iPhone 11 vs Galaxy S20 - Which is Better? By Nick Ackerman

iPhone 11 vs. galaxy s, 25 G, which is the better pick now I've had the galaxy s 20 for a little of time now, and I've had the iPhone 11 for around six months now this launched in September 2019 this launched in around February March timeframe. Now, let's begin with the bodies. First, the immediate thing: you'll notice about the galaxy s 20 versus the iPhone 11 is just how much thinner, and it just feels less wide than the iPhone 11. You kind of see it right there, however, I do feel like the aluminum on the sides of the iPhone.11 feels a little more solid than that of the galaxy s 25 G over here, but glass on the rear is pretty slippery on both. But really you feel that, with in weight of the iPhone 11 a little more than that of the galaxy s, 20 actually a lot more 163 grams on this phone over here versus 194 grams on this phone.

Now both of these are IP 68 dust and water resistance, so you can get either of them wet and both of them do have Gorilla Glass on both front and rear. Now one thing: I really do love about the galaxy s, 20 and I. Think it's the better pick. If you care about design is how the screen kind of comes all the way down to the bottom and to the top, you can see, there's just a little punch hole right there, but other than that you're, getting a very bezel list-style display here, and it's all in a size. That's really manageable.

Just around 6.2 inches on the display. It comes in an 80 9.5% screen the body ratio. So the screen on here is much closer to an all screen than the iPhone Elevens, which comes in at 79%, and you can just clearly see how thick the bezels are around the edges of this iPhone versus that galaxy. Now over here, you can see, there's also a huge notch up here, definitely worth it for the face idea. Most people don't care at this point because they love the software on the iPhone 11 but at the same time, I think from a pure design.

Aesthetic the galaxy s.20 is the better pick here now moving on to their displays, which one is better here. Well, it's a pretty clear winner in the galaxy s 25 G reason being is. This has an OLED display and Samsung has been discounting this due to the pandemic, this device, so I've seen it as low as $7.99 for this phone, which is right in line with the iPhone 11, and this has a better display than I think even though iPhone 11 Pro has you know the 120 Hertz panel here, and it's also Ola dynamic AMOLED. So let's go over here to settings and go to display, and you can see high refresh rate 120 Hertz and people have complained that you can't do it in the 3200 by 1440 P mode, which is a little annoying I'm, not gonna lie, but still even at the Full HD, it's still a higher resolution than the iPhone 11. Also, this display has better contrast ratio because it's OLED and you have the ability to tweak it between vivid and natural.

It's a much better media display. You know all around I, just think it's a better display than the iPhone 11, where the iPhone 11 shines, though, is that it's LCD some people, just don't like you know, OLED displays they prefer an LCD panel and if you really like LCD, this is one of the last remaining options that is really powerful on the market also have true tone on here, which is something that once you use it, you really don't want to go back to a phone. It doesn't use it, but I found a way to get by that with the galaxy just turn on blue light filter turn the blue light filter just up a little and you kind of almost emulate. What true tone does it's not a perfect replacement, and it's not even a true replacement, but it's still a nice way to get that more of a yellow tone that true tone typically offers. You also have night shift here and a dark mode for the iPhone 11 and some people just really like the fully flat display of this phone right here.

So when you are, you know, checking the weather or doing whatever you're doing on a device. There are no curves, nothing cutting into display it's a full flat display. Now, when it comes to you the platform in the software which one is better here well, neither one is truly better. I think that the ecosystem really matters for you, if you're entrenched within the Apple ecosystem. The iPhone is better here.

If you care about longevity, and software updates like going past two to three years, you'll care a lot about this, but this Samsung is not going to have short longevity. It should be able to get at least two and maybe stretching into the third year on software updates. You might want to even update your phone by then, but if you're going super long-term I think that the iPhone will win it out here. Also, this iPhone 11 does have a little less features. I would say than the galaxy s 20.

