iphone vs android

 

apple has as just announced the latest features coming toils google a couple of weeks ago announced the latest features coming to android so we're just sat here thinking there's never been a better time to decide who's doing it better we're going to go through the 10 different aspects of the smartphone experience and see who wins more it could be a tie oh my god yeah we should have done 11.yeah of course you're saying okay so let's start with the display do you think the phone's display has anything special about it or do you just think it's like a pretty average android phone screen with a thicker border and a kind of weird looking notch it's funny the phone has so many things that are

best in class and then weirdly below average like as far as screen to body ratio

it's decent but then it has the biggest notch you would ever see if it was an android phone it's pretty much the only phone in today's market with a notch exactly it's probably the smoothest 120 hertz display that i use in a phone that's interesting because of the responsiveness and the touch sample refresh rate so does you put this on the same level as a Samsung screen like the s22 ultra very close think the s22 ultra barely beats it in some things like brightness yeah and sharpness yeah but if you're just going like is it a great a plus screen yes for me the s22 ultra screen like I'm holding them side by side that feels like a different class it is when I'm in a bright scenario like the sun is beaming down on it this is actually so bright that it feels bright yeah whereas this is like okay it's visible right there are some edge cases where you notice the? difference and speaking of edge the little bit of a curve around the edge you talked about the way it feels that's something i kind of prefer the flat of the iPhone to be honest so i give it a little bit of extra credit there but it's sharp it's like your hand is curved the phone i hear that a lot but I weirdly kind of like that okay I understand it from an aesthetic thing but I yeah but it leaves a dent in my hand I'm holding an s21 ultra which is somewhere in between the two and i think that was a nice happy medium if we just go all of android iphone gets an a plus but if we're just going against Samsung it's trailing by a little bit okay so it's up to you i'll leave it up to you okay we'll call it a draw that sounds like a draw to me yeah so number nine is performance and on paper it kind of seems like a really easy one because if multi-core benchmarks the iPhone scores higher and draws less power even if you're a gamer and you don't care about those numbers you get games earlier and

those games seem to run smoother in your mind is there any nuance to this at all

or is the iPhone just better performance if you're counting performance as smooth feel

frames per second that type of thing and overall power efficiency yeah the iPhone is is a clear winner in my mind do you think the iPhone even beats out potentially like gaming oriented android phones well it depends on if the game you play on that platform if the performance is great but you can't play the game you like is it actually a good performer I guess the one saving grace for androids is they do come with a lot more ram like this is the top end iPhone 13 pro max six gigs of ram this comes with up to in your experience does that contribute anything to like the multi-tasking experience on an iPhone feels like eight gigs of android phone sometimes because of the way they just fill up memory and aren't as efficient so yeah you can multitask more on a Samsung phone because of the cram but also just because there's features that let you do more do you find you do that like i know android has split screen multitasking technically yeah you do use it no I don't oh yeah i don't personally use it i don't use it either i would consider myself like a fairly hardcore user and even then just having picture in picture is about as far as my multitasking goes i gesture back and forth all the time copying and pasting i know i can multi-window i just never do it okay moving on to battery and so this is

 my experience right so iPhone 13 pro max has got the best battery life of all the big phones and iPhone 13 pro has the best battery life of all the compact phones does that mirror your experience there's two phones right now with 6000 milliamp batteries and if i put the rog phone at 60 hertz yeah it is a better battery technically than the iPhone at 60 but yeah generally I found that this is battery 13 pro also world-class battery mini is in the equation two not as great but then you're comparing it to other phones that are small you're comparing it to miniature fans at that point yeah which doesn't have great batteries anyway so yeah top of the class as far as battery for sure so there's another side to battery which is the charging how much do you think that factors in to the the battery experience does it matter to you to me it matters a lot it changes the way i use a phone if it charges quickly and i know i can charge quickly i don't mind it dying quicker because i know i can plug in for five minutes and be fine okay it's a different type of peace of mind it's interesting because for me i would much rather my phone doesn't die in the first place oh yeah and this is a phone where i can actually trust that like on the way here like i took a flight from us to us so I was moving back eight hours which meant that i effectively had a 24-hour day and this still had 20 left at the end of that and so at that point like isn't fast charging just making up for a lack of capacity in the first place so if i could only pick fast charging and mediocre battery or great battery mediocre charging I would pick great battery mediocre charging right but if you don't have a great

