Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra is Better Than I First Thought”.
I spent 3 months living with the Galaxy s24 Ultra and there’s a lot of things that I am totally in love with about this phone and a couple of things that missed the Mark. I’M Lexi welcome to your weekly dose of all things mobile make sure to subscribe for lots more. Let’S go Samsung really buried the lead with this phone, because you can give me AI. You can give me a 200 megapixel camera, but the thing that really matters that I use day in day out is the screen and the screen on the 24 Ultra is pretty special.
It’S using the new Corning Gorilla armor and it significantly reduces screen, Reflections and glare. So each layer of that gorilla, armor is thinner than a human hair and it supposedly reduces Reflections up to 75 %. I really don’t know why Samsung waited so long to give us details about the construction of this coating and this screen 3 months after launch. I’M glad that we know about it now. Maybe it was something to do with the vi standard screen issues that some users were experiencing when they found that colors were washed out and a little bit grainy. I wasn’t one of those users. I’Ve been very, very happy with this screen, but do let me know your experiences just suffice to say this is probably the best phone I’ve ever used for experiencing media Outdoors if I’m watching staff waiting for the bus, if I’m trying to take photos outside on a Bright sunny day like today, this screen is so underrated and I really really love using it. Coming from my last Galaxy phone, that was my daily driver for such a long time, the s22 ultra the s24 ultra and that flat display feels really nice to use. It’S super practical and the design overall is really nice to hold in my hand, without a case, but let’s be real. I put a case on my phones, cuz, I’m clumsy. This thing is expensive and I don’t want to be the one to test out the drop and scratch resistance. Now, I’m not in inspirational quote person, but I kind of like the message on this serial case that I’ve been using. It’S been super sturdy as well. I’Ve also been switching it up with the peak design mag safe case yes, mag safe on Samsung is a thing now, apparently, and no S Pen magnetic issues to report using that case. It’S also got that nice little Loop, so I can keep it super secure.
In my hand, speaking of the S Pen, the flat display also makes the S Spen experience nicer to use. For me, I am a huge fan of using the Spen to take notes with the screen turned off, and I do find that it gives me a little bit more usable area with a flat display, as opposed to the curves on the s22 and s23 Ultra. So 3 months in am I using all of those AI tools. No only a couple.
The best one for me has been Circle to search and according to Samsung is actually the most used feature. I can definitely get on board with that. It’S super useful, I’m also using it within the camera, as kind of like a makeshift Google Lens and every time I switch back to say an iPhone. I really really miss having Circle to search, but it’s not an s24 ultra exclusive anymore, because all of these AI features have also come to older phones like the s23 ultra, the zold, 5 and Z, flip 5 and, of course, some of the pixel phones too.
With CLE search, I’ve also been using Gemini AI instead of the Google Assistant, which has been surprisingly way more helpful than I first anticipated. So, let’s just say: I want to create a Instagram post to this video, I’m going to snap a photo and get Gemini AI to come up with a caption. Let’S see, I don’t know, would you click on that, so on the photo and video side, the things that I’m using the most is actually the Shadow and reflection removal tool which works pretty well and also sometimes the object. Remover tool is pretty helpful as well. I also find that the outp painting result when you’re rotating the canvas and trying to extend it is pretty decent, and I do use this quite a bit, but it’s not 100 %. Take, for example, this photo of my dog.
It gets the leaf super nice and crispy and generated into something that looks like it could have been there, but then look at my dog’s tag and it’s a total mess. So there’s still a lot of work to go, but for most things it’s actually pretty decent and also the slow motion. Video is not quite there for me as well, yet I’m not really sure of the Practical solutions that this is solving. It’S kind of cool to see it in action by being able to press and hold on an existing video, but then trying to save it as a slow motion.
Video isn’t as intuitive, and you can see quite a bit of that artifact acting detail. So you can tell that it wasn’t natively shot in a slowmo mod, but the key with all of these AI photo editing tools is who’s. Actually using them.
Are you let me know. This is the first time in a long time where the camera isn’t. One of the key big features of the Galaxy phone for me and that kind of indicates two things number one: it’s plateaued and number two, it’s just not that interesting anymore.
I still think that Samsung removing the 10 times optical zoom and opting for a pixel binning approach to get 10 times. Reach is a mistake I would have rather them taken that approach with a three times camera and use the pixel biding approach, so we could get like a five times equivalent and kept that 10 times optical zoom length from a consumer standpoint that was such a huge Selling feature and I’m always going to be team optical zoom, over team hybrid, digital Zoom, especially when it comes to video at 10 times. I can definitely tell the difference, and I know a lot of people love to take videos at 10 times optical zoom. It just makes sense like I. I hope that it’s going to be added back in the future cuz. It’S just seems like a huge missing piece for me and speaking of video.
If you are going through these different lengths, you can see the camera is kind of a little bit jumpy, especially when you’re hopping between say the wide to the three times to the five times. The 10 times is not that bad, but I really do notice that it’s not particularly smooth when you’re going between all these cameras sharing between devices is something that I do pretty much every day and I’ve always wanted. I guess the universal airdrop and I think we are very close with Quick Share, so I can go and say: share a photo of my delicious lunch.
Go to the share Tab and then find the quick share option. Look at either the link or the QR code scan that, with my other phone, send that link to say my work, computer and then almost in instantaneously. I have that file love it no more fiddling with Android file transfer, which is long over due for an update and lots more tips and tricks.
You can find those on my other video about the s24 ultra right up there, and this is my annual complaint about Samsung pay, now known as Samsung wallet. Yes, they removed MST or magnetic secure transmission about 3 years ago, I’m still not over it. That was the technology that let you tap to pay at any terminal, regardless of whether or not it supported NFC still missed that the app has also got much more confusing they’ve taken away. The Samsung rewards points which I loved, so I might as well just use. Google Wallet at this stage, Isn’t it nice to not have too much to say about the battery cuz I’ve been pretty impressed with this phone and I end the day and anywhere between 40 and 50 % generally left on the phone that’s a day. That involves maybe 4 to 5 hours of screening on time, so streaming, music, social media, apps and just like General phone use.
Obviously I don’t do a lot of heavy gaming on my phone, but always want to know your experiences in the battery life Department thanks. So much for watching. I hope this was really helpful for you, as always drop me a note with your experiences using the s24 ultra down below and I’ll catch.
You next time see you .