flat display.
The s24 ultra will now be a lot better suited to screen protector use, and you won't have sloped edges, which would interfere with navigating interfaces or doodling with the S Pen.
The display is quite sharp at 505 PPI, and it has even slimmer bezels this time around both the screen and the back, which are protected by a new glass called Corning Gorilla armor.
This glass is supposed to be up to four times tougher against scratches and impact and provide 75% reduced glare for even better visibility.
There's support for HDR 10+ video content and this year the phone can use HDR while you're browsing through your gallery or Google Photos.
Thanks to LTP Tech, the 120 HZ refresh rate is extra adaptive and can be dialed down. while idling to save energy all the way to 24 Herz or even 1 Herz with certain content, the Galaxy flagships have gotten a brightness boost this year on the ultra. We maxed out at over 750 nits with the manual brightness slider, and this could boost to nearly 1,450 nits in
auto mode.
When needed, we will mention that when the display is at very low or minimum brightness, you can notice a bit of graininess when you look closely it didn't really bother us but last year's model didn't have anything like that.
Stereo speakers
s24 ultra has a pair of stereo speakers with very good loudness, and the sound quality is great too, with noticeable low-end.
In your presence, you can wake up and unlock the phone with the under display fingerprint reader, which is quite.
Storage options
Snappy, and the phone can come with 256 or 512 gigabytes or whole terabyte of storage on board. The s24 ultra brings Samsung's
Android 14 and UI
new software package OneUI 6.1, based on Android 14, brings a few refinements and a bunch of new AI based features.
which are specific to the new flagships, plus the s24lineup gets a whole 7 years of software support from samsung's. if you'd like to find out more about OneUI 6.1 and its specific features, you can check out a dedicated
other s24 models.
Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 performance
Galaxy s24 ultra Ultra comes with the same chipset no matter where you buy it.
Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon hn3 is even better; it's a customized version of the chipset with a slightly higher clock.
Prime CPU core doesn't make a big difference, but it's worth noting that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is able to provide better overall performance than last year's Snapdragon hn2, especially when it comes to rate tracing for games.
The chipset also brings advanced support for AI processing, as expected in benchmarks.
The s24 ultra sits in the same ballpark as the other top flagships and its scores are significantly better than last year's model The ultra is a bit more powerful than the Exos 2400 versions of the Galaxy s24 ultra or S24 Plus. but the difference isn't huge and you probably wouldn't notice it in real-world use the s24 ultra has a more advanced passive cooling system than last year, with a larger Vapor chamber even so there was
significant thermal throttling during our stress test but at least it was
gradual without abrupt dips the Galaxy s24 ultra.
Battery endurance and charging
a 5,000 mAh battery the same as on the previous generation, the new model did perform a bit better though, with small improvements in screen on tests and an overall active use score of 13 hours and
49 minutes, like last year.
This supports 45 W charging; it's decently fast. With a proper adapter and 5 amp cable, we were able to charge the s24 ultra from 0 to 69% in half an hour, and a full charge took 65 minutes.
There's also support for wireless charging and reverse wireless charging Now let's move
Camera specs
On to the s24 ultra cameras. Like last year, there's a 200-megapixel Main camera, a 10 mega 3time Zoom, and a 12-map Ultra-wide camera.
but now instead of a telephoto with 10 times Zoom, there's a new 50 megap five time zoom camera that's supposed to provide Optical level quality at 10 times as well
let's start off with the
Main camera: photo quality
main camera, though it takes great-looking photos with nice colors and excellent
relatively natural-looking detail, there's a bit more sharpening than we
saw in the other s24 models, but it seems to be a nicer balance.
Some people would say the s24 for their own good in low light.
The main camera again captures great photos with balanced exposures and a wide dynamic range of colors is also rendered well with good saturation and general.
Dependable white balance there's nice fine detail too and it's natural with conservative sharpening There is some noise that can be seen in the shadows but that's an acceptable trade-off We'd say that the new model
does a little better with fine detail than the s23 ultra the more relaxed noise reduction leaves a bit more grain but finer textures too
3x zoom camera: daylight photo quality
now let's do some zooming, starting off at three times this camera is a known performer and we're seeing solid, familiar results from it overall.
photos have very good detail with only very fine grain to be observed in areas of uniform color dynamic range is excellent whether you're shooting Outdoors or in and even in portrait mode backlit scenes are rendered nicely moving on to the new telephoto
5x zoom camera: daylight photo quality
Indeed, we're quite fond of the five-time zoom shots, which have nice detail and minimal noise.
