I would say the screen was probably the biggest improvement overall. Jerryrig did a video and there were barely any markings at level 6, but he wasn't even too sure if it was scratch marks or the glass coating.
@Dwivil he did say it was either the tool or the glass coating. Because when he got out his magnifying glass, he said it didn't look like cuts into the glass
0:03 Is that a black Samsung Galaxy Note 9? Dude, no way! I have that phone too and just bought my titanium black Galaxy 24 Ultra recently! I'm actually shocked at the coincidence.
He uses some of the fold series phones, so that's probably not his only phone, although he has admitted to 'downgrading' from a newer note version because of some reason I can't recall (maybe it was the headphone jack).
8:48 - For anyone wondering, you can get the on-screen buttons back by going to Settings -> Display -> Navigation Bar and setting it to"Buttons" instead of "Swipe Gestures"
@Banjothegoat if you use the NavStar section of GoodLock you can make the gesture hint transparent which makes other things still appear behind it, can't fully remove it anymore but you can make it so there isn't always a tiny bar at the bottom :)
@GHOSTSTARSCREAMM Yes, it did. That was the entire reason it wasn't removable because the circle to search is initiated by holding the home bar. Devs put it on Good Lock last minute because it wouldn't have met the deadline before the s24 series was released and got the AI features. They fixed it immediately.
Yes but the processoris the same in the three versions so….. they can make it match with there exynos for the other two. Even thought europeans will never get the snapdragon in the s24…. So there was never a comparison they can make.
Dont forget, the original note was the IYKYK phone - the real powerhouse in the samsung line. Back when I worked at VZW, we sold the galaxy S to customers, and we had the notes in our pockets. Havent bought an S pen type device until the 24 ultra now from my note8, and theres a lot of value here.
Dear Note 9 we have been together for almost five years & you been good to me. We traveled around the world multiple times. We close many deals together and because of you I was able to stay in contact with many new friends and family from around the world. Did many video calls and got closer to people emotionally because of you. You were definitely there when I needed you the most. Time to upgrade to S24 Ultra and i see you will arrive today. Will miss you note 9. ♥🙏♥🙏
One thing about phones in the annual update cycle is there is only so much room for annual progress and you will really only be wowed when upgrading if you wait 4 or 5 years and even that is rarer and rarer.
True. I think even thought allot of stuff is better than the s23 bang for buck the s23 is way better for everyone thats not a mobile phone freak. The ai is coming in 6months btw
that's actually very good to know... i think i'll lean toward s23 ultra, cause it cost less and has minus differences from his later "s" brother. Only thing tho, that i really like is the flat display for cover purposes. @@nathanvrvrt
Yeah, I upgraded from an S7 Edge and everything on the new phone is just way better. I don't plan to change a phone again for a few good years for that reason, you don't get as much value from a new phone compared to your current one if you upgrade ever 1-3 years
Call me crazy but I "upgraded" today from an S10+ and I have seen a massive downgrade in over all colour vibrance! It's unbeliveable even with soft light on or off and messing vibrancy settings how little changes compared to the saturation of even a phone from 6 years ago! The camera, stabilization and all that are amazing but I wish there was more vibrancy ability in the settings!
I bought my Note 9 for the SD card expansion, the headphone jack and the hole-less display. The S24 Ultra doesn't have that, so it won't replace my Note 9
@@TravisTheSavage How much stuff should I carry ALONG my phone to keep it funtional? It should be built in, as it always was. If a tiny iPhone 5 fitted a headphone jack, this behemoth can too, no excuses.
That display is probably the most interesting thing I've seen in any new smartphone in the last 3 years at least! Combined with the scratch resistance Zach showed at least.
I literally did the same upgrade from note 9 to s24 ultra. My old phone had a blown bottom speaker and the fingerprint sensor top film flaked off. Very happy with the upgrade so far. Refresh rate & visual clarity are awesome & the sound is huge!
titanium is less hard compared to steel.. just saying. (and also less scratch resistant.. and also doesn't feel that nice.. and also way more expensive... and totally not necessary to put it on a phone which you have in a plastic case for 99% of the time anyway)
The OP sounds a lot like someone who hasn't consciously ever touched or held titanium. It's great for high temperature pneumatic systems on a large airliner, utterly pointless on a phone that's in a case.
The couple challege thing with the glowsticks linus was talking about in the beginning could possibly have been "The Adventure Challenge" for anyone wondering.
Theres a huge problem with the 50 and 200MP cameras right now. In software even with optimization off those two cameras will still optimize your photos in the gallery. This includes RAW format photos. The AI optimization of images is subtier in bed room brightness light.
@@geo2160 still my point still stands. Most ppl never watch videos at 480p but at 1080p, and most at 30% brightness, as auto brigtness rarely turns it lower. Maybe at night it would.
11:50 did they crop the video so we couldnt see that instead of clicking "Remove shadows" he clicked "erase" and wondered why it didnt remove the shadow??
The anti-glare screen is great though it is making it difficult for me to pick a screen protector. The only anti-glare one I can find right now is Samsung's official ones which are film. I know I've seen anti-glare glass protectors in the past, of all the phones not to make them ror!
The gorilla glass on this phone is actually, for once, stronger than other gorilla glass. So it's less likely to scratch and break so you shouldn't need a screen protector
Circle to search is a thing on the Pixel line. Depending on the content, you can either long press to trigger it or hit the power button to bring it up and specify what on the screen you'd like to search for.
It was even here way before with the "select" tool in the recent apps menu, like a screenshot put in google lens but automatically. At the end the results are the same, juste 1 or 2 seconds faster with a circle
about the apple ram issue, people keep saying ios devices are "optimised" or whatever "they dont need that much ram" but my apps like youtube on ipad and iphone kept freezing and crashing... lol
You don't need ram..... If you don't allow apps to run i. The background! It really sucks that if you switch from a webpage to a different app and back, the whole page was removed from ram and it has to reload the page. Can be very annoying. I love my iphone for video.. but a lot of the other stuff not so much.
@@markopolic9964 On my Pixel 6a running the latest Android I can hold down an image or text in the window selector and search with lens, no screenshot required - this has been the case for as long as I can remember.
I honestly laugh every time I see a video on the S24 not having very many upgrades, because they are all talking about the S23... I just got one, but it was an upgrade from an S10. Worlds apart and I'm so happy lol!
