iPhone SE vs Samsung Galaxy A71 [BEST $399 PHONE] By Mike O'Brien

So Apple versus Samsung is versus Android, it's a classic debate. We've been seeing for so long and with the premium phones, people tend to have their mindset already, and the debates get pretty heated but where it really gets interesting is in the mid-range phones. If you're looking to spend $400, you just want a great phone that works, but you don't want to spend a thousand dollars on a premium phone which one do you buy. Do you buy the iPhone SE 20/20 that just came out or do you buy the Samsung Galaxy a 71? These are fundamentally different approaches to what a mid-range phone should be and in this video I'll break down the differences to help you decide which one's actually the best one for you to buy, and I want to start off by saying, even though a lot of people get very heated over this I use, both Apple and Android. There's a time in place for either of them, and the goal of this video is not to convince you that Apple is better than Android or Android is better than Apple. It's really just to help you figure out what the differences are, so you can decide for yourself which one's actually the best one for you, and so I want to start off with a physical comparison of these two devices, starting with the back you'll see that the galaxy, a 71 is significantly larger of a phone and the camera setup is also very different, but remember.

Camera quantity and megapixel count does not necessarily correlate to better photos. We'll do a photo test later on in the video, but you see you have one lens on the back of the iPhone SE right here you have wireless charging, you have three different colors you've got red black and white. All three of them have black on the front for those bezels, whereas the Galaxy a 71 here, has four different colors. We have blacked one, as you can see right here, which tends to catch quite a few different colors in the light. It also attracts quite a few fingerprints as well.

This also has a silver version, a Latter. This is the black one, and then we also have a blue and a pink version. As well and this one has four cameras on the back, although you will only be using three of them to actually take photos. The fourth one is a depth. Sensing camera and the three that we have are an ultra-wide angle, which is 123 degrees, it's 12 megapixels.

Then we have a 64 megapixel primary shooter, which is very, very high resolution in a phone, and then we have the 5 megapixel macro camera, which honestly, if you've seen my previous video, is not especially useful and I, wouldn't really count that as a big win unless you're trying to sell like tiny items on eBay, for example, now on the iPhone here. Not only do we have a button on the bottom, which is a fingerprint sensor as well, and I'll talk about that in a second, but on the right side we have our power button and on the left side we have our volume rocker or a volume buttons or two separate buttons here, not a rocker and I like this setup better, because you can actually take a screenshot much more easily by just squeezing the phone just like that. So you can take your screenshots and, above that we have the classic little iPhone switch to switch your phone on to silent mode or out of silent mode. If you suddenly need your phone to be quiet on the bottom of these phones, you'll see a fundamental difference. Here is not only the charging port, so we have the Lightning port on the iPhone USB type-c on the Android phone right here, but the galaxy also has a headphone jack, which is a big win.

If you're looking to have headphones plugged into your phone- and you don't want to have a dongle associated on top of these phones, we have really no difference a microphone on the galaxy phone and they both have microphones on the bottom and, like I said we have the home button on the iPhone right here which allows you to sign in it's a fingerprint sensor home button and on the galaxy there's actually an in screen fingerprint sensor. So if you just put your finger right there, it signs in from my experience, it's not necessarily the best assignment. Experience is not the fastest or the most accurate, but it definitely gets the job done. So if I just place my finger there, you see- maybe not the first try, but once you get used to it, you sign in fairly quickly, and it's really not a drawback at all on the front. You'll see that they do have a completely different set up with screen.

So on the galaxy right here we have a six point: seven-inch screen, it's a 1080p display, and it's very, very bright in bright neon, bright settings, of course, and it's very vibrant as well. So definitely an excellent screen right here, whereas the iPhone is still using the iPhone 8 design, so they do have very large bezels on the top and bottom. The screen is only 750 P, and it's significantly smaller, as you can see here. So as far as screens go I think it's very obvious that the Galaxy has a better screen between the two I. Don't really think there's much of a debate there, but it is definitely nice that you have the better fingerprint sensor on the iPhone and you also have the little switch on the side.

So three big mechanical advantages to using the iPhone a big benefit to the galaxy. A 71 here is on the left side. You have a SIM tray which actually doubles as a dual SIM tray and expandable storage. So you can put a micro SD card in here. The phone does not have expandable storage, and it does have dual SIM, but one sim is an e SIM for some people you may want a smaller phone, and this would actually be really nice to have this for other people.

