the s24 ultra and the 15 Pro Max are packed of features and I've had enough time to put them head-to-head and see which one is the best so first off we got to talk about the biggest new addition to these two and that is ai ai is basically being added to pretty much anything and everything now especially the s24 ultra it has AI in its keyboard that helps rewrite your message into a couple different styles its Notes app has a bunch of different AI features like Auto formatting and summarizing it has AI in its photo
editor that helps with generative editing and it has live translate for phone calls which translates what the other person is saying from their language into yours which is nuts but as cool as all this AI is Samsung did mention it might only be free until 2025 which is a little concerning but I guess we're just going to have to wait and see what happens the iPhone also has a few AI features as well but unlike Samsung Apple's approach to AI is different instead of making AI that generates things like text the iPhone's AI helps a
lot more in the background for example its new journal app has AI that helps with suggestions on what you did throughout your day and what to write about which is useful and there's also personal voice that uses AI to create a copy of your voice which you can then use to chat with people around you a pretty nifty feature and although those are pretty cool to have the AI on the ultra is just way more functional for now so I got to give it the [Applause] [Music] point while we're on the topic of AI if
you head into the ultra's wallpaper section it also has this really unique AI generation option so here you can use AI to generate different wallpapers which is something really cool to have directly on your phone but the only problem is it doesn't actually save the images in your gallery which kind of sucks overall though the customization between the Samsung and the iPhone are to No Surprise pretty similar they both have almost identical lock screen customization so you can customize them to look almost exactly the same just like you can customize your iPhone or Ultra to
look like mine using a sick wallpaper from hworld tocom but the Samsung does come with a lot of extra customization features like installing different clock fonts for the lock screen which the iPhone is still limited to just a few and then if you dig a little deeper in certain stings there's a few other things you can do to customize the ultra even further like L backgrounds lock screen video wallpapers video call screen backgrounds and let's not forget Edge lighting notifications which I know you guys love and that's just the tip of the iceberg the ultra
can also use good luck for way more customization like customizing the Spen design and even different Soundbar Styles so although the iPhone does have some slick customization it doesn't have anything particularly unique to it like the Samsung which you can basically customize to look like anything you want so it definitely get some points okay so when it comes to sheer performance and speed these two are powerhouses the iPhone with its a17 Pro chip has really surprised me with how powerful it is and the ultra with its Snapdragon 8 gen 3 made for Galaxy chip is
also equally impressive and for General use of course they are both super Snappy it's only when I push them that I start to see some differences like when testing them with video editing this is where particularly saw a big difference the iPhone was usually extremely fast when rendering and even though the ultra was slower it wasn't too far behind and as for gaming the only difference I saw was that the iPhone usually started up a few split seconds ahead of the ultra so not that big of a difference and when it came to actually playing
the game they were basically identical so although the ultra is slightly slower overall a major plus is that it has 12 gigs of RAM compared to the eight on the iPhone which means that it can have more apps open in the background and still perform super smooth but even with only 8 gigs of RAM on the iPhone I didn't actually ever see it slow down thanks to its super efficient and snappy a17 Pro chip so for Speed the iPhone definitely gets the point now it's pretty crazy at just how important cell phone screens have become
especially since they're like the number one thing we all look at and when just looking at these two displays you wouldn't say there's that much of a difference but there's actually actually two big things that set them apart and firstly is the brightness the screen on the iPhone is so bright that you can probably use it as a flashlight and as for the ultra it's even brighter than that up to 2,600 knits and the second reason is the reflection this is something not a lot of people have thought about up until now because the Ultra
screen has had a bit of an upgrade it's now quite a bit less reflective than before which you can't really see on camera but you've got to take my word for it it actually makes a pretty big difference in compar comparison to the iPhone's super reflective screen so because of those two differences and because apple is still buying their screens from Samsung the Altra takes the point but what about their cameras now I know a lot of us make our decision on which phone to get based on how good the cameras are and these take
almost equally amazing photos and videos but there are a few differences between the two that you've got to know firstly the Samsung comes with this new slow-mo mode that can shoot real 4K video at 120 frames per second which the iPhone is still stuck at doing in HD the Samsung also has 8K video that has slightly more detail than the 4k on the iPhone and looks slightly more natural but can be a bit shaky at times the 200 megapixel sensor on the Samsung is also slightly better than the 48 megapixel sensor on the iPhone but
