I'm interested on the Galaxy A3 2017 phone. Specs wise it seems very good on that front. But I have been hearing some issues like:
1. USB Type-C is of the 2.0 version and not the faster 3.0?
2. Strange speaker placement making the sound tinny?
3. Blue light filter not baked in on the quick shortcuts?
4. Overall screen quality poor in direct sunlight &/or has poor sunlight readability?
5. Camera photo quality is slightly poorer/inferior to previous models? No image stabilisation even on 1080p 30fps?
6. Multitasking and apps reload pointing to a poor memory management?
Can someone please confirm or advice? Thanks.
Gino76ph said:
I'm interested on the Galaxy A3 2017 phone. Specs wise it seems very good on that front. But I have been hearing some issues like:
1. USB Type-C is of the 2.0 version and not the faster 3.0?
2. Strange speaker placement making the sound tinny?
3. Blue light filter not baked in on the quick shortcuts?
4. Overall screen quality poor in direct sunlight &/or has poor sunlight readability?
5. Camera photo quality is slightly poorer/inferior to previous models? No image stabilisation even on 1080p 30fps?
6. Multitasking and apps reload pointing to a poor memory management?
Can someone please confirm or advice? Thanks.
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1. cant realy confirm but ithink 90-100 mb/s is usb3 speeds
2.the speaker is weird but doesnt sound tiny and isnt bad
3.if u mean that its not on the shortcuts on the notification panel then yes it isnt by default but u can add by simply long press any shortcut
4.the screen is pretty good not the best for its price range but it gets verry bright undersunlight but only on auto for a reasson ,
5.the camera is kinda meh ...for 13 mpix theres no much detail and the photos are kinda fuzzy
overall its an amazing device but thhe premium of its prize goes to the look mostly , u can get better hardware at this price range but a3 is the best looking 4,7 at its price range and its specs arent completly garbage ....
i bought for 3 reasson 4.7 its my size , the hardware is fine , got it as a huge deal for 200$ and my previous phone was a windows phone... if u find it for less than 250 go for it u wont regret it
Screen is Amoled so very good but low resolution. Wish it was 1080p. But it gets very bright. Not as good as S8 but good for it's price. Have seen flagships like HTC10 with less performance.
Camera can make pretty shots in good light but it's not great. Depends on what you expect from this camera. For social media it's good enough. Compared to S8 it's a poor performer. Lack of image stabilisation is my biggest issue.
Look at GSMArena for comparison with other phones.
Considering it's price 250,- I think it's a solid phone. Compact, great build, ip68, fingerprint scanner but camera could be better.
garret1976 said:
Screen is Amoled so very good but low resolution. Wish it was 1080p. But it gets very bright. Not as good as S8 but good for it's price. Have seen flagships like HTC10 with less performance.
Camera can make pretty shots in good light but it's not great. Depends on what you expect from this camera. For social media it's good enough. Compared to S8 it's a poor performer. Lack of image stabilisation is my biggest issue.
Look at GSMArena for comparison with other phones.
Considering it's price 250,- I think it's a solid phone. Compact, great build, ip68, fingerprint scanner but camera could be better.
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its a 4,7 inch screen so even 720p is pretty fine u cant really see the pixels maybe closer tan 20-1 can
Upgraded to a lg v30, had an s7 edge before, probably would have hung on for it a bit longer if I didn't get a pink line. Well I do like the larger screen of the v30, it seemed like Samsung was a bit better quality though. I'm very dissapointed with the selfie camera, I noticed that the image looks much worse through the viewfinder, when I take the image it isn't that bad. Does anyone else experience this? Also seems like low light isn't on par with my Samsung, also doesn't focus as fast, moving object will blur it. Don't even get me started with snapchat... Wow, image quality far worse than Samsung, Snap is ****ty company, just focusing on iOS.
I picked up my mate 20 pro yesterday and I am happy with the phone except for one issue, the display. Coming from a note 8 the mate 20 pro display is really washed out looking. Colours dont pop the way they do on the note., t all looks very bland. Is this a known issue or just the way the display is because if its normal I think Ill have to return it.
it's just the way it is. Samsung over-saturate the colors so they don't look realistic but they look great (subjective opinion, some people prefer "realistic colors", or at least try to convince themselves to justify purchase), for example if you take a picture of grass it'll look better on the screen that it does in real life lol.
