Flat sides was one reason I moved from a future iPhone to a Galaxy S23.

If it's titanium alloy that means it's not pure titanium and has a mix of other metals so that could be why it's found a why to be lighter than aluminum. At least partially.

45 watts is plenty fast. Yes, there are some phones that charge faster, but Samsung really only competes with Apple &, to a lesser extent, Google, in the US and neither are as fast at charging. I've never seen a OnePlus or a flagship from Motorola in the wild. Maybe in countries where Huawei & Xiaomi are sold 45 watts is a problem.

May be a "planning ahead just in case" situation. Apple is committing to USBC for the 15, but are keeping the older units intact. They are testing prototypes just in case the USBC requirement is retroactive to older models too.

1st off, there was nothing wrong with the Exynos. It is a very powerful chipset. It just isn't as feature rich as the SnapDragon. If I gave you an Samsung device with either chip, you wouldn't even notice much difference in daily usage. Only in high end gaming. The Mali is not quite a powerful GPU compared to the Adreno inside the SD chipset, but other than some games were a bit overwhelming for the chip, it works great in other tasks. It just was very power hungry and not as efficient and the Exynos phones had lower battery-life. Samsung only used the SD chip in all their phones, because their own chip simply was ready. This gave hem an additional year to work out kinks. The chip doesn't need to bench equal or better than anyone's else's chip. It just needs to be able to pull its own weight and offer similar performance. What you keep never mentioning is the only reason Samsung even uses the Sd chipset, is because in the US and Chine they still have CDMA carriers. Samsung is licensing SD tech to make their phones compatible in the US market. In Europe all the carriers are GSM, they can use their own chip. The SD is and has always been expensive. Why you think Apple doesn't use them? Since Samsung sells most of its phone in GSM countries, they save cost by using their own chip where they will have the most sales. PERIOD. Samsung tried to use the Exynos here in the US and the battery life was bad because the modem was not fully compatible with networks like Sprint and Verizon and the modem worked harder, which drained more battery. They did with the S6. If Samsung keeps using the SD outside NA, then they will have to increase the phones costs too. When they use their own chipset in Europe, this allowed them to sell the devices at roughly the same cost as the US. They gave us a break with the S23, because the Chip, even though it is a SnapDragon, Samsung fabricated their own version saving them some cost and thus, they were able to give everyone the chip and not raise the prices of the phones. What do you think Apple would have done? Apple would have went ahead and paid the high cost and then raise up the cost of their phones. There isn't a mobile GPU available to Android oems, more powerful than the Adreno. Apple made sure of this when they bought the company that made the PowerVR, which both Apple and Samsung use to use. You all continue to make a big deal over the Exynos and now you have it locked in peoples mind that they should use benchmarks now to say what good or not. When you were losing in benchmarks you were saying then we should take them with a grain of salt. Benchmarks don't tell the whole story. See how you use your own phone and the majority of users wont see any noticeable difference. After all, even though Apple's chip is faster on paper and specs, in daily usage the Galaxy has trumped the iPhone in many speed tests and the Galaxy is full of more features.

For the first time i'm thinking buying Pro Max model, i just find it it too big as i want my phone to be compact and easy to use. But longer zoom is something i'm missing because i do lot of concert photos, so the zoom would help a lot. But i still might just end up skipping this year again, but i want to see how the zoom on Pro Max performs.