Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra — 7 biggest rumored upgrades

The Galaxy S24 Ultra is 1 of nan astir anticipated phones of 2024, and it promises to beryllium overmuch much than conscionable different refresh. Why? Because Samsung is really rethinking what makes a smartphone genuinely smart.

In fact, Samsung has already teased a astonishing magnitude of specifications astir this phone, particularly caller AI features. And that’s successful summation to a ton of leaks retired location astir nan design, performance, cameras and more.

This flagship decidedly has nan imaginable to beryllium nan best phone of 2024. But what's really new? Here’s nan 7 biggest Galaxy S24 Ultra rumors truthful acold you request to know. 

Galaxy S24 Ultra design: Titanium and vibrant colors

Samsung could beryllium pursuing Apple’s lead by giving nan Galaxy S24 Ultra titanium sides. Titanium isn’t conscionable tougher than aluminum. It should consequence successful a lighter creation pinch nan S24 Ultra tipped to measurement 8.21 versus 8.25 ounces for nan erstwhile model. 

Yes, nan iPhone 15 Pro Max is an moreover lighter 7.81 ounces, but it doesn’t person a built-in stylus for illustration nan S24 Ultra apt will. 

The rumored Galaxy S24 Ultra colors could beryllium beautiful vibrant, pinch achromatic and titanium grey successful nan fold, but besides violet and yellow. We could moreover spot exclusive online colors for illustration orange, ray bluish and ray green.

Galaxy S24 Ultra AI: A leap guardant

The biggest upgrade by acold to nan Galaxy S24 Ultra should beryllium generative AI, and Samsung has teased aggregate features that will hopefully make your life easier. For example, AI Translate Call will let you to telephone personification who speaks different connection and get audio and matter translations successful existent time.

Other generative AI features are connected nan measurement arsenic well. Samsung Gauss, nan generative AI exemplary developed by Samsung Research, will beryllium capable to thief you constitute emails and summarize documents. The AI tin besides make and edit images arsenic good arsenic person low-res images to precocious resolution. 

If this sounds a batch for illustration nan Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro, you’re not alone. But hopefully Samsung is doing a batch much present than conscionable playing drawback up. There’s a rumor that Samsung could fastener immoderate AI features down a paywall, but that would beryllium dumb and I don’t judge it.

Galaxy S24 Ultra Display: Smoother and brighter

The Galaxy S24 Ultra will apt instrumentality pinch a 6.8-inch OLED display, but location could beryllium immoderate beautiful awesome upgrades nether nan hood. First, nan leaker Ice Universe says that nan S24 Ultra will scope a highest brightness of 2,500 nits, compared to 1,750 nits for nan S23 Ultra.

It gets better. The S24 Ultra is besides tipped to get a refresh complaint boost from 120Hz to 144Hz. This could beryllium an awesome upgrade for those who for illustration to play nan latest games. 

Galaxy S24 Ultra Cameras: Big changes

The camera rumors for nan Galaxy S24 Ultra person been each complete nan place, but location are plentifulness of breathtaking tidbits. For one, nan main 200MP camera could get a bigger and brighter sensor to amended compete pinch nan best camera phones.

But nan biggest buzz is astir nan Galaxy S24 Ultra’s zooming capabilities. We would spot Samsung move from dual 10 megapixel 3x and 10x telephoto zoom lenses to a 10MP 3x telephoto and a sharper 50 MP 5x zoom lens. That sounds for illustration a downgrade successful position of zooming power, but Samsung could dress up for that pinch nan solution bump and pixel binning to execute optical level quality.

The iPhone 15 and OnePlus Open person leveraged thing akin pinch their respective zoom cameras, truthful it could beryllium existent that Samsung will return nan aforesaid approach.

Galaxy S24 Ultra Video: AI zoom is coming

This is not charismatic but Samsung has revealed caller Zoom Anyplace camera tech that could easy find a location wrong nan S24 Ultra. It uses a operation of a 200MP sensor and AI to amended zooming capabilities.

For example, AI tin support your taxable successful framework astatine each times without having to pat connected nan display, and you’ll beryllium capable to grounds zoomed successful and full-frame shots simultaneously astatine 4K resolution.

Galaxy S24 Ultra Performance: Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

The Galaxy S24 Ultra should person a very powerful spot pinch nan caller Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 moving nan show. It has its ain AI motor for generative AI and it enables Night mode for video. 

Samsung could erstwhile again get an overclocked type of nan Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 to connection nan fastest capacity connected immoderate Android phone. We’re talking astatine slightest a 30% capacity boost for nan CPU, and nan Adreno GPU could get a 25% capacity boost versus nan Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.

Gamers will admit a 40% betterment to ray tracing capacity for much realistic lighting successful games. And different rumor points to arsenic overmuch arsenic 16GB of RAM connected nan S24 Ultra, which would beryllium a large jump from nan max of 12GB connected nan S23 Ultra.  

Galaxy S24 Ultra Battery and charging: Stacked

Samsung is rumored to bring caller stacked artillery exertion to nan Galaxy S24 Ultra on pinch an improved cooling system. So you could spot much powerfulness successful nan aforesaid magnitude of space.

Another positive is that nan S24 Ultra is tipped to upgrade from 45W charging to faster 65W charging. That would thief it get person to nan upcoming OnePlus 12 and rustle distant nan iPhone 15 Pro’s 20W charging.

Galaxy S24 Ultra Outlook

I’m excited to spot really nan Galaxy S24 Ultra tin shingle up nan telephone landscape. The AI capabilities unsocial could put nan iPhone connected notice, while nan faster refresh rate, zoom camera upgrades and faster charging could make this nan flagship to beat.

I conscionable dream that Samsung doesn’t raise nan price, arsenic $1,200 is already beautiful pricey and nan aforesaid arsenic nan iPhone 15 Pro Max. 

Be judge to cheque retired our regularly updated Galaxy S24 Ultra hub to enactment up to velocity connected each nan latest rumors. And travel america @Tom’s Guide connected YouTube, TikTok and Instagram to enactment successful nan cognize each nan measurement up to Samsung Unpacked successful January. 

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