{"id":157,"date":"2025-02-27T08:06:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T08:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/?p=157"},"modified":"2025-09-17T13:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:33:12","slug":"samsung-s23-ultra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/index.php\/2025\/02\/27\/samsung-s23-ultra\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung S23 Ultra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I purchased the S23 Ultra outright from Samsung, using credits I’d accumulated to get a decent discount and also utilised the trade in deal. Never-the-less I still had to put down a considerable amount of money to get this device. Flagship smartphones were becoming eye wateringly expensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Make no mistake this was the most capable phone I’d ever owned, and I absolutely loved the party piece of it’s 100x digital zoom. I’m just not sure it justifies it’s hefty price tag. It started at \u00a31249, I think I still had to pay around \u00a3800-900 with my discount and trade in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I went full in with customising OneUI with Goodlock and all the other add-ons that Samsung provides to really make the phone my own. I still don’t think any manufacturer comes close to this level of tweaking without having to revert to third party apps. I do remember having problems with some of these apps though. I had apps disappearing from my app drawer, my home screen would sometimes just show blank amongst other little glitches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was also around the time I was going out hiking a lot with a group of friends, the pictures I’d bring back were phenomenal and it saved me lugging my DSLR around with me. In the back of my mind though, I was always worried about dropping and damaging this valuable phone. This wasn’t helped by the curved screen. Yes I had a rugged case, but trying to find a quality tempered glass screen protector that fit properly was nigh on impossible. In the end I opted for a TPU film protector, however this slid around the screen and doesn’t offer the protection of glass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the end I resold the device after a few months as the worry of damaging the phone and losing its value was weighing me down. This was replaced with a Pixel 7a which I’ve already written about, a mistake that at the time I wasn’t wise to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I purchased the S23 Ultra outright from Samsung, using credits I’d accumulated to get a decent discount and also utilised the trade in deal. Never-the-less I still had to put down a considerable amount of money to get this device. Flagship smartphones were becoming eye wateringly expensive. Make no mistake this was the most capable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myphonehistory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}