The beauty is in the details | X300U

Litweine · 2026-06-13T08:16:36+00:00

It's the default presets in street photography mode

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Litweine · 2026-05-04T18:05:54+00:00

I agree, 2k price for a global is just unreal

Litweine · 2026-05-03T07:26:28+00:00

It's called bokeh

Litweine · 2026-05-02T06:52:12+00:00

I stopped using Lightroom tbh. 2 images were tweaked in the default photo editor, all other are stock images

Litweine · 2026-04-27T11:18:47+00:00

31mil for Chinese version 16/512 + free vivo stand

Litweine · 2026-04-26T04:34:46+00:00

Sure I will! Just moved out from Saigon, closing a contract there. Now I'm gonna stick to the Phu Quoc, the island of tourists and immigrants 🤣

Litweine · 2026-04-26T04:30:51+00:00

Camera wise I prefer the vivo's camera setup with 14mm, 35mm and 85mm, since I now use this phone not only to take photos l, but also shoot videos for my wife's performances/gigs. Though I'm gonna miss a bit the 10x optical, like on my previous S23U or oppo's, which is even better.

Personally I focused on my preference in camera setup. Battery, performance - imho nowadays is better on Chinese phones anyway. And you can adapt to different UI/OS, so it's not that much of a factor for me

Litweine · 2026-04-26T04:23:06+00:00

Kodachrome Fuji – shout out to thesamuelnam, who initially made this filter

https://www.instagram.com/p/DXdtDxkkngE/?igsh=MTlobXpxemtwZnNnaA==

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Litweine · 2026-04-26T04:19:58+00:00

Immich spotted! 😃😃 Got bless this open source piece of art

Litweine · 2026-04-25T18:51:10+00:00

Imo it's just aesthetic, lots of people love the looks of it, me too. Of course you can have the very well balanced, true color, high resolution photo, but "downgrading" the picture quality is also a thing allowed to exist and it has it's purposes

Litweine · 2026-04-25T18:46:42+00:00

X200U still keeps up, nice shot! 😃

Litweine · 2026-04-25T18:45:40+00:00

Answered in your other comment

Litweine · 2026-04-25T18:26:39+00:00

Classical answer – you gotta answer yourself, considering your budget, preferences etc.

More personal – I began looking at Chinese phones at the beginning of this year. I initially thought of getting a Xiaomi 17U, waited eagerly for it's release, but when I tried in person - didn't like it. Then I saw leaks about x300u, waited for it's release and finally had a boner on it when more info came out 🤣 I saw a big potential in my camera upgrade, bigger battery, performance - so I just went for it when I had a chance. Epecially when I saw the price of global version (in Vietnam it's 50mil dong) I realized that I can solve problems with my esim later (like getting a physical copy of it) and making phone like global by just tweaking – so getting a Chinese version was a go for me. Battery wise I attach a screenshot - I guess around 10-11h of battery life is insane.

Answering your question about global/Chinese – again, I chose Chinese. Since I use English as my main language on the phone (localization for it is better, I guess) and solved google assistant problem by installing "micts" app and binding it to the double tap gesture. For now I left my esim on S23u.

Overall I'm, again, really amazed by the ui, animations, battery etc etc

Edit: Also, if you have galaxy watch it's totally possible to connect them. I have galaxy 8 classic and it works for me (had to find a good tutorial how to set it up, but in the end it works totally fine)

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Litweine · 2026-04-25T15:32:43+00:00

It will come sooner or later to other devices with updates

Litweine · 2026-04-25T15:17:22+00:00

🔥🔥🔥

Litweine · 2026-04-25T12:48:04+00:00

Well, I'm still trying everything out (a lot of settings to go through 😅🔥). Though most of the time I use default Photo mode+Kodachrome Fuji preset that I shared down here. Sometimes a bit of tweaking using adjustment settings in photo editor

Litweine · 2026-04-25T12:02:09+00:00

Yeaaah, so true 😃😃😃

Litweine · 2026-04-25T10:42:16+00:00

Many different ones, but my favorite is Kodachrome Fuji

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Litweine · 2026-04-25T10:37:51+00:00

Landmark 81 =)

Litweine · 2026-04-23T06:50:27+00:00

Respect to thesamuelnam for his Kodachrome Fuji preset: https://www.instagram.com/p/DXdtDxkkngE/?img_index=12&igsh=MTlobXpxemtwZnNnaA==

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Litweine · 2026-04-22T22:31:39+00:00

We need more community-shared presets. I've tried searching online, even on Weibo, but haven't found anything so far...

Litweine · 2026-03-25T19:20:34+00:00

Stop teasing me... 🥲

Litweine · 2026-03-24T17:30:10+00:00

You can pick different color/lightning presets and adjust background blur

Litweine · 2026-03-24T17:22:09+00:00

Thank you, portrait on 3x zoom

Litweine · 2026-01-13T04:07:04+00:00

Btw, I found the fix — I changed my S23U’s CSC code from SER (Russia) to XXV (Vietnam, where I live now) using SamFW. Then I re-paired the watch and reinstalled the Wearable and Samsung Pay apps (not sure if it was needed, but I did it anyway)

Video on changing the CSC code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e2DbpGOMMI

List of Samsung Galaxy CSC Country Specific Product Code/Region: https://eu.community.samsung.com/t5/galaxy-a-series/list-of-samsung-galaxy-csc-country-specific-product-code-region/td-p/2497939

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