Samsung may not have changed the look of the Galaxy S24 Ultra much, but everything else has been given a massive upgrade. Prepare for a very positive review.
Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra MSRP $1,300.00 Score Details DT Editors' Choice “The Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra is one of the most complete, most capable, and most creatively versatile smartphones we've ever used.” Pros Cons If you asked the AI chatbot of your choice to help design a smartphone with the best specification possible, it might come up with something similar to the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra, which itself is packed full of AI smarts.
On March 1, Christine Romero-Chan has added her thoughts about the S24 Ultra after using it for a few weeks in the new section titled “a second opinion.” It means the Galaxy S24 Ultra is still a massive 232-gram smartphone that will stretch your pocket to capacity. It’s not ungainly, though, and time does mean you get used to wrangling such a whopping piece of technology. But if you want a compact device, the regular Galaxy S24 will be much more up your street.
It’s quite muted indoors, with the orange taking on a peach tone. But get it in the sunlight, and the orange shines through, making it a very attractive phone. It’s the color to choose if the standard colors are too ordinary, but be aware that just like the exclusive colors for the Galaxy Z Flip 5, they come with legal text stamped below the Samsung logo on the back. This text is entirely missing from the standard colors.
Qualcomm has worked with Samsung to optimize the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for the Galaxy chip inside the S24 Ultra, and it comes with 12GB of RAM and a choice of storage options. I’ve had no problems at all with its performance when using the phone for calls, apps, and other basic tasks. Over 30 minutes of playing games like Asphalt 9: Legends barely makes the phone warm, and even benchmarking stress tests can’t make it too hot to handle.
You can see how the Galaxy S24 Ultra’s telephoto cameras compare to the Galaxy S23 Ultra’s in our separate test, but rest assured that outside of slightly less detail at 10x zoom, the Galaxy S24 Ultra’s telephoto cameras take better, more colorful, and more visually accurate photos than its predecessor. Despite what the nomenclature may lead you to believe, it’s a genuine upgrade.
The camera is packed full of video features, too, including UHD resolution recording with access to all the different zoom levels, 8K at 30 frames-per-second , and UHD slow motion video at 120fps. Along with assessing the battery life, I’ll continue to use the Galaxy S24 Ultra’s camera over the coming week. The Galaxy S24 Ultra’s camera impresses with its versatility; the useful AI features work very well, and the telephoto cameras have been improved at 3x and 5x zoom.
Chat Assist is AI at its worst, as it makes suggestions on how to give your typed messages a different tone — and is almost always laughable. Outside of pathetically adding a few emojis or hashtags to simulate “personality,” it goes on to suck all the individuality out of your messages when it tries to give them a professional or polite tone. It’s absolutely awful.
After a few charging cycles, the Galaxy S24 Ultra’s battery will eat up nearly five hours of screen time and end the day with 50% remaining, and that’s with gaming, apps, video streaming, and calls. Once the initial full week of use was over, the S24 Ultra’s battery settled down to deliver a very strong performance. Even with the screen resolution raised to the full QHD setting and with around two hours of screen time, it still finishes the day with 75% remaining.
Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra: software and S Pen stylus If you made a checklist of everything a modern smartphone should have, the Galaxy S24 Ultra would likely have a mark in each box. It comes with Android 14 installed along with One UI 6.1, and it has been totally reliable so far.
Samsung promises seven years of software updates for the Galaxy S24 Ultra, making it one of the best-supported smartphones around. The phone has so much ability and is powerful enough to last for many years, so this long-term support will help offset the initial high cost of buying the device. Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra: a second opinion One of the things that has deterred me from using the Ultra model of Samsung’s flagship S-Series devices has always been the size. I’m a fan of smaller phones simply because I enjoy being able to use my smartphone one-handed without having to participate in finger gymnastics to reach the top corners of the display.
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