The Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra is all about hard corners, cool-to-the-touch metal, and a camera lens that looks you straight in the eye. As intimidating as a smartphone seems, and like one of those otherworldly monoliths from 2001: A Space Odyssey, it's more than just a gimmick. It's intentional: Samsung wanted this phone to lose its power and dominance. excessive feeling
I've been using this phone for a few weeks now and it feels like an ultra phone. It has a 200-megapixel main camera - 200 million pixels - and a large 6.8-inch OLED display with the highest peak brightness on Android. It includes a stylus to enjoy this large digital canvas. It also runs on Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip.
If you live in North America or Samsung's home country of South Korea, where the Chinese brand is absent, no other phone comes close to what's on the spec sheet. Not even the latest iPhone, with its tiny 48MP camera and 3x optical zoom. In markets where big Chinese companies like Xiaomi and Vivo have a presence, like Hong Kong and Singapore, the S23 Ultra has competition. And while I still think the 1 inch sensors used in the top Vivo or Xiaomi phones still have a higher cap than Samsung's 200 megapixel cameras (in digital photography sensor size is more important than megapixel count ), Samsung's overall package is sleeker and more . delicate
Take, for example, the new Nightgraphy feature, which allows the S23 Ultra to take photos at night with starry skies. Or Astro's new time-lapse video that can create stunning star trails in video form. This is not only done by the camera hardware, but also by the camera's highly intelligent software which performs millions of algorithm-based operations every second.
But back to the 200MP main camera: it produces great HDR photos with accurate color and exposure most of the time, and unlike previous Samsung phones, it now focuses very quickly.
The amount of detail captured by the main camera in the photo above is excellent. The Galaxy S23 Ultra's 1/1.13-inch sensor size isn't the biggest of any phone, but those 200 million pixels combined with powerful software processing make for some really great photos. There is still some oversharpening, but not as bad as before.
Video performance is also excellent, with the best stabilization on any Android device to date, although the iPhone 14 Pro's video stabilization is still a long way off. You can see many video examples in the video below.
The epic zoom system that was the hallmark of the Galaxy Ultra phone is back, with a 3x zoom lens that's amazing for portraits and a 10x zoom that can actually zoom up to 30x digitally, which has always been proud pace. The image below is a 30x zoom on a photo of the blue bedroom, some images above. Considering the low light and 30x zoom, the photos are impressive.
The Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra also offers the usual IP68 water and dust resistance along with a 5,000mAh battery that can be charged wired or wirelessly. From the feel to the speakers, everything is top notch. As said, it's an ultra phone. But price tags also top out at $1,200 in the US and HK$10,698 in Hong Kong.
If the price is too high, Samsung offers two other S23 models that cost less but lack the 200MP camera and 10x zoom.
If you have the cash to spare and want the best Android phone in terms of overall package, then the Galaxy S23 Ultra is probably for you.
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