The dynamic range is great, and the color rendition is very likeable too. This camera can take some nice close-upYou have to use Pro mode
though, because the phone automatically switches to one of the other cameras just for comparison,
Here's how the s24 ultra's five-times camera Stacks up to the output of the s24 ultra's
three times telephoto zoomed into five times at 10 times Zoom, which comes from
10x zoom camera: daylight photo quality
the same camera the s24 ultra does retain good detail levels and
Noise performance we'd say the s23 Ultra 10 times photos from its dedicated telephoto have slightly better definition but they also have more prominent noise so the s24 ultra isn't necessarily worse altogether we did notice a strange phenomenon the s24 ultra can capture better-looking images
if you fiddle with it to go to something like 9.9 times compared to 10 times zoom, these have more natural processing and nicer rendition of fine detail, plus somehow less grain in the skies It'll be interesting to see how this develops in the future software
3x zoom camera: low-light photo quality
updates now; let's Zoom at night Starting with the three times telephoto, it produces solid results overall.
The detail is very good in scenes with at least moderate lighting, the dynamic range is nicely wide and the auto-wide balance is doing fine compared to the s23ultra.
The new model is a meaningful upgrade in image quality at three times Zoom thanks to less aggressive sharpening and more forgiving noise reduction at five times
5x zoom camera: low-light photo quality
telephoto delivers fine detail as well as fine grain and what is a restrained and likable rendition?
point and dynamic range are good too here's a comparison to the five times digital Zoom you'd get from the s23 ultra of course the new model does better at 10 times in the dark than the s24 ultra
10x zoom camera: low-light photo quality
ultra is at least a little better than the S23 Ultra but every now and then
it's a lot better the dimmer the scene The Wider the Gap in quality, ultrawide camera: daylight photo quality
switch gears to the ultrawide camera; it's also unchanged from the previous generation and the photos here are in many ways similar; there just might be a slightly nicer rendition of detail compared to the s23
Ultra The Ultra remains the only Galaxy with an ultra-wide camera that has autofocus so you can use it to capture nearby subjects in sharp Focus the ultra
Ultrawide camera: low-light photo quality
wide does okay in the dark, perhaps a little better than expected.
By looking at the specs, we're looking at well-exposed photos with a wide dynamic range and good colors pixel level examination
reveals some noise or softness in the shadows but we wouldn't call those deal breakers overall. Overall, it's once again an improvement in image quality over the s23ultra.
Selfies
selfies are some of the best-around detail is great in these photos while noise is kept at Bay you get true-to-life skin tones likable color rendition and a wide dynamic range not much to complain about here.
Video quality
Galaxy s24 ultra records video in up to 8K at 30 FPS with both its main camera and five times telephoto, and the other cameras can record in 4K also this year.
you can record in slow-mo from the main camera and 4K at 120
FPS the s24 ultra's video quality is generally great in broad daylight.
The rear cameras deliver consistent colors, and they can be used together in more serious projects.
all three rear cameras have very good detail at their native Zoom levels. Exposures are well-judged, and dynamic range and contrast are excellent videos.
SA ization is also excellent on the s24 ultra walking Shake is nearly perfectly removed, panning is smooth, and in low light, you can expect good quality 4K footage from the main camera.
The exposure is on point, the dynamic range is quite wide and colors don't suffer from desaturation The detail isn't too shabby either so there you have it, the Galaxy
Verdict
s24 ultra is a fully premium package all the way around, as you'd expect from Samsung's top flagship, and there are decent upgrades this year new build materials, a flat and brighter display, a nice new telephoto, and improved camera processing all around, not to mention the faster chipset and longer software support There are only a couple of nitpicks we'll mention When it's at minimum brightness, there's a flaw visible in the display and there's also a quirk with a 10-time zoom.
hardly deal breakers though and the s24 ultra deserves a full
Alternatives, selfie video quality
Recommendation Thanks guys
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