- Now that the best from Samsung,
the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra, has officially launched,
how does it compare to the best from Apple
in the iPhone 13 Pro Max?
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and as we do every year,
we're going to break down all
of the key differences side by side SuperSaf Style.
So the first thing I want to talk
about is the build and design.
Now design is subjective, but I genuinely do
like the design of both devices, especially the fact
that they have this really nice matte finish on the back.
And they're also very premium.
We've got an aluminum frame for the S22 Ultra.
We've got a stainless steel frame
for the iPhone 13 Pro Max, which is more durable.
Both devices are IP68 water and dust resistant,
which is great.
However, you can submerge the iPhone 13 Pro Max
in water deeper compared to the S22 Ultra.
Now I'm not sure how much of a difference
that's going to make to people,
but if you are somebody who likes
to take your smartphone for a swim,
then you're probably going to be a little bit better off
with the iPhone 13 Pro Max.
Now for colors,
the iPhone 13 Pro Max is available in four colors.
We've got gold, a graphite, a silver
as well as the Sierra blue.
The S22 Ultra however is available in four base colors.
So we have this phantom black, a phantom white
a burgundy, as well as a green,
but it's also available
in three additional colors exclusively from samsung.com.
We've got a graphite, a sky blue,
which looks quite similar to the Sierra blue,
as well as a red.
So you do get more color options on the S22 Ultra.
If you are interested in picking up one
of those exclusive colors,
I'll leave a link down in the description below
which will also give you $50 of credit.
Right, now in terms of the size,
I got to say both of these are big devices.
The S22 Ultra is slightly taller.
Whereas the iPhone 13 Pro Max is slightly wider and heavier
and we do have some slight differences.
On the iPhone 13 Pro Max, the edges are curved
but the sides are flat.
Whereas on the S22 Ultra,
the edges are a lot more squared off
but the sides are more curved.
Now personally, I'm used to quite large phones
so I can get on fine with either of these.
But if you are coming from a smaller phone,
these may take some time to get used to.
Right, now let's talk about the displays.
These two have excellent large displays:
6.7 inches on the iPhone 13 Pro Max,
6.8 inches on the S22 Ultra.
Now both are also using AMOLED technology.
So we've got really nice contrast ratios,
deep blacks and vibrant colors,
but there are lots of differences.
We've got ceramic shield on the iPhone 13 Pro Max.
We've got Gorilla Glass Victus Plus on the S22 Ultra.
Now I'm not somebody who does drop tests,
but in my experience, both of these are very durable.
The iPhone 13 Pro Max has a flat display
whereas the S22 Ultra has a curved display on the sides.
Now, in my opinion, a curved display does look nicer,
but in terms of practicality, I do prefer a flatter display.
It's also easier to get screen protectors
for a flat display compared to that of a curved display.
And then if we look at the bezels,
we do have small bezels on both devices,
but we do get a higher screen to body ratio
on the S22 Ultra
because we have a punch out for the front-facing camera.
Whereas we have a notch on the iPhone 13 Pro Max.
Now this notch is 20% smaller compared
to what we had on the iPhone 12 Pro Max,
but notch versus a punch out,
the punch out is just way less obtrusive.
The S22 Ultra also has many more advantages.
So firstly it does have a higher pixel density
because of a high resolution.
So things will be a tad sharper.
And although both devices have a 120 hertz refresh rate
which makes things very smooth,
the S22 Ultra can go all the way down to just one hertz.
The iPhone 13 Pro Max goes down to 10 hertz.
This will make the S22 Ultra display more efficient
and it also allows it to have an always-on display.
An always-on display is something that I find super useful.
You can see your time
and what notifications you have at a glance
while your device is sitting there on the table.
You don't even have to pick it up.
This is something that's unfortunately not available
on the iPhone 13 Pro Max.
I was really hoping for it this time.
The S22 Ultra also has a brighter display
with a peak brightness of 1,750nits.
The iPhone 13 Pro Max is also a bright display
but it peaks out at around 1200nits.
So if you're somebody like me
who uses your smartphone a lot outdoors
and also always wear sunglasses,
then you will definitely prefer the S22 Ultra.
And for all of these reasons,
I would have to give the win for the display
to the S22 Ultra,
although the iPhone 13 Pro Max
does have a very nice display.
Now, one of the reasons that we have the notch
on the iPhone 13 Pro Max is
because of face ID.
Face ID is a very secure method of facial unlock
and it works really fast and really, really well.
The S22 Ultra also has face recognition.
However, this is only using the front-facing camera.
It's not using any additional sensors
like the iPhone 13 Pro Max.
So it's something that I don't use
for security reasons on the S22 Ultra.
However, the S22 Ultra does have an
in-display fingerprint scanner.
