iPhone XS Max vs Galaxy S10 Plus - Which Should You Choose? By zollotech

Hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and the question I get asked most often now is, should I pick the XS Max or the S10 plus, and so I wanted to compare them and help you decide which one to pick and which is best for you. Now there are time codes in the description below so that you can jump to the section that you want to see most the camera comparison will be at the end, so you can jump right to that by clicking that time code. So, let's first talk about the price the iPhone XS Max comes in at 1099, and these prices are unlocked. So this is without any discounts 1099 with 64 gigabytes of storage or 1449 for up to 512 gigabytes of storage. That is not expandable with the S10 plus. It comes in at 999, with 128 gigabytes of storage, up to $15.99, with a terabyte of storage, which is expandable through the SD card slot up to an additional 512 gigabytes of storage using a micros. Now.

The next thing is the design is going to be very subjective, we'll talk about the displays, after both of them look pretty good. This one looks a little more Hardy I guess the bezels are a little bigger and they both handle the actual sensors up front or the cameras up front a little differently. Here we have a symmetric notch. Here we have an infinity, oh as Samsung calls it. So this infinity, oh, is cut out some people like it, some don't I, think it looks pretty good.

This one feels good in the hands it's very thin on the edge, but both feel built really well with the iPhone tennis match. You've got stainless steel here you have aluminum that's coated and overall they're, both really, really nice, both a glass front and back. They just look a little different. Now, let's talk about security for a moment and speaking of secure, today's sponsor is hosting err. They offer web hosting.

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You can do a less secure face, unlock with the S10 plus, but with the iPhone. The only option you have is either a passcode unlock or a secure face unlock by looking at it, and it's pretty fast so again unlock. Look at it. It's unlocked here we can use our thumbprint, and this fingerprint sensor is a little hit or miss you'll see it was a little slow. It does work well as long as you're.

Don't you don't mind the time, and it's gotten better over time in my review? I actually have quite a few problems. It's very inconsistent depending on where you press, sometimes it says press longer, or sometimes it says, press harder, but you'll see from the time I tap it like that. It said no match. Do it again, then to unlock, so it does take a little longer than a traditional fingerprint sensor and even a little longer than face ID. However, technically speaking face, ID is more secure unless you have a twin.

So keep that in mind when you're talking about this in particular, if you really don't like face ID you've got a really nice option here with the fingerprint sensor, or you can use their less secure, face, ID or, of course, the traditional method of using your password or passcode. The next thing kind of falls under security as well, and that is privacy. iPhone is very big on privacy. What you do on your device stays on your device and does not share that information with separate apps unless you allow it specifically to do so, such as your location when you're using something like Google Maps. Otherwise, it's on the device, your face, everything else is stored locally and is not sent to Apple.

The only thing that is sent to Apple is your iCloud backups and your messages are end-to-end encrypted. If you use iMessage also, if you're using something like Siri and asking a question, it sends that information anonymously, so Apple could never relate it back to a specific person. Now, when it comes to Samsung, Google does use your information and that helps them better understand. What's going on and helps present you with what you like. So if you're using something like Bixby here, it can do that through Samsung or you can use the Google Assistant to do the same or Google itself.

It will predict what it thinks you want to do based on your patterns, but that comes at a cost of sharing that information directly with Google. So you do get better voice recognition. You also get a lot more features because of that, but it's not as private or secure when it comes to that, although the Samsung does have Samsung Knox, which is an encryption or a way to encrypt the device and keep your information safe on the device. Now what's strange about the S10 plus, is it comes installed? Pre-Installed with Facebook, you can't delete it and I know someone said they got an unlocked version from Samsung or a Verizon version, and it didn't have it. There.

I actually have some Verizon versions that I've checked out. They all have it, and all you can do is disable it. You cannot delete it. You'd have to route it in order to do that. So keep that in mind now.

