Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra
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- PhoneFreak45
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- 33 minutes ago
Voiceofreason, 13 Feb 2023Seems you are a hater of Samsung. I will counter your point... moreI meant that as a way to say that there are in fact cons to this phone. No phone is perfect, and pretending as such is a surefire way for companies to never even consider fixing the issues with their phones.
The headphone jack is a dying feature, that's true, but it doesn't mean we should accept something inferior. It doesn't hurt anyone to have a headphone jack, and it allows for easy convenient high quality audio. Bluetooth is far from replacing wired audio anytime soon, not to mention it's manufacturer dependent. While with a headphone jack you can plug in any pair of headphones, Bluetooth will only allow headphones with the feature built in. This immediately discounts amazing pairs of headphones like the Samson SR850, Sennheiser HD600, and other high quality wired headphones. As for pricing, while on the surface Bluetooth headphones are relatively affordable, wired headphones are still far better priced. Say you're a fan of airpods pro, or the Sony WF-100XM4's, those both cost 250$, and if you have to replace them every two years, in a rather short 6 years you'd have spent 150$ more on a vastly inferior audio product than if you'd bought a pair of Sennheiser HD600's at the time instead, which would've sounded much better, lasted far longer (especially since the consumable components such as earpads and cables are easily replaceable. In the long-run, wireless headphones are far more expensive and not a purchase that will keep its value very long.
When I talk about custom software, I mean privacy focused android forks like GrapheneOS. All things being equal, it's far easier to install a custom operating system on a Pixel phone than it is on a Samsung phone.
Regarding the MicroSD card, it too is far cheaper than internal storage. If you bought an S23 Ultra today with 1TB of storage, it would cost 2,210$ CAD. If you bought the base model with 256GB of storage and 8GB of RAM, then purchased a 1TB SanDisk Extreme Pro1TB MicroSD card fast enough to record 4K 60FPS video easily, your total would come to 1849$, a savings of 360$ for 256GB more storage, with enough fast storage for your apps and games, and plenty of room for media. Far less expensive, far easier to use since you can easily transfer from another device in less than a minute, and far more functional since you can use a MicroSD card with any device, including cameras, PCs, and Laptops.
Regarding the size of the phone this was simply a comment on the fact that this phone is not perfect for everyone. I'm also a fan of large phones, but I wouldn't call a large phone perfect, I'd say it's perfect for me. Phones are not one size fits all devices, and we should not treat them as such. For the way I use my phone with over 200GB of lossless audio and 50GB of pictures on my SD card, it's much more financially viable to use a MicroSD card, not to mention better for my use case since I can plug it directly into a laptop to transfer media to it, and I can plug it directly into any cameras I may purchase in the future.
Cloud storage is not a viable solution to the lack of expandable storage in modern phones. It's expensive if you need a lot of storage (which I would - atleast 500GB at some point), it requires an internet connection, it requires an expensive data plan if you want to be able to access your data out of the house, and it poses privacy concerns as your data is in a seperate entity's data center rather physically in your possession. I personally go for bike rides a lot and listen to my library of lossless audio, which would cost upwards of 80$ CAD a month for a data plan that could support that amount of data throughput. I'd spend almost as much every month on data as I did on my 512GB SanDisk Extreme Pro MicroSD card, and it would be slower, less easy to use as it wouldn't be directly connected to my phone, and unable to be integrated into my audio player. It's just not a good solution.
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- wrg
- 39 minutes ago
Casuarius, 1 hour ago"i meant the flagship exynos, they throttle. and could... moreyes their ui optimization is good, very fast. but i dont wanna do a factory reset every 6 month😭😭
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- Casuarius
- KuY
- 1 hour ago
you have to suffer, 3 hours agoyou are talking about hummingbird (aka exynos 3110) chipset... more"you are talking about hummingbird (aka exynos 3110) chipset, which had severe hardware and software limitations. 32 bit exynos heats less but 64 bit ones aren't. and also, fix your typo. it seems like your keyboard is broken a little bit"
I'm not talking about vintage Exynos chipsets, older than most of 8 years old, I'm talking about the recent ones, don't overheat.
except if you are playing a demanding game in a very warm place outdoors, then could overheat, but otherwise it wouldn't.
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- Casuarius
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- 1 hour ago
you have to suffer, 14 hours agoi meant the flagship exynos, they throttle. and could oblit... more"i meant the flagship exynos, they throttle. and could obliterate its amoled display.
midrange and low end exynos is fine. they heat less like huawei kirin chipset. but ui optimization is terrible."
I've many Galaxy S powered with Exynos, and I don't have any obliterated screen, Exynos, Qualcomm, Mediatek, Tensor, Kirin throttle, all chipsets throttle in certain point, but some throttle more than others, this isn't the case of Exynos, can maintain the sustained performance for longer periods of time without throttling.
The UI optimization is good, in the high-end segment.
