all right so i'm in california with
marquez from mkbhd apple has just
announced the latest features coming to
ios 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 iphone'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 do you put
this on the same level as a samsung
screen like the s22 ultra very close i
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 you just run like geekbench
multi-core benchmark 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
12. in your experience does that
contribute anything to like the
multi-tasking experience
or does it not matter three gigs of ram
on an iphone feels like eight gigs of
ram on an 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 xram 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 hertz
but yeah generally i found that this is
world-class 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
uk 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 snapchat 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'd take
one with more zoom than the iphone'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 vivo's x80 pro i
don't know if you have um that has this
this option called zeiss natural color
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
of
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
issues 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 my
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
there'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
vibrates and i hear it on the desk to
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
match 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 is 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
a an endless list of those things that
you can 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
them
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
a 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
os'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
available
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
apple 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 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
sometimes 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 modding
forums all that kind of stuff
this is the thing right yes so when i
started my youtube 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 poco phone for example
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 imessage 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
like we wanted this video to happen
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