People tend to forget that most normal people don't buy new phones every year. The whole point is the small updates add up for those making big upgrades
I noticed, when testing the circle to search feature with the navigation features, changing the haptic response speed in accessibility settings improved the feature!
Tbh there isn’t much to change I mean it’s not like they can just make a full on animated icon pack live wallpaper and like 15 sponsorship versions with custom first party mods…. Although that would be pretty cool if they did it
well it did only say video playback which does make it pretty obvious that it wasn't streamed content since that would give a lower number of hours than a local file
I currently have the s21 ultra, but pre-ordered the s24 ultra... ut's just that in switzerland, they're only shipping thwm out starting feb 20th.. also, I'm kinda mad that the 1tb variant doesn't vome in purple@@5erase
That "magic circle select" is not exclusive feature of 24.... it's Pixel feature. On the apps screen you can tap select, select any image in any opened app and click "googel lense". Samsung simply put that begind gesture, but it's absolutely there on Pixel. And on pixel it allows you to select text as well
One thing I havnt seen discussed as much is how much easier it is to make screen protectors now that this thing is completly flat. My biggest issue with my s23 ultra has been its insistence to not let any screen protector I use not peel or completely ruin the ability to use the fingerprint reader.
The only screen protectors that I was satisfied with on my n10u, n20u, and s22u were the whitestone-style ones. At 20 bucks a pop after buying the installation jig and light. Together with cases only coming up halfway on the sides to keep the curved edges open, the curved screen experience for me personally was not the best. I'm glad I switched to the s24u.
@@GH0STST4RSCR34M My guy nobody can line it up perfectly, that's the issue. I've applied screen protectors for years as a cell phone salesman, still had one tiny little imperfection in the corner that lifts up and eventually spreads and ruins the protector. Plastic works fine since it's thinner and molds better, but it's also a LOT harder to apply.
It’s very convenient, but It’s nothing you couldn’t already do with Google Lens. I don’t have an S24 yet, so I’m not sure, but I can’t imagine that it will be too much of a game changer for the average user.
Okay, now we're talking. This is the very first phone of theirs that I would consider a worthwhile upgrade from my Note 9. Apart from maybe the Folds, but they're still asking a _lot_ more than I'm willing to part with for those, so they're off the table for now. Edit: Ended up ordering one today. I've long since stopped paying any active attention to phone releases, so cheers for the actionable tech tip!
I can't to back after recently switching to a Fold 4. Having a pocket tablet is incredible for reading, sharing photos, etc. For example I can have my calendar up full screen and with a swipe but a small floating calculator up as I budget my month.
Though sone of the changes are indeed great I cannot justify an upgrade from 23 series, especially from 23 Ultra. I think that its worth upgrading if you're coming from at least 22 series
I went from the S21 Ultra that I used the last few years to the S24 Ultra. Been using it for the last few weeks and it's an amazing phone! Got 2 of them for $818 each with Samsung's trade in offer. Not to damn bad!
I agree got mine last Friday and love the feel of the phone in my hand. It was a bit of a battle readjusting my fingers to edge swipe flat vs having to dig in but the phone has been amazing. The brightness of the phone is stunning coming from my S21 Ultra. Camera is amazing coming from the 21 and the responsiveness of everything is so appreciated. My only gripe is that the saturation of color has to be fixed when it comes to natural vs vivid mode. I recognize that as someone who uses a DWF monitor that the colors may be somewhat more natural but I had a pseudo cyberpunk theme that contrasted a dark black blue with a deep bright red so that was extremely noticeable when I first turned on the phone. Though I have adjusted somewhat I still want that deep red. I am surprised that Linus didn't mention that. Though the anti glare armor is amazing. I almost don't want to put a screen protector on it. One last thing about the phone, going back to the brightness. It has made it difficult going back to my S9 Ultra because it doesn't look as bright as it used to before I got the 24.
I mean I've had galaxy devices since the original S3 and honestly the curved screen were never particularly more fragile in my experience. The durability of the screens themselves have just improved so much over the years.
13:43 hmmm.. But if you take a screenshot of the photo and crop out the portion where the watermark is, that would still be a problem, especially the screenshot has a different metadata I think???
This is a great format for reviewing products, dropping someone in at the deep end with the item and just telling them about what features exist, and letting them figure it out in real time.
@@CallMeRabbitzUSVI But there are plenty other channels who have full reviews, and most of them have all the same content and format, it gets a bit boring after a while. But this is a little different.
never been that in to samsung phones but keeping an eye on them lately and the S24 exynos sure cought my attention. tweakers net looked at it and it's battery lasted notably longer then phones with similar sized battery's. i'm not sure if the snapdragon can pull that same party trick but the fact that it's slower then it's kin gives me hope (it almost looks like it was set up to be more efficient then just all turbo all day to be as snappy as possible which was how i set up my phones back in the custom rom/Kernel days...ah the good times except for that time you undervolted your cpu to much and it froze in the middle of the night also freezing your alarm clock ^^" but got screen off battery drain to less then 1% an hour on a 1860mah battery ^^)
Oh damn, flat screen? Better for screen protectors. (And yes I need one. I've shattered 2 on my S23 Ultra). I also still just want a top bezel for a seamless no notch display, nice speaker for calls, proper selfie flash, and an LED indicator. That's the feature I miss the most.
First phone with a s-pen for me as well, having big fingers, this is sooo nice for some applications, I also take alot of notes and begin to appreciate the pen for drawings some ideas that are difficult to write in words and such. The glare reduction outside is awesome too !
I remember once I left my s22 ultra on minimum brightness with the extra dim mode on and when I woke up I freaked out because I had forgotten that it was on dim so I ran around screaming that my phone broke and then after like 3 hours I realized that it was on dim. I felt like a dumbass to be real.
That circle to search is a gimic. It is available on all phones from past 5 years. Just long press your home button, google assistant pops up and click screen search. Only difference is you have to crop the image like how you crop in a windows machine.
@@ShaiyanHossain I'm not saying we have to take screenshot. We just have to click on the screen search button, just 1 extra step. Samsung has just removed that button and made screen search on my default. Google can release that for all the phone's(it's just like updating one flag in the code) calling an existing feature as AI isn't a gimmick?
