Samsung S24 Ultra Review - Goodbye iPhone-
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The Galaxy S24 Ultra has had a controversial launch.
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Oh my god, AI?
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That's amazing.
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Wait, did they just make the cameras worse?
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Seven years of software support,
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are you kidding?
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This chipset is a thermal nightmare.
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I've been seeing it,
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I've been reading it,
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while I have also been testing it.
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This is my definitive review of Samsung's flagship phone of the year,
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the S24 Ultra,
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and also whether or not I'm going to be permanently replacing my iPhone for it.
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So, let's start with the outside.
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Even though Samsung swapped out their phone's frame from aluminium to titanium,
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and even though they've now got this brand new four times stronger than the competition glass,
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this phone is still not difficult to damage.
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I've got a whole load of small scuffs over the sides,
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and they expose the fact that this matte texture you see here is only a very thin layer.
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Wherever it's scratched,
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it becomes glossy,
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making it immediately obvious.
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And the screen is still wearing and tearing just like every other phone.
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Now, maybe this glass is stronger,
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and maybe if the exact same things that had happened to this had also happened
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to other phones they might be worse off but the point is i have been very careful
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with this phone i've not dropped it i have not tried to damage it so basically it's
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not some sort of miracle glass that's going to solve your durability problems like samsung might want
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you to believe i'll tell you what would though if the company still pre -installed your screen protector like
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they used to now that said this design overall i actually like it even
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more as time's gone on every time i pick the thing up i do think whoa this
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is such a
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pretty phone the texture feels great those even screen borders
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very aesthetically pleasing and i'm even coming around to the flat screen since
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the way that samsung's curved the body of the phone it doesn't have the problems that normally
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come with flat screens but actually low -key the biggest upgrade to the screen which samsung has done an
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awesome job of implementing but an awful job at communicating is this reduction
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to screen glare the s24 ultra almost completely kills incoming
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reflections which is something we've seen some phone screens do a little better than others over
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the years
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but this is the biggest standout that I can remember.
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And as soon as you experience it once,
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it becomes instantly clear that this is the obvious next logical step
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up for all screens.
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Because, I mean,
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companies have spent so many years trying to make their screens more color accurate,
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trying to make them brighter,
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trying to make them more contrasty,
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and now you can not just get that experience,
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but you can actually retain that experience.
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Irrespective of whether you're sitting next to a window or whether there's bright sunlight casting
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over you, it makes this my...
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favorite screen on a phone,
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full stop.
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So the outside of the phone is A +,
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but it's living with the software that I assumed would be the difficult part for me.
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You know, when I permanently made the jump from Samsung to iPhone three and a half years ago,
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the reason I did it was all these little things.
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Little things that build up into what felt like a bigger thing that it didn't seem like would
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ever be fixed because they're little things.
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Like voice notes,
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they used to sound so muffled that it was like I was trying to have a conversation with
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someone while wearing three face masks on top of each other.
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Animations,
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which sounds like a really silly thing,
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but I was getting tired of phones that kept bragging about how bleeding edge their processes were,
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but that still didn't feel fluid.
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And Instagram stories.
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I kept thinking to myself,
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what is the point having the best set of cameras if the moment I try to share the
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content from them,
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it just gets compressed beyond belief?
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it's this kind of stuff and i honestly came into the s24 ultra expecting
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none of it to have changed i was wrong for one voice notes they sound crystal
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clear now drisha has begrudgingly confirmed to me that even though she likes the idea
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of me using an iphone that this does sadly sound just as good as the 15
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pro max
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The fluidity of the phone has gone up multiple levels.
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In a lot of ways,
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this actually feels smoother to use than my iPhone 15 Pro Max.
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Like you can really tell with this new One UI software that Samsung has gone all
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in on the little things.
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Like the scrolling acceleration to make things feel truly like they are gliding
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underneath your fingertips.
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And the way the apps open and close now,
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it is consistent,
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continuously smooth animations.
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And it's not just that it feels quick.
