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Screen Protector (2 Pack) for Galaxy S24 Ultra | Samsung UK
Buy the Anti Reflective Screen Protector (2 Pack) for your Galaxy S24 Ultra, with high touch sensitivity & anti-scratch coating, at Samsung UK.
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Security updates was the main reason for me too. Glad they have committed to longer for this one.
Soldato
These are plastic ones that came free with the phone with the £50 offer.
I would get the Spigen tempered glass if buying new, it's cheaper as well for 2 of them.
I would get the Spigen tempered glass if buying new, it's cheaper as well for 2 of them.
Associate
I've been mega unlucky with screen protector applications today.
Ran the shower for 10 mins, then 5 mins for steam to calm down.
Got the screen looking lovely with the alcohol wipe, cloth, and dust stickers, then when everything looked good, whipped the backing off the protector and laid it down a second later.\
Little hairs, everywhere!
Steamed up the room again, repeated, the same again!
These were the Spigen EZ Fit!
I've put one of the Samsung ones on now while I wait for more to come today.
Normally have really good luck with screen protector applications!
Ran the shower for 10 mins, then 5 mins for steam to calm down.
Got the screen looking lovely with the alcohol wipe, cloth, and dust stickers, then when everything looked good, whipped the backing off the protector and laid it down a second later.\
Little hairs, everywhere!
Steamed up the room again, repeated, the same again!
These were the Spigen EZ Fit!
I've put one of the Samsung ones on now while I wait for more to come today.
Normally have really good luck with screen protector applications!
I've been using my s24u under just 24 hours and must say I'm delighted overall.
Having had practically every major Samsung top end phone over the last 5 years apart from the folds plus the Pixels , I think for me at least this is pinnacle smart phone design in the current candy bar form.
It just does everything really well, no lag , screen is brilliant and OneUI is now really good (especially if you take your time to understand the customisation plus gGoodlock).
Have to test this camera more but to me it seems very good and holds it's own against my Pixel 8 pro(sometimes it's better, sometimes this is better).
Video is better on the s24 ultra and the hold to slow down is brilliant, for anyone with kids the single take feature is brilliant .
Let's see how the battery holds up but so far it looks like it's going to be at least as good as the S23u (I was very happy with this)
Having had practically every major Samsung top end phone over the last 5 years apart from the folds plus the Pixels , I think for me at least this is pinnacle smart phone design in the current candy bar form.
It just does everything really well, no lag , screen is brilliant and OneUI is now really good (especially if you take your time to understand the customisation plus gGoodlock).
Have to test this camera more but to me it seems very good and holds it's own against my Pixel 8 pro(sometimes it's better, sometimes this is better).
Video is better on the s24 ultra and the hold to slow down is brilliant, for anyone with kids the single take feature is brilliant .
Let's see how the battery holds up but so far it looks like it's going to be at least as good as the S23u (I was very happy with this)
Man of Honour
There are a number of things (changes) I have noticed now that I've spent all these hours fine tooth-combing everything basically vs what OneUI 6.0 has on the S23 Ultra. Some of these things will no doubt be dictated by Google as a move going forwards for their unified look and feel for the Google/AI experience from here on.
1: By default many apps (Facebook for example) won't let you change notification tones for individual categories like chats, comment replies etc. This is because under notification settings in OUI6.1 there is a new setting to enable or disable forced notification categories control instead of letting the app control it internally. This is off by default, toggling it back on re-enables this function. For me this is important as i I HATE most app's built in notification sounds, Facebook and FB Messenger are two such apps. Obnoxiously loud and lengthy tones whereas I like quick and discreet yet perfectly discernable to me as to what app made that pitched tone or noise etc.
2: The navigation bar has been changed. You no longer can enable the 3 segmented navbar gestures and hide the gesture markers. The 3 gesture areas are replaced by a forced Google central bar that cannot be auto hidden. The only other option is to use old style navbar buttons. I know it's only a few pixels high but I'd like the ability to hide the forced navbar area, since I use One Handed Operations+, I can remap a gesture for Circle To Find to an action that way. I suspect that this is enforced by Google as mentioned, and that Samsung Goog Lock will add a module to mitigate this restriction and give users the options to tweak it to preference. Good Lock devs seem to listen to user requests so give it a month or so for people to submit their reports.
As a result, the actual usable screen restaurateur is reduced vs the S23 Ultra, and the 23 Ultra actually ends up having a better usable screen edge to bezel ratio lol:
Now there is a workaround of sorts, it doesn't fix it completely, but you can get the chinned off area back at the bottom and reduce the width of the central bar by using Navstar in Good Lock, once set, the navbar now simply floats over any active window
You can also make is slightly darker too by changing the colour not to black, but just a dark grey shade a few shades before pure black, this darkens it further.