Also samsung uses SuperAMOLED which has the touch panel layer integrated in the screen and it is extremely thin around 0.001 mm, which makes it look almost as if there was no glass at all and as if you were looking directly at the screen and makes other phones look as if screen was a little bit separated from glass and you're looking through it like looking at a landscape from the inside of your car with window up vs rolling the window down
https://youtu.be/aQkLMG3SBQ4
This was one of the main reasons I'm returning the Mate 20 Pro and going back to the Note 9, I do watch a lot of videos on the phone so had to go back to the Note 9 because of the way superior display. The screen on the Mate 20 Pro is considerable narrower and smaller overall when watching videos with the notch hidden, colors washed out, not superAMOLED and I had the awful green tint issue in low light conditions (https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=78076209).
Hello!
I'm trying to choose between the 2 phones right now. H20P is cheaper, but does not have an OLED screen and I'm not sure about the camera (especially the video quality and the fact that it doesn't support GCam). I currently have a Galaxy A50 and I like everything but the camera.
Are there any comparisons of the actual user experience between the 2 phones? Thanks in advance.
The S10/20p have almost same CPU speed. but S10 have better GPU. however if you are not gamer it's mean nothing.
Honor 20 Pro Camera is much much poor then S10.
(I have HTC U11, S9+, 20P,, In many case 20p photo quality is just poor then U11, it shock me!)
About fingerprint sensor, I like 20p's side sensor more then S10's on-screen sensor.
At least, 20p can't unlook boot loader and can't change default launcher.
If $$$ is not a problem S10 is better,, if think about C/P ratio 20p still a good phone.
I'm not so sure if GalaxyS10 has better camera .. At least at night mode, let's watch this part of XDA video: https://youtu.be/tnz5Pul2Qk8?t=746
For me is Honor20Pro better option, LCD without flickering, no extra rounded edges, 4Ah battery and, IMHO, better camera (f/1.4, 1/2").. and cost is, at least, 100euro lower :]. I"m able to get over QI/reverse charging, audio jack and a little bit wider UW camera.
Hello,
Have since 03.02.2023 the s23 ultra. I noticed the first time that the colors are not quite as good. I then compared it with my s21 ultra and indeed the colors of the s23 ultra are not as color intensive. They shine less. Have made the same settings on both smartphones.
Unfortunately, this can not be captured on pictures very well. If you look at the picture from a YouTuber, you can see what I mean in the blue area.
Has no one noticed this yet?
Best regards
yeah noticed the same thing, but I was coming from a OnePlus 5.
color are washed out and feels like there a white film .
Coming from a S21ULTRA... I'm not seeing the difference. Play with the display calibration - mine are set the same way and look the same, a tad brighter on the new phone.
Coming from s21u I find it perfectly fine but I also always use my phone with the natural setting, not vivid setting so maybe that's why.
Honestly, looking at your pic I feel like your s21 almost had some sort of haze filter on it by looking at the "white" area. Which makes the blues sort of darker too. Hard to tell really from a pic.
But what I can tell you is that I still find the s23u screen as splendid as the s21u
My Note 10 screen looks better than my s23u
The longer I have the s23u the more I am considering returning it.
On mine the colors are pretty fine, on the left the crop of the S23U screen and on the right the target.
On the left is what my camera sees, looking with my eyes I see mostly the same colors, no exactly but nothing to be worried about. This is the most objetive test I tried to do.
Coming from an S22U, I like this S23U much more... and something more to add, this is the first firmware and for sure It will be improved, but this is the first time I get a firmware from Samsung that doesn't have so many issues like the other Galaxies Samsung released in the past.
The configuration of my screen is this:
Ipse_Tase said:
Coming from a S21ULTRA... I'm not seeing the difference. Play with the display calibration - mine are set the same way and look the same, a tad brighter on the new pho
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Ipse_Tase said:
Coming from a S21ULTRA... I'm not seeing the difference. Play with the display calibration - mine are set the same way and look the same, a tad brighter on the new phone.
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Completely agree there's a few threads on samsung and reddit talking about it. Some say it's new display tech that changes room to room. I'm not sure what it is but I hate it lol. Compared to my s21 it lacks the punch,depth,sharpness, color gamut. It has nothing to do with setting we can change at the moment from what I can find. It's driving me crazy how off it is. I thought I had a lemon of a display or something. Someone in another said he checked on multiple s23u and they all had the same look
smellz said:
Hello,
Have since 03.02.2023 the s23 ultra. I noticed the first time that the colors are not quite as good. I then compared it with my s21 ultra and indeed the colors of the s23 ultra are not as color intensive. They shine less. Have made the same settings on both smartphones.
