Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “They said this phone was boring. I disagree! – Samsung S24 Ultra”.
Inside this box is my new phone, which is great because, as you can see, I desperately need one, the S2 very funny you guys, s23. Ultra s look. I know they didn’t change much this time around, but I personally think that a new kind of Glass on the front of a phone yeah, that’s totally enough to justify a new revision number. Also that isn’t the only thing they changed: they’ve upgraded to the Snapdragon 8 gen 3 processor. The base model comes with 12 gigs of RAM instead of just 8 gigs and Ai. No I’m sure there must be something else. Oh yes, the second telephoto lens the zoom one is 5X with a 50 megapixel camera and a faster lens, and it’s got a titanium frame. Nice. I, like titanium, titani, get a Galaxy titanium. That’S it huh, but there’s still a lot for us to experience, starting with the display Samsung claims that this new display will reach peak brightnesses of 2600 nits and, what’s even more unbelievable than that is the fact that we reached even higher results in our independent testing.
Hdr and we’re going to look at this in a second, but first can we talk about this gorilla armor I mean normally here on the short circuit set. Reflections are a huge problem on devices, but both to my eye and even in the camera. Look at this guys, that’s a studio, light.
Look at that completely washed out on a mere mortal phone. Is that freaking, impressive, or what here I’m try to catch that light? Look at that! That’S crazy! We should just open the video with this, not to mention the difference in color performance. Did we really open this with? Ah, it’s kind of an s23 S because that screen, I don’t think I’ve seen anything quite like it on a phone and that anti-glare coating not to mention it’s, it’s not just anti- glare it almost. It almost looks like a matte display, but but to touch it.
It’S still glossy. I really like this there’s a lot to like here here. Let’S do a quick physical tour at the bottom. We’Ve got our Sim slot USBC charging port one of our speaker ports and got to love it once you get used to the S Pen, man, it’s a funny thing because I don’t use it every day, but when I use it, I’m like I’m really glad.
I have this okay check this out. It was date night, the other night and my wife, and I have these little cards that tell us, okay, here’s what you’re going to do on date night, you just scratch it and and that’s what you do so our card earlier this week is all go to A dollar store, buy, glow sticks and tape and turn yourself into glow stick stick people, so we were like oh well. This is, you know, really cool and it’d be great to get a picture of ourselves dressed up like this, but we don’t want to ask anyone else to take it. So I set up my phone on a log grab my S, Pen, remote shutter.
Let’S go oh. I guess she asked me not to share them with the internet. The point is I like the S Pen on the top microphone.
I guess we’ve got an amplified, earpiece speaker just right in there and then over on the side. We’Ve got our volume rocker, as well as our lock button and oh 5G, cut out very nice, get that millim wave we’re looking at a very similar camera array. To last time, we’ve got a 200 megapix Main shooter, a 12 megapix Ultra wide.
Instead of the 10 and 10 telephotos, we have a 10 and then the 50 megapixel telephoto that I already told you guys about and then at the front, we’re looking at a 12 megapixel selfie camera as usual with Samsung, you can double click to open up your Camera app double click again boom, I’m taking a selfie. Oh that looks really sharp. Damn that looks really good. The initial reaction, the later reaction, wow that that minimum brightness, though honestly as a nighttime phone user in some ways, that’s more important to me than how bright it can go. Cuz phones are already bright enough that I can use them under basic Landing conditions. Look at that.
That is not even close. That’S awesome! I can’t even see that and that’s a good thing. Obviously it’s a very old phone to be comparing it to G, but that’s something that I think our little joke about.
S23. Ultra s didn’t really captures most people are not upgrading their phone from the very last generation they’re upgrading from something older. This is so dim.
I can’t find the slider there we go, got it fixed and there’s a lot to like here. I’Ve always kind of liked. The curved display – I know – I know I’m sorry – they’ve gone with a flat display. This time doesn’t really bother me either way.
So, if that’s something you’re into then that’s great and performance, while we found that it wasn’t actually as good as some of the other Snapdragon 8 gen 3 devices that we’ve checked out recently, it’s certainly better than the last gen. I do have to wonder why this is given how much Samsung has talked about their amazing cooling solution for this fil. I mean it’s certainly not not a size, constraint, she’s, chunky boys, though, if I had to guess at something I would say: maybe they don’t want the difference to the exos one to be too much. That’S that’s all conspiracy.
The I got my tin foil hat on for that one I mean I’ve got the hair do for it. I’M not saying it’s aliens but aliens. One thing, that’s not different from one region to the next is the titanium frame. I um, I don’t know like cool.
I guess right, like that’s neat, I think most people are probably going to put a case on it. Speaking of cases our sponsor dbrand, their grip line of cases is now available for the s24 series they are well, I mean it’s self-explanatory, they’re grippy. They feel great. In the hands, the buttons are super clicky, which I still do not fully understand how they’ve done using a like rubberized case to add extra click to the button. I don’t know it doesn’t matter. The point is, it supports magsafe and it’s available now at Short less.com.
Not only did they buy the domain, they keep renewing it. Coming back to Performance in games. The s24 ultra was also behind other Snapdragon 8 gen 3 devices, particularly when it comes to frame time. Consistency so the 1 % lows that we observed in Dolphin, as well as genin impact, were a little bit on the lower side, which is to say you’re still going to be getting a pretty darn good gaming experience play wi games on this thing incredible another area Where it s behind other similarly equipped.
