The Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra: A Review of Its Performance and Features

I have to say that one thing that I dislike about this Smartphone is regarding the charging speed. Yes, you don't get the 45W charger in the box, which is a bit disappointing. However, with the 25W charger that comes with it, I was able to charge my phone fully in around an hour and 5 minutes. While this is not slow by any means, I do wish that Samsung had included the faster charger in the box.

Furthermore, when I compare the charging speed of the S23 Ultra to other Android flagships from other manufacturers, it falls short. Many new smartphones from other brands can fully charge in under 25 minutes, which is quite impressive. For example, some phones can even charge to 50% in just 15 minutes. While Samsung's fast charging technology is good, I do feel that it could be improved upon.

As a business-centric user, one feature that I would like to see more of in this Smartphone is the ability to quickly top up my battery when I'm on the go. This is where fast charging comes in. With a charger capable of 70-75W or even faster, I believe that it could be possible to charge to around 60% in just 15 minutes. This would be incredibly convenient for people like me who are always on the move and need a quick boost when needed.

Unfortunately, this Smartphone does not come with a fast charger capable of these speeds, which is a bit disappointing. To make matters worse, the phone's performance was slightly slower than I had expected, considering it's an Android flagship from Samsung. However, once I got used to its speed, I found that it performed consistently well and was super reliable.

One feature that I did enjoy about this Smartphone is the S Pen. While I don't use it as much as some of my friends who are heavy users, it's still a great tool for signing documents or jotting down quick notes on the go. However, one thing that I dislike is that the phone comes with a vacuum layer in its touch digitizer, which adds to the cost and makes it feel less premium than other flagships.

The Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra also has some high-end features like an 8K display and a long-lasting battery. The phone's performance was fast and responsive, making it perfect for gaming and multitasking. However, I do wish that Samsung had included a separate version of the Smartphone without the S Pen functionality, which would have reduced the price slightly.

In terms of pricing, the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra is quite expensive in India, with a starting price of around ₹1,25,000. This is a significant increase from the previous year's model, and it's more than what I had expected to pay for an Android flagship. However, if you're looking for the best smartphone experience from Samsung, then this might be worth considering.

If I'm being completely honest, there are some things that I wish Samsung had done differently with the S23 Ultra. For one, I would have loved to see a separate version of the Smartphone without the S Pen functionality, which would have reduced the price slightly and made it more accessible to a wider audience. Additionally, I think that Samsung should have included the 45W charger in the box, which is becoming increasingly common in modern flagships.

Despite these minor quibbles, I do have to say that the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra is an excellent Smartphone. Its performance is consistent and reliable, making it perfect for business users like myself who need a device that can keep up with their demands. While some features may be lacking, such as fast charging and a more affordable price point, overall I think this Smartphone is one of the best Android flagships on the market.

In conclusion, if you're looking for an excellent Smartphone experience from Samsung, then the S23 Ultra might be worth considering. However, if budget is a concern, you may want to look elsewhere. As someone who has used this Smartphone extensively, I can confidently say that it's one of the best Android flagships on the market.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi guys this is ranit and in this video we'll be doing the full review for the Samsung Galaxy s23 Ultra and have now used this uh smartphone on and off for almost uh 2 months and I keep putting my primary Sim uh that is the itl Sim back in this Smartphone so I have used it uh for about almost 2 months I did even overseas travel and travel to different cities in India and overall I would say it's a very positive experience but again like my typical reviews I'll divide it between the pros and cons and overall I would say in terms of network connectivity I did not have any issues with this phone in fact if you see uh still my AAL Sim is in this one and uh regarding the 5G experience also I had actually pretty good 5G experience with this uh smartphone and U I've been getting actually pretty good speeds even 5G this area uh is slightly outskirts of the city then also I was getting pretty good speeds as you can see results uh as you can see this is the 5G that I'm getting in this area about 300 between 3 and 4 400 sometimes it goes to even 600 and I've seen 5G speed as you can see as high as 975 also on this one so at least here in Hyderabad uh the 5G speeds are running very very well but one thing you notice that if you do these 5G test on your smartphone it consumes a lot of data thankfully itel has launched