- CIRCLE & SEARCH¹ IN A SNAP: What’s your favorite influencer wearing? Where’d they go on vacation? What’s that word mean? Don’t try to describe it — use Circle to Search1 with Google to get the answer; With S24 Series, circle it on your screen and learn more
- REAL EASY, REAL-TIME TRANSLATIONS: Speak foreign languages on the spot with Live Translate²; Unlock the power of convenient communication with near real-time voice translations, right through your Samsung Phone app
- NOTE SMARTER, NOT HARDER: Focus on capturing your notes and spend less time perfecting them; Note Assist³ will summarize, format, and even translate them for you; All of your notes are organized neatly so that you can find what you need
- BRING DETAILS OUT OF THE DARKNESS: Brighten up your night with Nightography on S24 Ultra; Want a closer look? Zoom in from a distance, even in low light
- MORE WOW, LESS WORK: Turn every photo into a post-worthy masterpiece; Move or remove objects; Fill in empty space; Simply snap a pic and take it from great to jaw-dropping with Generative Edit⁴
- CAPTURE. SHARE. IMPRESS: Create crystal-clear content worth sharing; From bustling cityscape to a serene landscape, capture a masterpiece of detail with 200MP camera and let S24 Ultra adjust each hue and shade to reflect the world as you see it
- OUR MOST POWERFUL GALAXY SMARTPHONE YET: Jump seamlessly between apps without the wait and see content in high quality with our fastest processor yet, Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy⁵
- PUT YOUR BEST TEXT FORWARD: Say the right thing at the right time in no time with Chat Assist⁶; Get real-time tone suggestions to make your writing sound more professional or conversational; Plus, make typos a thing of the past
- GAME & STREAM, EDGE TO EDGE: Take your streaming and gaming to the edge with S24 Ultra; Whether you’re watching, winning or even writing, the brighter, flatter screen gives you more room to do what you love
- WRITE WHEN YOU NEED IT: With S Pen, you can easily make last-minute edits to work projects, jot down your latest idea or sign important docs on your S24 Ultra; Take doing to whole new heights with the built-in S Pen
M –
After reading the reviews, I thought I’d be returning this phone. I tend to keep my phones for about 5 years so it has to be a great one.
I wasn’t disappointed. Long battery. Good cameras. The front face camera is only OK. But the sound is awesome. Nice and loud. I haven’t used ear buds with it yet so that’s to be determined. The color of the phone it matte.
The $200 credit was applied immediately. I can’t see a balance on my account, but if you go to purchase something shipped by Amazon and also sold by Amazon, checkout and you will see the your credit on your total. I used the payment plan option and still received my credit after shipment.
If something goes wrong with the s24 ultra, I will update:)
M. A. –
At first I thought that it was just me, but it isn’t. It’s everyone. The world’s current most expensive flagship phone actually shipped with a glitched out, awful looking bland washed out screen that is cringe inducing when looking at it. If you’re expecting the beauty of the previous S2X phone series, you won’t get it here, this screen is BAD and shipped effectively broken and not working properly to every single customer. Honestly, everyone should be refunded and if there’s a class action lawsuit, I’m definitely joining it. All of the colors look completely washed out and almost pastel, it’s just . . . BAD! It reminds me of installing a wrong video driver in the 90’s or if you’re using an unsupported color/resolution mode. Aside from the color just being horrendous and completely inaccurate, text looks smoothed and slightly blurry making it off-putting to read. Looking at the S24 Ultra beside of the S22 Ultra is like night and day, no way in the world would I recommend someone to buy a S24 over the S22 or S23. The S24 looks like garbage. How in the world did they justify shipping it like this? How in the world are they getting away with this?! Massive respect and faith has been lost in Samsung as a smartphone leader in my eyes due to this. Also, it’s extremely suspicious that NO tech reviewers mentioned this, as if they were told not to or something. I smell a lawsuit on the horizon . . .
Shame on Samsung, big time . . . I’ve been a loyal customer since the Galaxy III, but I think that this debacle has ended that long run that I was very happy about. I feel betrayed and duped.
DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE.
M –
Prior to buying the s24+ I purchased a Pixel 8 Pro and really wanted to love it. That however turned into pure frustration with multiple glitches in the first two weeks of ownership that Google support couldn’t fix. So much so, that the Pixel 8 Pro was returned in favor of the s24+. I am so glad I did that, because owning the s24+ has been nothing but pure joy. I mean this phone rocks in every way and the transition from my old s10 5g was seamless and straightforward. It literally took couple of hours from start to finish and there is no learning curve. With the Pixel 8 Pro transferring data was a complete disaster with multiple glitches, unfixable bugs and a few calls to Google support. There were some many issues with the Pixel 8 Pro that it would take an essay to list them all. Thank you Samsung for turning my frustration into pure joy!
Michelle –
The bad:
Batt life is currently poor
Screen is dull and low contrast regardless of settings
The screen colors are extremely cool/blue
Reception is middling
Camera white balance is straight blue and unusable
Wide angle camera is not as wide as my Note 20 and the same quality
Generally jagged user experience due to google and then a bunch of Samsung crap on top that’s still there.
Bloody expensive for something that’s delivered in this state.
The good:
The antireflective coating on the screen is amazing.
The 120hz on the screen is uber smooth
The rest is fine; not different from my Note 20
There’s a thread on the Samsung forum that’s thousands of posts long about these same issues I’ve brought up here.
Hopefully all of the bad can be fixed with a software update but currently the phone is unusable due to the extremely blue camera(s) white balance and lacking signal strength. I cannot understand how Samsung, after ALL THIS TIME, seemingly doesn’t test their flagship phone before it manufacturing it in mass and shipping.
As for the cameras, they’re okay if the white balance wasn’t completely blue. My Note 20 from 3yrs ago takes better pictures. It’s honestly difficult to tell if the cameras are any good because it’s just so blue.
I don’t know what to say about all the tech reviewers out there raving about this phone. Either they were given a completely different phone or they’re all paid off. I recommend nobody else buy this phone until Samsung addresses the ridiculous issues.
As for Google, if they would stop changing up all their services every year, it may be a smooth experience transitioning to a new phone. I absolutely hate Apple due to their requirement for you to live in their ecosystem but this will likely be my last Android if Samsung or someone else can’t get their act together on such an expensive product.
Red Pin –
I did a ton of research before I committed to a purchase. But it’s not the same kind of research that techies can do. I rely on their input for my impressions and then I ogle the colors and how it fits in my hand and how fast it goes and can I type better on the shrunken keyboard — all while trusting the professional reviewers. I’m writing this review for people like me. Do your own research and trust in that. I think I got a terrific phone that looks phenomenal and will last me for at least 7 more years. And using it is so easy. Transferring everything was so easy. Now I’ll have to master the camera. Nitpicky opinions are no longer useful. “It should have square corners, it should have round corners, they did this, why didn’t they do that…” ENOUGH. Thank you, Samsung, I’m happy to be a member of your club and this phone is amazing to me.