This is the 3D Sonic Gen 2 from Qualcomm.
It's the same one we had last year
but it works really, really well.
It's fast.
It's very secure.
Now, over the past couple of years,
my preference has been an in-display fingerprint scanner
because I've had to wear masks in lots of places.
However, Apple has tried to come up
with some solutions for this.
Firstly, if you have an Apple Watch,
you can unlock your iPhone with your Apple Watch,
but with an upcoming update,
iPhones will still be able to use face ID
even if you have a mask on
by recognizing the area on the top of your face.
So realistically speaking,
I think this is going to come down to personal preference.
I think both are absolutely fine.
Now let's move over onto the cameras.
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So cameras.
Now I've actually done a detailed SuperSaf Style
camera comparison between the S22 Ultra
and the iPhone 13 Pro Max.
It's around 20 minutes long
and I cover pretty much all aspects
of the cameras side by side.
I'm going to link that video down in the description.
So you can go ahead and check that out
if you really want to know what the difference is,
but to give you a quick summary,
we have a very similar camera set up on both devices.
We have an ultra wide camera, a primary camera,
as well as a 3X Telephoto camera.
The S22 Ultra, however, does get an advantage
because you have a Periscope zoom camera
which gives you 10 times optical zoom
and can go all the way up to 100 times.
The iPhone 13 Pro Max maxes out at 15 times.
Now, in my experience, when it comes to images,
I did lean towards the S22 Ultra more thanks
to its versatility.
And Samsung also does a lot of processing on their images
which some people may not like,
but I do like the look of the S22 Ultra images.
The iPhone 13 Pro Max however is still the king for video.
So if you are somebody who takes a lot
of video on your smartphone, the S22 Ultra is good
but the iPhone 13 Pro Max is just better.
You've got excellent dynamic range,
great auto focus even in low light situations.
Once again, I'm going to link
the full detail Super SafStyle camera comparison
down in the description and in the cards
so do go ahead and check that out
if you really want to see what the differences
between these cameras are.
Right, now let's move onto performance.
The iPhone 13 Pro Max is powered
by the Apple A15 Bionic chip.
This has been very smooth.
You've got six gigabytes of RAM to go along with that.
The S22 Ultra is going to vary depending on your region.
In certain regions,
you will be getting the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1
and in others, you will be getting the Exynos 2200
with either eight or 12 gigabytes of RAM.
Now it's come to a point where performance is so good
in smartphones that you're literally looking
at seconds of difference
or sometimes milliseconds of difference.
So personally speaking,
I don't think you're going to have any issues
with either of these.
They are both really, really good
and performance also comes down to software.
So on the iPhone 13 Pro Max,
we do have iOS and we have Android with One UI
on the S22 Ultra.
Now you guys know I don't go
into an Android versus iOS debate
because a lot of it does come down to personal preference.
I know people don't like it
when I use the term personal preference
but that is literally the case.
And both iOS and Samsung
on One UI are really good with updates.
You will get updates longer
on your iPhone compared to your Samsung device
because the updates come directly from Apple.
But Samsung has really been keeping up recently.
Now a couple of points I do have to mention
on the software of things is
that the S22 Ultra does take advantage
of the larger display much more compared
to the iPhone 13 Pro Max.
On the iPhone 13 Pro Max,
the icons are very large
and there's really no utilization of that extra space.
This is going to look exactly the same
as we have on the iPhone 13 Mini.
Now I get that's great for consistency
and Apple does like to keep things consistent,
but if you've got such a large screen,
I want to be able to make the most of it.
On the S22 Ultra,
I can make the icons smaller, have an extra column,
and you also have features like multi window
which will allow you to have two apps open
at the same time side by side.
I also feel that the S22 Ultra is better
in the way of multitasking.
One of the examples I always give is
whenever I'm uploading a story to Instagram,
on the iPhone 13 Pro Max,
if I then move onto a different app,
it's not going to complete uploading
that video onto my stories.
It's just going to stop there in the background.
On the S22 Ultra, it's just going to carry on as normal
and I don't have to worry about it.
On the iPhone 13 Pro Max,
I've had lots of situations
where I've kind of come back a few hours later
and that story has not uploaded.
Now I feel this is more down to the software compared
to the RAM because six gigabytes of RAM is still enough,
so I hope Apple can improve this going forward.
Another big advantage that you get
on the S22 Ultra is the S Pen.
Now this is enclosed within the device
and it's also been improved quite massively
with latency down to just 2.8 milliseconds.
It's down from nine milliseconds
that we've had on previous devices
and it's also got lower latency compared
to the Apple Pencil on the iPad Pro.
Now, I know an S Pen isn't for everybody,
but for somebody like me
who edits image a lot on my smartphone
as well as signs documents and things,
this is so, so useful.