3: The S Pen grip is less grippy than the one on the S23 Ultra, means you have to pinch it with more pressure now else it can slide up your fingers as you draw/write.. Also the S Pen still isn't flush fit with the bottom of the body when inserted, so the phone won't stand up on its own unless you eject the pen first. Slightly annoying given that the end of the S Pen is flat whereas the S23's one is curved:
4: I think the cameras on the back look really cool, but having had the Redmagic 9 Pro (Also SD 8 gen 3) for a bit, I actually really appreciate a completely flush back. Given that both phones are near identical in thickness with the RM9Pro only being a couple of mm taller/narrower, whilst at the same time having a 6000mAh battery, 1500mAh more than the S24 Ultra, I think maybe the sticky-outy camera rings were more of a design decision from Samsung than anything else, they even have bulky camera surrounds on the mdrange A/J series Galaxies so I think it might be a style thing, "camera sticks out thus must be mega":
5: AOD, I have a routine set up so that when it's charging the AOD is displayed, this worked well on the 23 Ultra as I had the AOD set to a higher brightness which was easily visible when the phone was laying on the wireless pad at he desk or in the car. The ability to change the brightness by double tapping the AOD clock no longer exists and I find the AOD a bit dark to see clearly under the monitor on the desk when the lights are off and only the monitor is the main source of light in the room. AOD ramps up instantly when the room lights are increased though. So just a slight niggle that hopefully an update sorts.
Aside from that, the phone feels really good to hold, the Titanium warms to temp really quickly just like my old Titanium watch used to, and as a result it transfers heat more obviously than the S23 does. I'm feeling the heat more in my palm than I ever did with the S23. This is a good thing I guess as you want transferring away from the internals, not staying locked in or focused in one particular area.
The corners digging into the palm is one negative I saw mentioned in multiple youtube reviews but I don't see this as a problem one single bit, no matter how I hold it with comfort, there is no digging into my palm. It's actually more comfortable in the palm than the S23 Ultra is for long periods of time.
Camera, unlike previous Galaxies where if you selected the higher MP modes you would end up with higher levels of noise/less dynamic range when in the normal photo mode (not Pro or Expert RAW). On the 23 Ultra this has changed and you actually get very good low light noise and dynamic range. I guess I can partially retract a previous statement about sticking to 12MP, 50MP is perfectly usable for high quality sharp results where you do want to get as much detail as possible and then ideal to downscale for display/sharing. It's not practical though as both 50MP and 200MP images take a some time to process in the background and you also lose some features like the 50MP mode only gives you the 1x and 5x lenses (with digital zoom in between), 200MP only gives you access to the 1x lens. Further testing needs doing though, I'm travelling this weekend so will give it a good go.
Be sure to install Camera Assistant and tweak some settings for the best quality for both photo and video.
Speaking of video, 4k60fps with the settings set to focus on quality is really excellent. Finally smooth 60fps at 4k with great image quality.. Just make sure that Video Stabilisation is turned off in the camera settings as you will get panning judder if it's left on by default. There's revised OIS on the 24 Ultra and it's always active, there's no need to enable EIS as well as that just crops in the video FOV as well.
Yup make sure that you are always recording at 60fps though for this to work effectively, you don't want to slowmo 30fps footage!
1: By default many apps (Facebook for example) won't let you change notification tones for individual categories like chats, comment replies etc. This is because under notification settings in OUI6.1 there is a new setting to enable or disable forced notification categories control instead of letting the app control it internally. This is off by default, toggling it back on re-enables this function. For me this is important as i I HATE most app's built in notification sounds, Facebook and FB Messenger are two such apps. Obnoxiously loud and lengthy tones whereas I like quick and discreet yet perfectly discernable to me as to what app made that pitched tone or noise etc.
2: The navigation bar has been changed. You no longer can enable the 3 segmented navbar gestures and hide the gesture markers. The 3 gesture areas are replaced by a forced Google central bar that cannot be auto hidden. The only other option is to use old style navbar buttons. I know it's only a few pixels high but I'd like the ability to hide the forced navbar area, since I use One Handed Operations+, I can remap a gesture for Circle To Find to an action that way. I suspect that this is enforced by Google as mentioned, and that Samsung Goog Lock will add a module to mitigate this restriction and give users the options to tweak it to preference. Good Lock devs seem to listen to user requests so give it a month or so for people to submit their reports.
As a result, the actual usable screen restaurateur is reduced vs the S23 Ultra, and the 23 Ultra actually ends up having a better usable screen edge to bezel ratio lol:
Now there is a workaround of sorts, it doesn't fix it completely, but you can get the chinned off area back at the bottom and reduce the width of the central bar by using Navstar in Good Lock, once set, the navbar now simply floats over any active window
You can also make is slightly darker too by changing the colour not to black, but just a dark grey shade a few shades before pure black, this darkens it further.
