Galaxy S24 FE Arms-on Preview: One of the best Fan Version but?

The Samsung Galaxy S24 FE seems to be a compelling possibility for these searching for a high-quality smartphone with out breaking the financial institution, because the Fan Version is meant to be. It boasts a vibrant show, sturdy efficiency, and succesful cameras. Nevertheless, the Samsung insists that the standout function is the combination of synthetic intelligence.

Samsung’s Superior Intelligence (because it calls its AI) powers a variety of options, from photograph modifying and transcription to textual content era. Whereas some AI capabilities, like Picture Help and Sketch to Picture, have limitations, others, equivalent to Chat Help and Translation, carry out nicely. The cellphone’s smooth design, spectacular battery life, and succesful cameras additional solidify its worth proposition.

And talking of worth, you may get the Galaxy S24 FE for $649.99 for the 8/128GB variant within the U.S., which is $15 greater than final 12 months. This makes it $150 cheaper than Samsung’s base flagship mannequin this 12 months, the Galaxy S24, all whereas providing a really related consumer expertise.

So, what’s completely different with the brand new with the Galaxy S24 FE specs? Let’s evaluate the brand new Fan Version in opposition to its predecessor and see what’s been improved this 12 months.

Galaxy S24 FE Design and Show

A lot brighter show and a slicker design

Samsung has made some slight alterations with the Galaxy S24 FE, which, when mixed, make up for a noticeable enchancment. In comparison with its predecessor, the body has much less of a curve, so the edges are flatter. The cellphone doesn’t lose any of its ergonomics although. In truth, we’d say it felt safer within the hand in comparison with the S23 FE.

The again facet might be the one which has acquired the least quantity of visible modifications. One small element that some customers may discover are the much less reflective steel of the three protruding lenses.

The S24 FE’s dimensions stay just like what we’re used to from earlier generations, though it’s taller and barely wider at 6.38 x 3.04 x 0.31 in. It is also a bit heavier at 7.51 oz, however it’s not noticeable.

Colours-wise, Samsung has gone with Blue, Graphite, Grey, Mint, and Yellow this 12 months.

The show is far bigger this 12 months measuring at 6.7 inches in comparison with the 6.4 inches of the predecessor. On prime of that, the bezels are a lot thinner now, and that really makes the brand new Fan Version look extra in with the occasions. Though the bezels are nonetheless not uniform, with the decrease one being thicker, we expect the S24 FE’s entrance facet appeared nice throughout our hands-on expertise with it.

The show this 12 months has a peak brightness of 1,900 nits, which is greater than final 12 months. We must see what the precise most brightness is throughout our show lab assessments, the outcomes of that are coming quickly.

The glass defending the show has additionally been upgraded from Gorilla Glass 5 to Gorilla Glass Victus Plus, which is meant to be extra sturdy in opposition to scratches and drops. You additionally get the anticipated IP68 mud and water resistance ranking.

Galaxy S24 FE Efficiency

Extra highly effective ray-tracing and nearly double the efficiency

The Galaxy S24 FE comes with Samsung’s new Exynos 2400e chipset, which Samsung said has a 2X quicker processing energy. There may be additionally an 18% enchancment in ray tracing in comparison with the predecessor, which permits customers to play video games like Diablo Immortal with ray tracing enabled.

This new chip can be what permits the S24 FE to be the primary Galaxy Fan Version cellphone with Samsung’s Instantaneous Slo-mo function. Instantaneous Slo-mo permits the consumer to create a sluggish movement video out of any recording by artificially including extra frames. It’s a neat trick, however because it usually finally ends up trying a bit bizarre, we’d say that it’s extra of a gimmick.

What’s extra thrilling to see is the 11% bigger vapor chamber, which we anticipate to assist the cellphone preserve decrease temperatures throughout heavy masses. This could end in extra sustained efficiency, making the cellphone even higher fitted to gaming or every other intensive duties.

The cellphone comes with 8GB of RAM, which leads us to assume there isn’t a on-device AI taking place. Storage-wise, you may choose from 128GB or 256GB.

Regardless of Samsung’s aggressive AI advertising and marketing of AI with the S24 FE, the cellphone’s AI options really feel considerably superficial.

One of many standout options is Picture Help, which permits for object manipulation just like Google’s Magic Editor. Nevertheless, it struggles with eradicating objects which have shadows, usually changing them with blurry or unrealistic generated photographs.

We additionally received to strive the brand new Sketch to Picture instrument, which may be fairly enjoyable when it really works. The cellphone generates an AI picture based mostly in your scribbles on prime of a photograph, combining the 2 as finest as it could actually. It positively created good outcomes when one of many Samsung staff did a demo for us, however after we tried it out we did not get such nice outcomes.

Different AI-powered instruments like Chat Help, Name Help, and Interpreter work nicely however require handbook language pack downloads, which may be inconvenient for vacationers.

The Galaxy S24 FE runs Android 14 and is supported by seven years of OS updates, which is consistent with the remainder of Samsung’s non-budget telephones. That is additionally three years greater than we received with the S23 FE final 12 months.

Galaxy S24 FE Battery

Battery life may very well be a lot better than earlier than

The S24 FE comes with a barely bigger battery capability at 4,700mAh. Samsung says that the brand new Fan Version lasts longer than its predecessor, however we are going to let you realize what we get in our battery life assessments as soon as we’ve outcomes, so keep tuned.

Charging, nevertheless, stays the identical at 25W of wired and 15W of wi-fi. Given the marginally bigger battery, we anticipate the S24 FE to take a bit longer to cost in comparison with final 12 months’s mannequin.

Do you have to purchase it?

To not point out that you simply additionally get the identical principal digital camera that comes with the flagship Galaxy S24. Not solely that, however you even have a devoted telephoto digital camera, which isn’t widespread at this value level, and even in additional premium telephones.

However, what would actually make the Galaxy S24 FE the right mid-range bundle is that if its battery life seems to be strong. For that, nevertheless, we must tempo the S24 FE via its paces in our battery life assessments.

For now, although we’re nonetheless doing our testing on the S24 FE, we would say you might be getting a fairly whole lot for what you might be paying. And there’s a good likelihood this will probably be the most effective mid-range telephones for the 12 months.