Unfortunately, this can not be captured on pictures very well. If you look at the picture from a YouTuber, you can see what I mean in the blue area.
Has no one noticed this yet?
Best regards
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Completely agree there's a few threads on samsung and reddit talking about it. Some say it's new display tech that changes room to room. I'm not sure what it is but I hate it lol. Compared to my s21 it lacks the punch,depth,sharpness, color gamut. It has nothing to do with setting we can change at the moment from what I can find. It's driving me crazy how off it is. I thought I had a lemon of a display or something. Someone in another said he checked on multiple s23u and they all had the same look
coming from iphone14pro max.
its way more better then it ever was on iphone.
its my first androidphone since galaxy s3.
vnmlike said:
coming from iphone14pro max.
its way more better then it ever was on iphone.
its my first androidphone since galaxy s3.
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Yes , but most people here are comparing it to other Samsung devices which used to have more saturated colors , but iPhone have always ben washed out since start , so you should see it as an upgrade switching to S23 , but from Samsung to Samsung you will feel a little bit downgraded
but what actually happened is Samsung decided to go for a more accurate and natural colors instead of punchier vibrant colors as before
smellz said:
Hello,
Have since 03.02.2023 the s23 ultra. I noticed the first time that the colors are not quite as good. I then compared it with my s21 ultra and indeed the colors of the s23 ultra are not as color intensive. They shine less. Have made the same settings on both smartphones.
Unfortunately, this can not be captured on pictures very well. If you look at the picture from a YouTuber, you can see what I mean in the blue area.
Has no one noticed this yet?
Best regards
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This is the first thing I also noticed. I've already mentioned this on forums, I thought that my phone was defective, so I wanted to return, and then i went to local shops and saw that all s23u's are the same...
Looks great to me in natural. I hate the blown out over saturated colors that Samsung used to use. I think it looks better than my S22U did.
I remember going from an LG G3 to an S7E and was like, my god these colors are oversaturated. LOL. I came to kind of like it that way, but still recognized it's not particularly "accurate" compared to some of the less vibrant displays from other manufacturers. Compared to my S20+ it doesn't seem much different. The actual display panel and technology seems much improved, but the colors seem very similar.
The adapting to lighting conditions seems to be key. Sometimes the screen looks great, and others it's way too warm or cold. Could it be a new polarizing filter? It does seem better after the recent update, but still is not as vibrant or as consistent as the S22U.
S23U have great screen but default have more natural colors compare to previous models. Color vibrant can be change.
For me this is good change, more eyes friendly
My s23 ultra has a slight red tint in the middle.. anyone else?
i did notice that it changes based on where i am or time of day - sometimes it can be quite punchy and contrasty others is quite washed - you can esp notice it in the greys/whites etc
i think it is this self adapting tech
doesnt bother me to death but yea its happening
I noticed this coming from an S22U as well. Viewing angles are poorer -- when you tilt the phone slightly downwards there's a green hue that appears quickly at the bottom. I sold and rebought like four to five sets and they all had the same "issue" too to varying extents.
Partly as a result of this I feel that colour uniformity is not as good on the S23U. On a pure white background, I feel that there are certain parts of the screen that have a different tint from the other parts. This was also apparent in most of the sets I sold and rebought.
My first S23 Ultra also had a "Mura" pattern near the status bar as though the status bar icons were burnt in. I guess they loosened quality control this year because the last time I had issues with the screen was the Galaxy S6
I hope it won't be offtopic if I mention base S23 (not ultra). So I had the impression that the color reproduction was a bit below my expectations. What's funny - standard wallpapers are great to present this problem, it's a really good benchmark.
So I set the blue planet (attached) as a wallpaper/lock screen on two phones, my old S20 FE 5G and new S23. On S23 gradients are not smooth. Period. It's enough to tell if the panel has good color reproduction or not. Same wallpaper on S20 FE 5G looks better (S23 has worse color reproduction). I don't have a third phone to take a photo of how it looks.
Ps. one minor thing to notice; when I wake up screens, both displays perform comparable and in both cases gradients on wallpapers do not look smooth, but after unlocking phones it changes. S20 FE 5G seems to render nicer colors and gradients become smooth. On S23 though, gradients are still not smooth (looks like color palette limitation or something). So I don't have a clue if this is hardware or software issue. I have only few days to decide if I return S23 or keep it.
Pss. I checked the webp file and it's perfectly fine, it looks super nice on my MacBook or my external display.