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In the early morning of February 2, Samsung officially launched the Galaxy S23 series of phones. The Galaxy S23 Ultra is naturally the focus of the three phones. After all, Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra held up the flagship of Samsung straight board after Samsung cancelled the Note series. In addition, in the development of Samsung for many years, the Samsung S series has also been called "Android King" by digital enthusiasts. CTOnews.com has already received this new phone, and now I would like to share the experience of Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra.

The Galaxy S23 Ultra in the hands of CTOnews.com is a distant black color match. The appearance basically continues the Galaxy S22 Ultra design language, but the thickness of the frame increases, and the grip feels strong. Because of the curved screen on the front of the phone and the rounded edge of the back panel, there is no sense of cutting when holding the phone. The overall feeling of the phone is "simple", the backplane is flat and simple, except for five independent lenses is Samsung Logo, and the four standard colors of wild green, distant black, foggy purple and leisurely white use green plant dye coloring process, the color is calm, especially low-key.

Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra front screen occupies a very high proportion, 6.8in screen lighting gives people a strong sense of visual impact, and the four R angles are small, very hard, there is a feeling of holding square glass in the hand. The front camera still uses the middle hole-digging method, and the narrow frame with large screen has obvious advantages. Although the curved screen Radian is further reduced compared with the Galaxy S22 Ultra, the curved screen can hardly be seen on the front when the phone is in use, but the narrowing of the left and right borders has been effectively improved, and the screen display screen appears to be very coordinated.

The middle frame of the mobile phone still uses the unique hard middle frame of the Ultra series, and there is only one microphone in the top middle frame, which is simple to look at. The uplift speaker is hidden at the connection between the upper middle frame and the screen, and the opening gap of the loudspeaker is very small, so it is not easy to find it even if you look at it up close. The bottom middle frame integrates "S-Pen", speakers, Type-C and SIM card slots.

Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra's "S-Pen" still uses the press pop-up type. When in use, just press the end of the pen, and "S-Pen" will pop up for a suitable distance. When the pen is pulled out, the phone will automatically load the relevant operation interface of "S-Pen" and display the remaining power of "S-Pen" at the top of the interface.

The three-dimensional size of the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra body is 163.4 x 78.1 × 8.9mm and the weight is 234g. Regardless of body weight or grip, the Galaxy S23 Ultra is more party-friendly. If you have smaller hands or are going to buy it for a girl, it's best to go offline to see if the grip is acceptable.

Generally speaking, the difference between the appearance of Galaxy S23 Ultra and Galaxy S22 Ultra is not big. The more vertical middle frame makes Galaxy S23 Ultra feel stronger. If you like a phone with a large, simple and low-key screen, then the appearance of Galaxy S23 Ultra is worth experiencing and trying.

The screen shows the Galaxy S23 Ultra screen, using Samsung's own top Dynamic AMOLED 2X screen, that is, the second generation Dynamic AMOLED dynamic screen. Other hardware parameters, Galaxy S23 Ultra screen resolution of 3088 × 1440, screen peak brightness 1750nit, support 1-120Hz adaptive refresh rate, and cover the surface with gorilla Victus 2 new generation glass.

The screen color has been tested by CTOnews.com, and when the mobile phone color mode is set to "bright" state, the Galaxy S23 Ultra screen color gamut can reach 100% DCI-P3 and 86.5% Adobe RGB.

The gamut overlay is as follows:

Performance performance Galaxy S23 Ultra processor Snapdragon 8 Mobile platform (for Galaxy), the second generation of 4nm technology, this CPU is a special customized version of Samsung, compared with the standard version in terms of CPU and GPU frequency. According to the information provided by GeekBench 5, the super large core frequency of Galaxy S23 Ultra is 3.36GHz, which is slightly higher than the 3.2GHz frequency of Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 standard edition. The frequency of GPU has also increased from the standard version of 680MHz to 719MHz.

In terms of core architecture, the second generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform (for Galaxy) consists of 1 Cortex-X3, 2 Cortex-A715, 2 Cortex-A710 and 3 Cortex-A510. In terms of memory specification, Galaxy S23 Ultra has four configurations: "256GB / 8GB", "256GB / 12GB", "512GB / 12GB" and "1TB / 12GB". The storage specifications are LPDDR5X memory and UFS 4.0 storage.

