Samsung launched the Galaxy S24 Ultra in January with AI as the focus, highlighting how it would make our lives easier with tools like language translation and Circle to Search. For the past three months I’ve lived with the Galaxy S24 Ultra as my main phone. I found out which features are helpful, like the antireflective display, and which were not, like Galaxy AI. During that time, I discovered there are hidden features and tools in this phone, beyond AI, that make it better than I anticipated.Â
If you’re looking for more about the phone, you can read my CNET colleague Lisa Eadicicco’s full S24 Ultra review where she goes deep testing the performance benchmarks, battery life and all its AI tools.
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My last Samsung Galaxy phone was the S22 Ultra, and it’s held up well over the past two years. So when Samsung released the S24 Ultra with its suite of new AI tools and the promise of seven years of software updates, I hoped it would win me over in the same way the S22 Ultra did.Â
The S24 Ultra’s display is game-changing
You can give me AI features and a 200-megapixel camera, but the one feature I use without fail every day is the screen. I feel Samsung underplayed how big of a deal the antiglare display is on the S24 Ultra, especially because the company only released a video with more details on the Corning Gorilla Armor construction three months after launch.Â
The display dramatically cuts down reflections and glare outdoors compared to other flagship phones. I compared it to the iPhone 15 Pro Max, Pixel 8 Pro and even last year’s S23 Ultra on a bright San Francisco day and there was no contest — the S24 Ultra easily beat them all. I can take photos and watch YouTube videos without needing to shade the screen. You can see how each screen performed in the video embedded on this page.
The difference is dramatic between the screens on the S24 Ultra (left) and S23 Ultra (right).
The Gorilla Armor…
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