The focus of this year's new Samsung products, focusing on the AI function, is this year's hardware update is weak, to cover up the software, or is it really strong, with an era-spanning experience? Then follow our experience to see how this year's Samsung S24 Ultra experience really is.
We first do not look at the function, to go through the hardware, Samsung S24 Ultra personal feeling that the biggest change is this appearance, the value of the enhancement is not a little bit of half a point, the front this time finally used back to the straight screen, which also marks Samsung in 2014 Galaxy Note Edge released nearly a decade later, will be in the oversized cups to give up the use of curved screen.
Replacement of the straight screen to the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra bring benefits or quite a lot, the first is to paste the film, the previous curved screen, the user can generally only choose the water condensation film or light solid film to paste, one is compared to the toughened film feel is not so good, the second durability is also relatively general, so that its flagship experience greatly reduced. Of course, Samsung is not completely the screen into a straight screen, in the edge position or retain a little curvature, so that the edge of the phone sliding feel more excellent.
After replacing the straight screen Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra also did not maintain the previous screen bezel, but further narrowing, presenting in front of everyone is this piece of ultra-narrow bezel and almost to do the four sides of the same width of the high-quality screen. Samsung's screen quality certainly do not need to repeat, has always been the industry's top level.
The parameters of the screen compared to the previous generation basically did not change much, 3120x1440 resolution, support 120Hz refresh rate, support 16 million colors of color display. Brightness of the screen from the previous generation of 1750nit raised to 2600nit, this peak brightness, although in front of the domestic flagships of a number of 3000-4000 value of the race seems to be mediocre, but Samsung is really able to measure a large enough area of such a high peak brightness, the effect of watching is still quite shocking.
And this time Samsung in order to protect the user's experience in the outdoor viewing screen, in this piece of screen added an AR anti-reflective coating, according to Samsung's official statement, this anti-reflective coating can reduce 75% of the screen reflections, increase the visual effect, in the light we compare the two machines with and without coatings, it can be clearly seen, the left side of the Samsung S24 Ultra in the same light The Samsung S24 Ultra on the left shows less reflection in the same light and at the same angle, which naturally makes for better viewing outdoors.
After looking at the screen, let's take a look at the second big change this time around, which is the center frame. Samsung followed in the footsteps of Apple and Xiaomi, in the middle frame with titanium alloy material, the view is gray with a little yellow, and compared to the rounded middle frame of the previous generation, this time to do more inclined to the right angle, so that the front of the phone looks more rigid.
Samsung's treatment of the center frame is not the same as Apple's, Apple chose the brushed process, Samsung is the direct use of the frosted process, making the center frame feel less astringent. The benefits of using titanium alloy, in addition to bringing a stronger hardness, but also able to reduce the weight of the phone, so that the grip feels better.
We received the Titanium Twilight Purple color, although the main color is purple, but this purple is quite deep, looks relatively low-key, with a light gold frame, really a little Galaxy S21 "Lakers color" feeling.
In terms of imaging, the main camera is still a 200-megapixel lens with f/1.7 aperture, a 12-megapixel ultra-wide-angle lens with f/2.2 aperture, and a 10-megapixel 3x telephoto lens with f/2.4 aperture. At this point, some friends will ask, this parameter is not much different from the previous generation? You'd be wrong, the biggest change in the S24 Ultra is the 50-megapixel telephoto lens. The 10-megapixel 10x lens of its predecessor has been replaced by a 50-megapixel 5x lens, so will there be a big difference in terms of actual image quality? We also did a focused test this time.
Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra's telephoto lens with the IMX854, with 1/2.52-inch sensor size, compared to the previous generation in the IMX754 sensor 1/3.52-inch size is a great improvement, and there is also the advantage of high pixel, able to do the pixel quadruple, the final result of the film effect is more rich in detail, and the image of the noise is also naturally less. I thought that the S24 Ultra's telephoto lens and the S23 Ultra's telephoto lens should be better in a daytime comparison, but the results showed the opposite, with the S24 Ultra's algorithmic enhancements resulting in a better film than its predecessor.