this introductory offer of 5G unlimited and I opted for that that's why I'm just doing 5G test everywhere I go so if you have a five what do you say AEL sim off for this 5G introductory offer go to the AEL thanks app and see if you have that 5G unlimited and if it's there enroll that anyways coming back to this device overall I would say uh it's pretty good and uh here are the specs this is I'm just taking from my unboxing video also watch my unboxing video to get a general gist of this device okay let's divide it into the pros and cons the first thing that I like with this Smartphone is is the screen this is having a big 6.8 in screen and like most Samsung flagships here also the screen quality is gorgeous on this one this is a adaptive so it automatically changes the refresh rate and uh it's actually Max is 120 and overall I would say it's very very fluid within the UI I did not notice any animation drops or frame drops wellers using this phone uh so that way it is very very butter smooth though we have now seen phones for sporting 144 Herz or even 165 but here 120 is very very smooth and it doesn't have that animation drops or anything and overall also in terms of the screen quality the screen quality is really good even in Outdoors if you're using this phone in direct sunlight is easily visible it goes up to 1750 Nets so that way in terms of screen quality it's very good another thing that I liked on this uh smartphone and I experienced it is that both the back glass as well as the the front glass is having the latest Gorilla Glass victus 2 and for some reason I've noticed that this Gorilla Glass victus 2 is only there on the Samsung flagships it's not coming on other Android flagships and U I have to say it's pretty durable because in the last 2 months of us it accidentally this phone fell and once it was a very bad fall I thought up to but thankfully if you look at it nothing has happened so that way I would say in terms of durability also there is a Improvement so uh if it accidentally fall Al something it should actually serve a very good chance nothing should happen to this device next thing is that I like about this uh smartphone is the oneui now oneui has been uh being refined for the last couple of years now it's super super refined I would say if you're a Samsung user all the familiar toggles and everything is there but now it has become very very refined I would say and again memory management uh the smoothness is very very good on this one in fact I would say in the past two months of usage I was trying to find out major bugs with this device but I have to say in terms of optimization they have done a very very good job so that way I would say the memory management and everything was done very good on this device so again I can uh see uh one U has now become one of the best Android skins and I like the fact that uh this comes out of the box with Android 13 and Samsung has promised next four years of Android upgrades to this one so it can go up to Android 17 and 5 years of security update so that way it's pretty good and I feel Samsung is doing a good job here because if you recall I had done a review of the Samsung Galaxy s22 Ultra after the Android update I'll link it up if you guys want that video uh it has actually improved uh with Android 13 so I'm hoping the same thing even with this one uh with future upgrades as this is a flagship Samsung will uh continue to actually provide good updates on this Smartphone uh one thing I do not like yes this can come in the con section is that still we do have a lot of Samsung preloaded apps on this one so that can be a little bit confusing uh to new users but if you are already a Samsung user you are used to this again yes you have Bixby and all those things I disabled it I don't use it but again all those things are still there on this Smartphone but again that did not retract from the performance or it made the phone laggy that way I would say the optimizations were done very very well coming to the call Quality cellular reception this is very very important if you are a sort of business Centric user I don't know about you guys but I take still a lot of calls just like this normally and I did not have any issues of proximity sensor issues the earpiece was loud and clear and in fact even in reception the reception was actually pretty good on this uh smartphone in fact I used it with both Geo as well as AEL uh that's my primary Sim and in both of them I had very good Network reception and the call Quality was very good I also tested it with a bunch of twws and stuff I keep testing new t uh twws and all those things and there also on Bluetooth I did not have any info in fact it's so funny if you look at the Bluetooth list if I switch this on this will show as you can see so many devices I tested this one so many Bluetooth devices so the Bluetooth uh connectivity is also very very good on this uh smartphone also if you take calls via the speaker phone the speaker phones are actually pretty loud in fact I would say in terms of speaker there is a noticeable Improvement compared to the s22 ultra on this one that way it has got sorted also the Wi-Fi connection I did not have any issues uh with this one okay moving to the next uh thing and that is regarding the processor on this one and here I again have to say the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is a gem of a processor and in these new Samsung S uh 23 series Samsung is using a customized version of this one that's