what's up guys we're here at the Samsung Galaxy experience here in San Francisco
and just to let you know Samsung did provide flights and accommodation but
they're not getting any sort of review and this is not sponsored by them so if
it's trash I'll let you know they're showing off the brand new s23 s23 plus
and s23 Ultra and we're excited to show it off so let's get right into it right
off the bat here we have the s23 and s23 Ultra there is the s23 plus as well but
we're not going to take a look at it as it's very similar to the s23 just with a
larger screen larger battery and slightly faster charging so if you like
this phone and want a bit bigger you should be safe to go for the plus size starting with design and this is
definitely a phone it's like Samson said let's take the essence of a phone and
boil it down into the most basic thing you can get and that's not a bad thing
it's a flat design it still has that kind of rounded corner so it fits nice
in your hand it's not quite that complete flat rails like the iPhone and
on the back there's no set of camera housing it's just the raw lenses which I
think looks nice but it's definitely gonna be something you want to put a case on because these are pretty exposed
looking around the phone on the right side we have our power button and volume
rocker on the bottom we have have a speaker USBC and SIM card tray well now
let's open it up but I feel like it's safe to assume it's a single nano SIM with an e-sim possibility on the left
side nothing and on the top nothing but a microphone
very plain you know you're not going to get those things that you know budget
phones somehow have like the IR blasters expandable storage or anything like that
but we haven't had those for years on these Flagship devices so it's nothing too surprising and of course on the
front we have the 6.1 inch full HD Plus AMOLED screen we're going to take a look
at the screen closer later though so let's move on to the ultra here we have
the ultra the phone for gamers let's take a look this one here it's big it's
a big phone if you like big phones if you had the s22 ultra you kind of know
what you're getting into but for someone who prefers smaller and flatter phones
this is very round and very big the screen is quite flat but the glass
itself falls off so you're still getting a pretty flat writing area for the pen
and you're not going to get as many accidental touches on the side here we
have the power button and volume rocker on the bottom we have our probably
single Sim slot our USBC as well as the
speaker Grille and S Pen I actually was a note user back with the Note 5 I think
it was and I loved it I think it was great for playing like Jack box or any
of those kind of drawing games or signing PDFs I worked at a bank at the
time and it was great to be able to sign something off and send it off just on my phone plus it's a great fidget toy
you'll be hearing that frequently when I'm around frequently
on the back it looks very similar to the s23 we have our four main Shooters here
compared to the three and then we have our laser autofocus module so again
you'll be getting some really quick focus and on the front we have the 6.7
inch Dynamic AMOLED 2x 120 hertz QHD
Plus oh and his Corning Gorilla Glass victus
2 as well so you know I'm a big fan of not dropping your phone but if you do this should be okay and it's Gorilla
Glass on the back as well speaking of we have a lot of different colors phones
are a major fashion accessory whether we like it or not so Samsung's got a few
different colors here that might tickle your fancy we have the lavender cream
green and Phantom black and I'm a big fan of the green my favorite color of
foam was a green iPhone 11 and this one might take the bill it's a nice almost a
flat matte that even though it's a gorilla glass it feels great in the hand
and the color reflects really well but if you don't like the color then you'll
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I'll wait I'll just be here are you coming back wait wait I gotta
say I was just taking off the case in the dbrand spot and the size of the regular s23 is nice I've been using the
OnePlus 11 5G for the last little while here stay tuned for that video and it's
big versus this fits so nicely in the hand and pocket so if the performance
can keep up this might be a really good option first let's go check out the display and speakers all right we've got
the regular s23 here so obviously we got to do a display and speaker test by
bumping crab Rave in this quiet Samsung Cafe cringe they don't have YouTube
premium
all right so the screen looks great of
course it's a Samsung phone they make some of the best screens in the game the
speakers are loud and not bad but I did notice a little bit of peaking in the
earpiece speaker so it doesn't have complete dedicated dual speakers outside
of the earpiece I think it's suffering a little bit because of it but it's not
awful it's definitely better than a lot of the other phones we've tried and
you know you're going to be fine playing crab Rave On The Bus like you usually do
as for colors it's that patented Samsung Vivid so if you like your colors really
Punchy this can look great and I'm sure there's ways to turn it down to a more neutral look but
as a normie I kind of just like it looking pleasing to the eye I'm not
going to watch Oppenheimer on this so I don't really care if it's not that gritty realistic look sometimes I just
want to have something that looks nice and this definitely does it all right
now let's check out the ultra and see if their speakers are better
all right same as s23 this sounds great I didn't notice that little bit of
cracklings maybe it's just this device that's been sitting out and being used last little bit but sounds phenomenal
again you're not getting the stereo separation as if there are two dedicated speakers but you're not going to
complain in a pinch you put this down on a table you're gonna be bumping a whole
freaking party show me what the party looks like I've
never been to one I didn't want you to find out like this that's the display
again amazing colors very Punchy in this Vivid mode very sharp and it takes a
little bit to get used to the fact that screen doesn't fall over the edge like past devices but again I think that's
nothing but a good thing The Accidental touches really aren't worth that little
bit of a waterfall effect that you get with that curved Edge and it still looks
really good one thing we noticed while getting this ready is that the pen was
