#Chat about new digital products#[Galaxy River, one-handedly controlled] Galaxy S23 two-week evaluation
Naoki Shinonome
Preface:
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After holding the note20Ultra, he was devastated by the giant screen machine on the little finger. Been waiting for a really good small-screen flagship like the S10 to appear.
Unfortunately, Lu Teddy does not understand what users want, he is like Cook, a businessman, and he does not have Cook's life and thinking. From S21 to S22, two fire dragons plus Lu Teddy's confusing knife technique reduced 21 to electronic waste and 22 to electronic vases.
Finally, with the blessing of 8G2, the S23 came, which is a small machine that is not good enough, but competent enough, and it is also after the S20, Samsung once again made a small cup that can be called "flagship".
(Applause!) Order arrives in one go)
First:
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Regarding the S23 exterior, I would like to call it a 23-year ceiling, to be precise, this is probably the best generation of appearance under Lu Teddy.
I think that excellent design must be simplified, the back panel removed the plaster of the S21S22, closer to the design of Ultra, but because there are not so many holes in Ultra, it is more simple and beautiful than Ultra.
Good design must be simple and harmonious
The back plate design of the S23 is similar to the S10, and in the generation of the S10, there is only a horizontal lens module on the back, and there are no extra elements. The back of the S23 is not as impressive as the S10. But also in the 5G era once again achieved the word "concise", on the other hand, domestic manufacturers, what are the Paris nails, and what is the focus ring, and have to mark the aperture focal length of the full mark, I really is.
The fine matte on the back is very texture-enhancing and delicate with just the right amount of damping, but I think this matte is not as good as Huawei's hahahaha
The frame of the armored aluminum is really solid and thick
, this edge does have Apple's stainless steel feeling, the boot button and volume button are designed on the right side of the fuselage, the button design belongs to a relatively wide type, the occasion of holding it with one hand, the thumb just falls naturally on the position of the power button.
Back to the front, unlike the S22's screen curved edge fitting border design, the S23's screen is a flat design, completely wrapped in an armored aluminum border, which can be well protected, but this design appears wider than the S22, depending on whether the user likes this design. The four sides are equally wide is a plus, and the day before yesterday a colleague asked me if I was an apple ...
In terms of grip feeling, it is still difficult to say a word, I don't understand why a 168g machine should have such a straight side, Asi, is it bad to have a hyperbolic sandwich like the S10? People find x6 have learned it, Samsung itself threw it
Fortunately, the size control of the fuselage is excellent, and the feel is relieved after the shell
But why is the official shell still straight! Yes!
。 Under the bare machine, the little finger is no longer painful, but the middle finger and ring finger begin to panic
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However, I can finally control it with one hand! This is the only 6.1in size vial flagship available in Android!
Intrinsic:
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Let's talk about screens first
This is the most concerned issue for many old Samsung users, and I am too, from the top 2KOLED to 6.1in 1080p, I am very entangled. So I sat hard in the physical store for an hour before placing an order, specifically compared with the screen of Note20u in my hand, and confirmed that there was no problem before I made up my mind to buy.
Looking at a distance of more than 15cm, the picture and the text are almost exactly the same as 2k, and I think my eyes are very good. Below 15cm, the image display can still be considered to have no gaps, but for the text display, the upper and lower horizontal strokes can be detected at this time. Getting closer, at around 10cm, you can detect a 1080p grid feeling, while the N20U and S23U of the 2K screen do not have this feeling.
I think no one uses a mobile phone and puts 10cm on their face for a long time
In fact, the S23, as a vial of 6.1, has 425ppi, and for comparison, the PPI of the Mate 50Pro's 1.5K screen is 428. So there's no problem with finesse.
The experience of high brush is very strong, thanks to three generations of polishing, S23's adaptive high brush basically has no problem of cutting or sudden frame drop. Cutting from 48 to 120 is almost imperceptible.
In terms of color management, vivid mode is native color gamut, supports five levels to adjust the white point value, natural mode usually displays content in SRGB, supports DCIP 3 color gamut switching with color profile, and does not support white point value adjustment. Album HDR rendering is not supported. This level, very pulled, has been surpassed by the flagship of domestic machines,
From a viewing point of view, I think there is no improvement
, at 45° tilt, there is still a problem of blue, but the brightness attenuation is well controlled.
