Samsung Galaxy S23 5G AI Smartphone (Cream, 8GB, 128GB Storage)

5 reviews for Samsung Galaxy S23 5G AI Smartphone (Cream, 8GB, 128GB Storage)

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   Milon – January 20, 2025

   Compact and sensible smartphone
   The Samsung Galaxy S23 is an excellent choice for anyone who’s looking for a one-handed and compact smartphone. The ease of using with one hand and the screen area available for use is just about right.I have listed some points from my usage after 2 months of use – it involves everything except gaming.What’s good about the device?1. Communications – Network reception is really good. It is very power efficient in 4G mode with SOT more than 8 hours.Wifi, NFC, casting, Samsung DeX- all of these work reliably well.5G Communication is also excellent but the SOT with active 5G use drops to around 6 hours.2. Display – it is good, but it would have been even better if the panel would have been the same from S23 Ultra.3. Battery life – excellent with normal usage. With calls, 4G and WiFi, and lots of streaming, it easily lasts a day. SOT of 9-10 hours can be obtained quite easily when connected to WiFi. On 5G network, obviously it’ll drop off a bit.4. Performance – Excellent so far. No issues whatsoever.5. Samsung Pay – excellent features, easy to use, and I don’t need to carry my wallet anymore.6. Camera – takes excellent pictures. Even the night mode works very well.What’s not so good?1. Charger is missing in the box. OEMs who actually care about sustainability should not copy Apple (or others) and it’s ridiculous decisions.2. Display – sometimes the display seems unresponsive in various apps. Although it is easily fixed by switching between apps or worst case, restarting the app. Not sure if it is hardware related or app related. Not all apps have this issue.When it happens, it’s quite annoying.However, at the end of the day, I’m happy to have a compact and reliable phone with good network reception and excellent battery life!

2. 

   Jayesh – January 20, 2025

   Compact and Powerful – My Best Purchase
   I’ve been using the Samsung Galaxy S23 for about a year now, and it’s been an amazing experience. Its compact size is ideal for everyday use, fitting perfectly in my hand. At first, I encountered some heating issues, but a software update took care of that.The performance is outstanding, thanks to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor, it manages multitasking and gaming with ease. The build quality, display, and camera performance are all exceptional. This is definitely one of the best purchases I’ve made.

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   Shahzad Zaman – January 20, 2025

   A premium phone but…
   Every review that you have seen about this phone is true to quite an extent.Great camera, good features, and premium quality and is the perfect size for me. I would prefer a 6″ phone but that’s the best you can get. It’s a little on the heavier side but it doesn’t really matter if you are using headphones.The cons:1 – Battery drains really fast. The reviews I saw did not warn about it. This is my biggest grudge, having gone a bit over budget.2 – Samsung’s boring UI. BTW I never imagined I would buy a Samsung product. But seeing the comparos with iPhone 14, I felt I should give it a go. One Plus, for instance, gives a swipe option to go back to the previous page. Samsung still depends on the back button at the bottom of the phone. After using One Plus, this seems prehistoric and inconvenient. It would request Samsung if they make this small change.3 – For some weird reason, it takes very long to start. It’s a costly phone. I do not expect it to be so slow4 – Again, the reviews I watched said it only warms up a bit only if after heavy usage like gaming. This one heats up at times to the point of getting uncomfortable. However, it does get cooled down if you just close the apps.5 – 25W charging at this price is quite low but I understand. The heating issues of the previous models might have to do something with it.Hope my review will help you make an informed decision.

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   Singh – January 20, 2025

   The perfect beast
   This phone is a pefect upgrade from my old One plus. I had to make a hard choice between s22 and s23. I came to the conclusion that, processor used in s22 – Snapdragon 8 gen1 is inefficient (not to be confused with 8+ gen1, 8gen 1 is made by samsung foundary, 8+gen 1 is made by tsmc and works fine). So, snap 8gen1 is hot garbage. Infact it was one of the most inefficient processors produced by snapdragon+samsung in last 5 years in premium segment. That combined with low battery was just worse. It’s like putting a heating processor with a smaller battery. So I decided to spend more money for this phone. Snapdragon 8 gen 2 is an actual successor of snapdragon and gives enormous battery life.After first charge, I was getting 8 hours SOT. Which is double from my old Oppo Oneplus (Haha). Plus I got upgrade on the first day, using 120 hz refresh rate with light performance mode while battery set to adaptive. I think I can push for 10 hour screen-on-time if I want to.Screen is perfect, samsung right now is the biggest supplier of screens in mobile market, so that’s no doubt. Speakers are stereo and have dolby atmos mode. The UI is top tier, samsung right now has the best UI in the market. The amazing thing is, the bloatware are so well integrated into samsung ecosystem that it doesn’t even feel like bloatware. I am using samsung internet/notes instead of chrome and google keep. There is also a vapor chamber in base variant of s23, which you will not find in s22 (only s22 ultra had vapor chamber). Ram booster was turned on by default, giving me 8 GB of virtual RAM but I turned it off because I heard it reduces performance. All medium-end games run at 120 FPS, and samsung has their own app for real time monitoring. You will also get 6 months spotify premium (from Amazon) and 4 months of youtube premium (from samsung) with this.I use spigen ultra hybrid case with Glazedinc tempered glass. Protip – Glazeit.shop tempered glass is compatiable with fingerprint sensor. I use their s23 tempered glass-real curved which works perfectly and costed me around ₹675 (not sponsored).Phone is expensive and price should be set around 65K, but samsung is trying to become apple of android world. Whats worse is discount is there, but they will not give it to you directly, you have to use 3 different discounts to lower the MRP which is a scummy behaviour from Samsung. No reason to give additional 7K exchange bonus, if MRP itself was lowered by 7K. Also bank credit card discount are insane (around 8K). This will bring MRP in the range of 60K instead of 75K. My point is to give discount directly instead of bypassing it from somewhere. Also availing warranties and sales after service is bad, I still have to manually find out about youtube premium membership because samsung never mentioned it anywhere.So, this is the best phone is premium segment apart from s23 ultra. If you are looking for a handy premium smartphone and can’t manage big screen on s23 ultra, this is the way to go.Cons -Screen has no dolby vision, its is limited to 16M colors instead of 1 Billion and is 1080p. Bluetooth codecs are limited to sbc, aac and ssc (samsungs seamless codec). So for HD audio you have to go with SSC, samsungs buds 2 Pro, since aptx won’t work, although sonys Ldac can work. Inbuilt video player of samsung cannot play some audio formats like dolby truehd, or dts. Only AC3 or AAC are relevant.Edit 1. People should not use Samsung Smart switch to restore their data to new phone. I have heard it reduces battery life. Instead manually copy photos, contacts everything etc.Edit 2. Moonshots on higher model i.e. s23 ultra are kinda fake since it uses ai scene optimizer to place a picture of moon on real moon. But nothing to worry about this model.Edit 3. Don’t use samsung smart switch to transfer files to your new phone. It is bugged and keeps draining battery. Manually transfer big files. If you had used it, you can factory reset your phone if you notice your battery life is not up to the mark. I didn’t use smart switch and easily got 8 hours.Edit 4. – saw some people complaining about battery. Initially battery life will be about 5hrs, cause phone uses adaptive setting, means it learns usage patterns initially for few days(you could turn that off in battery settings). Also, there was a software bug with the keyboard always on, and consuming extra battery (it’s been fixed). You should easily see 7-8 hours of battery life after that.

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   ahmed fathy – January 20, 2025

   المنتج وصل ولكن به خدش بالفريم نتيجة خبطة والبوكس كان مغلق ولا يوجد ضمان مع العلبة