Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra - 2 weeks later - the TRUTH!

this is much better than this okay so I've spent about 2 weeks with the s24 ultra and I had Hands-On time with it just before the release I've had loads of time basically to get to know this phone but this isn't going to be a really indepth review because there's about 11 million of them out there already I've done my own so my first impressions on this phone is out there you can go and watch it now if you want to this video is just going to be an overview of what I love and what I don't love about the s24 ultra and yes I'll let you know whether or not I'm going to switch from the iPhone 15 Pro Max to this although you can probably guess the answer to that big spoiler this is going to take some beating in 2024 just a very quick word from today's sponsor which is Banks as usual with a very expensive smartphone I slap one of these straight onto the display this is the glass Warrior screen protector it features extreme scratch and shatter resistance it leaves no fingerprints it has 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discount sitewise wide just click that link below and use the code Mark pick let's start with the stuff that I love about the s24 ultra and well there's only one place to start with this which is the display it is as was the case with the predecessor utterly wonderful in fact it is still the best smartphone display on the market if you disagree with that fight me in the comments and what's really interesting is that the fact it is completely flat now so there's no curved Edge on the display itself that does make a big difference and it's still one of the most expansive smartphone displays on the market on the s24 ultra that's for three reasons the first one is the pinhole camera at the top which reveals that you do not need a Monkey Island on your phone the second reason is because of the bezels which are well they're barely there and the third reason is because it's squared off this is a squared off display and if you compare it against the iPhone which is this kind of rounded thing I'm afraid this is looking more and more archaic by the day I can feel the comments arriving they're down there aren't they I don't want to look I know the iPhone Fanboys and I am one of them are coming at me with pitchforks I completely forgot to mention the anti-glare coating on the display of the s24 ultra which incidentally I'm shooting this on holding the display of this phone up against the s23 ultra and the iPhone 15 Pro Max reveals just how good this anti-reflective thing is again it just goes towards making this the best display on the market much has been said about the switch to Titanium on the s24 ultra one of the most interesting is it interestes it's not interesting one of the funniest things that I keep reading and hearing is the fact that apparently Samsung has copied Apple I genuinely don't care who got there first it was the right decision on both company's parts to go with that material however for some reason the switch to Titanium on the s24 ultra just feels a bit more substantial and what I mean by that is that it feels like more of a reduction in weight over the s23 Ultra than this did over the iPhone 14 pro Max and I do love this orange version this is the online exclusive yes I bought this myself and it could be more orangery orange orangey orang it could be more orange I do want to mention the battery performance because just like seemingly every Android smartphone these days it is absolutely epic particularly when it comes to standby this is so much better when you leave it to its own devices than this it still has battery issues I'm sorry but iPhones I think have got worse a great example of this is that I took both of these to Germany over the weekend and when you travel that completely hammers the battery life and that's because these phones are constantly darting between cellular signals and turning Wi-Fi on and off GPS is being used it's a real battery test this beat this hands down right it's time to talk about AI when it comes to AI on the s24 ultra one of two things is going to happen to you one you'll find something that is absolutely incredibly useful every single day or two you'll just forget about it however one thing that every single s24 Ultra owner will do is try every single Galaxy AI feature straight out of the box I did that in my first impressions video which I'll link to above but trust me most of it you won't use does that make it a failure no not at all Samsung has to do this to differentiate its phone to make the s24 ultra and the s24 and the s24 plus relevant and forward thinking and hopefully steal a march on Apple but in daytoday use AI it's either useful or it isn't my use case is quite a good example of this so there's just a few AI things in this which I think are useful for me one of them was interpreter and it wasn't actually me using this this was my good friend Ben from lover of tech I'll put a link to his Channel Down Below we were in Germany together over the weekend which sounds weird but we were there for work we wanted to get into this karaoke bar I know this is sounding strange but we wanted to get into this bar and sing obviously and the bouncer wouldn't let us in because he was saying words we didn't understand so Ben got his s24 Ultra out of his pocket and turned on interpreter and interpreter uses AI to translate your words into another language and vice versa this worked we found out that this karaoke bar was fully booked which we wouldn't have known if we hadn't used that feature the other AI feature that I'm really impressed with is circle to search which you can get on the pixel now so for instance if I want to know what this camera is in front of me even though I do know I can take a photo of it like this and there's my camera and then if I don't know what that camera is but I want to know what that camera is I can just hold down there Circle it and that didn't sort of okay it has worked it's picked out the fx3 there it wasn't the first result that is the first time this has let me down generally speaking if you take a photo of something or you spot something on Instagram and you want to know what it is is circle to search is incredibly fast and very accurate but that test kind of proves that it's still early