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- 1 hour ago
Furkan, 19 hours ago Exynos chipset is better than 8 Gen 1 bro "Exynos chipset is better than 8 Gen 1 bro"
Yes, obviously
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- wrg
- 3 hours ago
Casuarius, 3 hours ago"i meant the flagship exynos, they throttle. and could... moreyou are talking about hummingbird (aka exynos 3110) chipset, which had severe hardware and software limitations. 32 bit exynos heats less but 64 bit ones aren't. and also, fix your typo. it seems like your keyboard is broken a little bit
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- 3 hours ago
CasualPerson, 14 hours agoterrible indeed, every exynos chip, EVEN THE LOW END ONES, ... more"terrible indeed, every exynos chip, EVEN THE LOW END ONES, is prone to overheating.
Their Terrible Fabs are probably the reason, or their mongoose cores, who knows?"
Nope, not every Exynos chipset is prone to overheating, even in the high-end the latest Exynos could manage to avoid overheating, fabs in some cases can be the fault because of low yields (Some Exynos chipsets get better quality than others), but Samsung is fixing that in the high-end segment, mongoose cores were good except in his moment the last mongoose generation the mongoose M5 inside the Exynos 990, after that Samsung decided to remove mongoose cores, and don't overheat.
By my experience with Galaxy S Exynos powered aren't prone to overheating
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- Casuarius
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- 3 hours ago
you have to suffer, 14 hours agoi meant the flagship exynos, they throttle. and could oblit... more"i meant the flagship exynos, they throttle. and could obliterate its amoled display."
Every chipset throttle, Exynos, Qualcomm, A Bionic, Mediatek, Kirin, Tensor.
The difference is that some chipsets throttle more than others, but Exynos can maintain the performance for a longer period of time without throttling, also isn't comparable with gaming phones, because the last ones doesn't throttle so much thanks ti its cooling system.
The couldn't oblitera AMOLED display because can't get too hot, I've been using Galaxy S with Exynos and never had an obliterate display.
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- 3 hours ago
Furkan, 19 hours ago Exynos chipset is better than 8 Gen 1 bro Obviously...
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- 3 hours ago
Anonymous, 5 hours agoGuys! The official SYSTEM-RW for Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra (... morewould be great if its in apk file but might not be possible.
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- 4 hours ago
Anonymous, 4 hours agoCheap w**d in your region. Cool story. Do not forget mos... moreIt will be improved timely with the software updates but i doubt it could go toe to toe with the biggies of china Oppo X6 Pro and Xiaomi 13 Ultra or even the famous Iphone 15 Pro Ultra.
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- 4 hours ago
Anonymous, 4 hours agoI think you are talking about times when touchwiz was a thi... moreprobably they refer to galaxy j2 prime just to throw rant about it idk🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷🤷
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- 4 hours ago
Anonymous, 14 hours agosamsung phones are junk after 1 year phone become slow, han... moreI think you are talking about times when touchwiz was a thing. Since one ui even my mom A51 performs great without any factory reset since release. Try to buy samsung now and then talk.
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- 4 hours ago
you have to suffer, 4 hours agomost non-tech savvy samsung users dont even notice those. ... moreMost non tech people with this device is surprised how well it perfoms. Especially battery and super smooth interface
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- 4 hours ago
Beach Life, 17 hours agoI really didn't see a difference between my S21 Ultra ... moreCheap w**d in your region. Cool story.
Do not forget most people are to busy enjoying this new beast. Only haters and people having rare issues are giving bad reviews. I've had s21+ and s21 ultra side by side with s23 ultra. Everything is much better on s23u. Starting from perfomance with battery and ending with night photos. Even on prerelease software it was much better perfomer. April security update will improve camera software and I'm excited for it. It's already beast but if it can improve even more I'm surprised
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- wrg
- 4 hours ago
tudy000, 5 hours agocpu and gpu toomost non-tech savvy samsung users dont even notice those.
they only see differences by the backdoor design.
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- 5 hours ago
you have to suffer, 10 hours agothe camera setup is the major thing to notice. cpu and gpu too
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- Anonymous
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- 5 hours ago
Guys! The official SYSTEM-RW for Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra (and other devices) by lebigmac has finally arrived!
With this new tool you can fully debloat your device and further customize it however you like and make the stock Samsung OneUI firmware run as smooth as silk! The possibilities are literally endless! Only your imagination is the limit.
https://androidforums.com/threads/the-one-and-only-official-system-rw-for-samsung-galaxy-s23-ultra-by-lebigmac.1346815/
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- mobileman
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- 7 hours ago
well,yes,good phone,but..
incoming iphone 15 and specially its flagship model ultra will be amazing.
and i mean battery life,speed,sound quality and loudnes and another ones.
i must wait it.
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- 10 hours ago
you have to suffer, 10 hours agothe camera setup is the major thing to notice. Well its not a major difference, S23 Ultra would be better in details, night shots, zoom and Selfie but do that matter in real life usage, i think no so if your S21 Ultra is fine then its not to upgrade. Yes if you are having performance problem or battery problem then i would think but i don't have any so i am sticking with it when something better will arrive.