The next thing is the displays now I'm, the iPhone 1XS Max, keep in mind. This display is actually made by Samsung, but based off of Apple's specifications, so they're, both using OLED technology and Samsung, actually makes this display. So it's a very, very good display. It's a 6.5 inch display 2688 by 12 42 with 458 pixels per inch, and it has true tone and actually true tone is turned on right now, so you'll see side by side if I change it. The actual tone of the screen, changes and Samsung does have something similar to that, but it reduces blue light.

It's very similar. If we go into here, we also have the blue light filter. So if I turn that off you'll see they both kind of get white, so we'll leave that on, and we'll turn off night shift as well. So these are all things to help the display look a little better, but speaking of the Samsung display, the Samsung display does look a little better. It's a higher resolution, it's 1440 by 3040 and is 522 pixels per inch.

Now either one you're not going to be able to see the actual pixels on either of them. Even up close, you just can't see them they're, both very high quality, but the XS Max does not get as bright. In fact, this display goes up to about 1200 nits. It's almost double what the XS Max can do on its fullest brightness. So we'll go full bright here.

We'll go full bright here, and you probably won't be able to see that in this particular light. But let's go back to the home screen and this display is just easier to see in bright light just depending on what you're doing, but they both look very, very bright and I. Don't think you'll have an issue in sunlight with that. So let's bring these back down both to about half there. We go and let's talk about the actual features of the phone, because when it comes to features, Samsung has kind of been at the front of throwing everything into it, but at a cost of sometimes slowdown and things like that.

But here let's go around the outside edge on the Samsung and then the iPhone, so I'm the phone. Of course, we've got that infinity. Oh, and this has the stock installed screen protector which I'll be removing, since it's kind of scratched up the front has a speaker here, and then you have a speaker on the bottom. You've got USB, see, and you've retained the headphone jack around the edge. You have a big speed button which is sort of reassign Abdul.

Furthermore, you can press it once for a feature: you'd like or double tap for, Bixby or reverse those you've got a volume. Rocker you've got a microphone here, expandable storage here and then your power sleep/wake button on the back you've got three cameras. Will talk about the cameras later? You'll also have a heart rate sensor right here, so you have all of those features on this particular phone. Let's go back here, and we'll talk about the iPhone. Now, with the iPhone you've got the standard, iPhone features so around the edge.

You've got her in the front. You've got speakers here, and here you also have microphones and then on the side your volume switch, your silent switch, which is very helpful and then here you've got power, sleep-wake your SIM card slot and then the cameras on the back both have wireless charging so that part's nice, but the Samsung will charge faster, probably a half hour to an hour faster and the Samsung has a larger battery. So the Samsung's battery is 4100 William hours and the Samsung battery will easily last you a day or day and a half, at least in my experience. I had my sim card in this. My primary SIM card in this for at least a week and I used it and easily found it at the end of the day, going waking up at about 8 a.

m. or 7:00 a. m. depending on the day and going to bed around in the morning, I had about 50% battery life left, I, normally use social media and I also use a lot of YouTube and I take some photos and video with it. Now with the XS Max, you have 3174 as far as the William hour size of the battery.

However, the 812 Bionic chip is so efficient that it actually gets a very similar battery life, but not as good I'll find at the end of the day, I will have about 40 to 50 percent. What most people are saying in their comparisons when they've used them side by side or doing other things you'll get about an extra hour out of the S10 plus now, depending on how you use this, this may vary, and also, depending on your screen resolution that you set this at it's not set to its full resolution it by default and that potentially could cause you to use more battery I actually have it on its highest resolution right now, so it looks really, really good. Now talking about specs, we have the a12 Bionic, which is incredibly fast. Let's take a look at just some synthetic benchmarks, so I can show you what I mean now I've installed Geek bench on both of these and, as you can see, there's no other apps open. So that's it for these particular apps.

Let's go ahead and run a CPU benchmark just to show you a comparison, so we'll hit, go and see what it does now. You'll see both have finished and the multi-core scores are not far off, but the single core is a little different. Four thousand eight hundred and nineteen on the XS Max. First 3521 on the S10 plus when it comes to multi-core, like I, said they're not too far off eleven thousand three hundred and sixty-six on the XS Max and eleven thousand fifty-two on the S10 plus, so very close. That means they're going to perform pretty well, no matter what you do so, for example, if you go into a web browser I'm at my website on both we can scroll and the scrolling is a little faster here.