In the part of performance test, CTOnews.com first tests the running score of Galaxy S23 Ultra. In the running score project of an Rabbit, the score of Galaxy S23 Ultra is more than 1.22 million, the score of GeekBench 5 is 1541, the score of multi-core is 4917, and the score of single core is about 1400 points higher than that of Snapdragon 8 Gen2 standard edition. In addition, in the 3D Mark Extreme test, the overall score was 3811 and the average frame rate was 22.8 FPS.

With the help of UFS 4.0 Galaxy S23 Ultra, it also achieved good results in AndroBench, with a sequential reading score of 3280.65 MB/s and a sequential writing score of 1384.06 MB/s, which was significantly higher than that of UFS 3.1.

In terms of game performance, CTOnews.com tested the Galaxy S23 Ultra through "Arena of Valor" and "the original God". The test environment was 25 ℃ at room temperature, the test time was 30 minutes, and the game was run in full high definition. First of all, there is "Arena of Valor". Because there is no adaptation to the game at present, the highest frame rate of "Arena of Valor" is only 60 FPS. After the two rounds of qualifying, the average frame rate of Galaxy S23 Ultra is 60 FPS and 59.8 FPS respectively. Stable frame index is 0.1 and 0.4 respectively, the whole game did not encounter stutter, dropped frames and other problems, the overall feeling of smooth operation, skills to follow.

Looking at the core performance from the CPU Clock, the eight cores are calm, and only the four cores of Cortex-A715 and Cortex-A710 have a frequency up to 1.78 GHz to ensure the stability of the frame rate.

Full core CPU Clock

Cortex-A715 、 Cortex-A710 CPU Clock

After the half-hour game test of "Arena of Valor", the highest temperature on the front of the phone was 37.5 ℃, and the highest temperature on the back was 37 ℃.

In the "original God" game test project, in high-definition mode, the test time is 30 minutes, and the average frame rate of the game is 58.1 FPS. In the actual play process, only occasional stutters occur when scenes are switched and menus are brought up, and there are no obvious stutters when brushing pictures and playing monsters.

Looking back at the CPU scheduling in the "original God" game, the 8 cores obviously began to work compared to the calmness of "Arena of Valor". The protagonist of the performance output is still four cores of the Cortex-A7 series, and three Cortex-A510 are stable in the low frequency range. The super-large nuclear Cortex-X3 only makes intermittent high-frequency output. On the whole, Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 in Galaxy S23 Ultra is not exhausted.

Full core CPU Clock

Cortex-A715 、 Cortex-A710 CPU Clock

Cortex-A510 CPU Clock

Cortex-X3 CPU Clock

After the end of the 30-minute "original God" test time, the highest temperature on the front of the phone was 44.5℃ and the highest temperature on the back was 44.2℃.

The image shows that Galaxy S23 Ultra is equipped with four lenses in the rear image configuration, with the following specifications:

1200 megapixel ultra wide angle lens (Dual Pixel)

200 megapixel wide-angle lens (Super Quad Pixel OIS)

1000 megapixel 10x optical zoom telephoto lens (Dual Pixel)

1000 megapixel 3x optical zoom telephoto lens (Dual Pixel)

In terms of specific photos, because Qingdao has been affected by haze weather for several days in a row, the daytime sample photo does not have very good light conditions. From the sample photo of Galaxy S23 Ultra, we can also see this. In the case of insufficient light, the sample taken by the mobile phone is close to the naked eye and does not excessively modify the color. At the same time, you can well grasp the light and dark contrast between the sky and the ground, while the sun is exposed at the same time. It can also clearly present the architectural details.

In daytime shooting, the Galaxy S23 Ultra also has a unique advantage-200 megapixels. When the 200 megapixel mode is turned on, the picture is clearer than the regular sample of 1200 megapixels, the picture details are significantly improved, and the edge transition is more natural.

The following is a sample of 200 megapixels and 1200 megapixels. Note: the original image may have compression, the original image size 20~30MB.

200 million pixel sample sheet

1200 megapixel sample sheet

More 200 megapixel samples:

In the complex indoor light environment, Galaxy S23 Ultra can clearly distinguish the differences between colors, and the degree of light restoration is very high. When watching on the mobile phone screen, the light with brightness brings a strong sense of contrast.