low on battery so something to be aware of is an active pen it's probably
because of Bluetooth to use this as a remote or whatever when you push the button but
it's a trade-off it's something to be aware of at the very least obviously crab rave looks great but we're Gamers
which means we need to go to the gamer Zone to see if everything really looks good I'm in my zone the gaming Zone that
is we're here with the s23 ultra which Samsung is touting as being a gaming
Beast so let's talk some raw specs the s23 ultra has the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 but
it has a special overclocked version so you should get a performance bump over
the s23 as well as just other phones coming out in the next little bit here
which is pretty exciting also inside you can do eight gigs of ramp or gigs of RAM
and for the 16 gigs of RAM version you can go from 256 gigs all the way up to
one terabyte now that one terabyte one is only available through Samsung so for
someone who gets through a carrier you're a little bit out of luck but that's a lot of storage for a phone if
you use that much sus San Fran Baby I
Love New York overall Gaming's not too bad I mean it's
a mobile game it's one they have pre-loaded on this so I'm sure it's kind of optimized for this new device but it
loaded up really quick I tried closing it reopening it we've switched devices
to see if there's any difference and everything runs pretty smoothly David was even saying earlier that this looks
better than like a Nintendo switch game that if you saw you'd be like good job Nintendo this looks pretty good and it's
on this it's a little warm it's not too bad it is plugged in which is going to
add to that so something to be aware of you might get some sweaty hands uh I
don't think it's gonna be anything too bad especially with how large the device is it should be able to passively cool
just from the amount of glass that's being exposed to Fresh Air one thing to
note is that there are no s23s here in the gaming center and it just has the
regular Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 so it's going to perform a little worse but with the
latest Flagship socs I don't think there's gonna be any trouble running any
games that really exist but let us know if you want Labs to check it out hey I
won all right we're on set for where they filmed this moon landing in 1969.
we're already talking about cameras to see if they're really as good as paper
says so we got the s23 ultra here and there's a lot going on so we got two
telephoto lenses one at 3x and one at 10x both are 10 megapixel then we have a
12 megapixel Ultra wide and luckily enough all the cameras this year have
Optical image stabilization so you're not going to get any shaky Ultra wides
like you might have gotten last year what's really special is the 200
megapixel adaptive pixel main camera what adaptive pixel means is it takes
that 200 megapixel photo which is way too big to do anything with if you're
the average person and it turns every 16 pixels into one pixel so what that means
is that you're gonna get more brightness in each photo so that when you're taking photos at night you can still get
details in all the dark little crevices and Corners you're taking pictures of
now I'm gonna go to a shady back alley and see just how this does come on now
as you can see it's really dark in here so we're going to change the settings so
that you can see what's going on whoa daytime the night performance on
these is crazy we're not allowed to actually share these photos with you
even though by the time you're seeing this it's after the Embargo because I
don't want anything being transferred during this embargo in case something happens so we're just gonna have to film
the screen to show you but right off the bat the night performance is amazing the
Selfies are really well lit and the color of my skin especially being a
person of color color still look really natural and then on the main camera
itself it's like I'm taking a picture with an actual DSLR and tripod and yeah
these are all handhelds into the bright scenes of course everything looks great
the 10x Zoom surprisingly sharp even though it did miss the focus a little
bit I feel like if I had taken more time or put it on a tripod just to give the
ois a little bit of help maybe it would have been a little bit sharper but I'm still Blown Away they look really really
nice and again I wish I could show you the full resolution photos but I can for
video I was again really impressed no struggles at all and now we have the s23
so it has a 50 megapixel main shooter 12 megapixel Ultra wide and a 10 megapixel
telephoto which is three times we're gonna go into the dark room again and
take some pictures to see what we think looks good still it doesn't seem to be
as good as the the ultra level and I did have to manually adjust exposure a couple times
and that just might be the difference of grabbing that focus with the s23 ultra
is laser autofocus but everything still looked really good although things were
a little bit more grainy in the dark I think that you'll be really happy with
any photos that it takes mic quality was also great on both of them which is a
fantastic overall the s23 and s23 Ultra
look like amazing phones this is coming from a guy who's been on iPhone for a
long time and when I was on Android didn't really want to use Samsung because I thought it was just kind of
extra but trying out these things the amazing cameras the beautiful screens
great speakers on top of all these other just miscellaneous little features like
night modes and AK filming it doesn't matter if there's a ton of great
features and it performs really well if it's too expensive now I only have
Canadian pricing so we're going to put the kind of today's equivalent of USD on
the screen here for the s23 it starts at 1099 Canadian for the plus it starts at
13.99 Canadian and for the ultra it starts at 1649.99 Canadian it seems like
these are really competitive the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 performed really well
the cameras again are amazing and the software it's a Samsung I think this
year Samsung is probably worth checking out but of course wait for it to come
out and see full reviews and unboxings this is just a quick look and it was in
Samsung's own setup areas where everything's going to work perfectly so
keep an eye out let us know if you want Labs check it out when it fully releases and if you like this video maybe check
out my Poco video something on the opposite side of the spectrum it's only
160 bucks