Phones, though, is battery longevity to be clear, we are not disputing Samsung’s claims of all day battery life. In fact, we found that we got over 24 hours of YouTube playback at 480p, 200 nits brightness, that’s great! It just isn’t the 30 hours that Samsung claims. Our stress test saw us land just shy of 3 hours, which is pretty darn solid and our charge time was very reasonable an hour at 65 WTS. But though it should be noted that um, that was not with an included charger. Does it have Wi-Fi 7? Yes, hey, that’s not in the list. Wi-Fi 7 is freaking awesome and if you don’t already love it, you should what about Bluetooth? 5.4. No 5.3. 5.4 is some big improvements in terms of latency as long as you have a compatible device anyway.
Okay, still Wi-Fi 7. Very cool the display is 6.8 in it’s 100 20 HZ. So obviously it feels super smooth and we’ve managed to get this far into this video without talking about any of the Glorious AI. Now I haven’t personally experienced any of this stuff, so the one and only Jake bellance our producer on short circuit is going to tell me two that are the best that I should experience.
Right now does all kinds of cool stuff. Their Notes app now locally will handle transcribing your conversations and meetings. Apparently it can even handle multiple people. There’S interpreter functions in Android, auto it’ll, summarize incoming messages and suggest relevant replies.
That’S super cool, o Galaxy, AI, editing tools, okay, so in your photos, some of these things run locally. So if you want to remove a shadow or reflection or something like that, that’ll actually run on the beefed up. Ai processor. That’S built right into the phone, but then some of these things do rely on the cloud like. If you want to move a person around or remove an object, okay bellance. What are we doing Circle to search with Google Circle, to search with Google? All right? Okay? Okay: okay, okay, okay, so I’m going to take a picture and I have no idea how this stuff works. I wasn’t at impact, so I’m going to take a picture of myself. I’M taking a picture of myself picture, I’m going to take a picture of myself! Then I’m going to then I’m going to hold the home button which one’s the home – oh my God, Bixby where’s, the home, where the hell is the home button.
How do I find the home button? I don’t have onscreen buttons, it’s broken. I broke it got your SP pen, yeah. I’Ve got it just chill you just holded on the bar, what that’s stupid! Okay, home button? Okay, I’m going to search this guy yeah! I’M try I’m trying to try it now there no way. I did not stage that I did not stage that uh okay, we can search for anything.
So I don’t know I could just do this like anytime. This is so cool. Why are all the results from Reddit so far? Are they just appending Reddit to every search? Okay, what’s this thing? Okay, what is that I swear to God if this is Reddit again, no way no way, no way actual link to buy okay, this feature exclusive to the s24 series right now. Actually, I think it’s all coming to the s23 too, all the AI stuff, but there is no way this doesn’t come to.
Basically anything that’ll. Do it, because Google desperately wants all this delicious data. They want it anytime, you’re going to buy Google’s like I’m there. Oh, who wait? Wait? Wait! Oh man.
I could play with this feature all day. I think. Can I find it oh, no way: LTG store.com baby, it’s so fast cuz. It runs locally.
Thank God we’re all over this whole Cloud thing. You know why it happened because Google and Microsoft, and all these guys are looking at their Data Center cost going like holy. How is this sustainable? What what is it that thing we used to do where we put like processing power in the user’s actual device? Let’S do that love it swiping up is going to give us some quick fixes. We could add some background blur.
You know what that’s actually not bad, more blur less blur pretty cool, especially for only having you know. One camera not bad, though not bad, especially if it’s doing this processing on device object eraser. This is all this is stupid. Let’S get rid of it! That’S very usable yeah! That’S you know what I’m I’m kind of into it. That is definitely an improvement. Let’S get a picture of me with shadows on my face, then makes my nose look even bigger, which is impressive.
Oh here we go here we go here. We go okay! Well, oh no! Well! Um yeah! How about just this? This! Oh um! Oh boy! Okay, not what I intended uh, I I I don’t want to get rid of any of the dynamism in my lighting. I just I just want to remove this like weird Shadow on my face, and instead we just get like this weird nonsense. Uh now that that is some nightmare fuel, it has like an assist which is kind of cool to help you stay on the lines. At least it feels like it. I that wow buddy, that’s pretty good.
Okay, give me one more AI, editing tools, AI editing tools, all right. Let’S take a picture sure, okay. So how do we do this uh? Oh, this maybe advanced intelligence oo, really: okay, reimagine your images, move, remove and resize the people and objects and use advanced intelligence to fill in the background. Okay, so that was like the crappy local version we were using before this is super cool. I want this computer to move yeah, okay, I’m going to put it there, so what this is free until 2025 and then realistically after that, you get to pay dang, that’s actually not bad. How did it fill this in? Did it just guess or is it using imagery of the Northern Lights desk pad like? Did it go, find out what this thing is and what’s supposed to be there? That’S pretty impressive, save his copy, a visible Watermark will be overlaid on the output image in order to indicate that it is AI generated.
So this is interesting, especially in light of the recent controversy with AI generated images of Taylor. Swift Samsung is marking both in the metadata and actually on the image itself that the image has been yeah there. It is AI doctored there. It is right there that would be so hard to crop out and then repost with no metadata somewhere.
This solves the problem. Verbal irony, hilarious solution solved, subscribe to Short Circuit. Oh wait. We didn’t talk pricing. The s24 series is priced anywhere from 40 at the 1 TB capacity to $ 100, more than the s23 series, and while the s23 series was priced really high, this uplift doesn’t seem that unreasonable, given that at that base tier where $ 100 Adder at least you’re Getting additional RAM, how do you feel about that Apple should? Should anyone put any RAM on their devices or will it make you look bad? At any rate, that’s it for today, subscribe to Short Circuit, see you later guys.
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