Ive had my note 8 for so long that I finally upgraded on the 28th. I knew I needed the pen because like linus said you dont use it every day but when you do you love it. so im happy to learn just how much better it can be from my old phone.
I got my S24 Ultra two days ago. It's really nice and I like it a lot, but there are issues. Vivid color mode basically doesn't work, the screen is not as bright as my old Note20 Ultra, the 5x camera has less detail than the S23 Ultra's 10x camera did, and there may be a large number of devices with manufacturing defects in the display. Mine personally has graininess and banding, most noticeable when looking at a 5% gray image at 10% brightness in a very dark room.
Oof the quality just keeps going down after they did a 180 with the s2x and started copying apple instead of being the innovators. Long live S10 series.
@@clee40Not according to Samsung if you Google for Samsung's latest response to this perceived issue. Apparently it is a new more natural colour display that people may notice isn't as punchy colourwise as older Samsung devices. It's meant to be this way and nothing is broken is what they finish with.
Any thoughts on Vivid mode not working? Settings-->Display-->Screen Mode-->Vivid isn't doing anything. It's just Natural (even when vivid is selected) that most people switch from as soon as they get their Samsung phone
I recently upgraded from my S22 ultra to the S24 Ultra (battery life on the 22 was going downhill fast and my plan was up) and ive nopticed i can listen to audio books all day and read on the phone all day, i have even forgotten to charge the phone then wake up by my alarm to see i have 20%, put it to charge, and i have about 60% twenty minutes later when i need to leave. i quite like it, but if i leave home witha full charge and listen to music or a book all day i get home with about 40-50% so far, which is very nice, evn my 22 when it was new got down to about 30% when i got home
@@mikeilagan6487 non argument. It's a HUGE infringement of a key selling point function, which will not be available for FREE. Also, Linus and others have made it abundantly clear how they think about such practices when it's about cars etc
@@mikeilagan6487 critiques aren't relegated only to reviews either. paste something you can notice on first impressions as well. It's not they haven't pointed out caveats in previous short circuits too. Edit: they did bring it up near the end of the video.
If you need lower lowest brightness, samsung has a "Extra dim" feature in quicksettings, I use it on my S21FE and it goes as low as being unreadable at pitch black darkness
6:58 This phone supports a maximum of 45W of charging. Even if you connect it to a 65W charger, it won't take more than 45. In fact, it might not even take 45W. I have a 65W charger and when I connect it to my S22 Ultra, it says "Super Fast Charging", which means 25W. When you connect it to a 45W compatible charger with a 5A cable, it shows "Super Fast Charging 2.0"
Same. At first I thought. Oh it's not that big of an upgrade. Now everytime I pick it up I think "Man, this screen is insane. I thought the S23 Ultra was fine, but this is amazing"
Idk if i got a faulty unit, but my S23 Ultra does not get bright enough for outdoor use. I simply do not get it. I have extra brightness turned on and i struggle to see my screen at full brightness under direct sunlight. This was never an issue with my previous phone, a OnePlus 9 pro. Which if i remember correctly is supposed to have a significantly less bright display. That said, its my only complaint with the 23.
I still got the base s21. Will probably upgrade to s25 ultra next. The battery life, performance, and screen brightness are reasons enough for me to upgrade. As of tight now, im fine waiting another year or 2.
As a samsung user, I will upgrade every generation for 2 reasons 1~ I can easily flash everything on the older to the newer 2~ sometimes it's a free trade in and when I have to pay it's only a few hundred.
what i think what every phone will have in the future: call translation and interpretor mode but not with selected language but rather u say: be my interpretor to language... and then it translates everything to given language... this would be very very good if u run a company with many different nationalitys and have a meeting... or have meeting with other companys and they can just set up a phone to translate everything that is said to specified language... (u can still specify and output language or select multiple output languages) so when u talk it translates to given languages... like ur a game dev with workers/studios arround the world and u can just talk your language instead of a bad english...
6:57 Samsung's own site & specs sheet says S24 Ultra charges at 45W max (9V5A), so did the Labs Team mess up saying you charged it from 0~100% charging at 65W?
No, they did their research, the S24 Ultra does support 65W. Only the official Samsung Charger that's for sale so far is 45W. Try not to spread misinformation.@@cd6583
Is the Samsung S24 Ultra really much better than the iphone 15 pro max? If yes, I really want to buy it but not sure if I want to cancel my apple card just to transfer. The benefits i get is the cash back from apple pay. Does google pay have something similar? Like a credit card they offer?
I dont recommend getting large iPhones, you will not benefit from the size since there are no extra features! On the other hand, when you take the Ultra, you will enjoy the large display with split screen and s pen and many things of this large device that many small devices can’t do.
@@ShaiyanHossain idk why, apart from battery problems, you'd want to upgrade. I use an S22 U and I would've kept this phone for 3 more years if the battery didn't degrade to like 75-80% of its original health, it feels like that at least. I'm not too happy with Samsung nowadays, gonna go for a Vivo X Pro phone or a Oneplus phone if I want a less than "too expensive" flagship or I'll just go for an Oppo Find Ultra. Samsung kinda sucks now compared to them lol
@@kaiserfakinaway5909 I don't NEED a new phone my battery is aging and samsung is giving me $400 for a cracked phone+$130 in education discounts+ free upgrade to 512gb so might as well lol. I already have my s24u and compared to my n20u, the differences on the surface aren't much but i much appreciate the flat screen, antireflective coating, and the great battery life too
@@kaiserfakinaway5909 id have loved to keep the phone longer but my battery is aging and its getting harder to make it through one day of use. Samsung is also giving me $400 for a cracked phone+$130 education discount+free upgrade to 512gb so might as well lol. The design isn't wholly different but I do appreciate the subtle changes like the flat screen, anti reflectivity and much better battery life
I'm upgrading from an S21 + 5G, and wow, what a leap. To be honest, the S21 has served me well for the last 3 years, but the battery doesn't hold a charge as well as it used to, so I might have not even upgraded yet. But the leap they've made in only 3-4 years is pretty significant.
Good point on that. People always wanna compare it being minimal changes from the last generation. But then there's people like me, upgrading after almost six years. My S10+ was finally showing its age, and jumping to this was remarkable.
