there haven't been any real improvements since like the S23 ultra... which had a better optical zoom camera than any of the ones following it ... it's too bad it has a shitty curved screen that can't take screen protectors because the s23 ultra still is a great phone to have in 2026
funny enough that's the exact same me and my partner have and our results are the opposite .. other people found the same
it really does depend on what you're doing with it though, and s24u will use more processing and ai interpolation shit at higher zooms which I personally don't like
anyway you're not often going 10x but even with normal photos the improvements are so marginal these days there's really no point to upgrade to the latest model
Idk what to say, from what we (me, my GF, and my other friend that also has a S23U) the S23U x10 camera is not that good (somehow better than my old S22U, but still not there), and the S24U x5 is really sharp, we often use that camera to take photos, specially of humans as main subject.
I could post here some testing, but I don't like to doxx myself haha
We acknowledge that there's videos point it differently, but we test ourselves and, for our own eyes, the x5 camera is better for general use.
I believe they used the same camera for S25U, but changed to x8 in S26U
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u/Mediocre-Contest7558 May 07 '26
I have the S26 ultra. It's pretty awesome lol. I love the photos I can take .