Samsung Galaxy S23 FE (Fan Edition) Unboxing, Hands-On & First Impressions! (Purple)

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[TechDaily]

Are you a *fan* of the S23 FE? 🤔

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[reubenbenjamin]

Still remember the good old days when Samsung S 20FE 5G ruled the smartphone world

[viffer]

Got one last month for $399. The S23 was selling for $800 and the A54 was $324 so kind of a no brainer. The S23 is a slightly better phone but not worth twice as much and the $75 extra over the A54 was well worth it.

90% of the flagship performance at half the price.

[stuartzimmermann]

Update to my last comment . I now have the phone in mint green . Omg its . Super quick, amazing screen . Got £100 cashback and galaxy buds fe thrown in . Totally worth it 😊

[John]

Had mine around a week now and must say its amazing. I had the s23 ultra for around 6 months and although this was great i preferred the fe. Perfectly sized me for, its beautiful. 8.5/10 the only thkng i would say is it is quite heavy. Slips out my hands slightly over time. Screen, camera battery all a 9/10 no problems what so ever so far.

[zarrar]

If only the FE had a 3.5mm jack and an SD card slot, it would be a real fan edition. But sadly, not gonna happen 😔

[LeeShields]

Watching this on the OG S20 FE - I'm due an upgrade though. I'll be sad to switch to an updated handset. This is the best phone I've ever had

[blackpinkmlgaming]

I don't know why peoples saying it's garbage i just got mint colour this week and it super amazing the camera is flagship quality. Yeah i know it 4500mh but it barely noticed (sorry for bad grammar)

[VincentScales]

I just got it this week and so far I love it! I upgraded from the Samsung Galaxy S8 and I notice the difference right away!

[wellrounded]

I really don't understand why so many people today except the Hefty weight of a device you carry around all the time as a good thing. The S21 Fe still is the best of the Fe series, just for the fact it only weighed 177 grams albeit it was just another slab.

[the-zphr]

S23FE is... disappointing
Im a S21FE owner and i actually made a list to compare both, so get ready to read all that if you want

Display:
adaptive refresh rate on S23FE - 60 or 120hz. What did i do to achieve that on my S21FE? I simply used Galaxy Max HZ. and i have the same feature
screen sizing - S23FE has a massive black bezels and gorilla glass 5. How about S21FE? Really thin bezels, no silver ring AND gorilla VICTUS.
brightness - sure, S23FE will have slightly brighter display, but thats not so noticeable (1450 nits vs 1200)

Look and feel:
S23FE does feel premium with its glass back - but honestly, most will put a case on it. And S23FE has the looks of A series (by position of flash) while S21FE looks like S21 lineup but with plastic back.

Cameras:
Alright, S23FE has better sensors, im not gonna argue here

Other:
Performance of S23FE is obviously better, since it uses Exynos 2200, while S21FE has Snapdragon 888. S23FE has newer bluetooth model (5.3 vs 5.0) and other stuff that i could mention, but would make this comment longer

Software:
Well, since both are FE series - that means that they wont get that often those major updates (i got one ui 6 on 8th of December). Both run full one ui, and most good lock features are available.
Both dont get beta updates, which is sad. Obviously, S21FE will get 2 (or 1, according to knox) more major updates while S23FE will get 4 of them.

Conclusion?
If you own a pretty recent flagship, or FE series (like S20FE or S21FE), then dont bother going for this year S23FE - im not hating the phone, but i honestly think that its simply not worth it.
If youre planning on getting new phone, and you have old one then you can consider S23FE, but you wouldve been better off with older flagship or mentioned S21FE - which has good deals now.

[pinky]

I owned the S20FE and the S21FE. The S20FE was my favorite because of the expandable memory. SD card slots were amazing. The cameras rocked and the battery was amazing. Under rated device imo. The S23FE should have had a 5, 000 mAh battery at minimum and I hope the FE brings back SD card support.

[felipemarcanthony]

I 💜 Samsung! I want to buy the FE in the future!

[rf]

The funny thing is that they removed SD card but the local carrier only has the 128gb version anyway. So it just unpurchaseable. I stick to my S20FE which working nice still.

[YOURTECHFRIEND]

Great review Wade 👍 In Europe it comes with the Exynos 2200 chip

[AugustoLugo]

I am loving mine, I prefer it to my Pixel 7, it has a better refresh rate 120HZ, better screen and better brightness, love the 3x zoom, it focus quicker too and that snapdragon chip, is way better than the tensor chip on the P7, and I got it for $49 with Metro by TMobile, I am very satisficed :)

[tluangachhangte]

I have used s9plus, s10, s20 and now s23fe.
I can say this phone is very2 good, i dont find it different, rather i like it, the flat screen, the big battery, the big screen, the good camera, the same software, the good processor.
Only one thing which i dont like it is the Basel, but believe me you wont notice after few days.
Only one t

[madmann]

Everyone talks about how thick it is but it’s .32” versus the .3 of the S23…may the flatter sides gives it more of a sense of thickness? But 2 one hundredths of an inch is pretty insignificant.

[MorbidDusk]

While I'm always interested in overviews of new phones, the main reason I never buy Samsung's mid-range devices is that they make them so damn big. I usually end up with the base model S series phone because it's the only one that is somewhat compact. All the other ones are 6.4" and up.

[JLange]

Was explained that this was just the S22 processor in the new S23 shell. Didn't matter to me- my 5 year old S8 needed to be replaced!