WEBVTT 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. 00:00:05.800 --> 00:00:09.140 The S... Very funny, you guys. 00:00:09.140 --> 00:00:15.040 S23 Ultra S. Look, I know they didn't change much this time around, 00:00:15.040 --> 00:00:18.400 but I personally think that a new kind of glass 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. 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. 00:00:27.240 --> 00:00:31.080 The base model comes with 12 gigs of RAM instead of just eight gigs. 00:00:31.080 --> 00:00:33.480 And... AI? 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, 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:44.000 is 5X with a 50 megapixel camera and a faster lens, 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:47.160 and it's got a titanium frame. Nice. 00:00:47.160 --> 00:00:53.720 I like titanium. T-A-N-I-A, get a gassy, get titanium. 00:00:54.080 --> 00:00:57.320 That's it, huh? But there's still a lot for us to experience, 00:00:57.320 --> 00:01:01.940 starting with the display. Samsung claims that this new display 00:01:01.940 --> 00:01:06.220 will reach peak brightnesses of 2,600 nits, 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 00:01:12.540 --> 00:01:16.140 in our independent testing, HDR. 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? 00:01:21.220 --> 00:01:27.100 I mean, normally, here on the ShortCircuit set, reflections are a huge problem on devices, 00:01:27.100 --> 00:01:31.320 but both to my eye and even in the camera, look at this, guys. 00:01:32.660 --> 00:01:39.380 That's a studio light. Look at that, completely washed out on a mere mortal phone. 00:01:39.380 --> 00:01:43.100 Is that friggin' impressive or what? Here, I'm trying to catch that light. 00:01:43.100 --> 00:01:46.680 Look at that, that's crazy. We should just open the video with this, 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 00:01:52.740 --> 00:01:55.780 because that screen, I don't think I've seen 00:01:55.780 --> 00:01:59.900 anything quite like it on a phone. And that anti-glare coating, not to mention, 00:01:59.900 --> 00:02:04.340 it's not just anti-glare, it almost, it almost looks like a matte display, 00:02:04.340 --> 00:02:09.140 but to touch it, it's still glossy. I really like this. 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, 00:02:14.140 --> 00:02:20.420 USB-C charging port, one of our speaker ports, and gotta love it. 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, 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. 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, 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. 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, 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, 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. 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:55.100 So I set up my phone on a log, 00:02:55.100 --> 00:02:58.420 grabbed my S Pen, remote shutter, let's go. 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. 00:03:03.940 --> 00:03:07.780 On the top, a microphone, I guess we've got an amplified earpiece speaker, 00:03:07.780 --> 00:03:11.500 just right in there. And then over on the side, we've got our volume rocker, 00:03:11.500 --> 00:03:15.580 as well as our lock button, and oh, 5G cut out, very nice. 00:03:15.580 --> 00:03:19.540 Get that millimeter wave. We're looking at a very similar camera already last time. 00:03:19.540 --> 00:03:23.400 We've got a 200 megapixel main shooter, a 12 megapixel ultra wide. 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 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. 00:03:33.320 --> 00:03:36.560 As usual with Samsung, you can double click to open up your camera app, 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:41.080 double click again, boom, I'm taking a selfie. Oh, that looks really sharp. 00:03:41.080 --> 00:03:48.200 Damn, that looks really good. The initial reaction, the later reaction. 00:03:49.800 --> 00:03:55.020 Wow, that minimum brightness though, honestly, as a nighttime phone user, 00:03:55.020 --> 00:03:58.180 in some ways, that's more important to me than how bright it can go. 00:03:58.180 --> 00:04:02.180 Cause phones are already bright enough that I can use them under basically any conditions. 00:04:02.180 --> 00:04:06.180 Look at that. That is not even close. That's awesome. 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 00:04:11.780 --> 00:04:15.220 to be comparing it against, but that's something that I think our little joke 00:04:15.220 --> 00:04:18.740 about S23 Ultra S didn't really captures. 00:04:18.740 --> 00:04:22.180 Most people are not upgrading their phone from the very last generation. 00:04:22.180 --> 00:04:25.460 They're upgrading from something older. This is so dim, I can't find the slider. 00:04:27.180 --> 00:04:31.700 There we go. God, it's fixed. And there's a lot to like here. 00:04:31.700 --> 00:04:36.060 I've always kind of liked the curved display. I know, I know, I'm sorry. 