slightly over clogged uh compared to the regular version and I have to say this one is a brilliant chip I was actually pretty much worried how will be the performance of this chip because this is slightly overclock compared to the regular Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and I was worried a lot about heating issues or anything like that but I'm happy to say that um this Smartphone simply does not have any heating issues uh compared to some of the prior uh what do you say Android flagships that we have seen so that way it's very very good the only place where I uh could heat up this phone was that I was outdoors in the hot sun and I was taking a video video call there and in there only I felt that the phone was getting pretty warm apart from that none but again those situations almost every phone and direct sunlight if you're taking a video call most of the phones get heated up that's the only case where I notice the heating in regular usage this Smartphone simply does not heat so that way I would say in terms of performance the Snapdragon 8 gen2 used on this one is a gem of a processor in fact I have to say uh because of this this s20 series are among the one of the best Android flagships that Samsung have produced in quite a while and that's simply because one of the main reasons is due to this processor also because of this processor the battery life that I'm getting on this phone is phenomenal again I was worried because it's overclock processor how would be the battery life but I have to say in the past 2 months battery life was never an issue on this one in fact on even heavy days when I traveled overseas uh from morning 7:00 we were out and we're coming back at 8:00 at night always on mobile DOA on International roaming there also the battery life never dip below 30% that good is the battery life uh yes charging I'll talk about that in the cons and let me give you an idea now that the battery life has become so good I generally do not charge this phone every day at night let me give you an idea how I use because I just want to give my practical usage experience in in this review how I'm using this Smartphone so let me just Dell down if you go down to the stats okay here it is the battery and all those things and if I click on this let's look at this I us it since last charge and if you notice I'm having just micro charges uh I'm not having that full charge and this is because when I'm going to my other office um there is a wireless charger in my car so I just put it there and that's how I'm actually just charging if you notice I'm not putting it regularly on charge then also if you look at it uh if I go to the view details uh this was charged one day 14 hours ago yes we had those micro charges because while I was traveling the car I just put it on the wireless charger uh then uh also we uh we had about 4 hours 36 minutes of screen on time screen of Time 1 day 9 hours and uh still I'm having 73% battery life uh I would easily say that in terms of battery life this is the one of the best that I've seen for a Samsung Flagship in fact one of the best I seen for Android Flagship with a 5,000 mAh battery in fact if I have to compare the battery life with the s22 ultra this Smartphone feels like it is having a battery capacity of 6,500 Milah so that way I would say the battery life is phenomenal on this one the idle drain is also pretty low on this one so at night also if you just leave it it just does not drain that much so that way I'm pretty happy with the battery life on this one so that's not a worry at all also coming to the fingerprint scanner if you notice this is ultrasonic fingerprint scanner and this has been super super reliable so and in fact these ultrasonic fingerprint scanners are more reliable than just Optical fingerprint scanner that's the reason uh you don't find it and it's actually a lot more expensive to implement that's why you do not find it on many of the other Android uh Flagship the this is actually a lot more secure uh moving to the next thing and I think so many of you actually are going to buy this smartphone because of what we have on the back that is the camera the Ultras are having the best camera setup among Samsung flap ships and that's the same case with this one here Samsung went with the new 200 megapix sensor I'm not Gango about it I've been actually using it in the pixel BR mode that shoots in 12 map yes sometimes I me to the 50 megap mode but hardly went to the 200 map mode because the image sizes are just too big and I have to say uh the camera performance is actually really really good here are some of the sample shots that I have taken with this Smartphone and again as you can see even in tricky lighting situation indoor lighting situation where the lighting is mixed in something then also it performed very very well also coming to uh difficult or low lighting conditions here also I feel this camera performance is again topnotch it's very good the only nitpicking that I have here is that sometimes in very low lighting conditions the picture that you take comes out a lot brighter than what it's in reality but this is the issue that I'm seeing with a lot of flagships uh so if in a nutshell the camera performance is very very good and you also have that 3x zoom and that 10x lossless Zoom which works pretty well so I am a person who hardly use that higher zooms uh and you can even go up to 30X Zoom that is the digital Zoom without much aw of picture uh so if you are looking