The 6.8-inch Galaxy S24 Ultra is the biggest of the S24 models, built with titanium, which is a more durable material. The titanium skeleton is supposed to make it more lightweight too, but you won’t find much weight savings here over last year’s S23 Ultra. Also unique is the cover glass, which is made from Corning’s new Gorilla Armor, which the company says is its most scratch-resistant material to date. Time will tell. There’s a 5,000-mAh battery cell to match its size, and I was able to hit six hours of screen time with 32 percent left, so you can easily take it to day two on a single charge.
It’s still the only model in the lineup with a built-in S Pen stylus, which is accessible from the bottom edge of the phone. If you like to doodle or tend to sign a lot of documents on your phone, then it might be worth it. Like the S24+, it has 12 GB of RAM and starts with 256 GB of storage, but you can upgrade the storage to 1 TB if you need that much space. As for the cameras, it shares a similar 12-megapixel ultrawide and 3X optical zoom camera, but the primary sensor is a 200-megapixel camera, and there’s an additional 50-megapixel 5X optical zoom camera. This used to be a 10X zoom camera on its predecessor, so you’re losing out on the S23’s superior zoom capability here, but 5X zoom is likely more useful than 10X zoom in most situations.
