The Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra is here.
It's the best that we have from Samsung.
How does it compare to the best from Apple,
the iPhone 15 Pro Max?
Well, let's put these head-to-head SuperSafStyle
and find out.
So initially looking at the build and design,
both of these are using titanium.
when it was released,and Samsung also now has the titanium frame.
Now the iPhone 15 Pro Max is the smaller device overall.It also weighs a few grams lighter.
And we have these curved edges compared to these more flat and sharper edgesof the S24 Ultra.And for those reasons,I would say that the iPhone 15 Pro Max is the more comfortable device to use overall.
And guess what?Samsung are also calling all of the colors titanium,but they flipped it.
So they're called Titanium Gray, Titanium Black,Titanium Violet, and Titanium Yellow.So they've switched to having titanium at the frontrather than at the end.
But anyway, there are three additional colors available of the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra,which are available exclusively from samsung.com.They are a Titanium Blue, Orange, as well as a Green.
That's going to give you double the storage as well as up to $150 in credit.Both devices do have an IP68 water and dust resistant rating.
However you can submerge the iPhone 15 Pro Max deeper into water compared to the S24 Ultra.I'm not sure how important that's going to be to you.Now with the design of the devices,I would say both are incremental.
The iPhone 15 Pro Max we've had the similar design for the past few years.And with the S24 Ultra,I mean, it looks a lot like the S23 Ultra,which looked a lot like the S22 Ultra.
But nevertheless, I think both devices look really good.And I do like the matte finish that we have across both devices, including the frames.Previous generations did have glossy frames,which I wasn't personally a huge fan of.
Now let's turn these devices around and take a look at the displays.
So the first thing to note is that the S24 Ultra now does have a flat display.Previous generations have had some curves along the sides. The iPhone 15 Pro Max has always had a flat display.
Now this is going to come down to your personal preference.
I do think curve displays look better, but flat displays are more practica and easier to apply screen protectors to.Now Gorilla Armor is exclusive to the S24 Ultra.It's supposed to reduce reflections by around 75%.It's four times more scratch resistant compared to the previous generation, and it's also using 25% recycled materials.
Ceramic Shield's Apple claim is tougher than any smartphone glass.Now I am not somebody who does drop tests, so I'm not going to be dropping these. I'm sure lots of others out there will be. But in my experience, both of these are very premium and also very durable.
I can notice that the S24 Ultra is less reflective compared to the iPhone 15 Pro Max.Now these displays are absolutely beautiful. They're some of the best displays that you're going to find out there.
We've got a slightly larger display on the S24 Ultra.Both are using AMOLED technology, and they both have up to a 120 hertz refresh rate,making things very smooth, but they can also go down to one hertz, making them more efficient.
The S24 Ultra does get some advantages for its display. Firstly, it does have a slightly high resolution, which means that things will be a little bit sharper, versus 2,000 nits on the iPhone 15 Pro Max. So the iPhone 15 Pro Max is already very bright, but the S24 Ultra is just brighter,and it's going to help in outdoor situations, especially if you wear sunglasses like I do. Both have always on displays, and you can also have the wallpaper on both always on displays.
I personally don't like having this on because I find it distracting. And the S24 Ultra does have a higher screen to body ratio because we have just a very small punch out. This is smaller compared to what we had in the previous generation. On the iPhone 15 Pro Max, we have that dynamic island, which does take more space. Now there's a reason for that dynamic island.
We do have sensors for face ID.Face ID works great. It's really fast and effective and secure. With the S24 Ultra, although you can use facial unlock, it's not as secure as face ID, but it has the gen two Qualcomm 3D Sonic fingerprint sensor.
Now this is pretty much the same but it's one of the best fingerprint scanners out there. I find it so quick and convenient.Now whether you prefer face ID or a fingerprint scanner is going to come down to the way you use your phone.
For me personally, I do prefer a fingerprint scanner I just find it more convenient and I just want to kind of have a glance on my phone and my face is in my pillow, it's not going to unlock,
t's about 20 minutes long and I've covered all of the different aspects. I'll link that video down in the description. But to give you a summary, both have excellent cameras, some of the best cameras that you're going to get in any smartphone. Both have a 12 megapixel selfie camera, and both take excellent selfies.
And for the rear-facing camera, the iPhone 15 Pro Max has three rear-facing cameras, an ultra wide, a primary, as well as a five times telephoto. The S24 Ultra has four rear-facing cameras, and I have to kind of get out, and it's super annoying when I have to do that. So I do prefer a fingerprint scanner, Right. Now let's talk about the cameras. - Hey. - I got this. I got this. - [Side Saf] Fair enough. - So Side Saf was just going to remind you that if you are enjoying this video so far, you want to see more like it, so you don't miss future coverage like this.
Now for the cameras, I have done a detailed SuperSafStyle camera comparison between these two.
an ultra wide, a primary, a three times telephoto, as well as a five times periscope zoom camera. Now in my testing, both are really, really good in all situations. I would say that the iPhone 15 Pro Max
does have overall better dynamic range. It's also better in low light, and it also has better video overall,
especially when it comes to things like cinematic mode.
The S24 Ultra, however does have that dedicated three times telephoto camera. they are going to be better on the S24 Ultra. As well as that, you've got better extended zoom on the S24 Ultra, for a very long time.
And it actually has excellent video, some of the best video on any Android smartphone that I've tested, with the ability to record 8K video as well as 4K at up to 120 frames a second.
These two things you don't have on the iPhone 15 Pro Max.
The S24 Ultra also has lots of AI features for photo editing. So you can remove reflections, shadows,
you can select subjects, move them around, change their without having to crop in. so you're not really losing anything from your image, and this actually works really well. Once again, please do check out
my SuperSafStyle camera comparison, which took me a very long time to do. And yes, the S24 is just out,
so no doubt there will be more software updates that will improve the cameras, and we will cover these updates in my full review.
Right. Now performance.
This is a three nanometer chip set. The S24 Ultra is powered So this has a higher clock speed compared
to other Snapdragon 8 Gen 3s, and it's a four nanometer chip set. Now in terms of performance, the iPhone 15 Pro Max does score higher in benchmarks.
But in day-to-day performance, honestly these are some of the fastest
oothest devices out there. Whatever you throw at them, they work absolutely fine. They're also great for gaming. I'm not much of a ga and he's done lots of gaming tests on both of these devices. if you're interested.
Now with the iPhone 15 Pro Max, one of the new things that we've got is the ability to play console level games right in your smartphone.I've tested "Resident Evil Village,"and it works really well But I'm still waiting for some other titles. I'm still looking forward to "Assassin's Creed Mirage," which has been quite a few months now. But this might be something that's appealing to you if you are a gamer.
Now we do have more RAM on the S24 Ultra compared to the iPhone 15 Pro Max. But because we're running different operating systems they do manage RAM differently. Having said that, I have found in my experience. The 15 Pro Max is very aggressive. I mean, before even if you were trying to upload a story it would not finish uploading in the background. Now it does. But if you're uploading something like a reel, then it will literally tell you that keep the app open .Whereas on the S24 Ultra, I can just leave something uploading, carry on and do something else, and it's going to finish uploading in the background. Now for software. We of course have iOS versus Android. The iPhone 15 Pro Max comes with iOS 17.2.1 currently at this time of this video. and One UI 6.1 on top. One new thing to note with the S24 Ultra is the fact that Samsung are now promising seven generations of Android OS updates. This is super impressive. It brings it in line with the Pixel devices. Now whether or not they're going to keep up with the promise of But the iPhone 15 Pro Max, Apple has been known to support their devices for a long time.
Both phones are excellent in their own shape and specification.
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