Every year, it feels like phone announcements — particularly in the U.S. — get less and less exciting. We've begun to see diminishing returns in hardware innovation of standard slab phones, and even huge processing or software advancements no longer hold the weight of excitement they once had. Samsung's Galaxy S24 series fits quite perfectly into this description, as my colleague Harish Jonnalagadda wrote shortly after the phone series' announcement.
But there's beauty in the pursuit of perfection. Radical innovation or revolution isn't always necessary, particularly when a product is as good as the Galaxy S24 Ultra. It rarely does anything new, but it does almost everything extremely well. In a nutshell, Samsung took some of the best features of a Google Pixel and put them in the more reliable hardware of a Samsung Galaxy phone without removing any of the features Samsung fans know and love.