Night shooting is the highlight of the Galaxy S23 Ultra image upgrade. In order to improve the imaging effect in low light environment, Galaxy S23 Ultra brings 16-in-1 pixel technology. From the experience of shooting sample photos at night, Galaxy S23 Ultra gives people the impression of being clear, bright and less noisy, but due to the influence of haze weather, there will be "hazy" on the edge of some buildings when shooting large scenes, there is no problem with close-up shooting, and the sample feels natural and clear.

The Galaxy S23 Ultra also has a clear imaging performance after 3 times and 10 times the turn-on at night.

3X sample sheet

10x sample sheet

The overall color of the Galaxy S23 Ultra ultra-wide-angle sample is consistent with that of the main photo, and the edge distortion is small.

As the traditional advantage of the Galaxy S oversized cup, the 100x zoom is still retained in the Galaxy S23 Ultra. The overall experience of anti-shaking is stable enough that even if the hand is slightly shaken, it can still lock the target in a short time. The following samples are shot from near to far, with multiples of 1x, 3x, 10x, 30x and 100x in turn.

S-Pen experience S-Pen, as the iconic design of Samsung Note series, is naturally inherited from the S-series Ultra model. For this pen, many people may feel that there are not many opportunities to appear, but in fact, S-Pen can do far more than expected.

First of all, when you pull out the S-Pen for the first time, the system will prompt the basic play of the S-Pen, which mainly focuses on the keys in the middle of the S-Pen and allows the pen to achieve some functions through somatosensory gestures. When you are proficient in these operations, you can use S-Pen to remotely control the phone when you are not free. And different App, gesture manipulation will also be based on the needs, corresponding to different content. For the camera with the highest utilization rate, the camera mode, the switching between front and back, the selection of zoom lens, the start and pause of shooting and recording can all be solved with this pen. It is very convenient to shoot when traveling alone.

In addition, in the process of studying and operating these functions, there is a feeling of studying magic at Hogwarts. Just turn the S-Pen to the phone and the phone will respond accordingly, just like the plot in Harry Potter.

Finally, in Pentastic App, you can also customize the functions of S-Pen and UI, especially the double-click shortcut function. Through this function, you can press and hold the button in S-Pen and double-click the screen to perform App opening, translation, intelligent multi-screenshot and other functions, which is more friendly to people who need to switch between App frequently, such as computing, translation and so on.

At the same time, in Pentastic App, you can change the pointer style or touch sound, a variety of types, and even the pictures in the album can be used as pointer style, the game is novel.

When the mobile phone system detects that the S-Pen is not in the phone and has not operated for a long time, it will remind the user whether the S-Pen is still around, thus reducing the probability of loss to a certain extent.

T-Pen has its own translation function, which is very convenient for people who often deal with foreign languages. First of all, it is easy to operate. As long as you hold the pen over the top of the screen, S-Pen will automatically grab the text in the tip area, and the translation function is not limited to the official native App, the third-party App and even the English in the picture also support translation crawling.

Galaxy S23 Ultra supports translation between 25 languages, and can even translate traditional Chinese and classical Chinese. If there are students of the right age at home, it can play an auxiliary role.

In terms of the accuracy of S-Pen translation, the translation program is connected, and the translation results of classical Chinese refer to teaching textbooks, resulting in a low probability of error.

S-Pen of Galaxy S23 Ultra supports handwriting input and has excellent compatibility with third-party App. Thanks to the low latency of S-Pen, handwriting process notes are smooth, but if you want to use handwriting input, you must use Samsung keyboard input method.

To sum up, the deepest feeling of the Galaxy S23 Ultra is the improvement in performance and heat dissipation. Judging from the S-Series models in the past, it seems that we can hear the negative experience of heat dissipation in every generation. However, in the Galaxy S23 Ultra, I do not feel the deficiency in heat dissipation. I no longer feel warm in daily use, and the fever during the game has become acceptable.

In addition, in Galaxy S23 Ultra, I also experienced the comprehensiveness that Android King should have. No matter it is screen, image, performance, UI or fluency, it can bring users a comfortable and excellent feeling of use. "I have something you don't have, you have me better" seems to be the confidence revealed by Galaxy S23 Ultra.

Although there is no significant adjustment in the appearance of the Galaxy S23 Ultra, the user experience has been significantly improved. If you are a regular user of the Galaxy S21 series or below, I highly recommend the upgrade, and you will get an overall improvement in performance, power consumption and video. If you haven't used Samsung before and are recently ready to choose a high-quality phone in the Android camp, then judging from the performance of the Galaxy S23 Ultra, it's worth a try.

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