If you go over here into advanced features, there's just so much you can do with this phone and the ability to just kind of move apps wherever you want them and kind of customize the screen. However, you like it, especially some people like seeing their full wallpaper like right here on the galaxy s 20. You can't do that here on the iPhone and might see widget support in iOS 14, but it's likely going to be on side the screen and still not you know fully customizable like this, or you can just kind of move a widget wherever you would like anywhere on the screen and then just go over here and grab some more widgets and just kind of place them wherever you would want, for example, the weather app right here we can place a full forecast on this one right here, we'll hit Chicago, and will it back, and you could see you could see- there's like a full weather at Pier now also themes on here. So the software is still down to features versus ecosystem, but I think if you want an ecosystem where you still can use customization but still have watches tablets, computers Samsung is one of the best competitors here, because they do have the Galaxy watch. They do have the Galaxy Tab series.

They do have Samsung laptops that work very well with your Samsung phone. Furthermore, they do have decks so yeah there. This is probably your best option. If you want to have you want to have all the hardware like you can get on the iPhone side, all on the same brand when it comes to the storage, the iPhone 11 up charges on the storage, whereas the galaxy doesn't really do that. You just have to get your own micros card, which is a cheap price to get more storage, so 128 gigs starting point is higher than the iPhone 11.

So I think it represents a little of a better value, especially if you find this around the same price and storage, because you can expand that, and you get more at the base level. Storage for the galaxy s.20 so definitely gotta hand. It there to Samsung, they still do give you basically what you want when it comes to a storage capacity here, but the iPhone goes up to 256 gigs, and it still doesn't top out at even over $900 for an iPhone 11 with 256, so still a good value on the iPhone 11 and the smooth feel which one actually feels smoother. Now the iPhone is the 60 Hertz phone I've, seen it's just incredibly smooth for not being 90, Hertz or even 120 Hertz, but I can't hold a candle to the galaxy s 20, which is a smoother all-around feeling phone I've been testing this out extensively using these extensively, and you can definitely see it quite a bit when you go back between these phones, and this is especially noticeable when scrolling. You definitely see the chop on the iPhone versus the Samsung, so the Samsung is the smoother device now over the iPhone 11 and the gestures look identical on both.

So you can't really say well, iPhone has a smoother gesture. Maybe they do, but you still can't really tell because this display is so smooth now on the Samsung. It kind of makes up for the gestures being better on the iPhone, so it's not a big deal of difference anymore, and so, let's move on to the cameras on both of these phones, because both of them do have an interesting camera setup, but the iPhone 11 actually gives you a dual camera module on the rear, and this one does give you altar wide and a standard wide, which is very good quality, especially in the video up to 4k 60. Recording now we're on the Samsung. You do get a triple camera, a 12 megapixel standard wide.

You get a 64 megapixel telephoto, and you also do get a 12 megapixel ultra-wide. This can also do up to 8k video recording in 4k 60p as well, and what's great about the smaller galaxy s.20 is that this one has the dual pixel AF with oh, is on board, so the focusing issues are not really present on the galaxy s 20, making this much more matched up to the iPhone series. Now you can see right there just on this shot, how much difference in width the iPhone 11 is a wide feeling phone compared to the s 20 and so within the camera. One thing I really like about the iPhones camera is that phase detection autofocus is just locked down. They got this thing on lockdown, there's just really no camera competing with it right now, I feel like in terms of having amazing autofocus specially in video.

You don't even notice, it's really focusing it just does what you want it to do, and this is the most reliable phone I could recommend for doing video on a phone. It's superb also the front vid VO is pretty darn good too, with its upgraded 12, megapixel camera. In addition, better 4k 60p video recording on the front gives you a awesome. Selfie camera experience for the iPhone 11, really great ultra-wide, perfect overall results, I think you'll love the iPhone 11s camera now over here for the Samsung you'll. Also love this one due to its incredibly quick dual pixel AF, where it really shines is where you kind of pull things out of the frame, pull it back in, and it just locks that thing into focus.

So sometimes it will jump in and out, though, due to kind of hunting for that stuff. But really it's a great autofocus system here on the s20, the original one, the regular one and has a great selfie camera as well at 10 megapixels can do 4k 60. You can also back it out wide, just like you can do on the iPhone and really where Samsung takes the cake here and photography is mostly over. Here we go two more there's just a lot of features going on. You got a full mode of slo-mo Pro video, hyperlapse yeah, there's a lot going on with the iPhone in terms of features, but there just seems to be more on the Samsung, maybe a little less simple, but still very fun.