The fact that dbrand keep renewing the domain speaks volume about the relationship between LTT and DBrand 😂
I bet linus is checking out the availability of that domain every single year. And every single year he screams: "Darn".
@@jussim15 heh... he was shorted out then XD
DBrand is the best brand that starts from D
Pitty that their ghost case is full of complaints
Domains are typically pretty cheap
I would say the screen was probably the biggest improvement overall. Jerryrig did a video and there were barely any markings at level 6, but he wasn't even too sure if it was scratch marks or the glass coating.
Wasn't it the tool being wore down?
@Dwivil he did say it was either the tool or the glass coating. Because when he got out his magnifying glass, he said it didn't look like cuts into the glass
@@dominicharvey6048 Yep, 6 had no marks. Another reviewer tested with his picks and had the same result.
@@Jtwizzle This is good intel. Do you recall who?
@QuantumConundrum yes, PBKreviews.
That watermark eraser trick was damm impressive.
I've done it so many times on my nothing phone (1) lmao it's so useful
It was hilarious.
he used the ai to destroy the ai
@mi6agent813 Galaxies had the object eraser feature for years, Nothing phone wasn't even a project
@@RagingBadSo has had xiaomi for atleast 5 years, nothing special eheehehehehheeh
0:03 Is that a black Samsung Galaxy Note 9? Dude, no way! I have that phone too and just bought my titanium black Galaxy 24 Ultra recently! I'm actually shocked at the coincidence.
He uses some of the fold series phones, so that's probably not his only phone, although he has admitted to 'downgrading' from a newer note version because of some reason I can't recall (maybe it was the headphone jack).
@@TechReflex I think that he didn't like the on-screen fingerprint sensor
8:48 - For anyone wondering, you can get the on-screen buttons back by going to Settings -> Display -> Navigation Bar and setting it to"Buttons" instead of "Swipe Gestures"
@Banjothegoat if you use the NavStar section of GoodLock you can make the gesture hint transparent which makes other things still appear behind it, can't fully remove it anymore but you can make it so there isn't always a tiny bar at the bottom :)
@SpaceyZee haha i still have it s20 fe
@@GHOSTSTARSCREAMM because they added AI capability......
@GHOSTSTARSCREAMM Yes, it did. That was the entire reason it wasn't removable because the circle to search is initiated by holding the home bar. Devs put it on Good Lock last minute because it wouldn't have met the deadline before the s24 series was released and got the AI features. They fixed it immediately.
@SpaceyZee You absolutely can remove it. Can't remember exactly how at the moment, but I think you have to disable "gesture hints"
11:30 shadow removal works more for when you take a picture of something on your desk and the phone shadow is visible
I just use 3x lens instead, no shadows lol
@ZaHandlelight would make it looks horrible plus bleeds the natural lighting (sunlight)
@ZaHandleGood luck taking care of the reflection then
or if...ya know, he actually clicked the "erase shadow" button, right above the button he was pressing. 🤷
@ZaHandle This comment tree is talking about shadows on faces.
“Scratches at level 7, with deeper grooves at level 8” Legendary phone
But crack faster...drop tests confirmed it.
@@Omar00L only criminals using $1500 using phone without phone case. Wish they put plastic back panel
Boring😪😪😪😪😴😴😴
@GHOSTSTARSCREAMM barely dawg what, like a little itty bitty micro scratch man, shut up stop being a d1 hater
@Omar00L I've had mine since before release date. Dropped countless times in a cheap 20$ waterproof case. No issues whatsoever.
The S24 Ultra is Snapdragon everywhere, only the S24 and S24+ have Exynos in certain regions
Yes but the processoris the same in the three versions so….. they can make it match with there exynos for the other two. Even thought europeans will never get the snapdragon in the s24…. So there was never a comparison they can make.
That's better than before, but I still feel bad you guys get less options.
I'm literally thinking about how to get Snapdragon S24 to Europe, really don't want the Exynos version... Guess I have to plan a holiday to the US😅
@@Zaregord the exynos actually out performs the snapdragon in some games in the S24
That's why I went with the Ultra instead of the Plus, because EU
Dont forget, the original note was the IYKYK phone - the real powerhouse in the samsung line. Back when I worked at VZW, we sold the galaxy S to customers, and we had the notes in our pockets. Havent bought an S pen type device until the 24 ultra now from my note8, and theres a lot of value here.
Dear Note 9 we have been together for almost five years & you been good to me. We traveled around the world multiple times. We close many deals together and because of you I was able to stay in contact with many new friends and family from around the world. Did many video calls and got closer to people emotionally because of you. You were definitely there when I needed you the most. Time to upgrade to S24 Ultra and i see you will arrive today. Will miss you note 9. ♥🙏♥🙏
I still use my Note 9. Beautiful baby I must say
Finally broke my note 9 after dropping it a foot. :-( must have hit just right, because I have previously dropped it hundreds of times lol
My Note 9 is gonna get a battery swap and then it's gonna get a new life with my nephew :)
just get a note 20 ultra. never going up. sd card or die.
Its a phone you realize that right?
One thing about phones in the annual update cycle is there is only so much room for annual progress and you will really only be wowed when upgrading if you wait 4 or 5 years and even that is rarer and rarer.
True. I think even thought allot of stuff is better than the s23 bang for buck the s23 is way better for everyone thats not a mobile phone freak. The ai is coming in 6months btw
that's actually very good to know... i think i'll lean toward s23 ultra, cause it cost less and has minus differences from his later "s" brother. Only thing tho, that i really like is the flat display for cover purposes. @@nathanvrvrt
Yeah, I upgraded from an S7 Edge and everything on the new phone is just way better. I don't plan to change a phone again for a few good years for that reason, you don't get as much value from a new phone compared to your current one if you upgrade ever 1-3 years
Absolutely. I went from just a s10 plus to a s23 ultra last year year and even that was an insane jump.
Call me crazy but I "upgraded" today from an S10+ and I have seen a massive downgrade in over all colour vibrance! It's unbeliveable even with soft light on or off and messing vibrancy settings how little changes compared to the saturation of even a phone from 6 years ago! The camera, stabilization and all that are amazing but I wish there was more vibrancy ability in the settings!
