News & Reviews:   Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra

In conjunction with the Raya holidays, Samsung Malaysia is offering Impian Raya Bersama to its fans and customers. From now until 7 May, Samsung is offering festive promos such as free bundle gifts from purchasing a Galaxy S23 series phone and more. 

Long Exposure Photography was previously only available on the higher-end DSLRs, but now, with Pro mode on nearly every phone, you can do this with a decent camera phone and still get good results. Unlike normal photography where you take the shot instantly, long exposure photography takes a bit longer to take a photo. 

This increases the exposure and allows you to capture light in motion, blur moving people and smoothen water. It results in very artistic photos and with a good camera phone like the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, you can get some very nice photos. Here’s how to do long exposure photography with a camera phone like the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra.

Amidst news of various cyberattacks and zero-click exploits, Samsung Malaysia has revealed that their Galaxy S23 series smartphones already have a Samsung Message Guard security solution built into the system. Designed to preemptively protect your device, the solution currently works with Samsung Messages and Messages by Google with a software update set to roll out for third party messaging apps as well.

Samsung Malaysia has announced that it is extending its Buy 1 Get 1 deal for the Samsung Galaxy S23 series to 30 April 2023. Moreover, the company also expanded the list of eligible devices for trade-in as part of the promo, making it accessible to more people.

This time around, we tried to take photos of wildlife using the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra's 100x Space Zoom and 200MP quad rear camera. Our previous photography attempts certainly showed plenty of improvements in the zoom quality, so we were quite excited to see how the phone handled wildlife photography too. Check out our results and tips on how to take wildlife photography with a camera phone like the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra below.

DxOMark is usually the site that's known for grading camera performance from smartphones, but it has also started expanding to audio and battery performance. In its latest review, it was testing the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra battery performance.

The Samsung Galaxy Note20 Ultra is technically the last Galaxy Note smartphone of its series. Released back in August 2020, it’s been almost 3 years since the last new Galaxy Note smartphone, but fortunately for Galaxy Note fans, the Galaxy S22 Ultra and Galaxy S23 Ultra continued its spirit with an S Pen stylus, focus on cameras and other significant improvements. 

In addition, Samsung is currently offering a Buy 1 Get 1 Free deal for your older Galaxy Note20 Ultra where you not only get the Galaxy S23 Ultra, you also get a free Galaxy S23. Check out our comparison between the Galaxy Note20 Ultra vs the Galaxy S23 Ultra and find out why now might be the best time for you to trade-in and upgrade. 

Google has recently announced that you will be able to annotate or draw (and save it!) on a PDF file from Google Drive. Currently rolling out to Android 6.0 users and above around the world, our Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra could already do it with either a finger or the S Pen, but we couldn’t do the same on Google Drive for our Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite tablet, so be patient and you’ll get it soon. 

JerryRigEverything are pretty famous for their phone teardowns just as much as for their durability (torture) tests, as they often reveal things that you might have wondered about the phones you use everyday. This time around, Zack from JerryRigEverything did a teardown of the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra and succinctly answered a question that might be on many Samsung Galaxy S22/S23 Ultra owners minds which is "what would happen if I accidentally poked the mic hole with the SIM pin tool?"

If you’re planning to buy a Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra soon, Samsung Malaysia is holding a Buy 1 Get 1 Free promo from 24 February 2023 to 31 March 2023. All you have to do is trade in your Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra, Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra or Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra then buy the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra 256GB storage variant and you can get a brand new Samsung Galaxy S23 for free!