You definitely want to larger screen and the better screen to body ratio. So comment down below and let me know which of these two- you like better from the physical aspect of them. First, to big physical advantages that the iPhone SE has one of them is that it does have wireless charging. So I really like to see that I know some people don't think this is especially useful, but I personally find it useful. If you have a car mount, you just put it in there or don't to plug it in set it on your desk.

It charges, you can pick it up, and you know, use your phone and set it back down. While it's charging I think that is really nice to have and there something you don't see on the galaxy. A 71 and another big advantage is that the iPhone SE is actually ip67 water-resistant, where the galaxy a 71, has no IP water resistance rating. So from that physical tour I'm sure a lot of people would be leaning towards the galaxy, a 71 here being that it has a larger screen and more cameras, and again I'll get into the camera test in a second, but where the iPhone really starts to catch up and gain a lot of ground is in the internal components of this phone. So the iPhone right here has three different storage options.

You can get 64 gigabytes, 128 gigabytes, or you can get 256 gigabytes and the processor in here the chipset is actually the 13 Bionic chip and for those of you who don't know a ton about chipsets and internals of a phone, the a13 is the fastest out of any phone on the market today. So it's the same chip we're seeing in the iPhone 11 Pro it's faster than any of the older iPhones is faster than essentially any Android phone, and they're putting it down in this phone right here, which is really unheard of and I, know a lot of people using this phone are not going to be doing anything really advanced or not going to be rendering huge videos you're not going to be playing. Maybe you would be playing but I, think a lot of people won't be playing games as much on this phone, because it's a smaller screen so having the a13 chip essentially equates to this phone lasting, probably five to six years with constant Apple support, you'll be continuing to get updates and you I mean for that price right there getting a $400 phone that lasts. Five or six years is really impressive. Now the Galaxy a7 one is by no means under powered.

It has a Snapdragon 730 processor in there, which is not the biggest or the beefiest on the market, but it still gets the job done for here. It's very snappy and very quick having 128 gigabytes on the base model does give you more storage than the iPhone for $400. You would spend a little of extra. You know a little extra to get 128 or 256 on that, but you do also have iCloud as well versus Google cloud here. So a lot of people use cloud storage anyway.

As far as RAM goes, the iPhone has about 3 gigabytes of RAM iOS uses Ram differently, and so on, Android phones. We typically see more RAM. This one has either 6 or 8 gigabytes, which for most people should be pretty sufficient. Now these both accept fast charging, although it is slightly different, fast charging, so 15 watts on the iPhone SE and 25 watts, with the larger galaxy. A 71 I think that kind of is a little to scale, though considering the battery size.

In the galaxy, a 71 is 4500 William hours and the battery on the iPhone SE is somewhere around 2000 William hours. So considering that you know, the charging time should be very similar with both of these. But one drawback is that the iPhone SE in the Box does not come with a fast charger. So you have to go out and buy one. It's only at probably a fifteen twenty dollars or something depending on where you're looking for your charger.

But it is nice that it is included with the galaxy a 71. You have a 25 watt charger in the box to charge this up and being at such a large battery significantly larger than the iPhone battery, but also a significantly larger screen. I did find that this does last slightly longer when looking at them side to side and daily use. It's hard to compare one to one because they're running different apps you're using them different amounts, but in general I, would say that the battery life on the 71 is gonna, be slightly longer and should definitely easily get you through an entire day with really no problems at all. Now getting into the cameras of these phones starting off with low-light, it's kind of a fundamental difference, we're seeing here the iPhone SE does not have a night mode.

So in darker settings it does have a little more grain in the photos. You can get a third-party app I talked about in a previous video to give you night, motor shot night mode shots, but the galaxy a 71 comes with night mode baked-in. So you can take those nice night photos they're still not quite at the same level as the iPhone 11pro or the pixel or the galaxy s 20, but for a mid-range phone it does a decent job. Alright. Now, let's do a quick, sign-in, speediest, so I'm, just going to turn on the screen right here, and then I'm, just gonna press on the home button, so ready press it, and it signs in really right away.

So if you just press it, you can see this one does an excellent job of signing in now with the galaxy. If we just go and tap my thumb right there again, it signs in fairly quickly, probably not as fast, and occasionally you can see right there. Sometimes you do miss it and takes a couple attempts so right there we got it for sign in the iPhone is definitely superior, but now, let's check out the app speed open up, apps and see how fast that is just to get a general idea of the processor. So first, let's go and close all the apps that are open just to make sure we have a fair test here, and now we're going to open up Spotify in three two ones. It's significantly faster on the iPhone right here.