2:52 😂 not the glowstick balls on Linus
Curse u....now i cant unsee it...u hv cursed me fello human..... seriously jk
This is the first Ultra that brings me back to the good old Note 9 days. Getting mine in a few days! Finally back to a real OG note!
trade in my note 9 for this. Its logical upgrade for me!
Yes! I loved the note line and that's why I got the s24Ultra as well . Love this phone
You're going to love it! This phone is sick!
I bought my Note 9 for the SD card expansion, the headphone jack and the hole-less display. The S24 Ultra doesn't have that, so it won't replace my Note 9
absolute true
note they'll give whole pen yet not a headphone jack.
Ffs true
Soon
You can buy an adapter that goes into the charge port
@@TravisTheSavage How much stuff should I carry ALONG my phone to keep it funtional? It should be built in, as it always was. If a tiny iPhone 5 fitted a headphone jack, this behemoth can too, no excuses.
@@vaultboy1419 I use wireless head buds like normal people. I don't understand the fascination with the cord
That display is probably the most interesting thing I've seen in any new smartphone in the last 3 years at least! Combined with the scratch resistance Zach showed at least.
Gotta love how linus was gonna watch that hdr video but never did..
This was 12 hours ago and i already got the update that fixed the vivid/natural colors, this phone is amazing! the picture quality is mind blowing.
everytime i get a new samsung i use that 4k HDR nature video lol
Do you have the update number that fixed the Vivid/ Natural display issue?. What country do you live in if you don't mind me asking?.
News to me... haven't seen such an update mentioned anywhere. I'm calling this post bogus.@@neilmcguinness4422
They haven't released a fix so I don't know how you got it
PLEASE TELL US HOW YOU FIXED IT
I literally did the same upgrade from note 9 to s24 ultra. My old phone had a blown bottom speaker and the fingerprint sensor top film flaked off. Very happy with the upgrade so far. Refresh rate & visual clarity are awesome & the sound is huge!
Higher PWM is the hidden feature not mentioned often
Galaxy s24 from titanium is finally something that linus can drop, and it will break the floor
did you forget about nokia buddy?
@@SumitRaj-tk6iwokay we are not looking to crack the world in half.
titanium is less hard compared to steel.. just saying.
(and also less scratch resistant.. and also doesn't feel that nice.. and also way more expensive... and totally not necessary to put it on a phone which you have in a plastic case for 99% of the time anyway)
The OP sounds a lot like someone who hasn't consciously ever touched or held titanium. It's great for high temperature pneumatic systems on a large airliner, utterly pointless on a phone that's in a case.
@@CheapBastard1988 care to explain more about the HT hydraulic system you talk about?
The couple challege thing with the glowsticks linus was talking about in the beginning could possibly have been "The Adventure Challenge" for anyone wondering.
The who what, now?
@@JamesR624 "Date Night Story" chapter at 2:27
Came to the comments section for this, thanks😊
😏
Theres a huge problem with the 50 and 200MP cameras right now. In software even with optimization off those two cameras will still optimize your photos in the gallery. This includes RAW format photos. The AI optimization of images is subtier in bed room brightness light.
do you know if Samsung solved these issues?
who the hell watches videos at 480p with 200nits?? that benchmark is so useless.
@@geo2160 still my point still stands. Most ppl never watch videos at 480p but at 1080p, and most at 30% brightness, as auto brigtness rarely turns it lower. Maybe at night it would.
11:50 did they crop the video so we couldnt see that instead of clicking "Remove shadows" he clicked "erase" and wondered why it didnt remove the shadow??
The anti-glare screen is great though it is making it difficult for me to pick a screen protector. The only anti-glare one I can find right now is Samsung's official ones which are film. I know I've seen anti-glare glass protectors in the past, of all the phones not to make them ror!
Based on the Jerryrigeverything video, I'm going to see if the screen stays nice sans protector.
Do NOT use glass screen protectors on S series phones, your ultrassonic fingerprint sensor will NOT work.
@@TheFPSPower oh they can work as long as they are designed properly.
The gorilla glass on this phone is actually, for once, stronger than other gorilla glass. So it's less likely to scratch and break so you shouldn't need a screen protector
@@TheFPSPower Lol what? Yes they will. Never had a problem
i love my s24 ultra so far. came from an s21 and its awesome for pictures. the AI generation on photos is really cool and slightly scary
Well, luckily they won’t even be free finding, since Samsung is charging for them starting in 2025. Talk about misleading.
5:17 The MattPat reference there lol
Yeah!
Shame that he's retiring from active voice in the channel
Circle to search is a thing on the Pixel line. Depending on the content, you can either long press to trigger it or hit the power button to bring it up and specify what on the screen you'd like to search for.
It was even here way before with the "select" tool in the recent apps menu, like a screenshot put in google lens but automatically. At the end the results are the same, juste 1 or 2 seconds faster with a circle
about the apple ram issue, people keep saying ios devices are "optimised" or whatever "they dont need that much ram" but my apps like youtube on ipad and iphone kept freezing and crashing... lol
You don't need ram..... If you don't allow apps to run i. The background!
It really sucks that if you switch from a webpage to a different app and back, the whole page was removed from ram and it has to reload the page. Can be very annoying.
I love my iphone for video.. but a lot of the other stuff not so much.
And here I am still trucking along with my S7 Edge
Google Lens image search has been a thing for a long time, the only difference here is that you can draw a precise circle rather than a resizable box
it's also way easier to do now( no screenshots required)
@@markopolic9964you've never needed to take a screenshot. There's a button for it in Google assistant.
That's what I've been thinking since I saw the first review.
I've been able to do this with my Pixel and my old Redmi for ages.
@@markopolic9964 On my Pixel 6a running the latest Android I can hold down an image or text in the window selector and search with lens, no screenshot required - this has been the case for as long as I can remember.
They need to bring back the squeeze gesture introduced in Pixels.
I honestly laugh every time I see a video on the S24 not having very many upgrades, because they are all talking about the S23... I just got one, but it was an upgrade from an S10. Worlds apart and I'm so happy lol!
Yeah, the S24 Ultra is actually an S23 Ultra Ti (because of the titanium).
Same thing, bro!
S24+ is Certainly a lot smoother than the S20+.
People tend to forget that most normal people don't buy new phones every year. The whole point is the small updates add up for those making big upgrades
S23 ultra is trash now.... Just kidding lol
I noticed, when testing the circle to search feature with the navigation features, changing the haptic response speed in accessibility settings improved the feature!
