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The Samsung Galaxy S24 series is finally official. I’ve had some early hands-on time, and here’s everything you need to know.
Samsung Galaxy S24 series at a glance:
The Samsung Galaxy S24 series includes the S24, S24+, and S24 Ultra. Here are some specs for the S24 and S24+:
Samsung galaxy S24 series specs
Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 (4 nm) and Exynos 2400 (4 nm) – Global
Display: 6.2-inch FHD+ for the S24, and 6.7-inch QHD+ for the S24+ , brightness levels 2,600 nits,
Camera: 50 MP wide, 10 MP telephoto, 12 MP front
Memory and storage: Up to 12 GB RAM and 512 GB storage
Battery: 4,000 mAh for the S24 and 4,900 mAh for the S24+
OS: Android 14 with One UI 6.1
Water resistance: IP68
You know which device might be right for you. So as expected, we do have three new Samsung Galaxy S24 devices: the S24, the S24 Plus, and the S24 Ultra. They all look very similar to last year. We do have that triple-ring design. So as before, the S24 Ultra has more of a box-off design, and that’s because it does have the S pen. The S24 and the S24 Plus are smaller compared to the S24 Ultra, and they also have curved edges, which makes them a bit more comfortable.
Now, for the S24 and the S24 Plus, Samsung’s used what they’re calling a one-match design, so there’s a seamless connection between the rear and the side.
Samsung Galaxy S24 series Build Quality and Materials
And the frame is now enhanced armor aluminum, which is around 10% stronger than before. And it also has a matte finish, which I prefer compared to the glossy finish that we had on the S23 and the S23 Plus.
The S24 Ultra now has a titanium frame, which is supposed to give you improved durability as well as enhanced resistance against dense.
And we have Gorilla Glass Victus 2 on the S24 and the S24 Plus, both front and back. The S24 Ultra, although it still has a Gorilla Glass Victus 2 back, is now using brand-new Gorilla armor. This is exclusive to the S24 Ultra, and it can reduce reflections by up to 75%. It’s around four times more scratch-resistant, and it’s also using 25% recycled materials.
So it’s nice to see that we’ve got this update. And the S24 Ultra now has a flat display. The ultra devices traditionally had curved displays, but now they’ve gone all out flat. This will come down to your personal preference. I think curved displays look better, but flat displays are more practical, especially with the S pen. And they are easier to apply screen protectors to.
All devices do have an IP68 water and dust-resistant rating, and they are available in four colors. We’ve got a black, a gray, a violet, as well as a yellow. Samsung does like to give these colors some fancy names. I’ll put them on screen. For the S24 Ultra, all of the colors are called titanium. So titanium, gray, black, violet, as well as yellow.
However, there are some exclusive colors that are going to be available directly from Samsung for the S24, the S24 Plus, and the S24 Ultra. There’s a blue and an orange, as well as a green.
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Now, the size of the devices is very similar to what we had last year, and the weight of them is maybe a few grams here and there, but also very similar.
Samsung Galaxy S24 series Display
But the S24 and the S24 plus do We have slightly larger displays compared to the S23 and the S23 Plus, and that’s because we have slightly smaller bezels. So, the S24 now has a 6.2-inch display, the S24 Plus has a 6.7-inch display, and the S24 Ultra has the same 6.8-inch display.
All displays have dynamic AMOLED 2X technology. We’ve got an Infinity-O punch-out. This is slightly smaller compared to what we had last year. And all devices do have LTP 4.0 technology, so that’s an adaptive refresh rate.
So they can all go up to 120 hertz, making everything very smooth. But they can also go all the way down to just one hertz, making things efficient. All devices now also have a peak brightness of 2,600 nits, which is very bright and much brighter compared to the 1750 nits of last year.
Now, the S24 has the same resolution, full HD+, which is still really good. But the S24 Plus has now been updated to have a quad HD Plus resolution, so things are going to be sharper.
And we’ve also got a quad HD+ resolution on the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra.
Samsung Galaxy S24 series have the same Gen 2 Qualcomm 3D Sonic sensor. This hasn’t really been changed for the past few years, but it works absolutely fine.
