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hey it's Joshua Vergara what's going on everybody and we're talking about the galaxy s 9 plus once again but we're also gonna bring back the iPhone 10 now I do remember that we did a short comparison kind of a quick look before the full review of the s 9 came out but we're revisiting it because I did use the iPhone 10 just a little bit more since then and we also did some camera tests which we are providing in a separate piece here at the YouTube channel and also at Android RDECOM so you can see all of the camera samples and everything from there also if you want to get even more information about these phones I did do a full write-up at Android or decom but in this video I'm just gonna share some of my main thoughts the iPhone 10 has some really obvious omissions including no more home button that iconic home buttons not even there anymore now you have a full screen on the front which in and of itself is pretty nice but it's included with that notch at the top now the reason why the notch is so interesting is because in Android we're gonna start seeing it more often so I kept wanting to use the iPhone 10 to see if I could get past the knotch and yes I got used to it after a while but there are some instances especially with video games full screen apps and YouTube videos in particular where that not actually occluded a small part of the left side of the video when viewing in landscape but without that home button and without anything like let's say the soft keys that are on the bottom of the galaxy s 9 and pretty much any other Android device all you have to do is swipe up from the bottom and you hold it there to go to the recent map screen or if you're inside of an app you swipe up to go back to home that notch also rears its ugly head again because to the right of the notch you can swipe downward to get to the control center so that is where you get your quick settings like similarly to the Android version and then if you want to get to your notifications which is a fairly recent development you can go to the left of the notch so it matters where you swipe down thank goodness the iPhone 10 is a smaller device overall because while maneuvering around that notch is a bit of a pain and it would be worse if the phone was any larger now about that home button that also means you no longer have a fingerprint reader and that might be something that is contentious to some people but you do have face ID which is the main security measure for biometrics on the iPhone 10 you just scan your face and no matter what angle its add the phone will try to recognize your face and unlock the device immediately after you wake it up you do have something like that in the s9 as well with face unlock and iris scanning which have been put together into the intelligent scan but thankfully the fingerprint reader on the back has been put in a much better place then you can actually stack the fingerprint reader on top of the intelligent scan so you have even more biometric meters for security and in the case of iOS even if it doesn't have the personalization that the Galaxy S nine has for example I even have a lock screen that allows for a 15 second video well that's always really nice and you can make that very personal and then there's also the always-on display which is not something that you find on the iPhone 10 but it does light up immediately when you raise the phone so that face ID is looking for your face and it will go straight into the operating system no matter what daily usage has also been really reliable on both of these after all these are the top phones in their respective ecosystems you have the snapdragon 85 in this s 9 plus with 6 gigabytes of RAM which is different from the four you get in the smaller version and then it's kind of hard to compare that to the performance of the iPhone 10 which has the Apple a 11 Bionic and 3 gigabytes of RAM which is perfect for what iOS needs after all sometimes it feels like Android requires a bit too much out of its processing packages but that makes a little bit of sense because iOS is cater to one particular device and they can optimize it properly the s9 plus provides so many different ways of doing things like multitasking like with Android or EO there is the picture-in-picture and on top of that you have the edge UX which just gives which just gives you a more convenient way of accessing your contacts and your shortcuts and maybe even some extra feeds now bringing back the iPhone 10 both Bixby and Google assistant you can pick either one and in my opinion they're going to be way better than Siri ever has been because Siri they haven't really put a whole lot of new features into Siri it's still just basically a voice command assistant and it doesn't do much more like live translations or food recognition and bigsby or even everything that Google assistant might have that you probably enjoy already if you're an Android purist now battery life has also been different between these two if there's one thing that I've noticed with the iPhones hand that I have notice with previous iPhone devices the standby time is pretty great if you're not using your phone and it's just kind of sitting around it keeps its charge pretty well and if you're not that heavy of a user you should be able to get quite a bit of time out of these devices fast charging is a thing here with the included charger of the galaxy s 9 plus you're able to get a 50% of the battery pretty quickly but the included charger with the iPhone 10 doesn't have that same capability there is fast charging involved with the iPhone 10 but you have to use specific chargers and cables to make that happen so now we could talk about the cameras and you have similar cameras on here with two lens setups including a telephoto lens but Samsung really tried to put its best foot forward with the main lens and it's something that we talked about a lot because it's honestly pretty exciting that main lens has F 1.5 aperture and then actual blades inside that stop it down to F 2.4 now that's really awesome and there are benefits to it if as a photographer you know how to take advantage of it but the key takeaway is that in the automatic mode you could just let it change itself accordingly and you won't really notice the difference on the other hand the iPhone 10 has an F 1.8 aperture in the main lens and the secondary lens has F 2.4 aperture which is the same case with the telephoto lens on the s 9 plus but when you take into account daylight shots with these rear cameras you're going to get good results no matter what both of these cameras do a really good job as long as the lighting is good but we have to put a feather in the cap of the galaxy s 9 plus because it's low light capabilities or really top-notch that F 1.5 aperture really floods in a great amount of light and then there's multi frame processing on top of that because there is Ram built into the actual camera module dozens of photos are taken at the same time and all of that data is processed into such a way that provides the best possible final result of course one of the main points to the iPhone 10 is the portrait mode and if we go to the portrait mode here there are a number of different modes that allow for different lighting effects to be applied to the cutout as long as it's able to get the cut out properly that's a bit of a hit-or-miss situation you may not get the best cut out from the background whether you're using the rear camera or you can actually use the portrait mode on the front-facing camera so you would be able to change what type of lighting you get even a stage light or just us a mono stage life for a black-and-white photo and it's something that you are able to use to get something stylized even if it's pretty obvious that it is software based compared to normal photography methods but then again the same can be said for the beauty modes when you use the front-facing camera of the galaxy s 9 plus obviously they're doctored and they might be too heavily doctored that it kind of takes you out of that picture overall the camera does provide even more options on top of everything we've just talked about including modes that are all at the top here super slow mode and AR emoji are the two big marquee features and we've documented them quite extensively already on pieces here at Android or decom you also have a lot of manual controls in the pro mode which gives you control over the shots which is just something you don't get on the iPhone 10 so let us know what you think about this comparison in the comments down below and if you have opinions on either of these devices let us know those as well one really great thing would be if you're looking to jump from one ecosystem to the other it doesn't matter in which direction we would love to hear about that and let us know what is making your decision what is informing that decision and we might comment on them down 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