for that Zoom stuff um definitely this is one of the best that out there uh I generally do not use that higher zooms that much most of the snaps that I take were in the regular mode as well as in the 3x Zoom uh that U so overall I would say the picture quality that you get was very good even the portraits I like that the cutout the background cutout was actually a lot improved on this one and I think so that is due to the new ISP that is there with the Snapdragon 8 to the ISP is a fabulous one area I feel there is Improvement in camera is that and I was hoping for this one is in terms of video I feel now the video quality has certainly improved a little bit in fact uh during the past 2 months I have actually taken some shots quick shots or whatever when I didn't have my big cameras like this with this Smartphone and if I've included that in the video and nobody complained so that way I would say the video performance is very good yes it can shoot even in 8k video I didn't shoot in 8k I'm using it in 4k and it works another thing that I like is that the front-facing camera can shoot 4K video and I use this a lot for some reason I don't know other Android flagships simply are not shooting 4K video with the front-facing camera but here if you're a blogger or something um um and shoot videos like that 4K video is important and you have this covered and the video quality as you can see that comes out with the front- facing camera is pretty good uh so overall I would say in terms of camera performance very happy with this this camera did not disappoint me or I felt lacking that is the answer so these were the great things about this smartphone now let's move to some of the cons and some of the yes there is also this snen I completely forgot so if you are that s Spen user you have that Spen functionality on this one uh I am not a big spin user but yeah that Spen functionality is there and now let's move to the cons and one of the first con that I have with this device is because of this Spen and if you notice this Spen over here takes up quite a bit of width in this Smartphone this Silo so that way I would say this phone is this much actually wider compared to many of the Android smartphones that are having a 6.7 or a 6.8 in screen so definitely I would say this is one of the widest smartphone that I have used and if your hands are small then it can be a issue uh so that is one uh shortcoming that I have with this phone this phone is unnecessarily wide because of this Spen that Silo is piing the space so they had to increase in fact this is the widest compared to any other Android smartphone that is having a 6.8 in uh screen so I personally don't like it but again if you're Spen user you will appreciate that extra width on this one uh next thing is that and this has reduced a lot but I have to mention about this one initially when I got this uh smartphone I don't know for a month or something I did notice that sometime that shutter lag was there but now if you notice I don't know when this got fixed but now I hardly noticed that shutter lag so I think this was fixed in one of the updates I just don't recall which one uh but now I hardly noticed that shutter lag even at night sometimes at night it used to happen a lot but now it's not happening the thing that I do not like with this Smartphone and that is regarding the charging speed yes you don't get the charger in the Box they should actually give the 45 W charger in the box but the charging speeds if I compare it with other Android flagships is significantly so don't get me it's not a deal breaker with that 45 wat charger just above 1 hour I think so 1 hour 5 minutes 5 1 hour 6 minutes it'll charge fully but again I miss the fact that many of the new Android flagships from other manufacturers are having super fast charging and you can fully charge those smartphone in less than 25 minutes I'm not asking something to go crazy in charger like putting a 120 wat charger or a 200 W charger but upping this charging speeds to about 70 wat 75 wats or something like that so that at least you can get a 50% full charge in just 15 minutes I feel that can be a game changer because this is a smartphone that is going to be used for business Centric people and let's say you forgot to charge or something and you have to head out a quick 15 minute charge if it charges more than 60% will be really really appreciated so still I would say uh this is a smartphone that you have to plug it at night with some of the other smartphones that I was reviewing in middle of this one like the xiaomi what is that 13 Pro or even the OnePlus 11 those actually spoiled me just in the morning before going to shower or something I used to just pluged them up for about 20 minutes and they were almost fully Char that's not the case with this one so I feel it's high time now Samsung UPS the charging can because of this Spen uh this Smartphone has to have additional Hardware in fact the touch digitizer is having a vacum layer that adds to the cost or everything and this Spen functionality or everything they have to add but if you are not Spen user with this Ultra you are paying unnecessarily for the Spen functionality so I feel they should have continued a note lineup or a separate version for Spen that way they could have reduced the price a little bit and also the phone would have been a lot more not this wide I would say definitely this is not a one-handed phone guys this is a two-handed phone so that is my PE bet again if you