1
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,800
Inside this box is my new phone, which is great, because as you can see, I desperately need one.

2
00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:09,140
The S... Very funny, you guys.

3
00:00:09,140 --> 00:00:15,040
S23 Ultra S. Look, I know they didn't change much this time around,

4
00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:18,400
but I personally think that a new kind of glass

5
00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:22,080
on the front of a phone, yeah, that's totally enough to justify a new revision number.

6
00:00:22,080 --> 00:00:27,240
Also, that isn't the only thing they changed. They've upgraded to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor.

7
00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:31,080
The base model comes with 12 gigs of RAM instead of just eight gigs.

8
00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:33,480
And... AI?

9
00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:39,600
No, I'm sure there must be something else. Oh yes, the second telephoto lens, the Zoom one,

10
00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:44,000
is 5X with a 50 megapixel camera and a faster lens,

11
00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,160
and it's got a titanium frame. Nice.

12
00:00:47,160 --> 00:00:53,720
I like titanium. T-A-N-I-A, get a gassy, get titanium.

13
00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:57,320
That's it, huh? But there's still a lot for us to experience,

14
00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:01,940
starting with the display. Samsung claims that this new display

15
00:01:01,940 --> 00:01:06,220
will reach peak brightnesses of 2,600 nits,

16
00:01:06,220 --> 00:01:12,540
and what's even more unbelievable than that is the fact that we reached even higher results

17
00:01:12,540 --> 00:01:16,140
in our independent testing, HDR.

18
00:01:16,140 --> 00:01:21,220
And we're gonna look at this in a second, but first, can we talk about this gorilla armor?

19
00:01:21,220 --> 00:01:27,100
I mean, normally, here on the ShortCircuit set, reflections are a huge problem on devices,

20
00:01:27,100 --> 00:01:31,320
but both to my eye and even in the camera, look at this, guys.

21
00:01:32,660 --> 00:01:39,380
That's a studio light. Look at that, completely washed out on a mere mortal phone.

22
00:01:39,380 --> 00:01:43,100
Is that friggin' impressive or what? Here, I'm trying to catch that light.

23
00:01:43,100 --> 00:01:46,680
Look at that, that's crazy. We should just open the video with this,

24
00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:52,740
not to mention the difference in color performance. Did we really open this with, ah, it's kind of an S23S

25
00:01:52,740 --> 00:01:55,780
because that screen, I don't think I've seen

26
00:01:55,780 --> 00:01:59,900
anything quite like it on a phone. And that anti-glare coating, not to mention,

27
00:01:59,900 --> 00:02:04,340
it's not just anti-glare, it almost, it almost looks like a matte display,

28
00:02:04,340 --> 00:02:09,140
but to touch it, it's still glossy. I really like this.

29
00:02:09,140 --> 00:02:14,140
There's a lot to like here. Here, let's do a quick physical tour. At the bottom, we've got our SIM slot,

30
00:02:14,140 --> 00:02:20,420
USB-C charging port, one of our speaker ports, and gotta love it.

31
00:02:20,420 --> 00:02:25,700
Once you get used to the S Pen, man. It's a funny thing because I don't use it every day,

32
00:02:25,700 --> 00:02:29,580
but when I use it, I'm like, man, I'm really glad I had this. Okay, check this out.

33
00:02:29,580 --> 00:02:34,140
It was date night the other night, and my wife and I have these little cards that tell us,

34
00:02:34,140 --> 00:02:37,620
okay, here's what you're gonna do on date night. You just scratch it, and that's what you do.

35
00:02:37,620 --> 00:02:41,680
So our card earlier this week is all, go to a dollar store, buy glow sticks and tape,

36
00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:46,540
and turn yourself into glow stick, stick people. So we're like, oh, well, this is really cool,

37
00:02:46,540 --> 00:02:51,840
and it'd be great to get a picture of ourselves dressed up like this, but we don't wanna ask anyone else to take it.

38
00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:55,100
So I set up my phone on a log,

39
00:02:55,100 --> 00:02:58,420
grabbed my S Pen, remote shutter, let's go.