To use very nice to have all these additional features. I also noticed that, just on the main camera, we get a little better of a background blur on photos just from the main camera you don't have to put it into life, focus just a better background separation on some of these photos than the iPhone that mostly comes down to its sensor, size, 1, /, 1.7, 6, inches versus 1, /, 2, point 5 5 inches, but which one is the better camera. Well I. Think if you want the more reliable easy to use video quality and photo car, the iPhone 11, still the pic I. Think if you care about vibrant photos, you like to take pictures of foodstuff like that you'll, like the galaxy.

If you like to take 8 K video, you want to be future-proofed. You'll, like the galaxy more, and I think if you kind of like bringing things in and out of the frame when you're taking a photo, but maybe you're, doing object, photography or videography. You like to pull things in and out. I think that the Samsung, especially because as dual pixel on the front as well, will be a great option for you and when it comes to their audio, both of them do have very fast Bluetooth connections 5.0. But how does the audio sound now on the iPhone 11? The predominantly loudspeaker is the one on the bottom.

It does have a top speaker, but if you cover the bottom, it does get a little muted, but it doesn't fully cut out because it has those dual speakers now Samsung again, the majority of the audio is still coming out of the bottom, so pretty, pretty good performance on both I actually think the Galaxy S 20 sounds a little louder than that of the iPhone and also has Dolby Atmos. So if we turn that on it gets even louder, so the Samsung to me is the Lauder device here of the two. So I picked the Samsung if you want the better audio from the external and so what about face ID versus the in display fingerprint sensor? Well, you know what I think face. I'd is a little more reliable. To be honest with you, I find myself missing the end display fingerprint sensor a little more, although it's perfect once you get used to it, it's not a big deal.

You can even unlock it with the screen off like that. However, I still I find myself missing a little more often with that placement of the fingerprint sensor. It's not where it's at it's just. Sometimes you don't get your finger exactly perfect on there. You can set up multiple fingers to increase the accuracy, but in terms of overall accuracy, I've found the face ID just to be a little more convenient to use, although both of them are very secure, and you can use them with applications which makes them pretty close once again.

Both these phones also do have fast and wireless charging, but which one has the better battery life. I can tell you that is a close call, but that 4000 William hour battery. That is a big battery, stuffed in such a small form-factor here in the galaxy s, 20 I find it to just blast longer in usage. However, when using the iPhone 11, I am always stretching into the second day and standby time beats the pants off of the galaxy s 20. So if you want to stand by time, it's still going to be the iPhone 11.

If you want the better usage time when actually using the phone, it going to be the s20 and I forgot to mention, but with this 865 Snapdragon CPU versus the a13 Bionic, the real big difference here is twice: the RAM allows you to keep applications in the background, a lot easier without having any reloads versus the iPhone 11, which you can come out of an application, and sometimes you could try to go back into the application and just like we'll reload stuff, it's not gonna. Do it here in the video. It only shows me up in the video, but it happens in real-world usage. So in terms of performance, the galaxy s, 20 is probably the better multitasking phone. What a bunch more features like pop, beautiful screen and stuff like that to really get your multitasking genius on.

If you want to go ahead and do that, if you don't want to do that, you want to stick to one app at a time. The iPhone will be just fine for you, and so at these price points being very similar, which one is the overall better phone. Well, butter is very subjective. It's really down to which you like more, but I would say that, if you're entrenched in the Apple ecosystem, of course, the iPhone is better. If you care a lot about hardware, though you care about specs, the Galaxy S 20 is clearly the better phone has a better display.

It has an arguably better camera setup. It has better battery life when actually using it. In my experience, also, the phone just feels more futuristic. This feels like an old, boring design on the iPhone 11 compared to the Galaxy as 20 now and the iPhone land. It feels pretty modern, but when you compare it to things like this, it feels like it needs an update and design I.

Think, if you're not like sucked into the Apple ecosystem- and you want to just try out something new I- think the galaxy I mean just look at the screen- difference it's like night and day anyway, which one do you think is better here: the iPhone 11 or the Galaxy S 20. Let us know down below in the comments section of this video, and let us know your experience. If you have one of these phones, maybe you have both of them, or maybe you switched from the iPhone 11 to the s 20 share with the community up everybody up the side, which is gonna, be their next flagship device or their next phone here, amongst these two found a video helpful entertaining and forming. Do me a favor click, the like button for me subscribe. If you haven't already Nick helping you to master, your technology be sure to be well and peace.

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