According to rumors, Samsung’s Galaxy S23 phones were supposed to be the first in the company’s range to support satellite communications. A few hours ago, the Galaxy S23, S23 Plus and S23 Ultra were officially presented – not a word was said about satellite communications support. Later, the situation was explained by the mobile division of Samsung, Tae Moon Ro (TM Roh).

According to the top manager, satellite communication technology is not yet mature enough for its mass implementation. “When the time is right and the infrastructure and technology is ready, then of course for Samsung Galaxy, for our mobile division, we will also actively consider implementing this feature.“, – he said.

It is not clear what technology should be in order for it to be worthy of Samsung phones, but neither Apple nor Huawei were embarrassed by the limited data transmission capabilities in the satellite communication channel. Moreover, according to rumors, Huawei will soon introduce Mate X3 with support for second-generation satellite technology – much more functional.

Very quickly after the announcement of the Samsung Galaxy S23 phones, the first comparative test appeared, in which the flagships of the Korean company of two generations converged. It is noteworthy that they were tested not in Geekbench or AnTuTu, but in 3DMark, a graphics performance test.

And in it, the new flagships Galaxy S23 did not leave a stone unturned from the Galaxy S22. Thus, the Galaxy S23 and Galaxy S23 Plus scored 3811 and 3799 points respectively, showing an average frame rate of 22.8 FPS, while the Galaxy S22 Plus scored 1689 points, and the average frame rate was half that of 10.10 FPS.

The situation in the tests of Ultra models is approximately the same: Galaxy S23 Ultra scored 3874 points at a frame rate of 23.2 FPS, Galaxy S22 Ultra scores 1912 points at 11.4 FPS.

Recall that the Galaxy S23 is built on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC with the Adreno 740 GPU, and they were compared with their predecessors on the Exynos 2200 SoC with the Xclipse 920 GPU.

Samsung has finally unveiled its new flagship smartphones Galaxy S23. Almost everything about them was known in advance, so we can only sum up.

Galaxy S23

• Screen – Dynamic AMOLED 2X 6.1-inch diagonal with a resolution of 2340 x 1080 pixels and support for 120 Hz (range from 48 to 120 Hz)
• Platform — Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Mobile Platform for Galaxy
• Memory – 8GB RAM and 128GB to 512GB flash storage
• Battery – 3900 mAh with 25-watt charging
• Cameras – 50MP main camera, 12MP ultra-wide angle, 10MP telephoto camera with 3x optical zoom and 12MP front camera
• Dimensions – 146.3 x 70.9 x 7.6 mm with a weight of 168 g

Galaxy S23+

• Screen – Dynamic AMOLED 2X 6.6-inch diagonal with a resolution of 2340 x 1080 pixels and support for 120 Hz (range from 48 to 120 Hz)
• Platform — Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Mobile Platform for Galaxy
• Memory – 8 GB RAM and 256 or 512 GB flash
• Battery – 4700 mAh with 45-watt charging
• Cameras – 50MP main camera, 12MP ultra-wide angle, 10MP telephoto camera with 3x optical zoom and 12MP front camera
• Dimensions – 157.8 x 76.2 x 7.6 mm with a weight of 196 g

Galaxy S23 Ultra

• Screen – Dynamic AMOLED 2X 6.8-inch diagonal with a resolution of 3088 x 1440 pixels and support for 120 Hz (range from 1 to 120 Hz)
• Platform — Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Mobile Platform for Galaxy
• Memory – 8GB or 12GB RAM and 256GB to 1TB flash
• Battery – 5000 mAh with 45-watt charging
• Cameras – 200MP main camera, 12MP ultra-wide angle, 10MP camera with 3x optical zoom, 10MP periscope camera with 10x optical zoom and 12MP front camera
• Dimensions – 163.4 x 78.1 x 8.9 mm with a weight of 234 g

All new items are protected from water and dust (IP68), all support Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3, all received the new Gorilla Glass Victus 2 glass and run Android 13 with One UI 5.1 shell. New items will be available in four colors: Phantom Black, Cream, Green and Lavender.

In terms of pricing, the Galaxy S23 in the US starts at $800 before tax, the Galaxy S23+ starts at $1,050, and the Galaxy S23 Ultra starts at $1,120. In all cases, prices for the oldest modifications are not yet available.