40
00:02:58,420 --> 00:03:02,820
Oh, I guess she asked me not to share them with the internet. The point is, I like the S Pen.

41
00:03:03,940 --> 00:03:07,780
On the top, a microphone, I guess we've got an amplified earpiece speaker,

42
00:03:07,780 --> 00:03:11,500
just right in there. And then over on the side, we've got our volume rocker,

43
00:03:11,500 --> 00:03:15,580
as well as our lock button, and oh, 5G cut out, very nice.

44
00:03:15,580 --> 00:03:19,540
Get that millimeter wave. We're looking at a very similar camera already last time.

45
00:03:19,540 --> 00:03:23,400
We've got a 200 megapixel main shooter, a 12 megapixel ultra wide.

46
00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:28,680
Instead of the 10 and 10 telephotos, we have a 10 and then the 50 megapixel telephoto

47
00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:33,320
that I already told you guys about. And then at the front, we're looking at a 12 megapixel selfie camera.

48
00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:36,560
As usual with Samsung, you can double click to open up your camera app,

49
00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:41,080
double click again, boom, I'm taking a selfie. Oh, that looks really sharp.

50
00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:48,200
Damn, that looks really good. The initial reaction, the later reaction.

51
00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:55,020
Wow, that minimum brightness though, honestly, as a nighttime phone user,

52
00:03:55,020 --> 00:03:58,180
in some ways, that's more important to me than how bright it can go.

53
00:03:58,180 --> 00:04:02,180
Cause phones are already bright enough that I can use them under basically any conditions.

54
00:04:02,180 --> 00:04:06,180
Look at that. That is not even close. That's awesome.

55
00:04:07,340 --> 00:04:11,780
You can't even see that. And that's a good thing. Obviously, it's a very old phone

56
00:04:11,780 --> 00:04:15,220
to be comparing it against, but that's something that I think our little joke

57
00:04:15,220 --> 00:04:18,740
about S23 Ultra S didn't really captures.

58
00:04:18,740 --> 00:04:22,180
Most people are not upgrading their phone from the very last generation.

59
00:04:22,180 --> 00:04:25,460
They're upgrading from something older. This is so dim, I can't find the slider.

60
00:04:27,180 --> 00:04:31,700
There we go. God, it's fixed. And there's a lot to like here.

61
00:04:31,700 --> 00:04:36,060
I've always kind of liked the curved display. I know, I know, I'm sorry.

62
00:04:36,060 --> 00:04:39,220
They've gone with a flat display this time. Doesn't really bother me either way.

63
00:04:39,220 --> 00:04:45,100
So if that's something you're into, then that's great. And performance, while we found that it wasn't actually

64
00:04:45,100 --> 00:04:49,100
as good as some of the other Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 devices

65
00:04:49,100 --> 00:04:53,060
that we've checked out recently, it's certainly better than the last gen.

66
00:04:53,060 --> 00:04:57,540
I do have to wonder why this is, given how much Samsung has talked about their amazing

67
00:04:57,540 --> 00:05:01,660
cooling solution for this phone. I mean, it's certainly not a size constraint.

68
00:05:01,660 --> 00:05:06,340
She's chunky, boys. Though, if I had to guess at something,

69
00:05:06,340 --> 00:05:10,580
I'd say maybe they don't want the difference to the Exynos one to be too much.

70
00:05:11,700 --> 00:05:16,420
That's all conspiracy too. I got my tinfoil hat on for that one. I mean, I've got the hairdo for it.

71
00:05:16,420 --> 00:05:19,460
I'm not saying it's aliens, but aliens?

72
00:05:19,460 --> 00:05:22,940
One thing that's not different from one region to the next is the titanium frame.

73
00:05:22,940 --> 00:05:27,340
I don't know. Like cool, I guess, right?

74
00:05:27,340 --> 00:05:31,540
Like that's neat. Coming back to performance in games,

75
00:05:31,540 --> 00:05:36,060
the S24 Ultra was also behind other Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 devices,

76
00:05:36,060 --> 00:05:39,860
particularly when it comes to frame time consistency.

