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if you're looking for a big new phone you might be choosing between the iPhone 10's max and the galaxy note 9 let's break down the specs and work out which of these premium phones is right for you premium phones of course come with a premium price as you'd expect in the u.s. the iPhone starts at one thousand and ninety nine dollars for the 64 gigabyte model but can cost up to one thousand four hundred and forty nine dollars for 512 gigabytes the base model of the note 9 has more storage at 128 gigabytes and costs $100 less than the iPhone so 999 dollars the 512 gigabyte model of the note 9 is one thousand two hundred and forty nine dollars it also comes with expandable storage so you can add a microSD card to bump up storage to a total of one terabyte both looks similar to the Apple and Samsung designs of phones past the note 9 has a six point four inch Super AMOLED screen with a resolution of 29 60 by 1440 at 516 PPI the biggest is technically the iPhone Tenace max it's a 6.5 inch OLED screen and has a resolution of 2688 by 12 42 at 458 PPI Apple's phone comes in space grey silver or gold while Samsung's is blue or purple in the US apart from deciding between iOS or Android ecosystem your next big factor is whether or not you want to stylus the note 9 has the S Pen which you can use to write on the screen and navigate plus it also has bluetooth so you can use it as a remote for some functions like taking photos the iPhone doesn't have a stylus processor wise the iPhone uses Apple's latest a 12 chip while the note runs either a qualcomm snapdragon 845 or samsung exynos 9 8 10 depending on the country both phones are rated as IP 68 which means they're water-resistant but samsung says the note 9 is tested for 30 minutes at around 1.5 meters while Apple claims two meters for the same amount of time while it's charging is on both Apple users face ID or a pin to authenticate and unlock your phone while Samsung has a fingerprint sensor face and iris scanning or a pin the iPhone has a dual SIM functionality so you can have two numbers on the one phone and in some countries the note known also comes with a dual SIM option if you're a fan of the headphone jack that's only available on the note 9 both phones have dual cameras around the back the iPhone senses are 12 megapixels with the wide-angle lens at F 1.8 and a telephoto for 2 X optical zoom at F 2.4 the note 9 also uses 12 megapixel sensors but the wide-angle lens has what's called a dual aperture system this means you can switch between F 1.5 and F 2.4 depending on the lighting conditions the telephoto lens is at F 2.4 which is the same as the iPhone both cameras on both phones have optical image stabilization and you can capture 4k video around the front the iPhone has apples true depth camera with an aperture of f-22 and a 7 megapixel sensor the note is an 8 megapixel camera with a faster f 1.7 aperture both the top of the line phones that look really impressive on paper but this is just a spec comparison so make sure to check out the CNET review for more on how the note 9 and the iPhone tennis max perform in the real world