The advantages of this new telephoto lens are even more obvious in dark scenes at night, where the exposure orientation of the image is a bit darker, the image looks purer at a glance, and when zoomed in to see the details, it's also sharper. The conclusion of the comparison is that the 50-megapixel 5x telephoto lens outperforms the 10-megapixel 10x telephoto lens across the board when zoomed in to 10x.
Of course, we also have to see how the other lenses perform in terms of image quality and color in daily shooting. After turning on the 200 megapixel mode, the exposure of the main camera will be relatively lower compared to the 12 megapixel output, zoom in to see the whole photo is quite rich in detail, such as the number of letters of the license plate in the distance can be seen clearly, this is still quite scary, and this generation of 200 megapixels of the imaging speed of the personal feeling is still improved, the experience is good.
Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra in this generation of color strategy is biased towards light, and will not be like before too high saturation, look at a long time easy aesthetic fatigue, but in the domestic machine in recent years in the volume of the shadow of the matter, Samsung did not follow, or in accordance with their own exposure and color orientation for tuning, into the style of the film I do not know if you like it?
In terms of video, Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra let this new five times the telephoto lens support 8K30fps video recording specifications, and also supports up to 10 times zoom, this recording effect will also be more outstanding than the S23 Ultra, used to record their favorite singer's video is no more appropriate.
Samsung's hardware progress this year, there is also equipped with the third generation of Snapdragon 8 flagship mobile platform, the platform's performance is still quite huge, especially in the peak performance and energy consumption, and this year there is a larger area of the VC heat-sharing plate added, so that the daily use of the cooler, lower energy consumption also gives Samsung S24 Ultra longer battery life performance.
After talking about the hardware, let's take a look at the AI features that Samsung is focusing on this time around. If you spot this little icon with a star in the system app, that means there's a new Galaxy AI feature available when you tap on it.
First of all, let's take a look at the translation function, which is called Simultaneous Transmission in the system, and can switch the two dialog interfaces into face-to-face mode, so that it is very convenient to complete the translation when communicating face-to-face with foreign friends, and the response speed is quite fast, and you can also turn on this function in the middle of a call, so naturally, the experience is quite good, and this function is quite practical for those who want to go abroad.
Another is the Bixby intelligent assistant that has accessed the AI model, which not only brings stronger semantic understanding than before, but also responds quite quickly, and now it can answer all kinds of questions you ask it, which is really smart compared to before.
There is also a function in the recording, that is, transcription assistant, you can directly turn voice into text without uploading to the cloud, the actual test is very efficient in transcribing text, and the accuracy is not bad, the transcribed text will be directly imported into the Samsung Notes APP, you can use AI to summarize the content, typesetting and other operations directly.
Inside the album, we can also see the star icon, after tapping on it, you will be able to find the image processing function that is quite popular these days, you can eliminate unnecessary objects in the image, and you can also change the position and size of the selected object, compared with other solutions, Samsung's solution will be quicker, tap to complete the selection, and the keying accuracy is still good, the experience is very good.
Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra this time to my first impression is very good, because of its hard titanium alloy center frame, coupled with four sides of ultra-narrow bezel of equal width, the front of the face value is very high, giving people the feeling that once the Galaxy Note series is back. The hardware surprises come in the form of a 50-megapixel 5x telephoto lens, with a larger sensor and higher pixels to deliver excellent image quality, perhaps becoming the new concert magic weapon.
In terms of AI features, with AI Assistant, Smart Translator, and the useful Smart Elimination algorithm, Samsung has been able to outperform Apple in this area and revolutionize the user experience. This year's Galaxy S24 Ultra is probably the most worthwhile Samsung mega-cup phone in recent years, I don't know what you guys think, anyway, I'm already very excited!