77
00:05:39,860 --> 00:05:45,220
So the 1% lows that we observed in Dolphin, as well as Genshin Impact were a little bit

78
00:05:45,220 --> 00:05:49,420
on the lower side, which is to say, you're still gonna be getting a pretty darn good gaming

79
00:05:49,420 --> 00:05:52,620
experience playing fucking Wii games on this thing.

80
00:05:52,620 --> 00:05:56,980
Incredible. Another area where it falls behind other similarly equipped phones, though,

81
00:05:56,980 --> 00:06:01,580
is battery longevity. To be clear, we are not disputing Samsung's claims

82
00:06:01,580 --> 00:06:06,580
of all day battery life. In fact, we found that we got over 24 hours

83
00:06:06,580 --> 00:06:11,180
of YouTube playback at 480p, 200 nits brightness.

84
00:06:11,180 --> 00:06:14,940
That's great. It just isn't the 30 hours that Samsung claims.

85
00:06:14,940 --> 00:06:18,260
Our stress test saw us land just shy of three hours,

86
00:06:18,260 --> 00:06:22,380
which is pretty darn solid. And our charge time was very reasonable.

87
00:06:22,380 --> 00:06:25,580
An hour at 65 watts, though it should be noted

88
00:06:25,580 --> 00:06:29,620
that that was not with an included charger.

89
00:06:31,380 --> 00:06:34,900
Does it have Wi-Fi 7? Yeah. Hey, that's not in the list.

90
00:06:34,900 --> 00:06:39,460
Wi-Fi 7 is freaking awesome. And if you don't already love it, you should.

91
00:06:39,460 --> 00:06:45,900
What about Bluetooth 5.4? No. 5.3, 5.4 is some big improvements

92
00:06:45,940 --> 00:06:49,260
in terms of latency, as long as you have a compatible device.

93
00:06:49,260 --> 00:06:52,900
I don't know, anyway. Okay, still, Wi-Fi 7, very cool.

94
00:06:52,900 --> 00:06:58,380
The display is 6.8 inches. It's 120 Hertz, so obviously it feels super smooth.

95
00:06:58,380 --> 00:07:04,500
And we've managed to get this far into this video without talking about any of the glorious AI.

96
00:07:04,500 --> 00:07:08,820
Now, I haven't personally experienced any of this stuff. So the one and only Jake Belivance,

97
00:07:08,820 --> 00:07:13,260
our producer on ShortCircuit, is going to tell me two that are the best

98
00:07:13,260 --> 00:07:19,580
that I should experience right now. Does all kinds of cool stuff. Their Notes app now locally will handle transcribing

99
00:07:19,580 --> 00:07:23,380
your conversations and meetings. Apparently it can even handle multiple people.

100
00:07:23,380 --> 00:07:27,420
There's interpreter functions in Android Auto. It'll summarize incoming messages

101
00:07:27,420 --> 00:07:32,660
and suggest relevant replies. That's super cool. Ooh, Galaxy AI editing tools.

102
00:07:32,660 --> 00:07:38,340
Okay, so in your photos, some of these things run locally. So if you wanna remove a shadow or reflection

103
00:07:38,340 --> 00:07:42,660
or something like that, that'll actually run on the beefed up AI processor

104
00:07:42,660 --> 00:07:46,540
that's built right into the phone. But then some of these things do rely on the cloud.

105
00:07:46,540 --> 00:07:50,820
Like if you wanna move a person around or remove an object. Okay, Belivance, what are we doing?

106
00:07:50,820 --> 00:07:54,300
Circle to search with Google. Circle to search with Google.

107
00:07:54,300 --> 00:07:57,340
All right, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. So I'm gonna take a picture.

108
00:07:57,340 --> 00:08:01,540
And I have no idea how this stuff works. I wasn't at impact. So I'm gonna take a picture of myself.

109
00:08:01,540 --> 00:08:04,980
I'm taking a picture of myself. I'm gonna take a picture of myself.

