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
I've seen it with my brightness on low levels. I'm more upset about the washed out, bland colors on the display. When transferring pics from my s21u to the 24, I looked at one on both phones, it looked better on the s21. What's more disappointing is I've read it's by design because they wanted to go for a more "natural" look. Makes me mad every time I charge my phone because instead of seeing the rich, vivid royal green charging icon I see a faded, light pea soup one. I have no idea why they thought this would be a good idea
Yes. I got that update a few minutes after setting up the phone. It improves the vividness and vibrancy slightly, but nowhere near comparable to the displays of previous galaxies
Next update I hope Samsung will bring back the adjustable AOD. Who cares about adding iPhone late features at the expense of losing good features that we already love.
They told me that you can't change it so that we can have smooth transitions. But look at this atrocity that I have to see.. š Bring back my calendar! I need it at work all day!
I'm concerned about the clock not moving on the display. I like for mine to always stay on however I'm using auto so it won't stay on in my pocket. I'm concerned about burn in. Now I know why there is no brightness slider.
The older Samsung Aod moved up and down the screen to prevent burn in.
Some things I like about this new aod.
The lockscreen has a color wheel for the clocks so you can have any color under the rainbow for the aod.
You can now have a larger clockface on the aod since it can use the lockscreen clock.
You get a much bigger image on the aod if your using the lockscreen image.
