hey what's up it's Jerad with State of Tech and I have the iPhone 10 and the
s9 plus here next to each other now commonly you end up seeing the s9 not
the s9 plus compared to the iPhone 10 because of the size of the phones but in
reality like as far as features go and everything I think both of these phones
are more better suited to be compared here the only reason that the iPhone 10
is small is because they made it small I don't think it actually really lacks
anything that a bigger phone would have and kind of includes all the things that
a bigger phone would have a size aside from the battery but in my opinion I'm
always gonna go probably with the bigger phone
depending on the size there is a such thing as a phone that would be too big
for me but I would go with the s9 plus all the time because I think the s9 is
just a little too small for me so in these phones of course they're two
different platforms and so we kind of have to start there and then we'll talk
about what's similar between these two if you are maybe more married to a
certain platform then the conversations almost over if you're more of an iPhone
user you use all the Mac stuff and you like all of your things to talk then the
iPhone is just going to be a better experience if you're a Windows user like
I am right now it kind of becomes a little bit different of a conversation
because I can't use some of the things the ecosystem that Apple has on my
Windows machine and of course there isn't too much of an Android to Windows
ecosystem there so it doesn't really matter too much now there is software
that you can download from Samsung so that you can use your phone on your
computer screen it works sometimes it's okay but it is a little buggy at times
so I tend not to run it because my phone's right in front of me I don't
need my phone to be on my computer screen so anyways with that said the
platforms are different so it really comes down to whether you are more
comfortable with Android or more comfortable with iOS but if you're
thinking about maybe changing or changing back and you want a good
comparison between these two phones that's
we're gonna kind of dive in now and talk about what's similar now both of these
phones have dual cameras that's something that you know both of them
have been doing for a few minutes now with the dual cameras this one does have
the s9 has a sensor on the back a fingerprint sensor which you know the
iPhone 10 doesn't have any fingerprint sensor at all it does a face ID unlock
which there's been lots of talk about whether or not that's good or bad
my experiences with face ID have been pretty good in the times when I'm not in
a super hurry to unlock my phone or the lighting arrangement is good wherever
I'm at the iPhone unlocks extremely fast now the Samsung phone with the
fingerprint scanner is better for all types of situations for example when
you're going to pull the phone out of your pocket which is normally where I
keep mine I could be unlocking the phone on my way up which is something I can't
do with the iPhone I have to pull it up and look at it for it to unlock and I've
been using the iPhone for quite some time now and it has started to learn my
face from different angles and can unlock even if the phone's not pointing
directly at my face but not in all situations is that extremely perfect you
know when I'm in the car and maybe half of my face is lit and half of my face is
in the shade sometimes I kind of have to move my face a little bit to get the
phone to unlock now if you go to compare face unlock from what Samsung has with
its infrared scanner versus the iPhone which uses kind of a combination of
technologies the face unlock on the Android or on this s9 here is not very
good now you can combine it with a couple of different technologies that it
has it gets a little bit better iris scan face unlock and all that stuff it's
still not as good as the iPhone so if you take away the fingerprint scanner
and compare face unlock to face ID or whatever you're gonna have a much better
experience on the iPhone there however I do miss when I'm using my iPhone having
a fingerprint reader especially on the back I think the back is probably the
best place for a fingerprint scanner I saying for years that I think that the
Apple logo on the back would be a fantastic fingerprint scanner just
perfect placement right there it's been on a lot of phones and when you grab
your phone your finger goes right there it unlocks it and by the phone time the
phone's up to your face it's already unlocked with that the dual cameras I'll
continue talking about those both have pretty good dual cameras you know one is
of course for wider and one is more for like a 2x zoom the s9 has that dual
aperture which allows it to perform a little bit better in low light I will
say that the iPhone 10 does an okay job in low-light it's definitely not the
best phone out there as far as low-light performance the s9 outperforms it a
little bit in low-light especially if you put your your phone in manual mode
or pro mode on the s9 and and force it the settings a little bit you're gonna
get some pretty good low-light photos out of the s9 over the iPhone however
the iPhone still does a pretty good job I will argue and say that the iPhone
does a better job when you're using the flash then the s9 and I don't use the
flash very often because usually the flash on smart phones is pretty bad so
both of them have the dual cameras 12 megapixels 4k 60p I mean those as far as
the cameras go they're very on par with each other in regards to specs with the
exception of the dual aperture on on the on the s9 which means the aperture can
go as wide as 1.5 and then it can switch to 2.4 which is its standard aperture
they both have beautiful displays ironically Samsung makes the display for
both of these phones you know both phones are known for their fantastic
displays Apple has called their displays retina and and you know number of other
things Samsung's displays are just fantastic
they always have been Samsung really flexes their their muscles as a
manufacturer by putting beautiful displays and their flagship smartphones
so let's talk about what's not the same in these phones now obviously they're
not the same size you're basically get
a lot more of a phone in a smaller form factor here because of the kind of the
amount of display there's no bezels on the iPhone essentially I mean there's a
little bit around the edges you've got the notch at the top but they do a good
job of kind of combining everything where Samsung Samsung has a little bit
of a forehead and a chin here on their phone you can see that of course the
display is bigger on the s9 plus than it is on the iPhone 10 you know you have
the 5.8 inch display here you've got the 6.2 inch display over here the pixel
depth is also a lot higher on this phone as well which is easier to achieve
because of the bigger display but 529 PPI here over the 458 PPI on the iPhone
now watching videos movies whatever on both phones is a great experience
of course the notch is something that you have to contend with if you're gonna
run your video all the way to the edges whereas you're not going to deal with