want the best uh s Ser uh smartphone from Samsung you have to go with the ultra and though you use the Spen or not this is stuck with you uh I have just used the Spen just about twice in the past two months to just sign some stuff um on the go apart from that I do not use the spin FR Strat but I know if you are spin user that's but I've asked so many people who are using the smartphone and majority of them 95% of the them they say they don't care about the airpin functionality now coming to the pricing in India this is also something that I do not like if I recall the s22 ultra was for 1 lak 9,000 or 1 L 110,000 but this one is closer to 1 125,000 so there is a price bump of about1 15,00 ,000 rupees which is a s a lot bigger price jump compared to uh what the Ultras price jump was in other countries so I feel there Samsung India didn't do a good job uh I I noticed that still if you're buying this Smartphone there are some credit card offers or something if you buy it you get 8,000 off or whatever and it's been continuing now I don't get it why why can't they have just priced it around 1 L5 or something like that instead of that 1 L 125,000 and now giving discount with this card or that carard so certainly I would say uh a pretty expensive smartphone but again if I have to conclude this is one of the best Android flagships that I have used the performance was consistent it was super super reliable never had any issues so in fact due to these uh stuff that I'm noticing on the smartphone I have actually recommended this smartphone to my friends and families and some business users and after they got them they are very very happy with this Smartphone so if you are that kind of a user and you have that budget certainly it's an expensive smartphone I can easily recommend this uh smartphone to you anyways guys that was my review of the Samsung Galaxy s23 Ultra what do you guys feel about this Smartphone if you're using this and would love to know your thoughts anyways guys that's it for now thanks for watching this is ran and I hope to see you in my next video take care guyshi guys this is ranit and in this video we'll be doing the full review for the Samsung Galaxy s23 Ultra and have now used this uh smartphone on and off for almost uh 2 months and I keep putting my primary Sim uh that is the itl Sim back in this Smartphone so I have used it uh for about almost 2 months I did even overseas travel and travel to different cities in India and overall I would say it's a very positive experience but again like my typical reviews I'll divide it between the pros and cons and overall I would say in terms of network connectivity I did not have any issues with this phone in fact if you see uh still my AAL Sim is in this one and uh regarding the 5G experience also I had actually pretty good 5G experience with this uh smartphone and U I've been getting actually pretty good speeds even 5G this area uh is slightly outskirts of the city then also I was getting pretty good speeds as you can see results uh as you can see this is the 5G that I'm getting in this area about 300 between 3 and 4 400 sometimes it goes to even 600 and I've seen 5G speed as you can see as high as 975 also on this one so at least here in Hyderabad uh the 5G speeds are running very very well but one thing you notice that if you do these 5G test on your smartphone it consumes a lot of data thankfully itel has launched this introductory offer of 5G unlimited and I opted for that that's why I'm just doing 5G test everywhere I go so if you have a five what do you say AEL sim off for this 5G introductory offer go to the AEL thanks app and see if you have that 5G unlimited and if it's there enroll that anyways coming back to this device overall I would say uh it's pretty good and uh here are the specs this is I'm just taking from my unboxing video also watch my unboxing video to get a general gist of this device okay let's divide it into the pros and cons the first thing that I like with this Smartphone is is the screen this is having a big 6.8 in screen and like most Samsung flagships here also the screen quality is gorgeous on this one this is a adaptive so it automatically changes the refresh rate and uh it's actually Max is 120 and overall I would say it's very very fluid within the UI I did not notice any animation drops or frame drops wellers using this phone uh so that way it is very very butter smooth though we have now seen phones for sporting 144 Herz or even 165 but here 120 is very very smooth and it doesn't have that animation drops or anything and overall also in terms of the screen quality the screen quality is really good even in Outdoors if you're using this phone in direct sunlight is easily visible it goes up to 1750 Nets so that way in terms of screen quality it's very good another thing that I liked on this uh smartphone and I experienced it is that both the back glass as well as the the front glass is having the latest Gorilla Glass victus 2 and for some reason I've noticed that this Gorilla Glass victus 2 is only there on the Samsung flagships it's not coming on other Android flagships and U I have to say it's pretty durable because in the last 2 months of us it accidentally this phone fell and once it was a very bad fall I thought up to but thankfully if you look at it nothing has happened so that way I would say in terms of durability also there is a Improvement so uh if it accidentally fall Al something it should actually serve a very good chance nothing should