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Customer Review
Reviewed in India on 29 October 2023
First and foremost I would like to say that there is nothing great about this smartphone. What I mean is this is a jack of all trades kind of thing.
1. Design and display - Look wise this thing is a beauty. Weight is slightly higher than what I would like but not a deal breaker. That nipple notch people complain about is not even an issue as your brain automatically gets used to it fairly quickly.
Coming to display this is my first samsung phone and as everyone says samsung panels are the best and they are not wrong. Sharpness is great,colors produced are excellent and black and whites are rich and detailed all the way. Brightness is more than good enough for both outdoor use and use in dark room at night as it does get very dim so your eyes don't strain as much.
2. Camera - Both rear and front produce really good photo and video quality given the lighting conditions are good. Low light quality is decent enough. Photos come out a little saturated but nothing over the top. Although sometimes I feel there is a slight shutter lag when there are lots of details in the frame. Front camera produces ample details and good skin tones.
3. Performance- There is no lag in the UI or any heavy apps . Everything runs buttery smooth provided 120hz refresh rate setting is always on. I did some casual gaming and there were no frame drops or jitters whatsoever. Also I would like to add if you want to go for heavy gaming you would want to go to game launcher settings and turn high performance mode and also a setting that turns on high frame rate with touch controls. All in all this is more than good enough for 90% of things you throw at it.
4. Battery - After reading many mixed reviews I was quite skeptical about battery life but man was I proven wrong. After finishing setup and installing 30plus apps I full charged my phone and did a complete one day (24hrs)heavy usage to check battery life . I easily got 8plus SOT on mixed 5g and wifi ,screen brightness ranging from 30-80%. Usage ranged from social media, YouTube, camera , some games, phone customization and both network and whatsapp calls. Battery idle drain is also very minimal.
5. Speakers - This is where things get weird. Don't get me wrong the sound is Rich loud and dare I say brilliant. But there is one issue. Whenever you turn Dolby atmos on and keep volume around 40% the back panel near the bottom will vibrate and its the annoying kind of vibrations. I tried with a case but there was not much difference. You need to learn to hold slightly differently or ignore it.
6. Price - After coupons and bank offers I got a pretty good deal and feel like this is a value for money phone. (Avoid it if you get it around 28k or more.)
7. Charging- There is no charger provided so add another 1k to your total budget. Charging while on the slow side comparatively a 25 W samsung charger takes around 25 minutes to go from 20-85% which is the range we should be charging our phones anyway to make the batteries working life as long as possible so charging time is not an issue for me personally .
8. Network - Network seems to be good enough on both 5g ,LTE and wifi. No call drops or voice breaks whatsoever. Internet speeds are very good as well.
9. Fingerprint sensor - This is another area which has annoyed me . Setting up fingerprints is easy but very rarely it just behaves like a stubborn child and doesn't want to work at all. I needed to restart the device two times which fixed the issue. Otherwise most of the times it's reliable( works 9/10 attempts) and decently fast ( takes .75 seconds approximately).
This is it guys . All in all a good device with very few compromises. Heavy gamers should look elsewhere though. I would update review after a major update is available. Thank you.
1. Design and display - Look wise this thing is a beauty. Weight is slightly higher than what I would like but not a deal breaker. That nipple notch people complain about is not even an issue as your brain automatically gets used to it fairly quickly.
Coming to display this is my first samsung phone and as everyone says samsung panels are the best and they are not wrong. Sharpness is great,colors produced are excellent and black and whites are rich and detailed all the way. Brightness is more than good enough for both outdoor use and use in dark room at night as it does get very dim so your eyes don't strain as much.
2. Camera - Both rear and front produce really good photo and video quality given the lighting conditions are good. Low light quality is decent enough. Photos come out a little saturated but nothing over the top. Although sometimes I feel there is a slight shutter lag when there are lots of details in the frame. Front camera produces ample details and good skin tones.
3. Performance- There is no lag in the UI or any heavy apps . Everything runs buttery smooth provided 120hz refresh rate setting is always on. I did some casual gaming and there were no frame drops or jitters whatsoever. Also I would like to add if you want to go for heavy gaming you would want to go to game launcher settings and turn high performance mode and also a setting that turns on high frame rate with touch controls. All in all this is more than good enough for 90% of things you throw at it.
4. Battery - After reading many mixed reviews I was quite skeptical about battery life but man was I proven wrong. After finishing setup and installing 30plus apps I full charged my phone and did a complete one day (24hrs)heavy usage to check battery life . I easily got 8plus SOT on mixed 5g and wifi ,screen brightness ranging from 30-80%. Usage ranged from social media, YouTube, camera , some games, phone customization and both network and whatsapp calls. Battery idle drain is also very minimal.
5. Speakers - This is where things get weird. Don't get me wrong the sound is Rich loud and dare I say brilliant. But there is one issue. Whenever you turn Dolby atmos on and keep volume around 40% the back panel near the bottom will vibrate and its the annoying kind of vibrations. I tried with a case but there was not much difference. You need to learn to hold slightly differently or ignore it.
6. Price - After coupons and bank offers I got a pretty good deal and feel like this is a value for money phone. (Avoid it if you get it around 28k or more.)
7. Charging- There is no charger provided so add another 1k to your total budget. Charging while on the slow side comparatively a 25 W samsung charger takes around 25 minutes to go from 20-85% which is the range we should be charging our phones anyway to make the batteries working life as long as possible so charging time is not an issue for me personally .
8. Network - Network seems to be good enough on both 5g ,LTE and wifi. No call drops or voice breaks whatsoever. Internet speeds are very good as well.
9. Fingerprint sensor - This is another area which has annoyed me . Setting up fingerprints is easy but very rarely it just behaves like a stubborn child and doesn't want to work at all. I needed to restart the device two times which fixed the issue. Otherwise most of the times it's reliable( works 9/10 attempts) and decently fast ( takes .75 seconds approximately).
This is it guys . All in all a good device with very few compromises. Heavy gamers should look elsewhere though. I would update review after a major update is available. Thank you.
