Move over Galaxy S24 Ultra.
I’m normally a flagship phone guy. As the Managing Editor of Mobile Computing at TechRadar, having one of the latest high-end phones to hand is beneficial to my job, and to give you, dear readers, various hot takes and thoughtful analysis.
So with the reveal of the Samsung Galaxy S24 series at the first Samsung Galaxy Unpacked of 2024, I thought the Galaxy S24 Ultra would have a stranglehold over my attention; it’s the most flagship of the new flagships phones and I already use the Galaxy S23 Ultra. But this was not the case.
Rather it was the smaller and lesser-specced Galaxy S24 that tickled the mobile tech synapse of my gray matter.
It’s been a while since I’ve used a standard Galaxy S-series phone; the last time I popped my SIM card in one was in 2021 with the Galaxy S21, the phone that established the general design language of its successive successors. I remember being a little enamored by the neat combination of the phone’s design, slick display, performance, and camera capabilities.
However, the pull of various other larger phones like the Galaxy Ultra, Folds, and various Pixel Pro phones saw me move away from the Galaxy S21. So I’d half-forgotten how nice a more compact Galaxy phone is. Samsung Galaxy S24: AI smarts in a slick chassis
Then ahead of Unpacked, I got a chance to get my hands on the Galaxy S24.