happen to this device next thing is that I like about this uh smartphone is the oneui now oneui has been uh being refined for the last couple of years now it's super super refined I would say if you're a Samsung user all the familiar toggles and everything is there but now it has become very very refined I would say and again memory management uh the smoothness is very very good on this one in fact I would say in the past two months of usage I was trying to find out major bugs with this device but I have to say in terms of optimization they have done a very very good job so that way I would say the memory management and everything was done very good on this device so again I can uh see uh one U has now become one of the best Android skins and I like the fact that uh this comes out of the box with Android 13 and Samsung has promised next four years of Android upgrades to this one so it can go up to Android 17 and 5 years of security update so that way it's pretty good and I feel Samsung is doing a good job here because if you recall I had done a review of the Samsung Galaxy s22 Ultra after the Android update I'll link it up if you guys want that video uh it has actually improved uh with Android 13 so I'm hoping the same thing even with this one uh with future upgrades as this is a flagship Samsung will uh continue to actually provide good updates on this Smartphone uh one thing I do not like yes this can come in the con section is that still we do have a lot of Samsung preloaded apps on this one so that can be a little bit confusing uh to new users but if you are already a Samsung user you are used to this again yes you have Bixby and all those things I disabled it I don't use it but again all those things are still there on this Smartphone but again that did not retract from the performance or it made the phone laggy that way I would say the optimizations were done very very well coming to the call Quality cellular reception this is very very important if you are a sort of business Centric user I don't know about you guys but I take still a lot of calls just like this normally and I did not have any issues of proximity sensor issues the earpiece was loud and clear and in fact even in reception the reception was actually pretty good on this uh smartphone in fact I used it with both Geo as well as AEL uh that's my primary Sim and in both of them I had very good Network reception and the call Quality was very good I also tested it with a bunch of twws and stuff I keep testing new t uh twws and all those things and there also on Bluetooth I did not have any info in fact it's so funny if you look at the Bluetooth list if I switch this on this will show as you can see so many devices I tested this one so many Bluetooth devices so the Bluetooth uh connectivity is also very very good on this uh smartphone also if you take calls via the speaker phone the speaker phones are actually pretty loud in fact I would say in terms of speaker there is a noticeable Improvement compared to the s22 ultra on this one that way it has got sorted also the Wi-Fi connection I did not have any issues uh with this one okay moving to the next uh thing and that is regarding the processor on this one and here I again have to say the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is a gem of a processor and in these new Samsung S uh 23 series Samsung is using a customized version of this one that's slightly over clogged uh compared to the regular version and I have to say this one is a brilliant chip I was actually pretty much worried how will be the performance of this chip because this is slightly overclock compared to the regular Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and I was worried a lot about heating issues or anything like that but I'm happy to say that um this Smartphone simply does not have any heating issues uh compared to some of the prior uh what do you say Android flagships that we have seen so that way it's very very good the only place where I uh could heat up this phone was that I was outdoors in the hot sun and I was taking a video video call there and in there only I felt that the phone was getting pretty warm apart from that none but again those situations almost every phone and direct sunlight if you're taking a video call most of the phones get heated up that's the only case where I notice the heating in regular usage this Smartphone simply does not heat so that way I would say in terms of performance the Snapdragon 8 gen2 used on this one is a gem of a processor in fact I have to say uh because of this this s20 series are among the one of the best Android flagships that Samsung have produced in quite a while and that's simply because one of the main reasons is due to this processor also because of this processor the battery life that I'm getting on this phone is phenomenal again I was worried because it's overclock processor how would be the battery life but I have to say in the past 2 months battery life was never an issue on this one in fact on even heavy days when I traveled overseas uh from morning 7:00 we were out and we're coming back at 8:00 at night always on mobile DOA on International roaming there also the battery life never dip below 30% that good is the battery life uh yes charging I'll talk about that in the cons and let me give you an idea now that the battery life has become so good I generally do not charge this phone every day at night let me give you an idea how I use because I just want to give my practical