110
00:08:04,980 --> 00:08:08,700
Then I'm gonna hold the home button. Which one's the home button?

111
00:08:08,700 --> 00:08:12,500
Oh my God, Bixby. Where's the home, where the hell's the home button?

112
00:08:12,500 --> 00:08:16,180
How do I find the home button? I don't have on-screen buttons. It's broken, I broke it.

113
00:08:19,100 --> 00:08:21,220
Got your S Pen? Yeah, I've got it, just chill.

114
00:08:23,140 --> 00:08:25,420
What, that's stupid. Okay, home button.

115
00:08:26,380 --> 00:08:29,940
Okay, I'm gonna search this guy.

116
00:08:29,940 --> 00:08:32,040
Yeah, I'm trying to try it now.

117
00:08:33,180 --> 00:08:36,740
There. No way! Oh!

118
00:08:39,740 --> 00:08:43,980
I did not stage that. I did not stage that.

119
00:08:45,500 --> 00:08:50,060
Okay. We can search for anything.

120
00:08:50,060 --> 00:08:53,180
So I don't know, I could just do this like anytime.

121
00:08:54,140 --> 00:08:55,440
This is so cool.

122
00:08:59,380 --> 00:09:04,540
Why are all the results from Reddit so far? Are they just appending Reddit to every search?

123
00:09:04,540 --> 00:09:06,460
Okay, what's this thing?

124
00:09:08,660 --> 00:09:12,180
Okay, what is that? I swear to God, if this is Reddit again.

125
00:09:12,180 --> 00:09:16,300
No way, no way, no way, actual link to buy.

126
00:09:16,300 --> 00:09:20,420
Okay, this feature exclusive to the S24 series right now,

127
00:09:20,420 --> 00:09:25,420
actually I think it's all coming to the S23 too, all the AI stuff, but there is no way this doesn't come

128
00:09:25,420 --> 00:09:32,740
to basically anything that'll do it because Google desperately wants all of this delicious data.

129
00:09:33,060 --> 00:09:37,900
They want it. Anytime you're gonna buy shit, Google's like, I'm there.

130
00:09:37,900 --> 00:09:43,060
Oh, wait, wait, wait, oh man. I could play with this feature all day, I think.

131
00:09:47,580 --> 00:09:51,580
Oh, no way, lttstore.com, baby.

132
00:09:51,580 --> 00:09:56,700
It's so fast because it runs locally. Thank God we're all over this whole cloud thing.

133
00:09:56,700 --> 00:09:59,900
You know why it happened? Because Google and Microsoft and all these guys

134
00:09:59,900 --> 00:10:04,940
are looking at their data center costs going like, holy shit, how is this sustainable?

135
00:10:04,940 --> 00:10:09,820
Again, what is it that thing we used to do where we put like processing power

136
00:10:09,820 --> 00:10:14,300
in the user's actual device? Let's do that, love it.

137
00:10:14,300 --> 00:10:18,140
Swiping up is gonna give us some quick fixes. We could add some background blur.

138
00:10:19,220 --> 00:10:23,420
You know what, that's actually not bad. More blur, less blur.

139
00:10:25,620 --> 00:10:30,620
Pretty cool, especially for only having one camera.

140
00:10:30,780 --> 00:10:35,860
Not bad though, not bad, especially if it's doing this processing on device.

141
00:10:35,860 --> 00:10:39,140
Object eraser, this is all, this is stupid.

142
00:10:39,140 --> 00:10:43,020
Let's get rid of it. That's very usable. Yeah, that's, you know what?

143
00:10:43,020 --> 00:10:46,180
I'm kind of into it. That is definitely an improvement.

144
00:10:46,180 --> 00:10:51,740
Let's get a picture of me with shadows on my face then. Makes my nose look even bigger, which is impressive.

145
00:10:51,740 --> 00:10:56,180
Oh, here we go, here we go, here we go. Okay, well, no, what the?

146
00:10:58,580 --> 00:11:01,540
Yeah, how about just this shot? Oh.