00:04:36.060 --> 00:04:39.220 They've gone with a flat display this time. Doesn't really bother me either way. 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 00:04:45.100 --> 00:04:49.100 as good as some of the other Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 devices 00:04:49.100 --> 00:04:53.060 that we've checked out recently, it's certainly better than the last gen. 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 00:04:57.540 --> 00:05:01.660 cooling solution for this phone. I mean, it's certainly not a size constraint. 00:05:01.660 --> 00:05:06.340 She's chunky, boys. Though, if I had to guess at something, 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. 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. 00:05:16.420 --> 00:05:19.460 I'm not saying it's aliens, but aliens? 00:05:19.460 --> 00:05:22.940 One thing that's not different from one region to the next is the titanium frame. 00:05:22.940 --> 00:05:27.340 I don't know. Like cool, I guess, right? 00:05:27.340 --> 00:05:31.540 Like that's neat. Coming back to performance in games, 00:05:31.540 --> 00:05:36.060 the S24 Ultra was also behind other Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 devices, 00:05:36.060 --> 00:05:39.860 particularly when it comes to frame time consistency. 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 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 00:05:49.420 --> 00:05:52.620 experience playing fucking Wii games on this thing. 00:05:52.620 --> 00:05:56.980 Incredible. Another area where it falls behind other similarly equipped phones, though, 00:05:56.980 --> 00:06:01.580 is battery longevity. To be clear, we are not disputing Samsung's claims 00:06:01.580 --> 00:06:06.580 of all day battery life. In fact, we found that we got over 24 hours 00:06:06.580 --> 00:06:11.180 of YouTube playback at 480p, 200 nits brightness. 00:06:11.180 --> 00:06:14.940 That's great. It just isn't the 30 hours that Samsung claims. 00:06:14.940 --> 00:06:18.260 Our stress test saw us land just shy of three hours, 00:06:18.260 --> 00:06:22.380 which is pretty darn solid. And our charge time was very reasonable. 00:06:22.380 --> 00:06:25.580 An hour at 65 watts, though it should be noted 00:06:25.580 --> 00:06:29.620 that that was not with an included charger. 00:06:31.380 --> 00:06:34.900 Does it have Wi-Fi 7? Yeah. Hey, that's not in the list. 00:06:34.900 --> 00:06:39.460 Wi-Fi 7 is freaking awesome. And if you don't already love it, you should. 00:06:39.460 --> 00:06:45.900 What about Bluetooth 5.4? No. 5.3, 5.4 is some big improvements 00:06:45.940 --> 00:06:49.260 in terms of latency, as long as you have a compatible device. 00:06:49.260 --> 00:06:52.900 I don't know, anyway. Okay, still, Wi-Fi 7, very cool. 00:06:52.900 --> 00:06:58.380 The display is 6.8 inches. It's 120 Hertz, so obviously it feels super smooth. 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. 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, 00:07:08.820 --> 00:07:13.260 our producer on ShortCircuit, is going to tell me two that are the best 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 00:07:19.580 --> 00:07:23.380 your conversations and meetings. Apparently it can even handle multiple people. 00:07:23.380 --> 00:07:27.420 There's interpreter functions in Android Auto. It'll summarize incoming messages 00:07:27.420 --> 00:07:32.660 and suggest relevant replies. That's super cool. Ooh, Galaxy AI editing tools. 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 00:07:38.340 --> 00:07:42.660 or something like that, that'll actually run on the beefed up AI processor 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. 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? 00:07:50.820 --> 00:07:54.300 Circle to search with Google. Circle to search with Google. 00:07:54.300 --> 00:07:57.340 All right, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. So I'm gonna take a picture. 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. 00:08:01.540 --> 00:08:04.980 I'm taking a picture of myself. I'm gonna take a picture of myself. 00:08:04.980 --> 00:08:08.700 Then I'm gonna hold the home button. Which one's the home button? 00:08:08.700 --> 00:08:12.500 Oh my God, Bixby. Where's the home, where the hell's the home button? 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. 00:08:19.100 --> 00:08:21.220 Got your S Pen? Yeah, I've got it, just chill. 00:08:23.140 --> 00:08:25.420 What, that's stupid. Okay, home button. 00:08:26.380 --> 00:08:29.940 Okay, I'm gonna search this guy. 00:08:29.940 --> 00:08:32.040 Yeah, I'm trying to try it now. 00:08:33.180 --> 00:08:36.740 There. No way! Oh! 00:08:39.740 --> 00:08:43.980 I did not stage that. I did not stage that. 00:08:45.500 --> 00:08:50.060 Okay. We can search for anything. 00:08:50.060 --> 00:08:53.180 So I don't know, I could just do this like anytime. 00:08:54.140 --> 00:08:55.440 This is so cool. 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? 