Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra vs iPhone 11 Pro Max!

something just announced the

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and it is an absolutely gigantic smartphone. We are talking about 16 gigabytes of RAM and a camera with a hundred times greater zoom. Not only is it better than any flagship phone they've released before, it's a At the top level, you could almost call it a super phone, so today we answer the big question: does the Galaxy S 20

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destroy the iPhone 11 Pro max? I think the results might surprise you: the first thing you'll notice when putting these two devices side by side is the ultra it's an absolute unit of a phone, it's huge for most people's hands, the iPhone 11 pro max is a large device, but Samsung takes that and then adds about 5% more height and almost 10% more thickness.

Honestly, I don't think that in itself is a problem, it's big enough that you can forget that it's a one-handed experience, but as long as you have that as an expectation, you'll spend more time gawking. You get a great screen and then you worry about how you're going to hold it, but we'll talk about that in a minute. What's strange is that although Samsung's phone surpasses the apples in size, it is actually lighter and, to be honest, it feels a bit lighter. cheaper, while Samsung has upgraded the metal they use on the edge of their phone from 7000 series aluminum to something that's now 1.2 times stronger.

Apple uses stainless steel that has many times the mechanical strength of aluminum; Either way, it will be much more resistant to dents and scratches. Also, I just like the density of the material, the weight of the iPhone makes it feel a little more premium and well, it's a little early to try it myself. If we dropped both phones on their sides, my money would be on the iPhone surviving. That said, much less damage, although it feels good, I think the s20 ultra looks fantastic compared to the standard s xx, which visually doesn't look much different from the company's mid-range phones, this robust camera module It makes the ultra look cool when you look at it.

You're holding it, you feel like you're holding cutting-edge technology. I love that idea, but I will say that the design is a bit Sheltie compared to the iPhone. It has a huge camera module with text. It just highlights its new space zoom feature, but. the iPhone is a little more discreet, more elegant, its matte finish gets instant plus points for me due to its ability to resist fingerprints and avoid that kind of stickiness that you can sometimes get with the glass camera module being protected by Gorilla Glass six, but its large size means it will cause a lot of wobble if you place a phone on a flat surface, oh yeah, and both phones have IP68 water and dust resistance ratings and neither have a headphone jack, slight bummer Yes, but we had it wireless, I think having a headphone jack on a main flagship smartphone of 2020 will be a rarity anyway, so design and build wise I'd slightly side with Apple, but now is where the tables start to turn and by the way, I'm going to launch a pretty massive giveaway starting today for a Galaxy S 20 ultra. and/or

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s 20s is free and international and all the rules will be in the description.

I'll say it now, the screen on the galaxy s 20 ultra is the best screen on a smartphone, period, I could leave it at that. but it's better than iPhones in so many ways that I think we should talk about it to start. What they have in common is that they both use OLED technology for deep contrast and both have a nearly identical 800 nits of brightness across the entire screen. but hey, the panel on the s20 ultras is a colossal size, we say that every year because somehow every generation these screens keep getting bigger and this time you're looking at a whopping six point nine inches, so why doesn't it sound like a big jump compared to the iPhone's six-point-five-inch screen, but in terms of screen area, that's a difference: you'll feel Samsung's tiny punch-hole camera, which is 40% smaller than previous generations combined with small bezels all the way around, meaning the Ultra feels almost borderless and futuristic compared to Apple's large notch and thick black border.

When the iPhone 10 came out, which is the first time we saw Apple use this front design, we thought it looked sleek and futuristic because it was pretty fair compared to the Galaxy s8, which was Samsung's equivalent. at the time it was, but since then, while Apple is using the same design, Samsung has come so far and to put a number on it, the screen-to-body ratio of the s20 ultra sits at around 90 percent versus about 84 from Apple, which is interesting, although we talk about borders. is that the s20 line is the first time

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has backed off on curved screens compared to the s10 and other previous flagships, these new screens look almost flat, there is still a slight curve which is more than you can imagine. say about the iPhone, but it doesn't come close to Atticus. before I would say it's fair that the curves didn't really have any functional benefit and I don't think there are many people who will miss them, there is more to these ultras shown, oh it's a quad HD plus panel that provides it. about 30% more pixels than the iPhone screen, but the best thing is that its refresh rate is double, while the 11 panel updates in prose are quite normal 60 times per second.

Samsung does 120 and changes things, you know, Apple has always had this reputation. The buttery smoothness that its Android rivals simply haven't been able to replicate well, the s20 will reverse that trend for me using both side by side for the first time as Samsung felt the experience was smoother and it's not just that the Samsung screen refreshes twice. just as fast, but it also has double the touch response rate, meaning it's faster at registering your touches, making everything feel more instantaneous and responsive. I should clarify here that the iPhone 11 pro max's display is top-notch, but the Ultra's display is like nothing I've seen before.

