I've just got my S24+ today to upgrade my trusty but ageing S10+ having not strayed from Samsung for almost 10 years. Naturally I was hoping it would be an upgrade in all departments but although on the whole it is, there's several annoying and unexpected downgrades that are making me seriously question whether it's actually worth spending quite a bit of money to change.
Firstly, the screen although pin sharp is really washed out. Even in vivid mode the colours are dull and the blacks are significantly more grey than the S10 screen, and even look washed out when put alongside my wife's budget spec A52! I've played around with brightness and colour tone etc but I can't dial it out, and my cousin who's got an S24 Ultra said exactly the same when comparing it against the S22 it's replacing.
Then there's some bizarre features missing from OneUI 6.1, the ones I've noticed so far are specifically in the Always On Display settings. I use AOD to display as a bedside clock, with my S10 and also in OneUI 6.0 / Android 14 on the A52 you can rotate the AOD to landscape orientation and control the brightness, you could even do the latter from the AOD lock screen by tapping twice on the clock to access the brightness slider. In OneUI 6.1 unless I'm missing something it seems all that functionality is missing, the brightness of the AOD is linked to the main screen brightness setting which is far too bright for overnight use, and you can't set it to landscape mode which I'd prefer when on it's horizontal night stand next to the bed. Why this functionality would be omitted I have no idea, but it's really annoying! Please someone enlighten me to some hidden menu somewhere that fixes all these issues?! š
Same, the colors are not bright. The same pictures on the S21 look better than on this s23 phone. Checked all the settings but nothing worked. Hope Samsung can fix the color issue asap.
Fwiw, I compared the same fb posts across my 85" samsung qled, my s23u and my s24u. The tv and s24u look identical, but the s23u has more color saturation. Imho natural should look as it is now, and vivid should look more like the s23u, foe people who like puncher colors.
I'm coming from a standard S21 and pre-ordered the standard S24. The s24 pales in comparison to not only color saturation but also inky deep blacks. Come on, Samsung!!! You can do better than this!! I don't want to go backwards, I wanted an upgrade! I am having buyers remorse š.
Both my s24+ and s24 ultra colors are washed out , Both look like led displays . I hope there is an update or patch for this. Or most likely ill be returning Both.
