Android VS Iphone Which Is Actually Better

 

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 ther 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

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

 

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 tha t 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  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

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 favorfor 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 

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 persp ective 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 lowes

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 oneso 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

 

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