This 1080p screen still uses low-frequency PWM dimming, which should be emphasized that long-term use is much more tiring than Note20U. Probably adaptive means: you adapt to this dimming yourself
The excitation brightness is given to 1750nit, which is absolutely enough outdoors, which is not as good as some domestic machines, but the viewing angle is better. I think it is not advisable to change some viewing angles for a moment to excite the brightness. More attention should be paid to the time when the outdoor excitation brightness can be full. The outdoor excitation brightness duration of the s23 I think has improved a lot, as a strip of police when from time to time to take out the mobile phone to check the information, the current two weeks of use, really have not encountered the situation of light up and wilting.
The automatic brightness call is very sensitive and can well correspond to the realistic ambient brightness changes.
About the external playback: The improvement of the external playback is still very large, and the listening sensation is better than the note20ultra, which is gone
Battery life & charging
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It has to be said that a large part of the reason for buying the S23 is that as a vial, the battery life is available
I am too lazy to toss the kind of person, the settings imported from Note20U are directly followed, without any optimization, in the all-day traffic, outdoor excitation brightness, connect watch5 to turn on real-time monitoring, connect buds2 to listen to songs, turn on AOD, the bright screen battery life can reach 5 to 6h, which is quite difficult for the vial machine. Back then, the S10+ lasted only 5 hours, and the S10 of the same size was 4 hours on the street.
In terms of charging, the fine tradition of Samsung 25W is followed, and it is still full in about 10 minutes an hour
And the bright screen is still a 5W classic car
Generally, flush a little in the morning, go to bed at noon, and use it for a day. But I will still be very envious of the domestic 120W fast rush, which determines whether the user brings a charging treasure or a charging head when going out to play
Games & heat
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Still like that, Samsung, not suitable for gaming
。 I usually only play a naval battle, one game is 15 minutes, and in about 6 minutes I have started to lock the frame, dropping from 120 to 60. Summer is only going to get worse, and it may have something to do with game optimization.
To be honest, Samsung still has a big gap with domestic machines in playing games. And the heat is still not to be underestimated, the small cup S23 does not do heat dissipation, plus the straight screen is not excessive, and the border is wide.
The heat is all concentrated in the upper border position, and I did not specifically measure the heat, but I am sure that if this temperature is held for a long time, it will cause low-temperature burns. It is recommended to play in the shell.
As for Samsung's traditional performing arts, the pool dissipates heat, which has an effect, but it is not desirable
The design of the earpiece this time is very strange, even if the earpiece is specially avoided when washing, it will cause the earpiece to explode.
camera
The main camera is a 5000W S5KGN3, and the lens set is equivalent to 23mm
The ultra-wide is the IMX564 of 1200W, and the lens set is equivalent to 13mm
The telephoto is a 1000W S5K3K1, and the lens set is equivalent to 66mm
As a 6.1in vial machine, it can cover the entire commonly used focal length, which is a big plus.
Video recording is the only Android that can wrestle with Apple
Samsung's original camera still has the problem of over-pressing highlights, which has been bothering me since the S10 era, so my samples are all AGC shots.
The sample is as follows, I emphasize again, don't pay too much attention to the photography function of the mobile phone, don't be brainwashed by the big V and media KOL, you buy a mobile phone, the photography function he brings you is portable recording, not how good the shot is. I hate the current ethos of the assessment, 20 minutes of video, 15 minutes of a broken camera. If you like to take pictures, or have certain photography needs, please buy a camera, and learn photography related knowledge, for photography, a good mind is more important than equipment, rather than blindly demanding mobile phone photography is better.
About OneUI
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OneUI has come to version 5.1, and as someone who has used it all the way from One UI 1.0, it is getting harder and harder to use. Translation problems persist,
As for the problem of confusing the setting logic, I feel okay, old Samsung users are still very adaptive to this. The main thing is that there is a localization problem, Samsung probably has a wrong understanding of localization, now that so many versions have come, Bixby is becoming more and more difficult to use, and s23 has also begun to pre-install a lot of junk software
, this is what Samsung understands as localization. To be honest, it is not as real as the Hong Kong version.