Unfortunately, you can't get anything equivalent
to this on the iPhone.
Now for speakers, we do have really good stereo speakers
with Dolby Atmos on both devices.
We've got one in the earpiece and one bottom firing.
And in my experience,
both of these sound really, really good.
I don't think you're going to have any issues.
My friend Thunder E from Booredatwork
has actually done a detailed speaker test.
So if you are really interested
in the differences of speakers,
then I'll link his video down in the description below.
Now one point I do have to mention is the connectors.
So the S22 Ultra does have the more universal USB type-C.
The iPhone 13 Pro Max is still using a lightning cable.
This is something that I personally find quite frustrating
because being an Apple user
and in the ecosystem with my MacBook Pro
and my iPad Pro, those devices use USB type-C.
However, if I'm traveling,
I can't just take the one charger and cable.
I do have to also take my lightning cable with me
for the iPhone 13 Pro Max, which is really frustrating.
Now I get that there's lots of accessories
that still support lightning
and it would be a big change,
but lightning was great in its time,
but it's definitely outdated now.
And I think it's time
that Apple should definitely update their iPhones
to have USB type-C for the iPhone 14.
However, at this point in time,
I'm going to have to give the advantage here
to the S22 Ultra.
Let's now talk about the batteries.
So we do have quite large batteries on both of these.
The S22 Ultra does have a larger physical battery compared
to the iPhone 13 Pro Max.
However, size does not matter,
I guess it depends on the context,
but when it comes to battery sizes,
it really does not matter on the actual size of the battery
because there's lots of other factors
that do come into play.
And in my experience,
the iPhone 13 Pro Max is still the champ
when it comes to battery life.
Now that's not to say
that the S22 Ultra has bad battery life
by any means.
It's really good and it gets me
through the day absolutely fine,
but I would say you do get around 15% better battery life
on the iPhone 13 Pro Max.
However, when it comes to charging,
the S22 Ultra does get the advantage.
First disclaimer, neither of these come
with a charger out of the box.
You will have to buy this separately
but the maximum charging speed
that can get on the iPhone 13 Pro Max is around 20 watts.
On the S22 Ultra,
you can get up to 45 watts
which will give you around 50% charge
in 20 minutes compared to a 50% charge
in around 30 minutes on the iPhone 13 Pro Max.
Both devices also have support for Qi wireless charging.
You can get up to 15 watts of Qi wireless charging
on the S22 Ultra.
On the iPhone 13 Pro Max,
if you use a standard Qi wireless charger
you can only get a maximum of 7.5 watts.
The only way you'll be able to get 15 watts is
if you use the proprietary MagSafe charger.
Now don't get me wrong.
I do like MagSafe
and it's great that it just snaps on
and you don't have to worry about lining it up on anything.
And there's a whole bunch of accessories
that also come to the iPhone thanks to MagSafe,
but I would've liked for the iPhone
to be able to support up to 15 watts
for Qi wireless charging, as well as with MagSafe.
The S22 Ultra also has reverse wireless charging.
This is where you can charge other devices
such as earbuds and things on the back of the S22 Ultra.
I'm going to be real with you,
this is something that I don't really use too often
but it's a nice to have.
Finally, let's talk about storage and pricing.
So the iPhone 13 Pro Max and the S22 Ultra are available
in the same storage variants:
128, 256, 512 gigabytes
or a massive one terabyte version.
However, the iPhone 13 Pro Max actually starts
at a lower price compared to the S22 Ultra.
Now, when we do go to the one terabyte option,
they're actually at the same price in the US,
but the S22 Ultra actually flips
and becomes slightly cheaper here in the UK.
Also currently in the US,
you can actually get the 256 gigabyte version
for the price of the 128 gigabyte version.
And you can get the 512 gigabyte version
for the price of the 256 gigabyte option.
So that actually puts the device is pretty much neck
in neck in terms of price.
And you can also get an additional $50 of credit
if you use my link down in the description below.
This is an exclusive $50 of credit
which you're not going to find anywhere else.
So based on all of that,
you will be paying roughly about the same for both devices.
So that is the detailed SuperSaf Style comparison
of the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra
versus the iPhone 13 Pro Max.
What is your choice
and which one would you pick?
Definitely drop me a comment below.
Let me know your thoughts.
In terms of my opinions, I use both Android and iOS
and these are currently my go-to devices on both sides.
I think they're absolutely great
and I'd have no problem recommending either of these.
Of course, both have their advantages
and disadvantages.
On the S22 Ultra,
you do have the S Pen, you have a better overall display,
faster charging, as well as the Periscope zoom camera.
On the iPhone 13 Pro Max however,
you do get longer software updates,
you get better battery life,
and you still get the best video on any smartphone.
That's what I think anyway.
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