Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra: Samsung’s Best Smartphone To Date
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Samsung’s decision to streamline its premium smartphone offering last year with the Galaxy S22 Ultra proved to be a great decision, merging the functionality of the Galaxy Note series with the flexibility of the Galaxy S series. It paid off for the company last year, and 2023’s iteration, the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, keeps that journey on the right track with some interesting new additions alongside tried-and-true features.
While much of Samsung’s focus this year is on camera and productivity improvements, the first thing that captures the eye is the S23 Ultra’s 6.8-inch AMOLED display. Fans of big smartphones won’t be disappointed as colors vividly pop off of perhaps the best display we’ve seen on a Samsung smartphone to date.
Samsung says it optimized the display specifically for gaming and video, and it feels like that is exactly what it is doing under its Gorilla Glass Victus 2 casing. Multimedia visuals are engrossing in a way that I rarely experience when using smartphones without sacrificing frame rate.
That level of performance is powered by the device’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy processor, a version of Qualcomm’s leading Android chip that features accelerated CPU and GPU speeds that boost the S23 Ultra’s multimedia experience. The chip is also a major contributor toward the device’s camera improvements. According to ZDNet, the chip powers a feature called Semantic Segmentation that recognizes numerous features of photos and videos in real-time and optimizes them.