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It looks nice too.
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I was never a massive fan of Samsung's theming,
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but in just a couple of generations,
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they've gone a long way to completely flipping that narrative.
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This is the first Samsung phone that I would say is right out of the box.
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Gorgeous.
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You know, the quick panel,
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the way it's organized,
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the rounded corners,
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the precise even spacing between every section.
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Like, yes.
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Finally, the lock screen and the fact that you can now add widgets,
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you can change up the style,
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you can scale your clock to the exact size you want and not have to conform
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to some arbitrary predefined options.
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The fact that it gives you enough flexibility that you can very much make it yours
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while also building in enough structure that it's easy,
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it's not overwhelming and whatever you do,
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it's going to look good.
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And also the new dark mode running through the phone.
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it's not actually black anymore.
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It's a sort of dark gray,
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which is one of those things that for me instantly made the whole phone look a lot better,
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but I couldn't immediately place my finger on why.
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I'm sure there will be people who don't like it,
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but to me,
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there's something really pleasant about not feeling like you're in ultra high contrast mode
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all the time.
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It feels less straining.
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Now, there are problems with this software,
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I'm getting to them,
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but my prevailing feeling is that there's a lot to like.
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For example,
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when you're on a video call,
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you just swipe down here and you've got video effects,
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and microphone effects.
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It actually works in a very similar way to the iPhone,
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but it has a lot of options.
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Like you just tap here,
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it instantly blurs the background.
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Very cinematic.
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You can have a colored background,
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you can pick an image for your background,
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and you can also even adjust the smoothness of your face.
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And because it works on a core software level,
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it can persist across whatever app that you're calling on.
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The haptics are awesome.
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Like typing has never felt better on any phone.
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And while some past Samsungs used to have this tiny bit of lag every now and again while typing,
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it seems to have been ironed out.
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You've got the whole GoodLock suite of customization tools,
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which is kind of the opposite of what I was saying for the lock screen.
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This is where you go deep.
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Like since this is Samsung's first titanium phone,
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I decided to use GoodLock to kit mine with a titanium style animated
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volume rocker.
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It's just fun.
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Oh, and then the icing on the cake is seven years of OS updates.
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Considering that just a few years ago,
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the industry standard was two to three,
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that is an absolutely insane promise.
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And even if you're not going to use your phone for seven years,
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you still benefit because when you come around to selling it,
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if your phone is still being supported,
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it's likely going to retain more of its value.
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But...
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You saw this coming.
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It's not all sunshine and rainbows.
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As well as all the upgrades,
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there are quite a few things that have felt like a downgrade coming from the 15 Pro Max.
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Like Instagram and Snapchat stories.
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They looked subpar before.
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They still look pretty subpar.
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It's not really photos that are the issue.
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It's just the videos.
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It's like 50 % of the processing and the stabilization that makes the cameras good.
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disappears.
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You can kind of get around it by recording in your native camera app and switching to
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1080p instead of 4K to avoid being hit with Instagram compression,
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but that definitely feels clunky.
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Samsung's face scanner.
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I mean, they've tried.
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Like, they give you an option to add an alternate appearance if,
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say, sometimes you wear glasses,
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sometimes you don't.
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Or you can set your screen to brighten when scanning at night so that this front camera
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can actually see you.
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But...
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night is like the one time that you don't want to be blasted by light.
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And in most middle lighting conditions,
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it's fine,
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but it's just slow.
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It's actually quite surprising to me that such a big company with such successful products
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still has such a gaping hole.
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Because there's no doubt that face scanning is definitely the more automatic alternative
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to fingerprint scanning.
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It's the future.
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But...
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until Samsung adds in some sort of infrared 3D scanning tech like the
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iPhone, you're not really gonna wanna use this for much.
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And there's a few more things.
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The audio quality is not quite as good as the iPhone.
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It's a tiny bit less loud and a tiny bit less full.
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Not having MagSafe is actually a massive downgrade since being able to
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charge wirelessly while still being able to have your phone propped up so that you can see the screen
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is very useful to me.
