Samsung Galaxy S9 vs iPhone X! #Helpful Post

this is the Samsung Galaxy S 9 and s9

plus you're getting an improved camera

better internals but at the cost of

looking pretty much identical to the

galaxy s 8 in fact the s9 looks so much

like the Galaxy s8 that this is a Galaxy

s8 but I bet you couldn't tell on the

other hand we have the iPhone 10 now at

$1000 this is one of the most expensive              

smartphone ever made

and thankfully Samsung didn't take the

bait and let the Galaxy S 9 priced at a

cool 700 to $20.00 my real question

though is can such a minor update

actually compete with the iPhone one

look and you can see that Apple and

Samsung are going after the bezel is

trend in two very different ways so with

the s9 the bezels are small but

noticeable on the top and bottom of the

display move over to the iPhone and

they're basically no Buzzle to be seen

except for the knotch to be honest I

don't have a huge preference so the

iPhone 10 notch doesn't bother me that

much but it does rob you of a little bit

of screen real estate which can be

important when you're talking about a

smart phone now it's the s9 you're

really not going to be losing anything

but also wax that sort of distinctive

look of the iPhone 10 it's kind of up to

you honestly I think the cleaner look of

the s9 does it for me though well the s9

looks very similar to the s8 Samsung did

make some minor tweaks that you can

notice once you actually get it in your

hand so one of the big ones is that

there's a little bit more of a well

defined edge on the actual frame of the

phone so especially when you consider

that this is an all-glass phone with

sort of curved glass front and back it's

nice to have just a little bit more grip

on it although to be fair it's still

going to be a very slippery phone and

you're probably going to want either a

bumper case or skin on this guy

in contrast the iPhone well it just

doesn't look quite as impressive now

sure you're getting the knotch but the

completely flat panel just doesn't look

as cool as the s9 however instead of

opting for aluminum like Apple always

does instead they upgraded this year to

stainless steel I've gotta say it works

and adds some welcome heft to the design

which when you combine it with the all

glass metal build really does make this

feel like a very premium product which

is good when you're spending $1,000 on a

phone no one minor downside is that

because it is going to be very polished

stainless steel it's really easy to get

minor scuffs on it but thankfully it's

not going to be that difficult to buff

these out to the surprise of exactly no

one these phones have a lot in common

first of which is water resistance while

the iPhone 10 is ip67 rated the gallon

9 is slightly better at ip68 know what

this really means is that if you say go

get tossed in a pool or something with

your phone it's going to be fine but for

the most part this is a really nice

thing to have I'm just putting this much

money on a smartphone it should pretty

much be a standard thing on flagships

these days you're also getting an almost

identical stereo speaker setup so both

phones have a single bottom firing

speaker as well as a second front firing

speakers that doubles as the earpiece

now it might not look all that

impressive with these both sound a lot

better than just a single speaker it's

hard to pick a clear winner here the s9

does get a bit louder especially once

you enable the Atmos setting however

it's at the expense of a little bit of

clarity personally I think the iPhone 10

sounds a little bit richer but is going

to be quieter at the end of the day

though it is really splitting hairs both

of these phones sound pretty solid one

area where the s9 definitely wins though

is what the headphone jack

it actually has one considering that

this is basically a dead feature in

flagship phones today big props to

Samsung for actually keeping it around

no no it's not going to be some crazy

high end high fied act like you're going

to be getting in the LGP 30 but it

sounds totally fine I think a lot of

people are gonna appreciate having this

around in 2018 another advantage of the

s9 is the fingerprint sensor now not

only is it back this year but unlike on

the s8 whereas in this awkward spot

beside the camera where you couldn't

really reach it it was easy to miss this

year it's going to be below the camera

and slightly raised from the body of the

phone making it a lot easier to feel

without actually having to go look at

the back of your phone every time it's

just as fast as you would expect well I

like how fast face ID is on the iPhone

10 there's definitely times where I

prefer having an actual fingerprint

sensor like on the s9 that being said

the s9 does have its own version of base

ID so it's kind of similar to the setup

in last year's Galaxy Note 8 in which it

uses not only facial recognition but

also iris scanning and it kind of works

it's reasonably quick but still nowhere

near as fast as face ID on the iPhone 10

and it's also not going to be the most

secure thing in the world this setup on

the no date has been easily fooled a

million times whereas at least on the

iPhone you're getting something that's

going to be reasonably secure that shows

and Samsung's confidence in their own

system where Apple is perfectly happy to

allow you to use face ID to unlock apps

or even pay for things with Apple pay

Samsung conveniently asks for your

fingerprint instead of facial

recognition when you're actually using

samsung pay move around to the display

there's no question these are the two

best panels on a smartphone you can buy

today I have the larger galaxy s 9 plus

here which is rocking the 6.2 inch

display but if you opt for the standard

s 9 you're getting a 5.8 inch panel

which is the same size as what you're

getting on the iPhone 10 both are very

similar which makes sense as Samsung is

the one who makes AMOLED panels for both

Apple as well as Samsung themselves now

what you're getting here is supposedly a

slightly brighter screen on the s9

they're claiming about 15 percent

brighter than on the s8 but in real use

especially once you actually tweak some

of the color profiles on the s9 they are

almost identical looking inside things

get a little bit more interesting where

the iPhone 10 is rocking the Apple a 11

Bionic chip here in the United States

you're going to be getting a Galaxy S 9

with that new Snapdragon 845 or for the

rest of the world it's going to be

powered by a Samsung Exynos 9810

processor jump in the Geekbench and

you're going to see a nice performance

uplift over the Galaxy s8 however

especially when you compare it to what

you're getting in the iPhone 10 it's

just not even going to be close single

thread performance especially is going

to be much much faster on the iPhone yes

sure benchmarks aren't always

representative of what you're going to

be seeing in the real world but when you