battery you better have good charging and a lot of android phones have incredible charging the iPhone can charge decently quickly not like super-fast but I still put it as the winner in the category just because the baseline battery life is so good okay so the battery ward goes to the iPhone okay this is where it gets kind of juicy so we want to talk about the cameras and

          we'll start with photography and then videography can be the next section okay so i guess a good way of kind of getting to the meter is if you had to pick one phone for the rest of your life to take photos with would it be an iPhone would it be an android yeah it would be the app to take photos yeah and it's only because there's a couple small nuances within that question which is you take photos from the camera app you also take photos sometimes inside of another app Instagram stories tick tocks video shooter snapchats whatever you're doing and all those things typically behave really well on the iPhone now if i knew i was going to go to a national park and i was going to take a lot of bird photos believe me I’ take one with more zoom than the phone's got but if you just want to like blanket everything for the rest of your life you can only take one for photos it still

would be the iPhone that actually surprises me uh because in my mind i would pick a vivo a Samsung or a pixel I know they kind of over process photos but in my mind to actually achieve what we think is a natural look you almost need that over processing and so like if you've used vino's x80 pro I don't know if you have um that has this this option called Zeiss natural colour and these things are often like just marketing gimmicks but when i used it i

genuinely thought wow that is what my eyes are seeing for one of the first

times ever yeah let me throw a couple extra variables at you for camera

the shooting experience

you know what there's something i want

to take a picture of let me just get the

photo right now

do you trust that camera i've had some

issue with pixels where i take a photo

and i put the phone back in my pocket

and when i check it the next day that

photo was never safe like that just

doesn't happen on the iphone and there's

a couple you know little things like

that that make me go yeah one thing for

the rest of my life

i'm gonna take the most stable reliable

one too do you think the iphone takes

the best end results no uh i think it's

very close

but i think you could argue for

samsung's s22 ultra i think you could

argue for

pixel in some shots especially in darker

environments and i think you'd have

argued for iphone in some shots too with

the ultrawide too so in that case it'd

be more of a tie but factoring in the

camera experience the whole camera

experience goes to the iphone

interesting so for me the fun side of

android cameras is actually a factor i

used to love the days where Huawei would

unveil a new phone and it always had

this crazy cool gimmick like a super

long zoom camera or incredible night

mode and for me that would be like a

it'd be like a toy that every time an

opportunity presented itself i would

take out my phone and be excited to see

what it could do in that situation you

get a hammer everything looks like a

nail yeah yeah i feel you you don't

really get that with the iphone camera

does it matter it kind of reminds me of?

sports where the most boring team to

watch

is often the best one okay so then

moving on to videography i feel like the

answer is probably even easier than for

you

the iphone is uncontested videos yeah

you know i do occasionally slip in shots

from other cameras into my videos the

most often i get away with it is the

iphone i've shot entire videos on the

iphone no problem my phone takes that

one too it's actually not looking good

for android right now yeah scoreboard

scoreboard is pretty lopsided

it's been a bit of a hot topic recently

um eco consciousness so i guess in your

opinion if a user is eco-conscious about

the planet

which phone is a better option iphone or

android on average

well there's a whole android spectrum

let's say you go all the way to the fair

phone right which is also an android

land it's not even close i guess the

fair comparison would be iphone flagship

versus average android flagship okay so

we take like a rounded average of the

sony's the uh xiaomi's the samsungs yeah

so i know this for sure so apple's

devices right now on average use about

20 recycled materials so that is that is

the most in the industry right now

and they also have the most forward goal

of being carbon neutral so they want to

be carbon neutral by 2030 i think most

other companies are more like 20 40 20

50. so from what i've seen apple is

ahead in that except for those fringe

cases like nokia does a lot and then

fairphone does a lot if you're genuinely

concerned about the planet buy a used

phone yeah yeah or a refurbished one

yeah

but this one goes to the iphone

all right so just before we get to

pricing which i think is probably the

big one we've got three categories about

the software itself so i want to start

with software reliability so in me

experience this is not like a magic

phone that just works all the time like

some people say like there's no such

thing yeah i've had bugs i've had

glitches i've had you know the the

screen dials down its brightness quite a

lot when it gets hot uh i have bugs with

all kinds of phones so yeah if we're

talking just the iphone um

i know specifically it likes to

to stop wireless charging when it gets

kind of warm

and that's just kind of annoying i guess

it has to do that for safety reasons but

here's a bunch of little things in the

software

occasionally

the settings app will just crash i'll

 

