Samsung Galaxy S23 5G (Green, 8GB, 256GB Storage)
Display, Hardware and Design
The phone comes with a 6.1-inch Full HD+ Infinity-O Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 1080×2340 pixels at about 425PPI, aspect ratio of 20:9. The display is bright, thanks to 1750 nits peak brightness, compared to 1300 nits in the predecessor. It offers good color reproduction and the sunlight legibility is good as well.
Since it has an AMOLED panel, it offers true blacks. The screen is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass Victus 2. You can also notice minimal symmetrical bezels around the screen that makes it attractive.
It has a 120Hz refresh rate screen that offers a fluid user experience with smoother animations, scrolling and gaming. Unlike the S22 Ultra with an LTPO panel for 1-120Hz adaptive refresh rate, this has 48 to 120Hz adaptive refresh rate, similar to the predecessor. In the gaming mode, it offers 240Hz touch sampling rate.
Similar to the other Samsung phones, there is an Eye comfort shield that limit blue light emitted by the screen. There is also dark mode. You can choose from Vivid or Natural screen modes based on your preference, or set the white balance manually.
The phone doesn’t have DC dimming or low brightness anti-flicker mode that is present in some AMOLED screen phones in the price range. I didn’t notice any screen flicker issues in low brightness on the phone. It doesn’t have notification LED, but there is Always on display.
On the top, there is a new 12-megapixel camera in the tiny punch-hole, and the earpiece is present on the top edge that doubles up as a secondary speaker. The punch-hole is small and it is not intrusive.
There is a small chin below the screen. The phone has an in-display ultrasonic fingerprint sensor from Qualcomm that is present towards the middle.
Camera
You can choose 50MP option from the aspect ratio settings on the top, and the default output is 12MP instead of 12.5MP after pixel binning. It also has AR stickers, scene optimizer, portrait video, director’s view, hyperlapse and more modes. The Expert RAW mode is now present in the camera app instead of a separate app.
There is Live Focus mode for portraits, including a 3X mode that uses the telephoto camera for portraits. You can also adjust the bokeh effect before or after the shot. There is a selfie portrait option for the front camera that uses software to blur the background. There is also a wide-angle option for the front camera, similar to other Samsung phones.
Coming to the image quality, daylight shots are brilliant, and it captures in 12MP resolution after pixel binning. The camera captures a good amount of detail, creates well exposed photos with good dynamic range and detailing, and dynamic range can further be improved enabling HDR mode from the settings, which automatically turns on HDR when needed. Apart from the 3x telephoto zoom camera, the standard digital zoom is also good. The 10x and 20x zoomed photos are good. Autofocus speeds are fast and accurate. Ultra-wide shots from the 12MP camera are good in daylight.
There is no macro mode or camera, but you can use 2x from the main camera or use 3x telephoto for close-ups. Live focus is good at detecting the edges, and has seen a good improvement compared to S22. Low-light performance is good, which can be improved further with Night mode that offers more details. Images with flash is good and is not overpowering.
The new 12-megapixel front camera is good, capturing brilliant shots. Wide-angle mode takes images in 12-megapixel resolution, while the normal mode takes images in 8.6-megapixel. Software blur in the live focus mode has good edge detection even in low light.
Performance
The new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Mobile Platform for Galaxy powers the Galaxy S23 series. It has up to 3.36GHz peak speeds, compared to 3.2GHz in the standard Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 has a new 1 + 4 + 3 microarchitecture that uses 1 x Kryo Prime Arm Cortex-X3-based CPU at up to 3.36GHz, 4 x Kryo Performance CPUs that has 2 x A710-based and 2 x A715-based CPUs at up to 2.8GHz and 4x Kryo Efficiency A510-based CPUs at up to 2GHz.
It is fabricated using the TSMC 4nm Process Technology, same as Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1. For the first time, Samsung has added vapor chamber cooling in the base model.
We did not face any issues or frame drops in the graphic-intensive games like COD, BGMI and Genshin Impact. It reached maximum 44º in our testing indoors in Wi-Fi, but this might vary outdoors in 5G. Unlike the S22 in which Samsung limits the performance, the new game performance booster mode in the game launcher prevents the phone from throttling issues, but Samsung says it heats up the phone. That said, check out some synthetic benchmark scores below.
Battery
Coming to the battery life, the phone packs a 3900mAh (typical) built-in battery, compared to 3700mAh battery in the S22, while maintaining the same size. It lasts for a whole day with 5G, dual SIMs, and heavy multimedia use. I got about 5 hours of screen on time with two days of use with mostly on Wi-Fi, and occasional 5G use in 120Hz, which is a great improvement compared to S22. If you switch to Lite mode, the battery life gets even better.
still has the 25W compared to 45W in the S23+ and the S23 Ultra. It takes about an hour to charge the phone fully using a 25W charger, and 0 to 50% takes about 25 minutes. Most competitors have a bigger battery that can charge in less than half the time. It still has wireless charging and reverse wireless charging.
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