I mentioned Apple's big nub and while we're here it's worth pointing out that it's not there for show, it has all the sensors needed for Face ID, which if you've never used it, works amazingly. and if so, you'll know what I mean just by scanning your face. Face ID is secure enough for banking transactions to automatically fill in your passwords, etc. Samsung's face scanner is fast but only uses a 2D camera, so it's more of a tool for convenience than a security measure, the phone has an ultrasonic fingerprint scanner virtually the same as the one seen on the Note 10 on last year, just before we hit the cameras, which is arguably the main event of this new s20 ultra.

Another thing I always like to keep in mind with the processing power of new phones is that there are a lot of different variables at play here. The main conclusion is that both are on par depending on your region. Samsung uses the Exynos 990 or the Snapdragon. 865, so compared to last year's s10, which has about a 15% faster CPU, a 25% faster GPU, and an AI engine that's at least twice as good, but in It actually leaves it behind a bit is the a13 Bionic chip in the iPhone, there will be some tasks that Samsung does better, but for most games and apps, I would expect them to run a little faster, something that makes up for this, although with an absolutely absurd amount of RAM: 12 gigabytes in the base model and more than 16 gigabytes. and when you take into account that this is the fastest round we've seen on a phone, the performance ceiling here is through the roof;

By comparison, the iPhone only has four gigs, so something will definitely have an advantage when you're juggling heavy tasks, but just keep in mind that because iOS is optimized to not need as much RAM, the difference won't be as noticeable. as it seems on paper. I tried opening apps by switching between them and there was a tangible difference between the performance of this s20 ultra and even Samsung phones from just a few months ago, but something I really noticed even more was how fantastic the haptics are here. The ultra uses the same vibration motors as the Galaxy Note Templar, but has been further refined to deliver what I'm about to say.

It's the most satisfying physical response you've ever seen on a phone. I would really recommend you go to the store and try the phone because I would rate it above Apple in this regard. Well, then it's no secret that the camera is a very important part. of the s20 ultras proposal, I want to say that this is possibly the largest camera module I have ever seen, so to start by looking at the specifications side by side, Samsung's camera makes iPhones look like a Bit of a toy, but we have to be careful. Here, because the specs can be a little misleading, its main camera has a resolution of 108 megapixels versus 12 on the iPhone.

It has a 48-megapixel telephoto camera with support for 100 times spatial zoom versus iPhones. Macs with 10x zoom and ultra-wide cameras. They are almost identical SPECT and both have a 120 degree white field of view, but Samsung also has an additional depth vision sensor that the iPhone doesn't have, so on paper this gives you the impression that these two phones are in completely different leagues like they're not even comparable and that's the case, but also not really, so with the main camera or 108 megapixels you can take 108 megapixel photos, but most of the time you probably won't, the benefit is due mainly to something called pixel pinning, there are quite a few fans that can do this, they merge smaller pixels into a larger one to make the resulting pixels cleaner and noise-free.

Well, the s20 ultra uses something called Nonna binning, which turns not four but nine pixels into one and yet you still end up with a 12 megapixel photo of this 100, 8 megapixel camera the size of those pixels and the resulting quality It's three times that of the iPhone, so Samsung's 12-megapixel photos have an incredibly sharp finish and this translates to its night mode too - when you take a nightmarish photo, you can now hold your phone still for eight seconds and capture a lot more light than you're used to with a Samsung. Apple's night mode is really good, but Samsung's is now better in my opinion.

The first time you can shoot 8k video at a proper frame rate, it's only 24 frames per second, which means you'll definitely benefit from putting it on a tripod when capturing, but just the fact that you can shoot K video it's amazing. four times the resolution of 4k and to give you an idea, this shot here is a still image taken from an 8k video recorded on this phone and this screenshot alone is a 33 megapixel image in its own right which you can then enlarge. the way in: Aside from the low frame rate, this 8k footage also takes quite a while to render on these new phones before you can watch it again in 8k, so it may not be a future you're sticking with, what's up with that zoom?

A hundred times that sounds almost incredible and the fact is that the numbers don't tell the whole story. See in my briefing, Samsung only talked about their hybrid zoom capabilities, not once did they reveal the actual value of the camera's optical zoom, which is the figure. We generally use to compare phones. They say the phone can zoom losslessly 10 times, but from what I can see, the actual optical zoom range is only four to five times. Now it is still impressive and certainly outshines the iPhones: it multiplies the zoom, but it does. This means that if you were to try to zoom in a hundred times, as it suggests doing directly on the back of the phone, most of that zoom is digital and the end result simply won't be as sharp and then you'll get the ultra wide angle. which has seen some small but important improvements, the field of view is now slightly smaller than previous Samsung phones, but it has the benefit of almost none of those strange distorting fisheye effects that we were used to seeing on cameras ultra-wide and when switching between lenses on Samsung phones.

