40K+ Should I switch from iPhone 13 to S23 or S24 ?

mayank4823

mayank4823

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Why I’m thinking of the switch
1. Samsung website is offering me 39k for my 2 year old iPhone 13 if I buy the S24. Claiming GST and applying some coupon will cost me 35k approx after the trade in.
2. Fedup of iOS and average night camera. I used to have a Pixel and that has spoiled me. I trek and travel quite often and star gazing is below average on iPhone 13.
3. I paid around 45-50k for iPhone 13 2 years back because I claimed GST and used bank offers and what not. So getting 39k for it too tempting.

What i’m worried about
1. Battery. iPhone is great when it comes to battery optimisation.
2. Exynos on S24. I’ve heard S23 is a better choice.
3. I really need that lock folder option which is there in iOS. Have some very sensitive pics related to business and some private pics as well. *wink wink*.


Considering everything above, is the switch from iPhone 13 to S23 an upgrade ?
 
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enc0dex264 said:
Bro based on my xp with iPhone i feel like my 14 pro took way better photos then my fold 6.
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Oh really. Do you have any comparisons to prove your point or are they just your feelings
enc0dex264 said:
I knew the camera was okayish.. but i didn't know it would be a significant difference.
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The iphones camera has never had a significant difference over Android ever. Just a lot of ignorant people saying so.
enc0dex264 said:
I've not seen the recent reviews because I'm not in a market for a new phone.. but i would still bet iPhone cameras are probably better in almost most aspects.
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The only thing the iPhone could possibly do better at is less blur with people photos that too only with Samsung. Pixel can catch these as well if not better than any iphone. Otherwise a slight edge with video to the iPhone.

Most of the subjective improvements re:colour can all be fixed in post.
 
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I think you v could also consider vivo and oppo, they have been innovating heavily in smartphone cameras.. Recently I compared their flagships with those of iPhone and Samsung. iPhone felt 2-3 generations behind
 
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mayank4823 said:
What bugs ? I made this post thinking I will switch to s23 or s24, but I ended up getting my phones battery replaced and it's as good as new. Costed me 6.5k. I was getting S25 for 47k after trading in my iPhone 13 and still didn't. iphone 13 camera is not made for night photography and that's the only issue I have.
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I wish man, I wish.
  1. PDF Fails to open (iPhone 13, iOS 18.3.1)
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    This is just part of how much the Files app sucks.
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  2. Search in settings sucks (iPhone 13, iOS 18.3.1)
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    Seriously? Legacy contact is not indexed?
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  3. Auto correct is stupid (SE 2020, iOS 18.3.1)
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    Auto-correcting he to the. Thanks Apple.
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  4. Calendar dates overlapping (SE 2020, iOS 18.2.1)
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  5. Dictation button disappears from Keyboard (SE 2020 18.2)
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    and
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  6. Keyboard in-line suggestions glitch (SE 2020, 18.3.1)
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    In reminders app as well-
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  7. Files App goes blank if, god forbid my internet is a little wonky (iOS 16,17,18)
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  8. The myth that apps are better on iPhone.
    • Apps that reload if you pull down/ up the control centre or notification centre
      Good heavens why? Why? The damn digilocker app, I pulled down the notification centre for the Aadhaar OTP and when I came back to it made me fill all of it out again.
    • Google Apps. So so many issues. In YT Music, subtitles don't show if you full screen a music video. The most infuriating one is when it stops playing videos when auto-playing
  9. Daily crashing and restarting during the iOS 16 era, kernel panicking on my SE 2020. It eventually fixed itself, the day I installed iOS 17.0
  10. In September 2023, hundreds of files disappeared from my iCloud, turns out iCloud on Windows had a syncing error. Couldn't restore. Fortunately had an offsite backup.

These are functional issues but other than these are countless visual bugs, which don't affect function but I why do I have to settle? I didn't pay a premium for the iPhone to have a worse experience. Eg- Skipped animations while unlocking

Now, yes I tried DFU restoring, resetting countless times.

Instead of fixing bugs they are wasting their time with AI. I mean, a shipped bug is not a priority, right?
 
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CrimeMouse said:
Instead of fixing bugs they are wasting their time with AI. I mean, a shipped bug is not a priority, right?
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Was reading an article recently that complained that Samsung was doing the exact same thing.

Your point 3 about auto correct seems to be a universal problem. The more you use any keyboard the worse it gets until you go with another keyboard and then after some time the same problem starts again.
 
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blr_p said:
Was reading an article recently that complained that Samsung was doing the exact same thing.

Your point 3 about auto correct seems to be a universal problem. The more you use any keyboard the worse it gets until you go with another keyboard and then after some time the same problem starts again.
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Apple is testing code in production. In practice, we are all running beta software.
 
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