Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “iPhone 14 Pro Max vs Galaxy S22 Ultra! The Truth!”.
Portion of this video is sponsored by case defy. It is that time of year, someone even argue the best time of year when we get to compare the flagship of the flagships. We take an ultra into Pro in this case, iPhone 14 Pro versus s22 Ultra put them head to head and, of course, declare a winner early in the year. We did a version of this video where we took the iPhone 13 Pro versus s22 Ultra and in that versus the ultra came out on top.
So now, six months later, Apple’s come out with their newest iPhone. 14 pro we do know. The s23 is coming at some point very soon when it does come out. We’Ll do another comparison. Unfortunately, these phones will come at the same time.
So to answer the question at the beginning: did Apple do enough to beat the premium s22 Ultra or Samsung still the? Let’S find out okay blind camera test time. This is probably my favorite part versus because it takes all inherent bias out. So obviously the two phones, the the ultra and the 14 pro. Let me know in the comments: can you guess, which is which look for things like color representation? Vibrancy highlights, low lights, Shadows, portrait mode, cutouts, take all bias out and see if you can guess which one is which all right so we’ll do a reveal.
Uh, a s22 Ultra B, iPhone 14 pro. Did you get it right? These are blind for me, too. I got most of them right this time, but I did miss two in all honesty on the iPhone side, there’s not a huge difference in camera quality for regular photos from the 13 Pro to the 14. Pro was not a little bit different to this generation from Apple’s Tech, at least to me, appears to be color temperature and focal length, and even those are pretty negligible.
I think for most people. So if you look at the iPhone photos to my Android, his eyes are going to be different. The iPhone photos tend to crush the Shadows more and skew slightly cooler than in years past, and I think it’s very reminiscent actually of how Samsung used to do it. This is definitely a choice by Apple to limit the highlights, I think what you get is an overall flatter and dimmer looking photo than the s22 ultra.
I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing as you’re getting consistency across every photo and it’s easier to take that photo into editing program to manipulate. Let’S talk about s22 Ultra photos, so Samsung photos are lifting the Shadows, allowing more detail to be seen in those dark areas, starting lighting conditions, the s22 ultra will blow out highlights sort of in the service of bringing up those Shadows. It’S a preference thing. Uh Samsung is clearly made the choice to choose brightness over consistency and to the average person.
I think they probably would prefer that that means colors tend to pop and are more vibrant and overall, the image is brighter, especially if you’re viewing these things on the ultra bright screen on the F22 Ultra photos coming out of this year’s Ultra. I think it’s like a really nice balance between contrast and vibrancy, showing bright images that really pop like we did. If you showed photos s22, ultra cybus high with an iPhone 14 pro, I feel like most people would probably gravitate towards the 22, largely because it’s brighter and more vibrant, I tend to prefer the consistency of the iPhone, because I like editing my photos, but if you Just like to post on social media, it’s hard to deny how amazing this 22 Ultra photo is when you get those right conditions where Samsung does have a clear Advantage as Justin camera. Hardware, Ain’t No Way Around It so on the s22 ultra you’ve got four cameras on the back uh, not much different than what we saw last year.
But it’s still, I think it packs a giant punch got a main 108 megapixel. Camera 12 megapixel Ultra wide two 10 megapixel telephotos one at 3x, the other at 10x. Comparing that to the iPhone’s three cameras with now: an updated 48 megapixel main sensor two times and three times Optical zooms, it’s nice that apple is adding more zoom options. But clearly I would have liked to had much more than 3x specially if you consider the one we’re comparing this with offers.
A 10x Optical on the megapixel side. 48 is definitely nice, especially if you want to shoot in Pro raw modes again. Iphone provides a lot of latitude of editing the photos and I’d argue you get more data to edit with and you get with the s22 ultra, even with 108 megapixel camera. I think the Testament what Apple’s done maximizing the hardware uh and software so photos one thing, but I think video is becoming an increasingly important part of our devices and the iPhone.
I think it’s a fact to say they have the best video quality of any smartphone out there. Still with the 14 pro HDR, video up to 4k60 looks amazing. There is detail where you want it and it looks really good right out of the camera plus the 14 pro has prores video support gigantic file sizes, but it’s there. If you want it, um, not a feature.
I use all that often because I like to have storage available on my phone, but the quality with prores is substantially better and having the option. You’Ve got a choice to use it or not. Also, you got the addition of action mode, which provides very impressive Next Level stabilization, the video in our initial 14 pro video. We showed an example of me chasing Robert Rosenfeld from the Apple Circle subscribe to the Apple Circle.
Uh Samsung, I think, has the best video quality on the Android side and in some ways it even best, with the iPhone can offer in video the biggest place you see. That is probably, unsurprisingly, with resolution. Ultra can shoot up to 8K video there’s a giant crop when you use this mode and you can only use the main camera. So it’s not implemented perfectly of the video quality really good.
