S23 Ultra – BIG

The Galaxy S23 Ultra is a solid upgrade over the S22 Ultra, with an added S-Pen slot, a more durable Corning Gorilla Glass Victus 2 screen, enhanced night-time photography, and an upgraded 200-megapixel primary sensor.

In addition to solid new features, the new flagship’s body is reportedly as durable, if not more durable, than its predecessor.

In a durability test by JerryRigEverything, the S23 begins to show faint scratches at Mohs level 6, with deeper grooves formed by scratches at level 7. This happens to be the same as the S22 Ulta’s display durability, which means the upgrade from Corning Gorilla Glass Victus to Corning Gorilla Glass Victus 2 doesn’t offer much of an upgrade when it comes to scratch resistance.

After scratching off all the sides of the device with a sharp tool, slightly bending the S-Pen splits it in half, before proceeding to scratch up the rear camera, including the main 200-megapixel sensor, with the same tool. It’s a harrowing experience just sitting through, hearing the tool rub off the new flagship device.

As part of the durability test, the S23 Ultra’s display was also put in direct contact with a flame from a lighter for 60 seconds, but that failed to damage the display in any manner. Bending the phone from the front and the back results in no flex, alluding that the device is “rigid as a rock,” which might help buyers feel okay for shelling out $1,649.99 for the new flagship device.

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Source: JerryRigEverything

Apple introduced Visual Look-Up with iOS 15 back in 2021.

The feature allowed users to identify plants, flowers, landmarks and animals in their ‘Photos’ app or via the phone camera. Then, last year, the Cupertino-based company expanded the feature to allow users to virtually ‘pick up’ any object (person, animal, building plant, and more), then separate it from its background, kind of like the ‘Quick Selection Tool’ on Photoshop.

Now, Samsung is taking a page from Apple’s book and introducing ‘Image Clipping’ to its S23 series. This is one of the many features that wasn’t highlighted by Samsung during its Unpacked Event.

The feature works similarly to how it does on an iPhone and doesn’t require you to toggle any setting on. You simply click a photo or open an older one from Photos and long-tap the subject of the image; any object/person/animal/plant/etc. Once you long-tap, the subject will get highlighted and pop-out of the image. At this moment, you’re free to drag around the cropped-out subject.

Once you let go of the screen, you’ll see three prompts, namely ‘copy,’ ‘share’ and ‘save as image.’ Saving the image results in a new image creation in your Photos, with just the cropped-out subject without any background. Similarly, ‘copy’ allows you to paste the image into a different application, while ‘share’ would pull up the regular prompt asking you how you want to share the image.

Though not a groundbreaking new addition, it’s a cool little feature that’s nice to have up your sleeve.

Apart from Image Clipping, the S23 series also boasts other features to edit photos. Adobe and Samsung have partnered to utilize Adobe’s Lightroom software to exclusively handle editing RAW format photos. One of the main benefits of the RAW format is that it captures more data from the camera sensor, which gives photo editors more room to play with when editing. The process normally requires software like Adobe’s Camera Raw. But with support for Lightroom, S23 series owners can edit their RAW photos directly on their devices.

According to Samsung, once you shoot a photo using the Expert RAW camera app, you’ll be able to open the photo in Lightroom with just a tap. “We’re excited to see Samsung enhance the Expert RAW app as a native camera option, with Lightroom as the default and only photo editor,” Scott Belsky, chief product officer and executive vice president with Creative Cloud at Adobe, said.

The new Samsung S23 devices come with a free two-month Lightroom trial.

Learn more about the S23, S23+ and S23 Ultra here.

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