But that does not mean the phone is actually faster. It's just the animation speed versus the scroll speed on both of them. So maybe we'll go into the tesla review here, and you'll see they're going to load very similarly most people, if you're, using an iPhone you're, not going to mind if it's 0.2 seconds slower than this phone, or vice versa, depending on what you're trying to load. So if you're trying to load a video, for example- and these are both on the same Wi-Fi connection, so let's go ahead and hit play on both of these, and you'll see. It was a little faster on the S10 plus, so that one seemed quicker for that particular instance.

Now, if we're going to do something like open the camera, let me just get these ready since they're in different locations. If we open the camera hit the buttons here, you'll see it's very similar. The iPhone might be a little faster there, but that is where the speed really is nice on both of them. I, don't think you're going to have an issue with scrolling or anything like that again. If we go back to the web browser scroll, and maybe we'll go to one more website, you'll see that rotates pretty quickly as well, we'll go to Apple.

First, will it go, and you'll see slightly faster here? Let's try Samsung, so we'll go to Samsung now, and it was faster here. So it's kind of interesting that we got that result, but I think you get the idea whatever you're doing is going to be nice and fast, no matter what, if you want to go into a folder, the animations are similar as far as speed goes. If you want to go into something like music they're going to load similarly, so most of the experience as far as speed is really very close now both of these have ip68 water resistance. Technically, though, that does not make them waterproof. I recently had an issue with the iPhone XS Max, where this is a replacement because water got into it, and it was only in about a foot of water or maybe two feet of water for under five minutes where I dropped, if I'm not going to test that anymore, but they both are technically water resistant.

That means that if you drop them in a puddle, they'll probably be fine, but if you leave them underwater for any period of time, that's probably a bad idea, and that leads us on to the camera. Now the cameras on both of these are quite good. They both do 4k 60, technically the S10 plus it does do HDR so that part's nice. If we go into the settings here, we do have HDR+ as far as one of the settings for the actual video. So if we would advance recording options, we can turn on HDR 10 plus, so we will get HDR if we want that, we also have high efficiency, video, so HEV C on both and unlimited recording time when it comes to 4k video.

So the videos are very good, but let's take a look at both photos and videos and see how they stack up together now with the forward-facing cameras. This is where we see the biggest difference with the iPhone it's in 1080p, the Galaxy has ten plus is actually in 4k, so you do have a little higher resolution there. Although the S10 tends to smooth the base and everything's in default settings, you could change it right now, everything's default, and you'll see the actual lens looks a little different as well as far as its depth and angle. Now this is the rear facing camera on both of these they're, both pretty high quality 4k video. This is recording at 30 frames per second, as they both have image stabilization.

Now, the one thing you can do with the Samsung Galaxy S10, plus that you cannot do with the iPhone. Are you can go to ultra-wide? So if we widen this way out, you'll see it's ultra-wide and more of the image, and it actually will look a little more stable because it's so wide now, if we stop and then go back to regular, that looks pretty good, but we can zoom to 2 X on both of them, and so we've got 2, X and you'll see the transition is a little different on both of them, but they both work and I. Think the idea. Now, when we talk about reception of both of these devices, the S10 plus wins here a little and that's because it's using Qualcomm, processor and modem as well and their modem is just superior at this point to the Intel modem. That's in here while technically you can also get a 5g version of this that won't be available just yet, or it might be by the time you're watching this, but the actual modem in here just seems to have better reception.

In fact, I don't have a SIM card in here, but it's picking up, I, guess T-Mobile signal, strength, and you'll see that the Wi-Fi is strong too. Of course, that should be strong on both with the XS Max Wi-Fi seems to work fine, but for me the LTE is really hit or sometimes miss I have to turn on airplane mode and then turn it back off in order to get a connection again, so it's been hit or miss and that's a known complaint for people with the latest generation of iPhones. Now, finally, I wanted to compare the speakers for you, so you can hear what they sound like. Let's go here now, I really could pick any one of these I guess. I'll pick the car review just because it's kind of neutral here I've set this up to be at the beginning of my video, and we'll hit play, and then I'll turn the speaker's up and see which one goes louder.