The phone no longer feels like switching between lenses, something the iPhone has done very well from the beginning, so as far as the user is concerned, using these cameras on both phones simply feels like using one camera, but one. with a lot of options, and that's it. what some songs should be like for the additional sensor is just a depth camera, which means that when you take a photo in portrait mode, for example, you just get a little more information about how far away your background is. The phone also has a 40-megapixel selfie camera. Compared to Apple's 12, both are very good and I must say that at this point, when it comes to cameras, thebattle is not won with hardware, it is won with software and Samsung's camera software is quickly catching up with the apples, but at the same time their hardware has simply skipped the apples for something that is a great position to Being and talking about software, obviously with either of these two phones you are buying into a completely different smartphone ecosystem, of course, Android versus iOS itself, that could be a whole video, but there are a couple of things that are worth the worth noting with this comparison, in particular, the Samsung phone comes with Android 10 combined with its 1 UI 2.1 skin and this offers fast sharing, one-touch sharing between Samsung phones and tablets, finally, an Android equivalent to the Apple airdrop, there are a couple of others.

Smaller things like helping Samsung have increased the intensity of its icons, but largely it's not a huge change from the software you'd find on the Note 10 last year. The iPhone 11 Pro Max looks like an iPhone and that's either great for you or not. One big thing you'll benefit a lot from iOS is the traditional perks, like getting lots of games and apps a little sooner. You generally get less bloatware on the phone compared to Samsung, which comes with a full suite of apps. I'll probably never touch and buy phones that have fantastic Mac integration if your Mac user is plus what you lose in the lack of customization you get in software support.

The very nature of Apple only releasing a few phones per year means they can really focus on delivering updates. A new iPhone can be expected to stay up to date for about five years after launch, while I'll just leave the old s20 journey for now, just before we wrap up here, there are a couple of things I want to mention first, which I love the fact that companies are finally paying attention to the battery, no matter how good a phone is, its camera, its performance, its battery is dead, it's useless, so with that in mind something has equipped your device with the largest battery ever created.

I think five thousand milliamp hours and Apple has done theirs with 3969, which obviously sounds like a clear win for Samsung, but I can tell you right now with apples. battery optimization and the fact that Samsung's new display will literally drain battery like a vampire, this is anyone's game and you'll have to wait for the full battery comparison to see the real winner, so subscribe if you want to see it coming fairly. Soon, both phones will ship with decent, but not-so-impressive chargers — in the box, you get a 25-watt charger with the Samsung and you get an 18 with the iPhone.

It's nice that the s20 ultra can theoretically support 45 watt charging, which is very fast, but it's a shame that when you buy a phone at this price you have to pay extra to get a charger that can do that. I also spend some time with the speakers on this new phone and they are pretty much the same as with Samsung's flagships, you have most of the audio coming from the bottom speaker, but also through this little earpiece on top. , I'd lean slightly towards the iPhone in terms of overall speaker quality, but Samsung is miles ahead. in connectivity to start as it has a hybrid dual SIM slot by default meaning you can have a SIM card and a microSD card at the same time up to an extra terabyte of storage and 5g literally no Apple phone as Now it supports 5G.

But with the Ultra you get pretty much the most complete package of 5G connectivity, even for wireless charging. Samsung's phone can charge wirelessly faster than Apple's and can reverse wireless charging on other phones, something that hasn't come to the iPhone 11 pro yet. Putting all this together, where do we find ourselves? The s20 ultra is undoubtedly phenomenal, it has so many new and impressive things at the same time, but the only thing that will count against it is the fact that, for the first time, Samsung is more expensive. Final confirmed shooting time prices at the moment, but I'm told you can end up paying between $200 and $300 more for our Galaxy S 20 Ultra instead of an 11 Pro Max, to be honest, although I think it's a game. fair. you're getting and it leads me to a pretty interesting conclusion for quite a few years now my smartphone recommendation has been if you're using a Samsung phone, buy the latest Samsung, if you're using an iPhone, buy the latest iPhone because none of the companies The phones They've been so far ahead of everyone else that it makes sense to go through all the hassle of switching ecosystems, but the S20 Ultra now offers so much more than its iPhone counterpart that for some users this might make sense: its camera, its screen, its storage.

We are talking about a phone that can have 1.5 terabytes of data stored with a micro SD card slot. It's just a crazy phone and what I'm saying is that, for the first time, this is a device that I can recommend not only to Samsung and Android enthusiasts, but even iPhone enthusiasts too, it's that good. If you enjoyed this video, don't forget to enter the giveaway. All the rules are in the description and with that said, my name is Erin, this is mr. Who is the boss? I'll see you next time.