Edwards Urbina has taken pictures with a Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra days before the new flagship has been officially unveiled. Now he has gone on to show off the phone’s improved video capabilities.
Here’s a 4K 60fps example uploaded to YouTube:
Unfortunately this is the only one uploaded so far. Urbina has posted several videos on Twitter, but the social network doesn’t handle high-resolution video very well.
Still, here’s an 8K video sample shot with the 200MP main camera (based on the new ISOCELL HP2 sensor). It’s been compressed far too much to talk about image quality, but notice how smooth it is – the Galaxy S23 series finally gets support for 8K videos at 30 fps.
Update: It was quick – tweets with the videos have been removed.
📲 8K and 30 FPS #23p the nameless.@geekdegafas @isa_marcial @MARCIANOPHONE @TecnonautaTV pic.twitter.com/McHo0wHVKL
— Edwards Urbina (@edwards_uh) 25 January 2023
Here’s another video in 4K at 60 fps:
4K and 60 FPS #23p@isa_marcial @geekdegafas @MARCIANOPHONE @TecnonautaTV pic.twitter.com/SVlUPZHA99
— Edwards Urbina (@edwards_uh) 25 January 2023
The second video on Twitter was also recorded with the main camera. However, we’re not sure on the YouTube example that you see the zoom in – it could be digital zoom, or it could be one of the two telephoto cameras on the phone (3x and 10x).
While we’re here, check out these Galaxy S23 Ultra camera samples. They’ve been scaled down by Twitter so we can’t enjoy the full details captured by the 200MP sensor in this image:
A camera sample from the Galaxy S23 Ultra’s main camera (scaled down)
And here are two pairs of images showing the 10x telephoto camera’s optical magnification and the same at 30x digital zoom:
Galaxy S23 Ultra camera samples: 10x • 30x • 10x • 30x
The Samsung Galaxy S23 series (plus Galaxy Book3 laptops) will be officially unveiled on February 1 (Wednesday). The three new smartphones have been leaked extensively, and over the past few days we’ve even started seeing pricing details. Spoiler alert: current information points to a price increase, so you might want to grab that pre-order discount while you still can.