Tbh there isn’t much to change I mean it’s not like they can just make a full on animated icon pack live wallpaper and like 15 sponsorship versions with custom first party mods….
Although that would be pretty cool if they did it
The best part is for sure the circle to search. I want that on iPhone. Maybe I'll get it 2 generations from now
i think they wrote 30 hours at 6:47 because they played file which was saved on the device rather then using You tube.
Might be. Samsung may have it on airplane mode as well.
True @@SnifferSock
@@GH0STST4RSCR34Mahhh don't think they need to go that far to squeeze out like 16%, airplane mode saves mad amounts of battery
well it did only say video playback which does make it pretty obvious that it wasn't streamed content since that would give a lower number of hours than a local file
Changed from a S21 Fe to a s24 ultra and it's 🔥🔥 so far
wasn't the FE the worst S21 version you could possibly buy? of course this is an insane upgrade...
man... everyone seems to be getting their s24 ultra but me lol
@@sakura-valley what phone do you have?
I currently have the s21 ultra, but pre-ordered the s24 ultra... ut's just that in switzerland, they're only shipping thwm out starting feb 20th.. also, I'm kinda mad that the 1tb variant doesn't vome in purple@@5erase
@@sakura-valley how much is it in your country? here in the Philippines it can cost most of us an entire year's worth of salary :(
9:53 I mean you could still technically use this on older androids such as the Note 10 plus using google lens. Its the same kind of technology.
That "magic circle select" is not exclusive feature of 24.... it's Pixel feature. On the apps screen you can tap select, select any image in any opened app and click "googel lense". Samsung simply put that begind gesture, but it's absolutely there on Pixel. And on pixel it allows you to select text as well
You can select text on Samsung devices as well
One thing I havnt seen discussed as much is how much easier it is to make screen protectors now that this thing is completly flat. My biggest issue with my s23 ultra has been its insistence to not let any screen protector I use not peel or completely ruin the ability to use the fingerprint reader.
Also when you put most cases on you can't even see the edges, so it's pointless having a curved screen.
The only screen protectors that I was satisfied with on my n10u, n20u, and s22u were the whitestone-style ones. At 20 bucks a pop after buying the installation jig and light. Together with cases only coming up halfway on the sides to keep the curved edges open, the curved screen experience for me personally was not the best. I'm glad I switched to the s24u.
@@GH0STST4RSCR34MNo it wasn't. It's impossible to find proper glass protectors because they always peel up if they aren't PERFECTLY aligned
Dbrand says its not completely flat, only the display area. They tweeted about this.
@@GH0STST4RSCR34M My guy nobody can line it up perfectly, that's the issue. I've applied screen protectors for years as a cell phone salesman, still had one tiny little imperfection in the corner that lifts up and eventually spreads and ruins the protector. Plastic works fine since it's thinner and molds better, but it's also a LOT harder to apply.
14:00 AI: "how dare you use my power against me!"
5:00 it is probably the software capping the device because as shown, the vapor chamber work well...
Circle to Search is currently Samsung and Pixel exclusive now thou.
Circle to search has got to be the coolest feature of a phone the past few years...Truly nuts
It’s very convenient, but It’s nothing you couldn’t already do with Google Lens. I don’t have an S24 yet, so I’m not sure, but I can’t imagine that it will be too much of a game changer for the average user.
Okay, now we're talking. This is the very first phone of theirs that I would consider a worthwhile upgrade from my Note 9. Apart from maybe the Folds, but they're still asking a _lot_ more than I'm willing to part with for those, so they're off the table for now.
Edit: Ended up ordering one today. I've long since stopped paying any active attention to phone releases, so cheers for the actionable tech tip!
I can't to back after recently switching to a Fold 4. Having a pocket tablet is incredible for reading, sharing photos, etc.
For example I can have my calendar up full screen and with a swipe but a small floating calculator up as I budget my month.
Over time, China will become cheaper and perform better. If you wait, you can buy great Chinese products.
Though sone of the changes are indeed great I cannot justify an upgrade from 23 series, especially from 23 Ultra. I think that its worth upgrading if you're coming from at least 22 series
10:05 circle to search will be coming to all google tensor devices as well
it's been here for a while now
My Pixel 8 already has it
It's already available
Hold the assistant button and press "search screen."
My P8P already has it.
I went from the S21 Ultra that I used the last few years to the S24 Ultra. Been using it for the last few weeks and it's an amazing phone! Got 2 of them for $818 each with Samsung's trade in offer. Not to damn bad!
So I live in Europe (The Netherlands) and mine doesn't have a 5g cutout. Anybody know if this differs from the North-American versions?
I agree got mine last Friday and love the feel of the phone in my hand. It was a bit of a battle readjusting my fingers to edge swipe flat vs having to dig in but the phone has been amazing. The brightness of the phone is stunning coming from my S21 Ultra. Camera is amazing coming from the 21 and the responsiveness of everything is so appreciated. My only gripe is that the saturation of color has to be fixed when it comes to natural vs vivid mode. I recognize that as someone who uses a DWF monitor that the colors may be somewhat more natural but I had a pseudo cyberpunk theme that contrasted a dark black blue with a deep bright red so that was extremely noticeable when I first turned on the phone. Though I have adjusted somewhat I still want that deep red. I am surprised that Linus didn't mention that. Though the anti glare armor is amazing. I almost don't want to put a screen protector on it. One last thing about the phone, going back to the brightness. It has made it difficult going back to my S9 Ultra because it doesn't look as bright as it used to before I got the 24.
Most likely when they mentioned marking the image itself, they also mean in ways that we can't spot visually but which a computer can.
Like tracking dots from a printer except digital.
"I always liked the curved display" Me looking at his broken-ass curved glass phone. Riiiiiite
Had several of them so far, no curve glass breaking, but two of them does have breaks on the rear, flat, glass 😅
I mean I've had galaxy devices since the original S3 and honestly the curved screen were never particularly more fragile in my experience. The durability of the screens themselves have just improved so much over the years.
@@Nightykk I will never understand how having glass on the back of the phone makes it "premium". 🤔
I feeeeel that. Would have loved to be able to get a flat screen and glass screen protector on it
Curved is so much nicer to use with back gestures. Flat display with case sucks for back gesture.
