Urgent need of new phone. - Smashed mine today. S24U, S23U, Other?

413x · 2025-01-22T22:08:59+0000

unfortunately i cant really wait for a deal to come up.

For a phone with the best camera setup, which would you choose?

Im coming from an S21U and i have to say i quite like the samsung pic look.
I know the pixels are popular too

I probably need to order within a week as i only have a really old phone as a backup.

Spudgun · 2025-01-22T23:01:58+0000

Used s23 ultra might be best bang for the buck, or if you want new there were some 25% off deals and decent trade-ins on the Pixel 9 Pro

413x · 2025-01-22T23:02:50+0000

Spudgun said:
Used s23 ultra might be best bang for the buck, or if you want new there were some 25% off deals and decent trade-ins on the Pixel 9 Pro

unfortunately as my phone is not working, i cant use trade ins

neoboy · 2025-01-23T00:09:43+0000

As far as I remember only hardware change to camera setup between S23U and S24U was the long telephoto lens changing from x10 to x5 (albeit heigher pixel count and lower F stop), everything else just software.

S24U does get the 7 year of software support compared to 5 on S23 which is also a year older, everything else is incremental really.

With S25 line being another update that's incremental at best, toying with the idea of jumping to Pixel 9 Pro for a year myself.

Google are currently giving £200 minimum for some really old phones so check the list and student/work discount sites doing 25% off too.

With Sony XA1 and code, can get Pixel 9 Pro 256GB for £576.25 as an example or there's quite a few tasty deals around with iD mobile and Vodafone at the moment if you don't mind a contract.