3: The S Pen grip is less grippy than the one on the S23 Ultra, means you have to pinch it with more pressure now else it can slide up your fingers as you draw/write.. Also the S Pen still isn't flush fit with the bottom of the body when inserted, so the phone won't stand up on its own unless you eject the pen first. Slightly annoying given that the end of the S Pen is flat whereas the S23's one is curved:
4: I think the cameras on the back look really cool, but having had the Redmagic 9 Pro (Also SD 8 gen 3) for a bit, I actually really appreciate a completely flush back. Given that both phones are near identical in thickness with the RM9Pro only being a couple of mm taller/narrower, whilst at the same time having a 6000mAh battery, 1500mAh more than the S24 Ultra, I think maybe the sticky-outy camera rings were more of a design decision from Samsung than anything else, they even have bulky camera surrounds on the mdrange A/J series Galaxies so I think it might be a style thing, "camera sticks out thus must be mega":
5: AOD, I have a routine set up so that when it's charging the AOD is displayed, this worked well on the 23 Ultra as I had the AOD set to a higher brightness which was easily visible when the phone was laying on the wireless pad at he desk or in the car. The ability to change the brightness by double tapping the AOD clock no longer exists and I find the AOD a bit dark to see clearly under the monitor on the desk when the lights are off and only the monitor is the main source of light in the room. AOD ramps up instantly when the room lights are increased though. So just a slight niggle that hopefully an update sorts.
Aside from that, the phone feels really good to hold, the Titanium warms to temp really quickly just like my old Titanium watch used to, and as a result it transfers heat more obviously than the S23 does. I'm feeling the heat more in my palm than I ever did with the S23. This is a good thing I guess as you want transferring away from the internals, not staying locked in or focused in one particular area.
The corners digging into the palm is one negative I saw mentioned in multiple youtube reviews but I don't see this as a problem one single bit, no matter how I hold it with comfort, there is no digging into my palm. It's actually more comfortable in the palm than the S23 Ultra is for long periods of time.
Camera, unlike previous Galaxies where if you selected the higher MP modes you would end up with higher levels of noise/less dynamic range when in the normal photo mode (not Pro or Expert RAW). On the 23 Ultra this has changed and you actually get very good low light noise and dynamic range. I guess I can partially retract a previous statement about sticking to 12MP, 50MP is perfectly usable for high quality sharp results where you do want to get as much detail as possible and then ideal to downscale for display/sharing. It's not practical though as both 50MP and 200MP images take a some time to process in the background and you also lose some features like the 50MP mode only gives you the 1x and 5x lenses (with digital zoom in between), 200MP only gives you access to the 1x lens. Further testing needs doing though, I'm travelling this weekend so will give it a good go.
Be sure to install Camera Assistant and tweak some settings for the best quality for both photo and video.
Speaking of video, 4k60fps with the settings set to focus on quality is really excellent. Finally smooth 60fps at 4k with great image quality.. Just make sure that Video Stabilisation is turned off in the camera settings as you will get panning judder if it's left on by default. There's revised OIS on the 24 Ultra and it's always active, there's no need to enable EIS as well as that just crops in the video FOV as well.
Yup make sure that you are always recording at 60fps though for this to work effectively, you don't want to slowmo 30fps footage!
Man of Honour
Nice one cheers, gonna file mine in now before the riff raff do haha 
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Go via Top Cashback too, £4.25 cashback.
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Go via Top Cashback too, £4.25 cashback.
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If like me, you aren't a fan of pressing 'ok'when entering a 4 digit pin there is a way around it.
Go to the lock screen settings and enter the pin you want, then add 2 extra digits.
A toggle will appear underneath by default allowing you to enter the pin without pressing OK.
Untoggle then re-toggle this, then delete the final two numbers and press OK.
Go to the lock screen settings and enter the pin you want, then add 2 extra digits.
A toggle will appear underneath by default allowing you to enter the pin without pressing OK.
Untoggle then re-toggle this, then delete the final two numbers and press OK.
Thanks, I'm selling mine there too.
Man of Honour
I use FreeFileSync, phone backup (sync) is done as part of my PC drive backups run monthly:
I'm searching Watch6 on there, nothing is coming up? Any tips?
Thanks for the tips, I have been searching for this option yesterday!
Nice one, just submitted mine before they inevitably half the price!
Man of Honour
"Galaxy Watch 6 40mm"?
I remembered what this phone reminds me of now, went back through old photos of my phones as I knew it hit some nostalgia for a reason, it's the colourway and overall styling, matching frame and aesthetic with a pure black front
That was such a great pone too, remember magnetic charging contacts??
Soldato
This is what I have been waiting to see, it does seem better than normal Gorilla glass.
Caporegime
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After 14 days Samsung will charge your card for the discount amount
Depends how much the difference is and if you can be bothered with the potential hassle.