I like this phone and its features.

Bought this for my mother to use as she was overdue for an upgrade. I am personally an iOS user.

Aesthetic--
The design of this phone is very sleek and lightweight. I particularly like that its design is a little less wide with consideration to holding the phone better, especially if you have smaller hands like we do.

Camera--
Immaculate camera quality for the price. I think I'm jealous. There's great contrast and saturation to colors, and it gives life to the photos taken. There's so much more detail as well. Not a fan of using it for selfies for that same reason though haha!

As for software, I think it was fairly simple to setup and relatively straightforward. Samsung has come a long way since the very first Galaxy S I used prior to switching, and this is one of their best designs on my opinion.

This has to be the best buy for me. It is a big upgrade for me and is also my first flagship phone. Phone is super light for what it does. Battery is amazing and last me the whole day with an average time if 4 - 5 hours on screen and also charges real quick. I am very happy with the S23

Nothing super special with this phone. It's been great so far no complaints looks very sleek. Camera doesn't work as well as I wanted it to but that's okay. Overall not really worth the price tag. Only got it because of the size of the phone, I hate big phones and this was the perfect size.

Switched from an iphone 8 plus to the S23 (vanilla) due to the pricing vs iphone 14($799). Got this at $599 on prime day. Amazon's competitor also had a sale earlier in the year. It is new, and when i registered with samsung said the warranty is good for a year. That means that this is really a new phone. It is hard to tell these days which vendor is selling new, and which ones are used (climate pledge friendly...renewed :) .It is impossible to search for NEW . That means that it is the US version phone (one sim slot, and one esim). I have not verified esim.

The audio through the bose soundlink is a little different from the apple sound. I am tinkering with the synthesizer(hard to find online examples). I cleared up the echo noises, but still need to work on the bass. There is about a 30gb memory hogged up by samsung setup and bloatware. Still having glitches with whatsapp history through the smartswitch cable transfer.

The camera is better than the iphone 8plus, but not sure about it compared to more up to date phones. at 30 x and a distance of 8 feet away, the image is less detailed than if you are 3 feet away with normal zoom 1x. But at $599, it is great. I will have to learn this camera system better. Minor video games, surfing will work for a day and a half(same as iphone 8 plus) playing candy crush saga, scrabble, solitaire. With a 25watt charger, it takes about 45 minutes to charge from 45% to full charge. Wireless charging is slow with the phone case and wireless charger. 25 watt plugin and 10 wireless charger). Fingerprint works so so (reset it when i put on a new screensaver ) and have not tried the facial recognition. The touch times out after 5 attempts. setup the index finger and thumb for both hands. I bet if I go into the Samsung store, an app guru can clear up most of the little gotchas.