Some apps may not be like that, so ones that are baked into Google, so YouTube, for example, probably opens a little faster in Android, but let's check that out. So you can see it opens faster on the iPhone right here, but it bloats fairly quickly on the Android right here: okay, so starting off with the iPhone and now with the galaxy all right. So this is the selfie camera on the galaxy, a 71, it's pretty stable, I think it looks pretty good. Let's see how it sounds as well comment your thoughts on this one. Now, let's jump over to the iPhone, so here's the selfie camera on the iPhone.

The background looks pretty washed out, so not the same high dynamic range, but the video should look and sound pretty good comment. Let me know what you guys think of this one. Now this is the reader camera on the iPhone shooting in 4k. The colors look perfect. The focus looks good, and it's pretty stable as well.

So as I walk around it still looks pretty good. So let me know you guys think of this one. Now the galaxy a 71, the colors look a little more vibrant with this video also pretty stable. So let me know how you think these two compare I think this is definitely going to be hard to beat as well. They both have great video cameras and, of course, the galaxy.

A 71 can also shoot video with the wide-angle lens or the ultra-wide rather- and this is gonna- be a little more stable, but it doesn't look quite as good as the standard lens on this phone. So starting with the selfie camera on the iPhone, it's a pretty classic iPhone photo here. The blacks are a little more gray, it's not super saturated and then the galaxy is the total opposite, very saturated and very dark blacks. The live focus mode on the selfie camera did an okay job. Here it looks similar to what we expected same thing with the iPhone.

It just blurs everything, that's not you, and it does a decent job but struggles with the headphones. The rear camera on the iPhone does a decent job with skin tones I think they look pretty natural, whereas on the ultra-wide of the eye of the galaxy, it tends to look a little more reddish and then the primary rear camera on the galaxy I think looks the best of all of these. Definitely the darkest blacks and a pretty good high dynamic range on this one as well as going to the live focus mode, because we have a depth camera here, you're able to see that the bench behind me is actually not blurred, because it knows it's the same distance as me so same plane. It looks perfect. Now the iPhone blurs pretty much everything, including the bench and does a pretty good job, with edge detection.

Now, looking at the iPhones rear camera at this Bush right here, pretty good, a solid picture, but definitely way more saturated, probably over a little too saturated on the galaxy phone, the ultra-wide again looks a little different, a little less saturated than the primary shooter, but the primary shooter does have a 64 megapixel mode which allows you to crop in after the fact and still capture a lot of detail and significantly more detail. I think, then you would see in the iPhone when you zoom in through digital zoom, as you can see in this picture now using the macro lens I think it's relatively useless because there's only five megapixels, but it does an okay job and the iPhone SE camera, as you can see here, is unable to take macro shots at that level. As far as software goes, Apple and Android buy now are really not as different as they used to be. So, if you're looking to use FaceTime, you know you have Google do on Android. If you're looking for iMessage, you have Google messages on Android that has RCS.

It does really the same thing. A lot of the lot of the capabilities on both of these are very similar, except maybe like airdrop, for example, but it depends on what a lot of your friends have if a lot of people are using, FaceTime and iMessage, maybe you'd be good to be in that ecosystem. But if not, a lot of friends are doing. That I mean I. Think that you do have a lot more freedom to customize your phone with the with Android right.

Here you can have live wallpapers. You know all kinds of stuff like that, so it comes down to personal preference. This video is not necessarily going to be about Apple versus Android, if that's an entire different video, and it's always changing with new updates but comment down below and let me know which operating system you like better and if that actually lines up with which phone you like better. So if you like the galaxy a71 better, but do you like iOS, better I, just want to hear from you guys, which one you actually like better, but in conclusion here guys I think if I was going to break it down into who would want which phone I think for the iPhone? The obvious answer: is anybody looking for a just classic, it's a classic Apple phone, so you're looking for a phone that just works, it's gonna work really! Well, it's going to be very fast. It's never going to slow down for five or six years.

You can use it cameras you don't have to think about with which lens to use. You just turn it on take a photo. It's going to look good, and it is a smaller, more pocket-friendly phone. But of course it's looking a lot more antiquated on the outside. You have really large bezels, which brings you over to anybody who is looking for a newer Android phone that doesn't cost a ton, but you can still customize.

It has a really large screen, so you can watch a lot of videos on here has a lot of cameras. You can take tons of different like totally different styles of photos and has a very long battery life. I think that this is an obvious choice here, so between the two guys, let me know which one you like best for me personally I think it would really change based on the think. Sometimes you just want to have a phone that just works other times. You want a phone that you can really customize so comment down below and let me know which one you like better and why, as always guys, thank you all for watching, I'll, see you next time.

Source : Mike O'Brien