Samsung Galaxy S24 series Camera
Now, let’s talk about the Samsung galaxy S24 series cameras. The S24 and the S24 Plus do have the same hardware as we had last year. So it’s a 12-megapixel selfie camera, a 12-megapixel ultra-wide camera, a 50-megapixel primary camera, as well as a 10-megapixel telephoto camera, which is going to give you three times optical zoom and up to 30 times digital zoom, which Samsung calls space zoom.
Now, although the hardware is the same, we do have a new image signal processor as well as a new software optimizer station, which should improve the images.
The S24 Ultra has the same selfie camera, 12 megapixels, a 12 megapixel ultra-wide camera, a 200 megapixel primary camera, and a 10 megapixel three-time zoom telephoto camera.
But we do have a brand new periscope zoom camera. This is 50 megapixels, and it’s going to give you up to five times optical zoom, up to 10 times lossless zoom, and up to 100 times space zoom.
Now, this is something that I’m looking forward to testing a lot more because it does have a lower optical zoom compared to the S23 Ultra, but it does have a higher resolution of 50 megapixels. So in theory, it should still give you lossless zoom at 10X. I’ve done some brief testing on this.
It does look pretty good, but once again, we are going to be doing detailed comparisons to see how well it really performs.
The new 50-megapixel periscope camera can also take in 160% more light, and it also has a two-times wider OIS, so it should also be improved for low light.
Photos and Video review of Galaxy S24 Series
For Photo, something new that we’ve got across all of the devices is the new Pro-visual AI engine. This is going to give you some really interesting AI photo editing features. So, once you’ve taken an image, you can go inside the Samsung Gallery, and then you can tap these three stars. And then you’re going to get lots of editing suggestions, such as being able to remove a reflection, turning a regular photo into a portrait mode photo, as well as some generative editing features.
These are similar to what we’ve seen on the Pixel 8 Pro devices. So, for instance, if you do want to remove people from the background, you’re going to be able to do that. You can select subjects, change their sizes, and move them around. And if you’ve got a friend who can never take a good straight picture, then you can actually rotate the image in a pulse, and generative AI will fill in the gaps.
Now, a lot of these features are cloud-based, so they do need an Internet connection, and they do take a bit of time, but some of the results are quite impressive so far.
For video, we do have 8K up to 30 frames a second, and this year, we do have 4K up to 120 frames a second. Now, this is going to be in the Pro video mode, so it’s not going to be available as standard. And there’s also a new instant slow-motion feature. So you can just long-press a video that you’ve got in the gallery, and then it’s going to use AI to generate intermediate frames and slow down that video for you.
There are lots of new AI features for photos and videos, which I’m not sure how often I’m going to be using, but I am definitely looking forward to trying them out.
Samsung Galaxy S24 Series Specs and performance.
So the S24 Ultra is going to have a consistent chipset across the board, no matter which region you buy it from. It’s going to be powered by the
Qualcomm Snapdragon:
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 for the Galaxy. This is going to have a slightly higher clock speed compared to just the standard 8 Gen 3 that you’re going to have on other devices.
Samsung Exynos Processor:
The S24 and the S24 Plus will have the Samsung Exynos Processor 2400 for Galaxy in some regions, and that includes the UK. In other regions, they will have the 8 Gen 3 for Galaxy like the S24 Ultra has. But we’ve gone back to what Samsung used to do with different chipsets for the different devices in different regions. Now, I can’t really comment on the Samsung Exynos 2400 because I haven’t tested it out yet. This is going to be a specific version for the Galaxy. So this, once again, will have a high clock speed compared to the Samsung Exynos 2400 on other devices.
RAM:
The S24 will come with eight gigabytes of RAM. The S24 Plus and the S24 Ultra will come with 12 gigabytes of RAM.
Storage:
They will also come with a base of 256 gigabytes of storage. We’ve got a 512-gigabyte version on both as well. However, the S24 Ultra does have a specific one-terabyte version if you are somebody who really needs that storage.
Ultra does have a specific one-terabyte version if you are somebody who really needs that storage. The S24 will have 128 as well as 256 gigabytes of storage options. Now the S24 Ultra also has a 1.9-times larger vapor chamber.
