what's happening everyone my name is alex and welcome back so i finally decided to
switch from the iphone 12 to the samsung galaxy s21 as my main phone the last time i
used the samsung phone as my main phone was the samsung galaxy s9 plus so about three years ago
but i feel like the s21 samsung actually got more things right than they did wrong
the first thing they got right was the price so now the base model s21 is the same price as
the base model iphone 12 but since samsung has a variety of promotions every time they launch a new
device is actually able to get this one cheaper than the iphone 12 so that's definitely a plus
so i feel that the s21 you do get more for your money the first thing you get more is
the internal storage so the s21 gets 128 gigs of internal storage where the iphone 12 only
gets 64 gigs of internal storage if you want more storage obviously you have to pay more
now i don't think 64 gigs of internal storage is enough anymore so you definitely need to spend the
extra money and buy the more expensive iphone 12. now i also know that samsung removed the sd card
slot and i know that a lot of people were big fans of that sd card slot but since i haven't actually
used an sd card in any phone in like three years i don't think that's a big deal there is also a
bigger screen on the s21 and the screen that we get on the iphone 12 and even though the phone has
the larger screen it actually feels smaller when you hold it in your hand and of course that has a
lot to do the fact that the phone it's not as wide as the iphone 12 so i feel that it's easier doing
things with one hand like typing or opening apps and using apps on the s21 the respontion also has
a higher refresh rates so if you're playing games you're gonna notice that if you scroll through
your facebook feed and even though i know that a lot of people aren't using facebook anymore
it is a better experience scrolling up and down whenever you're doing certain
things of course if you're just watching videos you're not really going to notice a difference
i was also able to customize how the screen looks on the s21 you first get the phone out of the box
the screen is super vibrant super um vivid and i don't necessarily like that um super saturated
look but yes you can customize the way the screen looks like so now i'm kind of happy with the way
the screen on my s21 looks when compared to the iphone 12 because the iphone 12 doesn't actually
allow you to change anything about the screen the s21 also charges faster than the iphone 12
so i can charge the s21 from 0 to 100 in about 20 minutes less than i can charge the iphone 12.
and i know 20 minutes doesn't sound like a lot unless you only have 20 minutes then
you're definitely gonna notice a difference now for battery life they're pretty similar i feel
that to the s21 you get about half an hour to an hour more than you'd get from the iphone 12
so not that big of a difference they both support wireless charging but the s21 you
also get reverse wireless charging and you may not use reverse wireless charging every single day but
every so often you may need to charge your watch or your earbuds if you're not at home so you can
just place those on the back of the s21 and charge them well you cannot do that with the iphone 12
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so let's go back to our video so the s21 i also get an always on display and the iphone could have
had the same thing because they both have amoled screens but i don't think apple will ever give us
an always on display and it may not seem like much but it's so useful just glancing at the phone and
seeing if you have any notifications instead of actually turning the screen on so i find this very
very useful i used to use this back in the day but with the iphone you just don't have that option
now we also get a fingerprint scanner on the s21 and because these days everyone has to wear these
masks everywhere we go the face unlocking on the iphone doesn't necessarily work that
well so most of the time you actually have to type in that passcode with the s20 you can just touch
the screen and unlock it that way with your finger now i have to say that samsung doesn't
make the best fingerprint scanner some there are so many other phones that work much better for
that fingerprint scanner so hopefully that will be improved through a software update or
for the next version of the s21 because samsung does not have the best fingerprint scanner but
still a better option than just having face unlock as we have on the iphone 12.
but let me tell you the real true reason why i'm so tired of the iphone 12 the 10 the 11 the seven
the eighth because they're all the same they're all so boring and so restrictive you cannot
do so many things with them and they have the harder to do a lot of things the powder
is so powerful it's great this one feels so much more expensive than the s21 in every single way
but then we have ios on top of it and it's so counterproductive for so many things look at the
home screen here if you want to see the picture that you have as the wallpaper you can't exactly
do that you can't have four apps at the bottom here and just the widget to the top no you need to
have the whole screen full of apps because apple wants you to if you need to change the wallpaper
you cannot change it from the home screen you have to go into settings scroll look for the wallpaper
change the wallpaper that way why why do we have to do that if you find a picture that you took on
a year ago you look through like 100 pictures and you finally found the one that you want to
edit but you don't want to edit that picture with the the editing app that the iphone has built in
you want to use snapseed for example can you share that picture from the gallery app to snapseed no
you cannot so you have to exit the gallery app on the iphone you have to open snapseed
then you have to scroll through like 100 pictures to find the other picture that you're looking for
and then you can edit that so all that could have been done in like two clicks on any android device
and this is not the only thing there are so many other things that i could like keep going
and going and going about iphones they're just so counterproductive to anything everything seems to
be more complicated than it is and i could go on and on about so many other things that you can't
exactly do on an iphone just because of ios and how restrictive it is for example the keyboard you
can't exactly customize it sure you can install a different keyboard but in reality it's the same
apple keyboard that just looks a bit different you can really customize everything as you do
on any other android device now the problem is that a lot of apps work better on ios so
just to give you an example the gopro app works better on ios the tesla app works better on ios
so i almost feel like i'm always gonna have to keep an iphone on the side because just some
apps are just so much better and it's infuriating that you always always have to keep two phones
you can just keep this one or this one because this one does some things better this one does
some things better but overall i still feel that an android device it's much more productive than
an iphone because you can do things so much faster much easier now if you have on windows device for
example it's almost impossible to send pictures from your iphone to a windows device if you have a
mac sure it's easy just airdrop them and they're right there so apple just makes everything so
complicated for no reason so uh for now i think i'm gonna have to stick with android once again
because ios is just infuriating to use them these days what are your thoughts about iphones
and android devices which ones do you prefer and why definitely leave a comment and let me know
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