13:43 hmmm.. But if you take a screenshot of the photo and crop out the portion where the watermark is, that would still be a problem, especially the screenshot has a different metadata I think???
Question: What is 5G cut out?
What?
This is a great format for reviewing products, dropping someone in at the deep end with the item and just telling them about what features exist, and letting them figure it out in real time.
Not really since they end up missing a TON OF THINGS, especially when there is no main channel video properly showing what the phone can do
This isn't a review
@@CallMeRabbitzUSVI But there are plenty other channels who have full reviews, and most of them have all the same content and format, it gets a bit boring after a while. But this is a little different.
5:18 is this supposed to be a MatPat Jacket or the Alien guy jacket?
MatPat Jacket
Both y not
never been that in to samsung phones but keeping an eye on them lately and the S24 exynos sure cought my attention. tweakers net looked at it and it's battery lasted notably longer then phones with similar sized battery's. i'm not sure if the snapdragon can pull that same party trick but the fact that it's slower then it's kin gives me hope (it almost looks like it was set up to be more efficient then just all turbo all day to be as snappy as possible which was how i set up my phones back in the custom rom/Kernel days...ah the good times except for that time you undervolted your cpu to much and it froze in the middle of the night also freezing your alarm clock ^^" but got screen off battery drain to less then 1% an hour on a 1860mah battery ^^)
1:34 Lmao it's so funny during the reflection comparison you showed the Note 9, i literally just upgraded from that phone to the S24 Ultra.
Oh damn, flat screen? Better for screen protectors. (And yes I need one. I've shattered 2 on my S23 Ultra).
I also still just want a top bezel for a seamless no notch display, nice speaker for calls, proper selfie flash, and an LED indicator. That's the feature I miss the most.
9:13 i mean it's undeniable that Linus is a handsome guy. But Mehdi... oh man. have my babies, Mehdi.
never used or cared for an s pen in my life. Got this phone and starting using it all the time wth samsung, now hurry up and update the vivid colors
Get used to natural colors and it wont matter. I ran vivid on a s22u for a long time then swapped to natural and prefer it now.
First phone with a s-pen for me as well, having big fingers, this is sooo nice for some applications, I also take alot of notes and begin to appreciate the pen for drawings some ideas that are difficult to write in words and such. The glare reduction outside is awesome too !
I remember once I left my s22 ultra on minimum brightness with the extra dim mode on and when I woke up I freaked out because I had forgotten that it was on dim so I ran around screaming that my phone broke and then after like 3 hours I realized that it was on dim. I felt like a dumbass to be real.
That circle to search is a gimic. It is available on all phones from past 5 years. Just long press your home button, google assistant pops up and click screen search. Only difference is you have to crop the image like how you crop in a windows machine.
circle to search is way easier and no screenshot required
@@ShaiyanHossain I'm not saying we have to take screenshot. We just have to click on the screen search button, just 1 extra step. Samsung has just removed that button and made screen search on my default. Google can release that for all the phone's(it's just like updating one flag in the code)
calling an existing feature as AI isn't a gimmick?
Ive had my note 8 for so long that I finally upgraded on the 28th. I knew I needed the pen because like linus said you dont use it every day but when you do you love it. so im happy to learn just how much better it can be from my old phone.
1/4" professional audio output in the psuedo-penhole would be sweet.
I got my S24 Ultra two days ago. It's really nice and I like it a lot, but there are issues. Vivid color mode basically doesn't work, the screen is not as bright as my old Note20 Ultra, the 5x camera has less detail than the S23 Ultra's 10x camera did, and there may be a large number of devices with manufacturing defects in the display. Mine personally has graininess and banding, most noticeable when looking at a 5% gray image at 10% brightness in a very dark room.
A few of these are almost definitely software fixes, but the banding/grainy display is possibly a hardware problem.
Oof the quality just keeps going down after they did a 180 with the s2x and started copying apple instead of being the innovators. Long live S10 series.
yeah the vivid colour mode is apparently a bug
@@clee40Not according to Samsung if you Google for Samsung's latest response to this perceived issue. Apparently it is a new more natural colour display that people may notice isn't as punchy colourwise as older Samsung devices. It's meant to be this way and nothing is broken is what they finish with.
13:55 mission failed successfully
Any thoughts on Vivid mode not working? Settings-->Display-->Screen Mode-->Vivid isn't doing anything. It's just Natural (even when vivid is selected) that most people switch from as soon as they get their Samsung phone
I recently upgraded from my S22 ultra to the S24 Ultra (battery life on the 22 was going downhill fast and my plan was up) and ive nopticed i can listen to audio books all day and read on the phone all day, i have even forgotten to charge the phone then wake up by my alarm to see i have 20%, put it to charge, and i have about 60% twenty minutes later when i need to leave. i quite like it, but if i leave home witha full charge and listen to music or a book all day i get home with about 40-50% so far, which is very nice, evn my 22 when it was new got down to about 30% when i got home
i like the shape of it. reminds me good old cars before they became "aerodynamic"
It's quite a disappointment that LTT and many others not shitting on Samsung for the paywall on ai functions and not being really upfront about it.
Yeah you can clearly see who's actually a reviewer and who's just in it for the views and money
Short Circut videos are not reviews. They are either unboxings and/or first impressions.
@@mikeilagan6487 non argument. It's a HUGE infringement of a key selling point function, which will not be available for FREE. Also, Linus and others have made it abundantly clear how they think about such practices when it's about cars etc
@@mikeilagan6487 critiques aren't relegated only to reviews either. paste something you can notice on first impressions as well. It's not they haven't pointed out caveats in previous short circuits too.
Edit: they did bring it up near the end of the video.
If you need lower lowest brightness, samsung has a "Extra dim" feature in quicksettings, I use it on my S21FE and it goes as low as being unreadable at pitch black darkness
I'm very curious as to why Linus' model has a 5G antenna cutout and other models don't?
6:58 This phone supports a maximum of 45W of charging. Even if you connect it to a 65W charger, it won't take more than 45. In fact, it might not even take 45W.