open it and it'll just disappear i guess

when when apps crash they just disappear

yeah and you're just like oh that's too

bad like android will tell you like give

you an error message or something

but no phone is perfect so i guess

that's that's sort of the baseline

you're working with would you say the

iphone is like equivalently reliable

versus android or would you side with

one over the other it kind of goes in

waves i think right now ios is pretty

stable and that compares to android yeah

so let's go samsung for example have

been using an s21 ultra for like a year

and a half

um

 very stable phone i feel like this is

slightly off topic but why not the s22

um

a couple tiny things the vibration motor

is so weak on that phone i was missing

calls and notifications do you not have

that problem no yeah i miss the way like

this phone sits on a desk and like

pick it up that one i just miss things

all the time little thing yeah but

basically the same experience everywhere

else on the phone and i was like let me

just stick with the one that works

slightly less screen curve on the side

so bizarre you choose to use last year's

phone because it works better for you

it's a whole year old it's crazy yeah no

that's that's just my choice no it's

good it's really good not black

everything by the way

you talk a lot though actually about the

camera being more reliable on the iphone

it's quick to shoot so there's some

where they're a little less consistent

i'll open the camera app the first time

and it'll open up right away takes the

shot yeah and then a week later i go to

open up the camera and it goes let me

think about that for a second and then

it opens up yeah it's just those little

things that i noticed but just in

regular apps

you've done a lot of the side by sides

you can see the way that yeah they're

very similar so

yeah okay so so we'll give we'll give

reliability a draw okay so then software

features this is kind of a broad

category so obviously both os's do

pretty much everything you'd want to

but the question here is does one os do

something that the other one just cannot

watch what things does ios do that

android is just not there right now with

not a lot i mean there's there's a

couple things where you'll just dig into

the settings and find stuff in android

world that does not exist in iphone

world and across the board there are all

kinds of features in specialty phones

gaming phones all sorts of stuff that

you will just never find in an iphone so

that's the way i look at it right are

there things in iphones that don't i

guess yeah like i'm thinking more like

airdrop right people see that as a

necessary feature sure facetime a lot of

people see is irreplaceable oh

interesting you've got share play you

know a lot of people love the fact that

you can especially now with ios 16 you

can send a message to someone and they

can jump into a share play with you yeah

that's pretty convenient but i guess the

caveat with a lot of iphone's cool

features are that they're further locking

you in to more apple products there are

lots and lots and lots of features in

the android world

that are very important to a small

number of people and then there are

imessage facetime

airdrop things like that in iphone world

that are pretty important to a lot of

people a smaller number of features

but like does samsung decks matter to

you

yeah no does does pass-through charging

matter to you no right but like there's

an endless list of those things that

find on certain android phones

that would tilt it in android's favor

for sure but there's these massive

pillars on the iphone a small number of

that make a compelling case

so it's a new way of thinking about it

yeah

so i guess yeah you probably can't call

a winner in this category one of the key

advantages android used to have is

customization but you know you could

argue that apple is catching up with

that you know especially now with ios 16

all that lock screen stuff you know like

 lot of people think that smartphones

are kind of coming to a plateau right

if apple is in this kind of mindset of

we'll wait for other companies to do

stuff we'll do it later but we'll do it

better does that mean that when both

bb's reach their final kind of mature

stages the apple will actually be ahead

because with each feature they've

integrated they've really taken their

time and done it properly it feels like

there's always going to be a bleeding

edge that apple's not going to really

dabble in

you know between the the two assistants

so you've got siri on iphone you've got

google assistant on android yeah i think

unanimously most people would say google

assistant is better between the two like

it's faster it can do more it's more

intelligent but how much do you use it

the assistant

i use it all the time for a couple key

things taking notes setting timers

shopping lists i ask it in the morning

every day what the weather and news is

going to be stuff like that

not that siri can't do that but there's

a good amount of stuff i use it for

um but are we taking averages because

we've got let me see cortana is

vailable

alexa is available Bixby is available

but i guess all this one's a google

assistant too so yeah i guess yeah i

give that that edge so you never

actually use siri

no i

i very rarely use siri oh i accidentally

trigger siri more than i use

that's so funny

yeah sorry siri you know sometimes i

find when i'm cussing out siri he

actually goes

yeah they just perk up like what did you

say

do you have any kind of hot takes on the?