days the other thing that I really love and does seem to work every single time is reflection and Shadow removal on photos so I don't know about you but I take a lot of photos through Windows whether it be at airports or hotels and that kind of stuff nine times out of 10 you get this lovely photo completely ruined by your own face or the reflection of someone else it's completely unusable and thanks to AI in this phone you can remove those Reflections the same thing goes with shadows and it works brilliantly and yes I know this has generative stuff in it as well so you can move things around in the frame and you know Center The Horizon and fill in the gaps for me those AI features are a bit kind of not they're not gimmicky they feel like more of a toy I've also discovered the generative AI wallpapers of which this is an example this is a completely AI generated wallpaper which is done in the operating system itself Samsung has been quite conservative with the options you get with this but you at least get a nice looking image and well it's Unique let's talk about the camera a very quick reminder of the focal length that we get so we get a 1 a 3 and a 5x Optical and the 10x that was Optical on the s23 ultra is now digital although it does use this new adaptive pixel sensor and some AI trickery and don't worry the 100x moon Zoom is still there and still largely unusable but as for the rest of the camera system as always I'll let you be the judge of these photos in the comments but I'm a big big fan I really think this is going to take some beating in 20124 and the availability of that 5x optical zoom which yes we first saw on the iPhone 15 Pro Max which I guess means Samsung copied apple with that as well boring but the availability of that 5x is just utterly inspired and it's the way forward guys I challenge you to get one of these phones and not use it all the time and that 5x focal l L works brilliantly for video as well it provides lovely compression and it adds this cinematic feel to anything you shoot in fact the video performance of the s24 ultra dare I say it is on a par with the iPhone that is the first time I've ever said that but I was massively impressed when I was shooting with this thing in Germany but back to the photos and it really feels like Samsung has refined the camera system on the s24 ultra gone are the days of oversaturated images and in their place we get images that clearly Samsung but which are far more pleasing to the eye at least in my eyes yes there's still a lot of sharpening going on which you can see in these test images this is a completely personal preference but for me it does give the s24 ultra a kind of pixel like feel which is becoming commonplace in Android land and I'm absolutely here for that I think it also handles selfies very well even in challenging lighting conditions and the nto go I can't even say it without laughing the nidography mode continues used to produce stunning results although during my testing the 5x at night isn't quite as impressive as it is on the iPhone 15 Pro Max that aside the night shots on the s24 ultra are just they're stunning one of the biggest complaints I had about the s23 ultra was the slow shutter speed where you could barely take a decent photo of your kid or your pets this does seem to be improved on the s24 ultra I had a few issues still where I couldn't quite get a sharp image of let's say my dog or my kid but generally speaking speaking it was a bit more reliable than the s23 ultra overall I think the camera system in the s24 ultra is an absolute Beast and the fact that these photos have so much character does for me put them one step ahead of the iPhone 15 Pro Max those pitchforks are coming out again aren't they okay with that in mind let's talk about stuff that I don't like about this phone okay so I've made a list about things that I don't like about the s24 ultra and it's not very long and equally I think these complaints they're a bit picky the first thing is that the S Pen isn't orange so I bought the titanium orange s24 Ultra and the S Pen is gray I'd like it to be Orange please ooh while we're talking about the S Pen it's still a troubling accessory I still think it's a bit of a gimmick that should even out the comments down below but basically apart from taking a photo with this so you can use the button on here to release the shutter on the camera if your phone's over there somewhere and handwritten notes not that's it everything else including Circle to search you can do with your finger which means this spends most of its time in there the next thing what what else did I not like about this oh the the orange the titanium orange could be a bit more oranger oranger it could be more orange I think I mentioned that earlier though so let's forget that one uh what else did I say that's it and that begs the question will I switch from this to this no and I know this is really really annoying you're probably sitting there at the minute typing out a comment saying that I'm an idiot and it's for the most stupid of reasons and it's that Apple EOS system it's the fact that I can copy and paste stuff from this to my Mac it's the fact that I like the Apple watch Ultra and this needs this I don't know whose fault it is I guess it's mine really I just cannot stop using the iPhone because I've been sucked into that ecos system and I just can't get out of it and this is so frustrating in my job because I get to use lots of different Android phones and quite often I want to carry on using them the s24 ultra is a perfect example of this I want to use this all the time I don't know there's something about it where if these two devices are placed on the table I go for this first for me this is already the smartphone of the Year and that means all eyes are now on Apple and Google but I want to hear from you now have you got an s24 ultra and what do you think about it is it the best smartphone you've ever used and are you thinking about switching from Apple to Samsung what ever your situation get involved down below and if You' still got some time and you want to check out my full overview of this phone including all of the AI features keep watching for a link to that video

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Length: 13min 18sec (798 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 31 2024