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this is the Samsung Galaxy S 9 and s9 plus you're getting an improved camera better internals but at the cost of looking pretty much identical to the galaxy s 8 in fact the s9 looks so much like the Galaxy s8 that this is a Galaxy s8 but I bet you couldn't tell on the other hand we have the iPhone 10 now at $1000 this is one of the most expensive smartphone ever made and thankfully Samsung didn't take the bait and let the Galaxy S 9 priced at a cool 700 to $20.00 my real question though is can such a minor update actually compete with the iPhone one look and you can see that Apple and Samsung are going after the bezel is trend in two very different ways so with the s9 the bezels are small but noticeable on the top and bottom of the display move over to the iPhone and they're basically no Buzzle to be seen except for the knotch to be honest I don't have a huge preference so the iPhone 10 notch doesn't bother me that much but it does rob you of a little bit of screen real estate which can be important when you're talking about a smart phone now it's the s9 you're really not going to be losing anything but also wax that sort of distinctive look of the iPhone 10 it's kind of up to you honestly I think the cleaner look of the s9 does it for me though well the s9 looks very similar to the s8 Samsung did make some minor tweaks that you can notice once you actually get it in your hand so one of the big ones is that there's a little bit more of a well defined edge on the actual frame of the phone so especially when you consider that this is an all-glass phone with sort of curved glass front and back it's nice to have just a little bit more grip on it although to be fair it's still going to be a very slippery phone and you're probably going to want either a bumper case or skin on this guy in contrast the iPhone well it just doesn't look quite as impressive now sure you're getting the knotch but the completely flat panel just doesn't look as cool as the s9 however instead of opting for aluminum like Apple always does instead they upgraded this year to stainless steel I've gotta say it works and adds some welcome heft to the design which when you combine it with the all glass metal build really does make this feel like a very premium product which is good when you're spending $1,000 on a phone no one minor downside is that because it is going to be very polished stainless steel it's really easy to get minor scuffs on it but thankfully it's not going to be that difficult to buff these out to the surprise of exactly no one these phones have a lot in common first of which is water resistance while the iPhone 10 is ip67 rated the gallon 9 is slightly better at ip68 know what this really means is that if you say go get tossed in a pool or something with your phone it's going to be fine but for the most part this is a really nice thing to have I'm just putting this much money on a smartphone it should pretty much be a standard thing on flagships these days you're also getting an almost identical stereo speaker setup so both phones have a single bottom firing speaker as well as a second front firing speakers that doubles as the earpiece now it might not look all that impressive with these both sound a lot better than just a single speaker it's hard to pick a clear winner here the s9 does get a bit louder especially once you enable the Atmos setting however it's at the expense of a little bit of clarity personally I think the iPhone 10 sounds a little bit richer but is going to be quieter at the end of the day though it is really splitting hairs both of these phones sound pretty solid one area where the s9 definitely wins though is what the headphone jack it actually has one considering that this is basically a dead feature in flagship phones today big props to Samsung for actually keeping it around no no it's not going to be some crazy high end high fied act like you're going to be getting in the LGP 30 but it sounds totally fine I think a lot of people are gonna appreciate having this around in 2018 another advantage of the s9 is the fingerprint sensor now not only is it back this year but unlike on the s8 whereas in this awkward spot beside the camera where you couldn't really reach it it was easy to miss this year it's going to be below the camera and slightly raised from the body of the phone making it a lot easier to feel without actually having to go look at the back of your phone every time it's just as fast as you would expect well I like how fast face ID is on the iPhone 10 there's definitely times where I prefer having an actual fingerprint sensor like on the s9 that being said the s9 does have its own version of base ID so it's kind of similar to the setup in last year's Galaxy Note 8 in which it uses not only facial recognition but also iris scanning and it kind of works it's reasonably quick but still nowhere near as fast as face ID on the iPhone 10 and it's also not going to be the most secure thing in the world this setup on the no date has been easily fooled a million times whereas at least on the iPhone you're getting something that's going to be reasonably secure that shows and Samsung's confidence in their own system where Apple is perfectly happy to allow you to use face ID to unlock apps or even pay for things with Apple pay Samsung conveniently asks for your fingerprint instead of facial recognition when you're actually using samsung pay move around to the display there's no question these are the two best panels on a smartphone you can buy today I have the larger galaxy s 9 plus here which is rocking the 6.2 inch display but if you opt for the standard s 9 you're getting a 5.8 inch panel which is the same size as what you're getting on the iPhone 10 both are very similar which makes sense as Samsung is the one who makes AMOLED panels for both Apple as well as Samsung themselves now what you're getting here is supposedly a slightly brighter screen on the s9 they're claiming about 15 percent brighter than on the s8 but in real use especially once you actually tweak some of the color profiles on the s9 they are almost identical looking inside things get a little bit more interesting where the iPhone 10 is rocking the Apple a 11 Bionic chip here in the United States you're going to be getting a Galaxy S 9 with that new Snapdragon 845 or for the rest of the world it's going to be powered by a Samsung Exynos 9810 processor jump in the Geekbench and you're going to see a nice performance uplift over the Galaxy s8 however especially when you compare it to what you're getting in the iPhone 10 it's just not even going to be close single thread performance especially is going to be much much faster on the iPhone yes sure benchmarks aren't always representative of what you're going to be seeing in the real world but