I have a 65W charger and when I connect it to my S22 Ultra, it says "Super Fast Charging", which means 25W. When you connect it to a 45W compatible charger with a 5A cable, it shows "Super Fast Charging 2.0"
"we don't' have room for headphone jacks, anyway here's a giant fucking pen that takes up an entire side"
Also, fuck your extended storage. What's that, want a bigger storage version? Let's say you can get that for about 100 euro's extra. Fml
0:30 The fact that you didn't say "AI, ay" 🙁
Typing from the S24 Plus :D love it!
Same. At first I thought. Oh it's not that big of an upgrade. Now everytime I pick it up I think "Man, this screen is insane. I thought the S23 Ultra was fine, but this is amazing"
@lackoliver55 well it depends from which phone you're coming from, I had a S20 FE :P
@@FO0TMinecraftPVP Even better!
Idk if i got a faulty unit, but my S23 Ultra does not get bright enough for outdoor use. I simply do not get it. I have extra brightness turned on and i struggle to see my screen at full brightness under direct sunlight. This was never an issue with my previous phone, a OnePlus 9 pro. Which if i remember correctly is supposed to have a significantly less bright display. That said, its my only complaint with the 23.
I still got the base s21. Will probably upgrade to s25 ultra next. The battery life, performance, and screen brightness are reasons enough for me to upgrade. As of tight now, im fine waiting another year or 2.
Looking forward to scratches at level 7, with deeper grooves at level 8 in all phones from now on.
Can't be the only one who read this in Zack's voice.
If im not mistaken Samsung has a 2 year exclusive deal for Gorilla glas armor.
That circle to search thing, I believe, has been available for the Pixel for quite a while.
It isn't boring, it is sharp AF, literally, these corners are sharp to the point you can hurt someone using it LOL
I like the fact that the S24 Ultra doubles as a weapon, love the fact that it's essentially has four blades built into it.
It is not a bug it is a feature! You don't get the self defense feature of f*cking sharp titanium edges on any other phone😂
As a samsung user, I will upgrade every generation for 2 reasons
1~ I can easily flash everything on the older to the newer
2~ sometimes it's a free trade in and when I have to pay it's only a few hundred.
don't know if it was intentional but did anybody else notice the records in the background look very similar to the camera on the s24
The free until 2025 is the biggest bs I've seen google do apart from the youtube premium thing
iPhone is boring
6:58 why say you used a 65W charger if it supports a max of 45W charging?
5:05 There's no Exynos version of the S24 Ultra.
But base and plus model does
Idc if it's boring, it's a massive upgrade from the last phone I was using since it launched, the Galaxy S10.
the "5G cutout" isn't the UWB (ultra wide band) that's used to track the samsung tag2? etc 3:10
6:48 it clearly shows Samsung was using local playback and not UA-cam. Thst in itself should have a sizeable difference in the battery life
And that’s why you gotta read the fine print
what i think what every phone will have in the future: call translation and interpretor mode but not with selected language but rather u say: be my interpretor to language... and then it translates everything to given language... this would be very very good if u run a company with many different nationalitys and have a meeting... or have meeting with other companys and they can just set up a phone to translate everything that is said to specified language... (u can still specify and output language or select multiple output languages) so when u talk it translates to given languages... like ur a game dev with workers/studios arround the world and u can just talk your language instead of a bad english...
6:57 Samsung's own site & specs sheet says S24 Ultra charges at 45W max (9V5A), so did the Labs Team mess up saying you charged it from 0~100% charging at 65W?
Yes, sometimes these tech guys are just content creators at the end of the day
No, the website uses the measurments with the "included" charger, LTT used an third party charger. This was also mentioned in the video
they probably used a 65W charger and assumed it charged at 65W, like the average consumer would
@cd6583 That's what rather below average consumer would assume.
No, they did their research, the S24 Ultra does support 65W. Only the official Samsung Charger that's for sale so far is 45W. Try not to spread misinformation.@@cd6583
Is the Samsung S24 Ultra really much better than the iphone 15 pro max? If yes, I really want to buy it but not sure if I want to cancel my apple card just to transfer. The benefits i get is the cash back from apple pay. Does google pay have something similar? Like a credit card they offer?
I dont recommend getting large iPhones, you will not benefit from the size since there are no extra features!
On the other hand, when you take the Ultra, you will enjoy the large display with split screen and s pen and many things of this large device that many small devices can’t do.
as a very niche user who occasionally draws with the s pen honestly the flat screen is huge it really stops the pen like dropping off the screen!
This is the second video in a row that the tech guy used Govee lights in the background!! Love to see it!
tfw having no Iris scanner, a punch hole, no sd card and no headphone jack on the Note20 Ultra made Linus mad but now it's all good!
hes kinda given up on that and his last phone was a fold 3
also note 20 ultra has an sd card slot....Im trading mine in for an 24 ultra lol
@@ShaiyanHossain idk why, apart from battery problems, you'd want to upgrade. I use an S22 U and I would've kept this phone for 3 more years if the battery didn't degrade to like 75-80% of its original health, it feels like that at least. I'm not too happy with Samsung nowadays, gonna go for a Vivo X Pro phone or a Oneplus phone if I want a less than "too expensive" flagship or I'll just go for an Oppo Find Ultra. Samsung kinda sucks now compared to them lol
@@kaiserfakinaway5909 I don't NEED a new phone my battery is aging and samsung is giving me $400 for a cracked phone+$130 in education discounts+ free upgrade to 512gb so might as well lol. I already have my s24u and compared to my n20u, the differences on the surface aren't much but i much appreciate the flat screen, antireflective coating, and the great battery life too
@@kaiserfakinaway5909 id have loved to keep the phone longer but my battery is aging and its getting harder to make it through one day of use. Samsung is also giving me $400 for a cracked phone+$130 education discount+free upgrade to 512gb so might as well lol. The design isn't wholly different but I do appreciate the subtle changes like the flat screen, anti reflectivity and much better battery life
I'm upgrading from an S21 + 5G, and wow, what a leap. To be honest, the S21 has served me well for the last 3 years, but the battery doesn't hold a charge as well as it used to, so I might have not even upgraded yet. But the leap they've made in only 3-4 years is pretty significant.
5:16 "Off brand MatPat isn't real. he can't hurt you."
Off brand MatPat:
Good point on that. People always wanna compare it being minimal changes from the last generation. But then there's people like me, upgrading after almost six years. My S10+ was finally showing its age, and jumping to this was remarkable.