So we'll go ahead and hit play now. They both sound good they're, both clear but I, would say. The S10 goes a little louder, but I would say the iPhone XS Max is a little clearer. Also in using this for video I would say the stereo sound is about the same, maybe a little better on the S10 plus, as this seems to get a little louder on this littler speaker here up at the top, but for the most part it's very, very similar, and I think they're very close together now, one of the other features that you don't get with iOS that you do get here, that many people have been wanting for iOS is split view or split screen. So maybe I want to open a web browser.

We were on the Samsung page and open something else. Let's just tap here, we'll open in split screen, and maybe I'll open, YouTube as well, and then I can go between the two of them. We can open either one get rid of them and maybe watch a video, maybe open another one, we'll open this one in split view and maybe continue to watch a video and use the internet as well. At the same time, it's a really nice feature that, hopefully they bring to iOS but currently isn't available and is available on the Galaxy phones. Additionally, with the OS one of the advantages you do get with Android, is you get to customize this, so I'm, not a particular fan of Samsung's 1 UI? Some people love it I, don't particularly like it.

So if I go to settings, I'll go home screen. You'll see I've done this quite a few times home screen, and then I go home screen default. Apps go home screen, 1 UI I can change the way. The entire thing looks and feels, so you'll see now it looks like a traditional pixel device. I've got Google home over here, it's very, very nice.

So it's nice that I have that option and I can change it to look and feel like I want. If I don't like the scroll speed, I can change it so that part's really nice as well. One of the additional features the S10 plus has is wireless power share, so you'll see I've got it turned on here. You just flip over the phone set, the iPhone on it, and now it's charging, so you can charge a device, Galaxy Buds or whatever you'd like using that now, when we're talking about the ecosystem of both of these devices, apples is very integrated, very well put together and if you have people that have iPhones iMessage works really well, specifically in the United States I, don't know anyone that doesn't use a hi message that has an iPhone and it's so well integrated with things like different Mac's, MacBook IMAX, whatever you have and iPads that it makes sense just to use this and go between those devices. But if you don't have the Apple ecosystem in your family or within your friends, and you have this device, you can easily use something like Google messages and use messages to Android comm to relay through a computer, and then, of course, you've got access to all of Google's applications as well.

So it really depends on which one works best for you. Both operating systems are very mature at this point and work well and both are pretty stable. I didn't really have any crashes on this phone. Maybe I've had an app crash here, but no more than I have on an iPhone as well, so they both have app crash issues from time to time and I think overall they're about the same as far as stability is concerned and whatever ecosystem works best for you is really the one to pick now again talking about speed when it comes to both of these devices. Some people say that the Samsung devices will slow down over time.

I, don't know that that's going to be the case with this particular one, it seems superfast all the time, at least over the week, I've been using it on no issues. Here it doesn't matter what launcher I'm using what app I'm using things just seem to be nice and fast, and you can go back in and out of whatever you'd like and no slowdown whatsoever. You don't really get a slowdown here as well, and Apple kind of got caught with slowing things down and I. Don't think they're going to do that too much on the iPhones anymore going forward as far as longevity goes. So that's it for the S10 plus verse, the XS Max.

Hopefully that helps you get a better idea of which one to decide to purchase for yourself, and I'd love to hear which one you purchased or if you want the smaller size, they're very similar they're, just basically different size and different price, but let me know which one works best for you or what you two to do. Maybe you kept your older phones, because you like the older ones better with the fingerprint reader here or maybe even 8, plus with a fingerprint reader down here. Let me know your thoughts in the comments below, of course, I'll link this wallpaper in the description as I always do. If you haven't subscribed already, please subscribe and give it a like if you enjoyed the video, if not the other ones, okay ?, as always thanks for watching this is Aaron. I'll see you next time.

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