**** The Official Samsung Galaxy S23 Family Thread ****

SquirrelMadness said:
Do the edjes taper thin to blend with phone or is the thickness universal up to the edge? Like do you feel a step on the side when running your finger across?


7 Days. I put mine in a flat box then in blue bag. Put a label on it as well with IMEI number.
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There is a step on the side but it's a non-issue imo.

If you use a case you won't notice it.
 
Yeah, at 7 days you get a reminder email and text, giving you another 7 days to get your return in. I sent mine by Special Delivery just to be sure.
From what I've seen online, if you don't get your phone sent back in time, they lock your new handset. This has caused some buyers of second hand but brand new phones, where the original buyer hasn't posted the trade in, and effectively scamming Samsung, and the buyer is than stuck with a locked phone with no option of getting it unlocked.
 
So what happens if you delay it or it gets lost? You've already paid for the new phone and received it. How are they gonna recover the value of the used phone?
 
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mrk said:
Screen zoom and font size are the two things to change to get more compacted view like you would normally expect vs the Tomy Playdoh sized icons and stuff out of the box. My screen zoom is set to the lowest, and font size is 2nd to lowest.
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Thanks. I have the screen zoom to the lowest setting, the font to the lowest setting as well and in the email widget the emails are just huge. The whole screen only displays 6 emails.
 
The Samsung themes are really annoying... they change too much. Even the keyboard colour and always on display is changed. I just wanted drop down colour and icons changed.

Much more fun using a custom launcher where you can specify to your liking, background blur, transparency, icons etc...
 
New twist with my screen protector saga. Went with the IMBZBK [4+4 Pack] UV for the third attempt and it went really well. A bubble in one corner took a while longer to sort itself out, but a perfect fit in the end. Plonked it into my QuadLock case and the pressure started to lift it so took it straight back out. I think it's just too tight for a lot of screen protectors, my clear case is fine so I'll just have to get the universal QL adaptor. Finger print sensor seems just as good when without a screen protector.
 
Do i need to delete my galaxy watch from old phone wearable to make it work with the s23?

The offical screen protector is good and all but mucked the 1st up but then i havent done a protecctor for years (last done when i got my s8 yearsssssss ago).
So with the 2nd protector took my time even more but the top half doesnt open up when pushing so you have to peel and then your fingers stick to it and dust goes in and its just stupid. The bottom is half is perfect loll.
But most of the bubbles do sort themselves out (magic i guess). Little annoying but i can live with it for now
 
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doodah said:
New twist with my screen protector saga. Went with the IMBZBK [4+4 Pack] UV for the third attempt and it went really well. A bubble in one corner took a while longer to sort itself out, but a perfect fit in the end. Plonked it into my QuadLock case and the pressure started to lift it so took it straight back out. I think it's just too tight for a lot of screen protectors, my clear case is fine so I'll just have to get the universal QL adaptor. Finger print sensor seems just as good when without a screen protector.
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Seems like some cases are not protector friendly for some reason. My jetech case doenst lift the offical protector atall, but have seen the offical samsung clear case do that
 
@mrk are you using expert raw for these photos? Also how you finding the slower shutter speeds that people report to cause motion blur?
 
LiE said:
@mrk are you using expert raw for these photos? Also how you finding the slower shutter speeds that people report to cause motion blur?
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No issues with shutter speeds etc, it was there on the S22 and S20 before it and you kind of just apat the way you shoot and what tap to meter adjustments to make etc so it's never really a prob for anything I've taken pics of yet really. if I knew I was taking pics of moving subjects whilst I was still then I'd enable the faster shutter option in Camera Assistant for that purpose.

Only the two Spinnaker Tower shots I posted previously were using Expert RAW in the 12MP mode and then processed in Lightroom. The other photos are all in the normal Photo mode at 12MP with a few selections in 50 and 200MP to demonstrate the differences at 100% crop (in the review samples). All photos are imported into Lightroom for cropping/straightening and any processing as is usually the case for everything I shoot anyway.

I have since take a few more shots using Expert RAW though, some close-ups of my watch as it has lots of detailing that made it a good thing to test how accurate the Expert RAW is as it also captures HDR but doesn't capture HDR in the Pro Photo mode in the normal camera app strangely, so for RAW capture with HDR, you do need to be using Expert RAW, even if Pro photo mode in normal camera app is set to only save the RAW file captured and Auto HDR is enabled in the normal camera app as well:

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And some tests just now to demonstrate the HDR doing its thing, these are unedited, just straight export as jpeg from the RAW dng:

Normal photo mode (jpeg 12MP, Auto HDR on):
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Pro Photo mode (12MP, RAW only):
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Expert RAW (50MP):
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Expert RAW (12MP)
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For all 4 photos tapped on the speaker to set the exposure metering, so the camera is exposing for the dark speaker area only and HDR should be covering the rest. As you can see the normal photo mode has tried its best to retain as much dynamic range as possible but as it's a JPEG capture, there's only so much that can be retained.

The Pro Photo mode has essentially used no HDR at all and just taken a single photo which naturally bows out the screen and lamp at the top. The 50MP Expert RAW shot has done a better job than Pro Photo and I could easily reclaim the dynamic range in Lightroom for both screen, lamp and speaker, but it's clear the 12MP Expert RAW shot has done the best job in this particularly difficult shot to expose.
 
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