that on the s9 I think the s9 provides a little bit more of an immersive
experience with the video because of the curved edge display a little bit it just
feels like the video is is not contained in anything really it so it's a little
bit more immersive of a display I think the audio is is stereo on both of these
phones both firing the same way with a speaker here at the top and speakers
down firing at the bottom I think the iPhone but when I'm listening to audio I
feel like the iPhones speaker kind of envelops me a little bit more as far as
the way that the audio hits me but the s9 is a little bit louder and I think a
little bit more detailed audio it's kind of hard to explain I'm not an audiophile
I just know what sounds good to me and and I try to explain that in the
best way possible to all of you so you're getting a higher resolution
display out of the s9 as well you've got the quad HD plus versus what's basically
a wqhd here so you're able to go into a higher resolution setting on the s9
however I don't my s9 at that resolution because it's
gonna suck a lot more battery life so I basically run my s9 at the same
resolution as an iPhone 10 is natively so not a big difference there but for
those of you that like to run things at the Mac's the s9 does have a higher
resolution display so the battery life is a really interesting thing and it
always has been in comparison between an iPhone and an Android phone of course
Android phones specifically Samsung phones have gotten so good with their
battery life lately because of all the optimizations and stuff that Samsung has
done with with the Android software iPhone has always been good they've
started to give us more background operations and different things
different features while maintaining a decent battery life when I first got the
iPhone 4 the first week the battery life was garbage but all of a sudden it
miraculously got a lot better the s9 was really good out of the box with the
battery life maybe not as good as my pixel XL but it's still fantastic as far
as the battery life battery life goes and the s9 has a huge battery in
comparison to the iPhone 10 we got a 3,500 milliamp battery over here versus
the 2716 milliamp very random numbers battery on the iPhone so the iPhone
doesn't have as big of a battery but it still is able to get all-day battery
life which is great so both phones are super bright s9 is giving me a little
bit of a warning here you can see both phones are really bright and you know
you can you can see both of these phones at multiple angles outside which is
great it's being able to see your phone while outside is super important and
these screens have gotten so much more brighter over the years which is great
makes for viewing in a bright sunny day very easy so one thing that the s9 has
over the iPhone is the expandability of storage you can buy the iPhone 10 with
256 gigs of storage stock it comes 64 the the base level so if you want more
than 64 you've got to go the 250 which is extremely expensive whereas the
s9 really all you can buy it with here in the u.s. is 64 gigs but then you can
put an microSD card in it and actually expand that storage 128 gigs which is a
lot and then you have a way of getting your media out of your phone easily
which on the on the iPhone you just don't have you just don't have as good
of a way of getting your media outside of the phone now I can connect my phone
to my PC but it makes it's a pain in the butt to get stuff off of the iPhone
whereas the s9 it's basically just like connecting an SD card reader I can get
access to that and get all my photos and everything off of off of it one other
difference between the two is that the s9 does have super slow motion at 720p
you can go up to 960 frames per second it's a challenge to use and it's not
very high quality but it is there whereas the iPhone has slow motion or
what they would probably call super slow motion which at regular HD you get the
240 frames per second the s9 also has at full HD a 240 frames per second slow
motion now as far as waterproofing goes the s9 is ip68 certified the iPhone is
ip67 certified I've had both phones underwater swimming with them
several times for you know five six seven eight minutes without pulling it
out of the water and both phones have had no problems audio as far as like if
you're filming and you go underwater and come out of the water I mean they both
perform really well I had a hard time really differentiating between the two
without actually knowing which phone I was shooting with you know even looking
at the files I had to look at the metadata to be reminded which one was
which they both do a good job so lastly it
really does come down to the price I mean you can get an S 9 unlocked for 839
dollars right now the cheapest you can get an iPhone 10 for is $9.99 and then
of course if you need that extra storage space you're gonna pay an extra 100 and
50 dollars I think it is for your iPhone 10 whereas you can get 128 gig SD cards
microSD cards all day long for under 50 bucks I'll put a link to those in the
description below so really it can depend on which phone is superior and
which one you should buy I think first it comes down to the
platform because that's the biggest thing even though both of these phones
have so many differences and yet so many things that are the same the platform is
the main difference if you're on an Apple laptop or computer and you have an
iPad or an Apple watch or any of those other things the iPhone is going to be
the clear winner as far as that experience goes because the whole
ecosystem and all of that even even if you have a lot of other friends and
family that are more iPhone users just the ecosystem there with iMessage and
FaceTime and all that stuff airdrop the experience is going to be
much better if most of your friends and family are on iPhones the s9 though has
all the latest and greatest features packed into it
Samsung's always pushing the envelope with their phones and giving you as much
as they can for the money so it really comes down to what you think I mean for
me I like the iPhone right now because it's a smaller phone I feel like I'm
getting a lot of phone in a smaller package the ecosystem is just very good
and fantastic I love the fact that all of my stuff talks of course I'm not on
an Apple computer right now so I can't utilize those features but with my iPad
when I'm sending photos to my wife there's just a lot of things that are
great about that there however when I go to shoot video and I want to take the
video off of one of these devices so that I can incorporate it into a video
like this one getting the footage off of the iPhone is much more of a pain in the
butt than it is getting it off of the s9 so what's important to you when it comes
to a phone is platform the most important thing or is it features what
are the things that make you decide what phone is worth purchasing for me like I
said I have a hard time choosing between these two phones because they're both
fantastic so let me know what you think in the
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