S23 ultra user here, you are probably going to see a significant difference jumping from the exynos variant s22U but tbh the night time shots and the motion blur is still awful.
I don’t understand how people compare this to the iPhone’s (14/15 series too) camera and says it beats it, during day time and in well lit surroundings sure it does really well but that’s like every other high end phone at this point, but as soon as it’s night time with even medium lit surroundings the phone struggles to take anything useful and the night time videos turn out to be very choppy (4k 60 fps looks more like 1080p 30-45 fps or something). the post processing that samsung does on those night time shots makes it further a blurry mess, the skies are whitened and some unusual white bands visible. I have tried turning off scene optimizer and tweaked a few other things on camera assistant but yeah it hasn’t helped much. The new lens that s23U has with large aperture messes up the focus on things even close by. coming from a galaxy A51 which is a low tier midrange phone from like 3 years ago, I was expecting something a lot better but it’s bad still.
That being said everything else, this phone delivers (and arguably it beats everyone else including the latest iPhone 15s), its crazy fast, really really smooth and snappy when it comes to multi tasking,I’ve had no stutters or random issues so far, battery life is inconsistent with the updates but atleast I get anywhere between 6.5-9 hours of screen on time and around 12-15 hours of screen off time from 100-20%. The front cam is insanely underrated, takes really good portrait selfies and decent night time shots. The 200MP captures really good details in well lit areas (but again horrible in any other lighting conditions). The 100x zoom is wild and the processing helps get some really good details out of it.
I would say if you’re getting it purely for the camera and the ease of use when it comes to communicating with others who are also on iOS, iPhones are the way to go, everything else s23U gives a far superior experience. most of these camera issues I believe can be fixed from a software perspective but these exist in every other samsung phone and I don’t really expect anything to be fixed soon (android 14, one ui 6 is around the corner and there isn’t any news on these issues fixed, all they did related to camera was change the camera UI), maybe with the s24U release and possibly one ui 6.1, hoping for something that is better.
S23 ultra user here, you are probably going to see a significant difference jumping from the exynos variant s22U but tbh the night time shots and the motion blur is still awful.
I don’t understand how people compare this to the iPhone’s (14/15 series too) camera and says it beats it, during day time and in well lit surroundings sure it does really well but that’s like every other high end phone at this point, but as soon as it’s night time with even medium lit surroundings the phone struggles to take anything useful and the night time videos turn out to be very choppy (4k 60 fps looks more like 1080p 30-45 fps or something). the post processing that samsung does on those night time shots makes it further a blurry mess, the skies are whitened and some unusual white bands visible. I have tried turning off scene optimizer and tweaked a few other things on camera assistant but yeah it hasn’t helped much. The new lens that s23U has with large aperture messes up the focus on things even close by. coming from a galaxy A51 which is a low tier midrange phone from like 3 years ago, I was expecting something a lot better but it’s bad still.
That being said everything else, this phone delivers (and arguably it beats everyone else including the latest iPhone 15s), its crazy fast, really really smooth and snappy when it comes to multi tasking,I’ve had no stutters or random issues so far, battery life is inconsistent with the updates but atleast I get anywhere between 6.5-9 hours of screen on time and around 12-15 hours of screen off time from 100-20%. The front cam is insanely underrated, takes really good portrait selfies and decent night time shots. The 200MP captures really good details in well lit areas (but again horrible in any other lighting conditions). The 100x zoom is wild and the processing helps get some really good details out of it.
I would say if you’re getting it purely for the camera and the ease of use when it comes to communicating with others who are also on iOS, iPhones are the way to go, everything else s23U gives a far superior experience. most of these camera issues I believe can be fixed from a software perspective but these exist in every other samsung phone and I don’t really expect anything to be fixed soon (android 14, one ui 6 is around the corner and there isn’t any news on these issues fixed, all they did related to camera was change the camera UI), maybe with the s24U release and possibly one ui 6.1, hoping for something that is better.