My biggest obsession with oneui is One Hand Operation, which is probably the pinnacle of gesture manipulation. It is really difficult to adapt to the gesture logic of other Android machines after using OHO, just as it is difficult to adapt to Apple's return after using Android
Deficiencies
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8G RAM, which is very speechless, only 8G RAM, although Samsung's background control is very confusing, unlike other manufacturers, 8G is enough. Usually open old apps and don't see the problem of killing the background, but this is the same as the 1080p screen, which is a real slot. It's better to drive RAM Plus on usual
I don't support expansion cards, when I changed from Note20U, the most serious problem was the shortage of storage space, my Note20U is 256, but I have nearly 100G of lossless music stored in the expansion card. Now that expansion cards are not supported, the 256 suddenly seems stretched, and the 512 is limited to the official website
I bought the 512 version from the flagship store, killed the 6499, and I knew that the future would dive, and I can only say that this is really the same as eating nine turns of the intestine
Vibration, many people think that the X-axis of S23 is okay? But I think so-so, especially from the Z-axis of the Note20U, missing Samsung's traditional deafening ship flute, I always feel that it is not tasteful, especially when the news comes to feel that it is easy to mistake. Typing feedback is also not as powerful as the original z-axis. Fortunately, in the vibration intensity, you can choose to play sound through the speaker to simulate the traditional Samsung Z-axis whistle
Confused airtightness, I'm not sure if it's a workmanship problem, but my S23 airtight curve is like this, obviously not as reliable as my old note's "several" airtight. Although you can also go into the water, you will still be slightly worried. In particular, as mentioned above, when avoiding the handset flushing, it still causes the earpiece to explode, and I am not sure what the reason is. Other users do not know if this is the case
Digression: About the trade-off with the Xiaomi Mi 13
At that time, a friend also suggested that I choose the well-received Xiaomi 13 in China, and even a certain Samsung group owner has replaced the Xiaomi Mi 13 as the main machine
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I have also experienced the Xiaomi Mi 13 many times offline and feel that it is a very golden mean machine. The size of 6.36in, but the width is controlled at 71.5, the battery life is 23, and the 5G bright screen can reach more than 8 hours. And with the optional 12g RAM, the price is even cheaper. I also think that the Xiaomi Mi 13 is a more suitable choice for most people compared to the S23. But unfortunately, I feel that 6.36in and a whopping 189g of weight still do not meet my expectations for a vial. The positioning of the Xiaomi Mi 13 seems to me more similar to the S20+, and the weight of the two is also closer.
On the screen, the PPI of the S23 is higher, and the screen difference of the Xiaomi Mi 13 is still using a 1080p screen at the size of 6.36in, and its look and feel is closer to the S23+, which can be seen at the normal use distance. In addition, the Xiaomi Mi 13's viewing angle and black field display also have problems, which are reflected in the picture, and the black part cannot be darkened.
Finally, I dissuaded me from the Xiaomi 13, or the ID design on the back, too mediocre, and the matrix design of the S20 that year really has a fight.
In terms of fingerprint unlocking, this ultrasonic fingerprint of the S23 is also better than the optical fingerprint of the Xiaomi Mi 13.
S23 does not beat Xiaomi 13 in hard parameters, but it has a smaller size, lighter weight, more exquisite workmanship, and a better looking backplane design, and the user groups of the two do not conflict.
For me, I just want the 6.1in Android vial king, and I know that the parameters of the Xiaomi Mi 13 in all aspects are completely victorious, but the 6.36in, 189G, and the ID design of the back panel actually excluded the Xiaomi Mi 13 from the purchase choice from the beginning.
Yo West, take a selfie
Write at the end
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The Galaxy S series has gone through thirteen years. Experienced the glory of S8, S10, but also experienced the trough of S21, S22. The note series was integrated into the S ultra, fold and z to become Samsung's new bet, the traditional S, since the s22, abandoning the once warm pebble feel. S23 is a vial discarded child accidentally saved by 8gen2.
Although we hate Lu Teddy's knife skills, we all expect him to step down quickly, and he used the three generations of S21, S22, and S23 to successfully take Gao Dongzhen's little market share in S10 to return to the Chinese market.
But what can I say, today, when the entire Android market has almost abandoned the 6.1in small size phone, the existence of the S23 is tantamount to a shooting star across the night sky. Even if she's not as extreme as the S10, and even if she's an iteration of the S10e at best, she's the only optional 6.1in small-size Android flagship on the market right now.
Galaxy in one hand
Naoki Shinonome 2023.3.30
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