Samsung S23 series

I pulled the trigger this evening on one of these. Not much of a trade in as I have a Huawei P30 Pro but €260 is better than nothing.

I was getting a bit fed up with the reduced functionality of the Huawei due to the American apps being blocked and the camera in the S23 Ultra is so tempting for someone like me. It'll be great to have such a camera in the phone as sometimes, depending where I travel to, I hate taking out the camera as it can draw the attention of beggers.

I have had several iPhones now with work (currently have a 13) and genuinely, I don't get why these things are so popular!

I'm not trying to start a Droid vs Apple war, but I just find them far too restrictive, minimal customisation options, and missing even basic features like a fingerprint scanner. Then when they DO bring something new you'd think they'd invented the wheel, as opposed to just catching up with the competition.

But that's me!

Ya have one for work and find them incredibly frustrating. I'd have no interest in buying one for myself. For all the same reasons.

You'll have to wait until you get the phone, then using the s23 redeem it through the samsung members app.

a quick check on complete savings springs a little concern, have you successfully used them a while?

Yes, got a cashback paid on the previous purchases, sometimes a follow-up email is needed

Official release date in Ireland is 17th, If delivery is like last year then some orders will start shipping on Monday 13th

Anyone have any spare 10% codes that they wont be using? Was going to hold off for a week but didnt think they will get rid of the codes online

What colour did you guys get? I noticed a fair few ordered the cream one (myself included). Mine will be hidden behind a case anyway but just out of interest was wondering what the most popular colour was. Dying to get my hands on the new camera it really seems to be a game changer for Samsung according to reviews i've seen.

Black. First black phone since Note 4 and i've owned every Note / Ultra since.

The choice of mass release colours this yr is very poor IMO.

1st world problems.

Did we ever get confirmation that the S23U 512gb version had 12g RAM? It would be odd to drop down to 8 after 12g in my s21 ultra for the last two years.

Might explain why the double storage offer is being wheeled out for these!

Still on a S10e here and looking for new options, of which S23 is most likely, but stuff like the above really annoys me and gives me further reason for considering the jump across to iOS.

Have to be honest... if you've an S10... and your giving out about some possible short term use of a vast amount of the already large storage on the S23. Then you were probably never buying one anyway. Moving to IOS for this flies in the face of the fact they also use storage of OS and also give abysmal entry level storage options.

This is how smart phones operate... your S10 does to....

Fair enough. Agree, nothing in the announcement last week really tipped this into a must buy for me and I've probably just subconsciously been looking for further reasons to justify not taking the punt on a new S23, which that article probably paid into.

Think I'm just a casual browser to some extent - might pick one up in a few months when the phone's credentials (esp. battery life) are better established and, of course, when the price has become hopefully a bit more reasonable.

No you don't get any tracking info until it's dispatched. At the moment mines just sitting at Order Confirmed since 2nd Feb.

Going by other years I'd say they will most likely start being dispatched next Monday or Tuesday

Who does deliverys here? I just got a message from fastway for my eircode don't think I'm due any other orders

Yeah same on mine, dunno what's getting delivered to me so