Had the S10+ for a long time and was really happy with it, but I was bitter with Samsung and Android in general because of the low support life, lack of a good eco-system, and lack of in person stores to visit when you have legitimate issues.
I tried Apple for two weeks, and came back. Mainly, the user experience is designed to be used as a happy path user, and you must not stray away from that. I dislike that and appreciate customization.
I looked around for other devices but the S23U really did it for me. Found one at BestBuy as an open box, but it was brand new. Discounted it by ~$350 with the 5% on CC as well.
So far, it's been great. Speed, plenty of RAM, great display, great battery life, excellent camera. Sometimes the camera pictures do look a bit off, like they've gone through processing too much, but for the most part they're good.
There are times where I am zoomed in and I see that the image is being processed. After it is done, the one captured is different than the one processed. Bit annoying and I think they could do better in enhancing that, but I've not had a single bad picture and usually I really like the outcome. Even the iOS users prefer it.
Came from a similar experience. Had the note 10+ and loved it. Did not have much motivation to upgrade to the current flagships but I finally decided to treat myself to something for once and got an upgrade. I'm pretty happy with it and no regrets, it's like a slight upgrade with some wonderful updates. Probably going to rock this for a whole again.
I'm still on the S10 and honestly without reddit killing the battery I might use it for a while. I have upgraded the memory to 512 and it grinds. Plus it's cheap to replace when I break it. How much better is the battery?
What's Reddit doing? I'm assuming you're using the official app?
When I had the S10+, I changed the battery and that killed the monitor and the waterproofing so don't do that lol.
I'd say that I charge my phone once, or twice a day at max. Where with the S10+ it was more like 4 times a day.
I notice it the most when using Google Maps. I would drive for 2 hours and with the S10+, that meant a lot of my charge. With the S23U it was maybe 15%?
I was using relay for far too many hours..it wasn't relay's or RIF's fault....also if I used the dumpster fire official app I wouldn't be figuring out lemmy... fuck u/Spez and the official app
Never had to 4x a day, but definitely caught vampire apps draining the battery. Google is a resource hog.