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Samsung software,
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while very pretty,
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is...
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definitely a little more aggressive than it used to be,
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in an annoying way.
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Now more than ever,
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it really pushes you towards Samsung services,
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like Samsung Pass to store your passwords.
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So eventually you just get fed up of it,
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so you click OK.
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But then it's like,
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oh, you need to download the latest version of Pass.
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So you download it,
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and then it's like,
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oh, you need to set up Pass.
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And I'm like, go away,
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I'm just trying to play a game of balloons.
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The company knows that the best way to lock users in as long -term Samsungers
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is to get them using as many Samsung services as possible.
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You definitely feel it getting shoved down your throat a bit.
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And then the last gripe,
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which is a little alarming,
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signal.
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I seem to spend all my time with this phone on either two to three bars while I'm
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outside, and then literally zero to one when I'm inside.
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And we did actually have a storm last week and my Wi -Fi went,
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so I was hotspotting from this.
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I was barely getting anything speed -wise.
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Now that is serious,
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if there's actually a persistent issue,
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but signal is one of those very subjective things.
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Everyone has a slightly different signal experience.
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Mine's been bad,
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but it's totally worth checking out some other reviews too to see if
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it is a trend or if I just got particularly unlucky.
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The high -level takeaway for software should still be the fact that Samsung has improved
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a lot to the point where this might just be now.
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my favorite Android skin.
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We'll get to the Galaxy AI stuff in a minute,
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because I have thoughts,
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but I want to touch on cameras because it's been a bit of a hotly debated
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topic.
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As you might have seen in my camera comparison,
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the S24 Ultras cameras are a pretty big improvement to the S23 Ultras,
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but just not in the way that we've come to expect.
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We're pretty used to each year,
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phones getting a bit more detailed,
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getting a bit better in low light,
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zooming a bit further.
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Samsung's not really done much of that at all.
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That's a little sad.
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I feel like the purpose of an ultra phone should be to break new ground,
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to be a spectacle and to showcase the most cutting edge tech that the company has to
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offer. Whereas this time around,
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I'm not pulling it out excitedly on the street to just see what it can do.
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And I don't get that brand new toy to play with feeling because its output
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is quite similar to last time.
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But two things.
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One, that doesn't mean it's a bad camera.
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It's building on what was already a very strong foundation.
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And two,
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what they have done this time is
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part of this massive software overhaul is made the camera nicer to use.
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It looks better,
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it's organized better,
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the animations are smoother,
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and it captures faster.
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Oh, and the screen is so bright that you will never,
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ever have a problem seeing what you're shooting again.
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Do I wish they'd also improve the output with a brand new 400 megapixel
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main screen?
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Sensor?
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Yeah,
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of course.
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But was this a much needed improvement nonetheless?
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And has the company made enough improvements in other parts of the phone for me to forgive
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them? Also yes.
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And the editing.
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The editor on this phone is one of the things that constantly reminds me that we're working
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with powerful technology.
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You can do something as obtuse as taking a photo of another photo.
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yes this is me the phone will understand that photo and still be able to instantly apply
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the portrait mode effect to make it feel like it is popping out of your screen and these
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instant effects have actually ended up being a much bigger deal to me than what samsung is
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touting as the key new thing the generative image editor while that one obviously is
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the cooler feature the better party trick it's actually very rarely
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after i've taken a shot do i think to myself yeah it would actually be great if this person
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was here instead of here
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I'm glad it exists and I'm curious to see how it evolves,
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but there is something that does feel a little inauthentic about it.
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Like it's different to normal photo editing where you feel like you can still be proud of a photo
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that you took.
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Here it's almost bordering on digital art,
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which is cool,
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but it's not as rewarding in a way.
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Plus the feature is still a bit of effort to use.
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If it was as simple as you're just browsing in your gallery,
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you see a person,
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you pick them up and you move them and then that's it.
