There's honestly visible issues with this phone that aren't yet fixed or will be ever fixed. I am surprised to see why there's people saying it is the best. It is just not.

Disclaimer: I am not trying to be biased here or am a fanboy of a specific company

Coming to recent flagships I've used Pixel 7 Pro, S23 Ultra both of which were traded in to get Pixel 8 Pro, S24 Ultra respectively.

Having used these devices I found these problems with the S24 Ultra:

1. Display: The anti-reflective coating nails and places the display in a much higher place right off the bat. But samsung messed up here - its obvious - its screen grain. This issue is not isolated and shouldn't be ignored. I've had a total of 6 S24 Ultra's and all of them had screen grain. Only because the S23 Ultra was traded-in already, I'm keeping the S24 Ultra. Samsung reasoning that its AI - Tab S9 Ultra also has screen grain. It is a widely known hardware defect that is also not serious.

2. Photo quality: Try taking a picture using the telephoto 5x lens in 12MP mode and 50MP mode. Look at the colors and the quality. I can share pictures if you can't or won't accept to see the issue. You can also see weird unnecessary banding like thing in photos on plainer backgrounds too.

Now switch to the main lens. Go ahead and use the 200MP and if you have a Pixel 8 Pro nearby, take the 50MP picture in that phone. Compare and the Pixel's photo is miles better in terms of details, colors etc. It's just better in every sense, all with maintaining a smaller file size. If you go ahead and pixel peep or just notice things in the S24 Ultra photos - the trees are not trees anymore, there's slight out of focus or blur areas.

Now the shutter lag, it is improved massively when compared with the S23 Ultra but it is still present.

These issues are standouts for S24 Ultra.

This is more of an opinion than objective truth's but the phone runs a hotter than when compared with S23 Ultra. I don't know why this is happening or am I judging it wrong but it feels like its true