Here I think, Samsung video is better than in years past. I think they’ve relied on qualcomm’s chipset to do what Qualcomm chipset is really good at, but we’re the unlike their photos. The Shadows on video are crushed really hard and I think, at time, saturation is slightly more boosted when it comes to video as good as Samsung is getting despite the higher resolution, no one’s touching the iPhone. I think the camera systems really show kind of the Mantra of both these manufacturers. You know with Samsung. These phones are geared perfectly to the social media, set posting on Instagram to getting beautiful shots and viewing those beautiful shots on Samsung’s, beautiful display and if you’re, shooting video you’ve got resolution for days on the Apple side, uh, perhaps more creative. If you want to edit your photos after the fact, you have more data to do it flatter images, video that works in pretty much every situation, both offer really good solutions for video and for Stills just different philosophies overall.
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It’S probably not a surprise if you watch any of my videos, but I love screens, I am a screen. Snob, I’ve admitted it, and this year is probably the closest I’ve. Seen this Green Tech. Look between Apple and Samsung and much like no company can touch Apple when it came to video no company’s been able to touch Samsung when it came to displays, but screen technology hasn’t changed that much in the last few years, once we got HDR 120hz OLED displays That was about it, but this year Samsung made big changes that seemed small on paper but are really noticeable in real life.
That’S brightness, s22 Ultra is rocking a 1750 nit display iPhone 14 pro can go to 1600 nits with Max brightness of 2 000.. At this point, you have to look real hard to see differences uh in brightness, something that’s 22 Ultra had an advantage over when it came to the iPhone 13 Pro just a few months ago, even though the iPhone 14 pro can technically go brighter than the ultra On paper, in practice, I did not see a difference even in direct sunlight Outdoors. The other big difference here is philosophies with always on display. I think when you think of always on display it’s generally how Google and Samsung other Android manufacturers implemented it black screen notifications that show up in kind of a gray skin, preserving battery.
I really liked it always on display implementation Apple, took a very different approach and appears to be a very battery draining approach, always on display on one hand, typical Apple fashion, like at least it’s finally here took a while, but it’s not quite there. Yet I love what Samsung has done with always on displays, and I think when you take that, but Samsung’s incredible sort of screen technology, despite Apple, getting really good displays, most of which are manufactured by Samsung anyway. I still prefer the display on the now six month, old s22 Ultra, which makes me crazy excited for what’s coming next. For the s23, the iPhone s22 Ultra displays are almost identical in the best ways possible.
We’Re talking. Color contrast vibrancy it’s all there, but where they differ, is in the camera cutout, so we got a hole punch and we got Dynamic Island. It’S doing similar things as far as taking pictures Dynamic island is hiding, obviously a front-facing camera uh, but also face ID which a hands down beats the in-display fingerprint reader on the s22 ultra 100 out of 100 times. I wish there was more biometric redundancy on the Samsung side.
It’D be great to see true face recognition, not just the unsecure options that are on there right now. I, like Dynamic Islands, it’s growing on. I think it’s going to get better with 16.1, when it can show sports scores and more third-party apps take advantage of what it can do.
A whole bunch just a hole. That’S it’s not gon na do anything different other than just be a hole, so I really prefer the option of what dynamic Island can do. I would imagine, though, that Samsung’s got some sort of answer in store for next Generations. S23, though foreign other differences. Aside from the camera, cutout shape is obviously the design the look and feel of the phone. The iPhone is same hardware and feel that you know and love or know and loathe, basically the same as last year in the year before, aside from the camera bump, it’s up to you how you feel on that it’s 22 Ultra, on the other hand, is the Least different compared to he has 21 Ultra Samsung decided to go a little less S21 Ultra a little more note, 20 in the design, the sporting kind of a spider eye camera right on the back that I really like, but it has been polarizing where I think The undeniable positive design change for Samsung users has been with S Pen implementation. Now I would have loved to see S pen with other premium phones like the fold 4. That’S certainly a premium price phone and to me the zerven S Pen, but at least you’ve got the option on the ultra line. The rest of the phone is exactly the same argument.
You always get between Samsung and iPhone. You want face ID or ultrasonic fingerprint sensor. Do you want a huge battery or fast charging? Do you want magsafe a16 or Snapdragon 8 gen 1. Everything feels fast here you want iOS or Android.
These are all areas that you have to choose. They each have their advantage disadvantages, but they are what make these phones very unique from each other foreign. So picking a winner on this one was hard. We did the 13 Pro versus the ultra.
It was very easy to see the ultra was the better option for most people taking iOS out of the equation. This generation, though, seeing what Apple has done differently, is making me more excited for Next Generation Samsung phone, because Samsung is very quick to respond to what Apple does I’m excited to see what they do with their cut out on the front, I’m excited to do with Design how they push cameras forward, how you push displays forward and again, since these phones don’t come out at the same time, it’s never really a apples. Apples comparison. If I had to pick one of these two phones, I think I would pick up uh the iPhone 14 pro over the s22 ultra, but I’ve got a very keen eye on the s23 ultra. I look forward to comparing these two phones again, but ultimately I’ve got that one in my pocket. .