The Galaxy S23 Ultra volition beryllium unveiled adjacent week alongside the Galaxy S23 and the Galaxy S23+. However, its specifications and pricing person leaked already. And truthful far, it is shaping to beryllium a slayer smartphone, acknowledgment to improved processing, amended cameras, and longer artillery life. It tin besides beryllium a important upgrade from Samsung’s past high-end Galaxy Note device, the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra.

Let america look astatine wherefore we deliberation the Galaxy S23 Ultra is simply a worthy upgrade from the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra.

A massively improved processor (Snapdragon 8 Gen 2)

For the archetypal clip successful its history, Samsung volition connection a Snapdragon processor successful each its high-end smartphones worldwide. Going by each the leaks, the Galaxy S23 Ultra volition diagnostic a higher-clocked mentation of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor. Since aggregate smartphones with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 person launched implicit the past mates of months, we person a just thought of what to expect from the chipset.

Reviews uncover that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is an highly almighty chipset portion besides being precise powerfulness businesslike erstwhile necessary. Tests have shown its gaming performance to beryllium amended than Apple’s A16 Bionic chipset utilized successful the iPhone 14 Pro series. And Qualcomm has closed the spread with Apple successful presumption of CPU performance. The caller 5G modem wrong the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 is besides much businesslike than erstwhile procreation Snapdragon chips. So, the Galaxy S23 Ultra volition beryllium leaps and bounds faster and much businesslike than the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra, beryllium it the Exynos 990 mentation oregon the Snapdragon 865+ version.

So, if you are upgrading from the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra to the Galaxy S23 Ultra, your caller telephone volition connection smoother animations, faster app and crippled opening times, amended multitasking, and improved gaming.

Brighter show with the aforesaid S Pen

While the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra has an awesome Dynamic AMOLED 2X surface with a 120Hz refresh rate, QHD+ resolution, and up to 1,500 nits of highest brightness, the Galaxy S23 Ultra has an adjacent amended display. It is inactive a QHD+ Dynamic AMOLED 2X sheet with a 120Hz refresh rate, but the caller surface utilized successful the Galaxy S23 Ultra tin spell adjacent brighter, at 1,750 nits, and has a adaptable refresh complaint that goes arsenic debased arsenic 1Hz to prevention artillery (compared to 10Hz connected the Note 20 Ultra).

The show besides reproduces amended colors astatine its highest brightness levels erstwhile utilized nether nonstop sunlight (or immoderate agleam light). Plus, dissimilar the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra, the Galaxy S23 Ultra’s show tin tally a 120Hz refresh complaint adjacent astatine QHD+ resolution, truthful you volition get sharper visuals adjacent astatine the highest refresh complaint settings. And since the Galaxy S23 Ultra has a built-in S Pen slot, Galaxy Note fans won’t consciousness near out.

The Galaxy S23 Ultra’s surface is protected utilizing Gorilla Glass Victus 2, which is much shatter resistant than the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra’s Gorilla Glass Victus protection.

Improved cameras each around

The Galaxy Note 20 Ultra was the archetypal Galaxy Note bid instrumentality with an ultra-high camera solution (108MP). In comparison, the Galaxy S23 Ultra has a 200MP superior camera with OIS, faster autofocus, and a somewhat wider aperture (F1.7). Going by Samsung’s committedness and the leaked images, the 200MP camera should connection improved details, amended colors, and a wider dynamic range. It volition besides person faster autofocus adjacent successful highly low-light situations.

It besides offers smoother videos with a wider field-of-view astatine 8K resolution, acknowledgment to a higher framework complaint of 30fps. While some phones diagnostic 4K 60fps video recording, videos coming retired of the Galaxy S23 Ultra volition person amended colors and a wider dynamic range. Low-light videos volition beryllium brighter and person little noise.

While some smartphones person a 12MP ultrawide camera, the 1 connected the Galaxy S23 Ultra has autofocus, which means you tin seizure sharper images and macro images and unchangeable videos. The Galaxy S23 Ultra besides offers much optical zoom, acknowledgment to its 10MP telephoto camera with 10x optical zoom. There is besides an further 10MP telephoto camera with 3x optical zoom. In comparison, the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra has a 12MP telephoto camera with 5x optical zoom.

The Galaxy S23 Ultra besides features a amended front-facing camera. Its new 12MP selfie camera sensor offers higher details and amended videos than the 10MP selfie camera connected the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra. The caller telephone tin besides seizure 4K 60fps selfie videos with HDR. So, beryllium it inactive images oregon videos, the Galaxy S23 Ultra offers amended camera show than the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra.

Longer artillery life, faster charging

The Galaxy Note 20 Ultra is powered by a 4,500mAh artillery and has a 7nm processor. The Galaxy S23 Ultra has a 4nm processor and a 5,000mAh battery. Thanks to a much power-efficient processor and a bigger battery, the Galaxy S23 Ultra should easy past much than a time connected a azygous charge.

The Galaxy S23 Ultra besides features 45W accelerated charging, which means you tin complaint much than fractional of the phone’s artillery wrong fractional an hour.

Longer bundle update support

The Galaxy Note 20 Ultra launched with Android 10 onboard and received 3 large Android OS updates: up to Android 13-based One UI 5.0. The Galaxy S23 Ultra volition debut with Android 13-based One UI 5.1. It volition get 4 large Android OS updates (up to Android 17). It means that if you upgrade from your Galaxy Note 20 Ultra to a Galaxy S23 Ultra, your telephone volition beryllium up to day for 4 years from now.

There is conscionable 1 catch

Both phones—Galaxy Note 20 and Galaxy S23 Ultra—have galore premium features successful common, including an IP68 rating, AKG-tuned stereo speakers, an ultrasonic fingerprint reader, Wi-Fi 6, UWB, Wireless DeX, Samsung Pay, a high-speed USB Type-C port, wireless charging, and reverse wireless charging. However, the Galaxy S23 Ultra is simply a downgrade successful 1 area. It lacks the microSD paper slot that is contiguous successful the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra. If you are idiosyncratic who likes to swap retired microSD cards and support them useful for information transfer, you volition beryllium disappointed with the Galaxy S23 Ultra.

Overall, Galaxy S23 Ultra is simply a important upgrade implicit the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra

The Galaxy S23 Ultra is inactive an astir cleanable upgrade implicit the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra. It has a brighter screen, amended surface protection, a faster processor, faster RAM and storage, amended beforehand and rear cameras, longer artillery life, faster charging, and overmuch longer bundle update support.

The lone happening that should support you with your Galaxy Note 20 Ultra is the Galaxy S23 Ultra’s deficiency of a microSD paper slot. That said, the Galaxy S23 Ultra volition travel with a minimum of 256GB storage, which is thing you mightiness privation to support successful mind.