usage experience in in this review how I'm using this Smartphone so let me just Dell down if you go down to the stats okay here it is the battery and all those things and if I click on this let's look at this I us it since last charge and if you notice I'm having just micro charges uh I'm not having that full charge and this is because when I'm going to my other office um there is a wireless charger in my car so I just put it there and that's how I'm actually just charging if you notice I'm not putting it regularly on charge then also if you look at it uh if I go to the view details uh this was charged one day 14 hours ago yes we had those micro charges because while I was traveling the car I just put it on the wireless charger uh then uh also we uh we had about 4 hours 36 minutes of screen on time screen of Time 1 day 9 hours and uh still I'm having 73% battery life uh I would easily say that in terms of battery life this is the one of the best that I've seen for a Samsung Flagship in fact one of the best I seen for Android Flagship with a 5,000 mAh battery in fact if I have to compare the battery life with the s22 ultra this Smartphone feels like it is having a battery capacity of 6,500 Milah so that way I would say the battery life is phenomenal on this one the idle drain is also pretty low on this one so at night also if you just leave it it just does not drain that much so that way I'm pretty happy with the battery life on this one so that's not a worry at all also coming to the fingerprint scanner if you notice this is ultrasonic fingerprint scanner and this has been super super reliable so and in fact these ultrasonic fingerprint scanners are more reliable than just Optical fingerprint scanner that's the reason uh you don't find it and it's actually a lot more expensive to implement that's why you do not find it on many of the other Android uh Flagship the this is actually a lot more secure uh moving to the next thing and I think so many of you actually are going to buy this smartphone because of what we have on the back that is the camera the Ultras are having the best camera setup among Samsung flap ships and that's the same case with this one here Samsung went with the new 200 megapix sensor I'm not Gango about it I've been actually using it in the pixel BR mode that shoots in 12 map yes sometimes I me to the 50 megap mode but hardly went to the 200 map mode because the image sizes are just too big and I have to say uh the camera performance is actually really really good here are some of the sample shots that I have taken with this Smartphone and again as you can see even in tricky lighting situation indoor lighting situation where the lighting is mixed in something then also it performed very very well also coming to uh difficult or low lighting conditions here also I feel this camera performance is again topnotch it's very good the only nitpicking that I have here is that sometimes in very low lighting conditions the picture that you take comes out a lot brighter than what it's in reality but this is the issue that I'm seeing with a lot of flagships uh so if in a nutshell the camera performance is very very good and you also have that 3x zoom and that 10x lossless Zoom which works pretty well so I am a person who hardly use that higher zooms uh and you can even go up to 30X Zoom that is the digital Zoom without much aw of picture uh so if you are looking for that Zoom stuff um definitely this is one of the best that out there uh I generally do not use that higher zooms that much most of the snaps that I take were in the regular mode as well as in the 3x Zoom uh that U so overall I would say the picture quality that you get was very good even the portraits I like that the cutout the background cutout was actually a lot improved on this one and I think so that is due to the new ISP that is there with the Snapdragon 8 to the ISP is a fabulous one area I feel there is Improvement in camera is that and I was hoping for this one is in terms of video I feel now the video quality has certainly improved a little bit in fact uh during the past 2 months I have actually taken some shots quick shots or whatever when I didn't have my big cameras like this with this Smartphone and if I've included that in the video and nobody complained so that way I would say the video performance is very good yes it can shoot even in 8k video I didn't shoot in 8k I'm using it in 4k and it works another thing that I like is that the front-facing camera can shoot 4K video and I use this a lot for some reason I don't know other Android flagships simply are not shooting 4K video with the front-facing camera but here if you're a blogger or something um um and shoot videos like that 4K video is important and you have this covered and the video quality as you can see that comes out with the front- facing camera is pretty good uh so overall I would say in terms of camera performance very happy with this this camera did not disappoint me or I felt lacking that is the answer so these were the great things about this smartphone now let's move to some of the cons and some of the yes there is also this snen I completely forgot so if you are that s Spen user you have that Spen functionality on this one uh I am not a big spin user but yeah that Spen functionality is there and now let's move to the cons and one of the first con that I have with this device is because of this Spen and if you notice this Spen over here takes up quite a bit of width in this Smartphone