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

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

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.

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 😊

Mine comes tomorrow . Excited 😊

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.

If A54 and S23 had a child 😂

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

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!

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

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 😔

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

Finally I been waiting for your review 🥀

Mint green for me ✊🏾💚

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.

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.

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.

Which colour would hide smudges /fingerprints best? Was hoping s23FE would have been a matte finish.

It's about time you got to this video, Wade! It's been out for a while.

I just bought this phone today and I say this is really a cool phone.

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.

Have you used or will you review the Thinkphone by Motorola?

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 :)

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.

Which is best colour to hide fingerprints / smudges?

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.

Sir,... is the "FE" a flagship phone? Or is it just a higher level than the "A" series but not flagship?

How we sposed to charge it with type c to type c

Great vid bro. What you think about comparing the a34 vs the s23 fe?

Correction actually the og fe was the note 7 fe not the s20 fe also on Samsung website it 629.99 at full price the s23 fe.

Just financed one from my carrier today! After the 24 months are up itll have run me about 300 canadian. Im currently on an s10+ that i love, but i broke the screen which is messing with colour display, giant black blob in the corner, huge bright white line at the bottom (that i have covered in painters tape), and sometimes the touch screen doesnt work at all, or decides its touching something itself lmao.

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

They should include a headphone jack and sd card

I will love to have the experience of using iPhone 10 or 12 and Samsung Galaxy A34 or 54. I wish my gift will be one of these. Please it's my guess.

Watching this on my s20 fe

Does anyone have any issues using the phone as a phone? I been losing my call after speaking with someone for just several minutes. It's been happening happening on a regular basis since getting the phone about 2 to 3 weeks.

The weird thing about this phone, the only people who bash it are people who dont own one. Imagine that?

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!

Mine comes in today

i find unboxing vids pointless anyway but NOW still an unboxing vid of the f23fe?! absolutely superfluous

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)

Please do you give a free give away if one answers a riddle

This phone is so underrated 😩 I've the Google pixel 8 pro and it works great , i love customizing it and changing wallpaper etc....

Still very lagging n choppy battery drain hot, I give up on this phone now using a54 much better although slower GPU...

Waiting for Galaxy S24 FE, match to my birthday... 12/(24)/07 HAHAHA.

I'm debating on the Pixel 8 or the S23 FE?

I actually got mine for £440. Once, I get the phone I can get £100 cashback and free buds. If you find a way to get it cheaper, why not get it?

the bottom bezel is painful to look at 😵 but hey, it's a great phone!

Would you recommend this phone over the A54?

A55 or S23FE?

This is actually more like an S22 FE, because it has the S22 chip: the snapdragon 8 Gen 1. It looks like an S23, but acts like an S22. I really think they should have included a SD 8 Gen 2 to make this a true S23 FE. The phone seems good on it's own, though. I am considering buying one, for a flagship at a great price.

What I think Samsung is doing is that they don't expect you to gravitate towards this phone right at launch, but rather consider it more and more for next year if you're not interested in the new flagships and you want more than a mid-range phone from them. For example, I had the S21 FE just a few months after launch and it didn't feel quite reasonable at the time, but this year, the phone had a very good discount and was very competitive in the line-up and I know a lot of people who bought it. I think that's their objective 😅

Hi 👋 wade ❤

In fact, the volume is better than those flagship Samsung's phones and that is the reason I bought it and I'm no longer using my S23 Ultra 8:12

I just brought this device 3 days ago. this is my first mid- upper range phone. (my previous device was a moto g stylus 2021). It games very very well. it's able to run codm and genshin impact on max graphic settings and frame rates but it does get very hot when gaming. it's even able to emulate at 2x-4x graphics. My 2 downsides is the lack of headphone jack and sd card support. what all the that being said I would honestly wait and see with we're gonna get in 2024 but keep this device in your backpocket to consider if 2024's version turns out to be a flop

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Does the s23 fe have samsung dex?

no sd card? and then no

I missed when sumsung have very low priced qulity phone. There is no use of buying an very expensive phone and only with 3 years of updating.

Hello my Favorite Tech Man. please am waiting for my Christmas gift 🎁🎁.

im so annoyed i just found this phone recently and bought it on "sale" for $600 (down from $659.99) last week (I had to get the 256GB version because of no SD slot.......). And now I'm hearing about the S24 leaks and announcements. Samsung is killing me 😭

Deserves to be DOA for those 2019 budget phone bezels alone.

More like the s23 fu edition

Non simetrical bezels is a killer for me.

I am Samsung user. This device looks thick and bulky.

I dont like it. Very wide frames and I have never liked the Exynos processor. Terrible device!

I had the S23fe and hated it. Horrible ergonomics. Heavy and crappy fingerprint scanner that was horribly placed. I kept hitting the back button. Nav bar is easily hit. I went to Nav flat bars instead of icons but would then click things on the display. I went to Nav gestures but would also click display things like links. I trade-in for S24+ which is same size but larger display and light with a good fingerprint scanner. S23fe performance was great, snappy, quick shutter speeds, good camera. Performance is great but so uncomfortable to use. Samsung screwed a good thing by wanting to downplay the S23fe compared to the S flagship. I went from the large screen and light weight S20fe to the small display brick like S23fe. It couldn't grow on me in 5 months of ownership no matter how much I wanted it to. 25 years of owning cell phones and the S23fe was my worst experience. Had I gone from an S9 to S23fe I may have enjoyed it but for the small performance gain I got over the S20fe the overall user experience was bad.

Ah, you mean Galaxy S22 FE? 🤣🤣🤣

Ngl i am not into FE phones I'd rather stick with my S21+ till next year

This just the a54 5g with a better screen and camera

The purple is so ugly

More of the same crappy phones from Samsung. I see no reason why this was released lol I don't follow up on any of their new flagship phones anymore since they're all the same shit with the same specs and lacking the most important feature I want which is a SD card slot. I'll wait for next year's mid range phones even though thier new ones suck as well. I thought of the A54 but don't want Exynos and a smaller screen. I was thinking the A34 since it has a bigger screen, better chipset and I can get the 256gb version for a cheaper price with my added SD card in it. I'll wait first in a month or two to see what new mid range phones they have to offer before I decide.

*Nah a fan."*

🤢🤢.... so thick, big bezels and flat screen soooooo disgusting , s20 FE better

This isn't a Fan Edition, it's a Fanboy Edition. Overpriced garbage phone.

It's dual sim card or not?

Still using my s20 fe 🫡🫡🫡