new features that google announced for

android 13 versus the new features that

people announced for ios 16. so the the

one thing about customization that we're

arguing like the iphone is catching up

yeah the lock screen widgets

it's better than android okay it's

better that's a pretty hard take it

might be a high tech you know android

has had widgets forever yeah and so

there's endless customization with

widgets

but

this like late approach we've talked

about with apple where they come in late

but do things really well

suddenly lock screen widgets if you're

into that

looks better on the iphone okay so

you're thinking it's better from a

visual perspective it's not that there's

more options or anything like that yeah

it's consistency it's it's visual it's

aesthetics it's the way you customize it

it's simple and easy to understand yeah

if i tried to hand this phone to my mom

and said add a lock screen widget yeah

go like that would

that's very different

so that sort of thing i sort of maybe

that's a hot tick but i give the uh the

iphone the edge there

but

yeah overall a lot of good features

coming out of both camps cool so we'll

call that category a draw

so then the final one about software is

about software support and this is

another one of those where on paper

apple just kind of takes it away because

you get five years of updates you know

the closest competitor is samsung which

is four and then after that it kind of

falls to three and two and then

sometime one in those kind of ugly

cases

so what's your take

i think that's that's kind of it there

isn't really any other nuance to it like

how you like your software updates you

like to be advanced hopefully they

download quickly like no i just want to

have the latest update i don't really

care

so

that one's pretty straightforward to me

okay so that one goes to iphone i guess

there's one potential saving grace for

android which is

even though they have less first party

support they do have better community

support right you've got the

custom rom community mudding

forums all that kind of stuff

this is the thing right yes so when i

started my you tube channel it actually

started because the phone i got first

was not as good as i wanted it to be and

so i basically devoted my entire life to

trying to understand how to hack it to

make it better to overclock it and all

these sorts of things but as smartphones

have gotten better they kind of don't

need it the fact that you still can is

cool for some but it's some yeah yeah

probably a shrinking minority okay so

the last thing is pricing and

it's obviously a bit of a tough one to

kind of blanket because android's

iphones there's lots of different price

ranges but i guess we could boil it down

to value right which one do you think if

any is better value for the money i

think some of these you want to just

average things out but in price it

really is just about choice

and in the android world there is simply

more choice if you care about value

i can name three or four android phones

with spectacular value

if you care about well if you don't care

about value we can give you the highest

android phones in the world that cost

 

1500

or get a caviar phone with 55 diamonds

on the back right yeah to answer the

question of like which one can give you

the best value if you search for it it

would be android yeah because at the

budget end like a pock phone for exampl

like 250 dollars yeah you can go way

down yeah or you can go like you can

just settle you can go pixel 5 or 6a

or you can go like 700 800 bucks we can

go fan edition s21 you can go anywhere

in there just out of curiosity like how

good value do you think the latest

iPhone se is that's their kind of lowest

end phone right now yeah

the lowest end phone for them is their

best value definitely it's competitive

for like one of the best values

but

value is very much up to what you care

about in a phone so if i care about

facetime message camera that's a great

value phone if i care about here's a

couple games i want to play i need 120

hertz and i need a big battery sc is a

terrible value for you for that same

price yeah so

options

options okay yeah pricing's a tough one

so call that a draw oh wait no no we're

calling that an android hold on yeah

what time is it now 11 20. okay the

iPhone does significantly win more

categories than the android but

obviously that's not the full story yeah

it's very much a personal decision that

decision ultimately comes down to what

the person who's gonna go get the phone

actually cares about there are objective

winners in some of these and then there

are very subjective winners in some of

these too like photography you are

outright iPhone I'm actually outright

android it is but yeah um no thanks for

this this was a this is really fun yeah

so I'm just here from the editing desk

and

yeah basically we really really really

wanted to not waste this opportunity