this Silo so that way I would say this phone is this much actually wider compared to many of the Android smartphones that are having a 6.7 or a 6.8 in screen so definitely I would say this is one of the widest smartphone that I have used and if your hands are small then it can be a issue uh so that is one uh shortcoming that I have with this phone this phone is unnecessarily wide because of this Spen that Silo is piing the space so they had to increase in fact this is the widest compared to any other Android smartphone that is having a 6.8 in uh screen so I personally don't like it but again if you're Spen user you will appreciate that extra width on this one uh next thing is that and this has reduced a lot but I have to mention about this one initially when I got this uh smartphone I don't know for a month or something I did notice that sometime that shutter lag was there but now if you notice I don't know when this got fixed but now I hardly noticed that shutter lag so I think this was fixed in one of the updates I just don't recall which one uh but now I hardly noticed that shutter lag even at night sometimes at night it used to happen a lot but now it's not happening the thing that I do not like with this Smartphone and that is regarding the charging speed yes you don't get the charger in the Box they should actually give the 45 W charger in the box but the charging speeds if I compare it with other Android flagships is significantly so don't get me it's not a deal breaker with that 45 wat charger just above 1 hour I think so 1 hour 5 minutes 5 1 hour 6 minutes it'll charge fully but again I miss the fact that many of the new Android flagships from other manufacturers are having super fast charging and you can fully charge those smartphone in less than 25 minutes I'm not asking something to go crazy in charger like putting a 120 wat charger or a 200 W charger but upping this charging speeds to about 70 wat 75 wats or something like that so that at least you can get a 50% full charge in just 15 minutes I feel that can be a game changer because this is a smartphone that is going to be used for business Centric people and let's say you forgot to charge or something and you have to head out a quick 15 minute charge if it charges more than 60% will be really really appreciated so still I would say uh this is a smartphone that you have to plug it at night with some of the other smartphones that I was reviewing in middle of this one like the xiaomi what is that 13 Pro or even the OnePlus 11 those actually spoiled me just in the morning before going to shower or something I used to just pluged them up for about 20 minutes and they were almost fully Char that's not the case with this one so I feel it's high time now Samsung UPS the charging can because of this Spen uh this Smartphone has to have additional Hardware in fact the touch digitizer is having a vacum layer that adds to the cost or everything and this Spen functionality or everything they have to add but if you are not Spen user with this Ultra you are paying unnecessarily for the Spen functionality so I feel they should have continued a note lineup or a separate version for Spen that way they could have reduced the price a little bit and also the phone would have been a lot more not this wide I would say definitely this is not a one-handed phone guys this is a two-handed phone so that is my PE bet again if you want the best uh s Ser uh smartphone from Samsung you have to go with the ultra and though you use the Spen or not this is stuck with you uh I have just used the Spen just about twice in the past two months to just sign some stuff um on the go apart from that I do not use the spin FR Strat but I know if you are spin user that's but I've asked so many people who are using the smartphone and majority of them 95% of the them they say they don't care about the airpin functionality now coming to the pricing in India this is also something that I do not like if I recall the s22 ultra was for 1 lak 9,000 or 1 L 110,000 but this one is closer to 1 125,000 so there is a price bump of about1 15,00 ,000 rupees which is a s a lot bigger price jump compared to uh what the Ultras price jump was in other countries so I feel there Samsung India didn't do a good job uh I I noticed that still if you're buying this Smartphone there are some credit card offers or something if you buy it you get 8,000 off or whatever and it's been continuing now I don't get it why why can't they have just priced it around 1 L5 or something like that instead of that 1 L 125,000 and now giving discount with this card or that carard so certainly I would say uh a pretty expensive smartphone but again if I have to conclude this is one of the best Android flagships that I have used the performance was consistent it was super super reliable never had any issues so in fact due to these uh stuff that I'm noticing on the smartphone I have actually recommended this smartphone to my friends and families and some business users and after they got them they are very very happy with this Smartphone so if you are that kind of a user and you have that budget certainly it's an expensive smartphone I can easily recommend this uh smartphone to you anyways guys that was my review of the Samsung Galaxy s23 Ultra what do you guys feel about this Smartphone if you're using this and would love to know your thoughts anyways guys that's it for now thanks for watching this is ran and I hope to see you in my next video take care guys\n"