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I'd probably use it quite a lot to make subtle adjustments to things that aren't quite
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right.
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But as it is,
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where it's like you hit the editor,
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then you hit the generative editor,
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you do your tweaks,
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you confirm your tweaks,
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you wait for about 10 seconds and then you hit done,
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it's still a bit long considering that in a big day out you might take 30 photos.
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You're not going to do that 30 times.
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And that is actually a pretty good segue into Galaxy AI in general.
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What I've been really trying to work out over the last few weeks is are these
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AI features actually groundbreaking?
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or are they just gimmicks i'll start with the good news all of this instant translation stuff
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that actually has me buzzing i've never mentioned this before but part
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of my extended family is italian and i mean like proper italian so
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it's often not the easiest to communicate but
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check this out.
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This is what I do now.
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When I enter the chat,
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it already knows that I'm wanting to talk in Italian.
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So it's got the Italian translator preloaded.
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I type my message into that translator,
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wait a couple of seconds,
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and then the translated text appears in my WhatsApp chat window,
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ready to hit send.
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And the fact that it is,
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just set it and forget it.
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The fact that it knows in which chats you want the translation and in which chats you don't,
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the fact that it works across all your different messaging apps,
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like SMS,
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WhatsApp,
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Instagram, is absolutely...
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absolutely amazing.
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It means you're gonna talk more with people you otherwise might not.
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It means you're gonna be able to express yourselves better.
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And also,
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people like being talked to in their own language.
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It's funny actually,
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my sister -in -law was so taken aback by my sudden Italian fluency,
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she genuinely thought someone had hacked my phone and...
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called my mum to check.
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Now it isn't perfect,
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the translation isn't instant,
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and Samsung's quality of translation is definitely not as good as Google's.
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Like if I type in,
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is this Italian working BTW?
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Samsung gets very confused,
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whereas Google understands that BTW means by the way,
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and then makes the translation accordingly.
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And can also better understand if something is a question,
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even if you've not explicitly added a question mark.
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And you are still going to run into dialect problems.
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Current translation tools are good for simple requests.
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but actually trying to have a conversational tone is still not quite possible
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because a lot of things don't translate literally.
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But as a first stab,
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this is pretty awesome because Samsung has now set the precedent for what one
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day absolutely will be a game changer.
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The other thing that's been surprisingly useful is the AI summarization features.
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Like while I'm on Android,
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I've always been a Google Chrome user.
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I'm now actively choosing to use the Samsung browser because of the summaries.
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I don't use it all the time,
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but let's say you hop onto a forum discussion post.
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This AI can actually read everything that every single person has written
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and then give you a 30 -second summary of all the key opinions.
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And that same AI technology also helps you out with your notes.
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I've mentioned this before,
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but my notes used to be a big old mess.
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Because of the chaotic nature of thoughts,
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and my notes being the way that I keep track of those thoughts,
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they're the one part of my digital life that's had
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no trace of organization.
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But this phone changes that.
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For starters, while every note would normally be whatever grammar my keyboard spits
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out in the moment, the AI grammar checker here actually makes those notes feel like
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way more composed,
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deliberate thoughts,
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which then in turn makes you want to look after them and organize them.
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The way it formats your notes too.
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Like if I'm writing a list of holiday destinations,
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the thing will actually categorize them based on continent,
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which is exactly how I would have done it,
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but it just would have taken me like 10 times as long.
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And then to finish the whole thing off,
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the phone even generates AI -powered covers for your notes,
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which kind of packages each one into what feels like its own distinct novel,
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almost.
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It'll even go through and read through the handwritten writing on those notes for info
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about what to title the note.
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Now, I do think the phone should just do this automatically as opposed to you having to click generate.
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But still, compare this to my iPhone notes library.
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There is a world of difference.
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And on that...
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Note, yes,
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there is still an S Pen inside of this phone.
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And for me,
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it's one of those things that I completely forget it exists.
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and some part of me wishes Samsung had just swapped it out for an even bigger battery,
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until the 1 % of times where I really need it,
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and I count my lucky stars that it's right there in front of me.