00:09:04.540 --> 00:09:06.460 Okay, what's this thing? 00:09:08.660 --> 00:09:12.180 Okay, what is that? I swear to God, if this is Reddit again. 00:09:12.180 --> 00:09:16.300 No way, no way, no way, actual link to buy. 00:09:16.300 --> 00:09:20.420 Okay, this feature exclusive to the S24 series right now, 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 00:09:25.420 --> 00:09:32.740 to basically anything that'll do it because Google desperately wants all of this delicious data. 00:09:33.060 --> 00:09:37.900 They want it. Anytime you're gonna buy shit, Google's like, I'm there. 00:09:37.900 --> 00:09:43.060 Oh, wait, wait, wait, oh man. I could play with this feature all day, I think. 00:09:47.580 --> 00:09:51.580 Oh, no way, lttstore.com, baby. 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. 00:09:56.700 --> 00:09:59.900 You know why it happened? Because Google and Microsoft and all these guys 00:09:59.900 --> 00:10:04.940 are looking at their data center costs going like, holy shit, how is this sustainable? 00:10:04.940 --> 00:10:09.820 Again, what is it that thing we used to do where we put like processing power 00:10:09.820 --> 00:10:14.300 in the user's actual device? Let's do that, love it. 00:10:14.300 --> 00:10:18.140 Swiping up is gonna give us some quick fixes. We could add some background blur. 00:10:19.220 --> 00:10:23.420 You know what, that's actually not bad. More blur, less blur. 00:10:25.620 --> 00:10:30.620 Pretty cool, especially for only having one camera. 00:10:30.780 --> 00:10:35.860 Not bad though, not bad, especially if it's doing this processing on device. 00:10:35.860 --> 00:10:39.140 Object eraser, this is all, this is stupid. 00:10:39.140 --> 00:10:43.020 Let's get rid of it. That's very usable. Yeah, that's, you know what? 00:10:43.020 --> 00:10:46.180 I'm kind of into it. That is definitely an improvement. 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. 00:10:51.740 --> 00:10:56.180 Oh, here we go, here we go, here we go. Okay, well, no, what the? 00:10:58.580 --> 00:11:01.540 Yeah, how about just this shot? Oh. 00:11:01.740 --> 00:11:09.180 Um. Oh boy, okay, not what I intended. 00:11:12.700 --> 00:11:16.900 I don't want to get rid of any of the dynamism 00:11:16.900 --> 00:11:21.020 in my lighting. I just want to remove this weird shadow on my face 00:11:21.020 --> 00:11:24.780 and instead we just get this weird nonsense. 00:11:25.380 --> 00:11:26.220 Uh. 00:11:30.220 --> 00:11:34.820 Now that, that is some nightmare fuel. 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. 00:11:41.180 --> 00:11:46.180 Either that, oh, buddy, that's pretty good. 00:11:47.300 --> 00:11:51.500 Okay, give me one more. AI editing tools. 00:11:51.500 --> 00:11:55.580 AI editing tools, all right. Let's take a picture. 00:11:55.580 --> 00:11:59.700 Okay, so how do we do this? Oh, this maybe. Advanced intelligence. 00:11:59.700 --> 00:12:03.860 Ooh. Really? 00:12:03.860 --> 00:12:07.580 Okay, re-imagine your images. Move or move and resize the people and objects 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 00:12:11.740 --> 00:12:17.060 we were using before. This is super cool. I want this computer to move. 00:12:19.300 --> 00:12:24.460 Yeah, okay. I'm going to put it there. 00:12:24.460 --> 00:12:29.340 So what, this is free until 2025? And then realistically after that, you get to pay? 00:12:30.340 --> 00:12:34.340 Dang, that's actually not bad. 00:12:34.340 --> 00:12:38.580 How do you fill this in? Did it just guess or is it using imagery 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? 00:12:43.340 --> 00:12:46.460 That's pretty impressive. Save as copy. 00:12:46.460 --> 00:12:50.020 A visible watermark will be overlaid on the output image 00:12:50.020 --> 00:12:54.020 in order to indicate that it is AI generated. So this is interesting, especially in light 00:12:54.020 --> 00:12:57.500 of the recent controversy with AI generated images of Taylor Swift. 00:12:57.500 --> 00:13:03.300 Samsung is marking both in the metadata and actually on the image itself, 00:13:03.300 --> 00:13:06.780 that the image has been, yeah, there it is. 00:13:06.780 --> 00:13:09.800 AI doctored. There it is right there. 00:13:09.800 --> 00:13:12.860 That would be so hard to crop out 00:13:12.860 --> 00:13:16.140 and then repost with no metadata somewhere. 00:13:16.140 --> 00:13:19.360 This solves the problem. Verbal irony. 00:13:29.420 --> 00:13:30.260 Hilarious. 00:13:33.980 --> 00:13:37.220 Solution solved. Subscribe to ShortCircuit. 00:13:37.220 --> 00:13:41.980 Oh wait, we didn't talk pricing. The S24 series is priced anywhere from 40, 00:13:41.980 --> 00:13:46.020 the one terabyte capacity, to $100 more than the S23 series. 00:13:46.020 --> 00:13:49.940 And while the S23 series was priced really high, 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, 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? 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. 00:14:03.940 --> 00:14:05.100 See you later, guys.