Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra 5G, US Version, 256GB, Phantom Black - Unlocked (Renewed)

This is an AMAZING product!! The phone was not just excellent, it was in mint condition! Not a single flaw or scratch. It was absolutely PERFECT. Battery life was excellent and phone was super fast. I honestly didn't see a difference with this phone and a brand new one. I was amazed to see such a perfect, flawless phone for such an excellent price. Thank you YY Wireless!

I bought a Galaxy S23 Ultra last year from an Amazon seller and the screen went out after about 10 days. They refunded my money and it was all fine. But it left a bad taste in my mind. So I ordered another one a year later and it's been great. I really do love this phone. It's got a stylus, a large screen, and good battery life. It works great with my Galaxy Watch 7 and sounds great in my truck using Android Auto. Overall, great phone!

I want to be clear about something before I get into the details: I am not a difficult customer. I do not leave reviews like this lightly. But what I received from this seller was not a refurbished phone, that implies the phone actually works. From the moment I attempted to set this phone up, it was restarting. During initial configuration. During data transfer. During update attempts. Every single time I tried to install an available update the phone threw the same useless error message at me and gave up. A device that cannot update itself out of the box is not a functioning device. What I eventually discovered was that this phone shipped with firmware from September 2025, five updates behind current at the time of purchase. Five. It's likely someone wiped and put it back in a box. In order to get this device to a functional state I was forced to manually flash the firmware myself using Samsung Smart Switch on my PC. This took multiple attempts over several hours. One failed flash left the phone stuck on a cyan error screen. I had to force restart it into recovery mode just to get the home screen back. I did all of this just to reach the baseline a refurbished phone should have shipped at. After weeks of normal use following all of that, the phone is still randomly restarting. Sometimes once a day, sometimes every twenty seconds. Apps open and immediately crash. The behavior is inconsistent and unpredictable. I have been a Samsung user for years. I have never had a device that required this level of intervention just to function, let alone one that still failed after all of it. Save your money. Save your time. Save yourself the particular misery of spending an afternoon in recovery mode on a phone you bought two days ago.

This phone is perfect. Works great and has lots features. Light weight. Easy to set up and transfer my stuff from old phone

Great phone all around, extremely happy with it. Came with a few nicks and dings especially around charging port and on camera edges where they stick out from the back of the phone but thats to be expected on a used phone and doesn't effect overall appearance much. Battery life and charging time are phenomenal, camera quality spectacular, super fast processor and overall responsiveness. User friendly transfer process from old phone, arrived super quickly as well, definitely recommend 100/10! I couldn't be happier with it. Definitely recommend getting a case with a camera cover to extend the life of it and prevent camera damage as they're not flush with the back. It's not too big for my smaller hands and the screen size is great for watching anything or playing games with high clarity. The s pen is a very useful tool as well!

It looks great and set up was almost perfect. For some reason the S pen won't connect though.

Received this phone and have no complaints, no scratches no issues with the phones interface nothing, came in 2 days and was happy with this phone

This was a miserable experience. I never bought a renewed phone before. I purchased a Samsung Galaxy 23 Ultra and the seller was Chubbies Tech I severely cracked the screen on my older phone and the screen replacement was pretty expensive. This slightly newer model offered a significant upgrade ( I had an S22 Ultra and the S23 Ultra was a big jump in improvements) So instead of sinking money into the screen, I could get a newer model and more memory than I had before. I was upgrading from 256GB to 512GB so this seemed like a great deal. Because the phone is older, it took hours to download what felt like a million updates and get the phone up to date. Then doing Samsung Smart Switch took a while too. So I had hours into this before I even tried to activate it with Xfinity Mobile. When I did finally get to that part, I entered the IMEI number Xfinity Mobile said "Your phone is compatible but may be locked to another carrier". At that point I was crushed, I already was behind and needed a working phone. I immediately messaged the seller through Amazon to find out what could be going on. They replied a few hours later only to say they were sorry and offer a refund or replacement. So now I would be looking at more days without a working phone . I would have to spend hours wiping the phone data, mailing it back and then more hours to install updates and switch everything again on a new device. I really didn't want to send it back if there was any way for it to work. After reading more on Xfinity's site I saw this "Some carriers will automatically unlock their customers' phones after a period of time. Some carriers will only unlock your phone if you ask them to." and there are unlock services out there as well. The unlock services do not seem to be doing anything any different than your carrier can do so I decided to call Xfinity Mobile and see if they could help. But I also have to wonder why these mobile phone resellers do not just truly unlock the phones with a service since this is their business. They seem fine to put the burden on whoever buys it to figure it out. Xfinity Mobile was able to successfully get the phone active after about an hour on the phone with them. So I am really glad I didn't just send it back. Who is to say the replacement would not be the same thing all over again?This was an education in renewed phones but if this was my business I would offer this guidance right away in a troubleshooting section or email before I would have someone send back a "locked" phone. My time is valuable so all this messing around with the phone still costs me. It took time away from work and caused stress. This does take away from the value of the renewed phone being cheaper than a brand new one. Overall though the device itself was mostly as expected. The color is nice. The screen was in good shape with no scratches. It had a plastic sticker cover on it. The only minor scratches I saw were around the camera lenses on the back and around the edge of the lens. (not like the listing says - no scratches from 12 inches away as per the "excellent" description) Not a deal breaker though either as the camera appears to work fine. See my photo. The battery arrived not charged and at about 12% which was not that big of a deal. It charged fast and has held a charge. So as far as the device itself goes, it is a good device and matches the listing. The reason for the 3 stars is that as I mentioned earlier, this was not a good deal considering all the extra time and energy it took to get it working and I almost sent it back too because of the response from the seller! That would have been way worse.