So that’s going to give you enhanced heat dissipation. So it’s going to give you more sustained performance. And all devices do have LPDDR5X RAM. So that’s some of the fast SRAM available. And the devices with either 256 bytes or above will have UFS 4.0 storage.
OS Firmware
Now let’s talk about the software. So we will have Android 14 out of the box with one UI version, 6.1.1. Now Samsung has promised seven generations of Android OS updates. Now, this is pretty impressive. It brings it in line with the Google Pixel devices.
And Samsung has been really, really good with software updates. And you must have heard it already. There is a big, big push on some of the AI software features that we’ve got on the new S24 series. I’m going to run through as many as I can, the ones that I’ve tested.
Language Translator
The first one is a live translation. This is real-time AI two-way translation, which will support 13 languages at launch, with more coming later. So if you’re abroad and you want to book a table and you don’t speak the local language, you could just call up and then just speak in English.
And it’s going to translate that and make the other person here speak that local language. When they reply, it’s again going to translate that back to you, and the person on the other side doesn’t have to have an S24 series device.
They could have an iPhone. There’s the interpreter feature. So once again, if you want to speak to somebody who speaks a different language, you can just speak in your language, and then it’s going to translate that over to them.
Now, this did get a couple of words wrong when I was testing it, Super Sack. But hey, that is something that’s quite specific, but everything else did seem to translate pretty well. There’s chat assistance, which will adjust the tone of the conversation that you’re having.
So if you want it to sound more professional, it’s going to be able to do that. If you want it to sound more fun, it can add in. emojis and things like that too. Browsing assistance is pretty cool. It can point out key facts and summarize a webpage for you, similar to what we’ve seen on Google Pixel devices.
They’re circled to search, so you can just press and hold the home button and circle anything on screen, either with your finger or the S Pen on the S24 Ultra, and it’s going to give you more information about it.
This also works with the camera, so you can just point your camera at something, hold the home button, and then just circle around it. And there are also some updates on Android Auto, so you can now have a single UI 6.1.1 interface on Android Auto, and it’s going to use AI to determine your location.
If somebody messages you, you can reply to them with your ETA. So many new AI features. Once again, I’m not sure how often I’m going to use all of them, but some I do think I would use quite often. For the speakers, we have stereo speakers on all three devices with Dolby Atmos, and for the batteries,.
Battery
So the S24 Ultra does have the same size battery as the S23 Ultra, 5,000 milliamps. The S24 and the S24 Plus actually have larger batteries compared to the S23 and the S23 Plus. So the S24 has 100 milliamps more, or 4,000 milliamps.
The S24 Plus has a 4,900 milliamp battery, so that’s actually 200 milliamps more compared to the S23 Plus. And it brings it very close to the S24 Ultra. Now the S24 Ultra obviously still needs space for the S-Pen, so that’s probably the reason why they’ve not been able to increase their battery size.
But the S24 Plus—I mean, that’s a big battery. For charging, we don’t have any changes. All of them do not come with a charger out of the box. The S24 can support 25 watts of wide charging. The S24 Ultra and the S24 Plus can support up to 45 watts of wide charging.
WIFI Connectivity
All three devices do have up to 15 watts of wireless charging support. For connectivity, we’ve got Bluetooth 5.3 across all three. The S24 and the S24 Plus have Wi-Fi 6E. The S24 Ultra does have support for Wi-Fi 7, so if you do have a compatible router, then you will be getting some very high speeds.
Price
The S24 Plus and the S24 Ultra also have ultra-wideband technology. Finally, pricing and availability. So the S24 and the S24 Plus will be starting at the same price as the S23 and the S23 Plus in the US, so that’s around $800 or $1,000
In the UK, we’re actually getting a price reduction, so the S24 is going to start at around 800 pounds and the S24 Plus is going to start at around 1,000 pounds. This is around 50 pounds cheaper compared to what we had on the S23 and the S23 Plus last year.
The S24 Ultra, however, in the UK, is going to start at the same price as the S23 Ultra, so that’s 1,250 pounds. In the US, it’s going to be increased by $100, so it’s going to start at $1,300, whereas the S23 Ultra started at $1,200.