look at Geekbench and you see something

like nearly twice the single-threaded

performance that is something that you

are definitely going to notice in my

experience the only phone that comes

close is the pixel 2 and that's entirely

based on Google's awesome optimization

job which makes sense considering that

they make Android now a big part of me

feels like if Samsung was a little bit

lighter with their skin things would be

a little bit of a different story I will

say though that unlike in previous years

it feels like Samsung actually paid some

real attention into polishing up the

software so a lot of little design

inconsistencies that you used to find in

Galaxy software's nowhere to be found

and the Galaxy launcher itself is pretty

solid but when you dedicate an entire

Hardware button as well as the left side

of your home screen to Bixby it features

that I would argue most people find less

useful than Google assistance which is

also pre-installed on the phone that

it's hard to argue that Samsung has

really stepped that far away from their

old ways of slapping bloatware on the

phone that comes across to the bizarre

inclusion of a lot of weird Android apps

that are sort of duplicated thanks to

Samsung so things like the Samsung email

client or calendar or even the Samsung

browser all feel really out of date in

2018 now sure there's nothing stopping

you from jumping into the Play Store and

downloading

stock Android versions of these apps but

just why do they exist like I mean

seriously why move over to the iPhone 10

and while iOS 11 might not be all that

new or exciting right now thankfully

over the last few months they have

polished up a lot of the bugs and it

feels like a much more cohesive set up

now sure there are still some weird

design choices like hiding your

notifications as well as your control

center behind two very similar swipes

based on where you are on the top of the

display but it's really hard to look at

the s 9 in the iPhone 10 and not be

impressed with just how much Apple is

able to do with this guy and how Samsung

just hasn't really been able to keep up

its close but the performance especially

the Polish is just top-notch on the

iPhone get it

top notch something else the iPhone has

the advantage with is battery life the

galaxy s 9 is pretty solid it would

usually last me through a full day

however with the iPhone I regularly use

it for the entire day and still put it

on the charger with 30 or 40% left it is

a big step up over previous generation

well most of the upgrades on the s9 have

been fairly minor the biggest one is

definitely with the camera most obvious

change is the addition of a telephoto

camera on the galaxy s 9 plus nicely

matching what you're able to get on the

iPhone 10 this isn't going to be on the

standard galaxy s 9 but it's a solid

addition not only is it going to be nice

to get that extra focal length but in my

opinion I think it actually looks a

little bit sharper than what you're

getting on that iPhone 10 the real star

of the show though is that new main

camera which is going to be shared with

both the S 9 and the s 9 plus it's an

all new 12 megapixel sensor that has

stacked DRAM on the chip and now I does

this speed things up but also enable

some pretty cool new feature this

enables a new 960 frames per second slow

motion mode albeit in 720p no yes it's

going to be a little bit soft and you

need a lot of light to actually make

this look good but if you can time it

right it can look really really nice

low-light performance has also been

improved thanks to the addition of a new

mechanical aperture now Anneli is this

going to be pretty much a first on a

major smartphone but it gives you two

options for standard photos you're

getting an app 2.4 aperture did you get

into a low-light situation it can open

up all the way to Apple 1.5 F 2.4 is

what the camera will default to and it

looks good it's a nice blend between

getting a nice bit of sharpness as well

as actually letting enough light into

the camera however if you get into a

really low light situation or you switch

over to pro mode and manually enable it

you can't

it up to at full f 1.5 the results are

really impressive with that wide

aperture as well as Samsung's new multi

shot processing which will allow up to

eight foods to be taken and combined

into one to reduce noise it looks really

really good now yes you're going to be

giving up a little bit of sharpness here

for the most part there's really not

much to complain about you get this guy

in low-light it's gonna look awesome now

for outdoor shots Samsung does get a

little bit over aggressive especially

when you look at the saturation as well

as the sharpness but it compares really

well to the iPhone 10 especially if you

don't want to edit your photos the

front-facing camera on the galaxy s 9 is

pretty wide and it still it's nice right

Ken

in comparison the iPhone 10 front-facing

camera is fine but it's not quite as

wide angle which is especially for

selfies is really helpful where things

get a little bit more one-sided is with

AR emoji versus an emoji so this is what

a emoji looks like on the galaxy s 9

kind of creepy right so essentially this

is very similar to what you're getting

on an emoji on the iPhone except that's

just not as well done mostly thanks to

the lack of face tracking as well as

it's just going to be a little

unsettling especially when you make your

own like I did and this is what an an

emoji on the iPhone 10 looks like now no

I can't make my own custom emoji as you

can see especially with the front-facing

camera and the face ID tech to actually

track my face the level of detail here

is really impressive much much more so

than a our emoji the galaxy s 9 is the

best smartphone that Samsung has ever

built it takes a lot of what was great

about the s8 and subtly improves it in

some ways and majorly improves it when

it comes to the camera it also does this

at a significantly cheaper price where

the S 9 comes in at seven hundred twenty

dollars unlocked the iPhone 10 at $1000

is definitely going to hurt the wallet

that said the days of the galaxy being

the obvious answer if you want to get a

high-end Android flagship are definitely

over the pixel to still has a lot of

advantages over the s9 even though it's

going to be a little bit older when you

compare it to the iPhone 10 what you're

getting on that phone if you can of

course overlook the eye-watering ly

expensive price is excellent performance

good battery life polish software it

really is a solid package the galaxy s 9

is a great phone but for me it just

can't quite match the iPhone 10 so I'm

curious what do you guys think about the

s9 versus the iPhone 10 I'm sure they're

going to be lots of wonderful

it's all about the merits of each phone

and not fanboys or arguing at all let me

know in the comments below and I will

catch you in the next one