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Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra vs. iPhone 11 Pro Max

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joe mark
Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra vs. iPhone 11 Pro Max

Samsung has just announced the Galaxy S20 ultra, and it’s an absolute mammoth of a smartphone. This phone has 16GB of RAM and a camera with 100 times zoom. It’s not just better than any flagship phone they’ve ever released before. It is a tier above. You could almost call it a superphone. So today, we’re answering the big question. Does the Galaxy S20 ultra destroy the iPhone 11Pro Max? I think the results might surprise you.

Hardware:

The first thing you’ll notice, putting both these two devices side by side, is an ultra is an absolute unit of a phone. It’s massive for most people’s hands. The iPhone 11 Pro max is a large device, but Samsung takes that and then adds about 5% more height and almost 10% more thickness. To be honest, though, I don’t think that in itself is a problem. It’s large enough that you can forget about it being a one-handed experience. But as long as you go in with that as an expectation, you’ll spend more time at gawping at the magnificent display you get than worrying about how you’re going to hold it. But more on that in a minute.What is weird, though! is that even though Samsung’s phone towers above Apple’s in size? It’s lighter. And I’m going; being honest, it feels a little bit cheaper. While Samsung has upgraded the metal, they use in their phone rim from 7000 series aluminum to something that’s now 1.2 times stronger. Apple uses stainless steel, which has many times the mechanical strength of aluminum.

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Galaxy S20 Ultra vs 11 Pro Max Hardware

Anyways, it’ll be far more resistant to dents and scratches. Plus, I just like the density of the material. The iPhone’s weight just makes it feel a touch more premium. And while it is a little early for me to try it myself, if we dropped both phones on their sides, my money would be on the iPhone, surviving with far less damage. That said, though, while it only feels okay, I think the Samsung S20 ultra looks fantastic compared to the standard S20, which visually looks not too distinct from the company’s mid-range phones. This beefy camera module makes the ultra look. When you’re holding it, you feel like your holding cutting edge technology. I love that idea, but I will say that the design is a little sheltie compared to the iPhone. It’s got an enormous camera module with text. Just highlight its new space zoom feature. But the iPhone is a little more understated, classier. Its matte finish gets instant plus points for me because of its ability to resist fingerprints and avoid that kind of stickiness. You can sometimes get with glass. Samsungs camera module is protected by Gorilla Glass 6. Still, its sheer size means that it’s going to cause significant wobble if you put the phone on a flat surface, and both phones have IP68 water industry resistance ratings, and neither has a headphone jack. Slight bummer. Yeah, that wireless is where we’re headed.

I think having a headphone jack on a mainstream flagship 2020 smartphone is going to be a rarity anyways. So design and build wise. I would slightly side with Apple, but now is where the tables start to turn.

Display:

The display on the Galaxy S20 Ultra is the best display on a smartphone period. I could just leave it at that, but it is better than the iPhones in so many ways that I think we should talk about it for starters. What they have in common is that both use OLED technology for deep contrast, and they both have an almost identical brightness of 800 nits across the whole display. But then while S20 Ultra’s panel is just colossal, we say that every single year because somehow each generation these screens just keep getting bigger. And this time around, you’re looking at a whopping 6.9.” That might not sound like a big jump vs. the 6.5 inch iPhone screen. But in terms of screen area, that’s a difference. You’ll feel Samsung’s tiny hole-punch camera, which is 40% smaller than past generations, combined with small bezels all the way around, means that the ultra fields’ almost borderless and futuristic compared to Apple’s large notch and thick black rim.

 

Article source: https://digitaltecharena.com/samsung-galaxy-s20-ultra-vs-iphone-11-pro-max/

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