when you look at Geekbench and you see something like nearly twice the single-threaded performance that is something that you are definitely going to notice in my experience the only phone that comes close is the pixel 2 and that's entirely based on Google's awesome optimization job which makes sense considering that they make Android now a big part of me feels like if Samsung was a little bit lighter with their skin things would be a little bit of a different story I will say though that unlike in previous years it feels like Samsung actually paid some real attention into polishing up the software so a lot of little design inconsistencies that you used to find in Galaxy software's nowhere to be found and the Galaxy launcher itself is pretty solid but when you dedicate an entire Hardware button as well as the left side of your home screen to Bixby it features that I would argue most people find less useful than Google assistance which is also pre-installed on the phone that it's hard to argue that Samsung has really stepped that far away from their old ways of slapping bloatware on the phone that comes across to the bizarre inclusion of a lot of weird Android apps that are sort of duplicated thanks to Samsung so things like the Samsung email client or calendar or even the Samsung browser all feel really out of date in 2018 now sure there's nothing stopping you from jumping into the Play Store and downloading stock Android versions of these apps but just why do they exist like I mean seriously why move over to the iPhone 10 and while iOS 11 might not be all that new or exciting right now thankfully over the last few months they have polished up a lot of the bugs and it feels like a much more cohesive set up now sure there are still some weird design choices like hiding your notifications as well as your control center behind two very similar swipes based on where you are on the top of the display but it's really hard to look at the s 9 in the iPhone 10 and not be impressed with just how much Apple is able to do with this guy and how Samsung just hasn't really been able to keep up its close but the performance especially the Polish is just top-notch on the iPhone get it top notch something else the iPhone has the advantage with is battery life the galaxy s 9 is pretty solid it would usually last me through a full day however with the iPhone I regularly use it for the entire day and still put it on the charger with 30 or 40% left it is a big step up over previous generation well most of the upgrades on the s9 have been fairly minor the biggest one is definitely with the camera most obvious change is the addition of a telephoto camera on the galaxy s 9 plus nicely matching what you're able to get on the iPhone 10 this isn't going to be on the standard galaxy s 9 but it's a solid addition not only is it going to be nice to get that extra focal length but in my opinion I think it actually looks a little bit sharper than what you're getting on that iPhone 10 the real star of the show though is that new main camera which is going to be shared with both the S 9 and the s 9 plus it's an all new 12 megapixel sensor that has stacked DRAM on the chip and now I does this speed things up but also enable some pretty cool new feature this enables a new 960 frames per second slow motion mode albeit in 720p no yes it's going to be a little bit soft and you need a lot of light to actually make this look good but if you can time it right it can look really really nice low-light performance has also been improved thanks to the addition of a new mechanical aperture now Anneli is this going to be pretty much a first on a major smartphone but it gives you two options for standard photos you're getting an app 2.4 aperture did you get into a low-light situation it can open up all the way to Apple 1.5 F 2.4 is what the camera will default to and it looks good it's a nice blend between getting a nice bit of sharpness as well as actually letting enough light into the camera however if you get into a really low light situation or you switch over to pro mode and manually enable it you can't it up to at full f 1.5 the results are really impressive with that wide aperture as well as Samsung's new multi shot processing which will allow up to eight foods to be taken and combined into one to reduce noise it looks really really good now yes you're going to be giving up a little bit of sharpness here for the most part there's really not much to complain about you get this guy in low-light it's gonna look awesome now for outdoor shots Samsung does get a little bit over aggressive especially when you look at the saturation as well as the sharpness but it compares really well to the iPhone 10 especially if you don't want to edit your photos the front-facing camera on the galaxy s 9 is pretty wide and it still it's nice right Ken in comparison the iPhone 10 front-facing camera is fine but it's not quite as wide angle which is especially for selfies is really helpful where things get a little bit more one-sided is with AR emoji versus an emoji so this is what a emoji looks like on the galaxy s 9 kind of creepy right so essentially this is very similar to what you're getting on an emoji on the iPhone except that's just not as well done mostly thanks to the lack of face tracking as well as it's just going to be a little unsettling especially when you make your own like I did and this is what an an emoji on the iPhone 10 looks like now no I can't make my own custom emoji as you can see especially with the front-facing camera and the face ID tech to actually track my face the level of detail here is really impressive much much more so than a our emoji the galaxy s 9 is the best smartphone that Samsung has ever built it takes a lot of what was great about the s8 and subtly improves it in some ways and majorly improves it when it comes to the camera it also does this at a significantly cheaper price where the S 9 comes in at seven hundred twenty dollars unlocked the iPhone 10 at $1000 is definitely going to hurt the wallet that said the days of the galaxy being the obvious answer if you want to get a high-end Android flagship are definitely over the pixel to still has a lot of advantages over the s9 even though it's going to be a little bit older when you compare it to the iPhone 10 what you're getting on that phone if you can of course overlook the eye-watering ly expensive price is excellent performance good battery life polish software it really is a solid package the galaxy s 9 is a great phone but for me it just can't quite match the iPhone 10 so I'm curious what do you guys think about the s9 versus the iPhone 10 I'm sure they're going to be lots of wonderful it's all about the merits of each phone and not fanboys or arguing at all let me know in the comments below and I will catch you in the next one