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PSA: Samsung Galaxy S23 series misses these incredible color shades in India

India is one of the key markets and profitable land for Samsung Mobile. Meanwhile, the company is still avoiding prioritizing the country, and no one knows why. The wonderful Galaxy S23 series just went available in India, for pre-orders, but, consumers are angry as their preferred color is missing on the page.
According to the information, the Galaxy S23 Plus and Galaxy S23 Ultra smartphones are not available in all their Global color variants in India. The vanilla Galaxy S23 is listed in all four color shades including Green, Phantom Black, Cream and Lavender.
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Talking about the unavailable colors, the Galaxy S23 Plus misses two of its incredible shades – Green and Lavender. Similarly, the Galaxy S23 Ultra is not available in the beautiful Lavender color option, while, the exclusive colors are available in four options for the device.
Galaxy S23
- Global: Green, Phantom Black, Cream and Lavender
- Not available in India: All available
Galaxy S23 Plus
- Global: Green, Phantom Black, Cream and Lavender
- Not available in India: Green and Lavender
Galaxy S23 Ultra
- Global: Green, Phantom Black, Cream and Lavender
- Not available in India: Lavender
Pre-order benefits
If you pre-book the Galaxy S23 series before February 4, 2023, you can claim benefits of up to INR 50,000+ in India. By pre-booking the S23 Ultra, you can get a free 25W power adapter and a wireless charging pad. Moreover, the Galaxy Watch 4 Classic LTE and Buds 2 bundle can be added at just INR 4,999.
In India, the Galaxy S23 Ultra comes with a starting price tag of INR 1,14,999 for the 12GB RAM and 256GB internal storage. Besides, the Galaxy S23’s 256GB can be grabbed at the price of 128GB at INR 79,999, whereas the Galaxy S23 Plus 256GB costs INR 94,999.
Samsung unveils Galaxy S23 price and pre-order benefits in India
Pre-order Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra to grab gifts worth INR 55297 in India
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Samsung and other Korean giants stumble as global economy slows

Due to sluggish chip and energy sectors amid a global economic slowdown, South Korea’s major companies performed far worse than their US counterparts in the first half of 2023.
According to FKI report, South Korea’s top 100 nonfinancial firms listed on the main local bourse saw their combined sales edge up 0.3 percent on-year to $746.3 billion in the January-June period.
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Samsung saw its sales, operating profit, and net profit dip 21.5%, 95.4% and 86.9% on-year, respectively. Comparable figures of its US counterpart, Apple, dropped 4.2%, 10% and 9.2%.
The FKI stressed the need for South Korean big businesses to establish stable profit sources as they remain more vulnerable to external shocks than big U.S. companies.
The combined operating profit of the Korean companies tumbled 63.4 percent on-year to $24.8 billion won in the six-month period, while that of the U.S. corporations shrank 3.9 percent to $638.5 billion.
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Biased camera ranking puts iPhone 15 Pro Max 2nd and Galaxy S23 Ultra 15th: DXOMARK vs Practical Triumph

Camera evaluation firm DXOMARK has recently published its Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max review. In the global ranking, Apple’s hottest (LOL!) iPhone is listed second, after Huawei’s P60 Pro, while the real winner – Samsung’s Galaxy S23 Ultra is 15th.
The new iPhone 15 Pro Max comes with a 40-megapixel primary, a 12-megapixel ultrawide, and a 12-megapixel telephoto camera. Besides, the A17 Pro chipset gives a further boost to the device, enhancing the camera capabilities and photography skills.
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DXOMARK blessed the iPhone 15 Pro Max with 154 points and praised vivid brightness and contrast, accurate exposure, pleasant and natural color rendering, and skin tones, excellent detail in bright light, fast and accurate autofocus, and effective video stabilization.
iPhone 15 Pro Max Camera Specs
Primary
- 48MP sensor, 2.44µm quad pixels, 24mm equivalent f/1.78-aperture lens, Dual Pixel AF, OIS
Ultra-wide
- 12MP sensor, 13mm equivalent f/2.2-aperture lens, Dual Pixel AF
Telephoto
- 12MP sensor, 1.12µm pixels, 120 mm equivalent f/2.8-aperture lens, Dual Pixel AF
At the same time, reviewers listed some cons of the latest Apple phone such as noise in low-light photos, unwanted artifacts, including flare, ghosting, and aliasing, slightly limited dynamic range in photos, and inconsistent detail across all zoom ranges.
Galaxy S23 Ultra secured 140 points, and no one cared about DXOMARK numbers. The device is equipped with 200-megapixel primary, 12-megapixel ultrawide and a dual 10-megapixel telephoto sensor setup. In practical, S23 Ultra is miles ahead of the iPhone in overall capabilities and use of technologies.
Galaxy S23 Ultra Camera Specs
Primary
- 200MP 1/1.3″ sensor, 0.6 μm pixels, f/1.7-aperture lens, PDAF, AF, OIS
Ultra-wide
- 12MP 1/2.55″ sensor, 1.4 μm pixels, f/2.2-aperture lens, PDAF, AF, OIS
Telephoto 1
- 10MP 1/3.52″ sensor, 1.12 μm pixels, f/2.4-aperture lens, PDAF, OIS, 3x optical zoom
Telephoto 2
- 10MP 1/3.52″ sensor, 1.12 μm pixels, f/4.9-aperture lens, PDAF, OIS, 10x optical zoom
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Samsung’s Attempt to Ease Galaxy Browser Defaults Thwarted by Google

Samsung has reportedly tried to make changes in the Galaxy smartphones’ internet browsers design, as part of making it easier to pick the preferred Seach Engine (browser) as default. The company ultimately backed down as Google reminded it about the breach of the agreement.
According to WallStreetJournal, Samsung had attempted to tweak the way of altering the default Galaxy Browser (search engine) for consumer convenience. Meanwhile, Google had opposed the move and emphasized to Samsung that such a move would be a breach of the agreement.
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In the past, it was rumored that the South Korean tech giant was considering Microsoft’s ChatGPT-powered Bing as the default search engine on Galaxy devices. However, Google assured it to enhance the search engine as well as bring AI capabilities for competition.
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ChatGPT to power Samsung AI Chatbot: Samsung’s Strategic Leap into AI Development with Microsoft
According to a recent report from Korean media outlet, Samsung is developing a “Samsung AI Chatbot” that will assist with tasks such as translation and document summarization using the Large Language Model (LLM) developed by OpenAI.
Edaily disclosed that the company is using Microsoft’s “Azure OpenAI Service” to create an AI chatbot for work assistance to be used within the company. If Samsung tries to develop its own generative AI using OpenAI’s LLM, it must use MS Azure Cloud.
- Samsung Electronics is known to have linked OpenAI’s LLM to this service and is undergoing a technology verification (PoC) process.