147
00:11:01,740 --> 00:11:09,180
Um. Oh boy, okay, not what I intended.

148
00:11:12,700 --> 00:11:16,900
I don't want to get rid of any of the dynamism

149
00:11:16,900 --> 00:11:21,020
in my lighting. I just want to remove this weird shadow on my face

150
00:11:21,020 --> 00:11:24,780
and instead we just get this weird nonsense.

151
00:11:25,380 --> 00:11:26,220
Uh.

152
00:11:30,220 --> 00:11:34,820
Now that, that is some nightmare fuel.

153
00:11:34,820 --> 00:11:41,180
It has like an assist, which is kind of cool to help you stay on the lines, at least it feels like it.

154
00:11:41,180 --> 00:11:46,180
Either that, oh, buddy, that's pretty good.

155
00:11:47,300 --> 00:11:51,500
Okay, give me one more. AI editing tools.

156
00:11:51,500 --> 00:11:55,580
AI editing tools, all right. Let's take a picture.

157
00:11:55,580 --> 00:11:59,700
Okay, so how do we do this? Oh, this maybe. Advanced intelligence.

158
00:11:59,700 --> 00:12:03,860
Ooh. Really?

159
00:12:03,860 --> 00:12:07,580
Okay, re-imagine your images. Move or move and resize the people and objects

160
00:12:07,580 --> 00:12:11,740
and use advanced intelligence to fill in the background. Okay, so that was like the crappy local version

161
00:12:11,740 --> 00:12:17,060
we were using before. This is super cool. I want this computer to move.

162
00:12:19,300 --> 00:12:24,460
Yeah, okay. I'm going to put it there.

163
00:12:24,460 --> 00:12:29,340
So what, this is free until 2025? And then realistically after that, you get to pay?

164
00:12:30,340 --> 00:12:34,340
Dang, that's actually not bad.

165
00:12:34,340 --> 00:12:38,580
How do you fill this in? Did it just guess or is it using imagery

166
00:12:38,580 --> 00:12:43,340
of the Northern Lights desk pad? Like, did it go find out what this thing is and what's supposed to be there?

167
00:12:43,340 --> 00:12:46,460
That's pretty impressive. Save as copy.

168
00:12:46,460 --> 00:12:50,020
A visible watermark will be overlaid on the output image

169
00:12:50,020 --> 00:12:54,020
in order to indicate that it is AI generated. So this is interesting, especially in light

170
00:12:54,020 --> 00:12:57,500
of the recent controversy with AI generated images of Taylor Swift.

171
00:12:57,500 --> 00:13:03,300
Samsung is marking both in the metadata and actually on the image itself,

172
00:13:03,300 --> 00:13:06,780
that the image has been, yeah, there it is.

173
00:13:06,780 --> 00:13:09,800
AI doctored. There it is right there.

174
00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:12,860
That would be so hard to crop out

175
00:13:12,860 --> 00:13:16,140
and then repost with no metadata somewhere.

176
00:13:16,140 --> 00:13:19,360
This solves the problem. Verbal irony.

177
00:13:29,420 --> 00:13:30,260
Hilarious.

178
00:13:33,980 --> 00:13:37,220
Solution solved. Subscribe to ShortCircuit.

179
00:13:37,220 --> 00:13:41,980
Oh wait, we didn't talk pricing. The S24 series is priced anywhere from 40,

180
00:13:41,980 --> 00:13:46,020
the one terabyte capacity, to $100 more than the S23 series.

181
00:13:46,020 --> 00:13:49,940
And while the S23 series was priced really high,

182
00:13:49,940 --> 00:13:55,060
this uplift doesn't seem that unreasonable, given that at that base tier where it's $100 adder,

183
00:13:55,060 --> 00:14:00,420
at least you're getting additional RAM. How do you feel about that, Apple? Should anyone put any RAM on their devices?

184
00:14:00,420 --> 00:14:03,940
Or will it make you look bad? At any rate, that's it for today. Subscribe to ShortCircuit.

185
00:14:03,940 --> 00:14:05,100
See you later, guys.