the iPhone is not far behind especially when you zoom in and see some more of that detail and speaking about zooming in the new 50 megapixel 5 time zoom lens on the ultra still takes better Zoom photos than the iPhone's new 12 megap 5 time zoom but the iPhone still does some things better than the ultra like portrait photos which does just have better Edge detection it also takes amazing pro video that looks really natural which on the ultra just looks oversharpened and really shaky sometimes and it also shoots in pror log like a cinema
camera which the ultra can't do so as you can see they both have a lot of pros and cons so for the first time ever I got to give them both a point because their cameras have never felt this identical now on to some special features that make these two stand part starting with the most obvious one the S Pen on the ultra most of us know it it's basically been the same pen for decades now and a lot of us love to use it but besides that the ultra also comes with a huge special
feature that a lot more people are starting to use and that is decks it basically turns your ra into a fully functioning computer that you can have multiple windows and apps open browse everything from your Ultra like files videos and photos and even play games with it the iPhone also has a bunch of special features as well like its action button that can be customized to open up the camera app or anything else it also has that super Snappy airdrop and handoff that a lot of people can't live without especially if you're use a MC
and a few others like name drop a liar sensor for depth mapping emergency SOS and Co car crash detection and even the dynamic Island but it's also possible that the ultra might soon get car crash detection which is pretty cool overall though as cool as all the iPhone special features are I got to give the point to the Samsung because again as always its special features are just more functional for day-to-day use okay chatting about the batteries now which are also so important and straight up a bat the battery on the ultra ra is slightly
larger than the iPhones so for General browsing on the internets social media and YouTube the ultra outperformed the iPhone by around an hour or so usually getting around 13 hours before shutdown compared to 12 on the iPhone it's also worth mentioning that during my camera test of these two I actually had to recharge the iPhone whereas the Samsung I didn't have to recharge at once and speaking about charging using the same charging brick and USBC cable the ultra recharged around 40 minutes faster than the iPhone which by today's standard the iPhone just needs to be
better so the ultra definitely takes the point for this one and if we look at the score things really aren't looking so good for the iPhone so something brand new to the s24 ultra and 15 Pro Max is that they now both have titanium frames which basically means they use a way more expensive material for the frames of the phones but makes them slightly more durable and less heavy the iPhone however does use a slightly higher grade titanium than the ultra though which in the grand scheme of things doesn't make that big of a difference
but does make it a little more durable the ultra also got rid of its rounded Edge display for that standard flat screen which I do prefer and it is just nice to see Samsung bring a bit of change compared to the iPhone that has looked the same for a long time now other than that they're basically the same quality just with different designs so this really is more of a subjective choice and because of that I've got to give them both the point now with AI being such a big topic Safety and Security on our
phones is also super important and it's safe to say that even with the AI on these they're both super safe for example Samsung implemented a switch inside its AI settings that specifically tells the ultra to process AI directly on the phone instead of a server and apple have also said that all the AI is processed on the phone so that's also good to know but besides AI both the ultra and iPhone also have their own tracking apps called find on the ultra and find my on the iPhone in case you ever lose or need to
track your items they both also have their standard security features like the fingerprint sensor face unlock on the ultra and face ID on the iPhone the iPhone also has a special lockdown mode in case you feel like you're busy being hacked but that's really only for special emergencies so overall I'd have to say they're both equally secure and I especially like how secure they've made their the AI so again I got to give them both the point so with all these cool features there's definitely a price to pay and it's a pretty big price the
s24 ultra can be picked up for $1,249 or $1299 and the iPhone 15 Pro Max for £199 or $1199 however these prices can change especially when it comes to trade-ins Samsung usually gives you better trade-in value than Apple so although the iPhone is slightly cheaper you might actually end up paying more for it when you trade in Samsung also gives some sweet purchase gifts depending on where you are in the world which is unheard of from Apple but Samsungs do tend to lose their value faster than iPhones so if you plan on reselling your Samsung
as opposed to trading it in you would actually get a lower value for it than you would if you were reselling an iPhone so for price because they're both relatively the same and you get basically the same value for Mone I'll give them both the point but that does not change the fact that the iPhone got completely crushed by the ultra making the Samsung Galaxy s24 Ultra the winner and leaving me wondering what will Apple do to catch up to the ultra with the 16 Pro Max so make sure to sub and stick around to
find out but I'll see you guys in the next one [Music] toodles oh