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There's something that feels very freeform about writing as opposed to typing,
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which is why whenever I'm ideating,
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I'll always use my Remarkable tablet.
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But do you know what?
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This has...
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kind of absorbed the functionality of that too.
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Being able to just whip this S Pen out and write,
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even when my phone's locked so I'm not getting distracted.
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It pretty much ticks the same box.
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My only complaint is that I really feel like it should be on this side,
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given that I imagine most people are going to be writing with their right hands and so would want to
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take it out from here.
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I imagine the reason they've done this is the cameras now take up a little bit too much space
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to put it on that side,
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but Samsung didn't want to move the cameras because that's become their branding.
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All right, so then we've got circle to search,
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which is basically hold the bottom part of your screen and you enter this new mode.
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This mode where you can take whatever's on your screen,
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zoom in, zoom out,
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move around, and when you're ready,
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circle something and Google will tell you what it is.
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And for the first five days of using this phone,
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I actually completely forgot this feature existed because,
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you know, your default is to use your phone the way you already know how to use your phone.
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Circle to search requires a very conscious shift in how you think about searching.
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But when it clicked for me,
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It clicked hard.
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This feature is absolutely incredible.
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You see a photo of a cool product and you want to know what it is.
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Circle.
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You see a photo of a phone you don't recognize.
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Circle.
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You want to rebuy whatever flowers are in the house?
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Circle to find out exactly what they are.
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You see a photo of the most beautiful hotel view?
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Circle it to find out exactly which hotel it is.
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And I am continuously surprised at how accurate it is.
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It's very easy for a feature like this to just be a gimmick.
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This is actually based on something Google made years ago called Now On Tap,
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where you hold down your home button and your phone tells you exactly what's on your screen.
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It was a gimmick then,
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but the seamlessness,
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how it doesn't exit the app you're currently in,
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meaning you can find out what you want to find out and with one swipe be back where you were.
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The fluidity,
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how you can circle,
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you can scribble,
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you can just tap,
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and the phone always seems to get what you're trying to highlight.
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And then the intelligence of the results makes this,
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I'm going to say,
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game changer category.
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Like just yesterday,
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this is going to sound like one of the most first world situations ever.
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We got this snack in my kitchen on the opposite side to where I was sitting.
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I just remembered we were running out of that snack and I wanted to top up,
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but I couldn't remember what they were called.
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So, pulled out my Samsung,
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zoomed all the way into that snack,
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entered Circle to Search,
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and within about five seconds,
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that exact product was in my Amazon basket.
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Now, obviously,
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that's a dumb example,
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but I think it kind of illustrates how Circle to Search...
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almost opens the floodgates to what becomes searchable.
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It makes your phone genuinely feel like your own personal interactive interface
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with the world.
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And now picking up my iPhone,
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which doesn't have it,
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it feels old school.
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And then the final AI feature that I like is the instant slow -mo.
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It's a top tier idea with good execution.
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It just needs a bit of polish.
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Sometimes when you use it,
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the video will either lag at the start till the phone catches up or create weird artifacts
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as it's not quite able to insert the perfect in -between frames when slowing
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videos down.
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Okay,
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all that said,
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there is some stuff that I don't like.
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Like the live call translation,
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which is significantly worse than the text message translation.
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Basically because it's the same thing,
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but all of a sudden has to happen in real time.
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To be clear,
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I'm really glad Samsung's made this.
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It just needs to get better.
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Let me give you an example.
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I'm trying to decide between pineapple on pizza and pineapple on pasta.
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What do you think I should go for?
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Oh
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yeah,
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and if you're enjoying this video,
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then a sub to the channel would be...
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Oh yes,
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jeans.
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What?
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That's not what you were trying to
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say, right?
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So do you have a sub to the channel word?
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Fantastic wonderful the best YouTube channel
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We got there.
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However,
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there's also some more general caveats worth bearing in mind for all of this
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